If you know me well, than you know that when it comes to "faith," I am a questioner...that means I can be a doubter. Sometimes, I actually allow my mind to ponder the possibility that there is no life after death. On occasion, the question, "will I simply return to dust," literally takes my breath away... See, I'm not one who wants to do something or be something just because an "elder" told me it was best. I'm not one who just listens and obeys my authority figures, actually it is my natural instinct to question the motives of my authority figures. I have to pave my own way, I have to find my own answers. This is why I'm a "church gypsy." I move from belief system to belief system and I'm constantly amazed at how many churches rely solely on the traditions of their ancestors instead of the guidance of the Holy Spirit... I simply cannot rest in presupposed traditions, and I refuse the idea that we all need something to believe in, might as well be a Christian... No! If I'm going to "be" something it's going to be because everything in my soul points to it, it has to add up, it has to "make sense." So, what does add up to me, what does make sense to me? Well, here it is: a God that hides messages in written words, that points to a coming Savior, HUNDREDS of years before He ever sends this Messiah... what an amazing book-the Holy Bible! It simply blows my mind, how many underlying messages are scattered throughout the Old Testament, each pointing to Jesus, the Cross, or baptism.... And, the people who are writing this stuff down, don't have a clue that they are being used to point to Christ. When Abraham sends his boy up the hill, carrying wood, to be given as an offering, Abraham had ZERO knowledge that this was actually representing Christ carrying the wooden cross up the Hill at Calvary. Nor, when Abraham sees the ram caught in the bush, and he used it to take Isaac's place, it signified Jesus, being our substitute, BUT EVEN cooler, is the fact that the actual Hebrew writing says "the ram was caught by his horns in a sabek plant", get this: the sabek plant was an extremely thorny bush. The rams horns/his head was surrounded by thorns... Who could this be pointing to? Who else's head was crowned with thorns? That's right-Jesus! Abraham had not a clue that all of these happenings in his life were pointing all kinds of ways to a coming Savior, nope-Abraham didn't know-but God did! And, these kind of hidden messages saturate the Old Testament. When I doubt, all I have to do is look at the proof scattered about. Here is another one that just makes me say, Oh God, you are TOO clever! This one points to the Cross: Moses and his younger 2nd in command Joshua, were heading to battle against Amalek. So, it was the Israelites VS Amalek. Moses told Joshua that the following day, he'd stand on top of the hill overlooking the battle. He said he'd have the rod of God in his hand. The next day as the battle raged, anytime Moses held up his hands out to his sides, the Israelites prevailed. But his arms got too heavy, so he sat on a stone and two friends held up his arms for him, until the Israelites were victorious. So what did NT Christians (easterners) see that us products of the reformation normally wouldn't:
1) Moses standing with arms outstretched like a cross
2) he was on a hill, (Jesus's cross was on a hill)
3) it was Moses and two friends on that hill, Jesus was crucified with two others
4) Moses was in the middle, Jesus was in the middle
5) Moses couldn't hold up his arms alone, Jesus's arms were nailed up
Wowzer! Hundreds of years prior to the Cross, God points us to the Cross, how could anyone not believe?! See, as I study up on why our modern churches don't look like the New Testament bodies, I am met with the realization that the reformation did away with much of the types and shadows knowledge. This knowledge was too "eastern/mystical" and thus we've lost some of what makes the Bible so amazingly legit. Only a Divine Being can hide messages in a work of history that spans thousands of years. That is what makes sense to me, that is why I believe, not bc someone told me to.
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