BRIDE OF CHRIST ARISE!!!

During the night of February 23, 2019, and as I was waking up that morning, I had numerous dreams and visions. In all honesty, I have now forgotten most of them, and I believe it's because through them all, the THIRD (remember that number) one I received is the one the needs to be shared.

All I can remember about the THIRD vision, was an audible voice which said, "TWENTY SIX THOUSAND KILLS".

So I felt a leading to do a word study to see if, and how many times, the number 26,000 appeared in the Scriptures, and there were only two. The first was in Judges 20:15 (which is the Hebrew text you see in the attached picture above), and the second, was 1 Chronicles 7:40, both of which, as I suspected would be the case, related to numbers of warriors.

For this study, I believe I am to focus our attention on Judges 20:15, and then it's greater context, which for me extended back to the beginning of Chapter 19, and concluded with the end of Chapter 21.

Judges 20:15 states, "And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men."

In this case, when we read the context, much of Benjamin had become very corrupt, similar to Sodom and Gamorrah in the time of Abraham and Lot, with homosexual and other sexual sin being rampant. An unnamed Levite had taken a concubine, and after spending numerous days eating and fellowshipping with the concubine's father, he took the concubine and left on his journey...which took him into Gibea, which is part of Benjamin. There, he met a stranger who, upon hearing of his travels, offered to take he and his concubine and his animals in for the night. While under his roof, homosexual men came to the door, demanding the host bring his guest out so they could have sex with him, but like with Sodom and Gamorrah, the man offered his virgin daughter, and the Levite would not hear of it, but offered his concubine instead. The sex crazed men raped her all night, and by morning, she was dead from the sexual brutality of the mob of homosexuals. Upon finding his concubine in the morning, he cut her body up into twelve pieces, and sent them to each of the twelve tribes of Israel. All Israel became engraged with Benjamin, and turned out 400,000 men of war to Benjamin's 26,000.

Amazingly, on day one of the battle, Benjamin had prevailed, killing 22,000 of the other Israelites. The Israelites inquired of the Lord if they should fight the next day, and the Lord told them yes. But once again, Benjamin won that second battle of the war, killing another 18,000 of the Israelites. Once again...the Israelites enquired of the Lord what to do, and the Lord said to go out to battle again, and on this, the THIRD DAY, Israel would prevail against Benjamin, and indeed they did, killing 25,100 of the 26,000 Benjamite men of war, and buring Gibeon to the ground, leaving hardly any Benjamite men alive to keep Benjamin as a tribe. Concerned for this fact, the enquired of the Lord what to do, and a plan was made which enabled Benjamin to continue.

So even in the midst of a horrible sin, which God rightly allowed judgment to come upon those who upheld the right of the people to commit it, God still showed compassion in the end, and did not totally wipe out that tribe.

Let me also include here, that unlike what Lot did in offering his daughters to these homosexuals to save his two visitors, and unlike what the Levite did to save the daughter of his host by offering his concubine, I believe we as believers need to be willing to lay down our own lives, and never ever willingly submit others or ourselves to sexual sin, whether that sin is forced, or consensual.

Today, in our sex crazed American society, and in other placed around the world, which has sought to not take resposibility for their sinful lifestyle, but instead, has chosen to compound their sin by adding the sin of murdering the innocent children conceived by those sexual sins, the battle lines are once again being drawn between right and wrong, between good and evil, but before we get carried away with our understandable emotions here, and take matters into our own hands, let us remember another event that happened on the THIRD DAY!

After 3.5 years of public ministry, healing thousands of sick, and injured, having raised numerous people from the dead, and training 12 men to follow His example...one of those 12 betrayed Him, yet even in that betrayal, Yeshua (Jesus) called Judas "FRIEND". When those who came to arrest Yeshua went to seize Him, without Yeshua's consent, took a carnal weapon ( "the weapons of our warfare are NOT carnal...." 2 Corinthians 10:4 ), and cut off the servant of the High Priest's ear. But Yeshua STERNLY REBUKED Peter for this, and then turned and in compassion, healed the man whose ear Peter had cut off. Then Yeshua willingly allowed Himself to be brutally tortured, and crucified, and while hanging on the cross, bleeding and unrecognizable as a man, He prayed, "FATHER FORGIVE THEM, for they know not what they do". He was buried in a borrowed tomb for 3 days and 3 nights...but on the THIRD DAY, resurrected from the dead. He spent the next 40 days given instructions to His Disciples to then pass on everything He had personally taught them to others, then ascended into Heaven.

Friends, I understand that it can be very very difficult for our fleshly human nature to submit to the divine will of God, and not take matters into our own hands, but Yeshua taught us, both by word, and by example, to Love our enemies, pray for them, and do good to them, and to overcome evil not with more evil, but with good. The Bride of Christ, needs to be all about doing the things that Yeshua taught us to do. Let's remember, that the only act of physical violence carried out by a follower of Yeshua in the New Testament, was sternly rebuked, and then the wonded person was healed by our Savior and example, and from that time forward, in all of Biblical History, Yeshua's followers went about healing, and being willing to have their own lives taken for the sake of the message Yeshua gave us to preach! So Bride of Christ, put on the full armor of God, and take up the only offensive weopon in that armor...which is the SWORD OF THE SPIRIT, the WORD OF GOD, and together, let's extinguish all the firey darts of the enemy in Yeshua's name and for the Glory of Abba Father!!!

Blessings in His most Wonderfully Beautiful Name!!! Richard Fischer Jr.