The Unseen Hand
EXODUS 32:11
11 And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?
**By his mighty hand the Lord performed all the miracles of the 10 plagues and all the things that took place under the ministry of his prophet Moses, and even though the people witnessed all the power of God, they still continued to base their faith on their human reasoning of what they could see in the seen realm instead of looking to the unseen realm of the hand of God.
DEUTERONOMY 7:8
8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
God kept his promise to them regardless of their unbelief.
But if we notice here there are two hands spoken of, the hand of God and the hand of Pharaoh King of Egypt.
This word “Hand” in the Hebrew is the word yad {yawd}, and it is a word used to figuratively speak of strength or power – a mighty hand of power. And there are only two powers, the power of darkness and death, and the power of light and life.
II CORINTHIANS 4:18
18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
The Unseen Hand
Your hand is what you get things done by.
Every part of our body God fashioned for a purpose to serve the body. And this is also like the body of Christ in that we are to serve one another with the gifts that God has given us within the body of Christ.
So this unseen hand of God is not like God has a big hand in a natural sense because we know that God is a spirit, but God has a way of getting things done in a supernatural realm that is unseen to us, and so it is this unseen hand of the power of God to bring his word to pass of what he has spoken.
***This is a little study to try to help us as believers to really see where our faith is to be placed in this hour – we cannot base our faith on the things that we see around us and be dictated to by the circumstances of this life – we are to recognise the hand of God that has called us out in this third exodus and learn to place our faith completely in this unseen hand of the one who is among us.
**We find out that just before Jonah was resurrected, he came to this same revelation of the unseen hand of God. You couldn’t have gotten yourself in a worse situation then Jonah, but look at the revelation that came to him while he was in that condition.
JONAH 2:8 (Look at his confession based on his revelation)
8 They that observe lying vanities (those who look to the seen realm) forsake their own mercy.
**All of us have had times when we have seen the hand of God intervene and change circumstances within our own personal lives just when we thought it was impossible for things to work out.
But then when we look at this on the world stage we know that scriptural prophecy regarding the nations and world events can never fail to come to pass because it is the word of God, and the word of God can never fail because we know that the unseen hand of the power of the word of God is in full control of even the minutest detail of every little event that needs to happen in the world and in every persons individual life in order for these great events of scriptural prophecy to come to pass.
***And you and as believers of the message of this hour have a very important part to play in the plan of God for many of the prophecies concerning the bride for this hour to come to pass – so this is why the unseen hand of God is so involved in every detail of your life weather you fully recognise it or not.
**So as believers, our faith and trust has to be placed where this unseen hand of God operates from, and that place is in the word of his promise for this day.
EXPECTATIONS_ CLEVELAND.OH THURSDAY_ 50-0810
E-29 …Symptoms, they're lying vanities. Don't receive them. Don't have nothing to do with them.
If you look to them, you're looking away from God. We look at the unseen, not at what we see. No one could look at what they see and be a Christian. You've got to believe the things that's unseen, for it's by faith are you healed, not by sight or by feeling.
When we see how God has dealt with men down through the bible, then we know that that is how he will always deals with every man because he is the same yesterday, today, and forever. God will deal differently in how he shapes our lives individually for His great purpose, but as far as relationship goes, he doesn’t change his ways – if he acted a certain way then he will always act that same way or he is a God that changes just like we do.
*So when we see how that it is impossible for even one word of God to fail of what he said would come to pass – then our faith needs to rest knowing assuredly that he will bring every promise concerning the believers of this hour to complete fulfilment.
HEBREWS 11:3
3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
All the things that we can see in this material world came into existence from the unseen world of the power of the word of God.
*And so it is in this unseen world of which is the place where the believer rests his reality and faith in. We don’t draw our faith from what we see in the seen realm of what our physical sensors declare to us because your sensors can easily mislead you and even completely deceive you at times – but our faith is anchored in the realm of the unseen.
**So the thing is that we need to come into a greater consciousness and a greater understanding and confidence of that supernatural realm of this great unseen hand of Almighty God.
REVELATION.BOOK.OF.SYMBOLS_ JEFF.IN V-13 N-6 SUNDAY_ 56-0617
102 …Wouldn't you like to live where you're conscious that the unseen world's right with you all the time? To realize, when you walk out here and get in your car, Angels take their positions to the side of you. When you walk up yonder to that man so unlovely to you, that the Holy Spirit's standing right above you and Angels all around you.
HEBREWS 11:7 (Look how Noah had come into this consciousness of this unseen hand of God just before he went over into the new world)
7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house (it was his faith in the message of that hour and his obedience to that message in the preparation of the ark that save him and his household); by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
*There was nothing in the world of the science of that day that Noah could show to prove his message by human reasoning, but his faith wasn’t in the world of the seen, his faith was in the world of the unseen, and so he knew without a doubt that rain would come because he understood that everything that comes into this world comes from out of this unseen realm of the power of the word of God.
II KINGS 6:11-20
11 Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye not shew me which of us is for the king of Israel? (In other words – who is the traitor among us that is secretly passing on our secret battle plans to the king of Israel?)
12 And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber. (Notice - an eagle’s eye can see clearly for many miles because his eye has ten times the pixels of a human eye, and even a dog can often hear better than a human, but this eagle prophet’s eyes and ears who was maybe over 50 miles away could see and hear right into the very
King of Syria’s bed chamber)
13 ¶ And he said, Go and spy where he is, that I may send and fetch him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan.
14 Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came by night, and compassed the city about.
