Then a voice came from heaven, ”I have glorified it, and will glorify it again.” The crowd that was there and heard it said it had thundered; others said an angel had spoken to him.
Jesus said, ”This voice was for your benefit, not mine.”
What would you expect the voice of God to sound like? Small and quiet? Loud and frightening? Now that I think about it, God is capable of both. Certainly one doesn’t expect the Holy Spirit to shout when trying to get our attention. At least not audibly.
But God does have a voice. Occasionally, He chooses to speak. Ezekiel records the sound of God’s voice in his vision as being like “the roar of rushing waters.” (Ezekiel 43:2) Daniel, in his vision, records the voice of God as “the sound of a multitude.” (Daniel 10:6) John, in his vision on the Island of Patmos, heard “a loud voice like a trumpet” that was like, “the sound of rushing waters.” (Revelation 1: 10; 15)
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