God Loves His People

God is not apathetic or emotionless

The scroll is opened

Revelation 6:11 NIV

Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers and sisters, were killed just as they had been.

First four trumpet judgements

Matthew 18:7 NIV

Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble! Such things must come, but woe to the person through whom they come!

Romans 8:20–22 NIV

For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

Romans 2:5 NIV

But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed.

God’s wrath is an expression of His love for us

Your faith decides whether you are the blameless or the blamed