Joshua 5: 13 "Neither," he replied, "but as commander of the army of the LORD I have now come." Then Joshua fell facedown to the ground in reverence, and asked him, "What message does my Lord have for his servant?" The man who says these words says that he is the ‘commander of the army of the Lord’. This is the first time that God has appeared to Joshua until now. It is amazing in the first place because the fact that the Holy Spirit came and spoke to Joshua but to come as a human for Joshua to see and notice is beyond amazing. ‘The Captain of the Lord’s host’ is what he is called in other translations. He Himself takes part in the fight. He is not like a general who, on some occasions, stays behind the army, sends his soldiers to death, and keeps his own skin whole. But our ‘general’ or ‘commander has fought, and He is fighting still. …show more content…
Christ denotes how ready he is for the defense and salvation of his people. Joshua will know whether he is a friend or a foe. As Joshua is walking around camp he looks up to see a human form holding a sword he is probably thinking ‘Is this one of the enemies that has sneaked up on me?’ So, promptly and boldly, he strides up to him with the quick question, ‘Whose side are you on? Are you one of us, or from the enemy’s camp?’ ‘I am from neither’ the strange man replies, ‘I am not on your side; you are on mine, for I am the Captain of the Lord’s army.’ Joshua falls on his face as he recognizes his Commander-in-Chief. Then he asks what it is that he needs to do ‘What message does my lord have for his
Chapter nine commences by telling its readers about how Lee Harding was diagnosed with E coli 0157:H7. After eating some tacos at a Mexican restaurant, he started to have excruciating stomach pains and diarrhea. Harding’s stomach was hurting because of some frozen hamburgers he ate a couple of days ago. Those same hamburgers provided by Hudson Foods were infected with E. coli 0157:H7. Millions of those same frozen hamburgers had already been sold and most likely eaten.
One in particularly created a very vivid image that many readers of the sermon can understand very well. Edward’s says “The wrath of God is like Great Waters that are dammed” (88). He says the water is like the anger of God, and it will continue to build up, so much that it that it will break the dam. All the force and power of the water exploded on you, and you could neither withstand nor endure the power of the water, in other words the wrath of God. This quick summary in this essay does not do justice to the extreme vivid and powerful word picture that Edwards creates.
In his sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, Jonathan Edwards describes a wrathful God who detests the humans he created. Edwards uses fear, imagery, faulty logic and his own authority to sway listeners to follow his word. The image selected presents a blend of both the setting of the sermon and much of the imagery used within it. The image effectively draws out this imagery and portrays the sermon with both vibrance and tension.
(KJV) This verse is showing that even Jesus the son of God knew how to harness his drum major instinct in the right way. As explained by Dr. King speech and the verses that were excluded in his speech. My drum major did the exact same thing that Jesus
Whoever does not see this is to be ascribed to the name of Christ, and to the Christian temper, is visually impaired; whoever sees this, and gives no recognition, is dissatisfied; whoever ruins any one from lauding it, is distraught. Far be it from any reasonable man to ascribe this mercy to the brutes. 8: There is, as well, an extremely awesome contrast in the reason served both by those
“The wrath of God is like great waters that are dammed for the present; they increase more and more, and rise higher and higher, till an outlet is given; and the lover the stream is stopped, the more rapid and mighty is its course, when once it is let loose.” Edwards uses this imagery the people are familiar with to display the majesty of our Lord. Before this quote, Edwards stated: “Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards Hell; and if God should let you go, you would immediately sink and swiftly descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf…” This is a representation of us as pitiful humans, not deserving God’s mercy. It is a very personal passage, as the word ‘you’ is used multiple times to emphasize you and your sins.
Books of both the Old and New Testaments are reportedly written as told by a Supreme Being to authors of the Biblical writings. Strategies of various battles, in numerous wars, occurring over thousands of years, have reportedly been developed after leaders had spiritual visions or dreams of defensive placements and how those placements could be defeated. Similar strategy portrayals sometime occur now, in in dreams, or overnight consideration of problems, in every-day living events of each of
Analysis: An image that was used throughout the entire sermon was the “hand of God.” This image could represent the mercy that God shows to mankind. The line “hand of God” is repeated to descried the different situations in which God shows us forgiveness. Edwards also uses
In order to emphasize God’s contempt for the audience, Jonathan Edwards utilizes inflammatory diction and comparisons of God’s anger to a bow and arrow and “black clouds” to instill fear in the audience so that they will accept God as their savior, provoking a religious revival. Throughout the sermon, Edwards utilizes “fiery” phrases such as “furnace of wrath”, “wrath…burns like fire”, and “glowing flames of the wrath of God” in order to establish a connection between God’s fury and a burning fire, reaffirming the reality of going to hell, as hell is commonly associated with fire. Because fires are also very devastating and unpredictable, Edwards emphasizes the power and degree of God’s disdain and his ability to cause drastic change at unexpected times, making God’s patience seem fragile.
This interpretation of God becomes the reference point for the rest of the sermon. All of the commands and accusations in the sermon rely on Edwards' portrait of God as an angry, all-powerful being that has no obligation to have mercy upon his creations. By convincing his congregation of God's wrathful character, Edwards is then able to convince the congregation that they are in danger of damnation and severe punishment at the hand of this wrathful God. Edwards characterizes God as a being that "abhors" mortal men and "looks upon [them] as worthy of nothing else but to be cast into the fire" (200). Edwards then uses scriptural references to support his claims about the nature of God.
This is another example of Jesus identifying Himself as God with an I AM. This also shows that instead of fleeing Jesus offers himself up, fulfilling God's will and not man's will. When they attempt to arrest Jesus, Peter strikes out with his sword cutting of the ear of Malchus. Jesus rebukes Peter and heals Malchus, showing no matter what, God is in control.
The chapter opens with a general description of the island's changes throughout the day and the boys' responses to each day's cyclical progression. The focus narrows to the littluns' subculture and three of the littluns interacting as they play with one of their sandcastles. Then Roger and Maurice emerge from the jungle and deliberately destroy some of the sandcastles on their way to the beach. Jack gathers the hunters to reveal his new hunting strategy: using colored clay and charcoal to camouflage their faces. Jack commands all his hunters, including Samneric who are on fire-maintenance duty at the time, to join in a hunt.
Eph. 5 is Kairos - meaning the right or opportune or the supreme moment. It is moment in our narrative…and it came about when the Lord was about to take up Elijah vs. 1 It is an exposure to what the text reveals as a crossover moment, when there is sense that this time is like no other. It will be moment where the conversation is much deeper, richer and fuller from God to a person, a person to a people or from people to a generation. It is an exchange of dialogue not monologue in the form of questions?
In addition to this imposing picture of YHWH, I am also struck by the seemingly contradictory language that is present at certain moments in the text. For example, when Ezekiel eats the scroll of God’s words in chapter 3, he reflects on the sweet taste, but this is most surprising because it is a written message that is full of woe and lamentation. Another situation of the text contains a command from YHWH to his divine helpers who are bringing destruction on the city of Jerusalem, where he tells them to “defile the Temple” with their victims’ corpses. Normally one would not expect such a command to come from YHWH and I can only imagine how shocking it would sound to the Jews that were living at the moment this word from God was announced.
Third, it serves to confirm that God is and will be with His people always. However, YHWH could also be translated to "He who causes to be" or "He who causes to exist" which shows God's ability to bring things into being or His creatorship. YHWH becomes God's covenant name, "the name you shall call me from generation to generation. " Another significant statement is "I have watched over you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt. And I have promised to bring you up out of your misery... " which shows God's love and compassion for His people, as well as His faithfulness to the promise He made to Abraham long ago.