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His Mercies: A tale of two Journeys

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Israel’s exodus from Egypt to the Good Land
Typifies the Church’s march from Earth to Glory
Christ leads consecutive itinerant pilgrim bands
And scripts a similar but happily divergent story

Israel marched under banner of the Pillar of Fire
The Angel who led them in God’s Name was swift
To severely punish any enactments of sinful desire

For the blood of the old covenant was weak and frail
It merely covered sin without the power to remit
It deferred guilt with impaired mercy on wilderness trail
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Elijah: A Type Of The Church

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After Elijah’s Mount Carmel victory and vindication
Jezebel fumed at the decapitation of Baal’s religion
For the cream of the Baal’s prophets had been decimated
Thus the prophet of the age was now a target of her retaliatory rage

Elijah fled for her threat-it was a curious life that he led
He that showed boundless courage in killing proponents of Baal’s image
Now took flight in fright from this queen of pagan parentage
A lesson on anointing’s effects-under its blessing the prophet was bold
Without it his fiery heart became cowardly and cold

God never forgot His servant as he fled to the safety of obscurity
In the solitary wilderness angels brought relief supplies
Elijah was depressed thinking he was alone resisting the pagan throne
Not so there were seven thousand knees that were godly to the bone
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Jezebel

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Jezebel was a princess from the pagan land of Sidon
Probably a priestess as she was the daughter of Baal’s High Priest
In the spirit of a political alliance Israel’s church married Pagan State
After that date, Israel’s fate was sealed-her doom did not come late

Jezebel is more than a woman, it is a spirit at work through the ages
For the Jezebel metaphor pops up in Revelation too
Same spirit is at work in the New Testament church seducing sages

She came into Israel via union of pagan state with the elect people
For Ahab as an Israelite was elect even in his fallen estate
His marriage to Jezebel was a forerunner of the union
The merger of Christian church with pagan State
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Moses: The Sign And It’s Message

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‎God called his name from the burning bush
Moses was now standing on hallowed ground
Made holy by the descent of the Holy God
Same grounds that Moses trod when grazing around

God had heard the affliction of His people
Woes and wailing for wounds of taskmasters
He had descended to liberate and to topple
Their oppressors-the first anti-Semitic haters

He promised an exodus, an end to the old
And a journey to a new land of milk and honey
Acquisition of ‎huge tracts of land without money

And this was not strange for it was promised
To Abraham, that His seed would suffer
In a strange land for four centuries before God would offer
Succour, liberation and then the jubilation of possession

Moses listened in awe, He realized it was God by His word
He then asked He that spoke in the Bright Flame
What shall I say is your Name?
God replied I AM THAT I AM, tell Israel that I AM

Many centuries later, the God of the burning ‎bush
Incarnated in flesh and told Israel He was the I AM
Abraham saw, unlike Moses they that heard were not calm
They wanted to stone Him-could this pushover be Jehovah?

God gave Moses two signs-his rod turning to a serpent
And his hand becoming leprous after placing in his bosom
If Israel failed to believe the Voice of the first sign
Or the second-judgement ‎would strike without ransom
Bloody recompense for those who won’t tow the line
Israel escaped for she, by choice believed the Voice

What was the Voice of the appearing Sign?
What Message was behind serpent rod and leprous hand?
It was a Scriptural Voice, an exodus by Divine design

Israel could look back and see the promise
She could see the age of fulfillment had come
Her belief was thus based on a spiritual premise

As it was with Moses, any true prophetic wonder or sign
Must herald a revelation promised for that age
Otherwise it’s routine miraculous magic by those who dine
In Pharaoh’s ‎court, a false anointing that comes to naught

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Joseph, A Prototype Of Christ – Coda

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The Midianite merchants brought Joseph to Egypt
Being ‎bought by Potiphar, Pharaoh’s officer
He was trusted to ‎administer all of his master
Except the wife, ‎for doing so would be disaster

Potipher’s wife lusted after Joseph and tempted
With secret ‎rewards that would destroy Joseph’s purpose
If he ever that act of disloyal wickedness attempted
Joseph declined and she was shame-facedly morose
Daily she pursued, and daily he doggedly refused

Yet she framed him with evidence of his righteousness
A garment obtained in flight from evil’s appearance
Ironic, yet it was God’s plan not happenstance

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Easu & Jacob: Election Speaks

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Easu and Jacob were the twin sons of Isaac
Yet Rebekah’s womb was their only similarity
Never were twins ‎more dissimilar in disparity

While they were mere fetuses wriggling and struggling
In Rebekah’s womb, she inquired about the strife
God replied that they would fight for life

Two nations were to be birthed in a day
The elder one would serve the younger in a way
For the nation of the younger would be greater
Than the nation which are children of the elder

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Rebekah, A Type Of The Bride

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Rebekah was the much-loved wife of Isaac
Yet the story of how she was sought for
Is one for the ages to learn from and take a peek
It brings the story of Church and Christ to the fore

‎Abraham sent his trusted servant Eleazer
To seek a wife for his promised son Isaac
He told obedient Eleazer not to bother
With Canaanites-from them not to seek

God seeking a worthy Bride for His Son,
Has sent His messengers to call elect only
People of His kindred, His flesh and bones
No unbelieving Canaanites-the predestined solely

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