There is a significant difference between the chastening of God and the wrath of God. God wants to take out of us things that are not wholesome, that are not toward His character, so we can become like Him in character and can be saved eternally.
…when the Lord said, “You go right now and do not turn back,” she disobeyed a direct divine command from the Lord Himself, and she was turned into a pillar of salt. (Verse 26.) And Jesus said, “Remember Lot’s wife.” Luke 17:32.
August 26, 2007 – September 1, 2007 – To what time of the past are the days immediately preceding the Second Coming of the Lord compared? Luke 17:26, 28.
August 9, 2009 – August 15, 2009 – Even some of the children of Israel had so far degraded themselves as to practice these abominations, and God caused the fire to kindle upon their children, whom they made to pass through the fire.
April 5, 2015 – April 11, 2015-“Abraham was not a stranger to the people of Sodom, and his worship of the unseen God had been a matter of ridicule among them.”
“The Redeemer of the world declares that there are greater sins than that for which Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed. Those who hear the gospel invitation calling sinners to repentance, and heed it not, are more guilty before God…”
Have you ever stopped to consider that at some point in time you will have reached your last night on planet earth? Are you prepared for your last night?