G-d does not beam special knowledge and revelations into people's heads. I can talk to 20 people and get 20 different comments that all disagree with each other while each claiming G-d told them.
God does enlighten a deeper part of man called the human spirit. And then the mind of man assists in understanding the light
of intuition God has shown in the human spirit.
For example the oldest book in the Bible
Job -
But there is a spirit in man, And the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding. (Job. 32:8)
The spirit which is the breath of God is called the lamp of Jehovah for the purpose of illuminating man's inner parts of the soul.
The spirit of man is the lamp of Jehovah, Searching all the innermost parts of the inner being. (Prov. 20:27)
You have not only a mind. You have something deeper which is an "organ" for prayer, touching the Spirit of God, and
sensing what God is trying to communicate with you. This is the spirit of man which is so important that it ranks with
the heavens and the earth.
The burden of the word of Jehovah concerning Israel. Thus declares Jehovah, who stretches forth the heavens and lays the foundations of the earth and forms the spirit of man within him, (Zech. 12:1)
The heavens were created for the earth.
The earth's foundation was lain for humanity.
And within human beings there is "the spirit within him" for the express purpose of touching, fellowshipping, communing with the
the living God.
You have a human spirit which needs to be healed from a comatose and deadened state because of sin.
You should go to prayer to God and insist that you WANT to experience your human spirit to know God and enjoy God.
If your spirit is not functioning to enjoy God you are a three diminsional being only functioning on two dimensions.
We need all three - spirit and soul and body to know reality. Otherwise we sense something is missing in us.
Our comatose human spirit must be healed of its deadened state through the resurrection life of Christ entering into us.
The enlivening of the deadened and damaged human spirit is a new birth.
God wants more thnt you just know about Him yet not know intimately Himself as a living God.
You are not a prophet and neither am I.
We are not all prophets in the sense of supernatural prediction.
But to speak for God and speak forth God every reborn man or woman may prophesy.
Again, to be a prophet is not restricted to miraculous acts or predictions.
I am a prophet today speaking forth on behalf of God. And you can do the same thing.
When Moses was informed that others in the camp were prophesying he told Joshua he desired that all
God's people would prophesy and that His Spirit would flow through all of them.
And a certain young man ran and told Moses and said, Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.
And Joshua the son of Nun, the attendant of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered and said, My lord Moses, restrain them!
But Moses said to him, Are you jealous for my sake? Oh that all Jehovah’s people were prophets, that Jehovah would put His Spirit upon them! (Numbers 11:27-29)
You see while all God's people may not give prophetic predictions God wants to pour out His Spirit
that men and women young and old would prophesy.
And afterward I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh, / And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy; / Your old men shall dream dreams; / Your young men shall see visions. Indeed even upon the male and female slaves / In those days I will pour out My Spirit. (Joel 2:28,29)
Have you even read Exodus?
Yes. But I consider that no one ever "finishes" reading the word of God.
I read all the books of the Bible prayerfully turning the text I read into petitions, supplications, praises, thanksgivngs.
I mingle my reading with praying and my praying with reading. This is most effective in enjoying God as the living water
quenching, reviving, refreshing all my inner being.
Yes, yes. I read Exodus and all the word of God from
Genesis to
Revelation.
To read it is sweeter than honey comb to my spiritual taste.
What would you point out to me about
Exodus?
The reason they didn't go straight to Israel was as punishment for their rebellion, as HaShem decreed no one living from their generation (with several exceptions) would see the promised land.
Yes. Because of the rebellion and unbelief of the majority they held back those who would obey to enter.
So the unbelieving were disciplined. But of that generation two entered besides all the children of the first generation.
That was Joshua and Caleb because they had a different spirit.
I am waiting to be told something by you I didn't know in
Exodus.
The Messiah doesn't have the power to do anything, G-d does. Messiah means "anointed" which is purely a title.
That's not what your Hebrew Bible says.
He is the Child both who is the Mighty God.
He is the Son given who is mysteriously the Eternal Father.
And how can He have no power yet the govenment rests upon His shoulders.
For a child is born to us, / A Son is given to us; / And the government / Is upon His shoulder; / And His name will be called / Wonderful Counselor, / Mighty God, / Eternal Father, / Prince of Peace.
To the increase of His government / And to His peace there is no end, / Upon the throne of David / And over His kingdom, / To establish it / And to uphold it / In justice and righteousness / From now to eternity. / The zeal of Jehovah of hosts / Will accomplish this. (Isaiah 9:6,7)
He is called Wonderful because He Himself is full of wonder. He is so seamlessly one with God that He being a human
child
is the embodiment of the
Mighty God. And He being a given son is so mingled and united with the Divine that He is the incarnation of the
Eternal Father.
