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WHY DOES GOD SEEM SO FRIGHTENING?

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The psalmist has an extremely high view of God’s ability to respond mightily to the believer’s plea for help. He uses poetic language to describe the indescribable-God’s almighty power. God sounds frightening because He is. When God acts to help someone prevail over injustice, the energy God expends will be much more frightening than the victim’s adversary.

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BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (DEEP DARKNESS)

February 22, 2019Uncategorizedbible customs and curiosities, Christ, dark, darkness, deep darkness, Egypt, egyptians, Exodus, Genesis, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Heaven, heavy, Israel, Israelites, jesus, Jesus Christ, King, Kings, light, Lord, nature, outside, plague, plagues, ra, stretch, sun, sun god Ra, superiority, thick, touch, worshipedabarkley8

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This plague consisted of a thick, heavy darkness that fell across the land of Egypt for three days (Exodus 10:22). This must have been an eerie blackness with no sliver of light, similar to the total darkness a person experiences deep within a cave when all of the lights are turned out. It was so frightening that the Egyptians did not venture outside their houses (Exodus 10:23). Continue reading BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (DEEP DARKNESS) →

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