The cup of God's wrath contains divine punishments being inflicted. Numerous references in the Bible describe how Babylon and other nations will drink from the cup of God's wrath. Drinking of the cup of God's wrath means participating in whatever that cup contains. Revelation 14:10 speaks of drinking of the wine of the wrath of God which is poured out full strength into the cup of His indignation. The whole world drinks of Babylon's cup full of the wine of her fornications and abominations. All who drink of Babylon's cup will share in her future. God will not mix the contents of the cup of God's wrath and the cup of salvation. Those whom God is calling out of Babylon are asked to drink of another cup.

The theme of the Cup of God's Wrath appears in the discussion of Jeremiah 25:15-38, where God subjects Jeremiah to a severe test that requires him to demonstrate faith by seeing God's hand in an overwhelming task. God commands Jeremiah to take a cup of wine, symbolic of God's wrath, to the nations surrounding Judah. Although the wine itself was merely symbolic, the assignment Jeremiah had to carry out was entirely real and demanding. By God's explicit command, Jeremiah was required to travel from nation to nation, confronting all the enemies of Judah, presenting each of their rulers with this cup of wine, and compelling them to drink it. God even tells Jeremiah directly that if the rulers refused, he himself would make them drink it, indicating that God must have equipped him with whatever strength of personality or divine backing was necessary to accomplish such an imposing and dangerous task. The final nation to receive the cup was the king of Sheshach, a coded reference to Babylon. This episode is presented as a parallel to the work entrusted to the end-time church, raising the question of whether a similar pattern was seen in the work of Herbert W. Armstrong, who is described as having gone from nation to nation declaring what would occur in the future. The material poses the question of whether the church, like Jeremiah, will ultimately be called to go to Babylon and make its rulers drink from that same cup of wrath. This account of the Cup of God's Wrath is used to reinforce the broader message that throughout Scripture, individuals have been called to see God clearly and trust Him even in seemingly impossible or overwhelming circumstances. Just as Jeremiah had to include God in his thinking and view his mission from God's perspective despite the enormity of the task, every potential child of God is called to build strength, confidence, and faith over time so that God becomes visible in every aspect of life. Jeremiah's test, carried out in obedience to a difficult divine command, stands alongside other biblical examples—such as David facing Goliath, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego before the fiery furnace, and Job's eventual recognition of God's greatness—as demonstrations of how spiritual insight and faith allow a person to perceive God's active involvement even in circumstances that appear humanly impossible.