Shalom,


I love the Amplified Bible for Psalm 65:1. The KJV says this:


1 Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall the vow be performed.

The word "praise" is the Hebrew word "tehillah", which means: praise, adoration, thanksgiving, fame, glory. It comes from the Hebrew word "halal", from which we get the word Hallelujah, and which means: to be clear of sound, to shine, to make a show, to boast, to rave, to be clamorously foolish, to celebrate. The word "waiteth" is the Hebrew word "duwmiyah", which means: stillness, silence, repose (rest, calmness, tranquility). The Amplified Bible says:


1 TO YOU belongs silence (the submissive wonder of reverence which bursts forth into praise) and praise is due and fitting to You, O God, in Zion; and to You shall the vow be performed. 

So you see, when we obey Psalm 46:10:


10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

......... the ultimate result will be loud, exultant and celebratory praise! GO FOR IT and don't EVER let ANYONE talk you out of it again! AMEN! HALLELUJAH and GLORY TO GOD!


In Mark 9 we read about Jesus taking Peter, James and John up on the mountain where He was transfigured, along with Moses and Elijah. Below is a picture that is supposed to represent this occurrence:

Personally, I don't think that this is exactly what it looked like, but it is probably the closest that our finite minds can imagine right now! What the disciples actually saw was the Glory of God emanating from these three MIGHTY MEN! When WE spend time in the presence of God, His GLORY will be seen on US, too! Will it look just like that? I don't know, but the Israelites could SEE the glory on Moses when HE spent time with God, and Moses didn't have the Spirit of God within him, just upon him! We have so limited the One, True, Most High, Living, Almighty God of the Bible by our unbelief and narrow thinking! Believe that the Spirit of Almighty God will manifest Himself THROUGH you and then be obedient to what HE tells you to do. People will KNOW that you have been with God! AMEN!


In Exodus we see Moses actually setting up, step by God-directed step, the Tabernacle. God is a God of ORDER, and everything He does has a meaning and a purpose, not only in the what, but in the WAY! Look at this diagram of the Tabernacle, and then read the comment below it:

Exodus 40:7 Why was it necessary for one exact position for the laver to be demanded of Moses by God? Those who have published charts of the tabernacle furniture arrangement, with the laver off to one side or the other of the door into the sanctuary, have missed a point here. The laver was to be placed directly "between [the doors of] the Tent of Meeting and the altar [of burnt offering]," thus completing the "cross" made by the arrangement of the furniture, from the ark to the altar. It could have no significance to the Jews of that time, but the One Who planned it had those in mind to whom Christ would one day say, "And these [very Scriptures] testify about Me!" (John 5:39) How fitting that at the foot of that "cross" there should be the altar, picturing our complete surrender, and then the laver, picturing our cleansing, that we may enter in through Him Who alone is "the Door" to the eternal Holy of Holies (John 10:1-9).

Exciting, isn't it! Thank YOU, Jesus!


Shalom in Him!