Folks, have you read Psalm 7:11 in context. It is all about God judging people, the wicked, and the righteous. That is why the conclusion of the vast majority of modern translations say God is a just judge or words to that affect. And as a righteous judge, He would not always be angry with those He is judging.
God, a righteous judge, is not angry all the time.
This is true Van as I see it. God has appointed a time for his anger similar to his anger in the days of Noah. He calls this time that he has reserved "the day of judgement. The official title for it is "the day of the LORD." It is the appointed time that he is taking sin out of the world by taking sinners out of the world, including Satan and his two men and beginning a 1000 year righteous reign over the earth.
This judgement will answer to the psalms where the prayer of Israel goes out to God in the face of being completely destroyed by the gentile armies that are gathered around Jerusalem for that purpose to "arise" and deliver us. By the time this happens Israel will have gone through 7 purifying judgements in this short time of 1260 days and every one left will be redeemed
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Rom 11:26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
Remember Jesus said a man must be born again to enter his kingdom.
So, I am going to give you a few stats concerning this "day of the LORD" judgement. I will do this without looking up my research and if I get a fact wrong, it will not be far off and I will fix it later. Remember, in Jewish thought the evening and the morning is the seventh day.
This will not be exhaustive.
*This phrase is found in the KJV a total of 30 times in 29 verses in the KJV Bible
*The first use chronologically is in Obadiah 1:15 in the year 840 BC
* In it's initial context it i
s always in the future tense
* The Day of the LORD is one of the four major themes of the prophetic scriptures
* The number 30 in the scriptures is God's number for maturity
* There have been a total of 11 Bible authors that have used this, day of the Lord, title in a total of 15 books of the Bible
* The 11 authors - Isa, Jeremiah, Eze, Joel, Amos, Ob, Zep, Zec, Mal, Peter, Paul
* The books - Isa, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Eze, Joel, Amos, Ob, Zep, Zec Mal, Acts, I Cor, 2 Cor, I Th, 2 Pe
*This time frame covers years 840 BC to 64 AD - 904 years
*The day of the LORD had not yet come when the Bible was complete in 94 AD
*The day of the Lord judgement included Israel, the nations, and the church
*The time frame for the Day of the LORD is 1260 days or 3 1/2 years.
* It is synonymous with the Great Tribulation of Revelation.
* It is a time of judgement of the church in heaven for deeds done in the body, for works
* It is a judgment of Israel on earth for purification
* It is a judgment for the nations on earth for how they have treated Israel and for sin.
* In the New Testament the day is called the day of the Lord Jesus when referencing the Church
* The day of the LORD is said to come as a destruction from the almighty Isa 13:6
* It comes as a cruel day with wrath and fierce anger Isa 13:9
* It is the day of the LORD'S vengeance Isa 34:8
* It is a day of the Lord GOD'S (Adonay Jehovah's) blood sacrifice Jer 46:10
* It is a cloudy day and a time of the heathen Ez 30:3
* It is a destruction from the Almighty Joel 1:15
* The day of the LORD is great and very terrible; who can abide it Joel Joel 2:11
* The Day of the Lord is darkness, and not light Amos 5:18
* The day of the LORD will be very dark and no brightness in it Amos 5:20
* The day of the LORD is a great & dreadful day Mal 4:5
* The entire day, night and day, is 1000 years Re 20{ 1-14
* It is a great and notable day Acts 2:20
* The day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night 1 Th 5:2 - 2 Pe 3:10
*John the Revelator has a different name for this day because it is PRESENT tense
* Every mention previously had been future tense.
* Re 1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
* The beginning of the opening of the 7 seals begins the wrath of God - Rev 6:1
*Re 6:17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
* It comes sometimes after the sound of a trumpet See 1 Cor 15:52 - 1 th 4:16 Re 4:1
* We have finally come to the present tense of the day of the Lord
* The day of the Lord is 1000 years long but the exercising of God's wrath is only 1260 days at the beginning.
* There is a different designation for the remainder of the day
This is
the day
Isa 11:1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
2 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;
3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice den.
9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
10 And
in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
11 And it shall come to pass
in that day, [that] the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.
15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make [men] go over dryshod.
16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
1 And
in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.
2 Behold, God [is] my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH [is] my strength and [my] song; he also is become my salvation.
3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
4 And
in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.
5 Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this [is] known in all the earth.
6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great [is] the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
Warning: Bible words must be consistent from beginning to end or these themes of the Bible may not work in other translations. God's words are precise.
29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man s device.
30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; bu
t now commandeth all men every where to repent:
The day of the Lord;
31 Because he hath appointed
a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by [that] man whom he hath ordained; [whereof] he hath given assurance unto all [men], in that he hath raised him from the dead.
32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this [matter].
33 So Paul departed from among them.
34 Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which [was] Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
All of us must be sure we are saved and not just religious and following men because they are smart. See 2 Cor 13:5.