STORY OF SCRIPTURE [C.U. – Mass-‘God’s Divine conspiracy’]
https://youtu.be/1o8HPvN3GTQ Story of scripture
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.
And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the
spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom
they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his
only son, and shall be in bitterness for him,
as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
ON VIDEO-
.Hard rain
.Church Unlimited- Mass verses
.Laptop ‘shop’
.Kings too
.process
.Joseph
.Abrahamic covenant
.Stephen’s sermon
.Pharaoh
.Moses
.Joshua- Caleb
.It’s all about Christ
NOTE- As I was typing this- I got a text- ‘Brother Skinner
passed away’. He was my first Pastor- a very good man. I was his youth pastor
and also filled in for him at times. He helped me start my first jail ministry
in Kingsville- and was a true bible preacher. I hope to mention him on an
upcoming video [2 videos behind as of now] but if I forget- please pray for his
family- he’s with Jesus today.
NEW [Past teaching- verses below]
Today I talked about
some of the verses from the Mass and Church Unlimited.
It fits in with the whole theme I have been teaching his
past year-
Just a few points.
God made a promise to Abraham that he would make him a great
nation [Israel]-
Genesis
12:1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from
thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:Genesis 12:2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: [Mass verse]
Over time Abraham had Isaac- Isaac had Jacob- and Jacob’s
name was changed to Israel.
One of Jacob’s sons- Joseph- was sold into Egypt- and over
time he became the deliverer for his whole family.
Though his brothers rejected him- yet he was the one who was
destined to save them.
As the people multiplied in the land of Egypt- Pharaoh
oppressed them.
Then God sent them another deliverer- Moses.
Yet he too was initially rejected by his people- just like
Jesus was.
Then we come to Act's chapter 7 [the chapter quoted from Church
Unlimited].
Stephen recounts the
entire history of Israel and focuses in on these biblical figures- and how they
were all pointing to Christ.
The history from Abraham to Moses up until the time of
Jesus- was all part of the Divine plan of God.
The true ‘promised Land’ was entering in to the covenant
rest of grace [Hebrews]-
8 For if
Joshua had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another
day.
9 There
remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
Heb.
God fulfilled the promises to the Fathers- he called
prophets and leaders to bring the people along the way.
But at the end of the day- everything came to its true fulfillment
in Christ.
I taught some of Act’s chapter 7- and covered the story of Joseph
in the later part of Genesis.
I’ll add the key links/teachings below.
But overall we do see a unity of scripture- how over many centuries
God brought his people along a Divine timeline.
Often times they did know know the full import of what was
going on.
But that’s ok- part of the faith journey is to be obedient-
even when we have no idea where we are going! [Abraham]-
Hebrews
11:8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he
should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing
whither he went.
But if we keep walking in faith- in the end the promise will
come to pass.
If we simply believe.
PAST POSTS [things I taught before that relate to today’s
post- ‘story of scripture’]
Below are 2 chapters on my commentary on Genesis where I
talk about the butler and baker- I mentioned this in today’s video ‘story of
scripture’-
(716) GENESIS
40- Joseph is in prison and Pharaohs chief men get thrown in jail. His butler
[the guy who tastes the wine before the king drinks it, to make sure it’s OK]
and the baker. One day Joseph notices there sad faces ‘what’s wrong guys’? They
tell him they both had dreams the previous night. They were troubled that they
did not know what the dreams meant. Does Joseph say ‘O, you had too much pizza
last night’ or ‘don’t you know we have the books of Moses completed! There are
no more prophetic dreams.’ Instead he says ‘God is the one who can give the
interpretation of dreams’. It is understood that some dreams have meaning and
come from God. You find this all thru out scripture. I’ll be honest, I have
recently had some prophetic dreams but have stopped sharing them on the site.
