The Tents Of The Fathers

[Mr. M]

Psalms 121:8 The LORD shall preserve your going out and your coming in:

From this time forth, and even forevermore.

How would you describe your "going out and your coming in"?

Here is an instruction from Leviticus:

Leviticus 18:

1 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them:

I am the Lord your God.

3 According to the doings of the land of Egypt, where you dwelt,

you shall not do; and according to the doings of the land of Canaan,

where I am bringing you, you shall not do; nor shall you walk in

their ordinances.

4 You shall observe My judgments and keep My ordinances,

to walk in them: I am the Lord your God.

Christians are said to be brought "out of the world",

but what are they brought into?

A megachurch environment? A home fellowship?

A traditional denomination?

Is there a point in common with these instructions?

Matthew 23:3 Therefore whatever they tell you to observe,

observe and do, but do not do according to their works;

for they say, and do not do.

The context for this is the Pharisees and Moses seat. But many people

enter the faith and into a church only to immediately find fault with

the leadership and members of the church. There is no perfect church,

because the church is people. It takes faith to abide in where the Lord places.

"Look unto the Lord, maker of heaven and earth". "And grow in grace".

Were the Israelites not forever ‘coming out’ of Egypt?

It is a Memorial of the Torah every seven days!

Deuteronomy 5:15 And remember that thou were a slave in the land of Egypt,

and that the Lord thy God brought you out thence through a mighty hand

and by a stretched out arm: therefore the Lord thy God commanded you

to keep the Sabbath.

In regards to your going out and coming in, are you in a

wilderness trek to "a promised land", or returning to the tents

of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob?

The "promised land" of course is the age to come:

2 Peter 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens

and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

In this age, we live as "strangers and sojourners".

Hebrews 11:

9 By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents

with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise;

10 for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

 

1 Peter 2:11 Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims,

abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul....

Edited November 9, 2022 by Mr. M
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