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  • You Will Not Be Led -5- Disobedience to Witness

    You Will Not Be Led -5- Disobedience to Witness

    We stand daily on the precipice of loving the LORD our God or turning away toward the pit of our destruction.

    Roger @ talk of Jesus {dot}.com

    From Awe to Law

    All the people answered together and said,

    “All that the LORD has spoken we will do!”

    And Moses brought back the words of the people to the LORD.

    Exodus 19:8 NASB95

    AWESOME! Amazing beyond human comprehension (if you were not there); not only the Red Sea crossing but more so the appearance of the LORD at Sinai. This is were we left the Hebrews following the LORD and Moses in You Will Not Be Led -4- Death in the Wilderness.

    But now after receiving the Law their troubles continue.

    Exodus 20:

    Moses with 10 commandments

    18 All the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sound of the ram’s horn, and the mountain surrounded by smoke. When the people saw it they trembled and stood at a distance.

    19 “You speak to us, and we will listen,” they said to Moses, “but don’t let God speak to us, or we will die.”

    20-21 Moses responded to the people, “Don’t be afraid, for God has come to test you, so that you will fear him and will not sin.” And the people remained standing at a distance as Moses approached the total darkness where God was.

    mount sinai

    24:3 וַיָּבֹא מֹשֶׁה וַיְסַפֵּר לָעָם אֵת כָּל־דִּבְרֵי יְהוָה וְאֵת כָּל־הַמִּשְׁפָּטִים וַיַּעַן כָּל־הָעָם קוֹל אֶחָד וַיֹּאמְרוּ כָּל־הַדְּבָרִים אֲשֶׁר־דִּבֶּר יְהוָה נַעֲשֶֽׂה׃

    Masoretic Text

    3 Moses came and told the people all the commands of the Lord and all the ordinances. Then all the people responded with a single voice,

    “We will do everything that the Lord has commanded.”

    The Covenant Cermony

    8 Moses took the blood, splattered it on the people, and said,

    “This is the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you concerning all these words.”

    An Agreement Carved in Stone

    12 The Lord said to Moses,

    “Come up to me on the mountain and stay there so that I may give you the stone tablets with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.” .. The glory of the Lord settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days..

    18 Moses entered the cloud as he went up the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

    The Testing in WAITING for the Promised Land

    Moses disappears for more than a month.

    Can you wait thirty or forty days or even forty years for God’s answer?

    To be continued...  .. {for now just think how the Hebrews waited
 and turn the page.. it's a test}

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  • You Will Not Be Led -4- Death in the Wilderness

    You Will Not Be Led -4- Death in the Wilderness

    The Lord spoke to Moses: “Go up from here, you and the people you brought up from the land of Egypt..

    .. But I will not go up with you because you are a stiff-necked people..

    Exodus 33::1a,3b CSB

    Sojourning through the Shifting Sands of a Wilderness Encounter

    What happened? Did the LORD GOD change His mind?

    That’s what we might think when our journey following the Lord becomes difficult. But we know and neglect some of the warnings to this chosen people.

    Yes, they are still chosen; but who will follow the Lord and Moses, obeying Commands of the Lord? Will we obey leaders chosen by the LORD who command us in our journey?

    How did we arrive in this wilderness?

    The Hebrews were slaves in Egypt. The Lord sends 10 plagues which finally convince Pharaoh to allow Moses to lead them away. (Most of us know this part.)

    When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them along the road to the land of the Philistines, even though it was nearby; for God said,

    “The people will change their minds and return to Egypt if they face war.” So he led the people around toward the Red Sea along the road of the wilderness. And the Israelites left the land of Egypt in battle formation. –Exodus 13:17-18 CSB

    Then the Lord spoke to Moses:

    “Tell the Israelites to turn back and camp in front of Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea; you must camp in front of Baal-zephon, facing it by the sea..

    .. Then I will receive glory by means of Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord.” So the Israelites did this. – Exodus 14:1-2,4b

    GOOD so far .. and most everyone knows of their escape by crossing the Red Sea.

    BUT, now the trouble begins. (You probably know about the 40 years thing, too.)

    Exodus 17:

    17 וַ֠יִּסְעוּ כָּל־עֲדַ֨ת בְּנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֧ל מִמִּדְבַּר־סִ֛ין לְמַסְעֵיהֶ֖ם עַל־פִּ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וַֽיַּחֲנוּ֙ בִּרְפִידִ֔ים וְאֵ֥ין מַ֖יִם לִשְׁתֹּ֥ת הָעָֽם׃

    2 So the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water so that we may drink!”

    We can hardly take time to detail all the complaints and all the rebellion, but a selective look after the triumph of crossing the Red Sea will set the scene of their 40 year punishment as our warning to obey to the Lord our God.

    4 .. “Why did you ever bring us up from Egypt to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?”

    Scene at Mount Sinai

    19 בַּחֹ֙דֶשׁ֙ הַשְּׁלִישִׁ֔י לְצֵ֥את בְּנֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל מֵאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרָ֑יִם בַּיּ֣וֹם הַזֶּ֔ה בָּ֖אוּ מִדְבַּ֥ר סִינָֽי׃

    16 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.

    And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.

    Exodus 19:17 NASB

    It is not a mere burning bush not consumed.

