WE ARE LIVING IN
THIS TRANSITION: A TYPE AND SHADOW OF OUR
PRESENT/FUTURE;
THIS EVOLVING
PROCESS IS FULFILLING… NOW,
06-10-18 This message may be
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(The brightness of our
revelations depend upon the correctness of our doctrines, our building
blocks)
(God is Thought, God is Love, God is a Spirit
– Eccl 12:7)
GOD IS SEPARATING HIS SHEEP
FROM THE GOATS
(Mat
25:31-33) When the Son of man
shall come in
his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit
upon [we who are] the throne of his
glory: And before him shall be gathered [the
peoples of] all nations: and he shall
separate them one from another, as a
shepherd divideth his sheep from the
goats: And he
shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. [Rom 8:18]
(Judg 7:1-3) Then Jerubbaal
[Heb: will
contend with Baal],
who is Gideon [Heb: feller (warrior) /// to fell a tree,
hew down] [a type and shadow
of Jesus Christ],
and all the people that were with him [32,000 warriors], rose up early, and pitched
beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites [Heb: brawling, contentious,
discord, strife] [a type and shadow of all
unsaved people represented by the 135,000 invading warriors] were on the north side of
them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee [the 32,000 warriors that
responded to Gideon’s Holy Spirit “trumpet”
call (Judg 6:34,35), which symbolically was Gideon’s (Jesus Christ’s)
call to
assemble in church]
are too many for me to give the Midianites
into their hands,
lest Israel vaunt [Heb: boast, glorify] themselves [in pride] against me, saying, Mine own hand hath
saved me. Now therefore
go to, proclaim [Heb: preach] in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever
is fearful and afraid [i.e., whosoever does not believe God… for
the victory], let
him return [to
his home] and
depart early from mount Gilead [Heb: heap of witness, mass of testimony,
mound of stones] [a type and
shadow of the OT altar of burnt offerings and the NT cross]. And there returned [to their homes] of the people twenty and
two thousand [22,000
professing (false) Christians (goats) who did not believe God]; and there remained ten
thousand [10,000
confessing (true) Christians (sheep) who believed God].
AFTER THE GOATS ARE
SEPARATED FROM US,
TO WHICH GROUP OF SAVED
CHRISTIANS DO YOU BELONG?
(Judg
7:4)
And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people
[the 10,000 confessing true Christians who remained] are
yet too many; bring them
down [into the valley, strong
connotations of humbling their pride]
unto the water [a symbol of
the Holy Spirit], and I will try
them [Heb: to fuse (metal),
refine: melt, purify, purge away] [i.e.,
test them] for thee there: and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with
thee,
the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This
shall
not go with thee, the same shall not go.
(Judg
7:5,6)
So he brought down the people unto the water: and the
LORD said
unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth [Heb:
licks] of the water with
his tongue [discriminately: Dict:
to recognize (see) the difference between things], as a
dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that
boweth down upon his knees to drink [i.e.,
everyone that (indiscriminately)
sucks up the water with his mouth].
And the number of them that lapped, putting
their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men [the 300 saved combat warriors (shepherds)]:
but all the rest of the people [the 9,700
saved support troop warriors
(sheep)] bowed down upon
their knees to drink water [thereby
taking their eyes off the 135,000 enemy Midianite warriors standing on
the
other side of the stream, and unintentionally committing the great
errors of
non-vigilance and submitting themselves to the enemy] [1].
1.
(1
Pet 5:8) Be
sober [Gk: abstain from wine:
watch], be vigilant [Gk: to
keep awake, watch: be watchful]; because
your adversary [arch enemy] the devil, as a
roaring lion, walketh about, seeking
[Gk: plotting (against life)] whom he
may devour [Gk: drink down, gulp entire: swallow (up)]:
THE RAPTURE
(Judg 7:7,8)
And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three
hundred men [the 300 saved combat
troops (shepherds)] that lapped
will I save you, and deliver the [135,000] Midianites into thine hand: and let all
the other people [the 9,700
saved support troops (sheep)] go every man unto his
place [i.e., “his tent” Judg 7:8].
So the people [the 300] took victuals
[Heb: food] [i.e., their Bibles] in
their hand, and their trumpets [inspired
proclamations]: and he sent all the
rest of Israel [the
9,700 support troops (sheep)] every
man unto his tent, and retained [Heb:
fastened upon; seized] [a type and shadow of “the rapture” 1 Thes
4:17: “caught up” = Gk: “harpazo; seized”] those
three hundred men
[warrior-shepherds]: and the host of
Midian was beneath him in the valley. [1]
1.
Commentary:
“extra-biblical”
= Judges 7 verses 9-14 consist of the interpretation of a dream that
was
positive-reinforcement for Gideon the man, of which I have not been led
to
provide the commentary necessary to present in this message.
(Judg
7:15-18)
And it was so, when
Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof,
that he
worshipped [God], and returned into
the host of Israel, and
said, Arise [i.e., the present
call of God]; for the LORD hath
delivered [past-tense;
spiritually, an already accomplished deed, a “positional” deed, if you
will] into your hand [Heb:
power] the host of Midian. And he divided the
three hundred men into three companies [of 100 each, to serve under God the Father,
God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit],
and he put a trumpet [to
preach inspired proclamations] in
every man's hand [Heb: power], with
empty pitchers [Heb: earthenware] [formed of “the
dust of
the ground” Gen 2:7; symbolizing our bodies], and lamps [Heb:
flaming torches] [symbolizing the Holy Spirit] within
the pitchers. And he said unto them, Look on me, and
do likewise [Jesus Christ always
says this, always!]: and, behold,
when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that,
as I do, so shall ye do. When I blow with a
trumpet, I and all that are
[then] with me [1], then blow ye the trumpets also on
every side of all [surrounding] the
camp, and say, The sword of the LORD, and of
Gideon.
1.
(Jude
1:14) And
Enoch also, the seventh from Adam,
prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the
Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS
CHRIST
(Judg
7:19-21)
So Gideon, and the hundred men that were
with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the
beginning of the middle watch
[about 10:00 pm]; and they had but newly
set the watch [the new sentries
were in the midst of their enemies guarding a sleeping camp enclosed in
thick
darkness, and were therefore exceedingly nervous, anxious, scared,
frightened,
on edge]: and they [all of
Gideon’s 300 warriors at once] blew the trumpets,
and brake the
pitchers [by crushing them with
the trumpets, i.e., the Word of God, the Bibles] that were in their
hands [Heb: power]. And the three
companies blew the
trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps
[Heb: flaming torches] [“the glory” now
completely exposed] [1] in their left
hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal
[thereby forming the appearance of their bodies
into crosses]: and they cried, The
sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and
all the [Midianite] host ran, and
cried, and fled.
1.
(Rom 8:18) For I reckon
that
the sufferings of this present time are
not worthy to be compared with the
glory which shall be revealed
[Gk: to take off the cover,
disclosed] in us.
(Judg 7:22,23)
And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and
the LORD set every [Midianite] man's
sword against his fellow [prophesying vast,
worldwide chaos in the
permeating darkness of fear and confusion], even
throughout all the host: and the host fled to Bethshittah
in Zererath, and to the border
of Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath. And the men of
Israel gathered themselves together out of Naphtali,
and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after the
Midianites [in unity “as one man” Judg 6:16].
THE BEGINNING OF THE
THOUSAND YEAR MILLENNIUM
(Judg
7:24,25)
And Gideon sent messengers throughout all
Amen
“Arise; for the
LORD hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.”