Exodus 7 Satan’s Counterfeit Exodus 7:12 For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods. 13] And he hardened Pharaoh’s heart, that he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said. Paul comments on this in 2 Tim 3:8. Jannis and Jambres, Paul somehow knows their names. “They withstood Moses.” We get an insight here to the goal of the one that is their commander, in a model sense Pharaoh, or in a spiritual sense, Satan. His goal was that they would withstand Moses. How? By imitation! Remember Matthew 13, and the Parable of the Tares in the Wheat, the field is the world, the seed is the Word of God, the enemy sows tares which look like wheat when they are young. Notice the ambition of the enemy, to create a counterfeit. Here before Pharaoh, they create a counterfeit, serpents like Moses did. God has supremacy because Moses’ serpent swallows the other two. The serpent turns back into a rod for Moses. This idea that Satan can do miracles bothers a lot of people, but this is something you should be alert to. Always ask these questions of miracles, “Of whose authority” and “Who gets the glory?” The issue is not the event of the supernatural, the issue should be is it of a form that gives glory to Jesus Christ? If it is a form that gives glory to any other, shun it! Don’t expect a minister of Satan to give glory to Satan, they can give it to anything other than Christ to achieve their goal. Satan’s goal is counterfeit, imitation, deceit, not necessarily direct confrontation. How many witnesses does Pharaoh have? Two. God has two witnesses: Moses and Aaron. This may be a model after Revelation 11, where we do see two witnesses again, and these two witnesses do the same miracles (two which Moses did and two which Elijah did). I do believe that Moses and Elijah are the two witnesses of Revelation 11.
Posted on: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 16:23:32 +0000
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