God showed me this vision: Oh! God, my Master God was calling up a firestorm. It burned up the ocean. Then it burned up the Promised Land.

I said, “God, my Master! Hold it—please! What’s going to come of Jacob? He’s so small.”

God gave in.

“All right, this won’t happen either,” God, my Master, said.

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