Last week we saw from the prophet Joel three themes regarding the vengeance of God:
- First, we saw that God avenges grievous wrongs against his people – and that he does this because when the wicked attack the people of God, they are actually engaging in self-destructive behavior, because salvation comes to all the earth through the people of God!
- Second, we saw that God’s vengeance is proportional. The punishment fits the crime. He gives to each according to his deeds.
- Third, we saw that God’s vengeance will be fulfilled in the Day of the Lord. There are partial judgments that happen throughout history. But on that final Day, God will make everything right.
These three themes recur throughout the bible’s teaching on God’s vengeance. We see them again in Psalm 94 – our song of response.
Psalm 94 identifies the LORD as the “God of vengeance,” reminding us again that vengeance is not bad rather, we are bad at vengeance! But since God is the holy Judge of all the earth we can trust him to bring just vengeance to all the earth.
And his judgment is proportional: “repay the proud what they deserve”; “he will bring back on them their iniquity and wipe them out for their wickedness”
And there is a time when he will make all things right in the end.
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