Rom. 1:18- For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness….
Paul says in our verse for the day that the ungodly and unrighteous hold the truth in unrighteousness. Where? In the faculty called the conscience. Our consciences will tell us what is right and wrong, but does not empower nor cause us to do what is right. In the same respect it reveals the obviousness and reality of God, but does not explain the parameters in which He must be believed and received. This explains all the false religions in the world. But what the unredeemed do not know is that the wrath of God is upon them because they have not accepted God’s only way of salvation, Jesus Christ. Jesus said, “Ask, and it shall be given you” (Matt. 7:7). So when we first perceived God as real, which is the truth, we should not have attempted to get a visual of him, (Exod. 20:4) or equate Him with anything visible (Rom. 1:23).
Thank God He promised to keep His children from His wrath, read I Thess. 1:10; Rev. 3:10. Wrath in the previous scriptures refers to the period of the Great Tribulation; it is a point in time set to save those Jews who come to faith in Christ, but also to punish the wicked that reject Christ. The Church will have been raptured by this time. Although we will be chasten of the Lord during this “church age” (Heb. 12:6-7), His wrath is reserved for the children of disobedience (Eph. 2:1-2). God’s wrath is inescapable. Because of this we must tell the unredeemed to accept Jesus as Lord before it’s too late. They may believe in God, but don’t understand how Jesus fits into God’s plan. Prepare yourself to be a witness for the Messiah. Sodom and Gomorrah and the flood of the days of Noah depict the wrath of God perfectly. Let them see how God saved certain ones, but destroy the majority for sin.