21 Jul 2024

Preview And Foretype — July 21, 2024

Josephus Oluwatoyin Thomas Preached: July 21, 2024

Introduction

“So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.”Deuteronomy 34: 5 – 6

God held his funeral Himself. The only man we have record of. God buried Moses, and He conducted his funeral, but something took place.

Jude 1 of the 9th verse, Satan was there to meet God, and it said that Satan disputed about the body of Moses, that it should be left there, give it over to him and his worms, and he disputed it. And the Bible said the Archangel, Michael, said, didn’t even argue with him about it, He said, the Lord rebuke thee. Now, we know who He is, the Lord rebuke you. You are not going to get him.

And Jesus walked over, and they began to talk. Now, boys, these people are real, He told His disciples. I’m talking to them. And there was Moses and Elijah, and the Bible said they communicated and talked together about His decease that was coming. He said, what you fellas worked so hard for, and the times that it seemed impossible in all that you went through, now, He said, I’m going to fulfill the desires of your heart. Both of you, I love you, I’ve got you right here with me. And Moses and Elijah was standing there, and Jesus was talking about His decease, and evidently, later, about Him being raised back again, and will meet them.

The Lord recalled Moses, who had died hundreds of years earlier, and Elijah, who went to heaven in a chariot of fire hundreds of years earlier (2 Kings 2: 11), to meet Him on the mount of transfiguration. He was telling them how appreciative He was of the work that they did. It means Moses and Elijah, and all the Prophets in the Old Testament, were pointing towards the coming of the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ, to die for our sins and to heal us. He was the eternal One that came down in the form of a man and visited His people. He is the mighty God (Isaiah 9: 6).

Moses raised the brazen serpent in the wilderness, and many of those that were dying lived (Numbers 21: 6 – 9).

And we find out, on the cross, it is finished. By whose stripes you are healed. And Moses held this up, this brazen serpent. It’s like type of Christ being raised up, who took it all off, and He took all the sickness off, He took all of the sins out, He took everything. Now you believe they are gone.

You don’t have to always say, Lord, take my sins. Only once is good enough. Say, Lord, I believe you’ve taken my sins. Say, Lord, I believe you are healing my body, and I praise you for it. It’s been taken away, and I believe it in my heart, my sins are gone, I believe you took them off, by whose stripes you are healed, by whose blood I am saved. The Bible gives it as past tense. Even in the Old Testament, He gives it as past tense, who forgiveth all thine iniquities, and who healeth all thy diseases. And all over the Bible, it says it as if God has put it in the past. It’s only the people that do not believe, that keeps bringing it to the future, and Satan can use that. But, He took your sins away at the cross, they are gone.

And when you are glorified, and have eternal life, there’ll be no more such thing as time. You’ll be out of that dimension into the eternal dimension, and that one don’t wear out. And that one don’t end, saith the Lord.

What an eternal God, our Lord Jesus Christ, that we serve. Praise ye the Lord.

You will be blessed.
Josephus Oluwatoyin Thomas

Summary of the Sermon

We listened to a sermon titled “Preview And Foretype”, CD # 1084, preached by Brother Neal Frisby.

In the sermon, Brother Frisby said:

In case the people couldn’t really get the Messiah coming, from the Old Testament on through and what He would do, the Lord began to type it in characters, and He will get into characters, and many of the acts and things that happened to them happened when the Messiah would come. And there’s no two better, I don’t believe, than Moses and Joseph.

This morning, we are going to be preaching about Moses a little bit, and how that Joseph foretyped too. Then He come right back, Joseph first, then He come back as a double witness, and then He foretyped it again through Moses.

If they had known those characters coming, they would have recognized the Lord as soon as He came. They didn’t have to have just the Scriptures on it, but if they could look at the character of the prophets, then they would have realized that it was the Lord Jesus that was standing before them and where He had come from and he cometh at the time that He said He would come from. And instead of that, the Pharisees knew Him not and only a few recognized who He was. Even many of those, healed and worked great miracles, never did figure out just exactly. They knew He was the Messiah of some type, and a great One that had power, but many of those didn’t exactly know that He was the eternal One that came down in the form of a man and visited His people. But many began to see it and see what it was all about.

