There are the black clouds of God’s wrath now hanging directly over your heads, full of the dreadful storm, and big with thunder; and were it not for the restraining hand of God it would immediately burst forth upon you. The sovereign pleasure of God for the present stays his rough wind; otherwise it would come with fury, and your destruction would come like a whirlwind, and you would be like the chaff of the summer threshing floor.
Check out this PDF and scroll to page 3 and read on..its happening all over again
https://edsitement.neh.gov/sites/edsitement.neh.gov/files/worksheets/Religion02.pdf