“The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming” (Psalm 37:13).

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3)            God’s anthropopathy is quite Scriptural. God’s nature expresses joy in His wish to renovate the heaven and earth as we read in Isaiah 65:19 “And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.” Leaving us in no doubt that Israel – and by extension, the Christian – is in divine calendar, the prophetic utterance of His favourable emotion in Zephaniah 3:17 is “The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.”

                The LORD God displays His grief. Judges 10:15-16 15) “And the children of Israel said unto the LORD, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, this day.16) And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.” Grief is not, in reality, a part of Him. He brings out a damning emotion for us to see, so that we should show an earnest need for His compassion. This readily obtainable compassion Cain tragically rejected. Pauline exegesis on Mosaic wilderness experience couch explains God’s emotional discharge in Hebrews 3:10 and 17, 10) “Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. 17) But with whom was he grieved forty years? Was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?”

Numbers 20:12

                Moses, the great prophet of Jehovah, made a terrible mistake in his ministerial duty by shifting the glory of God unto himself. He pleaded with God to let him lead Israel onto the soil of the Promised Land. This is the account of Moses, the great prophet of Jehovah God. Deuteronomy 1:37 “Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither.” Jeremiah 7:18-19 18)“The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. 19) Do they provoke me to anger? Saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?” You cannot worship idolatrous objects and expect God to smile on you. Does God’s anger affect Him adversely? Not in the slightest conception is He affected. He shows His grief for you to understand what awaits you in your decision to move yourself against divine will.

                Does God’s anthropopathic nature include the feeling of hatred? Yes, of course, He explicitly exhibits hatred. Well, let us look at the definition of hatred: ‘1. A very strong feeling of dislike. 2. Prejudiced hostility or animosity.’ The first definition can be acceptable on moral grounds, all things being equal. But the second one tends, socially speaking, to be negatively ill-will driven. Can God be prejudiced in His judicial assessment, considering the facticity of His Omniscience?

Make thee an ark of gopher wood (Genesis 6:14)

                Psalm 5:5-6 5) “The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity. 6) Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.” As the LORD, God, Creator, Owner and Controller of all things and beings, His laws remain sacrosanct forever. Adamic creation received dos and do-nots. He was very angry with the antediluvian age to the point of its extirpation; but He must preserve humanity to actualize Genesis 3:15, therefore, after keeping the eight antediluvian saints in Noah’s ark, it was time to destroy those who defiantly oppose the Rainbow Administration and of the Owner of all lives: as if He had not warned them of the impending annihilation. Noah preached to the dying world for one hundred and twenty years! God had been gentlemanly enough in warning them. Proverbs 6:16-19 16) “These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: 17) A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, 18) An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, 19) A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.” Only a man given to wickedness condones wrongdoings.

                Romans 9:13 “As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.” This verse, if not theologically understood, sounds harshly prejudiced. The Scripture prepared us to have understanding of what to expect from the matrix of Rebecca in Genesis 25:23 “And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.” Why would God decide to rely on an unborn Jacob and not the traditional first born, Esau? His Omniscience is a faculty that keeps nothing away from His knowledge.

                Getting born again is strictly a conscious effort on the part of an individual. It is of a personal conviction that, as the word of God says, Jesus is truly the only Saviour of the world. A soteriological dependence on the finished work of Jesus is the sole belief requirement of Scripture. Get born again by saying this simple prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!”

(…to be continued…)

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