The Levites, however, are to set up their tents around the tabernacle of the covenant law so that my wrath will not fall on the Israelite community. The Levites are to be responsible for the care of the tabernacle of the covenant law.”

• Numbers 1:53

Then Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer and put incense in it, along with burning coals from the altar, and hurry to the assembly to make atonement for them. Wrath has come out from the Lord; the plague has started.”

• Numbers 16:46

“You are to be responsible for the care of the sanctuary and the altar, so that my wrath will not fall on the Israelites again.

• Numbers 18:5

“‘They have blown the trumpet, they have made all things ready, but no one will go into battle, for my wrath is on the whole crowd.

• Ezekiel 7:14

In wrath you strode through the earth and in anger you threshed the nations.

• Habakkuk 3:12

Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to save them on the day of the Lord’s wrath.” In the fire of his jealousy the whole earth will be consumed, for he will make a sudden end of all who live on the earth.

• Zephaniah 1:18

“In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold.

• Ephesians 4:26-27

I am continuing the series of quizzes on the “seven deadly sins: Pride, Greed, Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Wrath, and Sloth.”

The questions relate to verses that have the word “wrath” in them.

The questions are in Biblical order, with the first seven from the Old Testament.

The Questions:

	Question	Bible References	Answers
1	What had the Israelites done to cause God to wish to destroy them, according to Deuteronomy 9?
2	According to Deuteronomy 29, what act would cause God’s wrath to the point where there is no forgiveness?
3	Later in Deuteronomy 29, when they forsake God and follow other gods and they abandon the covenant God made with them, what will God do to the Israelites?
4	When God’s wrath becomes a fire, how deep will the fire go?
5	When the Gibeonites tricked Joshua and the leaders of Israel into signing a peace treaty, why did the Israelites not attack the cities of Gibeon?
6	What did “Samuel’s Ghost” tell Saul about incurring God’s wrath?
7	Both 2 Samuel and 1 Chronicles report that David was angry that God’s wrath had been poured out.  How was God’s wrath exhibited?
8	In the first mention of wrath in the New Testament, who calls what group of people a brood of vipers and asks who warned them to flee the coming wrath?
9	What will cause the great city (Jerusalem) to split into three parts when the last bowl of God’s wrath is poured out?
10	When Christ comes, out of His mouth will be a sharp sword to judge the nations.  He will rule with an iron scepter, and how will the fury of the wrath of God metaphorically be exhibited?

Do I have anger issues?

Before I answer that, may I use a trick that I have condemned in other posts?  I mean, everyone else compares…

Okay, since you are not buying the argument of “I am less than 5% of the hothead my Dad was, and he was at least half the hothead that his father was…”

Yes, I have had my moments.  I told the boys to stew for a little while before the punishment began.  That was not a form of punishment in itself, in that they knew something bad was going to happen, so why not get it over with.  No, I wanted to not be angry when I administered the punishment.  I was no Ward Cleaver from Leave It to Beaver.  But, then, no one ever was…  Or maybe a rare few.

But the one thing that happened to me all the time was that my Dad was ordered by my mother to beat me.  He had no idea why, other than he secretly knew that she hated me.  I wanted the boys to know why they were being punished and what was to be learned.  Did they listen?  Probably not, so I guess they were not Beaver Cleavers either.

But my wife lectured me often about how the idiot driver who cut me off in traffic could not hear me bickering, but she could.  But bickering let me release the emotions without ever going into road rage.  We are to forgive instead of getting even.  Besides, usually he had a bigger car, probably a gun in the glove compartment, etc.

Wrath?  No, that is a God thing.  But fits and spits of losing my cool, more than I want to admit.

Bible References:

	Question	Bible References	Answers
1	What had the Israelites done to cause God to wish to destroy them, according to Deuteronomy 9?	Deuteronomy 9:8
2	According to Deuteronomy 29, what act would cause God’s wrath to the point where there is no forgiveness?	Deuteronomy 29:19-20
3	Later in Deuteronomy 29, when they forsake God and follow other gods and they abandon the covenant God made with them, what will God do to the Israelites?	Deuteronomy 29:25-28
4	When God’s wrath becomes a fire, how deep will the fire go?	Deuteronomy 32:22
5	When the Gibeonites tricked Joshua and the leaders of Israel into signing a peace treaty, why did the Israelites not attack the cities of Gibeon?	Joshua 9:20
6	What did “Samuel’s Ghost” tell Saul about incurring God’s wrath?	1 Samuel 28:18
7	Both 2 Samuel and 1 Chronicles report that David was angry that God’s wrath had been poured out.  How was God’s wrath exhibited?	2 Samuel 6:8 and 1 Chronicles 13:11
8	In the first mention of wrath in the New Testament, who calls what group of people a brood of vipers and asks who warned them to flee the coming wrath?	Matthew 3:7
9	What will cause the great city (Jerusalem) to split into three parts when the last bowl of God’s wrath is poured out?	Revelation 16:18-19
10	When Christ comes, out of His mouth will be a sharp sword to judge the nations.  He will rule with an iron scepter, and how will the fury of the wrath of God metaphorically be exhibited?	Revelation 19:16

Have you noticed that Ephesians 4:26 ends with a comma?  We should not let the sun set on our anger because if we do, we give the devil a foothold in our lives.

