• It is a God who takes vengeance on the relatives of the sinner that is 30 years dead, already (2 Sam. 21).
• It is a God who kills the children for the sins of the parents (1 Sam. 14:21).
• It is the God of leprosy as punishment, as with Miriam (Num. 12:10), Gehazi (2 Kings 5:27) and Uzziah (2 Chr. 26:19-21).
• It is the God who sells his people for nothing (Ps. 44:12) and for no justifiable reason.
• It is the God who sends his people into captivity (Deut 28:36-37).
• It is the God who forces mothers to eat their little children (Lam. 4:10; Deut. 28:53).
• It is a God who delights in destroying his people (Deut. 28:63).
• It is a God who listens to the counsels of Satan (Job. 1:6-12).
• It is a God who sends evil spirits (1 Sam. 29:14).
• It is a God who hides in the darkness and not in the light (Ex. 20:21; Ps. 18:11).
• The God who imposes fear through torture (Lev. 26:33-36).
• The God who deceives and lies (Jer. 4:10; 20:7-9; John 8; Ex. 14:9).
• The God who teaches hatred and vengeance (Num. 25:17,18).
• The God who hides behind lies in order to kill (1 Kings 22:23).
• The God of horrible curses before the judgment (Deut. 27:26; 28:15-64; Acts 17:31).
• An irritable God (Ps. 7:11; Jer. 17:4; Is. 13:9; Jer. 10:10; Ezek. 5:11-13; 6:12; 25:15-17; Nah. 1:2). And God does not take into account the times of ignorance (Acts 17:30).
• The God who sent his angel (Ex. 23:20-21), which is Satan (Num. 22:22-32).
• The God who forces his prophets to walk in darkness (Lam. 3:1-2; John 12:46).
• The God who blinds his people in order that they do not repent (Is. 6:9-11; Is. 29:10-12; John 12:37-41).
• The God who is always surrounded by serpents (Is. 6:1-3; Num. 21:4-6).
• The God creator of evil and darkness (Is. 45:7; Amos 5:6; Jer. 44:11; Mal. 1:12; Heb. 1:13).
• The God who makes the wicked (Prov. 16:4).
• The God who spends his time fashioning evil (Jer. 18:11; 19:3; 23:20; Mal. 2:3).
• The God who does not want the good of his people (Amos 9:4; Jer. 21:10; 44:11).
• The merciless God (Jer. 11:11; 9:15; 11:11,14; 14:11,12).
• The God who hardens people and afterwards kills the hardened ones (Jer. 19:15; Ex. 4:21; 7:3; 10:27; 11:4,5; 14:27-31).
• The God whose servants were cruel and ruinous (Jer. 25:9; 27:6-8; 43:10).
• The God of the dead (Jer. 25:33; Is. 66:16, 22-24).
• The God who changes (Deut. 28:62; Mal. 2:1-3) and who repents (Jer. 42:10; 1 Sam. 15).
• The God who feeds dung and dregs as food (Ezek. 4:12; Ps. 75:8).
• The God who watches over men for evil (Jer. 44:27; Dan. 9:14).
• The scoffer God (Prov. 1:26).
• The God who does not let his people turn back to Himself (Is. 63:17).

WHAT GOD IS JESUS?

• “But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel” (Rom. 9:6).
• “Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope by grace” (2 Thess 2:16).
• “Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ” (2 Pet. 1:1).
• “And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding, in order that we might know Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life” (1 John 5:20).
• “For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ” (Jude 4).

And this blessed God gave his life in order to save us.

• “Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13).
• “…knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ” (1 Pet. 1:18-19).

By Pastor Olavo Silveira Pereira