YESTERDAY I WROTE ‘The CRISIS of OUR DAY- and its Cure’ - ABOUT MIRRORS BETWEEN THEN AND NOW, FROM THE BOOK OF JOSHUA CHAPTER 7 AND NUMBERS CHAPTER 13.
You may wonder - What is the point of knowing the Bible is to be read like a mirror? GOOD QUESTION:
ANSWER: It's in realizing that - by looking backwards to the Old Testament records, [as led by the spirit] you can understand heaven's perspective of the events of our current times -
AND see where it is all going.
This ability to see ahead IS A PRIVILEDGE of the born again saints. This is the meaning of John 16:14,15 where we are told the mission of the holy spirit [given to those who believe] is to 'show us THINGS TO COME, and teach us SECRETS FROM THE LORD.
WOW! Friend, did you KNOW that one of the specific abilities of the Spirit of Christ in us, is to be able to discover our future - by way of the Scriptures?
If ONLY the world knew that the Spirit of Christ can enable his disciples to know the future, and to learn the secrets of the Lord, imagine how many people would finally seek to get saved!
In 2020, when all the churches in America closed, the Lord showed me Mt. Sinai in Scripture.
Remember Mt. Sinai? That's where ALL Of God's people failed to believe Him.. 100% fell in behind the the fearful 10 spies, Ignoring EVERYTHING that God had told them by the mouth of Moses throughout the Book of Deuteronomy.. EVERYTHING.
But Mt. Sinai was not the ONLY place that God's people failed to believe him. Then there was Joshua 7.. another mirror of our day that has VOLUMES to speak to us about MASKS and church closings..
In Joshua 7 the people of God were absolutely destroyed! This after having just told them in chapter 6, that He was WITH Joshua and that no one could stand up to them!
So what happened?
Unbelief, and covetousness. One young man thought to himself.. ‘Nobody will care if I take this garment and this silver and gold. Who will see?’
The 3 sins of 1 man impacted the entire congregation. How much do the sins of the whole congregation then, impact their community. How much do the sins of many churches, impact the nation? I think 2020 and beyond answers this painful question.
Last night, after having written about the crisis’s of unbelief in Joshua 7 and Numbers 13, the Lord took me to a place in Deuteronomy where remarkably, BOTH of these MIRRORS are shown TOGETHER!
Deuteronomy chapter 7.
Deuteronomy 7, verses 17 & 18 is one of many Scriptures where the Lord God has explicitly told His people, through Moses, that they were able to take the Promised land, as He would back them up, just as He had in Egypt.
'If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them? Thou shalt [not] be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the Lord thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt.'
But by Numbers 13.. they had forgotten God’s words, or never believed them.
In Deuteronomy 7 also - in verses 25 & 26 - we see the Lord God's EXPLICIT instructions to His people to NOT take anything 'accursed' from the enemy... INCLUDING his money.
This is where it gets interesting - and handles TWO things today - at once…
Deuteronomy 7: 25 and 26 explain the ‘sin upon sin’ of the young man who took the Babylonian garment and the silver and the gold (Joshua 7), meanwhile MIRRORING the ‘sin upon sin’ of God's people today - WEARING the Babylonian garment.( The covid masks),
AND the record speaks to the ministers.. (Who might either be FEMA pastors -who are fully on board with the globalists, or those who simply ‘obey’ the commandments of men - rather than God) …who have been willing to let MONEY from the government, affect their theology.
It's no small topic.
To be continued..
VJCB