The first letters of the following responses form the words that tell what God, who was Maker of all, presently does in the night. [2] The number in brackets indicates the number of words in each answer.
1. That which accompanies the dissolution of the heavens when the day of the Lord commences with the suddenness of the coming of a thief in the night. [2]
2. That which the reins (inner thoughts and feelings) will do in the night seasons when contemplating the counsel of the Lord. [2]
3. Something which appeared to Paul in the night when he perceived he had been called to visit Macedonia. [1]
4. The degree of strength which described a fourth beast seen in the night visions of a captive prophet. [1]
5. The time period as experienced by earth dwellers, which in God’s eyes are but as a watch in the night. [2]
6. The reason young children of another era were fainting as a call for lamentation in the night was given to save a famous city that lay in ruins. [1]
7. What the Lord encouraged Paul to do when he appeared to him in the night just before an 18month teaching campaign. [1]
8. How does God bring to naught the works of men so that they are destroyed in the night? [2]
9. What did the psalmist say he remembered in the night as he thought of his faithfulness to the law of the Lord? [1]
10. That which rose up in the night as the Egyptians of long ago discovered that there was not one house where death had not visited. [2]
11. What word describes what happens to one walking in the night with no light in him? [1]
Answers to these questions will be found in the next issue of Christian Shepherd.
R. Erisman