The
Non-eternal Nature of God’s Wrath
Jeremiah 30:23-24
Old Testament passage
proclaiming God’s ultimate salvation of all people are usually not quite so
clear as the more than 20 free-standing New Testament sections supporting the
reconciliation of all. Nonetheless, the Old Testament verses give us a preview
of what Christ, Paul, John, Peter, and James were going to proclaim. In speaking of God’s wrath, for example,
Jeremiah pointed toward reconciliation (Jeremiah 30:23-24). This point is clear
in almost any translation:
Jeremiah 30:23-24
23 Behold, the tempest of the
LORD! Wrath has gone forth, a sweeping tempest; it will burst on the head of
the wicked.
24 The fierce anger of the
LORD will not turn back, until He has performed, and until He has accomplished
the intent of His heart; in the latter days you will understand this.
(NASB)
God’s wrath lasts only until He has performed His will
[the intent of His heart]. There is a
hint here that the knowledge of how God would carry out only a limited
punishment would be fully understood only in the “latter days”. After hundreds of years of false teaching
about everlasting torment, the concept of ultimate reconciliation for all
people is finally gaining an audience in these “latter days” and this scripture
is being fulfilled before our eyes!
TURA (The Ultimate
Reconciliation of All)