WORSHIP INTRICO [2]

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2)            “Why would God allow these religions if they are wrong?” This is the rhetorical approach often peddled as a proof of God’s approval of other religions, in refutal of Christian claim of, “Without Jesus, one is hell bound.” Excepting Christianity, all other religious forms of faith are nothing short of religious entrapment of Satanism. All these man-made religions constitute just one path of stark unrighteousness. Proverbs 14:12 reads, “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” It began with ‘a way’ but it is a way that parts into several: all of them heading to one hellish gaol of eternal punishment. Every religious enterprise that makes not Jesus Christ the Lord and the Saviour is the phenomenality that seemeth right. It is a death wish. Simple. Jesus taught in Matthew 7:13, “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:” for there are so many ways of Satanism placed before man’s choice. The broadness depicts the myriad of religious worship: all of those who are contained in this broadness lead themselves into eternal damnation.

He cometh to steal, kill and to destroy

     All that an individual needs to do is to give an unscriptural adoratory veneration to any object, and in that very second, a demon will fit his apocalyptic being into the object of latria to receive the worship for his master, Lucifer. God Almighty will never compete with Satanism. The LORD God does not, in any way, sanction a form of worship unknown to His protocol: The Scriptures. Circumnavigating Jesus, the Word of God, in any worship practice is tantamount to the worship of Satan. The only way to belong to Jehovah is by the spiritual connectivity based on His protocol, the Bible. Knowing this fact quite well, Satan must come up with something to remain God’s archenemy. Lucifer’s desiderative inordinacy is to be worshipped, no matter what.

“…and One sat on the throne” [Revelation 4:2]

     Latria must involve an adherent follower and a deity. To establish God’s Deity, the intelligent beings of the celestial realm were brought into being. They must exhibit intelligence and operate as free moral agents as well. To challenge the Author of creationism, Lucifer who knew that a true deity must be the Creator, must break another law of deification –bypassing the needed crede ntial of creatorship— by appealing to the free moral agency of the empyrean citizenry. Most definitely, he could not approach the Divinity with his illegal desideration, knowing fully well that the LORD God is the God of legality. How could Lucifer have passed the interview to an apotheotic official status? A worshipped entity must be in possession of all God’s divine credentials. God, seated on His exalted throne, would probably have made the first question to be, “Lucifer, are you omnipotent?” The sincerity of this question being that it takes power to assume a deific lordship; a deity cannot function without an almighty power to protect the deifiers. The deficiency in protection of oneself is what makes an individual to seek for protective machinery of a known deity.

Proud Lucifer

    “Are you omnipresent?”

If a whole lot of people should appear in worship, in various places, the true Deity will most definitely be there –in every place of latria. Matthew 18:19-20 “Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. 20) For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” The Creator, by the name of Jehovah, has the capability to be present everywhere universally. And this is the proof of the Divinity of Jesus, the Lord of creationism. What does Satan do? He places demons in every point of worship to fake his ‘almighty’ projection. Lucifer has omnipresence deficiency.

O Lucifer! How art thou fallen!

      The next succeeding question, “Are you omniscient?” will be too much for Lucifer to handle. He is not the Entity of Colossians 2:3 “In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” A deifier comes to the deity expecting to receive information on the way forward. Only Jehovah, the Omniscient, knows all, with the capability to tell each one of all that show up the way forward. Another question will be, “Have you created anything, ex nihilo (out of nothing) or otherwise?” Creation ex nihilo is the LORD God’s métier and none competes with the Almighty in this field, none whatsoever.

                My question for Lucifer is, “Were you there in the eternity past?” If you were not there in the eternity past, it follows that you are not as old as the Members of the Trinity. Anyone and or anything that was not there in the beginning with God before anything was brought into creation falls under “All things were made by him” of John 1:3. Lucifer, you are an object of creationism, ergo, disqualified to receive latria.

The three Hebrew children!

                Get born again by saying this simple prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!”

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WORSHIP INTRICO [1]

“Let my people go, that they may serve me” [Exodus 9:1].

1)    God’s worship demand is never an act from a whimsical scripting. Worship was never of a sin engenderment, brought into the divine force when Lucifer decided to lead the boldacious act of the empyreal putsch, eons past. It, nonetheless, became a phenomenal prevalence after the original sinful fall. This inevitability was made an availability to humanity to avert the hellish annihilation awaiting any perpetrator of an anomalous adoration of a created entity, to exhibit the love of the Divinity to mankind, whom He had created in the likeness and in the image of the Godhead. God, forsooth, is love. Amen.

