The Black Plague

As I continue to read through the Old Testament, I'm now in Numbers, and I am struck as to how much of the destruction brought on by the black plague during the middle ages could have been avoided. If just God's word/law concerning what is clean and unclean had been followed. His directions on what to do if you find a body, etc, etc. No one needed to understand anything about germs, just to obey God would have protected so many lives.

His Law brings life.

Today because people don't fall over dead within days, weeks, months we are too slow to see how much of what is happening around us is a reaping of what has been sown in the past. Either from ourselves, or our families or the forefathers of the church etc, etc. We are seeing in the culture what happens when God's people get syncretized. Balaam's trick has worked again.

We don't need revival, we need Reformation. For God's children to really start acting like sons and daughters. To really want to know...how does God want me to understand and see this or that and then to respond like I am his son. May God grant it.

If we cry out Lord! Lord! Show us your will! But then are clueless as to the written record that he deliberately left behind for us to follow...ouch! ouch! We have got to get out our camping flashlights, the big bright ones, the hot ones, and head out into those unexplored parts of the Old Testament. We need to get familiar with them like we are with Colossians and Romans and the Gospels. We're not looking for our righteousness, we have that in Christ! But what else has God said about life..."it's a lamp unto my feet." That's from psalm 119, that's talking about the Old Testmament! Do we believe that about the Old Testasment? "That it is a lamp unto my feet, and light unto my path." How come we dont? God doesn't lie.

Cultural side note: We have been trained subconscienciously by our culture to always want the new. Just think about the word "old." Old Testament...we of course want the..New... Testament. After all, it's new. It's probably improved.

Think of it rather as the First Testament. Without which you will not correctly understand the Second Testament, I mean New Testament.

Kevin Swanson drove this point home when he mentioned you will not see Jesus correctly without the Old Testament.

Reformation. We must chew on this stuff. Less we be like the seed that fell upon the side of the road...

A California side note: it's being roasted by wildfires right after it shook it's fist in God's face concerning his definitions of men and women as it relates to the education of it's children. No, I have not said it's God's judgement on them. But God does say that he is the the one who makes the blind. Just thinking out loud. I would say that this fire that is destroying so many homes and acres of land is less damaging then the spiritual firestorm that is taking place in the heavenlies over the laws recently passed there. Which firestorm are God's children more worried about? Which fires have been the biggest motivation for God's people to cry out to Him, or fast? Are we concerned with our captivity? Or that the supply of leeks and onions might be interupted? Just thinking.

God the dangerous, he is a consuming...