I
AM A CLOTHED THOUGHT OF GOD, BORN-AGAIN
04-10-22
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THE
PROPHECY
(Gen
1:1) In
the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. (Gen 1:2)
And the
earth was without form [Heb: a waste; fig. a
worthless thing; vain: confusion] [a worthless
thing to
whom?], and void [Heb: empty; an
undistinguishable ruin];
and darkness [Heb: the dark: fig. misery, destruction,
death,
ignorance, sorrow, wickedness] was upon the face
[(anthropomorphism)]
of the deep [Heb: an abyss (as a surging mass
of (dark)
water)]. And the Spirit of God moved upon the
face of the
waters. (Gen 1:3) And God said, Let there be light
[Heb:
illumination (including happiness)]: and there was light
[brought
forth (birthed) from out of the “darkness”].
1.
(John
8:12) Then spake Jesus
again unto them, saying, I am the light [illumination
(including happiness)]
[brilliant radiance] of the world [Gk: kosmos;
“cosmos”
(universe)] [Gen 1:3]: he that followeth me shall not walk
in
darkness [fig. misery, destruction, death,
ignorance, sorrow,
wickedness], but shall have the light
[illumination, (including
happiness),] of life.
2.
(1
Peter 2:9) But ye are a
chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar
[Gk:
an acquisition: purchased, possession] people; that ye
should shew
forth [Gk: publish, celebrate] the praises of him who
hath
called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: [Will
you respond to that call and come forth, or stay in the womb of
darkness?]
THE
PRESENT
(Exo
3:9,10)
Now therefore, behold, the cry [Heb: shriek] [screams]
of
the children of Israel [living in the Egyptian land of
Goshen, a
type and shadow of the United States (a good place), but living within
the confines of the world (a bad place)] is come unto me:
and I
have also seen the oppression [Heb: distress:
affliction /// to
press(ure): crush, force, hold fast] [troubles, tribulations]
wherewith the Egyptians [Heb: in the sense of limiting
(others)] [Egypt was then a type and shadow of “darkness”
(Gen
1:2) of all unsaved people] oppress them. Come now
therefore, and I will send thee [Moses] unto
Pharaoh
[the ruler of all the known world at that time, in effect, Satan, “the
god of
this world” (2 Cor 4:4)], that thou mayest bring forth [birth]
my people the children of Israel [Heb: he will
rule as
God] out of Egypt [symbolically birth them,
“bring forth”
them out of the land of unsaved “darkness.” Altogether, a type
and
shadow of being “born-again”].
THE
PROCESS
(Exo
4:1-5) And
Moses [Heb: drawn out (of the water), rescued] [drawn
out of the dark “the deep… the waters” (Gen 1:2)] [1]
answered
[God] and said, But, behold, they will not believe me
[Heb:
(be) firm or faithful, trust], nor hearken unto my voice
[Heb:
to hear intelligently: consider, listen, obey, perceive, understand]:
for they will say, The LORD hath not appeared
[manifested Himself,
revealed Himself (in revelations)] unto thee. And
the LORD
said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A
rod
[A shepherd’s rod. (Whose rod was it?)] [2]. And he [the
LORD]
said, Cast it on the ground [paralleling the action of
God as He did
cast the sinning Lucifer (who perverted God’s Thoughts) and
his
evil rebellious angels on the ground (earth)]. And he [Moses]
cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent [it
became Lucifer-Satan,
i.e., the spirit of sin] [3]; and Moses [recognized
it and acknowledged it, and] fled from before it
[i.e., Moses literally “saw” the sin/snake that was inside him now
externalized and visible outside of himself, and Moses immediately discerned
that it was evil] [4]. And the LORD said unto Moses, Put
forth thine
hand [Heb: power] [(a command)], and take it
[Heb: seize it: fasten (upon it), get possession (of it)] [i.e., YOU
have to DO something] by the tail. And he [Moses,
who
is an impowered instrument (servant) of God obediently] put
forth his hand [exercised his power], and caught
it
[Heb: seized, caught (it)] [5], and it
[his sinful Lucifer-Satan
influencing thoughts (devils, demons, unclean spirits, fallen
angels)
became [collectively] a rod [of
powerful spirits]
in his hand [Heb:(great) power] [6]: That
they may believe [Heb: (be) firm or faithful, trust] that
the
LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and
the God of
Jacob, hath appeared [manifested Himself,
revealed Himself
(in revelations)] unto thee. [7]
1.
