COMING INTO THE EXTREMITY OF GOD

Ezekiel 1:1-12 will be the text that I will use to speak about the Eagle.

Many people have dreams and visions of Jesus, and the have seen Jesus. Most of us see Jesus in a human form because we relate to Jesus as a man. Jesus came on this earth in the form of a man, to bring an understanding of a life style that we do not know.

We are living in a tremendous time, where we can draw near to God, as it has never been before. For centuries, God has revealed Himself through a fire and through a cloud. People have been afraid of God. People never came close to God, until the veil was rent in the temple as Jesus was on the cross. It was impossible even for the high priest to come into the glory, except once a year to fulfill the requirement of God. Some times we do not understand intimacy with God because of our background and the kind of experience that we have had, and we become familiar with the very thing God wants to do in our lives. Familiarity breeds contempt, and it stops us from knowing God in ways He wants us to know Him.

The prophet Ezekiel was a man of vision, and God came down to bring revelation of what He is. To recreate what Ezekiel has written in the first chapter, it would be difficult because many of us could not relate to it. Ezekiel saw God in such a way that we would think that it is impossible to imagine that God would come in such an awesome way to show Himself. The first thing that Ezekiel saw in the vision was a ‘being’ with wings. Wings always speak of extremity. God is never lukewarm. He likes extremes, hot or cold, but He does not like things that are mediocre. For me to come into the extremity of God, I have to walk out of the limited realm of the flesh and move into the unlimited power of God. I have to come to my extremities.

Four speaks of foundation. We can know God in a certain way, depending on the culture and background we have known. A face speaks of revelation. Remember when Moses said to God, “Show me Your glory,” and what God showed him was the revelation of what He is. It was His back that God revealed to Moses, and the back means we are all alike because we are all the same from the back. It also speaks of brotherhood. The relationship of brotherhood points to the cross and the relationship that Jesus established with us.

There are four faces mentioned in Ezekiel 1, which speaks of different characteristics that God is bringing into The Church. The body of Christ is in transition, and God is bringing a new face to The Church. That is why we have new burdens and new cries in our heart, and why God is raising up men and women that are stirring The Church into a new level.

In His Love,
      Sigi

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