{"id":47186,"date":"2018-09-01T07:12:16","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T12:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=47186"},"modified":"2018-09-01T07:12:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T12:12:16","slug":"2-the-hand-of-the-lord-was-heavy-against-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/01\/2-the-hand-of-the-lord-was-heavy-against-the-people\/","title":{"rendered":"2. The hand of the LORD was heavy against the people"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Genesis 41:29<\/b>\u00a0<\/a><\/span>\u00a0There will come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt, \u00a0but after them there will arise seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten<\/strong> in the land of Egypt.<\/p>\n

1 Samuel 5:6<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0The hand of the LORD was heavy against the people<\/strong> of Ashdod, and he terrified and afflicted them with tumors, both Ashdod and its territory.<\/p>\n

Isaiah 24:20<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0The earth staggers like a drunken man; it sways like a hut; its transgression lies heavy upon it,<\/p>\n

Exodus 9:3<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0behold, the hand of the LORD<\/strong> will fall with a very severe plague upon your livestock that are in the field, the horses, the donkeys, the camels, the herds, and the flocks.<\/p>\n

Psalms 32:4<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0For day and night your hand was heavy upon me<\/strong>; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer.<\/p>\n

Acts 13:11<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you<\/strong>, and you will be blind and unable to see the sun for a time.<\/p>\n

Isaiah 5:7-30<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!\u00a0\u00a0Woe to those<\/strong> who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no more room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land.\u00a0\u00a0The LORD of hosts has sworn in my hearing: \u201cSurely many houses shall be desolate, large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant.\u00a0\u00a0For ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Woe to those<\/strong> who rise early in the morning, that they may run after strong drink, who tarry late into the evening as wine inflames them!\u00a0\u00a0They have lyre and harp, tambourine and flute and wine at their feasts, but they do not regard the deeds of the LORD, or see the work of his hands.\u00a0\u00a0Therefore my people go into exile for lack of knowledge; their honored men go hungry, and their multitude is parched with thirst.\u00a0\u00a0Therefore Sheol has enlarged its appetite and opened its mouth beyond measure, and the nobility of Jerusalem and her multitude will go down, her revelers and he who exults in her.\u00a0\u00a0Man is humbled, and each one is brought low, and the eyes of the haughty are brought low.\u00a0\u00a0But the LORD of hosts is exalted in justice, and the Holy God shows himself holy in righteousness.\u00a0\u00a0Then shall the lambs graze as in their pasture, and nomads shall eat among the ruins of the rich.\u00a0\u00a0Woe to those<\/strong> who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, who draw sin as with cart ropes,\u00a0\u00a0who say: \u201cLet him be quick, let him speed his work that we may see it; let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near, and let it come, that we may know it!\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Woe to those<\/strong> who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!\u00a0\u00a0Woe to those<\/strong> who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight!\u00a0\u00a0Woe to those<\/strong> who are heroes at drinking wine, and valiant men in mixing strong drink,\u00a0\u00a0who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of his right!\u00a0\u00a0Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will be as rottenness, and their blossom go up like dust; for they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.\u00a0\u00a0Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against his people,<\/strong> and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them, and the mountains quaked; and their corpses were as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger has not turned away<\/strong>, and his hand is stretched out still.\u00a0\u00a0He will raise a signal for nations far away, and whistle for them from the ends of the earth; and behold, quickly, speedily they come!\u00a0\u00a0None is weary, none stumbles, none slumbers or sleeps, not a waistband is loose, not a sandal strap broken;\u00a0\u00a0their arrows are sharp, all their bows bent, their horses’ hoofs seem like flint, and their wheels like the whirlwind.\u00a0\u00a0Their roaring is like a lion, like young lions they roar; they growl and seize their prey; they carry it off, and none can rescue.\u00a0\u00a0They will growl over it on that day, like the growling of the sea. And if one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress; and the light is darkened by its clouds.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Is their a living God, sovereign over all, who judges mankind and at times places His mighty hand heavily upon them?\u00a0 <\/span>Is there a living God that sees all thoughts and intents and actions of mankind?\u00a0 <\/span>Is there a living God that warns man?\u00a0 <\/span>Yes there is and it is not good to turn deaf ear to His warnings.\u00a0 <\/span>We easily claim His blessings and promises but rarely think of His warnings and discipline.\u00a0 <\/span>His warnings are out of love to keep us from doing harm to our soul and that which does not honor and glorify Him.\u00a0 <\/span>Pride, lust, greed and placing something other than God first in our life are all warned against.\u00a0 <\/span>When warnings are not taken to heart, or the heart and ears are hardened to not hear His warnings, and repentance and returning to Him is desired, the hand of God will be upon us.<\/p>\n

This side of eternity it is a good thing to have the hand of God upon us and lovingly trying to turn us away from our wrong paths in life.\u00a0 <\/span>It is a very sad and dreadful day when we pass from this life into eternity without taking heed to His warnings.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow I will start to post excerpts from a sermon Johnathan Edwards gave\u00a0 July 8, 1741; \u201cIn the hands of an angry God\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Genesis 41:29\u00a0\u00a0There will come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt, \u00a0but after them there will arise seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. 1 Samuel 5:6\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The hand of the LORD was heavy against the people of Ashdod, and he terrified and … Continue reading “2. The hand of the LORD was heavy against the people”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[855,1533,1115,1918,4651,378,7520,970,7892,7893,404,1174,158,7889,7884,1059,7891,2021,1535,5599,727,558,6755,6280,7882,7885,4597,3540,357,233,1216,7896,7553,7886,1569,111,203,6414,1614,7888,7881,7895,120,7883,32,7894,804,3456,229,1527,4501,7887,7856,7890],"class_list":["post-47186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-afflicted","tag-against","tag-anger-of-the-lord","tag-arise","tag-behold","tag-blind","tag-bloodshed","tag-brought-low","tag-call-evil-good","tag-call-good-evil","tag-deeds","tag-desolate","tag-distress","tag-do-nto-regard","tag-drunken-man","tag-egypt","tag-exile","tag-falsehood","tag-famine","tag-field","tag-forgotten","tag-hand-of-the-lord","tag-haughty","tag-heat","tag-heavy-against","tag-heavy-upon-it","tag-honored","tag-humbled","tag-hungry","tag-justice","tag-lack-of-knowledge","tag-light-is-darkened","tag-outcry","tag-planting","tag-plenty","tag-rich","tag-righteous","tag-roaring","tag-ruins","tag-run-after","tag-seven-years","tag-signal-for-nations","tag-sin","tag-staggers","tag-strength","tag-struck-them","tag-sun","tag-terrified","tag-thirst","tag-transgression","tag-unable","tag-without","tag-woe-to-those","tag-work-of-his-hands"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47186"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47282,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47186\/revisions\/47282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}