(Matt
3:16) And Jesus, when he was baptized [Gk:
to make
whelmed (fully wet): washed] [“with the washing of water by the word”
(Gk:
rhema; revelations) Eph 5:26], went up straightway out of
the water
[Gen 1:3]: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him,
and he saw the
Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:
2.
rod
= Heb: a branch [of wood, of a tree (Psa 1:1-3)] (as
extending); fig. a
tribe; also a rod, whether for chastising (fig. correction), ruling (a
sceptre), throwing (a lance), or walking (a staff; fig. a support of
life).
3.
serpent
=
Heb: a snake (from its hiss) /// properly to hiss, that is, whisper a
(magic)
spell: divine, enchanter, (use) enchantment [syn: charm,
attraction,
delight, fascination, allure, magic] [i.e., hypnotism,
mesmerism,
suggestion, as employed in propaganda]
4.
(James
1:21,22) Wherefore lay
apart [separate from yourself as Moses did from
himself] all filthiness [Gk: (moral) dirtiness]
and
superfluity [Gk: superabundance] of
naughtiness [Gk:
badness, depravity: evil, malice, wickedness] [i.e., by discerning the
difference between good and evil (unlike Adam and Eve)], and
receive with
meekness [Gk: mildness, humility] the engrafted
[Gk:
implanted] word [Gk: logos; something said
(including the
thought)] [i.e., the (logos) seed], which is able to save
[Gk:
heal, preserve, make whole] your souls. But be
ye doers
of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving
[Gk:
deluding: to beguile] your own selves.
5.
Commentary:
“and caught it”
= Moses seized the sinful Lucifer-Satan thoughts
(devils, demons,
unclean spirits, fallen angels) (ref.
“Who maketh his
angels spirits” Psa 104:4; Heb 1:7) bringing them
collectively together
into a “strong hold” under his command (they are the rod
of his
power), into captivity by exercising his own self-control
(i.e., “temperance” Gal 5:23) and they (the devils) became fully
obedient
to Christ (Gk: the anointing) of Moses.
a.
(2 Cor 10:4-6) (For the weapons
of our warfare are not carnal [Gk:
fleshly], but mighty through God to the pulling
down [Gk:
demolition] of strong holds [Gk:
fortifications; castles (fig. arguments)];) Casting down imaginations [Gk:
thoughts], and every high thing that exalteth
itself [Gk:
raises
up] against the knowledge of God,
and bringing into captivity every thought [i.e.,
every fallen angel] to the obedience of
Christ; And having in a readiness to revenge all
disobedience, when
your obedience is fulfilled [i.e.,
when Moses obeyed, he achieved].
6.
Commentary:
“a rod in his hand”
= accomplishing ten miracles within Pharaoh’s (a type and
shadow of
Lucifer-Satan) Egypt (a type and shadow of the then known world), and parting
the waters, “the way” to heaven by symbolically opening the Bible
of the
Red (Heb: reed, espec. the papyrus) sea and walking
across
(treading oneself mentally, i.e., spiritually) into the
Promised
Land (a type and shadow of salvation).
7.
(Rev
12:5) And she
[the
church]
brought
forth a man [Gk:
male] child, who
was to rule all nations with a rod
of iron [which
is the cumulatively “transformed” (Rom 12:2) wooden rod
of Moses
from “forgiveness” (wood) into “judgment” (iron)]: and her
child was caught up [Gk:
seized: plucked (up), taken by force] [i.e.,
raptured: (Gen 19:16; Judg 7:8; 1 Thes 4:17)] unto
God, and to his throne.
THE
VICTORY
Amen