“Moving OPPOSITE the Jordon”

3-29-13

Judges 7:25

*25 And [the men of Ephraim] (fruitful; increase) took (to be caught of men in a trap/snare) the two (division/ separation or witness/testimony) princes (to have dominion) of Midian, ("strife"/contention; a contest/quarrel; from: to rule/to judge as umpire; to strive as at law) (#853 AS A SIGN FROM GOD) Oreb ("The Raven" Type of evil spirit & satan going to and fro) and Zeeb, ("The Wolf" type of satan & false ministries and teachers) and they slew (to kill, slay, murder, destroy, murderer, slayer, out of hand, ruin) (#853 AS A SIGN FROM GOD) Oreb ("The Raven" Type of evil spirit & satan going to and fro)at the rock of Oreb (shut up, shut in, enclose, secure, to bind, besiege, confine, cramp , bind up...the "evil spirit/satan going to and fro") and Zeeb ("The Wolf" type of satan & false ministries and teachers) they slew (to kill, slay, murder, destroy, murderer, slayer, out of hand, ruin) at the winepress of Zeeb, (to excavate; a trough as dug out; specifically a wine vat, whether the lower one, into which the juice drains; or the upper, in which the grapes are crushed...OF..."The Wolf" type of satan and false ministries and teachers) and pursued (to chase, to put to flight, to pursue ardently, aim eagerly to secure, pursue...+...motion toward) Midian; ("strife"/contention; a contest/quarrel; from: to rule/to judge as umpire; to strive as at law) and they brought the heads (type: thoughts, mind, intelligence; principal ruler; head, top, summit, upper part, chief, total, sum, height, front, beginning; from: to shake/that which can be shaken) of Oreb ("The Raven" Type of evil spirit & satan going to and fro) and Zeeb ("The Wolf" type of satan & false ministries and teachers) to Gideon ("He that bruises or breaks; a destroyer; "hewer"/feller/warrior; to fell a tree-destroy something; from: to cut off, hew, chop, cut off, hew off, cut in two, shave off) beyond (a part of, off, from, out of, on account of, to apportion...+...opposite side, region beyond or across, side; from: of any transition/change, to pass over or by or through, alienate, to impregnate, to advance, travel)the Jordan. (the river of judgment; "Descender"; literally to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively to fall; causatively to bring down. run down, sink, subdue, to go down, descend, decline, march down, sink down; figuratively to fall); causatively to bring down; to lay prostrated)

REWRITE:

Fruitfulness and increase ensnares what separates and divides what dominates strife and contention. (Divides and conquers that which rules over strife and contention) This is a sign from God to us, that He is working with us! The evil of satan, that searches out the places that evil can land, and false ministries and teachers are then destroyed. Satan’s evil searchings are destroyed by being bound up so he can not move (by our authority in Jesus). The ‘wolf’/ false ministries and teachers are destroyed as we dig out the Truth by testing these teachings…pressing and squeezing them to get out their ‘best juices’. We put this ‘evil raven’ and ‘evil wolf’ to flight by perusing them and chasing them out of our lives. (Being the pursuer in authority and not the victim). We pursue after strife and contention to bring it under our submission and authority in Christ. We then bring the ‘dominating thoughts’ that are vulnerable to evil and false teachings (where satan could ‘land’) to Jesus, the ‘Hewer’, Who whittles these thoughts down to just Truth…the OPPOSITE of what satan would try to convince us was Truth.

Capturing negative/evil thoughts, and knowing that those are only from satan is the key. God only gives us GOOD thoughts. Those are the ones we cling to as Truth.

Satan tries to sell us OPPOSITE notions. When these evil things come to us, we are to KNOW that satan is telling on himself. This is our CUE to change our thinking into God’s thinking. We move OPPOSITE of evil, to the place BEYOND THE JORDON!