“Behold, I am sending an angel before you to protect you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared. Pay attention to him and listen to his voice; do not defy him, for he will not forgive rebellion, since My Name is in him.”
‭‭Exodus‬ ‭23‬:‭20‬-‭21‬ ‭BSB‬‬

Here God refers to the angel that will go before them into the land v.23. One could say the same angel that Joshua talks to at the wall of Jericho.

One of the clearest Christophanies in the old testaments. Though if you read one translation they will mute the idea and another will capitalize letters to point out.

But in Joshua 5:14-15 Joshua is not told to get up from worshipping him. And the angel tells him to take off his shoes because the ground is holy. Reference to Moses and God.

What a chapter!

“I will not drive them out before you in a single year; otherwise the land would become desolate and wild animals would multiply against you. Little by little I will drive them out ahead of you, until you become fruitful and possess the land.”
‭‭Exodus‬ ‭23‬:‭29‬-‭30‬ ‭

Are you waiting for answers, are you standing for revival in your life? It says God would not take the enemies out quick, so that the land would not become desolate, to keep beast from overgrowing, and that he would increase you to where you can manage what he has for you!

Let you, your life, be the Promise, that God has for you, Land. Can he do a quick work? i believe he can. But he works with open hearts. Those who walk in faith. Psalms 85:8-13

He loves you too much!

Lets say it another way. The wealth transfer people are talking about. Does God want to give you a factory with machine problems and no workers and a supply line of raw goods broken and a way to sale your goods having to be rebuilt. No he wants you to come into it, with the gift fully functioning…

Like Viks sermon today. The covenant has been paid for!

Matthew’s gospel begins with the quote from Isaiah 7.14 in Matthew 1.23 “they shall call his name Immanuel, which translated means ‘God with us’ “

Then the gospel ends in Matthew 28.20 with “I am with you always, even to the end of the age”

Fulfillment from front to finale.

In Exodus 22-23; God revealed to Moses the Law and the covenant that he will declare over the people. Most of this Law and rules were that if someone steals, or kills, or breaks in, or hurts, he will have to pay tbe price in full or double or triple and so on. They had to pay back what they stole or hurt or damaged with their own belongings and their own possessions and hard work.

In Matthew 28; Jesus was judged and taken on the cross, he died for the sins of others, and he took on what we were supposed to pay. He payed our unplayable debt. He died for our debt, and transgressions, and sins, and iniquities.

Proverbs 4:9; Solomon speaks about lady wisdom and the wise words of his Father, he speaks about how lady wisdom will bestow a beautiful crown on your head.

Just as lady wisdom will put a beautiful crown on your head, so it gave Jesus the glorious crown of thorns. It gave him honor and praise for what he did. Wisdom will lead you to humility as onto the cross. Wisdom will lead you to go into your cross.