Sentences with phrase «protective hand of god»

But sometimes, when a person or group has been drawn so far down the path of sin, they effectively remove themselves from the protective hand of God.

It seems that according to Hosea 11:8, the destruction that came upon the four cities in the plain was not directly by the hand of God, but was because the people departed from the protective hand of God, and brought their destruction upon themselves.

All the rest of mankind kept themselves cut off and separated from the protective hand of God.

I've seen, done, been through things unexplainable in the Military to Me and around Me, that only the protective hand of God could be involved with.

If there is one thing we learn from Isaiah 54 about the flood, it is that although it appears as if God sent the flood as punishment, it actually came as a result of humanities departure from the protective hand of God, and because the destroyer had set out to bring destruction upon the people of the earth as the just consequence for their great sin.

But there comes a day when their sin is so great and their rebellion has gone on for so long, that the cannibalistic nature of their sin and the destroying power their rebellion carries them out of the protective hand of God, and He has no choice but to let destruction come.

In those catastrophic events brought upon them by the destroyer when they left the protective hand of God, it seemed to them that God was angry with them, that God had left them.

The flood came as a result of sin and rebellion, of nature out of control, or the destroyer seeking to destroy, of sin cannibalizing itself, and of people separating themselves from the protective hand of God.

Exodus 12:23 indicates that there were two beings involved in the death of the firstborn sons of Egypt: There was God, who put a hand of protection over certain houses, and there was the destroyer, who sought to destroy all, but who was thwarted from doing so by the protective hand of God over certain homes.

This could be poetic reference to an artist (creator God) simply washing off the canvas and starting over with Noah, a symbolic picture of how those who believe in the Hebrew God of that day are carried away above the storms of life in the protective hands of God, symbolic of judgment for those not created in the image of God, a narrative of why the Hebrew race is the chosen race, prophecy of end time judgment or literal in that the babies and people resulting from $ ex with the nephlium produced evil beyond that imaginable and God was showing mercy.

Not exact matches

Jeremy, you said, «There are several examples of this in Scripture, some of which will be looked at in the next chapter, but for now, we might see evidence of this sort of withdrawal of God's protective hand in the words of Jesus in Matthew 23:37.»

In my (abandoned) theory, I argued that the Old Testament portrays God holding back disasters upon people until, as a result of their great evil, they departed from God's protective hand.

Though it grieves God to do so, God is willing, out of the profound love he has for people, to withdraw his protective hand and allow them to sink to ever - increasing depths of pain in order to eventually hope - fully come to the point where they finally realize it is in their own best interest to turn from their sin and submit to God's loving lordship.