The Suffering of Uncertainty Pt.4
PSALM 34:1-8
1 ¶ A Psalm of David, when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech; who drove him away, and he departed. (The bible is directing us to the backstory of an event in David’s life of the experience of what this psalm came out from. This psalm was written directly after David had pretended to be insane before Achish the philistine king of Gath who had thought that David had gone mad and so had driven him away. The name “Abimelech” used here was a generic title name for Philistine kings, but in 1st Samual 21 we know that this Abimelech was king Achish) I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
2 My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.
3 O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.
(Look at how David is giving praise out of a truly grateful heart because of this experience that he had just gone through. David had been going through a very difficult time of his life - he had fled Saul’s court on finding out that Saul was determined to put him to death (1 Samuel 20:31).
Then he had thought to find a safe refuge with this Philistine king of Gath (Achish), but that had failed also at that time, and so he had become like a fugitive and an outlaw and had begun dwelling in dens and caves (1 Samuel 22:1), and as yet he had no support of a body of followers, and so he was at like his lowest point of his weakness and of feeling rejected, just like we find ourselves at time)
4 I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. (All my uncertainties)
5 They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.
6 This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
7 The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.
8 O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
(God was training David by having him experience the reality of what it feels like to be at the bottom of all hope and at a point of total weakness and rejection, and then to realise the full experience of God’s deliverance – and we saw that last week with this gentile widow woman of Zarephath when she had also come to experience complete hopelessness of when she and her son were facing certain death. And so these are lessons for us in this hour)
I KINGS 17:13-16
13 And Elijah said unto her, Fear not (in other words – you don’t have to be uncertain anymore – because I have a word from the Lord for you that will take you out of your condition of suffering and uncertainty); go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son. (Service first – like how Ruth first served in Boaz’s field, and like how Rebekah first served by watering Eliezer’s camels)
14 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth. (She was living in the days of the voice of a prophet of God, and her commission was to sustain that prophet, and the promise to here was that she would be sustained by the supernatural supply of meal and oil)
15 And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days.
The Suffering of Uncertainty Pt.4
We want to pick up directly from last week by looking at a few quotes regarding this subject of God’s unconditional covenant with man - of how that God understood about the weakness of man and the fact that man could not be depended upon to keep his side of any conditional covenant that God might make with him.
**As soon as God put any sort of obligation on man by him having to do something by man having some rules or something in order for God to be able to save him – then God knew that that was never going to work, and so this is why that God had to make an unconditional covenant with man that excluded man’s behaviour out of the equation. When God sent Elijah to this gentile woman of Zarephath, the fact that God had sent Elijah to her was showing us that it was already a done deal in the mind of God – “behold I send you Elijah the prophet” – it’s the same for us in this day.
***God had preordained for this widow woman to sustain Elijah’s ministry, and there were no conditions attached to that, and so it is the same for us in this day, because God has sent an Elijah ministry to us also, and we are sustaining that same ministry of Elijah in this hour at a time of when the world is in famine and uncertainty, but for us we know that we will be sustained during the season of great uncertainty because of a resident prophet within our house, and so it is this realisation that brings us out of uncertainty and into certainty. This is the reality of this hour and of who we are.
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E-2 Now, one night this week, if the Lord willing, I want to speak a Gospel message on the "God's Unconditional Covenant." And perhaps maybe tomorrow night, if the Lord will... It's nothing but just to build the faith of the people, just to get them built up to a place where it gets all the scare away from them. And we're trying our best to do that.
The Christian has not one worry in the world. They should be the most freest, happiest people in all the world. 'Cause there's nothing... You can't lose. And all things work together for good to them that love God. So how can we lose? There's just nothing to lose, is there? We're just anchored away in Jesus Christ, going home to glory, having a good time while we're going along, God providing everything for us.
*We remember that in Eden, Adam and Eve only had one rule that they had to keep in order to fulfil their part of the covenant that God had made with them, and yet they couldn’t even keep that one single rule, and so that proved that there was no use in God setting conditions upon man, because man would only continue to fail God over and over again, and so the only way for God to redeem man was to make the redemption of man unconditional in that salvation would be totally dependent upon God. Salvation is not God + you, it’s all God alone.
**The problem with man is that he just not able to maintain his side of any agreement that he had made with God because of how weak he is.
And we know this is true because we can see this all the way through the bible in just about every story of the bible. Look at most of the great men of the bible, like with king David and Solomon and Moses and Sampson and many others – all these men were great men, and yet in their human weakness they failed God - all their lives ended up on a weak note, and this is common with all humanity.
**And this is also the direction that the entire world is heading into – of mankind ending it all in a condition of weakness of where man will actually destroy himself by his own means.
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93 People's science has broke into God's great laboratory, until they're going to destroy themselves. God lets, always lets wisdom destroy himself. God doesn't destroy anything. Man destroys himself by wisdom, as he did at the beginning, taking Satan's wisdom instead of God's Word.
