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There are attributes of God that very few people know
about. These attributes are attributes that many people do not want to
believe God has, because they are normally thought of as
"negative" character traits. However, when we better
understand the sovereignty of God and His position above us, we can see
that God has every right to do as he pleases and is not answerable to any
man:
Daniel 4:35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are
reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of
heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his
hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
The following verses clearly indicate that it is God
who:
1. tears, heals, smites, binds up (Hosea 6:1)
2. devours like a lion (Hosea 13:8)
3. wounds, afflicts, strikes, bruises, smites, makes
sore, heals, kills, makes alive, declaring: "there is no god with
me" (Deut. 32:39, 1Sam. 2:6, Jer. 31:28, Job 5:18, Isa. 53:10)
4. forms the light, creates & causes darkness
(Isa. 45:7; Jer. 13:16; Ex. 10:21, 14:10)
5. makes peace, makes the dumb, deaf, seeing, blind
(Exodus 4:11)
6. sends sore judgments upon Jerusalem (the sword, and
the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it
man and beast) (Ezek. 14:21)
7. sends an evil spirit (Judges 9:23, 1Sam. 16:14,
18:10, 19:9-10)
8. sends evil angels (Psalms 78:49)
9. shoots arrows & darts, breaks bones (Lam. 3:12-13,
Num. 24:8-9, Deut. 32:22)
10. heaps mischief upon people (Deut. 32:23)
11. breaks in pieces horses, nations, chariots, rider,
men, women, the young, the old, the young man, the maiden, shepherds,
flocks, husbandman/yoke of oxen, captains/rulers (Jer. 51:20-23)
12. turns men to destruction (Psalms 90:3)
13. is as a moth and rottenness (Hos. 5:12)
14. feeds and makes drunk with wormwood, gives the
water of gall to drink (Lam. 3:15, Jer. 9:15)
15. creates and brings evil (calamities) (Isa. 45:7,
Jer. 18:8, Job 2:10, Amos 3:6)
1. God tears, heals, smites, binds up (Hosea 6:1)
Hosea 6:1 Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he
hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
2. God devours like a lion (Hosea 13:8)
Hosea 13:8 I will meet them as a bear [that is] bereaved
[of her whelps], and will rend the call of their heart, and there will I
devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.
3. God wounds, afflicts, strikes, bruises, smites,
makes sore, heals, kills, makes alive, declaring: "there is no god
with me" (Deut. 32:39, 1Sam. 2:6, Jer. 31:28, Job 5:18, Isa. 53:10)
Deuteronomy 32:39 See now that I, [even] I, [am] he, and
[there is] no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal:
neither [is there any] that can deliver out of my hand.
1Samuel 2:6 The
LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down
to the grave, and bringeth up.
Jeremiah 31:28 And it shall come to pass, [that] like as
I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw
down, and to destroy, and to
afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and
to plant, saith the LORD.
Job 5:18 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his
hands make whole.
Isaiah 53:10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put
[him] to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he
shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong [his] days, and the pleasure of
the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
4. God forms the light, creates & causes darkness
(Isa. 45:7; Jer. 13:16; Ex. 10:21, 14:10)
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I
make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these [things].
Jeremiah 13:16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before
he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains,
and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, [and]
make [it] gross darkness.
Exodus 10:21 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out
thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of
Egypt, even darkness [which] may be felt.
Exodus 14:20 And it came between the camp of the
Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness [to
them], but it gave light by night [to these]: so that the one came not
near the other all the night.
5. God makes peace, makes the dumb, deaf, seeing,
blind (Exodus 4:11)
Exodus 4:11 And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made
man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the
blind? have not I the LORD?
6. God sends sore judgments upon Jerusalem (the sword,
and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off
from it man and beast) (Ezek. 14:21)
Ezekiel 14:21 For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more
when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine,
and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and
beast?
7. God sends evil spirits (Judges 9:23, 1Sam. 16:14,
18:10, 19:9-10)
Judges 9:23 Then God sent an evil spirit between
Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt
treacherously with Abimelech:
1Samuel 16:14 But the Spirit of the LORD departed from
Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.