Why? These last few years there have been so many prophecies shared and put on
line and I feel the consumers of these words are not getting a steady diet of
scripture and New Testament Christianity. I just read a ‘prophetic word’ that spoke
of ‘why we are not getting the end time harvest of money yet’ it went into
‘targeting the demonic forces holding back the cash’ and other techniques to
use to get the money. I have written and even sent some of our teachings to
some of these brothers. Could it be the reason all the wealth hasn’t been
released is because we are viewing the ‘end time transfer of wealth’ from an
unbiblical standpoint? So I too have grown weary of all the ‘prophecies and
dreams’ that seem to miss the mark. But here Joseph jumps write into the fray
and interprets the dreams. He tells the butler ‘your dream means in 3 days you
will be restored and hold the kings wine glass again’. The baker likes the word
and asks ‘what about my dream’? ‘In three days Pharaoh will hang you on the
gallows’ OUCH. Never mind Joseph, I don’t believe in prophecy any way. The
dreams do have prophetic significance. The wine and bread [baker] speak of the
Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. The 3rd day speaks of the mighty
resurrection of the Son of God. Jesus offered his Body [bread] as a sacrifice
for all humanity. He ‘hung’ on the Cross for us, just like the baker hung on
the gallows. Jesus also was ‘lifted up’ out of the ‘prison’ the 3rd
day and once again was restored to his previous position at the right hand of
God. He took ‘the cup of his Blood [wine] and presented it once again to his
father’. I think these dreams were prophetic.
(729)GENESIS
41- Joseph is sitting in prison for 2 full years after he was promised by the
‘cup holder’ to advocate for his cause once he was released! The cup holder
forgot to mention it! I think one of the most unjust things that has happened
in society has been these brothers who have been falsely accused of some
terrible crime and spent years in prison and then later were found to be
innocent. I think this is why we need to really rethink the death penalty. Now
Pharaoh has these dreams and he calls all of his wise men in and no one can
interpret the dream. At this point the cup holder realizes his wrong. He tells
Pharaoh that when he was in prison a guy interpreted his dream. Sure enough,
after years in jail and having been persecuted by his brothers and sold into
slavery, at the age of 30 he finally begins inheriting some stuff. Joseph was
17 when the problems started, he is now 30. 13 years of suffering and
obscurity. Now, scripture says ‘see a man skilled in his work, he will stand
before kings. He will not serve obscure men’ [Proverbs? It’s a newer version of
the bible]. God was ordering things in Joseph’s life to ‘bring him before
kings’ men of influence. He was 'accidentally' sold to an officer of pharaoh.
He then gets thrown in jail and runs into the ‘chief butler and chief baker’
and now he gets a shot at pharaoh! It was the hand of God positioning him to be
in a place of influence. Joseph will interpret pharaohs dreams to mean 7 years
of famine will follow 7 years of plenty [read the chapter, I didn’t include the
dreams in this entry]. Pharaoh says ‘great, what should we do about it?’ Joseph
says ‘how about you find the wisest, smartest most impressive man in your
country [gee, I wonder who this could be?] and put him in charge and have him
collect a fifth of all the lands produce during the time of plenty and then he
can distribute the food during the harvest’. Pharaoh says ‘sounds like a great
idea! And who is wiser than you Joseph, you’re the man’. Joseph basically
pulled a Dick Cheney [for those reading this in a hundred years, Cheney is the
current vice president of George Bush] Bush hired Cheney to find the most
qualified vice president he could recruit. Sure enough Cheney says ‘it’s me!’
So Joseph carries out the plan, Pharaoh puts him in charge of the whole
country. Pharaoh says ‘only in my official title am I higher than you’. Joseph
is truly running everything! He didn’t despise his day of ‘small things’. He
ran Potiphars house, then the prison and now the country! Joseph is a type of
Christ here. Pharaoh says ‘I give all authority to you, the nation will stand
or fall on your word’. Jesus told the people in John’s gospel ‘My words will
judge you in that day’. Joseph truly is a man of power and authority. He has 2
kids in this chapter. Manasseh and Ephraim. Their names mean ‘God has caused me
to forget all my previous trials’ and ‘God has made me fruitful in the land of
my affliction’. Isaiah says ‘remember not the former things, nether consider
the things of old, behold I do a new thing. Shall ye know it? I will make a way
in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. Before these things happen I
declare them unto you, so when they come to pass you will know I ordained it’.
