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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Old Thoughts for the New Day, continued
At a lodging place on the way, the LORD met Moses and was about to kill him. But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son's foreskin and touched Moses' feet with it. "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me," she said. So the LORD let him alone. (At that time she said "bridegroom of blood," referring to circumcision.) (Exodus 4:24-26—NIV)
Whenever the Lord gets ready to use someone in a major change in His Kingdom He first checks to see if the individual has been circumcised.
After Moses had seen the burning bush the Lord directed him to go to Egypt. On his way with his wife and son he stopped for a night's lodging.
Then God tried to kill him. Why? Because his son had not been circumcised.
This gives you some idea of how seriously the Lord views holiness.
It was not possible for the army of the Lord to invade Canaan until every soldier without exception had been circumcised. It is not possible for the army of witnesses of today to go throughout the earth bearing witness of the Kingdom except as the witnesses are circumcised.
It will not be possible for any uncircumcised believer to follow Jesus Christ in the attack of Armageddon.
The saints who went before us knew of the need to have a circumcised heart. It is time now for the present generation to return to the Lord and get right with Him, for there will be no protection during the age of moral horrors that is upon us if we have not been circumcised in heart.
The reproach of Egypt, the world, remains on us until we are circumcised in heart. The reproach is rolled away at Gilgal (rolling).
While they remained at Gilgal, on the plains of Jericho, before they attacked the city, the Israelites celebrated the Passover. The day after they observed the Passover they ate unleavened bread and roasted grain that came from the land of Canaan.
At this point the manna ceased.
The celebration of the Passover on the eve of the invasion reminds us how God works. We do not leave salvation and move to Pentecost, and then proceed to the fullness of God, as typified by the feast of Tabernacles.
Rather we are ascending a spiral staircase. As we ascend we keep coming back to the same point, only this time at a higher level.
When we began as a Christian we observed the Communion in obedience to the Scriptures. Now we are beginning to understand that the body and blood of Christ are His Life in us, the very Life that will raise us in the resurrection.
The Wife of the Lamb is married to the Lamb by eating the Lamb.
The principal message of the Passover is not that of the Jews leaving the bondage of Egypt, for they soon were in a worse spiritual slavery after being in Canaan for a while. The main message of Passover is the Christ, the Lamb. "Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world."
If we would live in resurrection life we must eat the flesh of the Lamb of God and drink His blood. We must live by eating and drinking Him as He lives by the Father.
To be continued.