If you ask people what they think God is like, how do they generally respond? Is it that God is holy? Is it that God is just? Is it that God is transcendent? Is it that God is immutable? No, those are not generally the responses. Usually the responses are along the lines of, “Well, I feel like God is just … um … you know … like … um, loving.”

Many modern sensibilities demand that God love, condone, and celebrate whatever fallen sinners laud. But is it possible that God is altogether different from fallen sinners’ nature?

Spiritual Warfare: Here’s an example of the alphabet jihadists chanting, “We’re here; we’re queer; we’re coming for your children!”

Again, is it possible that God is altogether different from sinners’ nature?

Isaiah’s Warning: To use the prophet’s language, ^“All who fashion idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit. Their witnesses neither see nor know, that they may be put to shame. Who fashions a god or casts an idol that is profitable for nothing? Behold, all his companions shall be put to shame, and the craftsmen are only human. Let them all assemble, let them stand forth. They shall be terrified; they shall be put to shame together” (Isaiah 44:9-12, ESV).

When I study the Scriptures, it’s shocking how many times God had to whet His sword in judgment over man’s sin. So often that sin involved perversions of sexuality.

There are reasons that the Lird forbids sleeping with animals. There are reasons God condemns pedophilia. There are reasons God condemns infanticide. It’s because fallen, sinful, twisted human beings engage in such things. Left to themselves, there is no bottom to man’s depravity.

There are reasons God honors and blesses the marriage bed and the raising up of godly children.

Because God is altogether holy. Holy, holy, holy, to use Isaiah’s language (cf. Isaiah 6).

David in Psalm 7:

I was reading in Psalm 7 recently. In verse 9 David writes, “Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous–you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God!”

It surely strikes the unbeliever as pure silliness to read such a thing, right? Here is a man crying out to God for wickedness to come to an end. He wants, to put it in simple terms, good to win. His heart’s cry is for justice–true Godly justice–and goodness, and beauty to be ushered in. A triumphal procession, in other words, is David’s longing, a triumphal procession of the holy and clean and good.

Why does David pray like that?

Because of what we see in verses 11-12:

11 God is a righteous judge,
    and a God who feels indignation every day.

¹² If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword;
    he has bent and readied his bow

Connection to the Big Picture:

God did whet His sword, of course. Not just in His raising up nations to bring low other nations. Not just in allowing invading armies to conquer Israel. Not just in Babylonian exiles.

Not just in World Economic Forums. Not just in efforts to establish a pagan one-world governmental system by self-styled elitists and billionaires.

Not just in depopulating the world via nefarious injections. Not just in having the wicked or cowardly and gullible call good evil and evil good.

He did it by the cross of Christ for all who will repent and believe the gospel. But it’s death to man’s pride in that exchange.

It’s God’s righteousness imputed to the broken and humble sinner because of the person and work of Christ. It’s the individual sinner’s sin imputed to the sin-bearing substitutionary atonement of Christ.

It’s the whetting of God’s sword, don’t you see?

If we will not come to Christ, the sword will devour us, because that is what our sin merits. And yet, God sends forth His light and truth via the gospel offer. Why? To redeem sinners.

When the alphabet mobs chant, “We’re here; we’re queer; we’re coming for your children!” I don’t know how much more brazen the spiritual darkness may become.

I don’t know what it will take for the West to awake and get engaged against the enemy of their souls, and the enemy of all righteousness.

In the end, dear ones, it’s not the rainbow-clad mobs we should most fear, but the One who has whet His sword of judgment for those who reject the gospel.