What does it look like when God is mad ?
Well, this is not hypothetical, as in, What would it look like if God got mad ?
This is how it happened:
“The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the Lord said, ‘I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.’ “
“The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.”
“So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.”
He was sorry, and He was mad.
The full description of what God did follows:
Talk about rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, as it went down under water.
Just a few survivors, in just a few lifeboats.
God rearranged the entire earth as it went down under water.
Just a few survivors, in just one lifeboat, Noah’s ark.
To make sure we get the facts straight about the wickedness of man and the response of God with the flood—note the repetition.
“I Myself am bringing floodwaters on the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth shall die.”
“After seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made.”
“And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth.”
“Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth.”
“In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.”
“Now the flood was on the earth forty days.”
It really happened.
God had His reasons.
God vented His anger on the earth, the likes of which we haven’t seen since.
Other times God wiped out thousands of people on the spot.
Then He commanded His people to do the same.
Oh My ! Now that’s tough !
We do best to obey, whether we understand or not.
Just make sure it is the command of God we obey.
Cancel any hope of addressing God with human reasoning.
Repeat:
Cancel any hope of addressing God with human reasoning.
If He gives us compassion, reasoning (on His terms), we better take it.
“Come now, and let us reason together,” says the LORD, “Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool.”
Do we get it—His holiness—His justice ?
We can get just a taste of it.
We’re made in God’s image, so apply our response over wrong done against us—apply that to God, proper or not:
“I don’t get mad; I get even.”
God does both—but under perfect control, not like us.
God does both—but with complete, perfect vindication, not like us.
(Better re-read that paragraph, carefully.)
When God gets mad, God gets even.
You don’t want to get in His way.
Never even mention you want justice from God.
Plead for mercy.
“God, be merciful to me, a sinner” is the only way to come before God and “go home justified.”