A Cup of Wrath? – Character of God E8

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🗓️ 5 October 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Noses that burn hot? Turning your face away? Drinking a cup of wrath? These unfamiliar phrases are found in biblical passages about God’s anger, but what do they mean? In this episode, Tim, Jon, and Carissa explore how God’s anger is portrayed in the Hebrew Scriptures toward Israel and the nations.

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0:00.0	This is John at Bible Project and we are in the middle of a conversation on the character
0:08.4	of God.
0:09.4	In this series we've arrived at a characteristic of God that's hard to understand and so we've
0:14.0	slowed down and decided to dig in deep.
0:17.0	We're talking about God's anger.
0:19.6	Why does God get angry?
0:21.7	Why does God judge us?
0:23.2	From Adam and Eve forward, the story is trying to convince readers that, hey, humans,
0:29.1	we're actually a lot worse off than we realize.
0:32.0	We are a lot more corrupted on an individual and corporate level than we realize and we
0:38.1	are on a path towards death.
0:41.2	And nobody disputes this like, I'm going to die.
0:44.5	And within the biblical world view, to be a human who is going to die is to be under God's
0:50.2	judgment.
0:51.2	The biblical authors want us to see God's judgment on us like this.
0:54.5	God will give us what we want.
0:56.8	If we want death, he'll give us death.
0:59.5	God will let us go.
1:01.4	So he coins a new phrase that's really important.
1:03.8	It's going to get repeated all throughout the prophet.
1:06.3	It's the metaphor of God hiding his face.
1:09.0	God hiding his face.
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