OUR LORD WHO MAKES THE MOUNTAINS TREMBLE

In Isaiah 64 verses 1 - 2,  the Lord is implored to visit the earth in power so that the mountains tremble at His presence and nations quake as they encounter Him. The passage reads this way;

Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you! 

As when fire sets twigs ablaze and causes water to boil come down to make your name known to your enemies and cause the nations to quake before you!

The unveiling of the presence of the Lord is a fearsome and dreadful event to behold. 

Physical matter of the earth convulses before Him and those who see the effects that God's proximity has on nature, quake in fear and dread.

As much as the prophet yearns for God to make Himself known, he understands that,  to us humans,  it would be absolutely terrifying.

Along with the earth, we would be undone  and fall apart at the constitutional level. This is why the Lord Jesus counseled us ( in Mathew 10 verse  28 ) not to fear man who can only destroy the body but rather to fear God who can destroy both the body and the  soul.

Amen.