One that sat on the celestial throne received the latria

    No worship is ever an absolute reality, without being in physical attendance, the object of veneration. “And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. 9) And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever, 10) The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, 11) Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created” [Revelation 4:8-11]. The eleventh verse, most appropriately, explicitly underscores the reason for the ritualism of the latria. Worship intrico assumes no bases from the cultural anthropological phenomenon. Latria pertains strictly to the Author of creationism. God’s pleasure stems from an absolute goodness of the Divinity. Asking for your worship of His divine holiness is incontestably apropos. Is the Lord God not the O-cubed of Omniscience, Omnipotence and the Omnipresence? Show me another entity of this persona and I will worship it all the periods of eternity. Jehovah receives latria because He is worthy of it. Amen.

LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day

     “And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden” [Genesis 3:8]. The Hebrew word for ‘walking’ is hâlak (haw-lak’): ‘to go, walk, come, depart, move, to die, live, manner of life (figuratively), i.e. lifestyle.’ Theological understanding makes a pellucidity for the Visitant of the Eden Garden to be none other than the Christ, the pre-incarnation of His manifestation. The personal appearance of Christ in the cool of the evening completed the Eden adorational ritualism. The Adamic pristine couple, knowing none other, did worship the true God. Amen.

    The nascent human race continued the oblational adjudication involving blood sacrificial animals for spiritual aberration until Cain’s slant of anthropological culture engendered a religious anomaly. That endeavour of Satanism by Cain turned him into the global headship of the antediluvian miscreants, who founded the ominous colouration of worship intrico.

Cain. The progenitor of the antediluvian miscreants.

     Living side by side were the antediluvian saints, who did the will of the Lord God, and the antediluvian miscreants, who followed the religious education of Satanism, championed by Cain, their progenitor. Latria, for this simple reason, became dichotomous in the Adamic world. Seth’s descendants of humanity called on the true God of the Bible. The antediluvian miscreants of Cain’s descent kept themselves away from the presence of the LORD God, and bent their knees before satanic worship. This is the genesis of the prevalence of dichotomous worship. This is the enthronement of wickedness.

“And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually” [Genesis 6:5]. ‘Wickedness’ isrâ‛âh (rah) in Hebrew, with the translation of ‘bad, evil, disagreeable (naturally or morally)’. The Hebrew for ‘imagination’ is yêtser (yay’-tser): ‘form, framing, purpose, framework or conception.’ Man began to wage war against the word of God, according to the protocol of Satanism. Nimrod led the children of Adam, or Noah, in the actuation of latria dichotomy.

Nimrod, the sun god, hunter of men before the LORD God.

Years after the demise of Nimrod, the myriad of religious beliefs and practices, notwithstanding, it is still the old dichotomous practice of earthly worship. You either bow in worship to the true God of the Bible (and of Israel) or to Lucifer. Right from the Upper Room, on the Pentecostal day of the inauguration of the Church, the Holy Spirit had continued to lead Christians in the true worship of Jehovah. The myriad of religious inclinations of the world is a prompture of Lucifer, ergo, Satanism. There is only one true way to the good God of the Bible. Jesus died to engender the path of righteousness. But in order to cause spiritual entanglement, the Devil needed to establish myriad forms of worship for an effect –to create an impression that Christianity is just one of the ways of righteousness. The creation of several latria options is the main intriguing stance of this religious competition.

                Get born again by saying this simple prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!”

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The humanity of Second Member of the Godhead

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7)            In conclusion, Christ has always been. Lord Jesus has been from the eternal past, when nothing had the being of the creationism. His existence prior to the creationism, underscores the eternality of His Divinity. The biblical couch of Mosaic Pentateuch, as was dictated from the lips of the Most High, has a commencement of, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” The Hebraic scripting is notיהוה which has the transliteration of Yehôvâh or the English Jehovah. It is not ‘ĕlôahh a transliteration of אלוהּ, which means: God or god (in the singular). The term ‘God’ in Genesis 1:1 is אלהים with a transliteration of: ‘ĕlôhı̂ym (el-o-heem’). This ‘ĕlôhı̂ym is ‘God,’ in the plural. The reason why it is in the plural is simply because in the Godhood of the Divinity are three distinct Personages: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. If Jesus Christ is the Second Member of the Godhead, then, what does one say of Christians?  They are, indeed, highly favoured!Genesis 1:1

