Just openned the site of the picture above and simply drew a smile in my face _files/smile.png)
Remembered a sweet message from Bible Class that I concluded within a simple status on my facebook's page: "GOD is in CONTROL. That's it!"
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hoveringover the waters."
<Genesis 1:1>
The word which describes the action of God's Spirit above the waters, is the Hebrew verbrhp (with vowels = rahap, also spelled rachaph). Rahap can also be translated as "hovering" or "moved".
This Hebrew word is used only three times in Old Testament:
- Twice in the Pentateuch (in Genesis 1:3 and Deutoronomy 32:11)
- Once in Jeremiah 23:9 (rahap for "shake")
In Deuteronomy 32:9-11 where the Spirit of God is protecting the wandering nation of Israel, here it is:
9 For the LORD’s portion is his people,
Jacob his allotted inheritance.
Jacob his allotted inheritance.
10 In a desert land he found him,
in a barren and howling waste.
He shielded him and cared for him;
he guarded him as the apple of his eye,
11 like an eagle that stirs up its nest
and hovers over its young,
that spreads its wings to catch them
and carries them aloft.
12 The LORD alone led him;
no foreign god was with him.
in a barren and howling waste.
He shielded him and cared for him;
he guarded him as the apple of his eye,
11 like an eagle that stirs up its nest
and hovers over its young,
that spreads its wings to catch them
and carries them aloft.
12 The LORD alone led him;
no foreign god was with him.
...the verb rahap is used to express Yahweh's divine activity in leading the newly created nation of Israel, separated out from the chaos of the pagan world.
He protects Israel, rears Israel, guards Israel as the pupil of his eye. Like an eagle watching its nest, hovering [rahap] over its young, hespreads out his wings to hold him, he supports him on his pinion.
So we can infer that in the Genesis passage above, "hovering" depicts a loving God protecting His first life creation on the early Earth.
So it happens also now. Happens forever.
HE IS PROTECTING HIS CREATION :)
No matter what happen, how hopeless the world is now. How chaos it is. GOD is in CONTROL forever and ever. He WILL do it! Syubidubiduuupampammm…. Joyfullyyy… all creations!!
Soli Deo Gloria.
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