The state of both the world and the United States today are deplorable as they both run neck to neck in the corruption of man. The worlds only salvation is to be held in the true and accurate knowledge of GOD in Christ Jesus. For it Christ as the anointed one that is restored as the missing link that restores GOD to mans being speaking Spirit to spirit as it was in Genesis 2. Religions and Governments and the worlds economy was given to man by GOD for the good of mankind however with this giving GOD also knew before time began that all would be corrupted because of the evil one who is the foster spirit of death that would rule mankind. If I could use a basic terminology of A-D voltages which produces light fallen man being negative while GOD is the positive, this can also be known in static and alternating electrical changes. These same changes are active within mans body as neutrons and electrons and when they are not at rest or in harmony with each other there is sickness and or death to the body. This is also seen in nature and the order of things itself. This is how GOD reveals Himself to all of mankind. Now for Pastor Hoekstra and his teaching on Grace as revealed through Moses and even Israel. Then I will look at mans ignorance of GOD making use of the ESV translation. As always this will be done under the hand of the LORD restored within me as a positive force for good. Listen with intent to what is shared as it speaks of the world as we know it, and especially here in America today.
"Moses Leading Israel Out of Egypt, by Faith"
"By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible." (Hebrews 11:28)
"Moses left Egypt on two occasions, involving two distinctly different sets of circumstances. On the first occasion, he left Israel behind in Egypt, going out in fear. On the second occasion, he is seen leading Israel out of Egypt, by faith.
"Moses' first departure saw him fleeing for his life, fearing what the Pharoah might do to him. Moses' heart had been drawn to the people of God. He went out to consider their situation. "When Moses was grown . . . he went out to his brethren and looked at their burdens. And he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren" (Exodus 2:11). Moses killed the Egyptian and buried him in the sand. When his brethren became aware of this reckless deed, Moses was frightened. "So Moses feared and said, 'Surely this thing is known!' When Pharaoh heard of this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian" (Exodus 2:14-15). So, Israel was left in Egypt in bondage, and Moses' desire to see God's people delivered was thwarted.
Moses' second departure found him leaving courageously, with no fear of what Pharoah might do. "By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king." Much had transpired between these two departures. For forty years, Moses had humbly tended sheep on the back side of the desert. "Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the back of the desert, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God" (Exodus 3:1). There, the LORD revealed Himself to Moses in a burning bush, sending him back into Egypt to demand the release of God's people. "I am the GOD of your father — the GOD of Abraham, the GOD of Isaac, and the GOD of Jacob . . . Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt" (Exodus 3:6, Exo_3:10, Egypt being both a form of the evils of the world and that of false religions). So, Moses boldly confronted one of the most powerful leaders in the world. "Thus says the LORD God of Israel: 'Let My people go' " (Exodus 5:1). Then, the LORD performed awesome wonders until He caused the will of mighty Pharoah to be broken. "The LORD struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt . . . So Pharaoh rose in the night . . . Then he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, 'Go, serve the LORD as you have said' " (Exodus 12:29-31). The ultimate difference in this second departure was that Moses had seen the LORD and had learned to trust in Him. "For he endured as seeing Him who is invisible." There is method in my use of letters, cap's being respect and honor for the subject, the person. And a cap with small letters when blended with man.
Ignorance of the Divine-spiritual, held by man,
Isaiah 1:1-3 "The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the LORD has spoken: "Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against Me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, My people do not understand."
Isaiah 59:1-8 "Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, nor His ear dull, that it cannot hear; but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear. For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies; your tongue mutters wickedness. No one enters suit justly; no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity. They hatch adders' eggs; they weave the spider's web; he who eats their eggs dies, and from one that is crushed a viper is hatched. Their webs will not serve as clothing; men will not cover themselves with what they make. Their works are works of iniquity, and deeds of violence are in their hands. Their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their highways. The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their paths; they have made their roads crooked; no one who treads on them knows peace."
Jeremiah 5:4-6 "Then I said, "These are only the poor; they have no sense; for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God. I will go to the great and will speak to them, for they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God." But they all alike had broken the yoke; they had burst the bonds. Therefore a lion from the forest shall strike them down; a wolf from the desert shall devastate them. A leopard is watching their cities; everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many, their apostasies are great."
Amos 3:9-10 "Proclaim to the strongholds in Ashdod and to the strongholds in the land of Egypt, and say, "Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, and see the great tumults within her, and the oppressed in her midst." "They do not know how to do right," declares the LORD, "those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds."
Micah 4:9-13 "Now why do you cry aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished, that pain seized you like a woman in labor? Writhe and groan, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor, for now you shall go out from the city and dwell in the open country; you shall go to Babylon. There you shall be rescued; there the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies. Now many nations are assembled against you, saying, "Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion." But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD; they do not understand His plan, that He has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor. Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs bronze; you shall beat in pieces many peoples; and shall devote their gain to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of the whole earth."
Romans 10:1-4 "Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to GOD for them is that they may be saved. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for GOD, but not according to knowledge. For, being ignorant of the righteousness of GOD, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to GOD's righteousness. For Christ is the end (goal) of the Law for righteousness (is greater) to everyone who believes."
Ephesians 4:17-24 and 1Peter 1:13-16 "Now this I say and testify in the LORD, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of GOD because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. But that is not the way you learned Christ!— assuming that you have heard Him and were taught by Him, as the Truth is Christ, to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of GOD in true righteousness and holiness."
1Peter 1:13-16 "Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Christ in Jesus. As obedient children, do not be (remain) conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as He Who called you is HOLY, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, "You shall be holy, for I am HOLY."
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