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

Psalms 66: 19 But certainly God has heard me; He has attended to the voice of my prayer.

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

Hallelujah

The Ninth Plague of Egypt – The Plague which God sent to correct 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 that though God sent locusts among the Egyptians still Pharaoh did not allow the Israelites to go and worship God and how because of the evil deeds in our soul God sent the locusts and though he sent locusts and destroyed many people still people did not repent.

Therefore, God sent the next plague in Egypt in Exodus 10: 21 – 24 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, darkness which may even be felt.” 

So, Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. 

They did not see one another; nor did anyone rise from his place for three days. But all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

Then Pharaoh called to Moses and said, “Go, serve the Lord; only let your flocks and your herds be kept back. Let your little ones also go with you.”

But Moses did not agree with Pharaoh regarding this and said You must also give us sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God. Not a hoof shall be left behind. For we must take some of them to serve the Lord our God.

And he said but even we do not know with what we must serve the Lord until we arrive there.”

When Moses told Pharaoh that we will take our flocks and herds and worship God and said that we do not know with what we must serve the Lord and we will know only when we arrive there; this is an example that God is showing us.

My dear people, the fellowship that we have with God is not outwardly. Our inner thoughts must be clear. Many people will worship God for others to see. Our spiritual growth should be very secretive. It may be someone whom you love, whoever it maybe we should not reveal our soul to others. If we reveal in this manner the devil will cunningly spread the net. Therefore, Moses is behaving with wisdom in front of Pharaoh.

Also, we see that God sent thick darkness as the ninth plague in the land of Egypt.

This thick darkness, there was thick darkness below the feet of God. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out the rod which is in your hand toward heaven.  So, Moses stretched out toward heaven in the same way, then there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt.

My dear people, from this what we know is that, this thick darkness that occurs when Moses is stretching the rod towards heaven it means that rod is the rod which was kept with the shepherd. That shepherd is Christ. That rod is Christ, which is the word of God. When this word begins and comes from God, for the Egyptians, who do not obey; it manifests as thick darkness while for Israelites it will be light. Therefore, if we change all the activities of Egypt in our life, thick darkness will not cover our heart. Thick darkness will not cover our land as well.

That is what in Psalms 139: 8 – 12 If I ascend into heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.

If I take the wings of the morning, And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

Even there Your hand shall lead me, And Your right hand shall hold me.

If I say, “Surely the darkness shall fall on me, Even the night shall be light about me;

Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You, But the night shines as the day; The darkness and the light are both alike to You.

That is, if we will walk in God’s light, thick darkness will not cover us. This is because God’s word shows us beautifully that thick darkness will be under his feet.

Also, the nation that comes against the generation of Israel is Gog. The people of Gog Ezekiel 38: 8 After many days you will be visited. In the latter years you will come into the land of those brought back from the sword and gathered from many people on the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate; they were brought out of the nations, and now all of them dwell safely. 

You will ascend, coming like a storm, covering the land like a cloud, you and all your troops and many peoples with you.”

‘Thus, says the Lord God: “On that day it shall come to pass that thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will make an evil plan: 

You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will go to a peaceful people, who dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates’— to take plunder and to take booty, to stretch out your hand against the waste places that are again inhabited, and against a people gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell in the midst of the land.

My dear people, what you all must know is that God is raising up this nation because Israel, the church is carelessly living a life of comfort and God is arising among them. This is because God is doing his deeds to manifest through the crowd of the generation of Gog, that he is holy.

That is why in Ezekiel 38: 16 You will come up against My people Israel like a cloud, to cover the land. It will be in the latter days that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me, when I am hallowed in you, O Gog, before their eyes.

My dear people, just like the land is covered with a cloud, if in our lives there is no salvation or if we do not safeguard our salvation, this cloud will cover each one of our soul. Then our inner eye will be darkened. If our eye is darkened, we will not be able to walk in any truthful deeds, which are the works of God. But it will be possible next for such things to occur. Therefore, we must receive salvation quickly, attain new strength and stand up. May God manifest as holy in our lives and may we also walk in the holy path. Let us submit ourselves.

Let us pray. May the Lord bless you all abundantly. 

-To be continued