BEHOLD! I SEND MY ANGEL BEFORE YOU.

 ANCHOR OF LIFE DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE For Friday, 16TH JUNE, 2023.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE – General Overseer, Anchor of Life & Redemption Ministry Int’l

TOPIC:  BEHOLD! I SEND MY ANGEL BEFORE YOU.

MEMORIZE: "Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared." Exodus 23:20.  

SCRIPTURE READING: Exodus 23:20-23

“Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. 21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him. 22 But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries. 23 For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.”

EXPOSITION:

Angels are special messengers of God. The received instruction from God deliver it to men. Whenever men display special act of goodness to some people, they are regarded as angels in the character. God told the children of Israel  in their wilderness journey that He would send His angel to go before the, to bring down their enemies before them. It is here promised that they should be guided and kept in their way through the wilderness to the land of promise by His angel: “Behold, I send an angel before thee” (Ex 23:20), my angel (Ex 23:23), a created angel, say some, a minister of God's providence, employed in conducting and protecting the camp of Israel; that it might appear that God took a particular care of them, he appointed one of his chief servants to make it his business to attend them, and see that they wanted for nothing.  Others suppose it to be the Son of God, the angel of the covenant; for the Israelites in the wilderness are said to tempt Christ; and we may as well suppose him God's messenger, and the church's Redeemer, before his incarnation, as the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.  And we may the rather think he was pleased to undertake the deliverance and guidance of Israel because they were typical of his great undertaking. It is promised that this blessed angel should keep them in the way, though it lay through a wilderness first, and afterwards through their enemies' country; thus God's spiritual Israel shall be kept through the wilderness of this earth, and from the insults of the gates of hell. It is also promised that he should bring them into the place which God had not only designed but prepared for them: and thus Christ has prepared a place for his followers, and will preserve them to it, for he is faithful to him that appointed him. The precept joined with this promise is that they be observant of, and obedient to, this angel whom God would send before them (Ex 23:21): "Beware of him, and obey his voice in everything; provoke him not in any thing, for it is at your peril if you do, he will visit your iniquity." 

Note,

1. Christ is the author of salvation to those only that obey him. The word of command is “Hear you him,” Matthew 17:5.  Observe what he hath commanded, Mt 28:20. 

2. Our necessary dependence upon the divine power and goodness should awe us into obedience. We do well to take heed of provoking our protector and benefactor, because if our defence depart from us, and the streams of his goodness be cut off, we are undone.  Therefore, "Beware of him, and carry it towards him with all possible reverence and caution. Fear the Lord, and his goodness." 

3. Christ will be faithful to those who are faithful to him, and will espouse their cause who adhere to his: I will be an adversary to thine adversaries, Ex 23:22. The league shall be offensive and defensive, like that with Abraham, I will bless him that blesseth thee, and curse him that curseth thee – Genesis 12:3. Thus is God pleased to twist his interests and friendships with his people's.

PRAYER POINT:  Lord, send your angel of guidance before me to lead me in all my ways in Jesus name.

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  Psalms 76-79.

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