The mercy and tolerance of God do indeed exist,

but God’s holiness and righteousness when He unleashes His wrath

also show man the side of God that brooks no offense.

I

When man is fully capable of obeying the commands of God

and acts in accordance with God’s requirements,

God is abundant in His mercy toward man;

when man has been filled with corruption, hatred and enmity for Him,

God is profoundly angry.

To what extent is He profoundly angry?

His wrath will last until God no longer sees man’s resistance and evil deeds,

until they’re no longer before His eyes.

Only then will God’s anger disappear.

Only then will God’s anger disappear.

II

No matter who the person is,

if their heart has become distant from God

and turned away from God, never to return,

then to all appearances or in terms of their subjective desires,

no matter how they wish to worship and follow and submit to God

in their body or in their thinking,

as soon as their heart has turned away from God,

God’s wrath will be unleashed without cease.

It will be such that when God deeply unleashes His anger,

having given man ample opportunities,

once it’s unleashed there’ll be no way of taking it back,

and He’ll never again be merciful and tolerant of such a person.

III

This is one side of God’s disposition that tolerates no offense.

He is tolerant and merciful

toward things that are kind and beautiful and good;

toward things that are evil, sinful, and wicked, He is profoundly wrathful,

such that He is unceasing in His wrath, such that He’s unceasing in His wrath.

These are the two principal and most prominent aspects of God’s disposition,

and, moreover, they’ve been revealed by God from beginning to end:

abundant mercy and profound wrath.

from The Word, Vol. 2. On Knowing God. God’s Work, God’s Disposition, and God Himself II