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Remembrance & God’s Hand In Human History
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TOPIC: Remembrance & God’s Hand In Human History
Remembrance & God’s Hand In Human History 2 years ago #942
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/images/scan0012.jpg) Exodus 13: 19 Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the sons of Israel swear to do this. He said, “God will certainly come to help you. When he does, you must take my bones with you from this place.” 400 years after Joseph lived, Moses showed great godliness to have the bones of Joseph taken with the Israelites out of Egypt. This one act reveals much about Moses. After four centuries, the body of Joseph was still available to be brought out from Egypt, because he had been mummified and interred in a specific place, as the end of Genesis tells us: So Joseph died, being 110 years old. They embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. Joseph had understood God’s hand in human history. He told his brothers when they were reconciled to him after many years since they sold him into slavery to Egypt: As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today. Yes, many people were kept alive by the hand of God in the life of Joseph – his family and hundreds of thousands or perhaps millions in Egypt and the surrounding nations, as Joseph astutely managed the resources of the land during seven years of famine; certainly a potential disaster in any era! Yet, God works through the lives of ordinary humans in human history to accomplish His will. Joseph had remembered his father Jacob’s request to be buried in the land of his fathers. Now, as the descendents of Jacob were leaving Egypt and bondage, Moses showed the same honor and a grasp of history as he remembered the request of their patriarch Joseph to be brought with them. Joseph prophesied of the coming of that day when God would once again move in human history in a mighty way for His people. Moses was a man that knew the past. Soon, he would see a future act of God’s mighty hand against Pharaoh. It is important for God’s people to remember what has gone before. The past testifies of how God has worked in the history of nations as well as through and for individuals. Moses was not only honoring Joseph in bearing his mummy back to the Promised Land, he was fulfilling prophecy as an agent of God in history. In the 21st century, we who call on the name of the LORD just as the Israelites did should also be aware of the past workings of God in this world. Who are the ones we honor and remember? Who are our leaders? Who are our heroes? These are important questions in a culture where “new is better” and old means outdated and outmoded. What mindset do we have in the midst of the unveiling of God’s hand in the world? Are we even aware of what is happening around us as a spiritual battle is being fought in every human being and in every action that occurs in this world? Time does not hinder God, for He created it. History in time is the hand of God at work in the lives of human beings: to destroy that which is evil and to sanctify those who believe, so that God may be glorified! Unveiling – Revelation – the revealing of God’s will in human history will soon culminate in the unveiling, the revealing, the second appearance, of the Lord Jesus! The apokalypis of God’s hand in history is progressive and ongoing. We who call on the name of the LORD must remember the past and look forward to the glorious future. Jesus Himself told us in Luke 21: 28: Now when these things begin to take place, straighten up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.” Yes, let us lift our heads high and while we do the works the LORD sets before us, because we understand our place and God’s hand in human history, we can wait in confidence for the return of our Savior, the Lord Jesus the Messiah! Let us say in our hearts and pray with our lips the progressively revealed hope of all who have followed the LORD: MARANATHA! … “Come, Lord Jesus”. peace to all of God's people, Jeff |
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