GOD
IS THE PILLAR OF CLOUD, THE PILLAR OF FIRE,
AND
THE PILLAR OF THE UNIVERSE
08-07-22
This message may be viewed live
streaming video at youtube.com and tabernacleofmoses.org today Sunday
at 11:00
am, and repeated 24/7 thereafter. The video, audio, and study notes are
archived.
PHYSICAL
(Exo
13:17,18)
And it came to pass, when Pharaoh
[1]
had let the people go [a type and shadow of the
Israelite
slaves being “born again” (John 3:3); emerging from the womb of Egypt],
that God [“the invisible God” (Col 1:15 & 1
Tim 17)] led
[Heb: guided] them not through the way [Heb: a
road (as
trodden); fig. a course of life or mode of action] of the land of
the
Philistines [Heb: rolling, migratory /// roll (wallow)
self] [like
swine, like pigs, versus like “husbandmen” (John 15:1),
i.e.,
like stable everlasting farmers, married to the land],
although that
was near [a (geographically) short, quick route to the
Promised
Land, but heavy laden with certain hostile and dangerous conflict];
for God said, Lest peradventure [unless] the people repent
[should cease believing “faith” and start believing “fear”]
when
they see war [Heb: fighting; battle, (warfare)], and they return to Egypt [2]: But
God [“the invisible God”] led the people about
[Heb: round about], through the way [Heb: a road
(as
trodden); fig. a course of life or mode of action] of the wilderness
of the Red [Egyptian: reed, especially the
papyrus]
sea [symbolically, through the way of the written Word of
God]:
and the children of Israel went up harnessed [Heb:
staunch, able
bodied soldiers] out of the land of
Egypt
[i.e., altogether a type and shadow of being “born again” (John
3:3)].
1.
Commentary:
“Pharaoh” = the
unsaved King of Egypt who was a type and shadow of Satan
(“the
god of this world” 2 Cor 4:4) ruling the known world at that time;
Egypt
symbolized the land of the unsaved.
Now the United States of America is/was the ruling nation of the known
world.
2.
(Mark
4:16,17) And these [persons] are they likewise [i.e., likewise to
suffer the same
fate as those just previous persons “sown by the way side” v.15]
which
are sown on stony [i,e., hard hearted] ground;
who,
when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness
[“which
for a while believe” (Luke 8:13)]; and
have
no root [Jesus Christ
said “I
am the root” (Rev 22:16)] in
themselves,
and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or
persecution
ariseth for the word's sake [i.e., for their belief
system],
immediately they are offended [“fall
away” Gk: remove, revolt, desert: withdraw self].
a.
Commentary:
“and they return to Egypt” = they return to the land of the
unsaved, paralleling the actions of 22,000 of the 32,000 soldiers
that assembled
into Gideon’s army who did not believe God for the
victory when
God had said to the 32,000 “Whosoever is fearful and afraid,
let him
return” (Judg 7:3), and 22,000 returned unsaved
to
their homes, i.e., they assembled into church, disbelieved
God, and left church.
SPIRITUAL
(Exo
13:19-22)
And Moses [Heb:
drawn out (of the water), rescued] [Gen 1:2; Eph 5:26, i.e., rescued
from the “darkness” (Gen 1:2 in
Hebrew)
of the dark water of the corrupted polluted
defiled Word of God, i.e., “born again” John
3:3; a new beginning] [1] took the
bones of Joseph [Heb:
let him add (adding)] with
him: for
he [Joesph]
had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely
visit you
[Gen 50:25]; and
ye shall carry up
[Heb: ascend (with)] my bones
[symbolically,
with the Law]
away hence
with you [to
ascend with you] [2]. And
they took their journey from Succoth [Heb:
tents],
and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness. And the LORD
went before
them by day in a pillar
[Heb: a column (as standing)] [on the earth reaching to Heaven, like
Jacob’s
ladder (Gen 28:12)] of a cloud
[composed
of condensed water, i.e.,
condensed words of God (Eph 5:26), raindrops, which rain
down
upon us like scattered seeds (“The seed is the word of God” Luke 8:11)],
to lead [Heb:
guide]
them [us
on] the
way [Heb: a
road (as trodden); fig. a course of life or mode of action] [to Heaven];
and by night in a pillar [Heb:
a column (as standing)] [on the earth reaching to Heaven] of
fire [Heb:
burning: flaming],
to give them light [Heb:
(make)
luminous (illuminate): (make) glorious, set on fire, shine];
to go by day and night: He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the
pillar of fire by night, from before [from
in front of] the
people [3].
1.
(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,
desolation;
fig. a worthless thing: confusion, vanity, wilderness], and
void [Heb: empty; an undistinguishable ruin]; and darkness [Heb: the dark; fig.
misery,
destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness] was upon the face [(anthropomorphism)] [a]
of
the deep [Heb: an abyss (as a surging mass of 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 (in every sense including happiness)]: and
there was light
[i.e., the archetype of Jesus Christ coming (being birthed) out
of
darkness].
a.
anthropomorphism:
Dict. = the attributing of human
shape or characteristics to a god, animal, or inanimate thing.
2.
Commentary:
“Joseph” = an
apparently “perfect” type and shadow of Jesus Christ wherein “A bone (i.e., a Law) of
him (Jesus Christ) shall not
be broken”
John 19:36b. “A bone of him…” is symbolized in the physical
structure
(the bones, the skeleton) of the body of Jesus Christ depicted
as the tabernacle of Moses (“the tabernacle of God” Rev 21:3)
which Law was later
prophetically dressed with flesh
and breath in “the valley which was full of bones” (Ezek 37:1-14).
3.
Commentary:
“fire” = producing illumination
(physical
and mental), ultimately intense light (REVELATIONS) in the “darkness”
(Gen 1:2 in Hebrew) of
this world, like a laser beam (acronym = Light
Amplification
by Stimulated Emission Radiation),
first
exposing and then burning (consuming) all of Satan’s false
thoughts
(God is
True Thought) as
pieces of wood (earthly) for the fire (Godly).
a.
(Heb:
12:29) For our God is a consuming fire.
b.
(John
8:12) Then spake Jesus again unto
them,
saying, I am the light [Gk:
(to shine or make manifest, especially by rays); luminousness: fire]
of the
world
[Gk:
kosmos; “cosmos” (universe)]:
he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness [Heb:
fig. misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness (Gen
1:2)],
but shall have the light of [eternal]
life.
i.
Commentary:
eternal life with eternal Love,
“God is love” (1
John 4:8,16), i.e., true love is “a consuming fire” (Deut
4:24, 9:3; Heb 12:29), true
love “is quick and powerful” (Heb: 4:12), true
love
is alive and changes things.
Amen