When the LORD Goes Before You!!!

“Know [without any doubt], that the LORD your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked (stubborn, obstinate) people. Remember [with remorse] and do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness; from the day you left the land of Egypt until you arrived at this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD. And at Horeb (Sinai) you provoked the LORD to wrath, and the LORD was so angry with you that He would have destroyed you” (Deuteronomy 9: 4-8, AMP).

Many of us focus on Moses' fasting for forty days and forty nights. But he had to go back up for a second time, for forty more days and nights, hewing two tablets of stone himself, as he fasted and prayed for the lives of the Israelites, including his brother Aaron. In God’s mercy they spent forty years in the wilderness, and He was not wrong if He would have condemned them to eighty years.

Before we proceed let me confirm why the LORD spoke to me, “The pen is mightier than the sword.” He spoke the Law to the Israelites in the spirit realm and then it was placed in the physical realm with the tablets of stone. He spoke His word and then placed it in His Bible. This is why reading and writing are considered “fundamental”. And the power of the spoken word cannot be denigrated.

“When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water: and the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; (Meditate on that as you question the importance of God’s Law.) and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.