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Psalm 85:3a "You have taken away all Your wrath..."
Day 257 – Psalm 85
“You have taken away all Your wrath…” Psalm 85:3a
THE WRATH OF GOD
One of the hardest lessons that the children of Israel had to learn was about the wrath of God. Though very difficult to learn, that lesson had to be mastered.
“You have taken away all Your wrath;
You have turned from the fierceness of Your anger.”
Psalm 85:3
1. Interchangeable terms
a) Wrath
b) Anger
2. Fierceness of Your anger
a) Directed against the sinfulness of the children of Israel.
i) Idolatry
ii) Impudence
iii) Impervious to the verbal warnings God gave through the prophets
b) Expressions of the fierce anger of God
i) Collapse of the nation
ii) Calamities
iii) Captured and exiled
DEEP GRATITUDE
The sons of Korah expressed deep gratitude to the Lord for turning away His anger.