Moses and Israel
in Historical Relief
The noun, “relief” [ri-leef]
4. something affording a pleasing
change, as from monotony.
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Numbers 20:3 And the people chode with Moses, and spake,
saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD! 4
And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness,
that we and our cattle should die there? 5 And wherefore have ye made us to
come up out of Egypt,
to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of
vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink. 6 And Moses and
Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation, and they fell upon their faces: and the glory of the LORD
appeared unto them. 7 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 8 Take the rod,
and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak
ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou
shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the
congregation and their beasts drink. 9 And Moses took the rod from before the
LORD, as he commanded him. 10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation
together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we
fetch you water out of this rock? 11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his
rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the
congregation drank, and their beasts also. 12 And the LORD spake unto Moses and
Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children
of Israel,
therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given
them.
John 7:37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus
stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. 38
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall
flow rivers of living water.
Isaiah 51:1 Hearken to me, ye that follow after
righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn,
and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
Isaiah 28:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I
lay in Zion for
a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation:
he that believeth shall not make haste.
Matthew 7:24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of
mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house
upon a rock: 25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds
blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a
rock.
There is a hymn I used to sing when I attended church as a
child. It says, "On Christ the
Solid Rock I stand. All other ground is
sinking sand". Historically the idea
of Jesus being the Solid Rock came from the prophetic allegory acted on stage
in the days of Moses and the children of Israel. God had Moses lead the Hebrew children into a
desert and wilderness. This is because
all of human beings on the planet Earth are His children.
1. Earth is like a
dry desert with very little food and (spiritual) water because men have
all kinds of questions about, “Who am I”?; “Why do I exist?”; “What am I
suppose to do while living here”?; “What happens when we die?”; “How must I treat
other men”? Men are CURIOUS! All men ponder these questions everywhere men
exist. Thus our life on the planet,
Earth, is like being in a dry desert lacking food and water. And the HOT SUN is beaming down vehemently
heat and light and it is dehydrating men and simultaneously making them sweat
and lose the little body water they have in them. And there is little shelter from the hot sun
in a “sea of sand”.
2. The HOT SUN is
SCIENTIST-TEACHER GOD who has
“set” the (earth)-stage and is managing the roles of each human incarnation
undergoing STEP-ONE in our “exercise” with demonic prisoners.
Moses had promised to lead the Israelites to a beautiful
land flowing with milk and honey, but that is not what the Hebrew children were
experiencing. They grew impatient with
God and Moses and many felt that they were misled. Please keep in mind that Father is weaving a
GREATER NARRATIVE in this act and scene with Moses and the unhappy Jews. I will not drag out the point. This is the story of all mankind in all of
human history. ALL MEN are “the chosen
people”, because God created us on the 4th Creation Day as His
spirit-DNA children. He as the
Husbandman, has planted us in the clay fields on earth in each man’s designated
generation. And He spread (planted) us
in human wombs all over the surface of the earth.
3. So the tiny
nation of Israel
is part of an ACT symbolizing all the children on earth. Peter saw them as “animals on a sheet”! The Jews today are blind men caught up in re-acting
in their role completed in the time of Cyrus, Nehemiah, and Daniel. They FAIL TO SEE the BIG PICTURE and they are
BIASED against the rest of mankind whom they call “GENTILES”. They are fighting like hell against the Arab
and Muslim people surrounding that tiny nation because they do not understand
that they are and were a STAGE ACT.
The Jews have failed to believe their own prophets that God sent to them
to EXPLAIN what He is doing.
2 Baruch 5:1 And I answered and said: So then I am destined
to grieve for Zion,
For Thine enemies will come to this place and pollute Thy sanctuary, And lead Thine
inheritance into captivity, And make themselves masters of those whom Thou hast
loved. And they will depart again to the place of their idols, And will boast
before them: And what wilt Thou do for Thy great name?' 2 And the Lord said
unto me: My name and My glory are unto all eternity; And My judgement shall
maintain its right in its own time. 3 And thou shalt see with thine eyes That
the enemy will not overthrow Zion, Nor shall
they burn Jerusalem,
But be the ministers of the Judge for the time.
The Jewish theologians act as if they NEVER READ BARUCH’s
writings. Dismissal of God’s prophets
has led them on a fool’s errand. They
are choking in the desert for lack of water.
Jerusalem in Palestine
and the territory the nation of Israel
occupies IS NOT the “holy land”, nor is the city of Jerusalem that “holy city” they are squabbling
over. The Heavenly City
that God has given to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob “has foundations whose builder
and maker is God”. God showed it to Ezra
as proof of what He told Baruch. Those
former humans are angelic beings living in Heaven, the real “land of promise”
right now as I write. The prophet and
scribe Ezra was given LIGHT on this very issue in II Esdras 10, but the Jews today DISMISS Ezra’s words as they create conflict with their
Muslim neighbors by gobbling up as much Arab land as they can. They think they are doing God’s work. But they are just as blind and ignorant of
what God is doing as those Jews Moses faced at that ROCK. In II
Esdras 2 God gives a detailed description of how HE GATHERS THE DIASPORA.
The
Jews cannot help him do it! Repopulating
Zion and the land of Israel
is a work ONLY the FATHER-SON SAVIORS can do!
The stage-role “rebuilding” happened in Ezra’s days! As they have done historically, “the usual
practice”, the Jews in the middle-east continue to flail blindly and muck-up
the works. The Christian churches are
just as dumb and blind as the Jews, because they approve and support what the Israelis
are doing. The heat of the sun is
scorching them too!
Here we stand in
the desert of Zin.
Numbers 20: Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin.
The whole planet earth is the real reference for “desert of Zin”.
The children assailed Moses because some thought God had abandoned them
and brought them there to slay them.
People think that today. Surely
“there is no God”, and if there is a God, “He is uncaring and did this to harm
us”. “He does not answer our prayers and
He has forgotten us”! Have you ever
thought things like that? I know you
have heard men say things like that! Men
make those charges against God today.
Many stop going to church because they see worship of God as a farce and
a fraud for men to take their money and become wealthy! So the entire planet earth is the desert of Zin (Sin) and men in all nations murmur
against God, or their designation for God, because “He isn’t real”. So you can see HUE-men on earth are STARVING,
THIRSTY, BURNING UP, and DYING in the heat.
Let’s get back to poor Moses and Aaron! They are standing there terrified and the
people want to kill them. Moses reaches
out to God and asks for divine intervention.
They go to the temple and God told them to:
Numbers 20: Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly
together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their
eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them
water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts
drink.
The people had vexed Moses into such great anger that
instead of “speaking to the rock” Moses hit it with the rod. Needless to say, water gushed out of the rock
and the thurst of the Israelites was quenched.
All of this was an act of prophecy because the TRUE ROCK to come was
Jesus. In his earthly ministry, he
identified himself in Matthew 7:24. He
also said, “within me is living water”, that he gives freely to all who hear
his voice and come to him. John 4:10, 7:37.
Please do not fault Moses for smiting the rock. All that was part of the DIVINE ACT for
Jesus’ future role, Isaiah 53:3-5, Zechariah 13:7. Jesus was supposed to be beaten. Therefore God had to get Moses to
prophetically ACT OUT THAT PART in allegory.
Because Moses smote the rock rather than to speak to it, God told him
that he and Aaron would not be allowed to lead the children of Israel into Palestine.
At first blush you might think God punished them. But you must not judge according to appearance. Only the Father-Son Savior Team can bring the
children into Paradise. So God MADE IT REAL! “Saving the world” was never given to Moses
and Aaron. Only God SAVES, and He chose
Jesus as His designated “Son-Savior” to call the TRUE NAMES of the children
when their “timers” (hearts) stop ticking.
All who die are called to STAND BEFORE THE FATHER and SON in the
“promise land” (Heaven) and in the City of Zion (Mother Wisdom) at the THRONE.
Romans 14:7 For none of us liveth to himself, and no man
dieth to himself. 8 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we
die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the
Lord's. 9 For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he
might be Lord both of the dead and living. 10 But why dost thou judge thy
brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand
before the judgment seat of Christ. 11 For it is written, As I live, saith the
Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. 12 So
then every one of us shall give account of himself to God. 13 Let us not
therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a
stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
Are you thirsty for “living water”? Then believe Jesus, and you will live
forever. NOW IN THIS END-TIME, Father
has revealed Greater News today. If you
never heard of Jesus, even if you reject him, you will live forever
anyway! That is because we are created
as immortal children having His spirit-DNA likeness. No event that happens in STEP-ONE can undo
this. No man can ever die in the human
concept of death learned from devils in STEP-ONE. All human PRODUCTS will be removed from the
pit of hell facing devils to be “perfected” in STEP-TWO. Regarding this thing
called LIFE, just remember, “God’s got this”!!
Now look down at your feet.
Are you standing on the Rock or is it “sinking sand” (trusting what men
teach). Piles of “sand”, (bodies of
preachers), sink (are buried”) in caskets everyday. I’m just saying ….
Hosea 1:10 Yet the number of the children of Israel (all human beings) shall be as
the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come
to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people (gentiles), there it shall be
said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.
As you already know, I can't sing as well as I used to in my days of youth. So I found a little help, a beautiful rendition of "On Christ the Solid Rock I stand. Enjoy this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndBh1ltWYfc
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