Ex 26:31-33 My Saviour on the Vail

It reminds me the Sacrifice of my Saviour

Exod 26:31 

"And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet"

These colors came because they got to kill a jelfish and some worms. So it is a vail of sacrifice. ".... And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?"(Heb. 1:14)

Jesus was that worm and the fish. He was killed. He said, "But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people." (Ps. 22:6)

God wants to have the remembrance of Jesus on the vail of most holy place. Jesus was rejected by people like a worm and he also went through a painful thought of Father forsaking him. If someone looks us down like a worm or forsakes you, remember that you are nearest place to the Lord, near to his most holy place. He takes you to very near to him. 

It reminds me Faithful One

"with cherubims shall it be made"

Cherubims are the intimate angels of the Lord. They stand in the presence of the Lord. Faithful can watch the face of the Lord. Moses is a faithful man. The Lord said about him, "...and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold"  (Num. 12:8)

When Gabriel said "I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee" (Luke 1:19), it was like he was questioning "how come you dont believe me?" The question at the moses' incident was "wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?"

The punishment to Zacharias was to be dumb and the punishment at the Moses' incident was Leprosy. If FAITHFUL can watch the face of the Lord its like a WARNING to us if we dont believe them. According to John 1:18 Jesus is the only one that saw the Father. He is named "...These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness..." Rev. 3:14 What if we dont believe this faithful Jesus?

He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Heb. 11:28-31

It reminds me my Saviour on the nails

Exod 26:32 And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver.

This remembers the Lord who hanged on the nails. It is a vail on nails. Jesus hanged on the nails. 

It reminds me my Savior who rent his body

Exod 26:33 ... and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.

The word for dividing here is "parochet". This is from the word paroch which means divide or rend etc. Jesus was that veil divided. By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; Heb. 10:20

Forgiven but not accepted

Two thieves got a chance to share their pains with the Son of God. Both tried to manipulate him by their old nature by challenging him to save himself and save them, if he is the Christ. (Matt 27:44).
Jesus wanted to save them but he does not have to save himself. Jesus, being a judge have complete rights to forgive.

Jesus FORGAVE them but could not ACCEPT them into paradise. But was waiting eagerly to see if they would take a further step. Somehow the one of them realized and said, "Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom." Jesus said, a big yes to him. This thief utilized the chance. It is not just a chance, it was the only chance. It was the last chance. He was ACCEPTED.The other one, "even seeing all this" happening before his very eyes, did not ask God to remember him, but was thinking, "Jesus, seeing all this pain i am going through, did not ask me to come." What a chance he missed out.

Sharing pains with Jesus will lead us to share throne with Jesus. If we die with him we live with him. But if we suffer with him, we will rule with him. 2Tim. 2:12.

John 1:35-51 Call

Jacob had a call on his life but he himself have to discover it. It took him a long time to meet the One who called him. The promise of the Lord was blocked in his line often time but he fought for it and won it. He understood that the promises of God do not come to manifestation easily and automatically.

Jesus directly did not call Andrew. Andrew heard John the Baptist was saying something about Jesus and he followed Jesus.

Andrew went and called his brother Simon.

Bethsaida was not a good town and more over, it is worse than Tyre and Sidon (Mat. 11:21). Yet Jesus had a person, Mr. Philip there to be his disciple. Capernaum is worse than Sodom and Gomorrah.(Mat. 11:23) Peter is from Capernaum and Jesus had a person to be his Apostle who will make the world upside down. Is it not amazing!

Philip called Nathaniel and it was not Jesus that directly called him.

Isaiah has been prophesying for five chapters until he sees the Lord of hosts, he did not realize that he had unclean lips and living among people of unclean lips. The Lord actually did not say, "Isaiah come", but said "who will go". Then, Isaiah volunteered.

To whom of the above you can relate? God wants you. You are more qualified than the people of Capernaum and Bethsaida. How much time do you want until you discover the call you have on your life? Are you interested to follow Jesuslike Andrew before Jesus actually calls you? Do you like to volunteer like Isaiah? Do you know that God can call you through other people? Mic. 4:2, Zec. 3:10. The problem is not that there are some closed doors for the gospel, the problem is that there are no one to go into the opened doors.

Talented Car

A young man bought a car. It runs 250 km per an hour. Actually he went to the city with his friends to buy it. After taking car he took them to the restaurant. Every one ate whatever they liked. They celebrated. When they got into the car to go back to their village, he found one of his friends, who was a lazy, wasn't happy.

