Hi all,
First of all, let me give you some
information about Divine encounters. There are some
people who have seen Jesus in many different ways.
Some in dreams… Some in visions… Some in a trip to
heaven… and some in what I would describe as a physical flesh
and bone encounter with God. The disciples, for
example, encountered the physical body of Jesus after His
resurrection. Paul encountered His Voice in an open
vision.
My personal encounters with God have been
through a similitude of His Voice. What I mean by
that, I may “hear” Him speak to my heart, but then I may also
“see” a representation of what He said in some physical
form. The similitude is not God, but a picture of
His Voice by what He is saying.
A few weeks ago, I was driving into Broken
Arrow to pick up my daughter from her boyfriend’s
home. I am following this car down HWY 51, and it
took the same exit in front of me.
Now…. I know that it was just a car with MYLORD
license plate, and more than likely being driven by a real
driver who owns the vehicle…. I know this. But the
WORD on the plate was very visible and it seemed extraordinary
that I should be following MYLORD down the
highway. So I asked God if it was HIM. I
really wanted to know if I was seeing His Voice in front
of me. When I turned the corner, I was blown away by what
I saw, and I was able to take a picture at the next light.
Apparently these two cars which ended up
going in different directions in just two miles down the road
were not at all related to each other, and for 2 miles I
followed them both where MYLORD turned North on Evan’s
Rd. The other car, 4 JESUS, I followed
another 3 miles until I turned off the road as it went on East
of Oak Grove Rd. in Broken Arrow.
I discovered this about a week later….
Phone # 3826
= EVAN
Hebrew Strong’s # 3826 = Heart
Hebrew Strong’s # 3827 = Flame …
found ONLY here in this verse.
|
And the
angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flameH3827
of fire out of the midst of a bush:
and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with
fire, and the bush [was] not consumed. |
So… if God was trying to make a statement,
naturally He would do so in a way that I would eventually
discover in the right season.
There have been several times in this last
couple weeks when I have gotten a sense of just ONE WORD.
As I have pondered about it, I was thinking how God is so
meticulously accurate, that He could just utter ONE WORD
to a person, and it would forever change their life.
ONE WORD from God is worth more than millions of dollars in the
bank! I am very serious. You cannot
place a value upon the Word that God speaks.
Anyway, that was my thought. Then on Saturday, I
watched the message of the current series of Lifechurch.tv on
Elisha and Pastor Craig spoke of the “ONE WORD” from
God. I realize that he is “listening” to God if he
can get the same word I am getting.
Later on Saturday night, I get on Facebook
and see that one of my friends posted a link to a YouTube video
about How
German sounds
compared to other languages.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_xUIDRxdmc
Now, I admit that this does not seem to be
related at all to anything of spiritual importance, but it was
somewhat humorous in that German is so unique in some
cases. But, I promise that it turned into something
significant later in my next encounter with God in His Word.
As the evening drew on, I just got this
strong sense, that I REALLY wanted to SEE
Jesus. I’m not talking about someday, I am talking
that I wanted to SEE Him SATURDAY NIGHT.
So as I am sitting there at my desk, I realize that it isn’t
very likely that I will see Him. I got to doing
things on my computer, and eventually I decided to try looking
up ONE WORD since I kept hearing that. As
it turns out, the first time that it occurs in Scripture is:
Verse # 8369
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Then the
woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak [one] word unto my
lord the king. And he said, Say on. |
Then I noticed this verse number which is the
reverse of 8369.
Verse # 9638
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And he went
up, and lay upon the child, and put his
mouth upon his mouth, and his
eyes upon his eyes, and his
handsH3709
upon his hands:H3709
and he stretched himself upon the child; and the
flesh of the child waxed warm. |
What strikes me about his picture is that
Elisha is “overshadowing” the boy that it appears he was
reflecting what God was doing…. Mouth to mouth…. Eye to eye….
And hand to hand. What I really noticed was the HAND
to HAND because it was related to something else that God was
speaking to me about while I was musing the other
day. So I think to myself… “What does “hand to
hand” look like when it is represented by a number…
well… there are TWO HANDS… or numerically… 2 3709 (HAND)’s.
So I look it up, and the first thing I see
is:
Webster’s Word # 23709 = Germanism
Then I saw the verse number…
Verse # 23709
= NT BCV (Book Chapter Verse) # 1178
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And when
they had lifted up their eyes, they
saw no man, save Jesus only. |
Webster’s Vol 2 Word # 1178 = Messiah
When I saw this verse, I realized that I had
just encountered Jesus through His Word. He wanted
me to SEE Him in His TRUE form. Now, I will admit
that my encounter with Jesus would have left me a bit
disappointed if I only placed a value upon heaven splitting
open, and Jesus walking down a majestic stairway right into my
bedroom, said “Hi”, and turned around and walked back up into
heaven as the majestic chorus fades away as he
disappears. That didn’t happen. But what
was apparent is that He was very present all day long throughout
my day even in what seemed insignificant. But when you look at
the orchestration of every event that led to THAT moment, it is
beyond comprehension how every person had contributed to the
orchestration of God revealing Himself through His Word.
I don’t know why this is interesting to me,
but the Hebrew word used here for hand is KAF which
sounds like the English word CALF. In
Hebrew, there really isn’t a perfectly equivalent word in
English for it because it depends on the sense of the
word. If you think of making a CUP with the palm of
your hand, that is the picture. If you think of a
curved bottom of a spoon, that is the picture. The “sole”
of the foot is the “cup” of the foot. So as you can
see, this picture is versatile depending on the context.
Given that KAF (3709) refers to the SOLE
and HAND, you can see the play on words here in the
SOUL and HAND:
3709 Verses
from Malachi 4:6
Jer 20:13
Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the
LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
Remember Elisha being a picture of God?
3709 from
the End
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But God
raised him from the dead: |
If you reverse the number…. 9073…
Verse # 19073
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Wherefore
thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak
this word, behold, I
will make my words in thy mouth fire,
and this people wood, and it shall devour them. |
I can keep going, but I am hoping that you
can have your own encounter with God in His Word.
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Blessings,
Wade Balzer