Deism sees the transcendent God as starting the world and leaving it alone. This was a common belief in the late 17th and 18th century. God got things started and then left humans alone to take care of things. Some of the American founding fathers had this kind of belief in God.
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Preparing to build the Temple (Hag 2:15-2:15)
“But now,
Consider what will come to pass
From this day on!
Before a stone was placed
Upon a stone
In the Yahweh’s temple!”
They were to prepare themselves to build the Temple of Yahweh. They should think what they were about to do, before they starting putting the stones together.
Future problems for the king of Assyria (Isa 10:16-10:19)
“Therefore the Sovereign,
Yahweh of hosts,
Will send
A wasting sickness
Among his stout warriors.
Under his glory
A burning will be kindled,
Like the burning of a fire.
The light of Israel
Will become a fire.
His Holy One
Will be a flame.
It will burn his thorns.
It will devour his briers in one day.
Yahweh will destroy
The glory of his forest.
Yahweh will destroy
The glory of his fruitful land,
Both soul and body.
It will be as
When an invalid wastes away.
The remnant of the trees
Of his forest
Will be so few
That a child
Can write them down.”
Isaiah predicts the devastation of the army and land of the king of Assyria. Yahweh was going to send a wasting sickness among his warriors. This maybe an allusion to 2 Kings, chapter 19, when 185,000 Assyrian troops died. The light of Israel will become a raging flame starting a great fire that will destroy and devour the thorns and briers of Assyria itself. Yahweh will destroy the forests and the fruitful land with a wild fire, so that both their bodies and souls will be destroyed. There will be so few trees left, so that a mere child can count and write the number down.
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