I can do nothing from Myself; as I hear, I judge, and My judgment is just,
because I do not seek My own will but the will of Him who sent Me. (John 5:30)
This is a man 1,000,000 % submissive, obedient, responsive to God His Father.
. . . for the works which the Father has given Me to finish, the works themselves which I do, testify concerning Me that the Father has sent Me. And the Father who sent Me, He has testified concerning Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time, nor have you seen His form,
And you do not have His word abiding in you, for Him whom He sent, this One you do not believe. (John 5:36b-38)
He will restore Israel, reunite the Jews, establish world peace and bring knowledge of G-d to the world.
I completely agree. Don't miss all the enjoyment!
Speaking of Exodus the bush that burned with fire but was not consummed by the flames points to
the mingling of man with the holy God. This was God's eternal purpose from the beginning to unite His divine and holy nature
with first A man, and then will all His redeemed children.
Man and God can be united and man not destroyed was hinted at to Moses in the scene of the burning thorn bush.
This sign speaks of the incarnation of God in man.
Exodus 3:2-4 - And the Angel of Jehovah appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a thornbush. And when he looked, there was the thornbush, burning with fire; but the thornbush was not consumed.
And Moses said, I must turn aside now and see this great sight, why the thornbush does not burn up.
And when Jehovah saw that he had turned aside to look, God called to him out of the midst of the thornbush and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here I am.
You see Yahweh was Him who dwelt in a bush!
And the favor of Him who dwelt in the thornbush. / May they come upon the head of Joseph, / And upon the top of the head of him who is separated among his brothers. (Deut. 33:16b)
God was seen as the firey one sent as The Angel of Jehovah. And He is interchangeable with Jehovah God.
And the Angel of Jehovah appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a thornbush. (Exodus 3:2a) . . .
And when Jehovah saw that he had turned aside to look, God called to him out of the midst of the thornbush and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here I am. (v.4) . . .
And He said, I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God. (v.6)
Do you see? The One sent by Jehovah as the
Angel of Jehovah is interchangeable with
Jehovah Himself.
I hope whenever you think now about the bush that held the fire yet was not burnt up you will
consider the incarnation of God as the Sent Son of God the Messiah. This One born child is the embodiment of the Mighty God.
This Son given unto us is the incarnation as a man of the Eternal Father.
This profound reality was unfolded gradually and progressively in the Bible.
Just as the
Exodus materialized gradually under leadership of Moses.
The suffering is Israel because the preceding text clearly says so. Israel is referred to as the servant of G-d throughout Isaiah, and until given a good argument for otherwise I have no reason to believe that one verse is somehow different.
Actually, even a Gentile king Cyrus is called the Servant of God in Isaiah because God used Cyrus to allow the Hebrews
to return to the good land and rebuild the city and the temple devastated by the Gentiles. So also sometimes the prophet Isaiah himself is
seen as God's servant in this book.
But in chapter 53 it is the Messiah who is the suffering servant.
But Israel as the Suffering Servant would not make sense.
v.2 - For He grew up like a tender plant before Him, / And like a root out of dry ground. / He has no attracting form nor majesty that we should look upon Him, / Nor beautiful appearance that we should desire Him.
The land of Israel was called
"the beautiful land" and was desirable, comely, attractive, and lovely.
And Mt Zion is described as
the joy of the whole earth. So verse 2 should not refer to Israel the land. (See
Psalm 48)
Beautiful in elevation, / The joy of the whole earth, / Is Mount Zion, the sides of the north, / The city of the great King.
This Servant is an unattractive man with not obvious outward beauty that He should stand out from others.
He was despised; and we did not esteem Him. (v. 3c)
Israel was not despised by the Israelites though they were despised by surrounding nations.
But He was wounded because of our transgressions; / He was crushed because of our iniquities; / The chastening for our peace was upon Him, / And by His stripes we have been healed. (v.5)
It would be contraditory to think Israel suffered in a substitutionary way for itself.
The stroke was DUE Israel. So the substitutionary suffering servant must be someone other than the one to whom
the stroke was due.
By oppression and by judgment He was taken away; / And as for His generation, who among them had the thought / That He was cut off out of the land of the living / For the transgression of my people to whom the stroke was due? (v.8)
If the stroke was due Israel than Israel cannot suffer that stroke in a substitionay way.
The Suffering Servant must see the vindication of His substitutionary death. Therefore He has to be raised from the dead
as Jesus was.
He will see the fruit of the travail of His soul, / And He will be satisfied; / By the knowledge of Him, the righteous One, My Servant, will make the many righteous, / And He will bear their iniquities. (v.11)
That is all I can write at this time. The Suffering Servant is the incarnated God as a man who is able to die.
Do not fear; I am the First and the Last And the living One; and I became dead, and behold,
I am living forever and ever; and I have the keys of death and of Hades. (See Revelation 1:17b.18)
