Imminent Divine Judgment

Edwards presents God's wrath as an ever-present and imminent threat to sinners. He uses the metaphor of rising floodwaters to illustrate how divine justice is gathering strength and will soon be unleashed. As he writes, "The wrath of God is like great waters that are dammed for the present; they increase more and more, and rise higher and higher, till an outlet is given." This conveys the urgency and inevitability of God's impending judgment, urging sinners to repent before it is too late.