day no. 16,326: in flaming wrath against the foe

"The spectacle of the distress of Mary and her companions enraged Jesus because it brought poignantly home to his consciousness the evil of death, its unnaturalness, its 'violent tyranny' as Calvin (on verse 38) phrases it. In Mary’s grief, he 'contemplates' — still to adopt Calvin’s words (on verse 33), — 'the general misery of the whole human race' and burns with rage against the oppressor of men. Inextinguishable fury seizes upon him; his whole being is discomposed and perturbed; and his heart, if not his lips, cries out, —

'For the innumerable dead

Is my soul disquieted.'

It is death that is the object of his wrath, and behind death him who has the power of death, and whom he has come into the world to destroy. Tears of sympathy may fill his eyes, but this is incidental. His soul is held by rage: and he advances to the tomb, in Calvin’s words again, 'as a champion who prepares for conflict.' The raising of Lazarus thus becomes, not an isolated marvel, but — as indeed it is presented throughout the whole narrative (compare especially, verses 24-26) — a decisive instance and open symbol of Jesus’ conquest of death and hell. What John does for us in this particular statement is to uncover to us the heart of Jesus, as he wins for us our salvation. Not in cold unconcern, but in flaming wrath against the foe, Jesus smites on our behalf. He has not only saved us from the evils which oppress us; he has felt for and with us in our oppression, and under the impulse of these feelings has wrought out our redemption." -- B.B. Warfield, The Emotional Life of Our Lord

Jesus is not a dispassionate deliverer. He doesn't deliver merely because it's the right thing to do or because His dad said so. His heart is in it. He wants to rise up and lift up those crushed by the tyranny of sin, Satan, and death. He longed to smash the serpent's skull. He didn't shrink back with feminine meekness at the thought, but leaned in with masculine fierceness to thrust his heel down hard enough to hear the bones crack. 

Jesus is a Champion. He had prepared for the fight and was excited to put His powers to good use. He did not grapple without grit. He came to destroy the works of the evil one and He delighted in demolishing them. He found pleasure in pulling it down and satisfaction in seeing it crumble. Jesus burns with rage and an inextinguishable fury when it comes to sin. He will not stop until it is utterly stopped.

Psalm 2:12

Kiss the Son, lest he be angry,

and ye perish from the way,

when his wrath is kindled but a little.

Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

Revelation 6:16

“Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:”