IN
THE MOUNT OF THE LORD IT SHALL BE SEEN
January 27, 2012
MF Blume
Genesis 22:8-14 KJV And Abraham said, My son, God will provide
himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them
together. (9) And they came to the place which God had told
him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order,
and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
(10) And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to
slay his son. (11) And the angel of the LORD called unto
him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am
I. (12) And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad,
neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest
God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from
me. (13) And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and
behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham
went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the
stead of his son. (14) And Abraham called the name of that
place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD
it shall be seen.
Verse 14 says that a proverb was started with Abraham’s ordeal
that carried on for 500 years through until Moses’ day.
· It became a popular saying of encouragement.
· When people became discouraged when
everything seemed to be going wrong, someone would remember this
proverb and encourage the person with it.
Abraham was under the greatest pressure he’d experienced yet.
· He came a long way from believing God for a
son, after being unable to father, then being rejuvenated to father,
lying about his wife to the king, and bumbling with Hagar and
Ishmael’s birth, and the hassles with his nephew Lot,
· But this time it was the test of all tests.
When the saying said IN THE MOUNT OF THE LORD IT SHALL BE SEEN, it was
like saying AT THE HIGHEST HEIGHT OF HARDSHIPS in serving God, GOD WILL
COME THROUGH!
Abraham was far beyond any test he experienced before.
This time it was his greatest treasure, HIS SON.
· This was the epitome of his promise!
· A SON born after he was beyond begetting,
too old, and yet promised to be the father of many nations.
· And miracle of miracles, HIS FATHERS ISAAC!
· THROUGH THIS BOY he would be a blessing to
many nations.
· A father of many nations.
· AND NOW GOD ASKS HIM TO SACRIFICE THE BOY IN
DEATH.
There could have been no greater time of hardship he ever faced.
But Abraham came up with a conclusion about it all.
Hebrews 11:17-19 KJV By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered
up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only
begotten son, (18) Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall
thy seed be called: (19) Accounting that God was able to
raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a
figure.
Notice the wording.
· He offered HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON.
· Not only that, but it was said that IN ISAAC
SHALL THY SEED BE CALLED.
· And God demands THAT BODY – that ONE
in whom his seed would be called – the be slain by his own hand.
· THE ONLY conclusion Abraham could come up
with in order to reconcile the seemingly contradictory statements that
ISAAC would cause him to father many nations, and to cause him to be
slain, would be to believe GOD WOULD RESURRECT HIM.
Appreciate the concept of resurrection at this time.
· No one had been resurrected before!
· WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT OF THAT in that day?
· For Abraham to think of that was absolutely
monumental!
· No wonder he’s the father of the
faithful!
· No one believed God for resurrection before
that!
In the midst of the greatest mountain of testing, GOD WILL COME THROUGH!
Genesis 22(12) And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad,
neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest
God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from
me. (13) And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and
behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham
went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the
stead of his son. (14) And Abraham called the name of that
place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD
it shall be seen.
“Don’t do anything?” AND HE LOOKED BEHIND HIM!
· IT WAS SEEN.
· God’s hand stepping was seen!
· In the mount of the Lord IT SHALL BE SEEN!
The answer came!
· He can be trusted.
· Every time a Hebrew became distraught and
defeated, someone would repeat that proverb!
· IN THE MOUNT OF THE LORD, BROTHER, IT SHALL
BE SEEN!
God substituted Isaac with the RAM.
Moses was defeated.
· Thought he’d deliver Israel, failed
miserably.
· Things must have come to gigantic climax as
far as HARDSHIPS were concerned – performing his ministry for God
and IT WAS ALL GONE….
40 years in the backside of the desert, not just the desert.
Exodus 3:1-8 KJV Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in
law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the
desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. (2)
And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of
the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with
fire, and the bush was not consumed. (3) And Moses said, I
will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not
burnt. (4) And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to
see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses,
Moses. And he said, Here am I. (5) And he said, Draw not
nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon
thou standest is holy ground. (6) Moreover he said, I am
the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the
God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon
God. (7) And the LORD said, I have surely seen the
affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by
reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; (8)
And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians,
and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large,
unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the
Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and
the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
In the midst of the pain, GOD WAS SEEN.
God said “I AM THAT I AM”.
And the idea of BEING SUBSTITUTE was involved!
· God called Moses to deliver, BUT GOD WOULD
DO THE DELIVERING.
Moses tried and failed, and now GOD WOULD DO IT.
The fullness of the PROVERB would come to pass IN JESUS.
In mankind’s sin and the apex of iniquity and being lost, IN THE
MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD IT SHALL BE SEEN!
Jesus was THE LAMB GOD PROVIDED.
· THE SUBSTITUTE!
· Just when the human race needed Him.
HE DIED when we had to die.
Notice John’s description of his predicament.
Revelation 1:9-13 KJV I John, who also am your brother, and
companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus
Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos (MY KILLING), for the
word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. (10) I
was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice,
as of a trumpet, (11) Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the
first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it
unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto
Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto
Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea. (12) And I turned to see
the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden
candlesticks; (13) And in the midst of the seven
candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down
to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
Then John sees JESUS – like Abraham saw the ram caught in the
thickets, and Moses saw God in the burning bush – IN THE MIDST OF
THE CANDLESTICKS.
And in all of this turmoil of John’s persecution, HE SEES!!!
· Revelation is being able to SEE SOMETHING
FORMERLY UNSEEN OR VEILED.
Revelation 1:16-19 KJV And he had in his right hand seven stars:
and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance
was as the sun shineth in his strength. (17) And when I saw
him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me,
saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: (18)
I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for
evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
(19) Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which
are, and the things which shall be hereafter;
HE WAS DEAD, LIVES and IS ALIVE FOREVERMORE!
· SO DO NOT FEAR!
· LOOK – BEHOLD!
· He is alive forevermore.
· AND HE HOLDS THE KEYS OF DEATH AND HELL!
· He has it in control!
· He conquered death to such an extent that
holds its keys now!
So, make it a proverb – renew the proverb – IN THE MOUNT OF
THE LORD IT SHALL BE SEEN!
· What shall be seen?
· THE REMEDY AND DELIVERANCE to your dilemma!
· At the height of your turmoil!
· He who is eternal – who watches over
every moment of your problem at the same time – HE SHOWS UP in
just the right moment!
· Without his eternal perspective, we worry
and the pressure kills us.
· BUT HE STEPS IN while looking at the
beginning to the ending all at once at just the right moment.
· We are limited to time and pressured…
· But he steps in at the right moment.
WOW WHAT A REVELATION when he steps in!
