6-7-2015 weekly message

Meditation of the week: Psalms 46:1-11

Main scripture: Exodus 12:1-30

Subject: Power of the blood of Lamb of God, Jesus Christ

The LORD God called out Abram to fulfill his will in heaven and earth, and led him unto the land of Canaan that is the land of Palestine. And he had spoke unto him to reveal himself the Almighty God for a long time period. The LORD God spoke unto him to get out of his country, and from his kindred, and from his father’s house. unto the land that he will show him; and God gave a covenant unto him saying:

“And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.”(Gen. 12:2,3)

Abram departed at his age of seventy five as God spoke unto him.

          Even though Abram received a promise from God that all nations shall be blessed through his seed, but no a son at all had been born for a long time. After these things, the word of the LORD came unto him in a vision saying, “Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.”(Gen. 15:1)

Abram answered back unto the LORD saying,

“what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus.”(Gen. 15:2)

Then the LORD still spoke unto him saying,

“This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.”(Gen. 15:3)

God still spoke unto him to have a son between him and Sarah even though his age far beyond eighty as well as Sarah old age not to be able to give a birth a son.

        In the midst of no possibility to have child, God brought him outside in the night, and said unto him,

“Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be

be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.”(Gen. 12:5)

Then, Abram believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

          Recognizing his righteousness through his faith, the LORD gave him a covenant of the land where his seed shall dwell forever saying,

“ Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,

And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,

And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”(Gen. 15:18-21)

God gave unto Abram and his seed to occupy the whole land of Palestine.

           Before the LORD God gave the covenant of the land, he spoke unto him of the things that his children must pass through before they return to the promised land saying,

“Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.”(Gen. 15:13,14)

          To fulfill his will, the LORD God chose Joseph, a grand son of Abraham; and showed him a sign in his dream, and let him confess it unto his brothers so that they hated him; and let them send him as a slave to Egypt. God let him explain about the dream of Pharaoh with the wisdom of God; and he became the second ruler of Egypt all of sudden. As God showed in the dream of Pharaoh, seven years famine came to pass all over the face of the earth after seven years of great plenty; all the countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy corn. Finally, the children of Israel came to Egypt to fulfill the word of God spoke unto Abram before. They had lived in Egypt for 430 years; for the first 30 years, they had peaceful life under the Pharaoh who honored Joseph, but the rest of 400 years, they were persecuted as slaves by the new Pharaoh after Joseph died. The word of the LORD was fulfilled as he spoke unto Abram.

        Afterwards, the LORD God called out Moses and Aaron to judge Pharaoh of Egypt; and sent all kinds of wrath unto them. At the end, God decided to kill all the first born from animals even to the prince of Pharaoh in the Palace. Before God judge Pharaoh, God deliver the message unto the elders of Israel through Moses saying,

“ Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.

And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.

For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.”(Ex 12:21-23)

        When God spoke of the lamb of Passover before hand, said them, it should be without blemish, a male of the first year; and they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it; and eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire, his head with his legs, and with the internal organs thereof (Ex. 12:5,8,9)

            God prepared things to protect his people before he judged Egyptians. The LORD God also judged even his people whenever they sinned in the promised land using famine, or pestilence or the sword of the Gentiles at the end. All the wrath of God against the Gentile nations or the people of Israel seems to be natural disasters to the eyes of man, but all of them come from God.

          The LORD God used the blood of lamb to deliver his people from the judgment against Egyptians. In other word, though they were living in the land of Egypt unto death, the angels of death passed over them seeing the blood of lamb sprinkled out side of their houses. God commanded them to ask their children to observe the Passover for an ordinance forever. John the Baptist cried out unto the Jews when Jesus came to him to be baptized saying,

“Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.”(John 1:29)

           Upon hearing of the Lamb of God, the Lamb of God must have reminded them of the lamb that they used to eat at the feast of Passover, and they must have remembered their fathers in Egypt were delivered from death sprinkled the blood of lamb outside their houses. But now they heard from John the Baptist saying a young man standing before them the very Lamb of God. In other word, they had to eat the Lamb of God to be delivered from death, and also they had to strike his blood; but they couldn’t understand at all. Finally, Jesus spoke unto them after he fed them in the wilderness saying,

 “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.

54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.”(John 6:53-56)

       Jesus spoke unto them literally, they had to eat his flesh and drink his blood to be delivered from eternal death as their fathers were delivered from death through eating the lamb and striking the blood of lamb. To testify himself the Lamb of God that delivered their fathers from death, Jesus was crucified for six hours totally naked on the cross until his body was burned as his body was roasted with fire as the lamb in the day of Passover in Egypt.

        As testified by Apostle Paul, all things in the law are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ (Col. 2:17). As God the Passover is the eternal ordinance for the Jews, the eternal Passover is no more to kill lambs to eat the roasted body of them, and striking their blood, but to eat the Lamb of God that died making his body roasted on the cross, and drink his blood through believing on him as the Savior so that his blood may strike on the conscience to take away the sins within it to be sanctified (Heb. 9:14). This is the only way to be protected form the lake of fire that is the eternal death. The present world where the children of God are living is the same place as Egypt; and the Satan that is ruling the world is as Pharaoh of Egypt. Therefore, whether Jews or Gentiles without difference, they that believe on the Lord Jesus Christ is to be the church of God striking the blood of Jesus Christ unto their conscience. Jesus said, “He that believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.”(John 11:25,26)

              Soon or later, after the Lord Jesus Christ take his bride that is the church of God up to heavenly kingdom, Jesus the Lamb of God will open the sixth seal; Apostle John testified of the things that he saw saying,

 “And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;

And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.

And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;

And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?”(Rev. 6:12-17)

         But the church of God that is sanctified through eating the flesh of Christ and drinking his blood shall be delivered from the Great Tribulation when the world is to be judged as Egypt was judged to see the Lord Jesus Christ getting out of the wicked world. Not only the church of God, but also the remnant of Israel that shall repent in the midst of the Great Tribulation shall be delivered from the wrath poured unto the world. The Holy Ghost made the psalmists prophesy of this long time ago saying,

“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;

Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah….He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;

Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.

Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;

There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.

For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.”(Ps. 46:1-3; 91:1-11)_

Amen! Hallelujah!