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Harnessing the Lightning: Tesla’s 3,000-Year Backstory

Messages by Desiring God

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Don't Ignore the God of the Lighting Bull

Don't take electricity from creation without giving your awe to the creator who created every bolt of energy. Don't stand under a tree in a lightning storm, and don't use electricity to ignore the god who patterned electricity. When we pray or our prayers pierce through the clouds and bring down a mighty power from on high. And even more graphically then, the lightning rod is a metaphor for the cross of jesus christ. The sky booms over us with the law of perfect justice to be avenged upon sinners. But in christ, we can look up with calm delight, for we are safe beneath the cross.

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