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.

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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.”

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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.”

People get ideas, think of something they want, believe something new—INVENT a right !

People DECLARE their new right, and others join, “We have our right(s).”

When people believe in something strongly enough, they become fanatic and DEMAND their rights, over the rights of others.

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Yet, one time in history some God-fearing people looked at man differently and set straight the truth about our rights and our relationships.

A – – It is obvious because it is true that we are not our own, to invent who we are and where we came from, to make any of us better or worse than others.

B – – Repeating the truth of the source of our existence doubles the truth of the source of our rights.
We don’t invent our rights, and nothing can take away our rights—because of the source of our rights.

C – – Our rights are clear, specific, indisputable, universal, all-encompassing, fixed, permanent, inalienable—not subject to erosion by subversion—not superceded by other people’s ideas or their claims to other ‘rights’.

D – – FIRST RIGHT
Life is a right for every person.
No one, No group, No government can take any life, NOT ANY LIFE, from anyone who has not, or is not attempting, to take someone’s life.

E – – SECOND RIGHT
Liberty is a right for every person.
Born free—liberty is the first hallmark of life, from the same source that gives us both life and liberty.
Live free—liberty drives us, inspires us, compels us, empowers us—to strive for our best, and pursue life and freedom for others.

F – – THIRD RIGHT
Striving for happiness gives reasons for living, and living free.

G – – MORE RIGHTS
Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness are highlights among others not listed.

Must now change ‘source’ in the lines above, to the Source, our Creator.
And that makes all the difference in the world !

Again,
One time in history some God-fearing people looked at man differently and set straight the truth about our rights and our relationships.

A – – It is obvious because it is true—“WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT”—that we are not our own, to invent who we are and where we came from—“CREATED”—, to make any of us better or worse than others—“CREATED EQUAL”—

B – – Repeating the truth of the source of our existence doubles the truth of the source of our rights—ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR”—
We don’t invent our rights, and nothing can take away our rights—because of the source of our rights—“BY THEIR CREATOR WITH CERTAIN . . . RIGHTS”—

C – – Our rights are clear, specific, indisputable, universal, all-encompassing, fixed, permanent, inalienable—not subject to erosion by subversion—not superceded by other people’s ideas or their claims to other ‘rights’—“INALIENABLE RIGHTS”—

D – – FIRST RIGHT—“LIFE”—
Life is a right for every person.
No one, No group, No government can take any life, NOT ANY LIFE, from anyone who has not, or is not attempting, to take someone’s life.

E – – SECOND RIGHT—LIBERTY”—
Liberty is a right for every person.
Born free—liberty is the first hallmark of life, from the same source that gives us both life and liberty.
Live free—liberty drives us, inspires us, compels us, empowers us—to strive for our best, and pursue life and freedom for others.

F – – THIRD RIGHT—“PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS”—
Striving for happiness gives reasons for living, and living free.

G – – MORE RIGHTS
Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness are highlights, with others not listed—“AMONG THESE [ARE LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS”]—

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Absolutely amazing, the anointing by God, to pack such eternal truths into those few opening words of the United States Declaration of Independence.