Beaver replies, “Safe? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. Beaver, “I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion.” She asks Mr. Susan is surprised, since she assumed Aslan was a man. Beaver tells Susan that Aslan (the ruler of Narnia) is a great lion. Lewis answers this in The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe when Mr. What were the Israelites missing? What did they not believe about God?Ĭ.S. Though a few believed the Lord and feared his name, it is clear in Scripture that much of Israel did not fear him - though they saw everything he had done for them. They didn’t believe God when he promised that he would give them the Promised Land, so they refused to fight for Canaan (Deuteronomy 1:19–45). The Israelites constantly complained (Exodus 16:2–4), believing the lie that bondage in Egypt was better than freedom in the desert. They believed the lie that God had abandoned them, so they erected a golden calf in his place (Exodus 32). “God is big, scary, and powerful, but also lowly, humble, compassionate, loving, forbearing, and personal.”īut as we read the rest of the Old Testament, we see the people of Israel continually forget their deliverer and suffer from chronic unbelief. We might even think it was easier for the Israelites to fear the Lord because they saw so much of his power and might, and because they witnessed death as the consequence for disobedience. On account of this, we tend to imagine that if God could do this for us today, then we would believe and fear him rightly. God does not reveal himself to his people in this same way anymore. There was also a thick cloud on the mountain with shots of lightning, peals of thunder, and a loud trumpet blast (Exodus 19:16). He showed himself to his people, descending upon the mountain in fire and enveloping it in smoke (Exodus 19:18). God instructed Moses to set limits around the mountain so that the people would not go up on it lest they die (Exodus 19:12–13). Seven weeks after this great deliverance, these newly freed slaves were preparing to be in God’s presence at the foot of Mount Sinai (Exodus 19:9–11). And as Pharaoh’s armies pursued, he joined the seas back together so the waters swallowed them. He parted the Red Sea, letting his people pass through unharmed. The God of Israel led his people out of Egypt with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. He turned the Nile River to blood, covered Egypt in darkness, and even took away all the Egyptian’s firstborn sons. They had front row seats as he plagued Egypt with all kinds of insects, amphibians, and diseases. If anyone should have known the fear of God, it was the Israelites.

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