Warning Regarding the Messenger of God
Written by Elinor Montgomery – em*********@****co.ca
February 3, 2007
When God chooses a messenger to speak for Him, what he/she has to say is not open for judgment by those who would call themselves the house of God, the true Jew. He/she should decide whether this person is or is not speaking for God by evaluating the evidence, which will include signs of God’s accompanying power. Having made the decision, he/she is no longer in a position to question whether or not the messenger has the right to say what he/she says.
God gives sufficient evidence by the nature of the messenger’s messages. They are always counter-cultural and call for repentance, a fact which the general populace will hate and reject. The messenger speaks into national sin, calling for a rejection of religious idolatry, and a return to the Law and truth of God only, rejecting all forms of idolatry in the land.
Man’s mind cannot comprehend the ways of God, and it is a sin to try and interfere in His work with His messenger. Such work always is a part of His big plan for man and the path He has prepared for him on the Way to the kingdom. It is not good enough to say that what the messenger says will always appear to be Biblical.
Abraham was called to place his son on an altar as a sacrifice and then kill him. This does not fit with the message the Bible gives about child sacrifices, and it would have seemed wicked and demonic to Abraham’s people. In God’s eyes, they would have trod on very dangerous grounds indeed, if they had tried to interfere or stop that which He had called His messenger to do, even though their carnal minds told them otherwise. Abraham was called by God to do this thing in order to establish the Word in the spirit of prophecy. God is always working into a bigger picture far beyond our understanding, which will fulfill His prophecy.
Again, there is the issue of Moses who was sent by God as His chosen messenger to represent the people Israel before Pharaoh. He was told to say things, which brought severe judgment upon his people, causing their workload to be greatly increased. The carnal minds of the people rose up against Moses, about something they were unable to judge from God’s perspective. They could not begin to see the huge testimony of truth in the spirit of prophecy, which again was being set in place for the Word of God.
In leading the Exodus of the Hebrew people out of Egypt, God set down the pattern prophetically of how He would deal with anyone who tried to come against the Covenant move. He was always moving His house of Israel further along the Way on its journey to the kingdom and back into His presence. Man had once walked with God in the Garden paradise, a creation of God’s goodness.
Korah had tried to lead a rebellion of the people against Moses. He and all of his family were swallowed up by the earth. Miriam questioned the authority of Moses as the messenger hearing from God. She asked if he thought he were the only one to hear, for, after all, God had spoken to both her and Aaron, also. God treats it as interference coming against His will for His covenant plan when the other chosen prophets question the ultimate authority of the messenger. Miriam’s actions resulted in her expulsion from the camp, and could have led to her total separation from the others for ever, had not Moses himself interceded for her well-being.
The heavy burden on the messenger is to stay right with God’s will for him/her and to act in total obedience by speaking the words given by the Lord. Messengers have been prone, on certain occasions, to make mistakes, but it is God’s job, and not man’s, to deal with the messenger. Such was the case with Jonah, a messenger sent to a foreign nation to speak for God, totally out of the normal pattern for the prophets who were sent to speak to the nation of Israel.
God requires of His messengers that they speak in boldness and without fear of what anyone thinks or can do to them. It is a handicap for him/her to have to deal with the rebukes and undermining of the people whom God is serving and calling to serve Him. The judgment is severe, and the message comes across loud and clear to back off from the messenger and dare not to touch His anointed or to interfere in any way with the movement of the Covenant, which God is planning.
Thus says the Lord, for I have spoken this once in warning. I will not tolerate rebellion and murmurings against My messengers.