Now consider, the Gentiles, or the believers who only know God in the externals, shall tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months. I would speak a little further about this “treading under foot.” We may conceive treading under foot as indicating moving in and destroying everything, or being occupied and ruled as by a foreign army. The Greek word is pateo meaning a “path” or “to trample.” It carries the significance of beating a path, of a multitude of people standing or walking over the same territory again and again until the grass dies and the dirt is packed down. The “Gentiles” are beating a path through the city to the outer court because they have not tasted of life and reality in the spirit. So they keep coming to the brazen altar in the outer court offering their sacrifice upon the altar. Then they go to the brazen laver where they wash their hands and their feet because they constantly feel guilty, condemnation laid upon them by the false doctrines preached to them by the ministers of religion who only know an outer court experience. They stop in the outer court, linger there, milling around, repeating over and over the outward ministrations of that realm imposed by the church systems.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 06:57:17 +0000
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