10/23/12

New, but not new


Well, here is something I have not seen before; a fire tornado!  But is it really a "new thing"?  Read on to find out...

Exodus, Chapter 13
21 Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and by night:  22 the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, didn’t depart from before the people.

1 Corinthians, Chapter 10
 1 Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;  2 and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;  3 and all ate the same spiritual food;  4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. 


1 Peter, Chapter 2
  1 Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,  2 as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby,  3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious:  4 coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious. 5 You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 Because it is contained in Scripture,

“Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen, and precious:
He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”


  7 For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient,

“The stone which the builders rejected,
has become the chief cornerstone,”


  8 and,

“a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.”


For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.  9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:  10
 who in time past were no people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.


Clouds, I have seen, but a fire tornado?  Well, one more thing to add to the list of new experiences!!!  God led Israel and Jesus leads us; nice parallel, great thought!!!  The picture makes it clear to everyone that such a thing is possible; the rest is understood by faith!!!  All I ask is that you think about it because I will!!!