Delivered From Wrath

"For God so loved the world (all of humanity) that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever would believe in Him should not perish, but have eternal life." John 3:16.

"Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and His Son the propitiation for our sins." 1 Jn. 4:10.

To regard God as “angry”, or as demanding that Christ suffer “the exact equivalent of all the agonies the elect would have suffered to all eternity,” is to miss the whole meaning of propitiation.

It was not “punishment” which Christ bore on the cross, but “wrath.” Punishment is personal,—against the offender; but wrath upon Christ was against the thing—sin. Christ bore that wrath which God’s being and nature always and forever sustains toward sin. The sinner cannot come near to Him, but must die, must perish in His Holy Presence,—not because God hates him, but because God is the Holy One. (Lev. 11:44-45; 1 Pet. 1:15-16).

Therefore did Christ die—and that forsaken of God under wrath (Jn. 3:36; 5:24; 1 Thes. 1:10; 5:9; Ps. 22:1; Mt. 27:46)—because He was bearing our sins in His own body on the tree. (1Pet. 2:24). So it is, was, that, sin being placed on Christ, judgment and wrath fell upon Him. This is why those who receive Christ as Savior ARE delivered from the wrath to come. 1 Thes. 1:10.

God is love (1 Jn. 4:8,16; 1 Cor. 13:1-13) and yet has wrath against sin (Hab.1:13).