Title: Wilderness route
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Bible Text: Exodus 13:17-22
wilderness route
President Park Chung-hee promised to drill the Gyeongbu Expressway in the 1967 election. The reaction was cold. “What kind of lonely road it is without a car, it will be a cruise route for some wealthy people.” However, he ignored the strong backlash from the politicians and the criticism from the media, and sang it in a military way.
July 7, 2010 marks the 40th anniversary of the Gyeongbu Expressway. 77 people were killed during the construction of the Gyeongbu Expressway. It seems that the opening ceremony was held on July 7th to commemorate the souls of 77 people.
North Korea's Kim Jong-il respects President Park Chung-hee. When he and President Kim Dae-jung held the June 15 summit in 2000, he highly praised President Park's economic development achievements, and two years later, when he invited Rep. Park Geun-hye, he also raised his father high. Recently, a government source said that if Kim Jong-il comes to Seoul, he wants to pay a visit to President Park's grave. Why would you think that way? It must be because he desperately wants to learn the magic of Park Jeong-hee, who succeeded in the development dictatorship, and escape from hunger.
This is the path that God has ordained.
The wilderness route is the path that God has decided alone. It is not a path decided by a majority vote by asking the will of the public. It is the path that God has set, and it is the path that the people must follow.
“Though the way of the land of the Philistines was near, God did not lead them in that way, for God said, lest this people turn to Egypt when they go to war” (verse 17).
The shortcut from Egypt to Canaan is the Mediterranean Sea Route through the Philistine coastal city of Gaza. If you go down that road, it is a short road that takes 4 days on foot. The problem is going through the land of the Philistines. At that time, the Philistines had a well-developed iron culture. They had iron weapons, so they were advanced weapons at the time.
Moreover, the Philistines have a well-trained army and they are good at war. In God's eyes, if we fight them, we will lose. Then Israel will retreat and ask to return to Egypt.
God knows the nature of the people of Israel. Israel's physical strength cannot be defeated by the Philistines They were not prepared for war at all. It's best to send them back a long way to avoid encountering the Philistines.
“Therefore God led the people by way of the wilderness of the Red Sea, and when the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt in ranks” (verse 18).
A close path is not necessarily a good path. Taking more time is not necessarily a bad thing. The fast road may be a road to ruin quickly, and the long and late road may be better.
Usually fast seeks more. The sooner you are, the more you will reap and the faster you will achieve. By car, you can get to great distances quickly. But walking slowly, you miss what you can see. There are things you can feel and think about as you go slow.
“As a father has mercy on his children, so the Lord has mercy on those who fear him, because he knows our constitution and remembers that we are nothing but dust” (Psalm 103:13-14).
A father knows that his child is sickly, and he knows that his constitution is strong. There are infants and there are meat eaters. Breastfeeding babies cannot digest meat when they eat it. Beginner faith does not have the spirituality that old believers have. They cannot move forward. You cannot step back on the wilderness route that God has established. You must step on the land of Canaan.
God is not pleased with those who step back. “My righteous one will live by faith; and if he retreats, my heart will not have joy in him. We are not of those who retreat and perish, but have faith that leads to the saving of souls” (Hebrews 10:38-39).
The wilderness route was God's ordained route, and the people had to go that route.
This is the way to take the ashes of Joseph.
The wilderness route is the route to take Joseph's ashes. “Moses had the ashes of Joseph, for he had made the children of Israel swear by them, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall take my ashes from here” (verse 19).
When Joseph passed away, he made a will. “Joseph said to his brothers, “I will die, but God will visit you and bring you out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.” And Joseph swore to the children of Israel, saying, “God He will surely take care of you, and you say, ‘I will carry my skull up from here’” (Genesis 50:24-25).
Why did Joseph tell him to go with his ashes? He believed God's promises to his forefathers. He believed that God would surely lead the Israelites to the land of Canaan. The book of Hebrews speaks of his faith: “By faith Joseph, on his deathbed, spoke of the departure of the children of Israel, and commanded for his bones” (Hebrews 11:22).
Joseph's body was embalmed and preserved as a mummified according to the funeral laws of the Egyptian nobles (Genesis 50:26). If we now scientifically excavate the remains of Joseph and collect his genes, then Joseph is the material we will clone.
