"CLOSING THE 'GAP' OF STRIFE IN OUR LIVES''

3-2-13

S. Numbers 31:6-9 & 14-17 

6. And Moses (type of Jesus) sent them to the war, 1,000 (eternal) from each tribe, together with Phinehas (spiritual incantations/whispers/prayers) son of Eleazar, (Helper of God; type of Holy Spirit) the priest , with the [sacred] vessels of the sanctuary (type of Believer; prepared utensils/full grown Believers) and the trumpets (shouts of war/joy/voices) to blow the alarm in his hand. (strength/power)

7 They fought with Midian,(strife) as the Lord commanded Moses, and slew every male, (remembrance/memorial/'call to mind')

8 Including the five (#of God's grace to man/man's responsibility) kings of Midian (strife): Evi (unjust/to wish for/my desire), Rekem, (vain pictures) Zur (sharp rock as compresses), Hur (the crevice of a serpant/a prison cell), and Reba (the fourth/a square=religious/that lies or stoops down); also Balaam (the destruction of the people) son of Beor (foolish, mad, burning) they slew with the sword.(type of the WORD OF GOD; to waste/be in ruin/be desolate/dried up/attack/smite down/fight/to parch with drought).

9 And the Israelites took captive the women of Midian (the extent/spirit of 'strife') and their little ones,(stripping steps) and all their cattle, (obedience and docility to higher rule) their flocks,(that which was purchased) and their goods as booty (strength/might/efficiency/wealth/army/a force).

14 But Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, who served in the war.

15 And Moses said to them, Have you let all the women (the extent of a man/spirit of 'strife') live?

16 Behold, these caused the Israelites by the counsel of Balaam (counsel of destroying the people) to trespass and act treacherously against the Lord in the matter of Peor, (hole/opening/gap) and so a [smiting] plague came among the congregation of the Lord.

17 Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who is not a virgin. (has been intimate with 'strife')

O. REWRITE: 6. Jesus sent God's people to war for eternity, all those who had the love of God in common. Together, with the seed and voices of prayer, Holy Spirit, and the Believers are to shout, showing their combined strength and power through their words.

7. They fought strife, as Jesus had commanded them to do, and killed every reminder of 'strife' in their lives.

8. This included the remembering of their own responsibility in bringing 'strife'; their unjust actions and desires for strife; the pride that bringing 'strife' to others has; the way 'strife' compresses or slows others from moving; the binding prison cell of strife; the 'religiousosity' of strife that causes one to 'stoop down'. This also caused the Believer to forget what he had done to bring strife in order to 'bring destruction' to God's people, which is 'maddness'. ALL THIS 'REMEMBERING' WAS STOPPED BY USING GOD'S WORDS, AND SPEAKING THEM ALOUD...SHOUTING! God's Word brings waste, ruin and drought to 'strife'.

9. And so, God's people took control of the 'spirit of strife', and the way it 'trips' people up. But they didn't destroy it.

14 & 15. The Lord was angry that His soldiers/Believers who did not DESTROY 'strife' by using their WORDS, AUTHORITY and STRENGTH. (God's Word) 

16. Jesus then says, "The 'spirit of strife' caused God's people, through the listening to the 'spirit of strife', to sin and act on that sin. 'The spirit of strife' leaves a 'gap' or 'door' open to sinning and causing God's people to sin."

17. "As a result, all memories of causing others to 'trip up' (and HOW to 'trip up others' by using strife) must be destroyed.  Also, any intimacy with 'the spirit of strife' must be destroyed." 

A. 'The spirit of 'strife' is strong, and can leave 'gates and doors' opened to sin. The 'spirit of strife' has to be DESTROYED...completely...so that NO gaps remain for it to get back in to my life. I can only do this through God's word. I am to put the combined power into that word, in partnership with Holy Spirit, by SPEAKING IT OUT LOUD with the authority that Jesus gave me.

P. Jesus, thank You for the power You have brought here to earth, that we may use our Father's Words to destroy strife. I speak Your Word, Father, and say, "STRIFE, YOU ARE POWERLESS IN MY LIFE, I SLAM SHUT THE GAP YOU HAVE MADE IN MY LIFE, IN THE NAME AND AUTHORITY OF JESUS CHRIST!" amen!

Romans_13:13

(ASV) Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy.