Dear Family,
Today is Friday, June 3, 2022, Day 6 of Week 7. This is the 48th Day in our Count to Pentecost.
What did the ancient Israelites experience at the foot of Mt. Sinai when Moses brought the people out of the camp (Exodus 19:17) to “meet” God? We learn from Scripture that the earth itself vigorously responded to the presence of God with shaking, trembling, and quaking. Of course, the natural, carnal response of the people was to be very frightened.
Exodus 19:16-18 (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. (17) And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount. (18) And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire. and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
Psalm 114:1-7 (1) When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language; (2) Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion. (3) The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back. (4) The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs. (5) What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back? (6) Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs? (7) Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob.
Brethren, God’s Master Plan involves His Church being brought out to “meet” God, not at physical Mt. Sinai, but “unto mount Sion.” What ancient Israel experienced is a mere foreshadowing of what God is preparing us to experience before His glorious presence in the “City of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem.” God was making ancient Israel a kingdom. He is giving us a permanent “kingdom which cannot be moved.” Hebrews 12 describes our future!
Hebrews 12:18-29 (18) For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, (19) And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more: (20) (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: (21) And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:) (22) But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, (23) To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, (24) And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. (25) See that ye refuse not Him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused Him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from Him that speaketh from heaven: (26) Whose voice then shook the earth: but now He hath promised, saying; Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also, heaven. (27) And this word; Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. (28) Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: (29) For our God is a consuming fire.
Ben Faulkner, Pastor
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