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Consider God's presidency over all things in four dimensions.
The slaughter of the Midianites under Gideon (Judges 7) becomes the type—the historical precedent—for Yahweh's coming judgment upon Assyria.
Yet this passage speaks equally to the individual believer's threefold experience.
These men's healing was not incidental to their belief—it was its direct fruit.
First, consider the *blessing* pronounced: believers are "filled with joy and peace in believing" — not by human effort, but by the God of hope Himself.
Yet these men possessed extraordinary learning in the law of Moses—literal mastery of Scripture's letter.
The believer's endowments are extraordinary: not merely heightened mental powers, but the rudiments of a Divine nature itself, fitting us for communion with a holy God and fellowship with the pure intelligences of heaven.
Proverbs 10:24 unveils two destinies: "The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him; but the desire of the righteous shall be granted." Who are the wicked?
This phrase unveils three profound truths about the Divine nature.
This protection operates across five dimensions of divine care.
Their waiting hours—like languid summer days when aspen leaves refuse to quiver and shadows barely move on the dial—mirrored the anguish of deferred hope.
All sin is an offense against Elohim, and nothing corrects it more powerfully than worthy thoughts of God and our relation to Him.
The *psyche* (soul) represents the living principle at the centre of human capacity, passion, and personality—absolutely priceless to each person, irreplaceable in value.
Infinite Benevolence would have His saints to be happy.
Consider a man charged with trespass on his neighbor's property.
They spring from the same depraved original and partake of the same corrupt nature.
First, to the *uttermost* depths of guilt—the greatest sinners may be pardoned and sanctified through His grace.
This was no accident of structural collapse; Adonai Himself rent the barrier that had separated humanity from His presence for fifteen centuries.
This doctrine of Divine omniscience rests upon irrefutable proofs.
Isaiah declares: "They shall fling their idols to the bats and to the moles" (Isaiah 2:20).
The Hebrew word *shalom* here carries the force of a military commander marshaling his forces according to a predetermined strategy, assigning each soldier his proper station in the execution of a grand enterprise.
The prophetic vision encompasses blessings transcending temporal measure, pointing to the plentiful effusion of the Holy Spirit, habitually symbolized throughout Scripture as *rain* and *dew*.
Exell applied to Victorian London with urgent clarity.
Sin, defined in 1 John 3:4 as *paranomia* (transgression of law), springs from contempt of God's authority and forfeiture of His favour.