The NON-WRATHFUL SEQUEL to the Cross is the show stopper!

The very nub of the Gospel is the non-wrathful immediate sequel to the cross.  God had every right to demonstrate yet more wrath from Heaven than Paul warns about in Romans 1:18-3:20 upon that heinous execution of His beloved and eminently worthy Son.  Yet He did not!  His just and rightful wrath might well have avenged their unjust and wrongful wrath, but God rather exerted His holiness by self-control, patience, mercy, kindness, and forbearance (“fruits” of the very Holy Spirit He yearned to see operating in His people!) and RAISED JESUS FROM THE DEAD INSTEAD!  [5/17/10]  Hurrah!!! However, that said, we must never forget that this was only a merciful reprieve that barely lasted a full generation before the dread prophecy of Daniel (9:26-27)–and of Jesus on the way to the cross (Luke 23:27-31)–was fulfilled in horrific detail upon those who still remained unrepentant. Literally hundreds of Jerusalem’s citizens were then crucified (according to the Jewish eye-witness, Josephus, in his Antiquities of the Jews), and there was certainly divine wrath at those crosses. [5/17/10]