God had sent all kinds of calamities upon Israel: times of famine, drought, plague, etc. But nothing helped! Israel just continued being faithless.
Yes, God is the one who is your God.
In his great mercy, he adopted you as his people.
Yes, God is the one who forms the mountains and creates the wind. He is very powerful!
Yes, God is the one who declares to man what is his thoughts.
In other words, in his love he opens himself up to people that they may love him.
Yes, God is the one who makes the morning darkness. He can bring sudden disaster!
Yes, God is the one who treads on the heights of the earth.
He is not absent from this world at all! He knows what is going on.
Yes, God is the Lord, the God of hosts! He is the commander of all the thousands of angels out there—and it took only one angel to destroy 185,000 Assyrian soldiers in one night in the days of Hezekiah (2 Kings 19:35).
So here is the question: do you want to meet God? Not only one of his messengers, but God himself?
God indeed came to this world in the person of his Son—and something most amazing happened: instead of wiping out his rebellious people, he died for them and took upon himself the fearful wrath of God—even as they were nailing him to the cross!
12 “Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”