God Corrects His Children when they bring circumstances upon themselves and sends a Deliverer once they have repented.
Isaiah 45:5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
LORD means one that has absolute control; a ruler of his subjects.
God: is the rendering of the Hebrew _'El_, from a word meaning to be strong;
Psalms 24:8 Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.
Gird: The girdle was a symbol of strength and power. God said (I have girded thee, made thee strong, though thou hast not known me)
Light: was created by divine command (Gen. 1:3). Genesis 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Light symbolizes true religion and the joy it imparts. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. Psalms 119:105
Darkness is a symbol of the judgments that attend on the coming of the Lord.
Isaiah 13:9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
Darkness is a symbol of misery and adversity.
Psalms 107:10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
11 Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
5-10 There is no God beside our God. There is nothing done without him. He makes peace, put here for all good; and creates evil, no
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