This "God's Wrath" this passage is speaking about is serious business and it is strongly directed towards those who consider themselves already believers. In verse 18, "wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness" would be those believers who knew of Christ, but did not act as they knew Christ. And this really hits me because, as a believer, I have done my fair share of abandoning Christ at perfect times.
21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
If I knew of God, but longed after something else more, I would consider that a sin. What greater gift is there besides Jesus? The differences between God and the next greatest thing in the world are ridiculous and perhaps does not exist because God is so infinitely greater. But those who put God as #2, are usually ignorant or pushing God away for a specific reason or other.
Further more from verses 24 and on, it speaks of God allowing man to fall to their sins because of their disobedience towards Him. God's wrath will be upon those who do not obey and listen. Even towards those He has already saved. But this is fair. Put yourself in God's position and surely you would come to believe that God has all the right in the world to punish those who slander Him with sin after committing themselves to Him prior to. But thank God God that you are so merciful :)
Amen.
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