But do not try to make a rule that both husband and wife have to make up before we go to bed.  That is what sofas are for.  And before you argue that the wife started it, the husband goes to the sofa.  Not negotiable.

Some of our worst fights were when I quoted this Ephesians 4:26 and my wife was determined that Paul should have had his head examined when he wrote that.  She was still angry.  She was sleeping alone.  And if I awoke the next morning, that meant she did not kill me in my sleep, so maybe she was not that angry with me.

Truth was that she would not hurt a fly, but maybe if she had some kind of psychotic episode…

For all you husbands out there, the tactic is to keep the husband off balance.  Making up has its benefits, but the wife wants everything on her terms when that happens.  As the saying goes, just saying…

And to be honest, maybe more than half the time I was at fault.  Then, me being an engineer and thinking logically caused trouble.  Like when her offense was not bad enough for us to have an argument, so this was a great time for her to admit it was her fault…  Naïve has my picture next to it in the dictionary.

But one of the reasons that my wife and I connected and we stayed happily married for nearly fifty years, only have her heart stop before we reached fifty years.

Oh, the reason.  We both easily showed our emotions.  The good ones were great times.  The bad emotions meant we walked on eggshells.

But boring?  Never!

And another thing my wife hated was me being able to share.  She thought I shared too much.  Her plan was to not share at all.  So, I think I will end this discussion with me zipping my lip.

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The Answers:

	Question	Bible References	Answers
1	What had the Israelites done to cause God to wish to destroy them, according to Deuteronomy 9?	Deuteronomy 9:8	They made and worshipped a golden calf – Deuteronomy has a lot of repeated stories from the first four books.
2	According to Deuteronomy 29, what act would cause God’s wrath to the point where there is no forgiveness?	Deuteronomy 29:19-20	Declaring a blessing on themselves so that they can sin all they want.
3	Later in Deuteronomy 29, when they forsake God and follow other gods and they abandon the covenant God made with them, what will God do to the Israelites?	Deuteronomy 29:25-28	Uproot them from the land He had promised them. – in other words, the exiles.
4	When God’s wrath becomes a fire, how deep will the fire go?	Deuteronomy 32:22	Down to the foundations of the mountains… meaning His wrath even goes to the graves of those who oppose Him.
5	When the Gibeonites tricked Joshua and the leaders of Israel into signing a peace treaty, why did the Israelites not attack the cities of Gibeon?	Joshua 9:20	They would then incur God’s wrath for breaking an oath (vow).
6	What did “Samuel’s Ghost” tell Saul about incurring God’s wrath?	1 Samuel 28:18	Saul did not obey God in that he did not totally destroy the Amalekites.
7	Both 2 Samuel and 1 Chronicles report that David was angry that God’s wrath had been poured out.  How was God’s wrath exhibited?	2 Samuel 6:8 and 1 Chronicles 13:11	Uzzah reached out to steady the Ark on the cart, and God struck him dead for touching what only the priests were allowed to touch.  But it was David who did not consult the Law as to the rules about moving and carrying the Ark.
8	In the first mention of wrath in the New Testament, who calls what group of people a brood of vipers and asks who warned them to flee the coming wrath?	Matthew 3:7	John the Baptist said this to the Pharisees and Sadducees who came where John was baptizing people.  Note that the Matthew text does not say that they came to be baptized.
9	What will cause the great city (Jerusalem) to split into three parts when the last bowl of God’s wrath is poured out?	Revelation 16:18-19	An earthquake greater than any other earthquake before it.
10	When Christ comes, out of His mouth will be a sharp sword to judge the nations.  He will rule with an iron scepter, and how will the fury of the wrath of God metaphorically be exhibited?	Revelation 19:16	Like treading the winepress.  Can you imagine Jesus crushing each nation from a fresh grape into a bit of juice, total destruction.

Whether you did well on this quiz or, ummm, not so well, for the first video, here is Joshua Miller singing Slow to Anger.

Here are Shane & Shane with The Lord is My Salvation. 

Here is Devon Kauflin and Lacy Condy,  singing All I Have is Christ.

We owe everything to Jesus.  It is all His.  When we think we have a right to wrath, we are forgetting that.  And we are forgetting that the commandment Jesus gave us was to love one another.  You cannot forgive and hold onto the anger.  You must let it go.

If you like these Saturday morning Bible quizzes, but you think you missed a few, you can use this LINK. I have set up a page off the home page for links to these Saturday morning posts. I will continue to modify the page as I add more.

Soli Deo Gloria.  Only to God be the Glory.