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The word hate in hebrew is (שנה) Sinah. I guess it is because crimes are motivated by prejudice and the Sinah (hate) (LOL).

The Hebrew word for hate is Sinah from the root SN (Sane) which of course is said differently depending on how the sentence is structured.

I enjoy how in todays society we want to talk about the Love of G-d. His love is good and great! He is love, He is awesome! And I want to talk about an aspect of His love that many do not talk about.

God loves so much that He hates!

Yes, God hates!

You see, People like to point out that… “If God is so loving, why does He allow this or that?”. So let me ask you here, if G-d is so loving why does He allow for such to happen? When people ask this, it is very hard to answer sometimes, because they share this God that is supposed to be loving so as not to allow such things to happen. And yes, some things are beyond our understanding, however, some things are right before our eyes.

You see hate is a strong word, there is so much power placed on it when the truth most of the things we hate are what we dislike, do not love as much, and few of those thing we truly abhor.

Hate in the Bible also takes different forms where God shares what He dislikes, doesn’t love as much, and there are things He truly detests.

In this, I want to share with you the true love of G-d and how He hates:

What is the definition of hate? Someone tell me in your own words what hate means?

“Dislike, detest, loathe, abhor, do not want, and etc”

Okay, Can someone give me in 1 min. an example on how you felt someone was hating you?

Hosea 9:15 - “All their wickedness is at Gilgal, for there I despised them. Because of their wicked practices,     I will drive them out of My House. I will love them no more. All their princes are rebellious.

G-d hates wickedness, and He will not love the wicked.

He hates what is contrary to love.

Here’s the thing, what is God’s love compared to ours? God so loved the world that He gave Himself (His One and Only Son) for us so that He would not have to see His hate for evil cause Himself to bring an end to the world.

“Among the things God hates are idolatry (Deuteronomy 12:31; 16:22 ), child sacrifice, sexual perversion (Leviticus 20:1-23) , and those who do evil (Psalm 5:4-6; 11:5). Proverbs 6:16-19 lists seven things the Lord hates: pride, lying, murder, evil plots, those who love evil, false witnesses, and troublemakers. Notice that this passage does not include just things that God hates; it includes people as well. The reason is simple: sin cannot be separated from the sinner except by the forgiveness available in Christ alone. God hates lying, yes, but lying always involves a person—a liar—who chooses to lie. God cannot judge the lie without also judging the liar.”

The Bible clearly teaches that God loves the people of the world (John 3:16). God spared wicked Nineveh, bringing them to repentance (Jonah 3). God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked (Ezekiel 18:32). He is patient to an extreme, “not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9). This is all proof of love—God wants what is best for His creation. At the same time, Psalm 5:5 says about God, “You hate all evildoers” (ESV). Psalm 11:5 is even harsher: “The wicked, those who love violence, he hates with a passion.”

You see there is no room for selfishness in G-d’s heart, rather, the Bible says, “He doesn’t want anyone to perish”. So while the law shows that God’s judgment is on the sinners, evildoers, the wicked, He gave His word of love so that whoever takes a hold of it and believe in Him, they would be transformed by His love and be saved.

“The wicked, who are still unforgiven, God hates “for their many sins, for they have rebelled” (Psalm 5:10). But God desires that the wicked repent of their sin and find refuge in Messiah. At the moment of saving faith, the wicked sinner is removed from the kingdom of darkness and transferred to the kingdom of love (see Colossians 1:13). All enmity is dissolved, all sin is removed, and all things are made new (see 2 Corinthians 5:17).

God’s hate is not a surface level hate, it is unlike any other hate. Just think about it, if you hated someone so much, would you really be willing to sacrifice yourself for them?

Our form of hate drives us away from each other and causes division, but God’s form of hate causes Him to reveal His power and love.

He doesn’t want people to suffer, and so though suffering may last a moment, He is going to bring you your joy. He doesn’t want people to perish, so He brought forth a way for you to receive life and life everlasting. He doesn’t want people to kill, murder, lie, steal, and so he makes a way to put an end to those things through His provision, hope, compassion, mercy, and love in Messiah Yeshua!

Yes, He hates the evil in the world and creates a separation. He rightly hates.

My question for you today is do you rightly hate? Do you hate the injustice, do you hate the suffering, do you hate what all these people do, do you hate hypocrites? Do you hate the way God hates in order to bring forth His love, justice, and righteousness, or is your hate making you like the haters, the liars, the murders, the thieves, and the violators?

The instruction of God in Messiah, the New covenant given to us in response to hatred is one of non-violence and non-retaliation since vengeance belongs to God (Rom. 12:19; compare Ps. 94:1). Rather, followers of Messiah are to overcome evil with good by loving one’s enemies (Matt. 5:44; compare Rom. 12:21) by giving oneself to the calling God has given to us - to be Holy has He is Holy.

Eugene E. Carpenter and Philip W. Comfort, Holman Treasury of Key Bible Words: 200 Greek and 200 Hebrew Words Defined and Explained (Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2000), 81.

This week I received a long video after having already received this message, and in this video Billy Graham speaks to the young adults of this generation saying: