My people stop the bickering, complaining, murmuring and arguing.
This comes to me as a stench in my nostrils. You rebel against the instructions
of my servant. I instruct him in my ways and you ignore it. I talk to hm
revealing what I want done then you disrespect my instructions.
If you are not going to follow these instructions then go
your way. You cannot be a leader in my kingdom if you will not follow first.
I swallowed up thousands that would not listen
and obey but constantly were rebellious and were not thankfully obedient.
God spoke the words Mount Horeb to me….so I looked it up.
Exodus 33:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Depart, and go
up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of
Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob,
saying, Unto thy seed will I give it:
2 And I will send an
angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the
Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
3 Unto a land flowing
with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a
stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.
4 And when the people
heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his
ornaments.
In many countries/tribes, “ornaments” tell who you are,
where you are from, and/or what people/s you belong to. In this scripture the Israelites
had to leave off their “ornaments” – who they were before God could or would
deal with them. Today we must lose our self/self importance to allow God to be
our all in all, our saviour! It is not who we are but who He is to us that
matters most.
5 For the LORD had
said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people:
I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore
now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.
6 And the children of
Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb.
7 ¶ And Moses took
the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and
called it the Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass, that every
one which sought the LORD went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation,
which was without the camp.
They had to walk “through” something or someplace to get
to the Tabernacle. What is your “walk through” today? Are you willing to go
through to get to Jesus?
8 And it came to
pass, when Moses went out unto the tabernacle, that all the people rose up, and
stood every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone
into the tabernacle.
Had they not been obedient and lay aside their ornaments
(self) God would have passed judgement/consumed them. He also said in His Word…
Hebrews 10:30 For we know him that hath said,
Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The
Lord shall judge his people.
31 It is a fearful
thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32 But call to
remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a
great fight of afflictions;
33 Partly, whilst ye
were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst
ye became companions of them that were so used.
Evang. aNNA fUGATT
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