1 And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The LORD hath not appeared unto thee.
2 And the LORD said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod.
3 And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.
4 And the LORD said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:
5 That they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.
6 And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.
7 And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.
8 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.
9 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land.
10 And Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
11 And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?
12 Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.
It is a shame that the modern church has determined that the Law of YHWH and the grace and truth of YHWH are in some way opposed. The determination of men’s flesh to “DO” the things in the Law to either prove or attain to goodness and worth in the eyes of men or God should not detour the believer from seeing that the Law is in truth a teaching and promise of what YHWH will make us into if we put our love, dependence, trust, and expectancy completely in Him.
I am writing about Moses not the Law; yet the man and his ministry as the law giver are so tied together that our misunderstanding of one leads to a reduction of the other.
This is a horrible thing since one cannot belittle the word of God recorded by Moses without making the living Word less. The things said by Jesus should clue us in on just how important a part YHWH gave to this man.
Consider the way in which Gods word came to this man. God told Noah to build an arc, Abraham had seen His fiery presence make covenant and heard His voice, the forefathers before, the prophets and apostles after had visions and dreams but Moses stood in the midst of the burning mountain, YHWH the Elohim spoke to him face to face, he saw with his eyes the glory of God from the back. No other man born from Adams seed had before or since been so saturated by Gods word and breath and presence. So saturated by God that the glory of God emanated from him, causing the people to put a veil over his face for fear of loosing their own life.
Many who hold Paul as the greatest example of a christian would place these two teachers in opposition, but this is a great error. As to the flesh they were very much alike and their message to us was the same. In fact Paul is pretty much giving the gentile church a commentary on the teachings of Moses. After all if both men are writing the word of God they cannot be opposed...common sense right.
The problem is in our flesh (the life we have received from Adam) YHWH gave Moses a description of who He is and that if we give Him all our heart and soul and might then He would place who He is in us; but the flesh of Adam made us blind and deaf and dumb and covered our heart with stone so that we said "we will do all that YHWH has spoken". We made the teachings of YHWH given through Moses into things to be done by us instead of who He would make us.
It was not without warning from YHWH that we joined down the same road as Adam and called it a new name; for Adam desired to produce life as a self but found that separation is death. Gods righteousness as described at Sinai comes from His life; so when we set out to do those things we are saying the self we received from Adam can bring life...same sin...same result separation and death.
The church has fared no better. We have replaced doing right with believing right will make God pleased with us; separate from our actions.
So we set out to learn what we should believe and how we should act to develop the fruit of Gods life in our own lives. It is this that is the problem for we are still attempting to make ourselves be as God is...the temptation of Adam still living in His children.
We must let the self life of Adam be killed in the cross of Messiah. The life which makes us to live is the breath of God (His Spirit) in us. Jesus said we would be one and so we must fully trust and rely and depend on His life to be our life.
I have taken some things said to a brother through text and made the following bullet points:
1) a love relationship is not about what we do for someone but to share who we are completely with another...when we give all of ourselves to Him...He gives all of Who he is to us...making us one...don't worry with what to do...the natural result of being made one with Him is you begin to emanate Him instead of uselessly trying to imitate Him
2) he does through you... he makes you and does in you... all we do is trust, rely, depend, and watch Him...it is his Spirit in you working...it is not by you all we can do is refuse to trust in yourself to do for us or others or Him...but trust Him to move and act in and through us...the kingdom of God is not about you acting as He says...but to trust Him to make you and Him one...a child is as his Father is.. not because he was taught but because his life came from his fathers life.
3) it is hard to find words to say such a magnificent thing...but Adams nature in us to desire to generate life from the self makes it even harder to hear...we want to show we can do right...but Jesus said when he was called good why do you call me good there is none good but the Father... for there is only one God and only one life the other 7 billion ways lead to death. it is by His breath breathed into us that we can become his children; having life that comes forth from him
4) not a lot to say about me other than when I lived by my flesh I made other people feel better that they where not as bad as me...it took a while for God to show me didn't want me to just believe Jesus was the truth but also the way...and from there to hear He doesn't strengthen he is strength he doesn't improve life He is life...we don't imitate we emanate...so many believe He is life but still work to find their life in him instead of trusting Him to be the life in them... Jesus said if you try to gain your life you will lose your life but if for his sake you lose your life you will find your life...all we can do is give up and trust and rely....notice the God shared life is yours when you lose what comes from you
This article began with the idea it would be about the three signs given to Moses at the burning bush and in truth it is:
rod of YHWH was made our curse when He was hung on a tree and by this our curse is hidden in that cross.
the work of man (hand) reveals the sin in Adams heart but when the heart is of YHWH the work is clean and filled with health
the Spirit of YHWH(water) comes forth from His cup (messiah) when it strikes the dust (man) it becomes blood (life)