1Samuel 18:10; 19:9-10 And it came to pass on the
morrow, that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied
in the midst of the house: and David played with his hand, as at other
times: and [there was] a javelin in Saul's hand. [19:9-10] And the evil
spirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his
javelin in his hand: and David played with [his] hand. 10 And Saul sought
to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out
of Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David
fled, and escaped that night.
8. God sends evil angels (Psalms 78:49)
Psalms 78:49; 90:3 He cast upon them the fierceness of
his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels
[among them]. 90:3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return,
ye children of men.
9. God shoots arrows and darts, breaks bones (Lam.
3:12-13, Num. 24:8-9, Deut. 32:22)
Lamentations 3:12-13 He hath bent his bow, and set me as
a mark for the arrow. 13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter
into my reins.
Numbers 24:8-9 God brought him forth out of Egypt; he
hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations
his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce [them] through with
his arrows. 9 He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who
shall stir him up? Blessed [is] he that blesseth thee, and cursed [is] he
that curseth thee.
Deuteronomy 32:23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I
will spend mine arrows upon them.
10. God heaps mischief upon people (Deut. 32:23)
Deuteronomy 32:23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I
will spend mine arrows upon them.
11. God breaks in pieces horses, nations, chariots,
rider, men, women, the young, the old, the young man, the maiden,
shepherds, flocks, husbandman/yoke of oxen, captains/rulers (Jer.
51:20-23)
Jeremiah 51:20-23 Thou [art] my battle axe [and] weapons
of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee
will I destroy kingdoms; And with thee will I break in pieces the horse
and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his
rider; With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee
will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in
pieces the young man and the maid; I will also break in pieces with thee
the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman
and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and
rulers.
12. God turns men to destruction (Psalms 90:3)
Psalms 90:3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest,
Return, ye children of men.
13. God is as a moth and rottenness (Hos. 5:12)
Hosea 5:12 Therefore [will] I [be] unto Ephraim as a
moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
14. God feeds and makes drunk with wormwood, giving
water of gall to drink (Lam. 3:15, Jer. 9:15)
Lamentations 3:15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he
hath made me drunken with wormwood.
Jeremiah 9:15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts,
the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, [even] this people, with
wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
15. God creates and brings evil (calamity) (Isa. 45:7,
Jer. 18:8, Job 2:10, Amos 3:6)
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I
make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these [things].
Jeremiah 18:8 If that nation, against whom I have
pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I
thought to do unto them.
Job 2:10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of
the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of
God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his
lips.
Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the
people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath
not done [it]?
We must be careful not to "blame" Satan for
everything, which can become a common practice when we do not fully understand
who God is and what HE SAYS HE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR. God is in charge. He
is in control of EVERYTHING. And contrary to popular teaching, the Lord
of Hosts, Jehovah God, is the "god of this world" and the God
of the entire universe. He has not relinquished His crown or His throne
to some evil enemy. All the more reason for us to take heed to this
verse:
Be not wise in
thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
[Proverbs 3:7]
But then why to so many people attribute the following verse
to Satan?
2 Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath
blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the
glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto
them.
Because they don't read their bibles very carefully. If
they did, they would see that it is God who blinds:
John 9:39 And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into
this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see
might be made blind.
Isaiah 29:10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit
of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers,
the seers hath he covered.
Romans 11:8 (According as it is written, God hath given
them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that
they should not hear;) unto this day.
Why would God blind some people and not others?
Nobody knows the answer to that question except God.
All God has told us is that He has elected some people to eternal life as
it pleased Him:
Ephesians 1:5-9 Having predestinated us unto the
adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good
pleasure of his will, To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he
hath made us accepted in the beloved. In whom we have redemption through
his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; Having
made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good
pleasure which he hath purposed in himself
The rest have not had their sins paid for by Christ, and
therefore will have to pay for them themselves - in hell - for all
eternity.
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