Cup of Wrath: Some
have connected Jesus’s prayer in Gethsemane for God to take the cup from Him as
a plea for God to remove the wrath that was to come from Him. There is a cup of
wrath in the Old Testament and it likewise refers to God taking his protective
hand off his people and allowing foreign armies to have their way. We can see
this in Jeremaih 25 specifically but also in Psalm 60:3; Psalm 75:8; Isaiah
51:17; Isaiah 51:22; Jeremaih 25:15; Obediah 16 which all use the allusion in
the same way. So in the garden when God does not remove the cup Jesus says at
this arrest in Luke 22:53: “While I was with you daily in the temple, you did
not lay hands on Me; but this your hour and that of the Powers of darkness.”
This is the cup of wrath meaning that God has allowed Jesus to be delivered
over into the hands of hostile enemies. Thus, this is not a picture of Jesus suffering
at the hands of God’s wrath but a picture of God removing his protection and
giving Christ as a gift of redemption on our behalf. (William L. Hess, Crushing
the Great Serpent: Did God Punish Jesus? [2024], 165 n. 3)
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