How can a wrathful God be loving?

That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity.

Hi, this is Bill Meyer, along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez, and this is the radio program

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at questions at core Christianity.com. First up today, let's go to Anita who's calling in from

Phoenix, Arizona. Anita, what's your question for Adriol? Hi, Pastor. Thank you so much for what you

do. So my question is from Matthew chapter 4, verse 8 and 9,

when the devil takes Jesus in the temptation to the high mountain, shows him the kingdoms of the world,

and says, all this I will give you if you will bow down and worship me. So my question is, does Satan believe

that he owns the world? He has any authority or power. Obviously, he has influence. How could we

clarify that? Could you help me? Yeah.

Excellent question.

And you see similar passages in places like 2 Corinthians chapter 4, verse 4 where the apostle Paul refers to the evil one as the God of this world.

And in particular, you know, one of the things that we have to recognize is that in the New Testament, you have these two ages that are put forward.

This age, this present evil age, where there is still sin and death and so forth, and the age to come, the new creation.

Jesus came to bring about the age to come.

He inaugurated it.

Now the powers of the age to come are already breaking in on this present evil age,

the author of the Hebrew says in Hebrews chapter 6.

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