“The widely ranging activity of these froglike spirits indicates the spread of
falsehood and mutiny against God as world leaders are drawn into the
culminating assault of creaturely defiance…These unclean spirits mobilize
the kings of the whole world, that is to say, national, political, and
intellectual leaders and their forces, for worldwide unification of power for
the purpose of worldwide domination.”
-Phillip Hughes, 176-177

“The judgments don’t call into question the goodness of God but reveal He
cannot tolerate sin. God’s wrath isn’t impersonal, as if it were merely cause
and effect in a mechanical universe; instead it reflects the ever holy one’s
personal response to sin. God’s judgments demonstrate his moral
excellence and show that he is not besmirched with evil…The judgments
don’t represent an overreaction or a temper tantrum on God’s part; they
are an expression of His holy justice…The terrible disasters inflicted on the
ungodly aren’t whimsical, arbitrary, or capricious; almighty God is not like
the Greek gods, who are often guilty of temper tantrums and fits of anger
that have no justification. Gods anger and judgments are proportional,
fitting, righteous, and faithful to His character.”

-Tom Schreiner

“Without entrusting oneself to the God who judges justly, it will hardly be
possible to follow the crucified Messiah and refuse to retaliate when
abused. The certainty of God’s just judgment at the end of history is the
presupposition for the renunciation of violence in the middle of it.”
-Miroslav Volf