12 “WAKE UP, WAKE UP, Deborah!
WAKE UP, WAKE UP, break out in song!
ARISE, (ON YOUR FEET MSG) Barak!
Take captive your captives, son of Abinoam.” Judges 5
A prophetic ‘Wake Up’ call from God through the prophetess Deborah. God was moving now against the enemy of His people. There was a battle coming and Barak was told to take captive those already marked out for him. He was told to Arise/Get on His feet, MSG and get ready to fight and do what he’d been called to do. It must have been both scary and very encouraging for Israel to suddenly hear God calling them to arms. They’d been ‘cruelly oppressed’ for twenty years, but now God was moving on behalf of His people.
I believe that this is exactly where we are today! God is moving and calling His people to ‘Wake Up and Arise’. God’s people have been living under oppression for a long time, beaten down, and God is going to put an end to it. People with vast resources, like ‘Sisera’s nine hundred iron chariots’ have opposed God. The Lord Himself is moving against our enemies to bring them down and we must stand with Him.
31 ‘So may all your enemies perish, O Lord!
But may all who love you be like the sun
when IT RISES in its strength.’
Then the land had peace for forty years. Judges 5
I said yesterday that we’re being called to ‘Rise and Shine’. The time is coming, like never before, for the people of God to Shine in this dark world and tell people about Jesus. (I do believe a lot of hidden things will be revealed, also in the Church.)
23 These are the last words (NB Important Words) of David:
‘The inspired utterance of David son of Jesse,
the utterance of the man exalted by the Most High,
the man anointed by the God of Jacob,
the hero of Israel’s songs:
2 ‘The Spirit of the Lord spoke through me;
his word was on my tongue.
3 The God of Israel spoke,
the Rock of Israel said to me:
“When one rules over people in righteousness,
when he rules in the fear of God,
4 HE IS LIKE THE LIGHT OF MORNING AT SUNRISE (after the darkness)
on a cloudless morning, (nothing to block the sunlight)
like the brightness after rain
that brings grass from the earth.” (The harvest is coming) 2 Samuel 23
King David’s last words, inspired by the Spirit of God, speak of a time when God had His man leading His people. A time of Light and brightness in Israel, surely God will do it again before the Lord returns.
14 Do everything without complaining or arguing, 15 so that you may become blameless and pure, ‘children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.’ Then YOU WILL SHINE LIKE STARS IN THE SKY, 16 as you hold firmly to the word of life. Philippians 2
Stars are SEEN BEST IN THE DARKNESS and God’s Spirit said through Paul that His people will Shine like the Stars, may it be so.
God bless and keep you today.