“Glory to the Precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ”
Psalms 73: 1 Truly God is good to Israel, to such as are pure in heart.
May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen
Hallelujah
We, the bride, the church should all be seen as true Israelite.
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, in the portion of the Bible that we meditated upon in the past days, we meditated that our soul, the bride, the church should not be filled with evil teaching and should be safeguarded.
Next what we are meditating is that Judges 4: 1 – 10 When Ehud was dead, the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord.
So the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, who dwelt in Harosheth Hagoyim.
And the children of Israel cried out to the Lord; for Jabin had nine hundred chariots of iron, and for twenty years he had harshly oppressed the children of Israel.
Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, was judging Israel at that time.
And she would sit under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the mountains of Ephraim. And the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
Then she sent and called for Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali, and said to him, “Has not the Lord God of Israel commanded, ‘Go and deploy troops at Mount Tabor; take with you ten thousand men of the sons of Naphtali and of the sons of Zebulun;
and against you I will deploy Sisera, the commander of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his multitude at the River Kishon; and I will deliver him into your hand’?”
And Barak said to her, “If you will go with me, then I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go!”
So she said, “I will surely go with you; nevertheless there will be no glory for you in the journey you are taking, for the Lord will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman.” Then Deborah arose and went with Barak to Kedesh.
And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; he went up with ten thousand men under his command, and Deborah went up with him.
When we meditate upon the above-mentioned verses, after Ehud the son of Gera delivered and saved the Israelites from the Moab, then he dies. After he died because the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord so the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor and we can read this. But his commander Sisera dwelt in the land of the Gentiles called Harosheth Hagoyim. He had nine hundred chariots of iron, and for twenty years he had harshly oppressed the children of Israel.
When the children of Israel cried to the Lord Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, was judging Israel at that time. And she would sit under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the mountains of Ephraim. And the children of Israel came up to her for judgment. Then she sent and called for Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali, and said to him, “Has not the Lord God of Israel commanded, ‘Go and deploy troops at Mount Tabor; take with you ten thousand men of the sons of Naphtali and of the sons of Zebulun; and against you God will deploy Sisera, the commander of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and she is telling the way how he commanded that he will deliver them in his hands.
Then Barak said to the prophetess if you will go with me, then I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go! So she said, “I will surely go with you; nevertheless there will be no glory for you in the journey you are taking, for the Lord will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman.” Then Deborah arose and went with Barak. But Barak, in Judges 4: 11 – 24 Now Heber the Kenite, of the children of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, had separated himself from the Kenites and pitched his tent near the terebinth tree at Zaanaim, which is beside Kedesh.
And they reported to Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor.
So Sisera gathered together all his chariots, nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people who were with him, from Harosheth Hagoyim to the River Kishon.
Then Deborah said to Barak, “Up! For this is the day in which the Lord has delivered Sisera into your hand. Has not the Lord gone out before you?” So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.
And the Lord routed Sisera and all his chariots and all his army with the edge of the sword before Barak; and Sisera alighted from his chariot and fled away on foot.
But Barak pursued the chariots and the army as far as Harosheth Hagoyim, and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; not a man was left.
However, Sisera had fled away on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, “Turn aside, my lord, turn aside to me; do not fear.” And when he had turned aside with her into the tent, she covered him with a blanket.
Then he said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty.” So she opened a jug of milk, gave him a drink, and covered him.
And he said to her, “Stand at the door of the tent, and if any man comes and inquires of you, and says, ‘Is there any man here?’ you shall say, ‘No.’”
Then Jael, Heber’s wife, took a tent peg and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him and drove the peg into his temple, and it went down into the ground; for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
And then, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said to him, “Come, I will show you the man whom you seek.” And when he went into her tent, there lay Sisera, dead with the peg in his temple.
So on that day God subdued Jabin king of Canaan in the presence of the children of Israel.
And the hand of the children of Israel grew stronger and stronger against Jabin king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.
When we read the above-mentioned verses, Barak just like the Lord said Barak went up to Mount Tabor with ten thousand men. But Heber separated himself from the Kenites and pitched his tent near the terebinth tree at Zaanaim, which is beside Kedesh. When they reported to Sisera that Barak had gone up to Mount Tabor, he gathered together all his chariots, and all the people from the city of the Gentiles Harosheth Hagoyim to the River Kishon.
Then Deborah said to Barak, “Up! For this is the day in which the Lord has delivered Sisera into your hand. Has not the Lord gone out before you?” So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him. And the Lord routed Sisera and all his chariots and all his army with the edge of the sword before Barak; and Sisera alighted from his chariot and fled away on foot. But Barak pursued the chariots and the army as far as Harosheth Hagoyim, the city of Gentiles and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; not a man was left.
However, Sisera had fled away on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber. For there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber. And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, “Turn aside, my lord, do not fear.” And covered him with a blanket. And he said to her, If any man comes to the door of the house of Jael and ask is there any man here, then you shall say No and when Sisera asked him water to drink she gave milk to drink. And for a second time again she covered him with a blanket.
Then what she did is that Judges 4: 23, 24 So on that day God subdued Jabin king of Canaan in the presence of the children of Israel.
And the hand of the children of Israel grew stronger and stronger against Jabin king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.
According to the above-mentioned verses, God subdued Jabin king of Canaan in the presence of the children of Israel. And the hand of the children of Israel grew stronger and stronger against Jabin king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.
My dear people, the facts that we meditated upon till now is that in our soul, the Holy Spirit manifests as a prophet and through his help because Christ has destroyed the commander of the King of Canaan that is there in our soul first so we are able to utterly destroy the king of Canaan from our soul and he is strengthening the hand of the Israelites against Canaan and the evil people in our soul how he destroys them using the word of Christ and by his Spirit in the inner room using the word of God, the sword and the way how he destroys all the deeds of the Gentiles, these God is showing us clearly as a pattern and we can know that. Also, all the glory of all these deeds is not ours but belongs to God.
Therefore, my dear people God destroys the Canaanites within us and is changing us into pure Israelites. This is because Romans 9: 4 – 7 who are Israelites, to whom pertain the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises;
of whom are the fathers and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, the eternally blessed God. Amen.
But it is not that the word of God has taken no effect. For they are not all Israel who are of Israel,
nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, “In Isaac your seed shall be called.
Since we are all are not Israelites, let us all submit ourselves to change in this manner as Israelites with a pure heart.
Let us pray. May the Lord bless you all abundantly.
- To be continued