THESE DAYS COMPLACENCY AND DELAY OF OBEDIENCE ARE PREVALENT IN THE ECCLESIA! AS PART OF THIS CHANGE, WE SEE A DIVISION IN THE CHURCH OF GOD, AS SOME BELIEVE OUR NAME CANNOT BE REMOVED FROM THE BOOK OF LIFE, WE CITE, IT CAN BE REMOVED! Revelation 3:5 KJV
He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

OVER THE PAST THREE WEEKS WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN WARNINGS TO BE SETTING OUR SPIRITUAL TEMPLE AND PHYSICAL HOUSE IN ORDER  WHILE PREPARING FOR MANY SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL SHAKINGS! IN THIS PROCESS WE WERE WARNED TO PREPARE FOR THREE DAYS OF DARKNESS AND WERE INFORMED THAT HELL IS UTTER DARKNESS! AND I AM GIVING EVERYONE A PREVIEW!

SPIRITUAL FOUNDATION!

Exodus 10:21
[21]And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.

COMMENTARY OFFERED BY MATTHEW HENRY (1664–1714).

Observe particularly concerning this plague,

1. That it was a total darkness. We have reason to think, not only that the lights of heaven were clouded, but that all their fires and candles were put out by the damps or clammy vapours which were the cause of this darkness for it is said (Exodus 10:23), They saw not one another.

It is threatened to the wicked (Job 18:5,6) that the spark of his fire shall not shine (even the sparks of his kindling, as they are called, Isaiah 50:11), and that the light shall be dark in his tabernacle. Hell is utter darkness.

The light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee, Revelation 18:23

2. That it was darkness which might be felt (Exodus 10:21), felt in its causes by their fingers’ ends (so thick were the fogs), felt in its effects, some think, by their eyes, which were pricked with pain, and made the more sore by their rubbing them.

Great pain is spoken of as the effect of that darkness, Revelation 16:10, which alludes to this

3. No doubt it astonished and terrified them. The cloud of locusts, which had darkened the land (Exodus 10:15), was nothing to this.

The tradition of the Jews is that in this darkness they were terrified by the apparitions of evil spirits, or rather by dreadful sounds and murmurs which they made, or (which is no less frightful) by the horrors of their consciences and this is the plague which some think is intended (for, otherwise, it is not mentioned at all there) Psalms 78:49, He poured upon them the fierceness of his anger, by sending evil angels among them for to those to whom the devil has been a deceiver he will, at length, be a terror

4. It continued three days, six nights (says bishop Hall) in one so long they were imprisoned by those chains of darkness, and the most lightsome palaces were perfect dungeons.

No man rose from his place, Exodus 10:23. They were all confined to their houses and such a terror seized them that few of them dared to go from the chair to the bed, or from the bed to the chair. Thus were they silent in darkness, 1 Samuel 2:9.

Spiritual darkness is spiritual bondage while Satan blinds men’s eyes that they see not, he binds their hands and feet that they work not for God, nor move towards heaven. They sit in darkness

5. It was a righteous thing with God to punish them.they Pharaoh and his people had rebelled against the light of God’s word, which Moses spoke to them justly therefore are they punished with darkness, for they loved it and chose it rather.

The blindness of their minds brings upon them this darkness of the air. Never was mind so blinded as Pharaoh’s, never was air so darkened as Egypt’s.

The Egyptians by their cruelty would have extinguished the lamp of Israel, and quenched their coal justly therefore does God put out their lights. Compare it with the punishment of the Sodomites, Genesis 19:11.

Let us dread the consequences of sin if three days’ darkness was so dreadful, what will everlasting darkness be?

6. The children of Israel, at the same time, had light in their dwellings (Exodus 10:23), not only in the land of Goshen, where most of them dwelt, but in the habitations of those who were dispersed among the Egyptians: for that some of them were thus dispersed appears from the distinction afterwards appointed to be put on their door-posts, Exodus 12:7.

This is an instance, (1) Of the power of God above the ordinary power of nature. We must not think that we share in common mercies as a matter of course, and therefore that we owe no thanks to God for them he could distinguish, and withhold that from us which he grants to others.

He does indeed ordinarily make his sun to shine on the just and unjust but he could make a difference, and we must own ourselves indebted to his mercy that he does not.

(2) Of the particular favour he bears to his people: they walk in the light when others wander endlessly in thick darkness wherever there is an Israelite indeed, though in this dark world, there is light, there is a child of light, one for whom light is sown, and whom the day-spring from on high visits.

When God made this difference between the Israelites and the Egyptians, who would not have preferred the poorest cottage of an Israelite to the finest palace of an Egyptian?

There is still a real difference, though not so discernible a one, between the house of the wicked, which is under a curse, and the habitation of the just, which is blessed, Proverbs 3:33. We should believe in that difference, and govern ourselves accordingly.

OBSERVATION!

The warnings we have and are receiving, are so, that our Lord will find his brides meeting him void of indecision, half-hearted commitment, but with completely surrendered hearts and as sacrificed servants who have laid down their souls and spirits in full obedience to walk in His righteousness until he comes to claim them as his bride!

“FOLLOW ME!”

THE DECISION TO WALK AS SUCH RESTS SOLELY WITH EACH WHO HAS AN EAR TO HEAR WITH UNDERSTANDING, AND KNOWLEDGE TO UTILIZE THE WISDOM BEING OFFERED AS GRACE TO HEED OUR LORD’S CALL UNTO ALL TO FOLLOW HIM!

Robert a humble obedient servant to Yeshua and his Father in heaven Yahewa. And all of God’s children say Amen and Amen in the name of Jehovah Jireh our provider of all things righteous and Holy!