The Necessity of Judgment

In his section on Isaiah 34, Webb says, "A king must rule, or he is no king at all, and that means that rebellion must finally be put down." - p142.

If God were not to bring His righteous vindication down upon all sin, He would not, by definition, be righteous or holy.  His wrath upon sin is not an anger-reaction of God, it is a righteousness-action; it is what righteousness does.