Shalom! As I was preparing to teach yesterday, for Shabbat, the Lord highlighted some things that I wanted to share with you. His explanations, His answers, deeply satisfied my heart. (Please read to the end to see my dictation of His responses.) I asked Him some questions about His relationship with His people, both during our time in ancient Egypt and today. As always, when I come to Him with an open heart, His explanations, His answers, thoroughly satisfy and nourish me. They overwhelm my heart with His beauty. Perhaps you already know the following very well. But perhaps there are things included here that will touch your heart in a new, profoundly comforting, way.
Before I start … my dreams and visions of the last few days have warned me directly and strongly that our very survival in the coming days depends upon our ability and choice to live fully within YHVH’s Embrace, to satisfy ourselves in the arms of our Beloved, and to trust Him with everything. Let’s keep our oil lamps full!
The Torah portion for this past week was Exodus 6-9, which includes God’s preparation of Moses to be His spokesperson to Pharaoh plus the first seven plagues.
I will quote the first few verses of Exodus 6.
2 God spoke to Moshe; He said to him, “I am YHVH. 3 I appeared to Avraham, Yitz’chak and Ya‘akov as El Shaddai, although I did not make myself known to them by my name, Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh. 4 Also with them I established my covenant to give them the land of Kena‘an, the land where they wandered about and lived as foreigners. 5 Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the people of Isra’el, whom the Egyptians are keeping in slavery; and I have remembered my covenant.6 “Therefore, say to the people of Isra’el: ‘I am YHVH. I will free you from the forced labor of the Egyptians, rescue you from their oppression, and redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments. 7 I will take you as my people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am YHVH your God, who freed you from the forced labor of the Egyptians. 8 I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Avraham, Yitz’chak and Ya‘akov — I will give it to you as your inheritance. I am YHVH.’”
What a beautiful and encouraging Scripture! Yes? But my mind went elsewhere … Why had God waited hundreds of years to free the Israelites from bondage? Why had He allowed His Beloved to get so badly hurt? How long had they cried out to Him? It reminded me of the Cross. It reminded me of Christians in current day Iran. How long, LORD, how long?
My questions embarrassed me, but they would not go away. As He spoke I understood why…
He began to paint a picture. He showed me the Israelites engulfed in Egyptian culture. He told me He had waited until the Israelites were totally swayed by Egyptian values, till they had lost the ability to distinguish between their own “truth” and Egyptian “truth,” till their symbiosis was as complete as possible, till He acted.
He did not move forward with His plan of redemption until their pain had reached its pinnacle. He wanted to shoot through the fullness of their darkness with His light, to pin Satan to the wall with His vindication of their suffering. He wanted the difference between the bondage of their slavery and the freedom of His light to be obvious and evident. Even though He knew difficulties would arise, even though He knew it would be difficult to extricate the people from their adopted Egyptian gods and ways, that challenge was part of his plan.
They had learned that pharaoh was god king, an invincible and eternal god who was present on earth for an appointed period of time, that the Nile river was also a god as were all the natural elements. Rain, sunshine, trees, frogs, everything and anything that impacted the people in ways that were mysterious, either beneficial or harmful, were gods. The magicians won the favor of the gods to protect the people. But people were largely extraneous. Their value was only in how they blessed their god king pharaoh. Since pharaoh was the kingpin of all the gods, destroying him destroyed the invincibility of the entire hierarchy.
God was seeking the redemption of the Egyptians as well as the Israelites. And because the Israelites left with a mixed multitude, Egyptians and others, we know God successfullly impregnated the larger Egyptian culture with His Truth, replacing the lies they had believed with His gloriousness.
But God’s picture brought up another thought …
163 years after the Macabees defeated the Syrians, restoring Torah worship to the Jews, the descendants of the Macabees became such corrupt leaders that they killed their political rivals in the name of Torah. Whitewashed tombs literally full of dead men’s bones. Ouch! Yeshua arrived at that point, 163 years after Hanukkah, when the wicked boil was ready to be popped, and God lanced it…
God began to speak:
God: Understand that what breaks your heart breaks mine. Even though I was waiting for the evil of Egypt to reach its pinnacle, My heart also grieved for what it would cost. I knew I was allowing the gods of Egypt to totally infiltrate the minds of my people.
Just as Joseph had a dream, or rather two dreams, of seven years of abundance, and seven years of famine, I knew that my people would first thrive, be blessed, in Egypt, and then would suffer mightily. I knew they would be lost into this world of darkness, and I would need to pull them out.
When it was time to pull them out, I released, from deep within their world view, everything they still believed about Me, and everything they believed about the Egyptian pantheon. I was undoing everything they knew. It’s hard to imagine the extent to which I was breaking into the wickedness that I had allowed to develop. I needed to show the extent of what was required to undo the darkness.
Me: But why was it necessary to defeat Egypt’s wickedness upon the backs of people you loved?
God: It shows the intensity of the sacrifice that is required to let wickedness go. The sacrifice of the cross. Without understanding the extent of the impact of wickedness, you cannot understand the capacity, the intensity, the verocity, of what is required to break it.
If I had allowed the sons of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to remain in OK, but not great, spiritual shape, allowing them to prosper under Me without their faith being sactified, I would have created a mediocre world. By forcing them to choose Me and My ways over all else, I expanded my intention to create an excellent world of free choice. If I had done it 150 years earlier, before the oppression got so strong, they would not have tasted the difference so clearly.
I am still pressing in to create a world of free choice that reflects the glorious beauty, the surpassing excellence, of heaven. Upon the Cross, I greatly enhanced your ability to live within that beauty, here and now, on earth as it is in heaven. But currently, as the world crashes into its next metamorphosis, we will experience an even fuller revelation. You will get to see it.
Watch and see what I am creating! Watch and see what I am destroying to reveal the truth of My reality, on earth as it is in heaven. In allowing the powers of darkness to overwhelm the entire world, I am creating a victory that will be greater even than the Cross. Satan knows this and is fighting with everything in him to stop Me, but he does not know what I have planned and neither do you. All you can do is walk it step-by-step and that’s where we are now.
Stay close by My Side, and walk it out within Me. That’s the only place of safety. I allowed evil to be brought into the world for the glory of seeing people choose Me, loving Me beyond all else. Keep choosing Me. Keep choosing to love Me. That is your only place of safety, harmony, happiness and joy. Regardless of the coming circumstances, it will keep you wrapped up in My Arms of grace. Much, much love to you, My friend!
DEAR LORD YHVH, YESHUA, RUACH HAKODESH,
I CHOOSE YOU! I CHOOSE TO LOVE YOU ABOVE ALL ELSE. HAVE MY ENTIRE LIFE. IT’S YOURS.
MAY WE ALL WALK WITH THE DEDICATION OF MOSES, MAY WE ALL WALK WITH THE TRUTH, THE LOVE, OF YESHUA, MAY WE ALL WALK WITHIN THE GLORY OF THE LIVING GOD.
AMEN.
WD
FREEDOM 
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