“Glory to the Precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ”
Psalms 53: 6 Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back the captivity of His people, Let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad.
May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen
Hallelujah
Who are the Egyptians? Who are the Israelites?
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, in the portion of the Bible that we meditated upon in the past days, we meditated about humbleness. If our soul should not be the earth, we must be humble. Only for those who are humble, he gives grace. Also, among the deeds of Egypt one of them is the pride of the mind, worldly pride, worldly status, worldly greatness, all these things are destroyed by God with his word, which is the righteousness and he gives us his grace.
Only then God is willing to heal our soul. Then God tells Moses, regarding the rod which turned into a serpent, to catch it by its tail. As soon as he caught its tail, it turns back again into a rod. Regarding the tail, what God says is that the prophet who teaches lies is the tail. The significance of this is that those who have the deeds of the serpent in their soul will preach according to the people and according to the world. That is the deed of Egypt. Wherever or with whomever we may come across it to be there (false teaching), our hands filled with righteousness should catch it and lead the people according to the true word of God. God is showing and explaining this to us before sending Moses to Egypt.
We must know that the one who is leading the flock is our Lord Jesus Christ and we must not give place to false teachings and protect our ears from it.
But we must always request God that truth and uprightness should guard us.
Jeremiah 17: 14 Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; Save me, and I shall be saved, For You are my praise.
Our soul should always be filled with praise.
Jeremiah 17: 16 As for me, I have not hurried away from being a shepherd who follows You, Nor have I desired the woeful day; You know what came out of my lips; It was right there before You.
Do not be a terror to me; You are my hope in the day of doom.
Let them be ashamed who persecute me, But do not let me be put to shame; Let them be dismayed, But do not let me be dismayed. Bring on them the day of doom And destroy them with double destruction!
This is manifested only if God crushes the head of the serpent (pride) which is in our soul, only then our soul will be healed. This is shown to us clearly in God’s word.
If we walk by the truth sincerely and if we will continuously keep praising God with our lips, God will crush the head of the enemy and we will be healed.
Also, in Psalms 23: 1 – 4 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters.
He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
My dear people, what we understand from this is that Christ only is our rod and staff. He manifests as the one who comforts us. That is, he manifests as the one who judges the Egyptians and the one who comforts the Israelites.
My dear people, who is an Egyptian? who is an Israelite? Egyptians are those who live sticking to the world. Israelites are those who have submitted themselves completely to God.
My dear people, in this time let us think of ourselves. Those who are reading this, who are you – Egyptian or Israelite?
Egyptian: Isaiah 31: 1 – 3 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, And rely on horses, Who trust in chariots because they are many, And in horsemen because they are very strong, But who do not look to the Holy One of Israel, Nor seek the Lord!
Yet He also is wise and will bring disaster, And will not call back His words, But will arise against the house of evildoers, And against the help of those who work iniquity.
Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; And their horses are flesh, and not spirit. When the Lord stretches out His hand, Both he who helps will fall, And he who is helped will fall down; They all will perish together.
My dear people, when we meditate on the previous Bible verses, what is written as horses is our work in the world and the many things that are related to it - God is referring to them as chariots. Those who give their whole time to such kind of things and do not seek God with their whole mind God is calling such people as Egyptians. Therefore, we see that disaster will come upon the Egyptians and those who give importance to such things are those who work iniquity and those who help them and who are double in their ways we see that God is saying that he is arising against them.
Therefore, the ones whom God has mercy to help are God will come down to fight for Mount Zion and for its hill.
How God has mercy for his people is that in Isaiah 31: 5, 6 Like birds flying about, So will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem. Defending, He will also deliver it; Passing over, He will preserve it.”
Return to Him against whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
Who is an Israelite? Those who have hated and left everything that is desires of the world, lusts, infatuations, enjoyments of the world.
That is what is said in Isaiah 31: 7 For in that day every man shall throw away his idols of silver and his idols of gold—sin, which your own hands have made for yourselves.
Therefore, silver, gold all these things should be hated and left by Israelites. God’s words tell us beautifully that such people are the Israelites. Also, God is calling Jacob as Israel only after he buried gold, silver and all these things under the terebinth tree. Also, in the coming days we will meditate on how God tells Israel, the church to remove all these things in the journey of faith. My dear people, for all of us to give a pleasing worship to God, let us hold on to grace and change into an Israelite.
Let us pray.
May the Lord bless us all.
-To be continued