Sermon 1531 - The Four Positions in Which Israel Stood When Receiving the Torah at Mount Sinai - 2nd Message…..(Wed Day 4/2/97)

THE FOUR POSITIONS IN WHICH ISRAEL STOOD WHEN RECEIVING THE TORAH AT MOUNT SINAI — 2ND MESSAGE.....(WED DAY 4/2/97)

(Tampico, Mexico Convention) This lesson continues to deal with the nether position, which was the first position in which Israel stood when God gave the Torah at Mount Sinai. The Hebrew word for nether (takh-tee) means the lowest place or position. It also means a womb for Seed, for life.

In Genesis, chapter twenty-two, God tempted Abraham; that is, He tested Abraham’s faith in the LORD and His obedience to Him. God already knew theoretically that Abraham trusted Him, but He wanted to know it empirically, through fellowship with him in the nether place or the lowest place of complete surrender to Him.

Abraham bound his son to the Altar and was ready to offer him as a whole burnt offering unto the LORD when he heard a Voice from Heaven telling him not to harm the lad. Then, Abraham lifted his eyes and saw, behind him, a ram caught in a thicket by his horns, and Abraham offered the ram in the stead of his son. The Hebrew word for stead is the same root word as the nether part of the mountain where Israel stood to receive the Torah. Then, Abraham saw a prophetic vision of God’s Lamb Who would come to the Earth and be sacrificed in our stead.