Human wrath is usually sinful. Human wrath is anger out of control. It is unrighteous. But God’s wrath is never out of control. Rather, it is measured. It is deliberate. Most importantly, God is “slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness” (Ex. 34:6). This means that God’s anger is tightly controlled. It is more like the anger of the Ents in J. R. R. Tolkien’s fantasy The Lord of the Rings. In Tolkien’s story, the Ents are powerful living trees that grow in Middle-earth. For generations they sleep. They finally awake to a Middle-earth dominated by evil. Their anger grows,
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