Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Friday, January 19, 2018 | Reading: Exodus 33:1-11, Exodus 4, Gen 3:1-21
Topic: The Tabernacle of God 335
Scripture: But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say not of this building. (Heb 9:11)
Note: 2Cor 5:1, “For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” The use of the Greek word kataluō by the Apostle Paul to describe the dissolution of the tabernacle is not all that depressing as might be assumed of kataluō as causing overthrow, to disunite, to destroy and to demolish. All of the above descriptions are negative, terminable and undesirable among mankind.
Yet, in the face of all the seeming destructive elements of kataluō, God is able to turn whatever seems unlikely, impossible, discouraging and hopeless in our lives into something glorious. Whatever happens in our lives that the devil or any enemy intends it for evil, God is able to supernaturally overturn the devices, motives and wicked intentions of our adversaries into something significantly glorious. God does it in His own way to prove to man that this could only have been the doing of the Lord.
Traditionally, among the Hebrews, whenever anyone dies, after the embalming with all the various spices, the dead body is covered entirely with bandages. These bandages are tied or fastened to cover the whole body. A typical example of someone that was bound after death was Lazarus, a friend of Jesus. Lazarus had been dead for four days and buried in the grave (tomb) and the tomb sealed with the traditional stone to prevent offensive odours from the decomposing body. After Jesus had prayed, Lazarus resurrected from the dead, still bound head, hands and feet. It took the command of Jesus for Lazarus to be loosened from his bondage and bandages, so that he would become free again.
Kataluō is the act by which we are loosened from whatever that we have been tied or fastened to by demons or the troubles in this life. In kataluō, we are loosened, unbound and released fully from the grip or bondage of the enemy by the power of God that was able to raise Christ Jesus from the dead. Kataluō gives every child of God hope that it is not yet over with us. Things may seem discouraging, disappointing and seemingly impossible to recover or overturn, yet God is able to turn the humanly impossible situation into our advantage.
Food for thought: May God’s power overturn every dead or impossible situation in your life into your advantage in Jesus’ mighty name. Amen
Declaration: But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwells in you. Rom 8:11
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