"what happen"

"nothing" replied lazy friend

"you are not looking happy like others"

Lazy friend replied, "did you throw party for this ugly car?"

"hey, dont scold my car. its highly TALENTED car. whats wrong with my car?"

"you said that it is a car that goes 250km per an hour. Until now it could not reach maximum 70. I thought of going faster and enjoy but... its a lazy car" replied lazy

This young man controlled himself and said, "look the road. this is a market. people are all around. PEOPLE ARE BLOCKING MY TALENTED CAR. you cannot go faster even if you wanted to go faster. I will show you how fast it goes right after we got on to the highway."

An another friend said, "DO WE REALLY NEED ALL THOSE PEOPLE on our road? why dont you blow the horn and get rid of them?"

Now, when the car came on to the road, the car took high speed. there are some trucks going slow. Yet there is no problem because its highway, BROAD ROAD. if something blocks its way, car just takes left or right and goes faster. Easy driving.

There was a tollgate and car stopped there to PAY. highway is broad road but you have to stop often because you got to pay.

"what happen? why did the car stopped?" the lazy friend asked

"every one know why the car stopped. how come you dont know"

lazy replied, "oh, i was sleeping".

One of his friend said, "There are some people in the world who thinks that our talents are a lullaby for them."

Another one said, "sometimes you can find them even in your own house."

They paid the price and then they headed up to their village. Some time later the car stopped again. This lazy friend opened his eyes and asked, "what happen?"

His friend said, "there is a big stone on the road"

Lazy said, "why dont you take left or right"

"Hey, we are in our village. This is not highway. This is NARROW ROAD. you cannot take left or right. we cannot move until we remove that block. This stone has to go left or right, not the car" his friend replied.

And he GOT DOWN from his talented car. He BOWED DOWN and took stone and threw it to the side of the road. Now his talented car moved to go to his destiny.

Better Covenant

Elijah was privileged to have a great invitation. God sent him fiery chariot pulled by fiery horses.

John the Baptist got the same spirit but he did not get the fiery chariot but fiery sufferings. He was beheaded. 

Which one is the better invitation? the former or the latter? What do you think?

There are some people "tortured, not accepting release, to obtain resurrection to a better life." (Heb. 11:35)

New Testament is better than the Old one. It is unique by its sufferings for the One whom we loved. I am looking for a better resurrection. Do you?

Me and Elijah

Bible said that Elijah is same like you and me. Then why i could not do the things he did? Yes he is same like you and me but he did not pray same like you and me. He said to Ahab to go and eat but he Fasted and prayed For rain even after the Lord told him that he is going to send rain! We raise up prayer after God tells us that he is going to send rain.

Hey, you can do it. Just like Elijah do not give up until you see your vision coming true.

(Jas 5:17-18 [NET])
Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain and there was no rain on the land for three years and six months! Then he prayed again, and the sky gave rain and the land sprouted with a harvest.

Ex. 22:1-4 You will never lose

A thief ran into a house. He took a sheep and a bull. He left the house, walked for a while and then sold the bull and killed the sheep and ate. Now he is worthy of 6 kinds of Judgments.(Exodus 22:1-4)
1. Can be killed
2. Can be beaten
3. Can be sold
4. Return what he stole
5. Return two fold
6. Return four fold

One sin and six punishments?

No. Any of those six, depends on the time you caught him. First 3 are punishments and the next 3 are restitution. First three are paid to the one who harmed you and next three are paid by the one who harmed you.

God loves you. He is the judge. He will never let the thief Satan steal from you. Even if you lose anything, God will make a restitution.

Egyptians thought that they got free slaves. God gave them punishments with ten plagues and let them make restitution by giving silver and gold.

The thief Satan took 7000 sheep from Job. God gave 14000. Thief took 3000 camels and God gave 6000. Job 42:12

If you lose anything and you think its late. More late more restitution. It increases.

God might sometimes forgive those who hurt you and cease the punishment but he never stop restitution. Example is here in Exod 21:18 [KJV])

"And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed: If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed."
Laban took 20 years of hard work from Jacob and thought he was brilliant. He was not punished but at the end God gave him more that even Laban's sons said, “Jacob has taken everything that belonged to our father!...” Gen. 31:1

You will never lose. You have a God who loves you.