Joseph believed God's promise to his ancestors 3,500 years ago. God said to Abraham, “You must know that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land and will serve them 400 years, after which your descendants will come out with great wealth” (Genesis 15:13-14).
Joseph's ashes were moved from Egypt to Shechem in the land of Canaan and buried (Joshua 24:32). President Park Chung-hee was buried in the national cemetery, but Lee Byung-cheol and Chung Ju-young did not, but I think he is buried in the national cemetery in the hearts of the people. Chairman Lee Byung-cheol's birthplace is Junggyo-ri, Jeonggok-myeon, Uiryeong-gun, Gyeongnam, and it is said that thousands of people visit it even now.
Why? This is because Samsung Sanghoe, which started with 30,000 won near Seomun Market in Daegu in 1938, has become today's Samsung Group. He said that he started the business after a two-month research trip from Busan to Seoul, Pyongyang, and Sinuiju, and then from Changchun, China to Beijing and Shanghai to establish business items and management strategies before starting the business. Successful people have something. Thorough research, courage and positive thinking, constant self-awareness and passion for achievement.
Joseph had something that no one else had.
“… imitators of those who, through faith and long-suffering, inherit the promises” (Hebrews 6:12). It is the spirit of the noble family, the philosophy of dreams, and the faith of the covenant.
We must collect the spiritual DNA contained in Joseph's ashes and use it as our resource. The wilderness route is the way to take the ashes of Joseph. We will have to discover his genetic factors from the remains of Joseph and use them as our resources.
It is the path that the pillar of cloud leads and the pillar of fire.
The wilderness route is a path led by a pillar of cloud and a pillar of fire. “The Lord went before them, and by day the pillar of cloud led their way, and by night he gave them a pillar of fire to go on, day and night; and the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night did not depart from before the people” (21-21). verse 22)
The wilderness route is led by a pillar of cloud and a pillar of fire. It is a path that follows the pillar of cloud and pillar of fire ahead. The two pillars are a sign of God's presence leading the people of Israel day and night. God Himself is present and leads them before them.
People need to know how to put things backwards in order to put things first. It is unfortunate to do forward what should be done backward. Success is looking ahead to what should be ahead.
The book of Genesis tells us that Lot's wife became a pillar of salt. Lot's family lived in Sodom. Abraham prayed for his nephew Lot.
When God sent messengers to Sodom to bring Lot's family out of the city of destruction, the angel said, “Do not look back or stay in the fields” (Genesis 19:17). However, Lot's wife could not turn away from her wealth and home in the land she had left. Lot's wife looked back and became a pillar of salt (Genesis 19:26).
The New Testament warns, “Remember the wife of Lot” (Luke 17:32). The pillar of salt is the result of looking back against God's will not to look back.
At night, the wilderness is dark everywhere. Homeless wilderness When a pillar of fire appears on a dark night, darkness turns into light. During the day, a single tree, a desert without a single shade, is so hot and dazzling that it is difficult to open your eyes. You can't tell how cool and comfortable it is to have a pillar of cloud cover the hot and dazzling wilderness.
He protected his people with light and warm warmth in the dark, and shade and coolness by day. He helped his people with a pillar of fire that illuminates the darkness and a pillar of cloud that obscured the scorching sun.
“God is my helper, and you are my sustainer of life” (Psalm 54:4). Helping is being together.
The pillar of cloud and the pillar of fire were with them 24 hours a day. For 40 years in the wilderness, there was no change. He led them until they entered the land of Canaan.
Gyeonggi Governor Kim Moon-soo, who was a college student in the 1970s and 1980s, was a slave to the leftist ideology. He opposed all of President Park's national projects such as the automobile industry, shipbuilding heavy industry, and the construction of the Gyeongbu Expressway. Come to think of it now, he said that if we hadn't done that at that time, we would regret what we would be eating now.
The wilderness route is the path that God has ordained and led. That path is the right path.
“And he led them in the right way, to the city of residence” (Psalm 107:7).
The wilderness route is the route taken with Joseph's ashes. He died in Egypt, but he took the skull with him and went to Canaan. We have bones, and within bones we have bone marrow. Golbin people are called golbin people Hair isn't the problem. It matters what's inside the head that is covered with hair. We must bury Joseph's skull in our hearts.
The pillar of cloud and the pillar of fire are signs of God's presence. God is always with us.