Good Monday morning! In all the descriptions of God... all powerful, mighty, wise, and many others, do we ever stop to think about gentleness? The first trumpet judgements in the Revelation speak of one-third of the human race being killed. While that is a terrible number to contemplate, we may want to think that two-thirds will survive. In Noah's time only eight persons survived the flood, but God could have started over with none too. We find both in Ezekiel's vision of the valley of dry bones and in Jesus teaching, that God can make a nation for Abraham from rocks or dry bones. We also believe that God will rapture His church before the great tribulation. Gentleness seems to be in every aspect of God's descriptions in the Bible. You might point out the time that God commanded Israel to destroy a nation completely, down to the last child. How gentle is that? The truth is that we don't know. God sees past the human death that weighs upon us constantly. Every one of those persons in that destroyed nation might be in heaven with God right now. We simply do not know enough to judge God's ways. The creation is not qualified to judge the Creator, though the world does like to attempt it. As I grow in the love and knowledge of our Lord, I see gentleness, mercy, compassion, and most of all, love, in all of His actions and commandments.
Praise God for the eternal love of Jesus!
Bucky
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