I want to take you back in time to Mount Sinai and a man named Moses who became a type and shadow of Jesus Christ.
Exodus 34 tells us that the Lord said to Moses to be ready and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai and present yourself there to Me on the top of the mountain. And the Lord descended in the cloud and stood there with him as he called upon the name of the Lord. What was this cloud? It was the manifested presence of God in all of His glory. And so it was there that the glory of Jehovah was revealed unto His servant Moses and a covenant was reestablished between God and Israel. The Lord also told him that His presence would go with him and He would give him rest. So when Moses came down from the mountain the scripture tells us that his face shinned and that when the people saw him they were fearful and would not approach him.
What was it that they feared? I don't think it was Moses himself, but that they feared the manifestation that was taking place in front of their eyes. They did not understand the power of the Glory of the Lord that had transformed him. Moses had spent forty days and forty nights in the Lord's presence and experienced His Glory in a way that he hadn't before and his countenance confirmed that. How could Moses not have changed once he had entered into the Glory of God and seen Him as an all consuming fire?
But what had the Lord done in Moses life?
The Lord had forever etched the encounter of His glory into Moses heart and burned His fire into his spirit. God had anointed him with power, wisdom, understanding and the knowledge to help bring forth destiny's purpose. He also told Moses that He would perform miracles which had not been produced in all the earth, nor among the nations; and that all the people would see the working of the Lord. Wow, what a promise!
Beloved, this is what the Lord wants to do in the midst of His people today. He wants to show forth His glory in and through the church in a powerful and miraculous way. He wants the world to see the church as an extension of Himself so the nations would be drawn to and experience the working of the Lord(His glory) in the church and through the body of Christ.
What do I mean by an "extension? In the law of Physics this word means: The state of having magnitude in three-dimensional space. Physics is the science of matter and energy, and their interaction.
So when we (matter) come into interaction with the Spirit (energy) we are going to experience His Glory that will cause a magnification of the gifts of the Spirit, signs, wonders and miracles of healing, deliverance's, restoration and freedom in the lives of His people and the world. And the world will see that what we have is genuine and the veil that has been over their eyes will be removed. They will understand that the God that we serve is the God they have been searching for. The harvest is coming and God is going to use those who are seeking Him with their whole hearts and are willing to pay the price of death to self and say, God, not my will be done, but Thine.
While Moses was on the mountain top God also told him to be sure to observe what I am commanding you this day and that He was going to drive out Israel's enemy before them so they could take the land that God had promised them. He also instructed them to watch, (which meant that they were to be guarded and watch as as watchman on the wall, to protect and to be beware of an impending enemy) that would want to snare them into making a covenant with them.
The Lord has placed us as "Watchman on the wall" and He is warning us to be aware and alert, because the enemy presents himself as a friend, but in truth, he has set a trap to snare God's people into complacency and religious works of the flesh that would keep us in bondage and legalism. We have worshiped man and set him up like Israel's molten calf, because of lost faith and vision. We have allowed the veil of flesh to cover our spiritual eyes so we don't have to face our own sin. Rise up Watchman! awake from your slumber and no longer make covenant with the enemy of your soul. Tear down the altars in your heart and smash the plans of the enemy. Decide this day not to agree with the lies of the enemy and allow the Spirit to take away the veil from your eyes and bring liberty and understanding.
In II Corinthians 3: Paul is talking about a new covenant and not of the letter of the law of Moses but of the Spirit. But that a veil remain today over their hearts and that it can only be removed in Christ. But when a man turns to the Lord, that veil is taken away. This includes all of us who are under the new covenant weather Jew or Gentile.
In II Corinthians 3:17 & 18 it tells us:
Verse 17: Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Verse 18: But we all with open face (to unveil and taken away) behold (see reflected) as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image(likeness & representation) from glory to glory even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
The word changed in this scripture will cause you to get excited because it comes from the Greek word; Metamorphose and means: Completely transformed and changed in form, appearance and character. In other words a complete change in every area and every way so that you and I would not be recognizable.
God will take those from glory to glory that are seeking this change and allow a Metamorphosis to take place in their lives. He is calling us to look and see the truth that will transform us and prepare us for the Glory of the Lord. He wants to teach us to wait for the Spirit and lead us into worship that will usher us into the very presence of God. He says, come to the mountain top of the Lord where you will never be the same. Do you want to go? Are you willing to climb the mountain of the Lord and present yourself to Me? Here is where you will find rest and a place in me that can only be found in my Glory.
Blessings,
Elma Garlock
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