The verb, ‘made,’ found in John 1:14, being weak and or a wrong interpretation, tends to imply that the Word of God is an object of creationism. Going by the Greek for that word which is ginomai (ǰiy’-no-mai): ‘1. to cause to be (“gen”-erate). 2. (reflexively) to become (come into being),’ the Word of God, the Christ merely ‘came into being’ or just ‘became’ flesh i.e. mankind, which He, hitherto, was not! Simple! The word of Jesus is God’s word; and the word of God is the word of Jesus Christ. It is a conundrum! If it is not Christ, God does not utter it. The Word of God exists before eternality; was spoken to engender creationism. The WORD is of the Trinity. Why would the first mention of “God” in Scripture be ‘Elohiym –plurality of God—? Christ is eternally involved. Amen!

In Genesis 18:27-32, every mention of ‘Lord’ (with only ‘L’ as the capital) is the Hebrew  אֲדֹנָי which is the transliteration of ‘Adonay (ad-o-noy’). The Jewish tongue does not suffer ‘Adonay to be designated to any creature; it is absolutely of Jehovah, the Almighty Jehovah God. The Genesis chapter 18 scenario proves that Christ, in His preincarnate manifestation, showed up in His physical essence and did not only hold a discussion with Abraham and his wife, but was visibly seen by them. This show of physical responsibility by the Divinity underscores the keen interest that the Owner of the world has for the Adamic race. This tells me that the Divinity of Jesus is real; He answers prayers. Humans can rely on Him for divine beneficence.

Exodus 33:22-23 “And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by: 23) And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.” From the verses above, ‘hand’ is kaph (kaf): ‘1. the hollow hand or palm (so of the paw of an animal, of the sole, and even of the bowl of a dish or sling, the handle of a bolt, the leaves of a palm-tree). 2. (figuratively) power.’ The ‘hollowness’ of the hand presents to my perception the concavity of the divine caring hand of the Almighty and its eternally commodiousness for the protection all entities of creation over and over and again. The anthropomorphic dimension of God must ineluctably have five sprouts of gripping fingers and a thumb on His palm. Of course, it is the grace of God that took divine care of Moses, lest he inadvertently be led by stupid carnality to behold the face of eternality and be destroyed. Five is the scriptural number of grace. Hallelujah!

Jesus, the Word of God, during the Jerusalem Temple journey at age twelve.

                Indeed, God’s protective hand which Moses, indubitably did see, is the physicality of the anthropomorphic hand of the Eternal LORD of creation, not in a dream, but in broad daylight! An absolute oomph! Incredulous! It certainly reminds me of the Scripture which says “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,” of Titus 2:11, was an unfadable event so bodacious to ever evaporate from the mind of Moses. Stupendous phenomenality was this Mount Sinai spectacle! Every Christian inevitably has access to this eternal hand of God’s protective deliverance. Amen.

                Why would the Lord choose the Jericho approach to appear in Person to Joshua? Jericho happened to be a great hurdle for Israel. The manna from heaven was about stop falling for their sustenance. It must have an involvement of divine operative to pulverize the impregnable walls of Jericho. When the Lord eventually makes His incarnational entry into our world He would bear the name of Joshua. His preincarnational manifestation should of necessity come face to face with His eventual name sake. Does He not make the divine asseveration of “without me ye canst do nothing” of John 15:5? Is Jehovah not called “a man of war” [Exodus 15:3]? A wise person will call on Jesus to fix the removal of all obstacles. Does the Bible not say of Him “And he is before all things, and by him all things consist” [Colossians 1:17]. The Greek for ‘consist’ is sunistao (sïn-iy-staō’) meaning, ‘to set together.’ Through Jesus all things are held together –an absolute preserve of the Almighty, most definitely.

Was wounded for my transgression; His death rolled away my death. Hallelujah!

