The unilateral decisions by God Almighty have caused more than a few to pause and catch a breath. His execution of Uzzah, guilty only of excessive zeal for the Ark, offers one example II Samuel 6:7. The Master’s denunciation of a fig tree with leaves but no fruit is another Matthew 21:18-19.
The short answer to Uzzah’s death is obvious: God repeatedly warned the Israelites to treat his sacred objects with scrupulous reverence. Numbers 4 records a number of warnings against:
In that sense, and for a distinctively historical reason, GOD warned Israel, “Touch me not.” However, the shorter answer is:
That’s a warning to our culture:
Furthermore, and a warning to Christians:
Indeed, the one temptation to which we should never fall is to:
Saved humanity has a single advantage over the unforgiven: we, like King David, can:
Which leads us to believe that God alone is the judge of what God does, says, promises or threatens. That leaves us confident to believe, without apologizing, for any exercise of God’s sovereignty in history. That he can do whatever he sees fit and it will always be RIGHT!
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