Why Does God Get Angry? In the Bible God gets angry at human violence. He gets angry at powerful leaders who oppress other humans. And the thing that makes God more angry than anything else in the Bible is Israel's constant covenant betrayal.
God becomes angry a second time in the poetic retelling of the parting of the Red Sea found in Exodus 15. Pharaoh aroused God's anger after oppressing Israel and refusing to listen ten times. God's anger was an act of judgment on Pharaoh and his armies.
As the biblical scholar Deena Grant has shown, anger was considered a "natural" human response to an inappropriate challenge to someone of higher rank, especially within families. When Israel disobeys God, divine anger expresses a concern that Israel does not want to be in "God's family."
God's wrath is revealed now.
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth (Rom. 1:18).
At the tomb of Lazarus, he is enraged at death and the devil (John 11:33, 38). Apart from his indignation with the disciples, there is an element of supernatural insight or divine foresight in every case. We catch glimpses of the wrath of God. There are also forebodings of his death.
1 Jonah was furious. He lost his temper. 2 He yelled at God, "God! I knew it - when I was back home, I knew this was going to happen!
People can become enraged at God if they think God should have protected them in the way that they think He should have, if He didn't answer their prayers in the time frame that they specified, or if they no longer feel His presence.
God hates sin, not only because it dishonors him, but because it damages me. Sin damages us, Christians. “God is a very happy God in providing gospel hope to sinners.” Ephesians 4:30 says that we can grieve God with our sin.
6:16-17). Cataclysmic Wrath: This is the wrath of God unleashed through natural disasters, hurricanes, tornados, mudslides, forest fires, sink holes, and various other disasters like that of tsunamis. The rebellion of Korah in Numbers 16:31-35 is an example of this type of wrath.
“For you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God” (Exod. 34:14).
Idolatry was torn from the heart of the nation; Jehovah was allowed to retain his supremacy over his chosen people. Israel sinned in other ways, but they did not again fall into that greatest sin, idolatry.
When we speak about the wrath of God, remember that it is the wrath of God. So everything we know about God—he is just, he is love, and he is good—needs to be poured into our understanding of his wrath. The words “anger” and “wrath” make us think about our experience.
Even before God became man, it's clear throughout the Old Testament that God feels sorrow, even weeps for the crushing blows of His people. Psalm 34:18 promises us that “the Lord is close to the brokenhearted.” How can you be close to someone who is brokenhearted and not feel their pain?
Kali is the great-great-grandson of Brahma. He is the son of Krodha (Anger) and his sister-turned-wife Himsa (Violence).
He is our gracious heavenly Father who loves and accepts us as we are, patiently bearing with us, teaching and guiding us as we grow and mature in Christ. He is not mad at me, and He is not mad at you. God is for us, not against us (Romans 8:31).
God was terribly sorrowful for the sin of His people. And God is sorrowful when we sin. The New Testament tell us clearly “to grieve not the holy spirit of God, by which we were sealed for the day of redemption” (Ephesians 4:30). The spirit of God can be grieved.
He was David's friend, and when he died, David got mad at God. The Bible says that David became afraid of God.
Becoming angry with someone because of personal resentment or envy is sinful. But a holy anger, aroused by injustice or evil, and accompanied by a sincere desire to see God's will performed, is both healthy and effective. Lord, help us to be angry and sin not.
Anger is a God-given emotion that gives us energy to protect someone else or ourselves, or to take action against an injustice.
Abraham, Moses, Elijah, and others all petitioned for divine intervention in their lives, or appealed forcefully to God to alter His proposed decree. Other biblical arguments focused on personal or communal suffering and anger: Jeremiah, Job, and certain Psalms and Lamentations.
I said,"Jenny....that's a great question....and most Bible scholars would say that scripture reveals three times when Jesus cried."
God Hears You
He hears our cries of unhappiness, pain, frustration, exhaustion, and fear. We can be honest with Him. His listening ear is always open to our prayers. His loving heart wants to embrace us as we cry on His shoulder.
When we are suffering, God is right beside us. Nothing can separate us from His love. He wants to show us His love through His church, and give us a purpose through His Word!
God is both just and loving: God judges those who turn from him, and he cares for those who turn to him. We find God's love together with his God's wrath in the rest of the New Testament too.