I will send my terror before you

Published on Angels, God the Father

As God’s people traveled to new regions, the LORD God kept them safe by sending an angel. It caused the local inhabitants to be afraid of the Hebrews.

 

 

INTRODUCTION

 

As God’s people traveled to new regions, the LORD God kept them safe by sending an angel. It caused the local inhabitants to be afraid of the Hebrews.

There was nothing about them that would be fearsome to other nations. Nothing at all. Except that the angel made them fearsome.

They were fearsome to everybody.

That angel is sometimes referred to as the Hornet.

 

BIBLE VERSES

 

Genesis 35:5. They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob.

Exodus 23:27. I will send my terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn their backs and run. (NIV translation)

Exodus 23:28. I will send the hornet ahead of you to drive the Hivites, Canaanites and Hittites out of your way.

Exodus 33:2. I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

Deuteronomy 2:25. Today I will begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole sky, who shall hear the report of you, and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.”

Deuteronomy 7:20. Moreover the LORD your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you.

Deuteronomy 11:25. No man will be able to stand before you. The LORD your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you tread on, as he has spoken to you.

Joshua 2:9. She said to the men, “I know that the LORD has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.

 

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