Day 127

 “And they *said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the sight of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb; ¹⁷ for the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?” REV6:16-17. (NASB)

In the fifth seal, we saw God’s people suffering injustice in a hostile world, as they cry out for God’s intervention on their behalf. The time has come for God to intervene in answer to the prayers of His people. Remember to keep the conceptual symbolic mindset flowing in your thinking.
The concept “wrath of the Lamb” sounds like an oxymoron. Can you really imagine a “raging lamb?” What would that look like? The slain Lamb, of course, represents the cross. The wrath represents God’s unwillingness to compromise with sin. God must be seen by the universe as dealing with sin. God is love, and justice is a dimension of love. He could back off on His authority, but that would lead to chaos in the cosmos. Simply being the great Judge and administrator of Justice would make His creation follow Him from fear.
There was once a story of a father whose son had transgressed. By way of illustration he had his weeping son administer the punishment on himself.

At the cross, Jesus joined us in reaping the consequences of sin. In so doing He won the love of the universe as well as its respect. In the end, a “raging Lamb” who brooks no compromise with sin, yet identifies with the sinner, proves able to heal a broken universe.
In my wheat farming days, there was a fire in the crop. For safety, as we fought the blaze, I had to leave my tractor on the patch of ground already burned because fire cannot burn twice in the same place. Jesus has experienced the wrath of God against sin and your eternal security is to now be where the fire of God’s wrath has already been – on the lamb, at the cross. Failing that, you must experience your own punishment for sin, as the “wrath of the Lamb” exacts the penalty for sin. and they *said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the ^a]sight of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb; ¹⁷ for the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”