Does God Still Get Angry?

Now the people complained about their hardships in the hearing of the Lord, and when he heard them his anger was aroused. Then fire from the Lord burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.  Numbers 11:1


You know how people think the God of the Old Testament just loved "smiting" people.  That God the Father is "Wrathful" and Jesus is "meek and mild."  I've also heard it said that God "poured out all of His anger on Jesus on the cross."  Today God doesn't angry any more.  Ever.  He let it all out on Jesus.  Now God is "grieved" or "sad" when evil happens, even with the most horrible evils imaginable.  It just makes him "sad."  Like when you see a horrible little brat in the grocery store treating her mother like dirt, and the mother says, "Sweetie, it really makes mommy 'sad' when you say, 'Mommy, shut the hell up.'  That makes mommy 'sad.'


Moses heard the people of every family wailing at the entrance to their tents. The Lord became exceedingly angry, and Moses was troubled.  Numbers 11:10


As Christians, in church, in theological studies and Bible studies, we go to great lengths to "prove" that God is "a person."  We site passages that show God has thoughts, emotions, and a will, the components of personhood.  We even show that at times Jesus became angry.  Yes.  Meek and Mild Jesus got angry and cleared the temple with a whip.  Jesus looked around a room of stubborn people in a synagogue with anger.  In the Book of Revelation, Jesus speaks some stern words of rebuke and threatens some serious consequence if some of the churches won't repent. 


"I the LORD do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed."  Malachi 3:6



God not only became angry with the Israelites, but "exceedingly angry," in response to their exceedingly evil words against Him.  We understand His anger and feel it with Him when we read how badly they were disrespecting Him, after all He had done for them. Don't you get angry when you get disrespected to such an extent that fire burns in you?  Are you not made in God's image and likeness...a "person?"  The LORD hasn't changed.  The Cross didn't change the holiness of God against evil.


Jesus Christ is the same yesterday today and forever.  Hebrews 13:8


What made Jesus angry "yesterday" would still make him angry today, and forever.  If he entered your church and saw people dishonoring His Father, He would act like He did the day He made the whip.  Just because He died for our sins doesn't mean sin is less repugnant to God the Father or the Son.  Or the Spirit, the "peaceful Dove."  Yes, we even make the Spirit so "dovelike" that we forget that Ananias and Sapphira DIED fore lying to the Holy Spirit. (Acts 5)  We forget that blasphemy against God the Father and God the Son will be forgiven, but that blaspheming the Spirit is unforgivable.  (Mark 3:29)


Does God still get angry?
Is He a person?
Has He changed?