                It reads in the Book of Judges 13:2, “And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not.” The empyreal Visitant came for some notable causes. The name Zorah or the Hebraic Tsor`ah (tsor-aw’), ‘a place in Israel’ has its etymology in tsir`ah (tsir-aw’): ‘a wasp (as stinging).’ Danites being descendants of Dan, means ‘judge.’ Manoah means ‘complete rest.’ Put all of this together and you have come to the understanding that God came personally to judge the atrocities being meted on Israel, His sworn child of adoption. Christians are a holy nation like the Nazarite culmination of the birth of Samson. Nazarite means ‘holy, separate;’ and Samson is ‘sunlight.’ The Angel of the LORD, the preincarnational manifestation of the Christ, the Light of the world, called Himself ‘secret’ meaning ‘wonderful’, that immediately reminds one of Isaiah 9:6. Jesus will do everything to keep us safe. Bank on this; you will never lose! Never! Amen!

       Get born again. Say this simple prayer, believing it with all your heart. Say:

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!”

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The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering…

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6)            God’s palm of His caring purity took care of that Mosaic problem –of not beholding God. But he saw the eternal backside of the Majestic splendour. Ask Moses how it was, he will tell you, “Unforgettable!” If the sight of His back turned Moses into the likeness of a God such that the Israelites could not behold the visage of Moses, asking him to do something about it for: “behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him” [Exodus 34:30].

                “And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, 7) Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. 8) And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped” [Exodus 34:6-8]. Is this not the most dramatic scene of the entire Bible! This is not Hollywood. This is a case of an erratic entity, trying to apprehend eternality, and to contain the unimaginable overpowering stance of the eternal voice of the approaching Divinity.

YESHUA MESHIYACH

                Moses was not encountering the boastful jingoism of Adamic proclivity when the I AM THAT I AM passed by in the full resplendence of His empyreal essence. The words of His eternal lips weigh trillions of tons in the abstrusity of its incredulity yet quite true. How can the entirety of empyrean corporality be visibly brought to the realm of Adamic sinfulness? Mind boggling of its confusion was the state Moses found himself. It was like, “Moses, Moses, how could you have asked for this too much of too muchness?” Of truth is the Yoruba adage, t’ómodé bá dé’bi èrù, èrù á bàá, interpreted as “when a child gets to a place of fearfulness, he will experience fear.”

                Adam Clarke’s Commentary on the Bible does justice to this scenario: Clarke Exo 34:6 Verse 6. And the Lord passed by – and proclaimed, The Lord, c.] It would be much better to read this verse thus: “And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed JEHOVAH,” that is, showed Moses fully what was implied in this august name. Moses had requested God to show him his glory, (see the preceding chapter, Ex 33:18,) and God promised to proclaim or fully declare the name JEHOVAH, (Ex 33:19) by which proclamation or interpretation Moses should see how God would “be gracious to whom he would be gracious,” and how he would “be merciful to those to whom he would show mercy. Here therefore God fulfils that promise by proclaiming this name. It has long been a question, what is the meaning of the word יהוה JEHOVAH, Yehovah, Yehue, Yehveh, or Yeve, Jeue, Jao, Iao, Jhueh, and Jove; for it has been as variously pronounced as it has been differently interpreted. Some have maintained that it is utterly inexplicable; these of course have offered no mode of interpretation. Others say that it implies the essence of the Divine nature. Others, that it expresses the doctrine of the Trinity connected with the incarnation; the letter י yod standing for the Father, ה he for the Son, and ו vau (the connecting particle) for the Holy Spirit: and they add that the ה he being repeated in the word, signifies the human nature united to the Divine in the incarnation. These speculations are calculated to give very little satisfaction. How strange is it that none of these learned men have discovered that God himself interprets this name in Ex 34:6? “And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed יהוה YEHOVAH the LORD GOD, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty.” These words contain the proper interpretation of the venerable and glorious name JEHOVAH. But it will be necessary to consider them in detail.

The different names in this and the following verse have been considered as so many attributes of the Divine nature. Commentators divide them into eleven, thus: –

1. יהוה JEHOVAH.

2. אל EL, the strong or mighty God.

3. רחום RACHUM, the merciful Being, who is full of tenderness and compassion.

4. חנון CHANNUN, the gracious One; he whose nature is goodness itself; the loving God.

5. ארך אפים ERECH APPAYIM, long-suffering; the Being who, because of his goodness and tenderness, is not easily irritated, but suffers long and is kind.

6. רב RAB, the great or mighty One.

