What happens when we overstep that which God has called us to do? For Moses it cost him entrance into the rest in the new land. It was demonstrated in the bible as taking a stick to the rock (that is Christ) instead of just speaking that which God had instructed. IOW, he put his own spin from his own understanding and created confusion (chaos)
Let’s look at another example of where Moses put his own spin on things. The mighty men of renown complained against Moses, declaring that they were all His peculiar people, a Congregation of Holy People.
But first let’s look at the cornerstone of creating, forming and doing. Creation is from nothing. Forming is giving potential to the created, still hidden from view, while doing is the completion of what has been formed; the healing or removing of that which is not inherently in the nature of that which is created. (The potter working the clay to bring out all the clay’s potential for instance)
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create hardship; I the Lord do all these things. 43:7 Even everyone who is called by my name; for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him and I have made him. 42:5 Thus says the Lord God, who created the heavens and stretched them out, He who spread forth the earth and all that is in it, He who ‘gives’ breath (understanding) to the people upon it, and spirit to those who walk therein
God has saved us to be His witnesses but only when there is no strange god to contend with, Christ being truth Isaiah 43:10-13 Truth was standing in front of Pilate and the nation that stubbornly refused Him. Matthew 13:35, Jeremiah 33:3, Isaiah 6:9-10 They had closed their eyes to the truth. Their hearts were darkened …. if they would but return to Him then He would heal Ephesians 4:17-24
False witness abounds and we can learn a lesson from Moses as to what prohibits our entrance into the courts of God, where only praise can be heard.
This is an interesting sidetone along the way
The Journey from head to heart is a “3 day” journey but it’s the journey from death to ascension.
“Now let us take a three-day journey into the desert to offer sacrifices to the LORD our God”
The sacrifice is praise. Finding that place of worship may be a bleak journey where spiritual water is scarce found.
“Then Moses led Israel to journey away from the Red Sea. They went out to the wilderness of Shur, walked for three days into the wilderness, and found no water. “
Yet the rock spoken to followed them into and beyond the promised land.
“Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days”
Praise was heard in the temple again.
Knowledge of that which is there for an example, when examined to bring forth praise, is a wise endeavour. God knows.
“For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.“
No one said it would be easy. The bible just says it will be worth it.
In Scripture the number three signifies completeness or perfection and points to what is solid, real, and substantial.
Worship is the reason that God brought them forth from out of Egypt to follow Him.
We too ought to endeavour to get beyond the blindness. Seeing Jesus as He is … has been known to produce that effect. The effect that Paul experienced prompted most of the epistles so lots to glean from there also as another example to move forward with. Praise God!
In witnessing only that which is good for His Name’s sake is acceptable to be a righteous witness. Jesus gave only the gift of the pure word. Matthew 13:11 VS Leviticus 19:14-15, Exodus 23:1-3,6 But we are at that stage where to expect anything less is too trivial to mention.
Moses had learned that He was deputy authority in the wilderness wanderings because he met with God face-to-face rather than as just a prophet of dreams etc. Jesus counteracted that notion when God placed Him over everything ‘Listen to Him’ while the priests had to declare clean what could only be performed miraculously. It is written.
But Moses, struck the rock twice. The mighty men of renown complained against Moses, declaring that they were all His peculiar people, a Congregation of Holy People. Numbers 16:2-3 Moses brought them to a challenge by telling them to come up so the Lord would show who is boss.
This is what the Lord said “Keep away from their tents” IOW, do not be unequally yoked with those who attempt to oppose the Lord. How much scripture can we find to support that truth! “Depart from the tents of these sinful men and touch nothing of theirs” “Lest you be consumed with the same sin” Numbers 16:23-26 SPEAK TO THE ROCK! Sanctify yourselves! Numbers 16:26
Let’s look at what Moses added to that ~~~ claiming not to have done anything from his own mind no less ~~~
Numbers 16:28-30
28 And Moses said: “By this you shall know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works, for I have not done them of my own will. 29 If these men die naturally like all men, or if they are visited by the common fate of all men, then the Lord has not sent me. 30 But if the Lord creates a new thing, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the pit, then you will understand that these men have rejected the Lord.”
When I read that I just said “wow”
Which is pretty much what the congregation said too!
Numbers 16:41
41 On the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You have killed the people of the Lord.”
Does God have anyone but Christ as truth that we are to listen to? Read Hebrews 1 (not written by Paul imho) We are here as witnesses. Whether we be false or true is really up to us. We are neither blinded nor veiled.
Isaiah 55:4, Isaiah 43:10-13