THE
PROCESS OF OUR ETERNAL SALVATION IS EXEMPLIFIED IN
THREE
STAGES:
JUSTIFICATION, SANCTIFICATION,
GLORIFICATION
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(John 15:15)
Henceforth I call you [His disciples] not
servants [Gk: 1401 doulos;
a slaves]; for the servant
knoweth [Gk: understands] not what his lord doeth [i.e., the
Bible: John 1:14]: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have
heard of my Father I have made known [Gk: declared, given to understand) unto you.
JUSTIFICATION (the brasen altar)
(salvation)
(Judg 7:1-3)
Then Jerubbaal [Heb: contender with Baal], who is
Gideon [Heb: feller (warrior) /// to fell
a tree] [a type and shadow of Jesus
Christ], and all the people that
were with him [the 32,000 soldiers who
responded to Gideon’s clarion call (Judg 6:34); a type and shadow of
Christians
who come to church], rose up early,
and
pitched beside the well of Harod [Heb: fountain of trembling]: so that the host of the
Midianites [Heb: brawling, contentious,
discord, strife] [a type and shadow of all unsaved
men] were on the north side of
them, by the hill of Moreh [Heb: teaching] [a great lesson was
about to be taught for the benefit
of you and I], in the valley [“in the valley of decision” Joel
3:14]. And the LORD said unto Gideon,
The people that are with thee
are too many
for me to give the [victory over the] Midianites
into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves [Heb: boast, glorify themselves] against me,
saying, Mine own hand hath saved me. Now
therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever
is fearful and afraid [i.e., who do not trust God,
believe God for the victory], let him return
[to his home] and depart early from mount
Gilead [Heb: heap of testimony, mass
of witness, mound of stones] [a type and shadow of the brasen altar,
the cross,
stony ground]. And there returned
[home] of the people twenty and
two thousand [22,000 unsaved
soldiers who did not
trust, believe God for the victory]; and there remained ten
thousand [10,000 saved
soldiers who trusted, believed God].
SANCTIFICATION (the brasen laver)
(Judg 7:4-8) And the LORD said unto
Gideon, The people
[the 10,000 saved soldiers] are
yet too many; bring
them
down unto the water [a
type
and shadow of the Holy Spirit (that cleanses and edifies)], and I will try [Heb: to fuse (metal): refine, melt, purify] [Zech
13:7-9; 14:12] them for thee there:
and it shall be, that of whom
I
say unto thee, This shall go with thee [into combat against the Midianites], the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I
say unto thee, This
shall not go with thee, the same shall not go. So he brought
down the
people [the 10,000 saved
soldiers] unto the water [a running stream in the midst of the
valley]: and the LORD said unto
Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with
his tongue, as a
dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself [in one group];
likewise
[in another group] every one that boweth down upon his
knees
to drink. And the number of them that lapped,
putting their hand to
their mouth [being
“vigilant” (1 Pet 5:5), keeping
watch, their eyes on the enemy across the stream], were three hundred men
[300 saved soldiers]: but all
the
rest of the people [9,700
saved
soldiers] bowed down upon
their
knees to drink water
[indiscriminately
sucking it all up (good and bad) and thereby blinding themselves to the
life-threatening
enemy across the stream]. And the
LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men [300 saved soldiers]
that
lapped will I save you
[from the
unsaved Midianites], and deliver the
Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other
people [the
9,700 saved soldiers] go every man unto
his place [of service in
the
army]. (Judg 7:8) So
the [300]
people took victuals [Heb:
food] [donations] in their hand [Heb: power], and
their trumpets
[voice, the word of God]: and he
sent all the rest of Israel [the 9,700 soldiers]
every man unto his tent
[i.e., not to his home; once saved always saved],
[THE RAPTURE] and retained [Heb:
to fasten upon; hence to seize] [“caught up,” a type and
shadow of the rapture (1 Thes 4:17)]
those three hundred men [to
the tops of the surrounding high hills]:
and the host of Midian [the 135,000
unsaved warriors] was
beneath him
in the valley.
