fear not little flock

Fear not little flock

Exodus 14: 10 And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the Lord.

11 And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?

12 Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.  {Sound familiar?  Let us alone, Jo.  Let us serve our idols;  our Santa, bonnie, skeletons, and all our other idols.}

13 And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.

14 The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.

The Egyptians are those who wish to enslave us today.  They are after us.  But:

Fear. Not little flock.

16 But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.

21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.   …[strong East wind?  The first coming of Jesus. ]

Genesis 1

1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

Ex. 14: 18 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.

19 And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them:

20 And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.

Gen.1: 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

Put it together and see the glory and also where we are today.  Fear not, little Flock.  Our God will fight for us.  Be still and see the salvation of our God!

9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

Ex. 14: 21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.

The Beautiful Word of God tells us what has been what is and what will be.  Can you discern our time?

By:  Jo Smith..  May 30, 2023

this side Jordan

Nu 32:12 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD.

Nu 32:13 And the LORD’S anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.

Nu 32:14 And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers’ stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.

Nu 32:15 For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.

Nu 32:16 And they came near unto him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:

Nu 32:17 But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

Nu 32:18 We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.

Nu 32:19 For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward.

The things concerning Israel were all to teach us spiritual things, for our day. Everything which shall be, was shown in those twelve tribes of Israel. We can learn a lot of things by allowing God to show us these things, spiritual, for our day.

For a long time, I have been seeing, in some verses in Ezekiel, that it seems to me that there will be a people, who do not lose their souls in hell, but who also do not inherit a glorified body. I have not taught on this, yet, for I wanted to study it more and be sure of it.

It still needs much study. But for now, I want to show you the above verses, and how they seem to me, to be verifying this concept. Now, get this….I am not sure of this yet. I am not saying positively that this is how it is. But it certainly seems to be so to me.

I normally will not even touch on a thing until I am sure. But I want to show this, and see if we can get some feedback on it.

Notice, that the children of Israel were getting ready to cross Jordon and go into the promised land of Canaan.

But two and a half tribes wanted to inherit theirs on that side of Jordon, and not over on the other side. They had much cattle, and this land was good for cattle, so they did not wish to inherit on that side of Jordon.

Now think of what this is showing. They loved the carnal things more and did not wish to cross over into the ‘other side’. They did not wish to go into the promised land of Canaan. They said, we will not inherit on that side of Jordon with the others.

Eze 48:15 And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst thereof.

Those last chapters in Eze are showing the same thing as this in Numbers. Only this time it is spiritual. It is showing when Jesus returns and takes over this world, and divides it to his saints. It is laid out in the same ‘pattern’ of things as that concerning old Israel. That with them was only types and shadows.

A ‘profane’ place shows a natural, carnal place. I believe it is showing that there will be people, who will actually live on and on, in this natural world, without coming into the glorified state. I cannot absolutely prove this right now. But I honestly think this is right.

The people who do not serve God with the whole heart and soul, but who did try to live for him, and still love this side of life, I believe will be given life, and not hell, but still not be glorified into the eternal image of God.

I believe that only few will make it to that glorified state. And I think this explains a lot of why there are such divisions of understanding with God’s people. Some of us desire to bear 100% fruit. We wish to go all the way with God, while others are content just to say I have repented and am saved. They never really give their whole life to following God.

I do not believe for one minute that they will receive the same rewards as those who have given their all to serving God.

Paul made it clear in 1Cor. 15, that there will be differences in the glory of different stars, and that all will not have the same kind of body. This has to mean something.

I believe those two and half tribes who wanted to inherit on that side of Jordon, without going over, represent these who do not inherit a glorified body, for they were content on that side of Jordon and did not go on into the PROMISE.

I believe this promise represents the Promise of the Holy Ghost. They did not want that, but only to follow God afar off.

By: Jo Smith ~~ Aug. 26, 2008