In the very beginning, the Lord gave the children of Israel a chance to have universal priesthood with Him, and that He would talk directly to them. Instead, they said no, let this Moses be a go-between. The mount thundered, and so forth. They heard the voice of the Almighty, and they turned it down, universal priesthood right there with Him. Instead, let Moses, let him be the go-between, the great mediator. Well, Moses was not the great mediator, but he typed it out. The great mediator was the Lord Himself, to come as a Messiah. There’s your great mediator among men.

So, in many ways, Moses was a type of Christ.

When he was born, and according to what the Lord told Abraham about the stars, and so forth, how his seed will come forth, there’ll be signs. And about the time, the birth of Moses, evidently, even in those times, they’d seen something different in the heavens, it was taking place. And they knew something was coming there, and through history, it bears it out, also in Egyptian records. But through history, it bears it out about Christ when He was coming; comet came first, great signs, and conjunctions, begin to come in the heavens, and actually the light of God. And these were signs that were around the Messiah baby that was coming. That’s recorded in history and the Bible said there’ll be signs and wonders. And around Moses’ time, evidently, according to the historical facts that we have there, there were signs.

Now Pharaoh was the one that knew not Joseph. And they knew a deliverer was coming. They knew one was coming. And so, he ordered, at that time, all of the children, he said because of the population, so forth, but they feared a manchild, one that would come and deliver them out of the land. And so, they told them to destroy all the babies up to two years old during the Egyptian kingdom. And the Bible at the time, that Moses, he was going to get him, see, Satan was going to get him.

The signs in the heavens, both with Christ, both with Moses.

His life was attempted at birth, as Christ’s was. They said kill all the babies and we’ll get Moses. Moses was hidden, put away, and Pharaoh’s own daughter picked it up. God is cunning and very powerful, how to hide one. Now, Jesus, the same way. Here, Herod get light of it, and said kill all the babies, from birth right up to two years old. We’ll get rid of this.

And Moses was in Egypt when this took place and God hid him. So, the Lord took baby Jesus. Where did He go? He took Him out and put Him into Egypt. Remember the dream period, Joseph, and so forth; get thee hence. Herod is killing all the children up to two. He’s going to try to get hold of the Messiah, same as Moses at that time. So, what did God do? He turned around and hid Him in Egypt. So, He went into Egypt until Herod died, and He come forth back to His ministry, and back into Israel at that time. But, same as Moses, He was hidden in Egypt.

And hidden right under the nose of Pharaoh, and he didn’t know anything about it. In fact, Jesus was right under the nose of Herod, he didn’t know where He was at. Remember, the wise men come in. And he said, I don’t know anything. All these signs in the heavens, you don’t know where He’s at? But when you find Him, you let me know.

You see, they were so set in their ways about the credence of men, and the dogmas, the different kind of ways that they had at that time, their false religion, that they missed Him a million miles. They didn’t know where He was at. If they had watched, and listen to the people, they would have knew.

So, his life was attempted at birth, and so was Jesus, the same way. God hid both of them there.

So, that’s one way that Moses typed Him out.

He tried to deliver his brethren, but he was rejected. Moses, one time, got up too early. He was going to deliver his brethren, but He was rejected and he had to flee at that time. Jesus, same way, rose up to deliver His brethren. He delivered many multitudes of people at that time, but He also was rejected, and He was crucified. So, both were rejected at that time. And then, Moses was accepted back to deliver the people, and at the end of the age, Jesus will come for the rest of them. We find out in the New Testament, and the Book of Revelation, and He will revive again. The Hebrews that He has chosen will come back to Him, and He will deliver them.

