Patterns! Patterns! Patterns!
Pretty much from the very earliest of stages when I first started writing this blog, I’ve always been obsessed with and have always vigorously promoted just how important it is to glean, understand and apply the many God-patterns embedded in the Torah (the first five books of Moses).
And while all the patterns are important, some patterns are more critical than others.
On that note, I’d like to re-introduce to you one of the most important God-patterns of all that was established in the very first book of Genesis where it says…
…”God saw that the light was good,
and he separated the light from the darkness.”
Or where the Lord said…
“Let there be a vault
between the waters
to separate water from water”
Do you have any idea which almighty God-pattern I might be talking about?
If you guessed the pattern of “Division, Election & Separation”, you nailed it.
From the very beginning, God instituted a sort of narrowing down process that would eventually result in the creation of an entity Scripture calls “The Kingdom of God”.
What’s important to understand is this process is NOT about universally including everybody and his or her grandmother.
The Lord’s kingdom is for MEMBERS ONLY folks and…
…the Lord has established the toughest of barriers to keep out the hypocrites, intruders and those who pretend to love and know the Lord but are in reality are from from Him.
Yeshua identified them quite accurately when he said…
“And then will I declare to them,
‘I never knew you;
depart from me,
you workers of lawlessness.”
-Matthew 7:23
Eventually, this narrowing down process will decrease the whole world’s population to just a tiny remnant of people who love, trust and are obedient to the Lord with all of their hearts, souls and minds.
This is the body of believers in Messiah who Paul identifies as the true spiritual Israel in the Book of Romans.
Can you see how God has been dividing, electing and separating mankind throughout all history?
Notice also how it’s diametrically opposed to the politically correct world’s way of doing things that wants to erase God-established divisions especially with regards to Israel.
Heck, the world wants to do away with distinctions to the point where they even want to erase the division between the sexes!
CONNECTING THIS TEACHING TO THE NEW TESTAMENT
“Enter through the narrow gate.
For wide is the gate
and broad is the road
that leads to destruction,
and many enter through it.
But small is the gate
and narrow the road
that leads to life,
and only a few find it.”
-Matthew 7:13-14
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