Exodus 24:
9 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of
the elders of Israel:
10 And they saw the God of Israel:
Beloved, God is extending this privilege to “come up” to some in
this hour! This is God’s undying principle. May this principle be
active in our lives! A people are ascending the heights in Christ
Jesus and they are receiving a vision of God. This does not happen
automatically by virtue of being a part of the company of saints who
teach and believe such truth! No. Each one needs to maintain a
spiritual life within; one needs to maintain a taste and fitness for
the heights. Let us praise God that there are some who are slowly
coming into a vision of God in these days. Moses and seventy-four
others saw God while others were still in the plains! They were
privileged to see God. This spiritual seeing of God is very
essential. When we begin to see Him with our spiritual eyes, we will
be able to see His purpose as well. And there will be an unfolding
of His plan, His will and His purpose. Then you will be able to give
yourself to the work of the Holy Spirit and allow the Lord to do
that He wants to do. Who will be available for such a work to be
done upon their lives? Many times we want to strive and struggle in
our strength to live the Christ-life. We try to figure out things in
our mind and try to help God. All these things happen because our
eyes are not as open as they ought to be. But if we maintain an
ascendancy, if we are sensitive to the nudging of the Spirit of God,
if our eyes are open to see the Lord and His ways, then we shall
cease to strive in that realm any more. We would be quick to give in
and let His will be done. If our eyes have been opened we will know
that it is not a matter of striving, but of experiencing the work of
the Holy Spirit of Truth. For He must have His way and do His will.
Beloved, God is revealing Himself to a people in this hour and they
are getting a vision of His purposes, and His Holy City, the New
Jerusalem. The thought in Exodus 24 conveys that there was an
invitation from God to come up. “And they went up and they saw.” It
begins with a personal invitation to come away from the present
world. The religious world with all its husks and dunghill, customs
and traditions, routines, activities and personal interests must be
put aside. Our routines and interests may seem to be good and
profitable to us and we may be caught up in these good things, but
we are to leave these and come up to the mount of God! In Revelation
4, the Lord told John to come up. When John saw the condition of the
churches in his time, he was greatly discouraged. These churches
which had a splendid beginning had lost their focus and purpose of
their calling. The Lord judged them and found them wanting! They
moved away from God’s original, initial and primal purpose. His
counsel was to repent or else He would remove them from the
Candlestick.. In the midst of such decline and deterioration, John
still heard the Lord. John was invited to “come up” to meet Him. We
are living in similar times. The churches have lost the original,
primal and initial purpose of God. John experienced an open door of
heaven and saw the One who sat upon the throne. This is our need
today! Oh, if only we could hear His voice and the invitation to
come up! Saints we need to hear Him and we also need to desire to go
up to Him in these terrible times of apostasy and decline. Our need
is to “come up” and behold Him. If we look around, we will be
discouraged and will be overcome by the things around us. Saints, we
need to experience something real and eternal, something that will
bring us in touch with His divine presence. God’s people need to
turn away from this downward trend and maintain a spiritual
ascendancy in our lives. The invitation to Moses and others to go up
to the mount was not only a personal one but a corporate one. The
Scripture says, “And they saw” (Exod 24:10). “They” refers to a
remnant of His people and a many-member-man. I feel that an
individual seeing will bring us to a corporate ‘seeing’. How
important it is to have a people who would see together what is upon
the heart of the Lord! But this is not automatic; it depends on our
openness and our separation unto the Lord. God had something to
share with Moses. Therefore, the Lord told Moses to “come up”. Then
the Lord gave him the description, the pattern and the blue print of
the Tabernacle which is given in Chapters 25 to 40 of the Book of
Exodus Saints, remember, if the Lord is calling you up, it means
that the Lord desires to unfold something to you. What God speaks is
not quite likely to be something that you want to hear, but it would
be something that God has upon His heart for you, individually and
corporately.
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