22:8
We now get the response of the Lord to David’s requests or cries. The text describes in poetic language the effect of David’s prayers. So we read that the foundations of the heavens shook. Note that David’s prayers reached up to heaven, and the effect, the response, began in heaven, in God’s dwelling place. The Lord was angry at what was happening on earth.
22:9
In Is 6 a burning coal took away Isaiah’s sin, here they are an expression of God’s anger. There is a personal response from God to David’s prayers. When we pray our prayers reach up to the heavens, and there is a personal response from the Lord.
22:10
There was not just a personal response, there is a direct response from the Lord. God parted the heavens and came down to earth. There is a Nick Cave song that begins with the line “I don’t believe in an interventionist God”, that is a deeply unbiblical thought. Our God is forever intervening, supremely, of course, in sending His Son into the world to die and rise again. God doesn’t always intervene in the way we would like, or when we would like, but it is a fundamental tenet of the Bible that God most certainly does intervene.
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