Satan does not care if we go 3 days in the wilderness to worship God, just don't leave bondage, be sure to come back!
If there is one thing for sure: we cant see ourselves in the lives of the Church in the Wilderness (natural Israel).
Egypt was bondage (a type of sin). God's plan was to bring His people out of bondage into the Promised Land. In between Egypt and Promise Land was the Wilderness. In the Wilderness God spoke to His people about His Law and wrote them on hard tables of stone to match their hearts. Moses was their leader to take them out to bring them in. They were to go from Egypt to the Promised Land without delay, but because of their unbelief and unwillingness to hear God they all marched around in the Wilderness behind their Moses leader till they all dropped dead in the Wilderness! (Oh, but if we could only see ourselves!)
God calls us out of bondage to sin into the liberty of the Spirit. Out of Darkness into His Light. Out of Egypt into His Promised Land. Between Egypt (life of sin) and the Promised Land (the Spirit-led life) we encounter the Wilderness of Worship. We were never suppose to live in the Wilderness but to go in and possess the Promise Land. (not heaven!)
Now let me paint the picture in the Spirit of what I see: We are brought out of Egypt into our Wilderness where we have our Moses/pastor teaching us all the things of God. He hears from God for us and tells us what God said. We receive the order of Worship and the Laws of God written in our hearts in the Wilderness but the plan of God is for us to leave the Wilderness and to go into the Promise Land of the Spirit-led life.
Not us! We get behind our Moses/pastor and follow him around and around the Wilderness of Worship until we all fall dead. We never enter in to the Promise Land. We die in the Wilderness of Worship. We have reduced our service to God to 1 hour on 1 day a week, where we go to sit and watch and listen and pay. We are never taught to walk in the Spirit, to hear from God and to enter into the Work of Our Ministry. We waste away in the Wilderness (Wilderness Christians) refusing to hear God directly, to obey in faith and to move into the Spirit-led life.
The saddest part of all is our Moses/pastor wants it that way. " Don't ever leave the Wilderness of Worship. Sit here and stay saved till Jesus comes. "
Spiritual Babylon is alive and well in our Wilderness Churches with our Moses/pastors.
Let's hear the Spirit speaking, "Come out of her, my people, and be not a partaker of her sins!" Wow!
Be blessed, Billy and Jan
