While catastrophes do enter the lives of godly people, they attach themselves far more to people who reject Him.

Prosperity is often the enemy of spiritual development.

Truth can be attested by the supernatural, but so can falsehood.

The worship practices of the people of God are to be marked by devotion to Him and compassion to the needy.

In God's pattern of justice, He takes the risk of the guilty going free but not the innocent being punished.

God wanted Israel, as He wants Christians, to learn to utterly abhor and detest anything that had the potential of coming between them and their God. The believer's enemies are typically internal rather than external, and they pose a powerful threat to spiritual health and progress.

Some believers tend to forget God's persistent faithfulness in the face of the spectacular and showy.