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The Great Exchange
Part VI
In The
Great Exchange, we’ve sought to show how the LORD instructed
Israel that if they obey and honour Him, He will bless the nation abundantly.
“If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase,
and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit,”
“And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage
shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and
dwell in your land safely” (Leviticus 26:3-5).
This is a
classic example of what are sometimes called Conditional Promises, or
the If/Then principle. This is a very rudimentary manifestation
of an exchange -- If you do something I specify, then
I will do what I am now promising.
The list of
benefits continues in this passage, as the LORD promised Israel
they would be unbeatable in battle, He would give them peace, and they would
live in great joy as He would set His tabernacle among them.
“And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be
my people” (Leviticus 26:12).
In short,
after having demonstrated His great power and divine abilities in the Passover
and the Exodus accounts, God promises supernatural blessings to Israel, if
they honour Him as the LORD who loves them. This is The Great
Exchange between God and the people He has chosen to
perform His magnificent program.
Obviously,
the very nature of deity allows the LORD to see the fate of the entire world,
and what occurs over the millennia, in an instant. God has created everything
and, as we owe our very existence to Him, the LORD of all is worthy of our
praise and adoration.
Since the
Father already knows just how humankind will fare right up to the last day, our
perception of His plan to redeem His fallen creation should be based on the
record that He has provided – the Holy Bible.
Just like
any errant child who has rejected instruction needs correction, God’s
loving nature motivates Him to alter the misbehavior of those He has created.
Moreover, because this is not a simple matter of chastising a pet, or a human
father responding to His child’s juvenile infractions, it is incumbent on
us to recognize that His interactions with us are sacred, and not to be
taken lightly.
As the LORD
initiated the early stages of drawing rebellious man back into fellowship with
Him, we see He immediately establishes that this is a divine intervention, and
He is not to be trifled with. For example, when Moses is
exploring on the mountain where he was tending flocks for his father in law,
when he first encounters the angel of the LORD, God will expediently inform him
that a sacred encounter is underway.
“And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a
flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush
burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.”
“And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight,
why the bush is not burnt” (Exodus 3:2, 3).
Having
revealed His presence to Moses, the first thing the LORD does once the
interaction commences, is to establish the fact that there is a separation
between God and man, and Moses must not approach Him until Moses meets
His conditions.
“And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto
him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he
said, Here am I”
“And he said, Draw not [near here]: put off thy shoes from
off thy feet, for the place wherein thou standest is holy ground”
(Exodus 3:4, 5).
In the
narrative that follows, it is clear that this is indeed God, who is directly
communicating with Moses. This is evident because the LORD speaks in the first
person, specifically stating that He is God.
“I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob” (Exodus 3:6).
Thus, this
portion of the holy text also establishes the fact that when “the angel
of the LORD” (Exodus 3:2) is present, we are not seeing a
personality which is distinct from God, but in a mystical way, it is God
Himself.
The Word of
God is not going to reveal the fact that JESUS CHRIST is present in this
interaction until the New Covenant is established – but clearly there is
a great mystery in how the presence of God is projected in “the angel of
the LORD.”
About 16
centuries after this encounter between God and Moses, the book of The
Acts of the Apostles elaborates on it. This is a particularly poignant
portion of the book as it recounts the words of young Stephen,
who was connecting Jesus Christ to God, as he was being assailed by the Jewish
priesthood.
In what is
now a classic summarization of Israel’s Old Covenant relationship to God,
Stephen describes how the LORD declared Himself to Moses in the book of Exodus.
Stephen’s
sermon offers a parallel between the Christ rejecting Jewish priesthood, and
the Israelites who rejected Moses – simultaneously indicating a Prophetic
Parallel between Moses and Jesus.
“This Moses, whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a
judge? The same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of
the angel which appeared to him in the bush” (Acts 7:35).
Indeed,
Stephen’s comparison of Israel’s apostasy under the Old Covenant of
Moses, and their rejection of the Saviour, was laced with indignation:
“Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye
do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. Which of the
prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they have slain them which
shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the
betrayers and murderers” (Acts 7:51, 52).
Furthermore,
in spite of the modern Rapture Cult apostasy which erroneously seeks to
separate the identity of the church from Israel, Stephen’s rehearsal of
the matter coherently connects the Christian body with the assembly of Israel
in the wilderness.
