One attribute of Humanity that I saw in Genesis through Dueteronomy was the fearing of God. The fear of the Lord, according to the Bible, is a heartfelt reverence for the majesty of God and a loving awe of the grace of God. One who fears God has great thoughts about Him and knows Him and puts his trust in Him. One who fears God, first of all, knows God in all of the infinite splendor of God's being and the God who says, "I AM THAT I AM." Throughout the Scriptures, whenever we see a human encountering God, we see that this encounter always contains an element of fear.. Throughout the Bible we also see people who do not fear God and where this is, the Wrath of God takes place. We see the Wrath of God take place in Genesis 3, where He casts Adam and Eve out of Eden because of their sin. In Genesis 6 God destroys the world with the Flood because of their sin. In the Book of Exodus, He sends plagues upon Egypt. God also refuses to let the Israelites enter into the Promised Land because of their disobedience and forces them to wander in the wilderness for forty years. This Divine Wrath continues throughout the whole Bible and into the New Testament. Since God is angry, and since God has the power to cast us into hell, it is certainly only right to fear the Lord. And since the people didnt want these things to happen to them they feared God. There are many examples in Exodus and Dueteronomy where people feared God. In one instance the king of Egypt told the Hebrew midwives to kill the Hebrew womens child if it was a boy, but if it was a girl they were to let her live. The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live. (Exodus 1:17) When people fear him and do as God tells them, the Lord blesses them immensely. So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous. 21 And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own...
