Will the children of God suffer His wrath?

[atpollard]

It was a totally unnecessary question. But it does impact on the false believe that Christians must face the Tribulation and the Great Tribulation (which are expressions of God's wrath).

I suspect that the Sudanese Christians being murdered by Muslims would be very surprised to learn that Christians do not need to suffer the Tribulation.

Those burned as torches in Nero’s garden would likewise disagree that Tribulation is the same as God’s wrath.

I stink at Eschatology (there are few topics that I care less about), but even I know that the Great Tribulation is the EVIL world murdering Christians and ends when Jesus returns to clean their clock. Remember the martyrs under the altar crying out “how long until you avenge us” and Jesus responds with “wait until the rest of the martyrs have been killed and join you”.

 

[Enoch111]

I suspect that the Sudanese Christians being murdered by Muslims would be very surprised to learn that Christians do not need to suffer the Tribulation.

People should not confuse "the Tribulation" (which is a unique event) with the persecution of Christians. Christians have been persecuted since the 1st century but the Tribulation coincides with the future reign of the Antichrist.

 

[Soverign Grace]

Rom 5:8-9 - NKJV
8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.

Eph 2:4-8 - NKJV
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

1 Thess 1:10 -- NKJV
10 and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.

1 Thess 5:9-11 - NKJV
9 For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
10 who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.
11 Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing.

It doesn't appear from Scripture that God is "automatically" going to deliver His people from the wrath to come, because He warns us to pray.

Luke 21:36

“Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.”

That said, in Timothy it states:


2 Timothy 3:12

“Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.”

 

[Episkopos]

Rom 5:8-9 - NKJV
8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.

Eph 2:4-8 - NKJV
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

1 Thess 1:10 -- NKJV
10 and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.

1 Thess 5:9-11 - NKJV
9 For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
10 who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.
11 Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing.

Luke 4:12 But Jesus declared, “It also says, ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’”