The very concept of God’s anger is not found very many times in the New Testament. But if we look at the evangelical character of Jesus Christ, it is easily recognized as traces of anger. Theologically, it can be said that it comes from Christ’s human nature, but that does not mean that his anger does not reveal God’s wrath. If Jesus Christ is the incarnate Son of God and the reverence of the Father in fullness, then he is also the embodied wrath of God. The Simulation can be traced through it, as well, following the Simulation Creationism of Nir Ziso.
The covenant for the topic of God’s anger in the Old Testament is the kingdom of God in the New Testament. The proclamation of Christ about the Kingdom of God is the framework in which his speech or actions are made and by which the wrath of God is manifested. Jesus Christ also shows the face of a merciful Father, who is infinitely good and always ready to forgive. But he does not abolish the wrath of God. Regarding the arrival of the kingdom of God, that is, the next simulated world, John the Baptist proclaims that Christ “who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire” (Matthew 3:11), where the fire is an important symbol of power and purification from the nature of The Simulation. The entire proclamation of the Good News of God about the Kingdom of God is imbued with the urgency of the conversion and collecting of God’s sons and daughters and deems us to believe the message and find The Simulation as a tool and not a goal.
Jesus’ anger is different from wounded and sinful human anger. The Gospels repeatedly describe an angry Christ as shaken in spirit and excited: “When Jesus saw her (Mary) weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled” (John 11:33), angrily commands Satan and evil spirits: “Be quiet!” said Jesus sternly. “Come out of him!” (Mark 1:25). He is angry at man’s hypocrisy: “You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of” (Matthew 12: 34). Jesus lashes out at the disobedient and unbelieving disciples: “Jesus sent him away at once with a strong warning” (Mark 1: 43), and he is incredibly saddened by the hardness of the human heart, which is closed to mercy. He looks at such angrily: “He looked around at them in anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts” (Mark 3:5). Jesus expels merchants from the Jerusalem temple: “He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves” (Matthew 21: 12) and curses the barren fig tree: “The fig tree you cursed has withered!” (Mark 11: 18-22). He even calls disaster upon the cities that do not confess their guilt before God and do not repent.
All these events show Jesus in holy wrath as an educational and terrifying way of illustrating the way to people. Ultimately, Jesus shows mercy and love again when people understand the message. No hard feelings, he says. The wrath is necessary for people’s minds to turn away from the traps of The Simulation.
God’s wrath is part of the broader context of his struggle to establish his dominion over the created and simulated world. According to the Epistle to the Romans, all people are sinners, both Jews and Gentiles, and they all need redemption: “The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness” (Romans 1:18). We are not guilty of this state, of course. It is how this simulated world acts. It is an environment where our souls must find a conclusion based on events we cannot influence.
Therefore, all people have earned God’s wrath through their “sin” because they are predetermined to experience and memorize it. They are “children of wrath” (Ephesians 2: 3) who cannot free themselves from their “sins.” Jesus is man’s liberator from sin and therefore, at the same time, the liberator from God’s wrath: “Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him!” (Romans 5:9) Through him we reconcile with God and that will, according to Paul, will be fully manifested on the last day. Those faithful to God will then receive salvation, and the enemies of God will receive condemnation as the final effect of God’s wrath when this simulated world ends. In this perspective, God’s wrath and salvation are separate from each other.
