The Sword of the LORD

"And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God." (Revelation 21:3).     There are those who might be surprised to learn that the Bible refers specifically to six distinct temples of God. There are the four most obvious, which are: Moses' tabernacle in the wilderness which God commanded Israel to build after they made their exodus from Egypt; Solomon's great temple in Jerusalem; Ezra's temple which was built by the children of the captivity when they returned from Babylon; and Herod's temple which stood during the time of Christ and was destroyed by the Romans.  The other two temples are less obvious because they are less visible to the natural eye.  The first of these is the temple of God in the heavens after which every other temple has been patterned.  "The point of what we are saying is this:

I recently read a passage of scripture out of the book of Exodus which blessed me greatly.   It is from the twenty-third chapter of Exodus, verses 20-33, and is some of the words that God spoke directly to Moses when the latter went up to Mt. Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments from the Lord.   They are especially precious to me because they contain many great promises for God’s people and hold such relevance for today.          ·          20 “Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.”   God promised to send an angel before the Israelites to keep them and guide them to the place which He had prepared for them to be.   What a wonderful thing to know that God has prepared a place for us!   Jesus said, “I go to prepare a place for you.” (John 14:2).   The Angel of the Lord appeared in a pillar of cloud and of fire to Israel, and the cloud led them through the desert toward the Promised Land.   If it move

"And He [Jesus] saith unto them, Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men .  And they straightway left their nets, and followed Him .  And going on from thence, He saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and He called them.  And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed Him . " (Matthew 4:22).    "And as Jesus passed forth from thence, He saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and He saith unto him, Follow Me.   And he arose, and followed Him ." (Matthew 9:9).     God's call on our lives can be boiled down to this one simple invitation, "Follow Me."   How we choose to respond to this invitation will determine our spiritual health from that point on in our lives.   It is the very essence of the Gospel message and is the fountainhead of the streams of Living Water.     As the Lord Jesus walked the shores o