THE ANGELS WERE WOUNDED WITH
BLINDNESS
(THE ABSENCE OF PERCEPTION)
05-10-20 This message may be
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God is Thought. The brightness
of our revelations depends upon the correctness of our
doctrines, our building blocks, our Godly Thoughts laid
one upon
another, ascending into the mind of Christ.
(Psa
91:9-12) Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge [Heb:
shelter: hope], even the most High, thy habitation; There
shall no
evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy
dwelling. For
he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy
ways.
They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against
a stone
[and stumble, trip, and fall].
(2
Kings 6:8-10) Then the king of Syria warred against Israel
[Heb:
he will rule as God], and took counsel with his servants,
saying, In
such and such a place shall be my camp [so he encamped
his army
there]. And the man of God [Elisha] sent [a
message] unto the king of Israel, saying, Beware
that thou
pass not such a place; for thither the Syrians are come
down [i.e.,
are waiting and have set an ambush]. And the king of Israel sent
to the
place [a message to the small band of soldiers of his army
already
stationed there] which the man of God told him and warned
him
of, and saved himself [i.e., saved himself from
defeat, i.e.,
he saved the greater bulk of his army from being ambushed] there,
[and this happened] not once nor twice [but
often,
and in other places too].
(2
Kings 6:11-14) Therefore the heart
[Heb: mind] of the king of Syria was sore troubled
[Heb:
tossed about with a tempest (a whirlwind)] for this thing;
and he
called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye not shew me which
of
us [has betrayed me and] is [spying]
for the
king of Israel? And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O
king: but
Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of
Israel the
words that thou speakest in [the privacy of] thy
bedchamber [inferring his dreams]. And he [the
king]
said, Go and spy where he is, that I may send [soldiers]
and
fetch [Heb: take: carry away, seize] him.
And it was
told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan. Therefore sent he [the
king] thither horses, and chariots, and a
great host
[a great army of foot-soldiers]: and they came by
night,
and compassed the city about.
1.
(Psa
78:49) He cast upon
them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by
sending evil angels among them.
2.
(Rev
12:4) And his [the
dragon’s, Lucifer-Satan] tail drew the third part
of the
stars [angels] of heaven, and did cast them
to the earth:
and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered,
for to
devour her child as soon as it was born.
(2
Kings 6:15,16) And when the servant of the man of God [Elisha]
was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host
compassed the
city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas,
my master! how shall we do? And he [Elisha]
answered, Fear
not [62x, be not afraid 28x]: for they
[soldiers-angels] that be with us are more than they [soldiers-angels]
that be with them.
1.
(Psa
34:7) The angel of
the LORD encampeth round about [Heb: encompasses]
them
that fear him [Heb: are morally reverent], and
delivereth them.
(2
Kings 6:17-19) And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray
thee, open
his eyes, that he may see [the spiritual world].
And
the LORD opened the eyes of the young man [servant];
and
he saw [spritually]: and, behold, the
mountain was
full of [formerly invisible] horses and chariots
of fire
[(Holy) power] round about Elisha [defending
Elisha].
And when they [the host of the Syrian army] came
down
to him [attacked], Elisha prayed unto the
LORD, and
said, Smite [Heb: strike: wound, kill] this
people,
I pray thee, with blindness. And he [the LORD]
smote
[Heb: strike: wounded] them with blindness
according to the
word of Elisha. And Elisha said unto them [while not
confessing his own
name], This is not the way [Heb: the road] [(to
Heaven)],
neither is this the city [(of Heaven, New Jerusalem)]:
follow
me [(quietly in peace)], and I will bring you to
the man whom
ye seek [who was not really Elisha the prophet, but the
opposing king
of Israel, the commander of the opposing army, who himself is
spiritualy a type
and shadow of Jesus Christ]. But he [Elisha] led
them [the
blinded fallen angels who are lost sinners 14 miles] to Samaria.
1.
Commentary:
Samaria
was both a region and a city. Notable for believing the Samaritan
Pentateuch
which was an imperfect and thus an abhorrent repugnant repulsive
version of the
first five books of the Old Testament (analogous to the many versions
of the
KJV Bible). Samaria was strongly condemned for its wickedness,
idolatry,
immorality, idle luxury, and oppression of the poor (Hos 7:1; 8:5-7).
It was a
type and shadow of this world.
(2
Kings 6:20-23) And it came to pass, when they were come into
Samaria,
that Elisha said, LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they
may see.
And the LORD opened their eyes, and they saw [naturally,
quite like the fallen angels, i.e., like the unsaved of us];
and,
behold, they were in the midst of Samaria [a worldly
religious
version of Heaven]. And the king of Israel [a
type and
shadow of Jesus Christ] said unto Elisha [a type
and
shadow of God in us], when he saw them, My father [a
type
and shadow of God in us], shall I smite [Heb:
kill]
them? shall I smite [kill] them? And he [Elisha-God
in us] answered, Thou shalt not smite [kill]
them:
wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy
sword
[the word of God] and with thy bow [the
arrows =
words of God]? set bread [a symbol of Jesus
Christ]
and water [a symbol of the Holy Spirit] before
them
[together equaling the Bible, as we do here at our Rescue
Mission],
that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.
And he [the
king of Israel, now a type and shadow of Jesus Christ] prepared great
provision [i.e., the Bible] for them: and when
[after]
they had eaten and drunk [they had been preached to,
taught and
learned], he sent them away [as missionaries], and
they
went to their master [and who was their master now?].
So the
bands of Syria [i.e., lost sinners] came
[invaded] no
more into the land of Israel.
Amen