Moses, being a Jew, turned and married a Gentile bride. Now, the Bible said that Jesus, turned from the Jews, and He’ll also will have a Gentile bride, that’s the New Testament church. He turned from the Jews, then He’ll have the Jews as His son. They’ll be a type of His friends, and so forth like that. But the closest thing to His heart, He’d turned and got Him a Gentile, that’s the Gentile message that we preach today. The Jews had it for 4,000 years, then turned down what they had been taught.

Now, we have it for 2,000 years. He turns to the Gentiles, and we’ve taught it, and finally, what’s going to happen? The Bible said the Gentiles will finally turn down what they’ve been taught, and only a few remain with the ancient Bible, like it stands today, and they will be translated; the rest will go through great tribulation.

They were blinded, God blinded them out, so He took a Gentile bride, the same as Moses did.

He was called of God to redeem Israel, and to bring Israel back, to redeem it. And also, Moses, was called to redeem Israel, and bring them out of it.

Moses was given signs. God said look at thine hands, so forth, the staff that you have here. And He gave him signs and He gave him wonders, and great lights, and power that was with Moses. Jesus also came with signs and wonders to His people, and the fire of God upon Him, and He turned to His people. So both of them had signs to deliver.

Moses fed the children of Israel with manna, a type of the bread of life which Christ gave spiritually, and also, as the manna come out of heaven, and down, and fed the children of Israel. Jesus appeared in Israel, and some of the very few first acts that He did, a little later on, that He turned and fed 5,000, like manna from heaven; He just kept creating it.

So, Moses fed the children of Israel like that, Jesus turns and feed the children again. The same way, typing it right out.

Now, if you look in the Bible, and Joseph is truly a great one too, if you look in the Bible, you see the characters of those prophets. Sometimes, Elijah did things that match, but these are two of the greatest that you can come to, and there’s a few more.

If they’d just look, not only will they read in the Scriptures about a coming Messiah, but they kind of caught how He would be, how powerful, the way that He would do in miracles, the signs and the wonders, and about His birth, and all of this, if they’d just watched and understood those Scriptures, they would have caught it in a minute, way before they crucified Him. They would have got it within six months of His birth. In fact, they would knew He would be coming that way, cause Moses, it’s in the Old Testament, where Moses himself spoke it. Now, spoken again in Acts 7: 37. It said, the Lord your God, children of Israel, shall raise up a prophet, that like unto me, and Him shall ye hear at that time. In other words, they wouldn’t all accept Him, but they would hear Him. It said it would be like Moses. In other words, He would come in the form of man, the Lord God shall raise up a God prophet, be like unto me in power and He shall come.

And Moses fed the children. He fed the children, and also gave them spiritual bread. He gave them something that Moses couldn’t exactly give them. He gave them eternal life, salvation.

He fasted on the mount 40 days and nights; he was on the mount. Jesus went into the wilderness; Moses was in the wilderness. Jesus went into the mount, into the wilderness, and He fasted 40 days and nights. Moses did it again when he went back up there. We don’t know how many times before Jesus’ ministry was over; and just before He died, He fasted. We do not know all that.

After he fasted, his face shone on the mount, and they couldn’t behold Moses because the glory of the God was so powerful upon him. God was doing two things: He was reserving that body, preserving it, the body of Moses, and yet there was so much glory inside of him, it broke out through his eyes, flash; it came out of his ears, nose and everywhere. When he breathed, it just rolled out.

You remember Jesus, His eyes turned to fire in the Book of Revelations, typing him right on out. You remember the glory around him, he’s going to type Him right straight on out through. In fact, it scared them, they run from him. He put a vail over his face.

The Lord, in the Bible, when He looked, His eyes, fire come down over Armageddon, just destroyed things. It says out of His mouth, saith the Lord, came forth the sword, it turned to fire, a brightness, and a power. Out of His mouth came a brightness that destroyed Lucifer.

He fasted on the mount, and his face shone for 40 days and nights, and his face shone with great power.

