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Job 10:12. You have granted me life and favor, and your visitation
has preserved my spirit.
The word visitation-pekuddah (H6486) from pakad (H6485)-to visit,
provides a basis for understanding the nature of covenant promises
and the hope of prophecy.
The Israelites for 400 years in Egypt clung to this prophetic word from Joseph:
Genesis 50:25. And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel saying God
will surely visit you and you shall carry up my bones from here.
This covenant oath and promise between Joseph and his descendants continued
as a memorial and became the words used by God to introduce Moses as their deliverer.
The fulfillment of this promise becomes a remembrance of God and is prominent in the narrative.
Exodus 3:16. Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say unto them..
..”I have surely visited you and that which is done to you in Egypt."
Exodus 4:31. And the people believed and when they heard that the Lord had
visited the children of Israel and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they
bowed their heads and worshiped.
Exodus 13:19. And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him for he had placed the
children of Israel under solemn oath saying “God will surely visit you and you shall
carry up my bones from here with you.”
A deeper understanding of this word is necessary to grasp the statement “your
visitation has preserved my spirit” in Job 10:12.
Pakad appears 90 times in the book Numbers, and is the basis for the title in English.
The first four chapters of Numbers recounts a series of censuses that God commanded
Moses and Aaron to make of the congregation of Israel.
Numbers 1:2 & 3. Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel
after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of names, every
male by their polls. From twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go
forth to war in Israel you and Aaron shall number them by their armies.
Verse two describes a numerical count (take the sum) and means a head count;
“by their polls” literally means “by their skulls”. Verse three uses the word pakad
“number them by their armies”.
So what is the relationship between “to visit” and “to number” when the word pakad
appears? Pakad actually means to make an assessment, to observe to determine
your physical, mental and spiritual state.
The key here is the phrase “that are able to go forth to war”. This is more than a head
count, but also an assessment. And so in Exodus 4:31 “He looked upon their affliction”,
the visitation is concerned with the spiritual and physical state of being.
This correct understanding of “to number or to visit” forms the basis for both ministry
and fellowship.
James 1:27. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit the
fatherless and widows in their affliction to remain unspotted from the world.
This verse doesn’t limit ministry to widows and orphans, the emphasis is upon all who are
afflicted with these two as prominent examples. Visitation also defines the role of leadership
in the church.
Matthew 24:45. Who then is a faithful and wise servant whom his lord has made ruler
(more correct is caretaker) over his household (congregation) to give them meat
[spiritual sustenance-- “I have meat you know not of... -John 4:32-34] in due season.
(as the need arises)
Ministering to the saints is a visitation to preserve the spirit of the church.
In the Greek, this is the word used for bishop/overseer, and is the "faithful
and wise servant that the Lord speaks of in Matthew 24:45, and applicable
to any head of a household or congregation.
1 Timothy 3:
1 This is a faithful saying: If a man desires the position of a bishop, he desires a good work.
2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach;
3 not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
4 one who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence
5 (for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the
church of God?);
6 not a novice, lest being puffed up with pride he fall into the same condemnation
as the devil.
7 Moreover he must have a good testimony among those who are outside, lest he
fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
has preserved my spirit.
The word visitation-pekuddah (H6486) from pakad (H6485)-to visit,
provides a basis for understanding the nature of covenant promises
and the hope of prophecy.
The Israelites for 400 years in Egypt clung to this prophetic word from Joseph:
Genesis 50:25. And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel saying God
will surely visit you and you shall carry up my bones from here.
This covenant oath and promise between Joseph and his descendants continued
as a memorial and became the words used by God to introduce Moses as their deliverer.
The fulfillment of this promise becomes a remembrance of God and is prominent in the narrative.
Exodus 3:16. Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say unto them..
..”I have surely visited you and that which is done to you in Egypt."
Exodus 4:31. And the people believed and when they heard that the Lord had
visited the children of Israel and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they
bowed their heads and worshiped.
Exodus 13:19. And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him for he had placed the
children of Israel under solemn oath saying “God will surely visit you and you shall
carry up my bones from here with you.”
A deeper understanding of this word is necessary to grasp the statement “your
visitation has preserved my spirit” in Job 10:12.
Pakad appears 90 times in the book Numbers, and is the basis for the title in English.
The first four chapters of Numbers recounts a series of censuses that God commanded
Moses and Aaron to make of the congregation of Israel.
Numbers 1:2 & 3. Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel
after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of names, every
male by their polls. From twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go
forth to war in Israel you and Aaron shall number them by their armies.
Verse two describes a numerical count (take the sum) and means a head count;
“by their polls” literally means “by their skulls”. Verse three uses the word pakad
“number them by their armies”.
So what is the relationship between “to visit” and “to number” when the word pakad
appears? Pakad actually means to make an assessment, to observe to determine
your physical, mental and spiritual state.
The key here is the phrase “that are able to go forth to war”. This is more than a head
count, but also an assessment. And so in Exodus 4:31 “He looked upon their affliction”,
the visitation is concerned with the spiritual and physical state of being.
This correct understanding of “to number or to visit” forms the basis for both ministry
and fellowship.
James 1:27. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit the
fatherless and widows in their affliction to remain unspotted from the world.
This verse doesn’t limit ministry to widows and orphans, the emphasis is upon all who are
afflicted with these two as prominent examples. Visitation also defines the role of leadership
in the church.
Matthew 24:45. Who then is a faithful and wise servant whom his lord has made ruler
(more correct is caretaker) over his household (congregation) to give them meat
[spiritual sustenance-- “I have meat you know not of... -John 4:32-34] in due season.
(as the need arises)
Ministering to the saints is a visitation to preserve the spirit of the church.
In the Greek, this is the word used for bishop/overseer, and is the "faithful
and wise servant that the Lord speaks of in Matthew 24:45, and applicable
to any head of a household or congregation.
1 Timothy 3:
1 This is a faithful saying: If a man desires the position of a bishop, he desires a good work.
2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach;
3 not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
4 one who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence
5 (for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the
church of God?);
6 not a novice, lest being puffed up with pride he fall into the same condemnation
as the devil.
7 Moreover he must have a good testimony among those who are outside, lest he
fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
