The Day of the Lord will bring judgment unto evil. We see pockets of
judgment happening in the world today and we cannot close our eyes in
looking at world events as these are unfolding and are happening before our
very eyes. Wisdom tells us that when this happens, the Father is not late in
His timetable of salvation. He is always on time! He’s not ahead of time. He’s
not late, He is on time.
We talk about global warming, we talk about climate change, it’s happening at
a very fast pace. I was watching one of the programs on TV about the melting
of the ice caps over in the North Pole, in the Arctic. And it’s happening sooner
than what the experts think.
Scientists went there and covered
what was happening. Big chunks of ice as
big as mountains are floating down the sea
and are melting. They did not anticipate
that this is going to happen sooner than
they predicted, but it is happening now.
That means something to us. That means
something is going to change in the landscape
of the world. Islands and low-lying
areas along the bodies of water are going to
be submerged, they are going to vanish.
Later on, these will be eaten up by
water because water is going rise up several
meters high. And when the temperature
is going to heat up the atmosphere between
2 to 3 percent, that will melt all of these
ice caps and would eventually bring us disasters
in the future. What do we call that?
That is the judgment upon us. It’s not really
that the Lord wanted that to happen to us
but it is through the intransigence and stubbornness
of this generation, which I call the
generation of profit and greed. The devastations
that are happening around us and in
the planet earth is because of the greed for
profit in the heart of men.
I thank the Father that He is not
late in His salvation because when He does
something, the Father, out of His wisdom
will reveal it to us, although we have not
known it.
When Moses was called to be the
savior of Israel from the Egyptian bondage,
neither Moses nor his parents knew
the plan of God. It was only the Father
Almighty who knew it. But when the plan
began to roll and the Father began to execute
that plan, all the circumstances that
will be against that plan were set aside and
the platform was readied and prepared for
that plan to happen.
The Almighty Father is going to
do everything in His bidding for that plan
to happen. All circumstances that might be
against the Father’s plan will be set aside
as it was in the time of Moses. The only
thing that was hindering the plan of God
at that moment was the power of Pharaoh.
When the Father planned to save Israel out
of Egyptian bondage, He had to make a
preparation. He prepared a family for Moses
and he was born at the time when the
Pharaoh was at the peak of his power.
Moses was born in the time when Pharaoh decreed the death of all two year old boys and below. Why was he born at such a time? Was there not a time to be born when the decree was over? That was the most dangerous time to be born in Pharaoh’s Egypt. Pharaoh decreed that law because he heard a prophecy that out of the Israelites will rise a savior. He did not know who, he did not know when, but he just made sure that this boy was going to die. So he ordered the execution of all of those two year olds downwards. That was when Moses was born. Do you know why?
This only shows to us that there is no power greater than the power of the Father Almighty. This is a defiance of the power of man that when the power of God executes something, there is no power on earth that can stop it. Moses was born in the midst of that. Because of the fear of Moses’ parents that he might be discovered and put to death, his mother, Jochebed and his sister, Miriam, put little Moses in a basket and let it float in the Nile River.
The Nile River is where the communities in Egypt are, because outside of the banks of the Nile River is just pure desert, there’s no life there. Moses was made to float in the River Nile under the cover of some reeds and bushes that grew in the river. That was when the Pharaoh’s daughter happened to go down the river to take a bath with all of her maids around. While she was bathing, one of the maids found the basket, and when she opened it, she found that there was a baby in it. She rushed down and told the princess of Pharaoh, “I found a baby boy floating in a basket. What shall we do with it?”
There is no power greater than the
power of the Almighty. This incident was
just rubbing the nose of Pharaoh because it
was right at his own backyard that the baby
was found by his own daughter. The Father
was seemingly telling them, “Now, what
will you do against my Will? This boy is
going to be my savior in Israel.”
The princess could have reported
it to her father and her father would, in no
doubt, behead the boy right away because it
was a decree. But the decree was even defied,
because when the princess saw Moses,
she saw something in him that made the
heart of the princess grow fonder for Moses.
She said, spare the boy I’ll adopt him
as my own son. Jochebed, Moses’ mother
and his sister, Miriam, were just around
because they were watching him from not
so far off to make sure that the little baby
boy was safe.
When the maids of the princess
of Pharaoh found out about the basket and
reported it to the princess, if you were Jochebed
and Miriam, your heart might be
racing inside of you, not knowing what the
decision will be. Will this be the death of
our own beloved baby? Afar off, Jochebed
and Miriam were watching the unfolding
of events. But to their surprise, the princess
took the little baby Moses and kissed
him on the cheek. And the princess told the
maids, “Find somebody that can become a
nurse for Moses.”
They did not have to go far to
find a nurse, because Moses’ nurses-tobe
were just there watching. The maids
found Jochebed and Miriam right away.
That is not just a mere coincidence; it is
an unfolding of events to tell us that the
power of the Almighty is greater than
the power of any human being. He can
turn things around for you. Your defeats
are going to be made into victories. Your
curses are going to be made into blessings.
He did not just find anyone to
be made the surrogate mother of Moses.
He found the princess, and the princess
brought Moses to the house of the
one who decreed to kill all the Israelite
boys from two years old downward. The
Almighty Father brought Moses in the
house of the one who decreed his death.
And now, he’s going to nourish him and
give him life. Isn’t God wonderful? Isn’t
God powerful? He is! That’s why we
have to have faith in Him, no matter what
your circumstance is, no matter where
you’re found, no matter where you are.
When you have faith in Him, He
can turn your curses into blessings, He
can turn your defeats into victories.
Moses found himself in the palace
of Pharaoh who decreed for his death.
The Pharoah was now giving him food,
was now kissing him, was now made as
his grandfather. That is rubbing the nose
of the power of man in the name of Pharaoh,
because there is no power that is
greater than the power of the Almighty.
Moses grew up under the tutelage
of the princess and of his grandpa,
the Pharaoh. He grew up under the tutelage
of Egypt, but his nurses, his mother
and his sister, did not forget to teach him about the right doctrine that is the doctrine of the Father Almighty which taught him that there is only One God.
Moses’ mother saw to it that Moses received the right teaching. They were in the midst of a pagan nation, but Moses grew up knowing the One True God. He grew up in the courts of Egypt for 40 years but the plan of God continued in his life. Moses did not know about it. Moses was oblivious of the Almighty Father’s plan. Even his parents did not know it. Even Pharaoh did not know it. There is no power that is mightier than the power of the Almighty. He knows what He is doing. In the right time, when Moses was already of age, the due time came for his calling to kick in.
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