Jesus’ face shone on the mount of transfiguration. When He took the three disciples, and He went upon the mount, and He stood on the mount, and His face was transfigured before them, in light. And the disciples were able to look upon Him, with a voice and thunder in there, and a cloud. Now, they looked over there, and here stood Moses and Elijah. Now, they recognized them, just like those 144,000 Hebrews going to recognize them two prophets. It’s probably those very two. Men have long wondered which two it’s going to be. They knew Elijah is going to be one of them. But they thought about Enoch, but it said Enoch should not die. These two witnesses die.

His face glistened, changed like cosmic lightning. It just rolled back, the old skin rolled back, and there they saw Him and He stood right there, He said tell no man about this now.

Now, there’s a real mystery that’s connected to this transfiguration. Those two men are standing there, Moses and Elijah.

He said tell no man now because Jesus hadn’t went to the cross yet.

He was a great intercessor. Jesus in the wilderness was a great intercessor. Moses in the wilderness, he was one of the greatest intercessors of all time, he outdone them all. And he would go into that wilderness.

One time, God had got so fed up with the children of Israel, the way they did Him, the miracles, and so forth that He performed, until He told Moses, He said these people, He said let me destroy them. But God knew who He had called. And let me raise up another one by you, Moses, and we’ll have a whole new one here. And Moses said, no, it shall not be, Lord. If you take them, take me. Because Moses believed in his heart that God had a plan. And he believed He was being tested. He told the Lord, no, Lord. He said, I don’t want you to raise them up by me; they may be worse than the ones you’ve got, is what he might have thought. Because, you know, he was married to a Gentile, but he knew he wanted to bring that back out right. So, those Jews will be there at the end of the age. So, he decided not to do that. He told the Lord, no. But out of his heart, he was humble. The meekest man upon the earth, the Bible said. No, Lord, I don’t want to be a great one like that. Enough of problems, these right here, we are not going to start another one. So, the Lord knew he would do that. There was the mediator. He stood in the gap like Christ.

Judgment would have fell upon them at the time that Christ come. The seven judgments of the world. The seventh one, it would destroy everything at that time on this earth. The Roman Empire that was there. The great Roman Empire that controlled everything. All the Hebrews, Jews, and the way everybody was acting upon the earth at that time. Judgment was about to fall on the face of the earth. And it stood, the seventh time, since Adam and Eve. It would fall, like in the flood, like Sodom and Gomorrah, through Jewish history, and world history. And now, we come, the seventh one of those that took place, and it fell upon a perfect man, fulfillment fell upon Christ.

And the judgment, this world, fell upon Christ. Therefore, it was taken off the world, and He saved the world at that point, and allowed several more thousand years. Remember, there were two great catastrophic overthrows, the flood and Sodom and Gomorrah in early ages at that time. There would have been two more, one then would almost destroy the whole world, and a thousand years would be two right here, but it didn’t. He took it off, but one will come, what He took off will finally come back because they rejected the word of the Lord.

So, he told the Lord, he said, no, I will pray for the people. If you take them, take my name out too. So, he got down on his knees. He prayed, and he was the greatest intercessor that ever lived. Jesus came and intercessed for Israel. He intercessed for us today. He intercessed for every one of you that’s in this building that Satan would not take you from His hand, and I guarantee you, that prayer was heard, saith the Lord. He will not take my children. Christ come to intercede for every Gentile that shall come, in the garden of Gethsemane, great drops of blood fell off Him. He went on through. He got the answer, both in the flesh, of course, from God. He had the answer.

The great intercessor, Moses. So, Christ Himself, a great intercessor.

He was meek, as Christ was meek. And yet, he was full of power, and he had authority to bring judgment, and so forth like that. And he was one of the meekest. The Bible said the meekest man upon the earth with those several million people out in the wilderness.

And here is Jesus, a meek, the lowly One coming, as Isaiah said He would come, and yet, He had great power, and great authority, and when it comes to Lucifer’s job, and the sick, and so forth, then, that shed back, and authority, and power, drove out the devil.

Moses raised the brazen serpent in the wilderness, and many of those that were dying lived. And you say, oh, why did God choose that? Because it was a type, the Bible said, of Christ that would be raised up on the cross, that would do away with the old serpent, and would do away with his power over the people, but you have to have faith to do that. And, so, it was a type of Christ being raised up and become sin, taking off all of the sins of the world.

