Psalm 91:11
For he will command his angels concerning you
to guard you in all your ways.
Yesterday we talked about how tenderly Father God cared for the Children of Israel in the desert. The desert - where we all really don't want to stay for 40 years. And Deuteronomy clears up some of the questions I had about this. One of the questions I'd have would be, how did the Children of Israel manage to leave Jericho - when Jericho is an oasis - how would you leave 40 years in the desert and leave this lush Jericho - I'd say Father God made the desert more comfortable. See Deuteronomy 2 Verse 7. God made them very comfortable - with the cloud, with the fire by night, with food and water.
Psalm 103
We will employ this Scripture today for the Exodus:
1 Bless the Lord, O my soul,
and all that is within me,
bless his holy name!
2 Bless the Lord, O my soul,
and forget not all his benefits,
3 who forgives all your iniquity,
who heals all your diseases,
4 who redeems your life from the pit,
who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,
5 who satisfies you with good
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
6 The Lord works righteousness
and justice for all who are oppressed.
7 He made known his ways to Moses,
his acts to the people of Israel.
8 The Lord is merciful and gracious,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
Psalm 103
Using this to see this for:
Esau - Moabites
Lot - Ammonites
12 as far as the east is from the west,
so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
13 As a father shows compassion to his children,
so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.
14 For he knows our frame;
he remembers that we are dust.
Psalm 103:16
for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more.
{Deuteronomy 20 (That too was considered a land of the Rephaites, who used to live there; but the Ammonites called them Zamzummites. 21 They were a people strong and numerous, and as tall as the Anakites. The Lord destroyed them from before the Ammonites, who drove them out and settled in their place. 22 The Lord had done the same for the descendants of Esau, who lived in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them. They drove them out and have lived in their place to this day. 23 And as for the Avvites who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorites coming out from Caphtor destroyed them and settled in their place.}
Deuteronomy 2:1-23
Then we turned back and set out toward the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea, as the Lord had directed me. For a long time we made our way around the hill country of Seir.
2 Then the Lord said to me, 3 “You have made your way around this hill country long enough; now turn north. 4 Give the people these orders: ‘You are about to pass through the territory of your relatives the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. They will be afraid of you, but be very careful. 5 Do not provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, not even enough to put your foot on. I have given Esau the hill country of Seir as his own. 6 You are to pay them in silver for the food you eat and the water you drink.’”
7 The Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness.
These forty years the Lord your God has been with you, and
you have not lacked anything.
8 So we went on past our relatives the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We turned from the Arabah road, which comes up from Elath and Ezion Geber, and traveled along the desert road of Moab.
9 Then the Lord said to me, “Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any part of their land. I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as a possession.”
10 (The Emites used to live there—a people strong and numerous, and as tall as the Anakites. 11 Like the Anakites, they too were considered Rephaites, but the Moabites called them Emites. 12 Horites used to live in Seir, but the descendants of Esau drove them out. They destroyed the Horites from before them and settled in their place, just as Israel did in the land the Lord gave them as their possession.)
13 And the Lord said, “Now get up and cross the Zered Valley.” So we crossed the valley.
14 Thirty-eight years passed from the time we left Kadesh Barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley.
By then, that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them. 15 The Lord’s hand was against them until he had completely eliminated them from the camp.
16 Now when the last of these fighting men among the people had died,
17 the Lord said to me, 18 “Today you are to pass by the region of Moab at Ar. 19 When you come to the Ammonites, do not harass them or provoke them to war, for I will not give you possession of any land belonging to the Ammonites. I have given it as a possession to the descendants of Lot.”
20 (That too was considered a land of the Rephaites, who used to live there; but the Ammonites called them Zamzummites. 21 They were a people strong and numerous, and as tall as the Anakites. The Lord destroyed them from before the Ammonites, who drove them out and settled in their place. 22 The Lord had done the same for the descendants of Esau, who lived in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them. They drove them out and have lived in their place to this day. 23 And as for the Avvites who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorites coming out from Caphtor destroyed them and settled in their place.)
I was immensely struck with mummies found in China going back at least 3 thousand years. One was from India, another from Europe, a woman dressed as nobility buried with a horse, another from another European nation. Another a Chinese child buried lovingly, perhaps with every blanket from the household. The scientists were perplexed at different styles of burial, and also perplexed at travel needed and how did the travel occur.
And it's place - will no it no more -
2 Timothy 3
The Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17so that the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work.
They lived in a range of structures - small family houses, larger structures to house clans, grand pueblos, and cliff-sited dwellings for defense. The Ancestral Puebloans links stretched across the Colorado Plateau linking hundreds of communities and populations. They are, sadly, not clearly known.
Look at the Nations changing hands. Anasazi Indians were thought to be their own tribe. The Ancestral Puebloans spanned present-day Four Corners region of the United States, comprising southeastern Utah, northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, and southwestern Colorado. Anasazi Indians were then a puzzle because Navajore flecting historic traditions, the term was used to mean "ancient enemies". Believed perhaps, now, to be from the Oshara Tradition, who developed from the Picosa culture.
We have talked quite a few times about Heaven echoes the earth - Father God as Creator. We should see that just as Africa begins Eve's mitochondrial DNA - Middle East history echoes across the earth. Like the lost Ancient Library of Alexandria.
We look to the Bible as a study of the repeat, un-changing behavior of mankind. Why do we believe borders do not change? My husband is French on his paternal side. Very French. Yet this part of France was solidified in the 17th century from - - - Italy. I have recently found my great-great grandmother has a very Italian name.
Now, how are we to see Psalm 91:11 as protection in change and war and borders changing?
For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.
One of the theories around the vast Anasazi Indians is actually climate change. Just as the people of Elizabeth I used the Thames River. in winter. to skate down the Thames going 40 or more miles per hour - the Anasazi might have left due to heat and drought.
Our Abba,
You are our refuge and strength,
a very present help in trouble.
We will not fear though the earth gives way,
though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea,
3though its waters roar and foam,
though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Selah
We will make the joyous noise of a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
the holy habitation of the Most High.
God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved;
God will help her when morning dawns.
The nations rage, the kingdoms totter;
Our Almighty Father utters His voice, the earth melts.
The Lord of hosts is with us.
And they woke him and said to him, “Jesus, do you not care that we are perishing?”
And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!”
And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
Jesus said to them, “Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?”
And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him?”
This our Jesus, where we want to be sealed forever in His Name and His Righteousness. We know this for ourselves and for our prayers for the people we Love and are given by God. No longer are we Eli, Samuel or Hezekiah accepting the loss.
The LORD said to Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things human beings look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart."
- Instead we are the Easter People of Jesus Christ saying, "I have faith, Jesus, help me to have more."
"'If you can'?" said Jesus. "Everything is possible for one who believes."
Alleluia and Amen.
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