Whatever future judgment the saved person may have for the quality of his service

(I Cor. 3: 11-15), he certainly will not experience God's wrath. Rom. 5: 9 expressly

declares that ". . . . . being justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through

Him", and further such is assured that he will not come into condemnation (Rom. 8: 1).

However, the solemn occurrences of wrath in the book of Revelation show that this is

directed primarily against the LIE and Babylonianism. Wrath is never associated with

Adam's sin. Though the heart of God must have been intensely grieved at the sin of

Adam, we do not once read of wrath in Gen. 3:  We have heard it that when the

unsaved die they are experiencing the wrath of God. But this is putting Divine wrath in a

wrong context. Many an unregenerate man has died peacefully in his bed, and if this is

experiencing God's wrath we do not wonder if some think the awfulness of this has been

greatly exaggerated. The day of wrath, as the Book of the Revelation teaches, is yet

future, and it is a most solemn and terrible experience to undergo as the seven vial

judgments testify, for in them "is completed the wrath of God" (Rev. 15: 1, 7).

The Apostle Paul told the pagan philosophers at Athens, that God "will judge the

world in righteousness by that Man Whom He hath ordained" (Acts 17: 30, 31). These

philosophers were certainly not saved, so Paul is not addressing saved people who were

walking carnally, and in order for the message to have had a very practical bearing, it

must have included them when they were informed of this future day of judgment, in

which case they will be raised from the dead. Later on in Acts 24: 15, Paul declares

before Felix, that there will be a "resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the

unjust", and Felix trembled when he heard of "judgment to come" (24: 25). Can

"unjust" ever describe a saved person? Adikos `unjust' occurs eleven times, and we give

the references (Matt. 5: 45; Luke 16: 10, 11; 18: 11; Acts 24: 15; Rom. 3: 5 (??);

I Cor. 6: 1, 9; Heb. 6: 10; I Pet. 3: 18; II Pet. 2: 9). The reader should consult each

verse and note the context. There is only one reference that might be construed as

referring to the saved, and that is the unjust steward of Luke 16:  But if the way the

Holy Spirit has used a word is a guide to its meaning, then it must normally refer to the

unsaved. "The unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God" (I Cor. 6: 9), and it is

certain that Paul never uses the word "unjust" of a saved person. Peter, in his first

epistle, refers to Christ bearing the sins of His people, "the Just for the unjust"

(I Pet. 3: 18), and later on in the second epistle states that the "Lord knoweth how to

deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to

be punished" (II Pet. 2: 9). In the third chapter he declares "the heavens and the earth

which are now . . . . . are reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of

ungodly men" (3: 7). These contexts cannot possibly relate to the saved. Peter is using

the word `ungodly' in exactly the same way that Jude does (see Jude 4, 15, 18).