THE TERROR OF GOD (PART 2)

 

Gus: "I told you before. You will not kill Walter White. Not until my business with him is concluded."

Marco: "We've waited long enough. We won't wait any longer."

From "Breaking Bad"

 

The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city.  With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished.” 

Genesis 19:1,15

Angels inspire the terror of God!  In the scriptures people fall to their faces, trembling with fear, as they see angels.  "Do not be afraid" is the consistent response of angels to people's fear of them.

What do they do to inspire such fear?  Nothing.  Their presence, and the glory of God upon them, causes us to who were born in sin to cower in their lightning presence.

Yet even they in the presence of God cover their faces and bodies! 

These angels are your protectors and messengers, if you believe in the Lord Jesus.  They guard you and protect you with fierce love and holiness.  They are silent, like "The Cousins" in "Breaking Bad," and even more fierce than they.  (Only two angels were necessary to destroy the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.) 

So you can be confident in your life and travels that the Terror of God is with you by His Spirit and by His angels.  Live without fear, knowing that those who seek your harm have every reason to be afraid!

 

(Again, like Jesus' comparison of the unjust judge to God, my comparison of "The Cousins" to the two angels who destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah are not one to one correlations!)