LESSON:  fear opening door to enemy attack

 

ANNIE’S VISION – ORDER OF THE BATTLE

Book 3 pg 69

From the heights of the glory of beholding His all-penetrating and radiant light He told me to look then showed me His people filled with His light.  He was in the midst of them and was leading them onwards.  Having given the order to advance into battle, He was ordering all things.  Each one of His people was in his own place as advancing against the enemy.  At the same time the enemy had risen up to withstand their onward march but the best he could do was to try to hold his place.  He could not advance against the people of God;  to the contrary, God’s people had the power to advance against him. 

“My people cannot advance until I give the orders, ”He said to me “for if they try to advance without me they cannot go ahead at all.  I must give the order to enable them to advance.  I shall go with them and they shall not go alone.  They shall not go ahead of my orders, nor can they go at another time after my orders are given.  When I give My word is their time to go.”

As the Lord’s people advanced with Him, a bridge was formed that went right up over the enemy so that in reality there was no battle at all for the forces of the enemy were below God’[s people and could offer them no opposition at all.

Some feared the enemy ahead with all his vengeful noises and threatening and lagged behind turning back from the battle ordered of the Lord.  Their fears had overcome their faith.  These were the only ones the enemy was able to reach through to an defeat in the battle because they were open to His attacks.

{End Annie’s Vision}

Scriptures to back Annie’s vision about fear opening door to enemy attack

 

Job 3:25 NKJV

For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me, And what I dreaded has happened to me.

Prov 10:24  NKJV

The fear of the wicked will come upon him, And the desire of the righteous will be granted.

Luke 6:45

A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart  brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks . 

Prov 18:20-21

A man's stomach shall be satisfied from the fruit of his mouth; From the produce of his lips he shall be filled.  Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit .

Rom 14:23

...  for whatever is not from faith is sin .  

Heb 11:5-6

But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

the quickened story of the ISRAELITES

God commanded them to go into their promised land and they sent spies in to view the land.  But due to fear of the giants, they refused to go after spy report, so God said Ok you wont go.  They repented, but it was too late.  When they tried to occupy after God said no, they fell to small towns when trying to go in themselves.

GOD SAID GO AND DO NOT BE AFRAID OF THEM

Deut 7:17-22

"If you should say in your heart, 'These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?' —  you shall not be afraid of them, but you shall remember well what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt: 19 the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs and the wonders, the mighty hand and the outstretched arm, by which the LORD your God brought you out. So shall the LORD your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. 20 Moreover the LORD your God will send the hornet among them until those who are left, who hide themselves from you, are destroyed. 21 You shall not be terrified of them; for the LORD your God, the great and awesome God, is among you.

THE SPIES FEARFUL AND BAD REPORT

Num 13:30-33

Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, "Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it."  31 But the men who had gone up with him said, "We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we." 32 And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, "The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. 33 There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight."

THEY WANTED TO STONE JOSHUA WHO SAID DO NOT FEAR

Num 14:1-10

So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night. 2 And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, "If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness! 3 Why has the LORD brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?" 4 So they said to one another, "Let us select a leader and return to Egypt." 5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.  6 But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes; 7 and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying: "The land we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land. 8 If the LORD delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us,'a land which flows with milk and honey.'   9 Only do not rebel against the LORD, nor fear the people of the land, for they are our bread; their protection has departed from them, and the LORD is with us. Do not fear them."  10 And all the congregation said to stone them with stones. Now the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of meeting before all the children of Israel.

GOD’S DECISION

Num 14:26-38

And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 27 "How long shall I bear with this evil congregation who complain against Me? I have heard the complaints which the children of Israel make against Me. 28 Say to them,'As I live,' says the LORD, 'just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you: 29 The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above. 30 Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in. 31 But your little ones, whom you said would be victims, I will bring in, and they shall know the land which you have despised. 32 But as for you, your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness. 33 And your sons shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years, and bear the brunt of your infidelity, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness. 34 According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for each day you shall bear your guilt one year, namely forty years, and you shall know My rejection. 35 I the LORD have spoken this. I will surely do so to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.'"  36 Now the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation complain against him by bringing a bad report of the land, 37 those very men who brought the evil report about the land, died by the plague before the LORD. 38 But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive, of the men who went to spy out the land.

TOO LATE, THEIR LOSS

Num 14:39-45

Then Moses told these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned greatly. 40 And they rose early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, "Here we are, and we will go up to the place which the LORD has promised, for we have sinned!" 41 And Moses said, "Now why do you transgress the command of the LORD? For this will not succeed. 42 Do not go up, lest you be defeated by your enemies, for the LORD is not among you. 43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you shall fall by the sword; because you have turned away from the LORD, the LORD will not be with you." 44 But they presumed to go up to the mountaintop. Nevertheless, neither the ark of the covenant of the LORD nor Moses departed from the camp. 45 Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who dwelt in that mountain came down and attacked them, and drove them back as far as Hormah.