One great deception that happens just before deliverance is when the enemy gets the people of God to attack the one sent to deliver them.
When we read the story of Moses commissioning to return to Egypt, he was told to report it to the elders and the people.
Upon hearing this report the people became very excited, bowed down and worshipped.
Exodus 4:29-31
29 And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel:
30 And Aaron spake all the words which the LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.
31 And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.
1. We see Aaron and Moses present themselves to the elders and the people
2. Aaron speaks as the mouthpiece all the words spoken by God to Moses
3. Signs are performed
a. Staff into serpent
b. Hand made leprous and whole again
c. Water of the Nile turned into blood on the land
4. They heard
5. They believed
6. They bowed their heads
7. They worshipped.
This seems to be such a wonderful beginning to a happy ending. Unfortunately, it was short lived.
It was after this speech, demonstration and worship that now Moses and Aaron go to Pharaoh.
Exodus 5:1 Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, “This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’”
Pharaohs Response
2 Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”
He said He did not know the Lord!
Together in unity Moses and Aaron declare who the LORD is.
3 They said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days, journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword.”
Now here comes the tightening of bondage.
Securing those who had been subject to bondage and cruel work.
4 The king of Egypt said to them, “Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens!”
5 Pharaoh said, “Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens.”
6 The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their officers, saying,
7 “You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.
8 You shall require from them the number of the bricks which they made before. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle. Therefore they cry, saying, ‘Let’s go and sacrifice to our God.’
9 Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor in it. Don’t let them pay any attention to lying words.”
The response of Pharaoh was do not let them meditate on the WORDS SPOKEN!
He called them LYING WORDS.
In the beginning the people believed and worshipped!
We are now about to see a different response.
After the elders of Israel met with Pharaoh we read
Exodus 5:20 They met Moses and Aaron, who stood along the way, as they came out from Pharaoh.
21 They said to them, “May Yahweh look at you and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us!”
They were now turning against the ones sent to liberate them.
They were now being threatened and being forced to focus on cruel labor(bondage) instead of preparing to go and serve(worship the Lord)
This same pattern plays out today when the Lord raises individuals with the deliverance anointing.
The LORD assigns them to people and places to bring the people out of bondage.
Initially the people shout, clap, rejoice and worship.
They had only heard the WORD or PROCLAMATION for DELIVERANCE.
They had not entered into the PROCESS of DELIVERANCE.
Once the process begins we will see all kinds of manifestations.
1. The enemy will manifest
2. Those being delivered might manifest and attack the deliverer
3. The one doing the delivering or liberating is provoked and tried to cause them to manifest in a way contrary to the nature of the LORD.
One of the tools the enemy uses to keep the people in bondage is slander and accusation.
God had anointed Moses and sent him back.
Moses had previously tried to take care of things in his own strength when he killed an Egyptian for oppressing one of the Hebrew brethern.
Acts 7:35 This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.
In the beginning they accused Moses.
They did not understand that Moses was their DELIVERER.
If the enemy can twist the minds of the people of God with intimidation, manipulation, domination, lies, and bondage, they will attack the one sent to liberate.
It is in these moments of heightened battle where everyone is made and proven.
Loyalty is made or broken.
Trust is made or broken.
When we are assigned to bring someone out of bondage, we must know it will not happen without a fight.
We must be prepared to guard our heart and remain steadfast that they might be set free.
Who has the Lord sent to set us free?
Did we attack them because after we rejoiced the enemy turned up the heat?
Or did we stand with them and join together to defeat the enemy?
Dearly beloved, do not be deceived in a moment of affliction to choose the side of the captor and remain captives.
The LORD has spoken and prescribed deliverance as your portion.
We must join with the ones who have been sent and set to bring us out.
In His Love,
Jesse Griffin
#KingdomReign