They are now telling us that these quantum computers will have the power to break every crypto code in the world within a few years. All the security codes of your bank passwords and government passwords will mean nothing to an advanced quantum computer.
There was an article that I read that talks about how a quantum computer running this “ Shor's algorithm” that can break a standard public-key cryptography (like RSA-2048) in under 8 hours, a task that would take a traditional supercomputer roughly 300 trillion years to complete. A more advanced future quantum computer running Shor’s algorithm could complete the same task in seconds.
**A prophet of God has already told us that man’s knowledge is the thing that will destroy him in the end – because this was the tree that Eve ate from in Eden, and look at the death and destruction and suffering that is has brought upon the human race, and now it is threatening to wipe out all of civilisation completely.
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290 …How about the widow with a handful of meal? She'd got to her weakness; she probably starved herself to death. She had no meal. She couldn't go nowhere else and borrow any meal; nobody else had any. But she come to a place, a great believer, her husband had been a great man of God. And she was a widow with a child. And she had just a handful of meal, but it was enough; that's all she needed. Consecrated in the hands of God, she lived on it for three years and six months, on a handful of meal. She'd got weak.
*Last week we spoke about the direction of what the world that we are now living in is going in, and of how that there are now wars on every level of human existence, and that this would be a sign that we would be nearing the end.
MATTHEW 24:4-6
4 ¶ And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars (notice here – deception and wars placed together): see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
Wars are extremely costly to humanity – everyone loses in a war regardless of what side they are on.
Wars drain the money out of a nation, and that usually results in the poverty and the suffering of millions of people. War destroys people’s lives as well as their assets.
Our governments will spend millions of dollars of tax payers’ money to make their war planes and tanks and missiles so that they can blow up the infrastructure of another nation of what took millions of dollars of their people’s hard-earned tax payer’s dollars as well as their blood sweat and tears to build.
**And everyone will just keep doing that until there is hardly any infrastructure left and everyone is broke and starving – it’s crazy, but that is what the fallen human nature does and has been doing since the fall in Eden.
**Last week we spoke about this word “Sorceries”
REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth (Elon, Gates, and Jobs etc.); for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
In the ancient times the meaning of sorceries was to do with the preparation of medicines that were closely tied to “potion-making” for the occult and pagan rituals – in other words, drugs that would alter the way that a person would think.
Sorceries is connected to the idea of charms and spell-casting and potions that can cause hallucinations of when people see things (visions) that are often not earthly. And we know that this is what television and the internet has done for us in our modern age – because you don’t have to eat magic mushrooms to see crazy things any more.
We all know about the meaning of the word propaganda – it’s do to with presenting information that is designed to change the way a person thinks so that they will come into agreement with what they are wanting them to think.
*Smart people and those that study social engineering know that the majority of people will simply believe whatever you present to them as factual news, even if that news is totally made up from utter lies – and this is why Jesus told us not to let “man” deceive us.)
*When a person’s mind is “drugged” or “chemically altered”, either by chemistry or propaganda, then that person is very easily manipulated and deceived – we all know this is true.
When the prophet of God would see a vision, it would be as if he had entered into another world, and that would anoint him with a special faith. And this is what television does for people, it transports people into different worlds of where they can go into without having to use psychedelic drugs to be able to do that.
**In other words, in the “ olden days” if you wanted to experience an hallucination and see things from another world, then you would need the help of sorceries (magic mushrooms or something) that would alter your mind so that you would be able to look into these other worlds.
**But in our modern civilisation, the 4th dimension has been opened up to everyone, and now we just have to look at a screen to see into these other worlds - and so now while all the people of the earth are having their hallucinations and visiting these other worlds, their minds are being influenced and altered – and so by these sorceries that the big men of the earth are creating, they are deceiving the people and the nations of the world.
*And so Satan is using the 4th dimension of science as a medium to cast spells on people in order to alter their minds like how that magic potions did in the ancient times.
*Before, you had to eat magic mushrooms so that you could see those weird things of these mind-bending images – but now you just have to look into the 4th dimension via the technology of the internet.
*All this AI stuff is producing a million different kind of uncertain sounds that is altering the minds of the people and leading them more and more into a world that is full of insanity.
***But for us, we have received a certain sound by an Elijah voice, just like the account of this gentile widow woman of Zarephath, we have received an unconditional covenant spoken over us by a prophetic Elijah voice in this hour, and so we know for sure that we will be sustained because we have also been commission to sustain the Elijah ministry of this hour - and this is the commission that we must be totally committed to in this hour – because the prophecy of what we are living out cannot be broken.
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92 …And now, we're living in a day of great uncertainty. We all know that; the day of uncertainty, and the time of uncertainty. I don't believe there ever was a time... Since time first began back in the garden of Eden, when sin come in and broke eternity into time, I do not believe there's ever been a space of time with so much uncertainty as today. Because there's not even one hope left in the natural world today.