Dr Hollisa Alewine – Footsteps of Messiah Part 41 – (Shaking Principalities and Powers Part 5 : The Sorcerer’s Tail Pt 2) October 1, 2022

In last week's issue of Footsteps, we explored how “sorcerers” can produce signs and wonders that imitate the Heavenly wonders.  As the Footsteps of Messiah approach, even the elect must guard themselves from a particular hazard: sorcery (Re 9:21; 18:23). The Beast will be given the power to produce signs and wonders, even the ability to call down fire from Heaven like the two witnesses (Re 11:5). But is it real, or is it a sorcerer’s illusion catering to what rebellious humankind WANTS to see?

 

 

Review these couplets/equivalencies:

 

• “He makes the winds (ruachot) His messengers,
• Flaming fire (lahat) His ministers.” (Ps 104:4)

 

These flaming ministers of fire can consume, for they are “serving” the fire of Elohim’s judgment...

 

We looked at a midrash commentary to Jacob’s wrestling match with the angel. At the conclusion of the night, the angel corrected Jacob’s thinking that he was dealing with a “man” all night. In fact, he was dealing with a ministering angel, a fiery minister, some believe Esau’s angel. He sought to impress Jacob, says the Midrash 3§6: “He placed his finger on a piece of flint and the flint began seething with fire. Whereupon Jacob said to him, ‘With this fire you seek to frighten me? I am entirely from fire, as it states, ‘”The house of Jacob will be fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for straw; and they will ignite them and devour them.’” (Obadiah 1:18)

 

The prophecy in Obadiah describes a time when the true sheep of Yeshua, the House of Israel, will not be fooled by a sorcerer’s fire. Instead, they will be full of the fire of the Ruach HaKodesh, and they will devour the house of Esau, the house of the Red Beast.

 

But what of the sorcerers who serve the Beast and those who are duped by their own rebellion to follow his signs and wonders?

 

• “And his tail swept away a third of the stars of heaven and hurled them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her Child.” (Re 12:4)

 

Even some of the children of Abraham, symbolized by the stars, can be swept away with the dragon's tail. Let the Holy Spirit breath the true fire of the Word into you each day, and you will not be one of those ministers of fire who flames out with Esau’s sheep out in the evil day.

 

Don’t be deceived by miraculous signs. False prophets and apostles can use sorcery to deceive, and they specialize in the sensational and spectacular. Yeshua could do miracles, but he didn’t heal everyone or calm every storm! He emphasized the truth of the Word and its works, evidence of a shepherd who heard the Father’s voice walking, which should be evidence to Jacob’s sheep. Israel is who comes up from the wilderness of the peoples, undeceived by sorcerer’s fire. Instead, they have been transformed by the Word and are ready to judge and burn the straw of the house of Esau.

 

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