“Glory to the Precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ”

Isaiah 55: 13   Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress tree, And instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree; And it shall be to the Lord for a name, For an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.”

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen

Hallelujah

Choosing us – as a pattern

My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, in the portion of the Bible that we meditated upon in the past days, after we have been saved by God, fighting is something that God does not please in and the blessings of the world or pleasures of the world whatever we might have, we must realize that they are not eternal and we should not think that they are important and we must not remain with the world or live thinking that worldly treasures are sufficient but we must consider it all as useless and rubbish and shake it off and push it away like Moses, and whatever reproaches or blasphemies may come, we must suffer for Christ and if we will leave everything behind and come out then we will be able to possess eternal blessings.

We also see that Moses came to the land of Midianites and dwelt there. My dear people, then the daughters of the priest of Midian came to the well there to draw water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flocks. In the portion of the Bible that we meditated upon in the past days, near the well is shown as a pattern to God’s church. The flock of sheep is shown as a pattern by God as souls. Water is the Living water which is God’s word. But those daughters are those with some amount of faith and have not attained fullness. But they are filling their troughs. The shepherds there are driving them away. Then Moses stood up and helped them and watered their flock.

My dear people, all these things happened only by God and not by any man because the shepherds from the land of Midian are chasing those daughters away. But when Moses helped them, they did not chase him away. The reason for that is Moses had the priesthood of the tribe of Levi within him. We come to know that, that is why, he left all the happiness of the world and stepped out for God.

What we must know is that Midianites are Ishmaelites. Ishmaelites are those who are completely filled with fleshly thoughts. The reason for them chasing the daughters away is the wrong thinking of the shepherds. They are thinking that the daughters coming to God’s presence is an abomination. That thinking is going on even now. This is because their eyes are fleshly eyes. We can know truly that their spiritual eyes are not open. 

But Moses is present in that place. Moses, who was safe guarded in a surprising manner, was predestined by God much earlier with a purpose to do many things for God. But shall we all think once? Let us think and act within God.

Then God looked upon the children of Israel, and God acknowledged them.

Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the back of the desert, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 

Exodus 3: 2 And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. So, he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed. 

Moses who saw this, “I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush does not burn.” So, when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.”

My dear people of God who are reading and meditating on this, God is appearing to Moses by standing in the midst of a bush. Because Moses left all Pharaoh’s sinful happiness of the world behind and came so God is showing such a vision and explaining it to us. The fire that was burning in the midst of the bush is our God (He is a fire). Bush signifies each one of us who are the world. If we will leave all the sinful happiness of the world and come like Moses God will dwell in our midst. He is a fire. In order to give Moses such a blessing he appears in this manner.

Then He said, “Do not draw near this place. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.”  

Exodus 3: 6 Moreover He said, “I am the God of your father—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God.

And the Lord said: “I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. 

So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites. Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. 

Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”

But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?”

Exodus 3: 12 So He said, “I will certainly be with you. And this shall be a sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”

Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?”

Exodus 3: 14 And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

My dear people, Our Lord God, as I am who I am, is appearing to Moses in the bush to show a sign. Also, in order to send Moses to Egypt he predestines him and is making it clear that I am with you. And he is doing this so that Moses will also believe him.

God is showing this in the bush, that is our soul when our God manifests as fire all the things that pressure our soul like worries of the world, dizziness, pleasures, desires and many types of vain thoughts in our soul, and deeds of the devil to destroy all of these in our soul which is the bush, he comes as a holy fire and burns all the evil thoughts in our soul and God manifests in his glory and shines as Zion and delivers from those that are pressuring our soul, saves us and in order to gather us with Him, he shows us such a pattern to explain it clearly to us. The deliverance of our soul is what is most important.

Let us pray. May the Lord bless us all.

-To be continued