Title: The Loving Jehovah and the Angry Jesus

Topic: Word/Trinity

Summary: We examined the longstanding Christian myth that Jehovah is angry and judgmental but Jesus is loving, meek, and mild. Actually Jehovah is loving and Jesus does plenty of rebuking and name-calling. The ultimate conclusion is that Jesus and Jehovah are One, and God is love, not anger.

Use the reference links below to follow along in the Bible as you watch.

References:
Mark 3:1-5
Matthew 16:22-23; 12:34-39
Mark 8:38; 9:18-19
Luke 11:39; 24:25-26
Matthew 23:13-33
Mark 11:15
John 2:13-17
2 Thessalonians 1:7-10
Zephaniah 3:14-17
Hosea 2:19-20; 3:1
Jeremiah 31:11-14
Isaiah 63:7-9; 43:1-5
2 Chronicles 9:8; 2:11
1 Kings 10:9
2 Samuel 22:4; 12:24
Deuteronomy 33:1-3; 23:5; 7:7-8
Matthew 23:37; 28:18
Genesis 24:3
Isaiah 9:67
1 John 4:8

7542. 'Onto your heart' means into what is inmost. This is clear from the meaning of 'heart' as that which belongs to a person's will, thus to his love, dealt with in 2930, 3317, 3888, 3889, consequently what is central to the actual life within him; for his love, belonging intrinsically to his will, constitutes that life within him. This is why 'heart' means what is inmost. What is inmost in the case of the good is love to the Lord and love towards the neighbour, whereas what is inmost in the case of the evil is self-love and love of the world. The latter is what is meant here; and what is around it, constituting so to speak the surrounding parts, are the evils and falsities that lend support, arranged into order according to the ways in which they support it. In the next life they are brought out into the open in the order in which they have been arranged. First to come forth are those that occupy the outermost surrounding parts, then those that lie further in; and finally what is inmost is revealed. So it is that a person in the next life passes through a large number of states, and that the evil are afflicted in successive stages by scourges or plagues before they are cast into hell, as accords with what has been stated immediately above. What is inmost, which they come to last of all, is hell itself residing with them, for it is the evil that had been central to their love, and so the end which they held in view in everything they did and which in the world they had kept deeply hidden within them.