PROVIDENCE
literally means foresight, but is generally used to denote God's preserving and governing all things by means of second causes (Psa 18:35;63:8; Acts 17:28; Col. 1:17; Heb. 1:3). God's providence extends to the natural world (Psa 104:14;135:5; Acts 14:17), the brute creation (Psa 104:21; Matt. 6:26;10:29), and the affairs of men (1-Chr 16:31; Psa 47:7; Prov. 21:1; Job 12:23; Dan. 2:21;4:25), and of......