And we find out, on the cross, it is finished. By whose stripes you are healed. And Moses held this up, this brazen serpent. That was their problem, they had to yet, it tied to God, would take it, come by grace, Amazing Grace that we sing, will come, and many of the children in Israel lived when it was raisen up like that. That’s like God telling Satan, He’s going to show him that, and show him what kind of miracle He’ll even do then. It’s like type of Christ being raised up, who took it all off, and He took all the sickness off, He took all of the sins out, He took everything. Now you believe they are gone.

You don’t have to always say, Lord, take my sins. Only once is good enough. Say, Lord, I believe you’ve taken my sins. Say, Lord, I believe you are healing my body, and I praise you for it. It’s been taken away, and I believe it in my heart, my sins are gone, I believe you took them off, by whose stripes you are healed, by whose blood, I am saved. The Bible gives it as past tense. Even in the Old Testament, He gives it as past tense, who forgiveth all thine iniquities, and who healeth all thy diseases. And all over the Bible, it says it as if God has put it in the past. It’s only the people that do not believe, that keeps bringing it to the future, and Satan can use that. But, He took your sins away at the cross, they are gone. Shout the victory, praise ye the Lord.

So, that’s what it was, symbolic, and type of salvation, and type of healing that was there.

At that time, there was thunderings and lightnings on Sinai, in front of Moses, and thunderings and lightnings and smoke and fire and glory in there. We find out in Revelation 4, and several other places, that are in the Book of Revelations, that there were thunderings and lightnings before the throne. And there was thunderings and lightnings before Moses there.

Now, Moses defied gravity when he came to the water. Gravity heaped up on both sides, and he took the children right across, and none of them was hurt or destroyed at that time. And they went right across there.

Jesus, when He comes to the water, He defied gravity, and He walked on it. They all could have walked over with Him. And He walked across the water, that’s greater than Moses.

And when the disciples looked in the boat, there was a great storm, and here comes Jesus walking on the water, should they thought they had saw spirit. And here, He come walking, He defied gravity, and walked. What manner of man is this?

He just raises His hand, and the storm stops, and immediately, whether we went, that’s the way we went, we were there. We were there, at the bank, immediately.

When Moses defied the water, and it heaped up, and they walked over dry shod, it took them a little time to get across, even for one man, but here in the Bible, that one case there, immediately, they were at land, meaning they transcended the fourth dimension, they were gone.

God is great. When you are with God, anything can happen. There’s no time or space.

Moses healed in mass. Remember the brazen serpent, also remember several times, he stood in the gap. It seems like to me, thousands and thousands were healed from plagues, and so forth, because of Moses’ prayer.

Jesus too, we find out, in mass, thousands at one time will be healed by the power of God, as He got the people to believe.

When they saw Him feeding that multitude of 5,000, with just a few pieces of bread, they ought to, thought of Moses with manna coming down from heaven.

God, Jesus, was in Moses in such a way, that Moses actually foretyped the coming of Jesus, and the acts that He would do also. He come into him, in such a way, He was with that man that He actually foretyped the coming of the Messiah.

And when God gets in you in such a way, you’ll begin to form some of the acts that He did. You’ll have some of the compassion, and power, that He had. You’ll have some of the authority, there’ll be a brightness, and there’ll be a power. You’ll make the devil mad ,and you’ll surely separate them.

The bush, the flame, in Exodus chapter 3: There was a bush, it was burning with fire, but out of the fire came a flame. Jesus, out of the fire, the eternal fire came a flame, which was Christ. And there was a voice to Moses. Then we find in the Bible, out of the fire came forth Jesus with power. And there also was a flame, there was a light, there was power, there was thunder, there was all of this they heard upon Him, great lights there. So, out of the flame, the voice spoke to Him, and on Jesus too, the same way.

