Wrath Has Gone Out from God's Presence
An brief exposition of Numbers 16:45-46
Num 16:45 Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.
Num 16:46 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.
Very often when we declare the truth that God is good and that no evil (sickness, disease, tragedy, etc.) is authored by Him we are challenged with Scripture quotes that supposedly speak to the contrary. Recently, the passage above was quoted as a refutation to one of our teachings (though no exposition of the verse was given despite my request for the person to do so).
We have already expounded upon the above passage in our book, Does God Send Sickness (I recommend waiting for the revised edition to be completed) and our most recent book, The Wrath of God: What it is and How it is Executed. However, it will not hurt to touch on it briefly in this blog, though we highly recommend our aforementioned books to get a fuller explanation of our understanding of the text.
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