
If ‘judgment is to begin first at the house of God’, as Peter indicates...(1 Pet. 4:17), it might not be a bad idea to have a better grasp as to what this ‘judgment of God’ looks like, and how it plays out. And if you are of the ‘school of thought’ that ever since Jesus died on a cross...that God no longer deals with sin in the church because Jesus took all that ‘punishment’...can you explain what happened to Ananias and Saphira in Acts 5; or maybe elaborate on Paul’s counsel in dealing with sexual immorality in 1 Cor. 5:5. What I have laid out here the past few days is a study of OT examples where God brought judgment on the world, and even more specifically, on His people. That’s as good a place to begin studying where we can better understand what God’s wrath is, why it’s ‘poured’ out, and what it looks like in the process. I say this can be beneficial given what God told Jeremiah how ‘His people don’t know His judgements’ (8:7; 5:4). And let’s not forget we are told to be ...