God is Cruel, Unmerciful, Destructive, and Ferocious. I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them. (Jer. 13 : 14.) And thou shalt consume all the people which the Lord thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them. (Deut. 7 : 16.) Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not, but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling. (1 Sam. 15 : 2, 3.) Because they had looked into the ark of the Lord, even he smote of the people fifty thousand, and three score and ten men. (1 Sam. 6 : 19.) The Lord thy God is a consuming fire. (Deut. 4 : 24.) The Lord cast down great stones from heaven upon them, ... and they died. (Josh. 10 : 11.) God's Anger is Slow, and Endures but for a Moment. The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and plenteous in mercy. (Ps. 103 : 8.) His anger endureth but a moment. (Ps. 30 : 5.) God's Anger is Fierce, Frequent, and Endures Long. And the Lord's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the Lord was consumed. (Num. 32 : 13.) And the Lord said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel. (Num. 25 : 4.) For ye have kindled a fire in mine anger which shall burn forever. (Jer. 17 : 4.) God is angry ["with the wicked," interpolated by the translators] everyday. (Ps. 7 : 11.) And the Lord met him and sought to kill him. (Ex. 4 : 24.) God Commands, Approves of, and Delights in Burnt Offerings, Sacrifices, and Holy Days. Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement. (Ex. 29 : 36.) On the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement; it shall be a holy convocation unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord. (Lev. 23 : 27.) And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar; ... it is a sweet savor; an offering made by fire unto the Lord. (Ex. 29 : 18.) And the priest shall burn all on the altar to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto the Lord. (Lev. 1 : 9.) God Disapproves of, and has no Pleasure in, Burnt Offerings, Sacrifices, and Holy Days. For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices. (Jer. 7 : 22.) Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me. (Jer. 6 : 20.) Will I eat of the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? Offer unto God thanksgiving, and pay thy vows unto the Most High. (Psalm 50 : 13, 14.)