REVIVAL TALK

Numbers 23:21 - “He has not observed iniquity in Jacob, Nor has He seen wickedness in Israel. The Lord his God  is  with him, And the shout of a King  is  among them.” In this passage of Scripture, the king of Moab had hired the prophet Balaam to speak a curse over the children of Israel.   He saw Israel as a threat to his kingdom.   Numbers 22:2-3 – “Now Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. And Moab was exceedingly afraid of the people because they were many, and Moab was sick with dread because of the children of Israel.” When the enemy sees the people of God rising up in faith, he becomes very concerned and moves to keep us from fulfilling our assignment.   We learn in Numbers, Balaam could only speak what the Lord gave him to speak.   Instead of a curse he speaks a blessing. The enemy seeks our destruction, but God!   Listen to the conversation between God and Satan in Job 1:8-10, “Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you conside

Leviticus 27:30 – “And all the tithe of the land,  whether  of the seed of the land  or  of the fruit of the tree,  is  the Lord’s. It  is  holy to the Lord.”    The tithe is holy to the Lord.   This is the portion of our income God requires us to return to Him.   Some would argue the tithe was only under the law of Moses.   In Genesis 14:20 Abraham tithes to Melchizedek some six-hundred years before God gave the law to Moses.   We must be careful not to mishandle holy things.             In Genesis 28:10-22 Jacob stops in Luz and sleeps on his journey.   He dreams of a ladder with its top reaching into heaven.   There are angels ascending and descending the latter.   At the top of this ladder was the Lord. He identifies Himself as the God of Abraham, and Isaac. He identifies Himself as the Covenant God of Jacob’s fathers. He is revealed as the God of the past, present, and future.   In Genesis 28:22 Jacob made a vow to give back a tenth of everything God would give to Him.

Nehemiah 13:4-5 – “Now before this, Eliashib the priest, having authority over the storerooms of the house of our God,  was  allied with Tobiah. And he had prepared for him a large room, where previously they had stored the grain offerings, the frankincense, the articles, the tithes of grain, the new wine and oil, which were commanded  to be given  to the Levites and singers and gatekeepers, and the offerings for the priests.”              Nehemiah rebuilt the walls of the city of Jerusalem.   He was burdened for a remnant who had returned from captivity and were living in an unprotected city. Throughout the construction he was continually maligned by his enemies.   We have an enemy who seeks our destruction.   Like Nehemiah of old, we must persevere in our assignment.   When you refuse to give up, keep building, and start to make spiritual progress the enemy uses one of his ultimate weapons. He moves into the house of God. He decides to join us and will come into