February 2004

HINDS’ FEET IN HIGH PLACES

Part 28

“He makes my feet like hinds’ feet,
and sets me on my high places!”

(2 Sa 22:34)

In an earlier episode, Isa 52:7 showed who are the ones that are given “hinds feet” and are set upon “high places”. The encoded Scripture reads like this:

“How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of Him
Who brings good tidings, who publishes peace, who
brings good tidings of good; who publishes salvation
and who proclaims to Zion, YOUR GOD REIGNS!”

         We found hidden revelations in three key words that transformed this verse to hold a new and exciting message. After reviewing them here, let us make still more discoveries.

beautiful (Heb 4998) means: “To be at home”
feet (Heb 7272) means: “One who is able to endure”
mountains: these are the “high places” which Ps 36:6 defines,
“O Lord, Your Righteousness is like the great mountains”

Now let us review the above passage, substituting these hidden meanings for the key words.

“How “to be at home” on the “high places of God’s Righteousness”
is “one who is able to endure” (every son of God) who brings good
tidings, publishes peace, brings tidings of good, publishes salvation,
and proclaims to Zion, YOUR GOD REIGNS!”

Very soon the Lord God will mobilize His “feet company” of the Body of Christ who will reveal the Kingdom Gospel of Peace to His lost, suffering world! This troop of “foot soldiers” in God’s Army of Love will be endued with Anointed Power that has not been seen since Jesus Christ walked the earth! These mighty ones will not introduce some new religious rhetoric or ritual; rather, these“ones who have able to endure” (“by the Blood of the Lamb; by their word of testimony; and by not loving their lives unto death” Re 12:11) shall WALK IN RESURRECTION POWER!
        As God displays His Glory in the earth through this highly disciplined, powerful people, lives will be saved in unprecedented numbers. Jesus said, “I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, If anyone steadfastly believes in Me, he will be able to do the things that I do; but then because I go to the Father, HE WILL DO EVEN GREATER THINGS THAN I DO!” (Jn 14:12) But didn’t Jesus say, “A servant is not greater than his Lord?” (Jn 13:16, 20) Yes, but these are not servants, they are SONS of the Most High God!
        Now to see more revelations in the above text in the Hebrew translation for “good tidings”, we note that it correlates perfectly with the Greek N.T. word, “Gospel”.

good tidings (Heb 1319): “Preach,publish, tell, announce glad news and *messenger.”

Gospel (Gk 2097): “To announce good news, evangelize, declare, bring glad tidings,
and preach the gospel.” This is from two roots: 2095 “Good, well done” (as in Jesus’
parable of the servants who made good use of the talents their master had given them so
He praised each saying, “Well done, good and faithful servant” (Mt 25:21)”; and from
32 which is used exclusively in the NT for “messenger and angel”! This is comparable
to Heb 4397 “messenger and angel; also king, priest, prophet, ambassador, teacher.”]

        God equates messengers with angels; both are announcers of His Good News or Gospel. The Message and Messenger are one and the same: heralders of His living Word: Jesus Christ!
        Our text said that the “Announcer of Good News” also “publishes peace and salvation“. The word, publish (Heb 8085) is used throughout the OT as “HEAR” and “OBEY”as in Ro 10:17 that says, “Faith comes by HEARING; and HEARING by the WORD OF GOD!” Before a man can respond to the Good News (or Gospel) of Peace and Salvation, the Word of God must first open the ear that hears and obeys, which then releases the living Faith of Jesus Christ! While a man’s spiritual ear remains closed to God’s Voice, he cannot possibly hear or obey God’s Word!!
How dare we condemn any man in our hearts to a never ending hellish torment if Jesus Christ says, “God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world, through Him, would be saved!” (Jn 3:17) God’s total redemption for this world, and everyone in it, is detailed in 1 Co 15:22-23, “As ALL die in Adam; even so, ALL shall be made alive in Christ; but every man in his own order!” Carnal men condemn what they can’t comprehend! Since God does not open ALL spiritual ears at the same time to hear and obey His Word through the Faith of Jesus Christ, they accuse God falsely that He shall never do it! But God knew all this would happen as He says, “To be carnally-minded is enmity (hatred as the avowed enemy) of God, as well as death; but to be spiritually-minded is Life and Peace!” (Ro 8:6-7)
        Only the “spiritually-minded” are invite to dwell atop the “High Places” of Righteousness, and the world shall soon see such a people in the hour of the “manifestation of the sons of God!”

[TO BE CONTINUED