If Wrath Was Fully Poured Out In A.D. 70, What Are Sinner's Saved From Today?

Joel Sexton

The apostle Paul states we are all "by nature children of wrath" {Eph 2:3] and that some were
"storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of
God," [Rom 2:5]

Sinner's in the hands of an angry God need salvation. They need to be justified by God [Rom
3:26}. If wrath was fully poured out on the Jews in A.D. 70 then there is no more Gospel to
preach, no more sin since God's wrath is no longer on any sinner, and most importantly no need
or no salvation today for us at all.

The apostle Paul uses the word wrah orge 49 times out of the 60 it is mentioned in the N.T. In
most uses orge is divine anger. We see this wrath is on all unbelievers. The words of John the
Baptist,

"He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life,
but the wrath of God abides on him.” [Jn 3:36]

Paul in a similar vein writing to the church at Ephesus,

For this you know with certainty, that no immoral or impure person or covetous man, who is an
idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Let no one deceive you with
empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of
disobedience. [Eph 5:5-6] Paul writing to the Colossians,

"Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion,
evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry. For it is because of these things that the wrath
of God will come upon the sons of disobedience" [Col 3:5-6]

So we see clearly that unregenerate man in his depravity as a sinner is under God's Divine wrath
and fury. The only way to escape this wrath is to accept the free gift of eternal life found in Jesus
Christ [Rom 3:24; 5:12-19; eph 2:8-9; Phil 1:29].

The justified sinner is no longer a "son of disobedience" [Eph 5:6; Col 5:6] but a adopted child of
God, adopted into the covenant family of God as heir's [Rom 4; Gal 3]

Wrath has been placed on Christ in the stead of mankind to be a propitiation. Or a sbustitute for
mankind. But to be justified, adopted and in Christ, it is by faith alone.

The believer no longer has the wrath of God on him. Hear Paul,

" Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of
God through Him." [Rom 5:9]

The wrath Paul is speaking about is God's wrath to be poured out upon the unjustied sinner at
the Second Coming.

"And to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, that is Jesus, who rescues
us from the wrath to come." [1 Thess 1:10]

"For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him. [1
Thess 5:5-9]

Clearly the Christian is to experience glory and is being reassured by Paul on this matter. That by
being "in Christ." That is united to Him by faith, we as believer's have His merit's His
righteousness covering our sin.

But. If God's future wrath of the Day of Judgment has already been poured out, we have a
couple issues.

1] Ethier there is no wrath on sinner's today, hence Universalism

2] There is no salvation (justification) for sinner's today since God has exhausted His wrath fully
in A.D. 70, And since to be justified is to be a partaker of the atonement in union with Christ
from the wrath of God, and since there is no more wrath. We have no more justification, no one
is united to Christ or has salvation today.

3]If the judgment of wrath has taken place. Then there can not be any justification today since to
justify-dikaoo means to declare innocent, righteous. It is a forensic legal pronouncement from
God the judge to man the sinner. The act of Justification is bringing the eschatological last
judgment into the here and now for the believer. Since the verdict of the last judgment is of a
past judgment there can be no verdict pronounced today!

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