Chaos
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· 6 viewsA state of complete disorder or confusion. The first stage of creation where, having brought something out of nothing, God had not yet brought order to the universe. This primeval chaos, often symbolised by surging waters, threatens to disrupt God’s order at any time. God sometimes allows a return to chaos as judgment.
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God creates order out of chaos
God creates order out of chaos
God creates something out of nothing
God creates something out of nothing
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
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God brings order to his creation
God brings order to his creation
12 I have made the earth, And created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, And all their host have I commanded.
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Chaos threatens God’s order
Chaos threatens God’s order
Life and order in creation must be sustained by God
Life and order in creation must be sustained by God
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The raging sea as a symbol of chaos
The raging sea as a symbol of chaos
The raging sea is a frequent symbol of the chaos from which the world was created and to which it could return. Yet those whose confidence is in the God who brought order out of chaos have nothing to fear;
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Threatening nations are likened to the raging seas as bringers of chaos
Threatening nations are likened to the raging seas as bringers of chaos
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, Which make a noise like the noise of the seas; And to the rushing of nations, That make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: But God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, And shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, And like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
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Spiritual and political chaos
Spiritual and political chaos
A period of anarchy, when no spiritual or political authority was recognised in Israel;
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God uses chaos as a judgment
God uses chaos as a judgment
11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; The owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: And he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
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Floodwaters as a symbol of the chaos of judgment
Floodwaters as a symbol of the chaos of judgment
3 For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; And the floods compassed me about: All thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
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Panic and destruction characterise the chaos that follows judgment
Panic and destruction characterise the chaos that follows judgment
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, That a great tumult from the Lord shall be among them; And they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, And his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.
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