Now, He said to Moses, I am that I am. And Jesus, while He was talking to the Jews, they said, who art thou? He said, I am. He said before Abraham, I am. They said, why, He is not yet 50 years old, and He said He is before Abraham, way back before Moses, way on back before Joseph, and He said He was before, He said I am that I am.

So, now coming to a mystery that we have here. Something about his body, in case, with such authority and power. They won’t let any of them get hold of Elijah’s body at the time, either. He took him on out.

There’s such value to it, such power, on Enoch, the same way. They couldn’t get him. God took him out of there before death. Elijah went the same way.

Now, here’s Moses, and a stranger, yet, it’s never been done before like this. And some strange things took place. God also would not allow the children of Israel to have his body. And God said, you go up and die, and I’m going to do something.

God held his funeral Himself. The only man we have record of. God buried Moses, and He conducted his funeral, but something took place. Deuteronomy 34: 5 – 6. It says, no more about it at that time, but He did not allow the children of Israel, till this day, to know where he’s at. But, there’s three of them that saw him standing with Jesus when He was transfigured there.

In Jude 9, and here’s the death angel, Satan. Jesus is the life angel. He’s full of life. Here comes that death angel, and the death angel wanted to get ahold of Jesus too, how they tried to get rid of Him

And here comes that death angel, Satan is going to get rid of Moses for all time. But he didn’t, because at 120, he was just as strong as any young man. His eyes were just as good, his natural strength, and force, was powerful, just as strong. Yet, God took him. He was 120 at that time, his body was just literally soaked with the power of God, like Jesus was soaked. In fact, Jesus had so much of the power of God in Him, so much power in Him that the grave couldn’t hold Him. He blowed it all to pieces when they put him under ground.

Jude 1, its 9th verse, Satan was there to meet God, and it said that Satan disputed about the body of Moses, that it should be left there, give it over to him and his worms, and he disputed it. And the Bible said the Archangel, Michael, said, didn’t even argue with him about it, He said the Lord rebuke thee. Now, we know who He is, the Lord rebuke you. You are not going to get him. And here again, we don’t know what happened to this day. He did not receive a glorified body, but he was like Elijah when he stood there. Elijah did not receive a glorified body, no, not till now, they will later.

And here was, God took him, you read it in Jude, and it was an argument about that. But God had made His mind up, there won’t even be no railing accusation, He just said the Lord rebuke you. He has power over that death angel, and he left there.

He brought him back somehow, but not the glorified body because Jesus is the first fruit, and Jesus went in, but in three days, they sealed it with the Roman seal, and He blowed those rocks back in there. He come out of there, not like He was, but in His glorified body, the eternal body. The difference between Him and Moses was, Moses coming on out there, it was like Christ, he come back like he was. They believe something is going to happen in the great tribulation with Elijah the prophet. So you say now, maybe that’s why the Lord did this. He took three disciples for all of us, and Jesus had eternal body, but Moses didn’t have no eternal body. Whatever God did with him, Satan, no one, knows where Moses was at, but we know where he’s at.

And Jesus went to the mount, and He was transfigured like lightning, and that was the One that told Satan, saith the Lord, I rebuke you. The Prince that stands for God’s people, for the Jews. And there, He was transfigured like lightning. The Bible said, it was a pure light, of lightning, flashing, and the three, Peter, James and John, was standing there, trembling. And they looked, and they recognized them, they’d never seen them, but they knew who they were, that’s Moses and Elijah standing there. And Jesus walked over, and they began to talk. Now, boys, these people are real, He told His disciples. I’m talking to them. And there was Moses and Elijah, and the Bible said they communicated and talked together about His decease that was coming. He said, what you fellas worked so hard for, and the times that it seemed impossible in all that you went through, now, He said, I’m going to fulfill the desires of your heart. Both of you, I love you, I’ve got you right here with me. And Moses and Elijah was standing there, and Jesus was talking about His decease, and evidently, later, about Him being raised back again, and will meet them. Because we find in the first chapter of the Books of Acts, it said Jesus, when He went back into heaven after it was all over with, about 500 saw Him go away in one place in the Bible, and he said ye men of Galilee, why stand ye around here gazing. Now again, it says, not Angels, it says two men stood by Jesus. And these two men were standing there, they were in white clothing, we don’t know who they were really, but there were two over there standing with Christ on mount transfiguration. He talked to them for a moment. And then after the resurrection, He had two men with Him again. And Jesus went on up, and those two men in white told them why stand ye here gazing, get out and do something.

