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So You Think God is a Nice Guy?

The title seems a tad irreverent doesn't it. We know that God IS love. How can a being BE love? The Bible explains the concept if you care to know.

However, in Psalm 18 there is a stark picture of God that you might not have meditated on recently. This terrifying look comes in the first third of the psalm. Please read verses 6 - 15 before you proceed. I’ll wait.... As my pastor, Juan Moreno, might say, “This passage needs some unpacking!”

The text to this ancient song starts with an amazing claim. When I screamed for him my cry reached God’s Temple and entered his ears (my interpretation).

A scream for help startles. It usually causes a reaction. Caring helpers jump and run to the rescue. This is what David says in verse six,

6 In my distress I called upon the Lord;
to my God I cried for help.
From his temple he heard my voice,
and my cry to him reached his ears.

David’s cry also brought a reaction alright. God heard his servant in a fix and he wasn't the least bit happy about it. In fact the situation exposed one of the most terrifying reactions in history.

7 Then the earth reeled and rocked;
the foundations also of the mountains trembled
and quaked, because he was angry.

The rule is, don't, whatever you do,  don't make God angry! You won't like him when he is angry. In this horrific verse the earth is shaken like a ragdoll because of God's anger.

It seems to me that our world is seeing many more “biblical proportion” tragedies, wars and rumors of wars, famines and pestilences these days. Tsunamis come to mind. Over 200,000 swept into eternity in a day or two. Earthquakes are seemingly everywhere. There was even one here in good old Brazil just a few months ago!

I cannot imagine the world being shaken. I mean the entire world! Can you?

“Mike, calm down! It has never been shaken like that! David is just using poetic language for something that happened in his life way back when.” Okay. I admit that he is. However, there is coming a day when this shaking will literally happen. It will be cataclysmic. And when that happens those who experience it will fall on their faces and beg God for his mercy. Wrong. They will shake their fists and curse him! See Revelation 16.21 for a prophecy of coming attractions.

We’ll look at verse 8 and following tomorrow. But before we go think on these things. God has been insulted by science for eons. Know-it-alls have espoused their ignorance in innumerable volumes. They make black holes and evolution sound plausible to the average guy or girl. They make us almost believe that all we see came from a piece of matter no bigger that the period at the end of this sentence.

There is only one thing wrong with all of their theories. They are all LIES. Evolution is a LIE. God is angry and he is coming to a neighborhood like yours in the near future to shake their scientific shoes off. I hope you aren't here to witness it!

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