Also Joseph tells Pharaoh ‘God has revealed to you what he is going to do’ by
giving him the dreams. Joseph understood that it was Gods purpose to reveal his
plan ahead of time to Pharaoh. The coming to pass of these dreams on a national
scale was proof positive of the ‘God of Joseph’ being the true God! I remember
hearing a testimony of a Muslim tribe who all converted to Jesus in a single
day. One morning one of the men woke up and shared a dream he had. He explained
how he saw Jesus in the dream. As word spread they soon realized that every
single person in the tribe all had the same dream the previous night! When God
reveals himself on a wide scale like this it leads to whole nations [groups of
people] converting. As Joseph stores up the food for 7 years he strategically
puts the food in store house cities thru out the land. This is a type of Jesus
future revolutionary movement. In Matthew 13 Jesus speaks of the kingdom as
seeds. Both the people and the word are described as seed in this chapter. When
Jesus sent out the disciples they were distributing seed [the message] as well
as being ‘seed’ [Jesus says the good seed were the children of the kingdom
planted and growing in the world]. In essence Jesus was placing garners
[communities of people] filled with seed all over the region. Paul himself will
target the influential cities of his day with the gospel. He knew if he could
spread the fire to strategic places it would take root. So Joseph has all this
‘grain in the barn’ just waiting to bust loose during the famine. And sure
enough the famine comes and everyone turns to ‘the garners of wheat in the
storehouse cities’ for their sustenance. I believe the people of God, Gods
‘fine wheat’ are truly the ones with the answer to society’s ills. Jesus has
planted us ‘in the world’ [not in the church building!] so when the times of
famine come, people can run to us for the ‘bread of life’.
VERSES- [These are the verses I talked about on today’s video
‘Story of scripture’
Acts 7:1 Then said the high priest, Are these things so?
Acts 7:2 And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God
of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before
he dwelt in Charran,
Acts 7:3 And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from
thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.
Acts 7:4 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt
in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this
land, wherein ye now dwell.
Acts 7:5 And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much
as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a
possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.
Acts 7:6 And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn
in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat
them evil four hundred years.
Acts 7:7 And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I
judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this
place.
Acts 7:8 And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so
Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob;
and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.
Acts 7:9 And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into
Egypt: but God was with him,
Acts 7:10 And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave
him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him
governor over Egypt and all his house.
Acts 7:11 Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and
Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
Acts 7:12 But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he
sent out our fathers first.
Acts 7:13 And at the second time Joseph was made known to his
brethren; and Joseph's kindred was made known unto Pharaoh.
Acts 7:14 Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him,
and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
Acts 7:15 So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our
fathers,
Acts 7:16 And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the
sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the
father of Sychem.
Acts 7:17 But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God
had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
Acts 7:18 Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph.
Acts 7:19 The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil
entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end
they might not live.
Acts 7:20 In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair,
and nourished up in his father's house three months:
Acts 7:21 And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him
up, and nourished him for her own son.
Acts 7:22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the
Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
Acts 7:23 And when he was full forty years old, it came into his
heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
Acts 7:24 And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him,
and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:
Acts 7:25 For he supposed his brethren would have understood how
that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.
Acts 7:26 And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they
strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren;
why do ye wrong one to another?
Acts 7:27 But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away,
saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?
Acts 7:28 Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian
yesterday?
Acts 7:29 Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in
the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.
Acts 7:30 And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him
in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a
bush.
Acts 7:31 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he
drew near to behold it, the voice of the LORD came unto him,
Acts 7:32 Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham,
and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not
behold.
Acts 7:33 Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy
feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.
Acts 7:34 I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people
which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver
them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.
Acts 7:35 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 7:36 He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders
and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty
years.
Acts 7:37 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.
Acts 7:38 This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness
with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who
received the lively oracles to give unto us:
Acts 7:39 To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from
them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
Acts 7:40 Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as
for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is
become of him.
Acts 7:41 And they made a calf in those days, and offered
sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
Acts 7:42 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of
heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel,
have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years
in the wilderness?
Acts 7:43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star
of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry
you away beyond Babylon.
Acts 7:44 Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the
wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it
according to the fashion that he had seen.
Acts 7:45 Which also our fathers that came after brought in with
Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face
of our fathers, unto the days of David;
Acts 7:46 Who found favour before God, and desired to find a
tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
Acts 7:47 But Solomon built him an house.
Acts 7:48 Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with
hands; as saith the prophet,
Acts 7:49 Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what
house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?
Acts 7:50 Hath not my hand made all these things?
Acts 7:51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye
do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
Acts 7:52 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 7:53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels,
and have not kept it.
Acts 7:54 When they heard these things, they were cut to the
heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
Acts 7:55 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up
stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the
right hand of God,
Acts 7:56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son
of man standing on the right hand of God.
Acts 7:57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their
ears, and ran upon him with one accord,
Acts 7:58 And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the
witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul.
Acts 7:59 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying,
Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
Acts 7:60 And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord,
lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
For
Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all
things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
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.
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
How
much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than
silver!
16 For some,
when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by
Moses.
17 But with
whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose
carcases fell in the wilderness?
18 And to
whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that
believed not?
19 So we see
that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
Heb.
And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the
spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they
shall mourn for him, as
one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in
bitterness for his firstborn.
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