15 And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?
16 And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. (We must also come to this same realisation in this hour under this Elisha’s ministry)
17 And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
(We notice here that it was with his same eyes that the servant of Elisha saw the both worlds of the seen and the unseen world by the ministry of Elisha that opened his eyes – that is also what the ministry is to do in this hour, is to lift our eyes of faith to see into that unseen realm)
18 And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
19 And Elisha said unto them, This is not the way, neither is this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. But he led them to Samaria. (So this blindness wasn’t to do with them not being able to see what was around them with their physical eyesight of the natural world, but their blindness was in their understanding – their minds were blinded to where they were and where they were going, under normal conditions they would have known exactly where he was leading them to just by their natural sight. This is the showing us how that the blindness in this hour that has opened out eyes to the unseen realm has also blinded the people of the world from seeing where they going)
20 And it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha said, LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see. And the LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and, behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.
We see here that there are two worlds, the seen world, and the unseen world, and it was this unseen world that had power over the seen world.
*Look at how Satan dealt with Job after God gave him permission.
JOB 1:7-19
7 And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
8 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
9 Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?
10 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
11 But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
12 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.
13 ¶ And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
14 And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:
15 And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
16 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
17 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
18 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
19 And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
**What hope would any of us have if the unseen power of God’s protective hand was not continually protecting us from this evil power of the darkness of Satan’s power and ability to cause real events of catastrophe to take place in our lives?
INFLUENCE_ NY.NY V-18 N-9 THURSDAY_ 63-1114
83 … Any man, any man is subject to mistakes. He is subject to error because He is human. He is subject to the violations of God's laws. And he is subject to many things, because Satan tempts him, and he is just a human being. And if God ever lifted His hands, he would fall. That's all.
And I've heard people say, "Oh, Satan can't do that."
84 Yes, you just let God lift His hand one time, and watch what happens. It's a... I constantly plead, "God, don't send him. Have mercy on me. Keep him away from me," you see. I--I need God's mercy. And we all need that.
***We know that the laws of a nation is what has power over the people of that nation especially if those laws are correctly enforced – but if we really think about it, these laws that are made are really just words on paper that convey thoughts, so you can’t really see them because they are not in the seen world but in an unseen world of the spirit realm of man’s thoughts, and so even in this world it is this unseen world of the laws of a nation of what is really controlling the seen world that we live in.
When a government acts with a strong hand by the law, we know that that is meaning that they have a strong power to enforce their rules on the people.
**So if we multiply that by a billion times we also know that God has laws written in his word that is the ultimate governing power over the affairs of man (and in fact of the entire universe), and He has a very strong hand of enforcement connected with his law.
MATTHEW 24:35
35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
***So when we look at (for example) the book of Ruth, we know that this story is a prophecy for this end time hour, and so this story is actually the word of God that cannot fail, so all prophecy in the bible is actually what governs the affairs of every detail of mankind in this world in order to bring the prophecy to pass.
LUKE 4:5-8
5 And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
8 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
TO.TAKE.ON.THE.WHOLE.ARMOR.OF.GOD_ SANTA.MARIA.CA SUNDAY_ 62-0701
E-22 And you know why? Is because the whole world is controlled by Satan. Every kingdom in the world is ruled by Satan. We hate to think that, but that's the Scripture. You know, the enemy taken our Lord up into a high exceeding mountain, exceedingly high, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world, and said, "They are all mine. I'm the ruler of them. I do with them whatever I want to, and I'll give them to you."
**How does Satan have this power to do whatever he likes to the people of the world especially in the political realm and the influence of music and Hollywood, and the fallen morals, how does he do all this? – It is by his unseen hand of power like we saw with what happened to Job. Man is no match for Satan unless the unseen hand of God is opposed to Satan’s power regarding that man.
***As believers we know that we have these two great forces of power of these two unseen worlds battling for the position of leadership within the heart of man.
THE.GREATEST.BATTLE.EVER.FOUGHT_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-11 SUNDAY_ 62-0311
11-3 Now, do you know we've had wars after wars and rumors of wars, and if the earth stands we'll have plenty more wars. But do you realize that there is really only two powers in all the universe? Of all of our differences between nations, and differences between each other and everything, it all mounts up to two powers. There's only two powers and there's only two kingdoms: two powers and two kingdoms. All the rest of the little minor things are connected with either one of those powers. And those powers is God's power and Satan's power. That's what the--every war, every disorder, everything that comes along, it's either controlled by God's power or Satan's power, 'cause that's the only two powers there is. And that is the power of Life and the power of death. Now, that's the only two powers.
THE.THIRD.EXODUS_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-21 SUNDAY_ 63-0630M
154 Now, remember, there's only two. Don't forget this. There's only two powers. One is spiritual power, of the Holy Spirit. The other one is the Devil, working through intellectual power. For, that's where he entered, in the garden of Eden, through intellectual powers, to make Eve believe in intellectual conception, against the Word. Just as plain as it can be, the kids could get that. See? See? And that's the way it's been, all the way down.
We began with Moses, so we want to end with Moses…
THE.MIGHTY.GOD.UNVEILED.BEFORE.US_ PHIL.PA V-3 N-22 MONDAY_ 64-0629
32 We find one of the great prophets of the Bible, Moses, of the Old Testament, one of God's chosen, selected, predestined servants, he also desired to see Him. He had been so close to Him, and had seen so many things of His great mystic hand going before him and doing things that only God could do.
Like Moses - this is what we have also seen in this hour.
This unseen hand of God is with us in this hour, He is completely with his end time bride at this time, and He is here to enforce every word and every promise that He has spoken for this hour – this is the unseen hand of God that is among his people at this time, and this is where our faith must find its source and its resting place.