A querist asks, “In Genesis 15:12-KJV, isn’t this the Lord bringing Abram a vision? I don’t understand why a visitation from God would be called a horror of great darkness.”<\/p>\n
Genesis 15:12-KJV states:<\/p>\n
\n“And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.<\/strong>” <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The “horror of great darkness” that Abram saw in the vision from the Lord (Genesis 15:1) was a prophetic revelation of the captivity of Israel in Egypt (Genesis 15:13-14; Exodus 6:5-6; Exodus 12:36). The phrase, “thy seed” (Genesis 15:13) being a reference to the posterity of Abram (Genesis 46:8-26; Exodus 1:1-11; Acts 7:6). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A querist asks, “In Genesis 15:12-KJV, isn’t this the Lord bringing Abram a vision? I don’t understand why a visitation from God would be called a horror of great darkness.” Genesis 15:12-KJV states: “And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon … Continue reading ““Horror Of Great Darkness” – Bible study”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}