God's mystery

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There he was, wandering into the desert, determined to get an answer from God even if it killed him. An angel feeds him and an approaching storm makes him take refuge in a cave that just so happens to be in front of Mt Horeb.
When he sees three manifestations of wrath, he holds his ground and waits for the answer he is waiting for.
His problem is that after the events at Mt Carmel, he doesn't know what his next step will be. When Jezabel's messenger finds him as soon as he arrives at Jezreel, he realizes that he had been under surveillance for the the last three years, and lacking a word from God, self-preservation became a priority.
The word and spirit are one. A ministery without a vision to guide his ministry is in serious trouble, as in the case of the message of Ezekiel, God has to make it clear that he provides the next step.
A small whisper changes everything...
Why a whisper? People whisper secrets.
The visions of judgement were something that Elijah knew, God doesn't have a problem with providing information on immediate plans, anything beyond that is on a need-to-know-basis.
Elijah needed to know that the actual process would take several generations to be fulfilled, making it necessary to have a succesor, that Hazael would punish Israel, that Jehu would destroy the house of Achab, his pagan temple and his priesthood, a process that as in the pains of labor therew would be ever-shorter reigns and dynasties until Israel is finally destroyed.
You then have an explanation for the verses that state "who is the man that has inhabited in the Lord's secret?" and "my purpose, my strange purpose"
God divulges bits and pieces of his overall plan within scripture. He never divulges the entire plan at one time. In the apocalypse, the last trumpet and three different announcements signalling the end of judgement all describe a non-chronological revelation of what the bible calls the mystery of God.
The mystery of God is the all-encompassing body of prophetic themes throughout the bible that are not addressed in other parts of the revelation. This is where God settles every last prophetic issue.
Many believers can relate to the sense of betrayal, to being led into the desert, to finding their answer in the desert, to being led back out of the desert. The believer can see in the Lord's mystery the consolation that comes from knowing that the day of reckoning will come and every issue will be addressed, that it will all result in receiving our reward at the end of time. The believer will know the smell of the desert and will know that God is ultimately in control.

 

[Ben12]

There he was, wandering into the desert, determined to get an answer from God even if it killed him. An angel feeds him and an approaching storm makes him take refuge in a cave that just so happens to be in front of Mt Horeb.
When he sees three manifestations of wrath, he holds his ground and waits for the answer he is waiting for.
His problem is that after the events at Mt Carmel, he doesn't know what his next step will be. When Jezabel's messenger finds him as soon as he arrives at Jezreel, he realizes that he had been under surveillance for the the last three years, and lacking a word from God, self-preservation became a priority.
The word and spirit are one. A ministery without a vision to guide his ministry is in serious trouble, as in the case of the message of Ezekiel, God has to make it clear that he provides the next step.
A small whisper changes everything...
Why a whisper? People whisper secrets.
The visions of judgement were something that Elijah knew, God doesn't have a problem with providing information on immediate plans, anything beyond that is on a need-to-know-basis.
Elijah needed to know that the actual process would take several generations to be fulfilled, making it necessary to have a succesor, that Hazael would punish Israel, that Jehu would destroy the house of Achab, his pagan temple and his priesthood, a process that as in the pains of labor therew would be ever-shorter reigns and dynasties until Israel is finally destroyed.
You then have an explanation for the verses that state "who is the man that has inhabited in the Lord's secret?" and "my purpose, my strange purpose"
God divulges bits and pieces of his overall plan within scripture. He never divulges the entire plan at one time. In the apocalypse, the last trumpet and three different announcements signalling the end of judgement all describe a non-chronological revelation of what the bible calls the mystery of God.
The mystery of God is the all-encompassing body of prophetic themes throughout the bible that are not addressed in other parts of the revelation. This is where God settles every last prophetic issue.
Many believers can relate to the sense of betrayal, to being led into the desert, to finding their answer in the desert, to being led back out of the desert. The believer can see in the Lord's mystery the consolation that comes from knowing that the day of reckoning will come and every issue will be addressed, that it will all result in receiving our reward at the end of time. The believer will know the smell of the desert and will know that God is ultimately in control.

The word mystery is written 27 times in the NT and means Sacred secret. Ray prinzing wrote a whole series on mysteries and can be found on the web.