But the answer is: Yes! The anointed of Christ, His chosen ones actually do! They do Not retreat to Egypt to protect them.īut if anyone in the body of Christ says I take refuge in the Lord, I dwell in His shadow, and he will not allow a plague near my tent, well then both in the church and without, that person will be considered disconnected from reality. Really? Does anyone believe this? No one is talking about it, even though without faith it is impossible to please God. No evil will befall you, nor will any plague come near your tent. įor you have made the Lord, my refuge, Even the Most High your dwelling place. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, My God, in whom I trust!”. He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High, Will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. Consider the following words of the psalmist and all they entail: In so doing, they too, may succumb to the plague by refusing the offer of the One who has the true power to protect. Believers on the right do not ascribe the plague to the right source - Amos 3:6 says that if there is evil in the city has not the Lord done it? Remaining in denial they do not recognize the judgment as the gift it is to correct our path, and thus they deny their Sin and are unable to return and be healed.īelievers on the left do not understand God’s way with evil and the mystery of iniquity, and they take refuge in the State and its science to deliver them. People would rather engage in conspiracy theories - contrary to the Lord’s express will in Isaiah 8:12-13 - than to look to the One who struck them, and return that they might be healed (Isa. There are dozens of scriptural pronouncements that are related to this set of events, and yet there are no strident voices supporting them in the Church. The global pandemic is a perfect test of belief. The deeper question now presents itself – Do we believe this?Īfter all that the Lord did in the wilderness coming out of Egypt, did His people really believe His word? And with all that the Father manifested of His Name through Jesus Christ, and the further miracles of the early church, do His people believe? Christ Himself turned this statement around, thus confirming it and also pointing out the remedy:Īnd this is eternal life (aeonial life), that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you sent. No science of longevity can alleviate this primal cosmic wound. Hosea begins this chapter and then reiterates in verse 6 that we are dealing with knowledge of God. And it is not knowledge of the world or the universe that is our problem. We are destroyed, cut off, for our lack of knowledge – knowledge of God. Nuancing the word “perish” or refocusing the word “knowledge” on knowledge of the physical world do not remove the sting of death. Notwithstanding ingenious reasoning by human beings, one thing remains certain: these words are as true today in our context as they were in Israel in the 8th century BC. 21for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God. The only problem is this: scripture is not susceptible to its own interpretation:Ģ0knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from its own interpretation. It is a truth that humanity simply cannot handle much as the words of God to Adam in Genesis are held in denial: “in the day you eat of it, you shall die.” Thus, bible interpreters have gone to extraordinary lengths to prop up their denial with some good arguments.
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