Scripture~
Numbers 23-24, Psalm 74, John 16

     This is just awesome stuff. Numbers 24 Balaam looks over the wilderness and beholds the entire company of Israel. He sees them camped tribe by tribe. Reading through it the first time you just get a sense of how awesome this sight must be and how it’s beautiful and only a work God could do. But read it with the understanding of what Balaam saw . . . the children of Israel camped in such a way to form a cross, at it’s center is the tabernacle; the mercy seat of God. Knowing this re-read and we find the echo’s of Christ, the King to come out of the house of Israel. Just awesome!
     I am a believer in the Creation. I firmly believe the Genesis account of creation; I believe that Dinosaurs and man were on the planet at the same time. This is not blind faith as there is evidence to support these claims and I’m not talking about ‘just’ the bible as a historical document; the evidence goes to archaeological finds and scientific evidence. The Psalmist speaks of Leviathan, sea monsters . . . could this and would this not be how some of the dinosaurs of water would appear to them? How is it that the images of Dragons appear on ruins on Mayan temples and in the hallways of Japan, China, Native American Cultures . . . oceans apart yet they appear in various cultures all dated around the same time? Look deeper than what you’re spoon fed by an education system that does not look for the truth.
     How beautiful . . . ‘ but take heart, I have overcome the world’ . . . how beautiful a statement. Christ is with His disciples telling them of things that are to come and slowly they are starting to get it. It is easy for us to read this and question how the disciples did not know that Christ had to die in order to be resurrected and thus defeat death and the grave and fulfill His father’s will. But, as Christ said in this passage, we have the ‘helper’; the Holy Spirit, who like Balaam in the Old Testament passage only speaks what He is told by the Father. The disciples did not have such access to God the Father. We blessed people have the Holy Spirit with us, where we go; it blesses us in our steps and convicts us of our sins. What a blessing to walk with God in and through the Holy Spirit.