“Thus says the LORD, ‘Behold I am about to fill all the inhabitants of this land--the kings that sit for David on his throne, the priests, the prophets and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem--with drunkenness! I will dash them against each other, both the fathers and the sons together,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not show pity nor be sorry nor have compassion so as not to destroy them.’" (Jer. 13:13-14)

“'So as I live,' declares the Lord GOD, 'surely, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with all your abominations, therefore I will also withdraw, and My eye will have no pity and I will not spare.’” (Ezekiel 5:11)

“Now the end is upon you, and I will send My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways and bring all your abominations upon you. For My eye will have no pity on you, nor will I spare you, but I will bring your ways upon you, and your abominations will be among you; then you will know that I am the LORD!” – Ezekiel 7:3-4

'Now I will shortly pour out My wrath on you and spend My anger against you; judge you according to your ways and bring on you all your abominations. My eye will show no pity nor will I spare. I will repay you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst; then you will know that I, the LORD, do the smiting.” (Ezek. 7:8-9)

"Therefore, I indeed will deal in wrath. My eye will have no pity nor will I spare; and though they cry in My ears with a loud voice, yet I will not listen to them." (Ezek. 8:18)

“Then the glory of the God of Israel went up from the cherub on which it had been, to the threshold of the temple. And He called to the man clothed in linen at whose loins was the writing case. The LORD said to him, ‘Go through the midst of the city, even through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations which are being committed in its midst.’ But to the others He said in my hearing, ‘Go through the city after him and strike; do not let your eye have pity and do not spare. Utterly slay old men, young men, maidens, little children, and women, but do not touch any man on whom is the mark; and you shall start from My sanctuary.’ So they started with the elders who were before the temple.” (Ezek. 9:3-6)

“Then He said to me, ‘The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is filled with blood and the city is full of perversion; for they say, 'The LORD has forsaken the land, and the LORD does not see!' But as for Me, My eye will have no pity nor will I spare, but I will bring their conduct upon their heads." (Ezek. 9:9-10)

"In your filthiness is lewdness. Because I would have cleansed you, yet you are not clean, you will not be cleansed from your filthiness again until I have spent My wrath on you. I, the LORD, have spoken; it is coming and I will act. I will not relent, and I will not pity and I will not be sorry; according to your ways and according to your deeds I will judge you, declares the Lord GOD." (Ezek. 24:13-14)

In all of these references, what we see is that there is a limit to God’s patience and there is a time when He is resolved to show no mercy and grant no forgiveness. He is resolved to punish and inflict wrath, and when He is thus resolved, there is no hope for the objects of His wrath. There is no more opportunity to repent. No more opportunity to be forgiven and reconciled with God. It’s too late. The day of mercy is over. The terrifying thing about these passages is the continual refrain: “I will not pity!” God will not shed one tear. He will not relent. He will not relax His hand. He will not back off or back down. After inflicting punishment, He will not be sorry that He has punished. He will not take any consideration of the weakness of the sinners He is punishing. He will have no pity. His wrath will not be mixed with mercy at all. There will not be one ounce of compassion or sympathy on the part of God toward such sinners at these times. Have you ever heard this before? Is this the God you love and believe in? This is the God of scripture, and He does not change. Is this just the way God was in the Old Testament? No. Consider the following NT verses.

"Therefore I say to you, any sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven people, but blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven. Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come.” (Mat 12:31-32)

“For in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance, since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame.” (Heb 6:4-6)

“For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a terrifying expectation of judgment and THE FURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIES. Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?” (Heb 10:26-29)

“See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many be defiled; that there be no immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal. For you know that even afterwards, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought for it with tears.” (Heb 12:15-17)

As we can see, God has not changed. God’s forgiveness has limits. There is a point that can be reached where God is irreconcilable. When does God reach that point? Who knows? If we are wise, we won’t try to find out by experience.

Let us consider now the modern tendency to exalt compassion and “love” to unbiblical proportions. When Christians speak about the wrath of God, misguided persons reproach them for neglecting the love of God, failing to understand that you cannot have the one without the other. It seems that many professing Christians have no category for the wrath of God. Their view of the love of God is so warped that it destroys God’s wrath. Some have so emphasized “love” that they have become more “loving” than God Himself. Consider this. When Israel was given the land of Canaan, they were to destroy all the inhabitants of the land, including women and children, and they were specifically told to NOT pity the people.

"You shall consume all the peoples whom the LORD your God will deliver to you; your eye shall not pity them, nor shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.” (Deut. 7:16)

This is hard for many to accept. Many professing Christians are downright embarrassed by such passages and know not what to do with them. But the reality is that the inhabitants of the land were exceedingly wicked (Lev. 18:24, 30; Lev. 20:22-23; Deut. 20:17-18). They did not own the land. God owned it. God owns all the land and all the countries. The earth is the Lord’s and all it contains! (Ps. 24:1). If a nation offends God, He has the right to evict them or exterminate them. The wages of sin is death, and God can set the execution date any day He pleases.

Consider that God required the Israelites to not show pity to certain lawbreakers under the Old Testament Law.

"If your brother, your mother's son, or your son or daughter, or the wife you cherish, or your friend who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods' (whom neither you nor your fathers have known, of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other end), you shall not yield to him or listen to him; and your eye shall not pity him, nor shall you spare or conceal him. But you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. So you shall stone him to death because he has sought to seduce you from the LORD your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and will never again do such a wicked thing among you.” (Deut. 13:6-11)

"But if there is a man who hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and rises up against him and strikes him so that he dies, and he flees to one of these cities, then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. You shall not pity him, but you shall purge the blood of the innocent from Israel, that it may go well with you.” (Deut. 19:11-13)

"If a malicious witness rises up against a man to accuse him of wrongdoing, then both the men who have the dispute shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who will be in office in those days. The judges shall investigate thoroughly, and if the witness is a false witness and he has accused his brother falsely, then you shall do to him just as he had intended to do to his brother. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you. The rest will hear and be afraid, and will never again do such an evil thing among you. Thus you shall not show pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.” (Deut. 19:16-21)