Fri.’s Devo - The Fall of Pharaoh

Read: Ezekiel 31:1-32:32; Hebrews 12:14-29; Psalms 113:1-114:8; Proverbs 27:18-20;
In the 11th year of their captivity God gave Ezekiel a word for the Pharaoh of Egypt. Egypt and the Pharaoh are depicted as a huge tree of Lebanon. These trees stood about 80 feet high and had a diameter of about the same. The Pharaoh and his kingdom were like this great tree. Egypt was compared to Assyria in power and strength. They were watered from the same waters that watered the Garden of Eden in Genesis and like Adam, they sinned and would be driven out. Pharoah’s pride would bring him down along with all the nations around him who trusted in his strength to save them.
He compares this fall to Lucifer’s and all his angels that will be thrown to the pit to await judgment.
In the end of the 12th year, God spoke to Ezekiel again to take his message to the Pharaoh of Egypt. He saw a picture of all the mighty armies and leaders of the past in the pit of hell. That was the fate of the Pharaoh of Egypt also.
Hebrews spells out salvation. “Without holiness no one will see the Lord.” He is not talking about the holiness of Jesus but of us or he wouldn’t have told us to live at peace with all men, not to be sexually immoral or godless like Esau. He was to inherit Jacob’s leadership but instead sold his inheritance because he couldn’t put down his flesh. When he wanted to repent it was too late. Through the spirit we can resist sin.
We have not come to Mt. Sinai, the law; but to Mt. Zion, the mountain of God. Mt. Sinai was a place of fear and trembling and the giving of the Law. Mt. Zion is the name for spiritual Jerusalem where we have access to God’s presence through the blood of Jesus. There is no fear in Mt. Zion.
God will once again shake the earth like he did on Mt. Sinai but it will be for those who have not left for Zion.
Lord, thank you that we dwell in Zion in our spirits and will one day dwell there forever in our new bodies.