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The Prophecy of Moses and the Latter Times

 

 

Regarding this mystery, Moses prediction to Israel of their insipient unfaithfulness could have been made to the New Testament church at its inception thusly:

 

"I know that you will not keep the mystery of the New Covenant:"

16 The LORD said to Moses, "Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers; and this people will arise and play the harlot with the strange gods of the land, into the midst of which they are going, and will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them. 17 " Then My anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them and hide My face from them, and they will be consumed, and many evils and troubles will come upon them; so that they will say in that day, ' Is it not because our God is not among us that these evils have come upon us?' 18 "But I will surely hide My face in that day because of all the evil which they will do, for they will turn to other gods. 19 "Now therefore, write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the sons of Israel; put it on their lips, so that this song may be a witness for Me against the sons of Israel. 20 " For when I bring them into the land flowing with milk and honey, which I swore to their fathers, and they have eaten and are satisfied and become prosperous, then they will turn to other gods and serve them, and spurn Me and break My covenant. 21 "Then it shall come about, when many evils and troubles have come upon them, that this song will testify before them as a witness (for it shall not be forgotten from the lips of their descendants); for I know their intent which they are developing today, before I have brought them into the land which I swore."

22 So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the sons of Israel. 23 Then He commissioned Joshua the son of Nun, and said, "Be strong and courageous, for you shall bring the sons of Israel into the land which I swore to them, and I will be with you." 24 It came about, when Moses finished writing the words of this law in a book until they were complete, 25 that Moses commanded the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying, 26 "Take this book of the law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may remain there as a witness against you. 27 "For I know your rebellion and your stubbornness; behold, while I am still alive with you today, you have been rebellious against the LORD; how much more, then, after my death? 28 "Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak these words in their hearing and call the heavens and the earth to witness against them. 29 "For I know that after my death you will act corruptly and turn from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days, for you will do that which is evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger with the work of your hands."  Deuteronomy 31

 

Simply substitute "Paul" for "Moses" (and one can even substitute "America" for "land flowing with milk and honey") in this chapter, and we have what forms the basis for observing that the Gentile Age of Faith has also proven itself to be an age of unbelief. It is this unbelief that is to come to its harvest at the end of the Gentile Age and is to be found at the root of the human conflagration to be found there.

 

Notice Moses comment about "the latter days." Truly, truly, this was a prediction whose meaning carried far beyond the first covenant and into the second. As Moses left his writings with the Levites to testify against Israel, so Paul's writings stand as witness against an entire unbelieving Gentile church age. When Moses says, "Assemble to me all the elders," does this not remind us of Paul's final call to the Ephesian elders warning them of what would come? Again, was not Paul prophetically speaking to an entire age? And how fitting that his warning should be to the Ephesian elders--those to whom he would most clearly articulate the lost mystery.

 

 

 

The Church Still Awaits a Mature Eldership of "Former Jews" and "Former Gentiles"

 

 

If Paul's word about concluded in unbelief applies to the Gentile Age church under its time of light, and if his warning about being cut off was really an age-wide prediction, then the Lord's words to the Pharisees also takes on new application for our age:

 

"I say that the kingdom will be taken from you and given to a people bringing forth the fruit thereof."

 

This would tell us that the kingdom is to be taken away from the unbelieving Gentile church of this age just as much as it was taken away from Israel. It means the kingdom is to be given to an entirely different people. In accord with the lost mystery, it means that the kingdom is to be given to a people who truly understand what it means to be "neither Jew nor Gentile"--a people who have abandoned their natural heritages and culture no matter what their race of origination. It will be given to that humble people left after the great conflagration. 

 

 

Part 14





Chris Anderson
New Meadow Neck, Rhode Island

First Love Ministry
- a ministry of Anglemar Fellowship
http://www.firstloveministry.org

05/06



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