7. חסד CHESED, the bountiful Being; he who is exuberant in his beneficence.

8. אמת EMETH, the truth or true One; he alone who can neither deceive nor be deceived, who is the fountain of truth, and from whom all wisdom and knowledge must be derived.

9. נצר חסד NOTSER CHESED, the preserver of bountifulness; he whose beneficence never ends, keeping mercy for thousands of generations, showing compassion and mercy while the world endures.

10. נשא עון ופשע וחטאה NOSE avon vaphesha vechattaah, he who bears away iniquity and transgression and sin: properly, the REDEEMER, the Pardoner, the Forgiver; the Being whose prerogative alone it is to forgive sin and save the soul. ינקה(לו) נקה לא NAKKEH lo yenakkeh, the righteous Judge, who distributes justice with an impartial hand, with whom no innocent person can ever be condemned. And,

11. פקד עון POKED avon, c. he who visits iniquity, who punishes transgressors, and from whose justice no sinner can escape. The God of retributive and vindictive justice.

These eleven attributes, as they have been termed, are all included in the name JEHOVAH, and are, as we have before seen, the proper interpretation of it; but the meaning of several of these words has been variously understood.”

      Just imagine if this Personage should get angry with you and will not grant you eternal pardon of the born again Christian, who and where would you run to for salvation? Selah.

Get born again. Say this simple prayer, believing it with all your heart. Say:

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!”

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Who could have known that this young boy walked in the cool of Eden days?

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5)            Why worship the manifestation of the Divinity? They were told in the wilderness, “Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. 21) Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him” [Exodus 23:20-21]. Before then, in Exodus 14:19 “And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them:” is understood by them that the LORD and His manifestation are the Elohiym. The Spirit of God, no doubt, made them to use this particularity of ‘ı̂ysh in reference to their Visitant.

Manoah and his wife, prior to Samson.

                It dawned on them why they continue to choose ‘ı̂ysh among other forms of ‘man’: the One on visitation was He, who told Abraham, “Your children will be my children and I will be their God.” As their God, Jehovah is their Husband, by an oath of covenant. He called His name ‘secret’ simply because none but the Most High must perform wondrous miracles. He is pâlîy all because He is past finding out. They wanted to make Him honourable, who is the Lord of lords and the King of kings. Note that this angel of the LORD did not object to being offered a gift. The gift to prophets and priests are money and victuals to take care of body and soul. When it comes to the LORD God of Israel, it is a sacrifice (which the angel of the LORD accepted).

The LORD visited Manoah and his wife before the birth of Samson.

                This Visitant is the only One to receive sacrificial elements and when it was offered He rode on it to heaven, accepting the oblation. No scriptural angel accepts the object of immolation. So, you ask, “Why worship the manifestation of the Divinity?” The answer is found in no other place than the Bible. “And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the tabernacle, that all the people rose up, and stood every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the tabernacle. 9) And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses. 10) And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man in his tent door” [Exodus 33:8-10]. This is what they know and must do. Amen! The Eternal Father will hide Himself from Adamic gaze. That is very necessary, in order not to destroy, for sighting the slightest sin. Jesus Christ is the only One among the Trinity who must receive Adamic gaze, so that He will stand as the Saviour that He truly is. They worshipped the pre-incarnate manifestation of Jesus Christ. Praise the Lord.

I beseech thee, shew me thy glory

                What the ocular expression of Moses fell on was the most awe-inspiring phenomenality that has ever received an occurrence anywhere, anytime in the universe. “And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live. 21) And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock: 22) And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by: 23) And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen” [Exodus 33:20-23]. This is what prompted the divine granting of this request by Moses, found in Exodus 33:18, “And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.” Jehovah is a God of legality. He is the ultimate Judge. His judgment, posing a nature of eternality, those who will approach God the Father must be given an opportunity to seek spiritual regeneration. The first Adamic object of perception was his Creator, Christ, the LORD God, without whom there was not anything made that was brought into creation (John 1:3).

Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live

                They neither saw the Holy Spirit nor the First Member of the Godhead, the Father. But the object of the Mount Sinai ocular encounter of documentation was the very nature of the Divinity seated eternally on the empyreal throne! Christ Jesus is indeed one with the Father (John 10:30). To see the eternally probing visage of Christ in its true nature would have seen to the termination of the ministry of Moses. The first thing that the approaching LORD God did was to choose the place of engagement. Secondly, He used His tender holy hand to cover the sins of Moses and at the same time hide His judging face. His eternal visage is too much for human beholding; the anomalous tiniest bit of sin cannot survive the beholding of this eternality of purest sinlessness! It will most definitely stand in antagonism, unbeknown to the beholding anomaly. This Sinai phenomenon underscores the grace of the Divinity of Christ in His preincarnate manifestation. The divine palm of protection against the legality that would have destroyed Moses has four fingers plus a thumb: five –the number of grace. Moses did nothing to receive that protective grace. It was purely an act of divine sovereignty. Are we not saved by grace? Selah! 

Get born again. Say this simple prayer, believing it with all your heart. Say:

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!”

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Joshua, the captain of the LORD’s army would never bow in worship before an angel.

(…continued from part 3…)

4)            “And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?  14) And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?  15) And the captain of the LORD’s host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so” [Joshua 5:13-15].

                The children of Israel know it when the Lord, their God, makes an appearance. He had entered into a covenant with them. One of the Hebraic definition of ‘man’, ‘ı̂ysh (eesh), is: ‘male (in contrast to woman, female); husband; human being, person (in contrast to God); champion; great man.’ There are sixteen types of ‘man’ in Hebrew. This ‘ı̂ysh is one of the two -the other being ‘Ba’al’- which means ‘husband’. The personage Joshua saw as a ‘man’, of the thirteenth verse, happened to be the covenant Husband of Israel, ergo, the spiritual Owner and God of Joshua, and, of course, the entire Israel.

                Śar (sar), the Hebrew for the 14^th verse ‘captain’ means: ‘a head person (of any rank or class): – captain (that had rule), chief (captain), general, governor, keeper, lord.’ Joshua acknowledged this Captain as the Prince of peace. ‘Fell’ is the Hebraic nâphal (naw-fal’): ‘to fall prostrate, prostrate oneself before.’ Joshua’s prostration was a latria act. ‘Worship’ is shâchâh (shaw-khaw’): ‘to depress, that is, prostrate (especially reflexively in homage to royalty or God).’ It must be cognized that no true child of Israel will ever deign to bend in latria prostration before any being save his Jehovah. Jesus did not say, “I am known of my sheep,” for the fun of it. It is a truism.

 The Captain of the host of the host is the pre-incarnate manifestation of Christ

                Joshua remembered that Jehovah is a Man of war! That HE is the Leader of the angelic host of heaven was not lost to him. This was not Michael, Gabriel or any other luminous angel. The One before Joshua is none other than the One that cometh from Edom; with dyed garments from Bozrah! Joshua knew this Visitant was the One, “sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in” [Isaiah 40:22]. He could not even as much as breathe the shortest available argument, he went flat like the lizard on the ground, in holy adoration to the Great I AM, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty! Amen. Joshua is a witness to the goings forth of the Lord from heaven. Praise the Lord!

                The case of Manoah and his encounter with the angel of the LORD, borne out of God’s intention to remove his wife’s barrenness, is what we see in the Book of Judges chapter 13. Every ‘man’ (six of them) and of ‘husband’ (three in number) in this Judges 13 occurrence is the Hebraic ‘ı̂ysh; which speaks of the totality of man, in whose hands dwell the charge of things. He came to prove that He was not an ordinary angel. “And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour? 18) And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret” [Judges 13:17-18]? Let it be known that the Scriptures never allow an unnecessary honour to be given to angels.

The Jews know when they are faced with the manifestation of the LORD God –they bow in latria

                ‘Honour’ is kâbad or kâbêd (kaw-bad’) ‘to be heavy, be weighty.’ Why would this Visitant give His name as ‘secret’, the Hebrew of which can be either pil’ı̂y (pil-ee’) or pâlı̂y’ (paw-lee) and means: ‘wonderful, incomprehensible, extraordinary, remarkable.’ Pil’ı̂y or pâlîy comes from pâlâ (paw-law) ‘to separate, that is, distinguish (literally or figuratively); by implication to be (causatively make) great, difficult, wonderful.’ This is what transpired in verse 20, “For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.” This is what a typical Jew does when the manifestation of his LORD God comes to his ocular expression: a bow in latria.

Get born again. Say this simple prayer, believing it with all your heart. Say:

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!”

(…to be continued…)

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