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Voice of the Lord
A spring will be opened up for the house of David ...to cleanse them from sin and impurity (Zechariah 13:1).
Moshe (Moses) left his community for forty days and forty nights to go on a divinely supported journey. He had no food and no water. He finally ascended Mount Sinai, where he communed with God and received the Ten Commandments, the foundation of the Law.
Upon his return, he saw the Israelites frolicking and worshiping the golden calf. He rebuked them and smashed the Ten Commandments in his anger. Then he ascended the mountain a second time, when he once again received the commandments from God. Upon Moshe's return he found a different scene. The people readily received him and assented to do all that he said. By receiving Moshe, they received God.
God sent Yeshua, who, like Moshe, descended the "mountain" to deliver the "Word of the Lord" to his people. However, the first descent brought widespread rejection. Israel as a nation failed to embrace him. Our people are frolicking and worshiping idols, but have not accepted God's sent one, Yeshua. Like Moshe, Yeshua will once again descend for his people. It is this second time that they will look to him and "mourn for him" (Zechariah 12:10). They will repent and in that day "a spring will be opened up" for our people "to cleanse them from sin and impurity" (Zechariah 13:1). "It is in this way that all Isra'el will be saved" (Romans 11:26).
...seek to obey Yeshua the first time he comes for me.
EK
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