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II. (:3-15) HISTORICAL REMEMBRANCES OF GOD IN HIS MAJESTICGLORY AND SOVEREIGN POWER –COMBINES THE OUTPOURING OF GOD’S WRATH WITH THE REPEATEDDELIVERANCE OF HIS PEOPLE(Primarily looking at God’s Deliverance of His People From Egypt and the giving of theLaw)A. (:3-5) Vision of the Glory and Power of the God of Wrath1. His Coming“God comes from Teman,And the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah.”MacArthur: Teman, named after a grandson of Esau, was an Edomite city (Am 1:12; Ob9). Mount Paran was located in the Sinai peninsula. Both allude to the theater in whichGod displayed great power when He brought Israel into the land of Canaan (cf. Dt 33:2;Jdg 5:4).2. His Manifest Glory“His splendor covers the heavens,And the earth is full of His praise.His radiance is like the sunlight;He has rays flashing from His hand,”3. His Hidden Power Demonstrated in Wrath“And there is the hiding of His power.Before Him goes pestilence,And plague comes after Him.”B. (:6-11) The Outpouring of God’s Wrath1. (:6A) His Piercing Gaze“He stood and surveyed the earth;He looked and startled the nations.”2. (:6B) His Eternality Contrasted with Mortal Fragility“Yes, the perpetual mountains were shattered,The ancient hills collapsed.His ways are everlasting.”2. (:7) His Terrified Witnesses – En Route to the Promised Land“I saw the tents of Cushan under distress,The tent curtains of the land of Midian were trembling.”3. (:8-11) His Power Demonstrated in Nature – But His WrathNot Directed Against Naturea. (:8) Waters of Turmoil – But Goal of Bringing Deliverance“Did the Lord rage against the rivers,