FLESH PRODUCES DEATH

This is what the Lord said would happen: “Then you shall say to the people, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, you shall eat meat; for you have wept in the hearing of the LORD, saying, ‘who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt.’ Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you shall eat. You shall eat, not one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days, but for a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have despised the LORD who is among you, and have wept before Him, saying, ‘Why did we ever come up out of Egypt?’ ” (Numbers 11:18-20)

The Hebrew children lusted for their flesh; they lusted for the old way of life, and they almost despised God and Moses for taking them from the satisfaction of their lusts. Lust is a perversion of purity. “But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was aroused against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague. So he called the name of that place Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had yielded to craving.” (Numbers 11:33-34)

Union with flesh results in death. God knew that if this desire for flesh could not be driven out of them, they could never be free men and soldiers. If their lusts of yesterday could not be transformed to desire an intimate relationship with their God, then they would face the judgment of God and reject “THE LIFE” which is God. It was their choice. The burden will destroy flesh. The burden is that living presence of God in His word, which is the glory and flesh, cannot touch glory. The flesh must bow to the glory in order to bear it up and only those who assemble themselves to the glory can bear it up.

The sons of Kohath were bearers of the glory and their name means to assemble themselves. “…Then the sons of Kohath shall come to carry them (the ark); but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die. These are the things in the tabernacle of meeting which the sons of Kohath are to carry.” (Numbers 4:15)

Moses served God. His attitude of serving gave him an open heart to God’s desire, an open ear to hear the voice of God and an open understanding to understand the ways of God. The impartation of Moses’ spirit to lead would eventually have taken place because Moses could not lead the people into the Promised Land. Another would have to be raised up to carry that burden. “Then Moses spoke to the LORD, saying; ‘Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation, who may go out before them, who may lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the LORD may not be like sheep which have no shepherd.’ And the LORD said to Moses: ‘Take Joshua the son of Nun with you, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him;” (Numbers 27:15-18) Joshua, meaning “Jehovah saved” was found to have the spirit. It is the same spirit that was in Moses that differentiated him from the other Hebrew people. He was not a slave, even though he served Moses, he was a man saved by Jehovah. Unto Joshua, would the spirit of Moses be imparted.

In His Love,
      Sigi

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