GLORIFICATION…
OF THE THREE
HUNDRED (inside the Tabernacle)
(Judg 7:16-18) And he [Gideon] divided
the three
hundred men into three
companies [representing
God the
Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, God the Man] [“as one man”
Judg 6:16], and he put a
trumpet [symbolizing a
loud voice proclaiming the
Word of God] in every man's hand [Heb: power],
with empty pitchers [Heb:
earthenware] [symbolizing empty earthly bodies],
and lamps [Heb:
flaming torches] [symbolizing the Holy Spirit]
within the pitchers. And he [Gideon,
(Jesus Christ in type)] said unto
them, Look on me, and do likewise [Mark 16:15]:
and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp
[for Christ Jesus is a Spirit and
will not enter into
(Mark 4:19) persons
by force], it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do [we are to emulate (copy) our Lord and
Savior]. When I blow with a trumpet,
I and all that are
with me,
then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon
[“For we are labourers together with God”
(1 Cor 3:9)]. (Judg
7:19-23)
So
Gideon, and the hundred men that were
with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning
of the
middle watch [10:00 pm]; and they had but newly set the watch [the newly arrived sentries were very
uptight and exceedingly jumpy]: and
they blew the trumpets, and brake the
pitchers that were
in their hands [accompanied by a
tremendous sudden thunderous crash
in the middle
of the night, totally exposing the dazzling
glorious light of the flaming torches, symbolizing the Holy
Spirit in each
of them that altogether instantly appear as a
brilliant blinding all encompassing “one”]. And the three companies blew the
trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held
the lamps [Heb: flaming
torches] in their left hands, and
the trumpets in
their right hands to blow withal [symbolizing the
breath of
God blowing through the chosen instruments of God (us)]: and they
cried, The
sword of the LORD, and of Gideon
[who was a willing instrument of
service]. And they stood
every man in his place [in
his
assigned place indicating order and obedience] round
about the camp [“Resist
the devil, and he will flee from you.” James 4:7]: and all the host ran, and cried, and
fled [in massive fear]. And the three hundred blew the trumpets [i.e., proclaimed the Word of God, this
phrase is repeated 3x for extreme emphasis],
and the LORD set every man's sword against
his fellow [in the black
night of blinding terror and
screaming foreign dialects (the three invading armies had become one)
they slew
each other; a type and shadow of global nuclear warfare], even throughout all the host:
and
the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abelmeholah, unto
Tabbath. And the men
of Israel [all of the unharmed 10,000 saved warriors] gathered themselves together
out of
Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and
pursued [crossing over
the river Jordan into the
wilderness] after the [remaining 15,000]
Midianites [into the Great
Tribulation].
THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE OF THE CHURCH
IS FIRST THE RAPTURE,
THEN GREAT TRIBULATION
(Judg 8:4-17) And Gideon
[Jesus Christ in type and shadow] came to Jordan [Heb:
(the) descender] [a type and shadow of the Holy Spirit], and
passed over
[from
“the good ground”Mat 13:23;Mark 4:20;Luke 8:15, i.e., The Promised
Land, a type
and shadow of Heaven, into the
wilderness], he, and the
three
hundred men that were
with
him, faint [Heb:
weary], yet pursuing
[Heb: hunting] [1] them [the 15,000
Midianite
warriors] [Jer 16:16]. And he said unto the men
of
Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread
unto the people that
follow me; for they be faint,
and I am pursuing after Zebah [Heb:
sacrifice] and Zalmunna
[Heb: withheld], kings of Midian. And the
princes of Succoth said, Are
the hands [Heb: power] of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand,
that we should give
bread unto thine army? And Gideon said [to the men of Succoth who were living outside (physically and spiritually) the
Promised Land “among
thorns” Mat 13:22;Mark 4:18,19;Luke 8:14],
Therefore when the LORD hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into
mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the
wilderness and
with briers. And he went up thence to Penuel [Heb: the face of God] [watching], and spake unto them likewise:
and the men of Penuel
answered him as the men of Succoth had answered him. And he
spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again
in peace, I
will break down this tower
[Heb:
castle, pulpit] [made of stone, “stony places” Mat 13:20,21;Mark
4:16,17;Luke
8:13]. Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with
them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts
of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and
twenty thousand
men that drew sword. And Gideon went up by the way of them
that dwelt in
tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote [Heb: wounded] the
host: for the host was [thought
themselves] secure
[Heb: safe].
And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them, and
took
the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited [Heb: (caused them) to shudder with terror] all the host. And Gideon the
son of
Joash returned from battle before the sun was up, And caught a young
man of the men of Succoth, and
enquired of him: and he described unto him the
princes of Succoth, and
the elders thereof, even
threescore and seventeen men
[77]. And he came unto the men of
Succoth, and
said, Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, with whom ye
did upbraid
[Heb: carp at, defy, reproach, (taunt)]
me, saying, Are the hands [Heb: power] of
Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we
should give
bread unto thy men that are
weary? And he took the elders of the city, and
thorns of the
wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the
men of Succoth. [And
then, he returned to Penuel] And
he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men
of the city [2].
1.
(Jer
16:16) Behold, I will send for many fishers [us],
saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and
after will I send for many
hunters [the raptured,
resurrected us], and they
shall
hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the
holes of the
rocks.
2.
(1 Pet 4:17)
For the time is come
that judgment
must begin at the house of God [i.e.,
Succoth, and then Penuel]: and if it
first begin at us, what shall the end be
of them that obey not the gospel of God?
Amen