Wrath Has Come - 1 Thessalonians 2:13-16

1 Thessalonians 2:13-16 ESV

And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers. For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews, who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved—so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them at last!

There is nothing new under the sun except for a new creature born from the word of God. As Cain slew Abel, and the Jews that crucified Jesus and drove believers from their midst, so do the sons of Ishmael seek to kill all Jews and Christians. They are hostile to mankind by opposing God and His Son Jesus Christ. Instead of the salvation of the earth, they seek its destruction and death. This is the spirit that was a murderer from the beginning. 

Jesus can save these souls by casting out the demons that possess them. He can bring anyone to their right mind and free them from the shackles of possession. No longer wandering among the tombs and crying out as they suffer, they might still find the peace of God. 

Let everyone come to the Lord that will come, because the wrath of God is coming and  has come. He is dividing the sheep from the goats even now.