In the end of Malachi, just before the New Testament, it said the Lord your God shall send Elijah the prophet before the great and dreadful day of the Lord. And that great and dreadful day is right at the end of our age when it said in Revelations chapter 11, these are my two witnesses that shall stand up against the Beast, then they are killed. But then, they are resurrected up to heaven.

And right above that, in Malachi, for some reason, it also mentions Moses, just before it says that about Elijah. Moses is mentioned in Malachi.

Now like the three, they knew that was Elijah and Moses. The children of Israel, 144,000 are sealed, and they believe them. Then they’ll be like the disciples, they’ll know immediately who they are by their character when they stand there. Somehow, they just know who they are. Just like the disciples, they knew Moses and Elijah stood there.

If Jesus made His appearance, and just turn and look at you, you’ll know immediately who He was there. Sure, the presence and the power of the Lord.

Jesus was buried, came back again with an eternal body.

Jesus had a glorified body which was the difference, and Jesus is the eternal One.

But this one thing we do know, when the Lord Jesus, at the end of the age, when He says for us to be translated, and He shouts like the voice of an Archangel, there’s the Archangel again, the voice of an Archangel, God Himself, and when He says come up here, Satan is not even in the picture anymore. He just rebukes Satan, we find out, the Lord rebuke thee. And when He calls for us to come up in the translation, those that are dead in the grave shall rise too that love God, and Satan hasn’t got a chance, and God proves that right there, and He’ll say, the Lord rebuke thee, come out of them graves.

And there is no power, saith the Lord, in this world or any other world that can hold you down and keep you out.

Messiah has come and Messiah gives eternal life, and Moses can only talk about it, and tell about it, but He is a real life giver, the Lord Jesus.

Scripture Reading

“So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day. And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.”Deuteronomy 34: 5 – 7

God held his funeral Himself. The only man we have record of. God buried Moses, and He conducted his funeral, but something took place.

And Jesus walked over, and they began to talk. Now, boys, these people are real, He told His disciples. I’m talking to them. And there was Moses and Elijah, and the Bible said, they communicated and talked together about His decease that was coming. He said, what you fellas worked so hard for, and the times that it seemed impossible in all that you went through, now, He said, I’m going to fulfill the desires of your heart. Both of you, I love you, I’ve got you right here with me. And Moses and Elijah was standing there, and Jesus was talking about His decease, and evidently, later, about Him being raised back again, and will meet them. Because we find in the first chapter of the Books of Acts, it said Jesus, when He went back into heaven after it was all over with, about 500 saw Him go away in one place in the Bible, and he said ye men of Galilee, why stand ye around here gazing. Now again, it says, not Angels, it says two men stood by Jesus. And these two men were standing there, they were in white clothing, we don’t know who they were really, but there were two over there standing with Christ on mount transfiguration. He talked to them for a moment. And then after the resurrection, He had two men with Him again. And Jesus went on up, and those two men in white told them why stand ye here gazing, get out and do something (Acts 1: 9 – 11).

Moses raised the brazen serpent in the wilderness, and many of those that were dying lived (Numbers 21: 6 – 9). And you say, oh, why did God choose that? Because it was a type, the Bible said, of Christ, that would be raised up on the cross that would do away with the old serpent, and would do away with his power over the people, but you have to have faith to do that. And, so, it was a type of Christ being raised up and become sin, taking off all of the sins of the world.

“In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace”Ephesians 1: 7

“Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases”Psalm 103: 3

What an eternal God, our Lord Jesus Christ, that we serve. Praise ye the Lord.

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Preview And Foretype — July 21, 2024

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