“This is that Moses, which said unto the children of
Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren,
like unto me; him shall ye hear”
“This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with
the angel which spoke to him in the mount Sina, and with our
fathers” (Acts 7:37, 38).
There is a
further irony in this passage, as the Jewish opposition which is going to kill
Stephen when he concludes the sermon, is particularly inflamed when the young
firebrand preacher says he sees Jesus in glory. The deity of
Christ is clearly affirmed, as the vicious priests maul Stephen; and in their
blind rage, they actually chew on his flesh with their teeth.
“When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they
gnashed on him with their teeth. But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked
up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus
standing on the right hand of God” (Acts 7:54, 55).
The
inference in the young martyr’s presentation subtly connects the
“angel of the LORD,” who was present at the calling of Moses, and
his assertion that Jesus is now at the right hand of the Father.
The heart of
the Israelite religion was the release from slavery in the Exodus
from Egypt, and the focal point of that liberation from their bondage is seen
in the plagues sent from God, which were delivered at the hand of Moses.
Moreover,
the priests who surrounded Stephen were certainly aware of Christ’s claim
of divinity, which was directly connected to the episode on the holy mountain
of Moses. In that crucial statement on the mountain, when Moses
asked the LORD who he should say sent him to announce the emancipation of
Israel from the Egyptian oppression, the “angel of the LORD” issued
the now familiar statement of divinity:
“And God said unto Moses, I am that I am: and he
said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I am hath
sent me unto you” (Exodus 3:14).
In
Stephen’s time, everyone in the two Jewish sects of the Pharisees and the
Sadducees were still incensed at the statement of Jesus, when He
connected Himself to this astonishing record. When Jesus was arrested, the high
priest of the religious council called the Sanhedrin demanded He tell them if
He was the Christ.
“The high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ,
the Son of the Blessed? And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see
the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of
heaven” (Mark 14:62).
The Jewish
leaders were obviously infuriated as Jesus directly asserted His
divine identity as the only begotten Son of God.
“Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, What need we any
further witnesses? Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye?
And they all condemned him to be guilty of death” (Mark 14:63, 64).
Thus, it was
no less offensive to the Jews when Stephen, bloodied and bruised from the rabid
religionist’s assault, said he saw the heavens opened, and JESUS
standing at the right hand of God. After the priests were so overwhelmed with
hatred that they attacked Stephen like wild animals, they drew him to the edge
of the city, where they stoned him to death.
Just as we
have previously shown in the Spiritual formula of the Shadow and
the Substance, the earthly murder of Stephen
triggered an enormous change in the heavenlies, but that account
will have to wait for another installment of The Great Exchange.
-- James
Lloyd
To Be Continued
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Christian
Media has an
eye-opening, on-demand video elaborating on the crucial facts
seen in the above article —
which also includes predictions concerning the enormous turn of events
associated with the present political tumult in America – especially with
reference to the American recognition of Jerusalem as the capital
of the political state known as Israel.
That video
will be posted on our second channel on the Sunday Shift. We also
publish a weekly news synopsis summarizing what has occurred each week. In
addition to this, we produce a regularly issued companion letter
commenting on the material seen in each chapter of THE GREAT EXCHANGE. The latest edition of that letter
(entitled the Christian Median MINISTRY STATUS REPORT),
has even more prophetic projections concerning the amazing explosion of
prophetic understanding which has occurred at the Christian Media
ministry.
Further, we
have video materials online dealing with Health and Survival, as
well as yet another regularly issued video which identifies
specific False Prophets the believer should avoid.
However, the
adversary has already sown tares in this vineyard, and we choose not to provide
the website links with the video elaborating on the present
prophecy writing here, as those who think they’re doing God service are
tirelessly trying to excise the truth from the Internet (John 16:2).
We greatly
desire as many as possible will see the online video on this subject (a new
video will replace it in another week), but we do not want to “cast [our]
pearls before swine” (Matthew 7:6). There are those who partake of
the Spiritual blessings bestowed on us from the LORD, yet they feel no
motivation to help us reach others with this eye-opening truth.
Such
routinely seek to cleave to us with flatteries, thinking their agreement with
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as do wickedly against the covenant shall [be] corrupted by
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