“THE LITTLE BLUE PLANET…”
Pictures
taken from outer space show the
earth as a little blue planet surrounded by a sea of darkness.
Closer
inspection of this image reveals the earth’s shape appears in
the form
of a cross. “What?” you say “It isn’t a cross, it’s round!”
Well how
about that! When Christ created the earth around 6,000 years ago it was
in the approximate shape of a sphere, called the circle of the earth
(Is
40:22), and has stayed that way ever since, but when viewed from the
second
heaven, it appears as a cross shape. What could Jesus Christ possibly
be
telling us with this impossible and incredible phenomena? The Old
Testament
has the clue.
The
scriptures say “And
the
LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of
Israel, and
bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their
garments throughout
their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the
borders a
ribband of blue: And
it shall be unto you for a
fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the
commandments
of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after
your own
heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:”
(Num 15:37-39)
Israel
were
given these instructions with the following reasons as follows:
1.
Moses
spoke these words and Moses represents the
law.
2.
To remind
them of the purpose of clothes
3.
Their
clothes were to have a circle of colour
around them
4.
A circle
of colour was to be on the fringes
5.
For their
descendants - throughout their
generations
6.
The colour
was to be blue
7.
To remind
them of Mt Sinai and the giving
of the law
8.
To remind
them to keep the law
9.
To remind
them of God’s law after they would prostitute
themselves to other gods
10.
To remind
them that their unfaithfulness would be with their hearts
and eyes
But how does all this apply to everyone, including the Jew, today?
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OLD
TESTAMENT |
TODAY FOR
EVERYONE - Jews and Gentiles |
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1. Moses
spoke these words and Moses represents the law but he couldn’t
enter the promised land. |
Moses
still represents the law for the world & they can’t get into heaven
by the law. Christians follow Paul’s laws but not to get saved
(1Cor 14:37). Christ fulfilled the law & the saved are in Christ. |
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2. To
remind Israel of the purpose of clothes. Fig leaves were God’s
clothes to remind them of their sins. |
Despite
the hopeless attempts of nudists to get back to the garden of an
innocent Eden, clothes remind us that we need a ‘covering’. In Christ
we are ‘clothed’ by his righteousness. |
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3. Their
clothes were to have a circle of colour around them. Around
their ribs they were to have a band – a rib-band not
a ribbon! |
The earth
has lungs – the air, the blue atmosphere, and this is a ribband about
the earth. Just as ribs protect the lungs which breathe air, God
ordains a ribband of blue around the earth – the blue sky. |
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4. A
circle of blue colour was to be on the fringes |
The first
heaven is the earth’s fringe and it is blue in colour. |
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5. To
remind their descendants - throughout their generations |
The sky
will always be blue to remind all people – Jews and Gentiles today of God’s
‘blue’ laws displayed as the sky. |
|
6. The
colour was to be blue |
“Blue for
boys, pink for girls”. Eve was made from Adam’s pink flesh. All the men
newsreaders on TV wear blue suits. All Industrial Real Estate Agents
pictured in newspapers wear blue suits – and they don’t know why. God
is reminding everyone of the Ten Commandments. |
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7. To
remind them of Mt Sinai and the giving of the law |
Unbelievers
today must still face the Ten Commandments. Christians must face Paul’s
laws and commandments (1Cor 14:37) |
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8. To
remind them to keep the law |
Only by
keeping the law can man get to heaven. The blue sky tells us Christ fulfilled
the law on our behalf. |
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9. To
remind them they prostituted themselves to other gods |
The blue
sky reminds Christians not to backslide into the world. We were
fornicators with the world. |
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10. Their
unfaithfulness was with their hearts and eyes |
Our
unfaithfulness? It’s called the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes
and the pride of life (1Jn 2:16) even as Christians. |
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