    A PILLAR of FIRE from Heaven to earth!

    NOT an insignificant spewing of fire and brimstone from within the bowels of the earth through the peak of a volcano. Sinai has neither exploded nor been consumed, but the Presence of the LORD IS AWESOME to behold!

    LOUD TRUMPETS from above warning a consecrated people of God NOT to come near the place of the LORD as they have been warned and prepared.

    18 Now Mount Sinai was all in smoke because the Lord descended upon it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the entire mountain quaked violently. When the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him with thunder.

    Then the Lord came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain; and the Lord called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

    And now what?

    “Depart, go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up from the land of Egypt ..

    And I will send an angel before you .. for I will not go up in your midst, because you are an obstinate people, and I might destroy you on the way.”

    Exodus 33: 1-3 excerpt NASB

    This is what the LORD would tell Moses later. Now, after seeing the awe of the Lord our God on Sinai, the faithful chosen of God must wait — the consecrated people of the LORD must wait for Moses to give them HIS WORD which must be obeyed.

    To be continued...
  • Apocalypse 9 – the Wrath of the Lamb

    Apocalypse 9 – the Wrath of the Lamb

    We live now in a day of grace – but there is coming a day when the man that spits in the face of God shall meet His judgment.

    Dr. W. A. Criswell on Revelation 1:19

    Disaster on the Whole Earth

    Perhaps you remember recent disasters or recall the terror of some singular event of history.

    • 20th century natural disasters illustration of storm devastating city
      20th c. Disasters
    • world trade center towers burning on 9-11-2001
      TERROR! of 9-11-2001
    Deadliest Natural Disasters From The 20th Century

    Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter

    The Revelation of Jesus Christ to John 1:19 KJV

    In the opening of the sixth seal Jesus Christ reveals to John an apocalypse of terror, which we might pray will not occur in our brief mortal days.

    apokalypsis of Good News

    The Seven Seals

    In case you joined our series late:

    OR the intro:

    where I first quoted from the Sixth Seal Rev. 6:16-17.

    Apocalypse – a mystery of Good News Unsealed

    The Sixth Seal

    Terror! – Cowering in the Wrath of the Lamb

    November A.D. 1945 – Nagasaki three months after dropping of ATOMIC BOMB!

    You can hardly image the devastations, the losses of so many lives, the traumatic terror of the sole survivors of unspoken disaster.

    • August 1931, Yangtze River, China #1 20th c. natural disaster
      • 30,000 sq. mi. flooded, 40 million homes destroyed, 15% of crops destroyed
      • > 3 million, 700 thousand deaths, many from starvation & disease.

    Do you recall from Apocalypse 7 – Death & Hell follows him the fourth seal deaths of 25% in China would be a hundred times that?

    • > 360.7 MILLION souls!
    9 AUG, 1945, explosion of Atomic Bomb 2000 feet above Nagasaki, Japan.

    We needn’t attempt to measure the devastation of nuclear holocausts beyond that of just two cities in 1945 Japan to realize that when a time of the wrath of God is to come upon the world at the end of these last days its terrorized creatures, men of dust and ashes, will hope to hide from Almighty God.

    Revelation 6:

    12 I watched as the Lamb broke the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became as dark as black cloth, and the moon became as red as blood.

    Would a nuclear blast above your city or an even more powerful manifestation of the Lord God not do the same in an instant? It would blacken the sun, cloud the moon and choke God’s breath of life from the atmosphere!

    13 Then the stars of the sky fell to the earth like green figs falling from a tree shaken by a strong wind.

    The Apostle John sees them as stars, but the science of these last days tell us that even an asteroid (let alone many meteors striking the earth) would destroy life as we know it. And ‘mother nature’ never caused it, nor could sinful scientists prevent it. Just imagine the force of a hurricane throwing the hard surfaces of space onto the homes and workplaces of your existence.

    14 The sky was rolled up like a scroll, and all of the mountains and islands were moved from their places.

    It is a hail storm, a tornado; the eruption of a volcano swallowing up the earth and pouring fire into the cities; a hurricane and tsunami billowing waves of destruction into the unsuspecting great cities by the sea.

    Terror at the Wrath of the Lord!

    Then everyone—the kings of the earth, the rulers, the generals, the wealthy, the powerful, and every slave and free person—all hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

    Revelation 6:15 NLT

    NO, it will not be only on earth — but from beneath it and into the depths of the seas the vengeance of Almighty God will finally punish the wicked and sinners..

    • Deaths of 25% of Mankind; >1 BILLION, 961 MILLION
    • > the TOTAL POPULATIONS of Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Northern America, (including the U.S.) and Oceania.
    Apocalypse 7 – Death & Hell follows him

    16 and they said to the mountains and to the rocks, “Fall on us..

    and hide us

    from the presence of Him who sits on the throne,

    and from the wrath of the Lamb;

    for the great day of their wrath has come,

    and who is able to stand?”

    Revelation 6:16b-17 NASB
    Is your name in the Book of the Lamb?

    ..Then a white robe was given to each of them..

    Revelation 6:11 – to the saints from Martyrs + the saints cry out
    apokalypsis of Good News

    Can you stand for the opening of the seventh seal?

    WAIT for a time; for first these must be sealed.

    Revelation 7 | iiiiiii |Complete Jewish Bible
    To be continued...