Psalms 46:11 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
Revelation 12:6 begs the question, ‘Where and/or what is wilderness….the place of divine protection? ( And the woman
- WILDERNESS: In the world but not of the world
fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.)
Scriptures show that wilderness, though spiritual, has substance and reality and is a sovereign domain of God. Wilderness is a spiritual place embedded in a physical place…as in ‘in the world but not of the world’… and is not subject to infiltration by the unauthorized. It is akin to spiritual Bozrah mentioned in Micah 2:12
“I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men. 13 The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.’
Wilderness is seen in the forty-year captive experience of Israel after divine deliverance from Egypt. Within wilderness the disobedient died…and the obedient…subjected to the same fiery serpents within the same invisible walls….were alllowed to enter Promised Land. Numbers 32:13 And the LORD’S anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.’ Too, this domain of wilderness is where the miraculous takes place smack dab in the middle of the physical “And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot. Deut 29:5.’ Wilderness is God’s domain ‘in’ the world but not ‘of’ the world….a hidden place and its door can only be opened or closed by God.
Isaiah 23:14 records that God ‘hid’ David from Saul in the Wilderness. Too, Job referred to the hiding place of God in Job 12:24. …” He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way”. The death, burial, and resurrection of the Lamb all happened .inside the place controlled and guarded by God….Wilderness. Another beautiful wilderness scripture speaks to God’s protection over the incarnation of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world…..and over the Lamb’s forerunner, Elias. From the wilderness (place of divine protection) John The Baptist carried out his mission as forerunner of Messiah. (Isaiah 40:3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.’) In this same spiritual wilderness Moses and Elias will preach the Gospel of the Kingdom for the last time to God’s covenant deaf and blind Israel (Isa 6:10)….and their eyes to see and ears to hear will be restored. Then the end will come ( Rev. 11 : 3-13).
(Ps 46:11 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah). Wilderness is God’s unseen but real spiritual realm in the seen physical world. It was within Wilderness that Steven was stoned to death at the same time he prayed ‘Father, forgive them… they know not what they do’. It was within Wilderness that the saints named in Hebrews 11:36 experienced both suffering and deliverance. “And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: 37 They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; 38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.’
(ps 46:11 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.) It was in Wilderness where Jonah praised God’s faithfulness ( Jonah 2:2 And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.’) It was in God’s spiritual but real Wilderness domain…wheret Christ ‘sweated as it were drops of blood.’ It was in Wilderness that He screamed ….’ My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Matt 27:46.’ It is inside Wilderness where Christ became the propitiation for sins that are past- Rom 3:25, made his grave with the wicked and with the rich in his death- Isa 53:9, and who will appear the second time without sin unto salvation-Heb 9:28. Within the township of Wilderness the people of God Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
(Ps 46:11 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.( The last Wilderness will be during the rule and reign of Antichrist as he inflicts his full demonic personality on all things holy during the Great Tribulation known as the time of Jacob’s Trouble. Wilderness is the hiding place of the woman of Revelation 12:6. She is the body of saints from Adam to the Second Coming who are in the world but not of the world and who, like Israel, are subject to destruction of the flesh but whose souls are kept safe in the ultimate and divine hiding place of God.
Ps 46:11 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.) The woman of Rev.12:6 is given two wings of an eagle so she might fly into her place. Her wings are her supernatural transporation to Wilderness located slap dab in the middle of the conflict. Too, her wings are her manifestation of the presence of her God amidst her affliction. Within Wilderness the wings supernaturally bear her away to divine places. She is no better than her early brothers and sisters who died at the hands of tormentors and her wings, like their wings, are her power to overcome. It is the wings that bear her away from death to Life. (1 Cor 15:55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? 57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.)
In her Wilderness/Bozrah experience the Rev. 12 Woman endures and looks ahead to the opening of the gate by the Shepherd….to the end of her confinement.
Sheephold is where sheep are held for safety. The Shepherd/Breaker has authority over the sheephold and over its ‘breaking’ open for the sheep to come forth.
John 10:1 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. 3 To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. 4 And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. 5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers. 7 Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, cerily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. 9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
Micah 2:12 I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men. 13 The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.
Spiritual Bozrah is the Rev. 12:6 woman’s ‘ place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.’ It is the place of refuge for her soul…not her physical body.
The sheep of Bozrah (Wilderness) are the people of God..the Bride…the Church…the Body of Christ…the Temple of God…ISRAEL! Bozrah is the place of safety in the Shepherd. Bozrah is Revelations 6:9 ‘And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:’ Micah 2:12…gathering of the Sheep at Bozrah, too, is the gathering of the saints in the Sixth Seal. (Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. REv. 7:3).
The ‘great noise by reason of the multitude of men’ mentioned in Micah 2:12 is equal to ‘Rev. 7:9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; 10 And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
Ps 46:11 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. Another glimpse of Bozrah or Wilderness is seen in Rev. 20:9 which shows the camp of the saints during the thousand years reign. At the end of the thousand years Satan is loosed to be transferred to the eternal lake of fire. As he is allowed out of the pit holding place, he and his demons swarm over the face of the whole earth seeking to destroy. But their power ended with the Second Coming of Christ and the camp of the saints (Bozrah/Wilderness) is now become the glorified Wilderness where all its citizens are safe from all harm. (And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them).
Rev. 21:2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. 4And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. REv. 7:16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. 17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
Psalms 46:11 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
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