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In fact, anger is about as old as the human race. Cain rose up in anger and killed his brother Abel. In anger Moses smote the rock while Israel was in the wilderness. The elder son angrily refused to go in to the feast his father has prepared for his younger brother. In anger Peter denied that he kn
Really, we cannot, without going altogether out of this world. 1 Cor. 5:9, 10. For what if brother or sister makes you angry? What if anger is occasioned by your father (Eph. 6:4), your mother, neighbor, schoolmates, or maybe by your minister, or planet earth itself (as it was with Jonah)? Anger is
But this word means heat or rage, and it refers to the physical effects that the emotion of anger, the feeling of anger has on our bodies. Our blood pressure rises. Our heart rate increases, resulting in a rising body temperature. and maybe even causing our face to turn red. We speak of this in
Angels, principalities, dominions, and powers are seen leading the affray. Indeed, we are confronted with a mighty foe. But let us look again. This time we get a view of the captain of this vast horde. What a terrible monster he is. Oh, do not get the wrong impression of him. He is not some ugly sor
His face was badly bruised, beaten and swollen with pain. The man appeared to be sleeping. Or were his eye so swollen shut that he could not open them? The Enemy pulled on a rope that was tied to the cage hanging over the abyss. They pulled the cage to the edge of the cliff and when it was close eno
It would have been futile anyway, for the smoldering fires gave mute evidence of their use and the refuse of animal and garden plunder was strewn about the camp. The chief herder, a fiery Ammonite, exuding physical energy, advanced toward the merchantmen. He waved a spiked club, made from the bole a
The Apostle Peter speaks of him clearly as our enemy, when he writes in I Peter 5:8: “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion—notice that, as a roaring lion—walking about, seeking”, seeking what, to draw a few more people around his cage in the zoo? Seeking what, t
Frantically, she struggles to get away, yet, the sand breaks loose under her feet and she slides downward into the vortex like center of the pit. Then, Wham! With a vicious hold the hunter grabs her leg and drags her beneath the surface where she cannot break free because of the weight of the sand p
Yet for one fleet moment see him bravely lift his uncowardly majestic head. See him stare with piteous, hot, bloodshot, fear-filled eyes toward that dark figure stalking nearer, nearer. . . . Oh yes – he recognizes him! It is that one, – the hateful two-legged foe, carrying the mean stick of rumblin
The people of God were suffering persecution at the hands of wicked Nero, emperor of the great Roman empire. Terrible indeed was the roar of this depraved tool of the devil. He had the Christians in his power; he tracked them down and hunted them out and ruthlessly persecuted and tortured them to d