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1. Pro 3:25 – “Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.”
- Be not afraid of sudden fear,
- Sudden adj. – 1. a. Of actions, events, conditions: Happening or coming without warning or premonition; taking place or appearing all at once.
- Fear n. – 1. In OE.: A sudden and terrible event; peril. 2. a. The emotion of pain or uneasiness caused by the sense of impending danger, or by the prospect of some possible evil.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt was wrong when he said “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself” in his first inaugural address.
- The Lord is on our side, so we should not fear (Psa 118:6).
- neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.
- Desolation n. – 1. The action of laying waste a land, etc., destroying its people, crops, and buildings, and making it unfit for habitation; utter devastation; an act or occasion of this kind.
- The desolation of the wicked often happens suddenly (Pro 6:12-15).
- God destroyed the earth with a flood suddenly after waiting for 120 years.
- God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah
- Babylon was desolated suddenly (Isa 47:11).
- The wicked have sudden destruction at the second coming of Christ (1Th 5:3).
- God is longsuffering, but once the space of repentance runs out, the wicked will be destroyed suddenly (Pro 29:1).
- If we are living wise and godly lives, we need not worry about the sudden desolation of the wicked because the Lord will protect us from it as the next verse states.