Exodus 19:17-19 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount. And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.
(Comments by Joan Boney)
Seeing this mountain smoke and quake, reminds me of the following plague of the great tribulation which is to come upon this earth at the end of this world.
Revelation 8:8-9 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
And we remember that God does as HE wills and God judges the unrighteousness of man.
The God that is displayed today in the hearts of men is often very different from the God of the Bible.
People in churches often picture God as a kindly grandfather who just wants people to be happy regardless of the sins they are committing upon this earth.
It will come as a great shock when they see God in the type of "terror" shown in the great tribulation when it comes on this earth.
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