I looked and saw a bright cloud, and someone who seemed to be the Son of Man was sitting on the cloud. He wore a gold crown on his head and held a sharp sickle in his hand. An angel came out of the temple and shouted, “Start cutting with your sickle! Harvest season is here, and all crops on earth are ripe.” The one on the cloud swung his sickle and harvested the crops.
Another angel with a sharp sickle then came out of the temple in heaven. After this, an angel with power over fire came from the altar and shouted to the angel who had the sickle. He said, “All grapes on earth are ripe! Harvest them with your sharp sickle.” The angel swung his sickle on earth and cut off its grapes. He threw them into a pit where they were trampled on as a sign of God's anger.
Revelation 14:14-19
When God is angry what can anyone do? The anger of God is not something we like to think about as human beings. God's love, patience, kindness and mercy are the things on which we focus when we think of our Heavenly Father. But those who reject Jesus will come face to face with a God who is angry!
Do you remember the song: "To Be Like Jesus?" The goal of every Christian on this earth is to live like Jesus did. Jesus was loving, kind, compassionate, and in every way a living example of God on this earth. In fact, Jesus was God in the flesh. But Jesus also drove the money changers out of the temple. When we live our lives as Jesus did there will be moments like that in each of our lives. It will be a time to be angry. The Bible simply warns us to "be angry and sin not."
Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit if you are a Christian. It is time for you to drive the money changers out of the "Temple" of the Holy Spirit. Be angry at sin in your life and drive it out without compassion!
"Lord, I thank You that because of Jesus I do not have to face Your anger. But Lord, give me the courage to be angry at sin in my own life and throw it out like You did to the money changers. And I pray this in the Name of Jesus. Amen!"
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