The River that Flows thru ADAM, must be stopped!

Recently I have been studying various rivers in the scriptures...and two fascinate me...
The first is the river that flows from the Sanctuary in Ezekiels vision which is the same river that is mentioned in the Book of Revelation...The River of Life.

This river flows fromthe very sanctuary of God, the Source of Life. As it flows, everything the river touches has life...there are even trees on the banks of the river whose leaves provide healing to the nations. It is a wonderful River! Ezekiel was called to enter that river by an angel of theLord. He entered slowly and progressively, until it was even too much for him and at once he was returned to the banks that were familiar and safe for him in his sinful state.

Then there is the Jordon River, broad, muddy, turbulent with several twists and turns. It is a boundary river that separates and cuts a person off from the promised land provided by God for his people and from foreigners or the rebellious. This river is equated with death, as it was there John the Immerser (orBaptist) was calling people to repent and be changed, dying to their old selfish lives...

An interesting event happened in Joshua 3:16 when the Children of Israel crossed that river under the direction of God through Joshua. The waters were stopped and they walked across the river bed as if ondry ground. What's fascinating about this is that the waters were stopped up or heaped up more than 20 miles north of them at the City of ADAM. That area is a narrow deep gorge with very unstable walls thathave in the past collapsed damming up the river at that point. (as peran arabian historian in 1265 AD).

This river leads to the Dead Sea, which cannot sustain any life as it's salt content is far too high... This river, flowing from ADAM leads to death.

The Children of Israel were directed by Joshua,who is a type and shadow of Jesus Christ (their name is the same inHebrew), as they were led by the Ark of the Covenant which was the presence of God Himself, to cross over and receive the promises of God.

God interupted the flow of the waters from ADAM. By His power, His Spirit and His Authority, they were able to gain accessto the Promises of God that they had previously been cut off from. They took a radically different approach to getting into Caanan land,and those that were there recognized and trembled at the difference.

It is one thing to be living according to the soul; our own ways, our own agendas, our own intentions, inventions and inclinations and acompletely different thing to live according to the Spirit of God.Doing things according to the soul are not always bad, evil or destructive. Some times they are neutral... but if a life is lived that way only, it is left to itself, and it WILL end up in the dead sea. Even if it was filled with 'good works', humanistic ventures and causes.

One is a river we are familiar with,that our humanistic senses can even recognize, and one is a river that is nearly imperceptible to this world unless seen through the eyes ofthe spirit, through a personal relationship with Jesus as our leader,the one whom we are submitted to... One is a river we can encounter easily, but it muddies our lives, it is turbulent and can so overwhelm us in its coursing that we can easlily end up in the sea of death, the lowest place possible in our world.

Yet, the River of life, as it flows through and in us, leads us by the very presenceof God through His Spirit and the direction of Jesus...It intersects our life, it cuts off the flow from ADAM, our sin nature, and dams that so that we can walk and live in the manner that God calls us to.

For this we need to have a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. We need to be praying, reading the scriptures, be in fellowship with other beleivers so that we can learn from them as well seeing the many different facets of God, not just the ones we are comfortable with or the ones we want. We need to submit our wills our agendas, our ways to the God who authored life and liberty through His spirit.

Ponder that.

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