What Then Say You
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What Then Say You
When Heaven Seems Quiet, His Promises Still Stand| Day 6
What if the quiet seasons aren’t empty, but holy ground? We step into the space often called the 400 years of silence and discover how Hanukkah, the courage of the Maccabees, and a simple reading in Numbers 7 teach us to trust God when new words feel scarce and old promises still hold. This is a journey through rededication: refusing idolatry, recovering focus, and returning to the last clear thing God said.
When silence presses in, revisit the last assignment God gave you. If memory blurs, open Scripture and read until conviction finds you. Learn to hear in stillness—on a walk in the woods, in a pause between messages, in the space where distractions thin. Rededication is not a one-time story; it is a rhythm of repentance, renewal, and action.
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Hey, good morning, good evening, good afternoon, whatever time it is that you are tuning into the podcast. We are on day six of you know, kind of a the special time Hanukkah diving in, understanding where we come from and where we've been grafted into. And today I just kind of sitting here walking through the woods and um just kind of thinking, and I asked God, I said, you know, outside of the reading today, Lord, what is it that you know pressed on my mind something that everybody kind of needs to hear, even myself? Um, because the word is a double-edged sword, you know. Whenever I'm saying something to you all, or whenever we're doing Bible study together, um, that hits both ways. You know, it's applicable both ways. I am I am not you know apart from being corrected or reproofed or challenged by the word myself. And today in particular, um, you know, I was thinking about the fact that during the time of the Maccabees, right, because truly this is that that study, and you know, that's where Hanukkah comes from, is when the Maccabees, you know, rededicated the temple and they took it back from the oppressive ruler that was there, you know, saying that he was a Greek god or whatever he was talking about, right? So during that time, um there was an important reality that we I guess kind of miss sometimes, and that's the simple fact that that was during the time of you know the 400 years of silence, right? Like in that moment um in history, this is like at the end of the old testament, the beginning of the new testament, there was a space there, right? There was about 400 years of where you know there weren't, you know, the prophet of the Lord saying, Thus says the Lord, or you know, God was quiet during that time. And before we dive deep into that conversation, let's let's go ahead and read today's reading. Um, we are in Numbers chapter 7, verses 42 through 47. It says, On the sixth day, Elisaph, the son of Dul, the chief of the people of Gad, his offering was one silver plate, whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour, mixed with oil for a grain offering, one golden dish of ten shekels, full of incense, one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb, a year old for a burnt offering, one male goat for a sin offering, and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elisaph the son of Dual. So so, yeah. Um we got silence, right? This is that time where nothing was being spoken. A lot has happened, you know. We've we've passed through, you know, kings and judges, and you know, the people have um backslidden and and just yeah, it's a it's a real jaded situation if you think about it pre-uh-christ, pre-Matthew, pre-the-Hed uh dynasty, if you will. And they're just kind of surviving, right? And the lineage of God and God's promises, they're they're not in vain. Uh the things that God has said to them hasn't been changed, right? There's something that a lot of people miss about, you know, when you're studying the word, um, you know, everything has a has a type and shadow, right? And like if you think if you go back to Esther's time and you think about what happened with her and the king and how he was like, hey, I already signed the edict, right? The edict was sealed and signed and delivered that, you know, we could they could go and kill all the Jews. But though I can't change and I can't undo what I've said as a king, I can't amend it and say that, but you can defend yourselves, right? And so if you read the story of Esther, you'll come to that that conclusion and that that hallmark ending where that takes place. Likewise, in the kingdom of heaven, what God says is not going to be undone, right? And so his promises as a as to set Israel apart, his promises to, you know, do everything that he said he was going to do uh when he pulled his people out of um Egypt, none of that changed. That didn't go anywhere, right? It is not like this is one of those scenarios where because God was silent, his promises had been null and void, right? And the prop the prophecies had been null and voided just because he was quiet. How often in our lives, how often in in our modern day struggles, is there just seemed like silence? You know, and I look out and and I was led to come here to this particular spot in the middle of the woods, right? Like in the middle of nowhere, really. But I I hunt, right? And I sit out and I'll sit for hours just in that silence, and I'm waiting on a deer to pop out, or whatever the case might be. And sometimes I see them, sometimes I don't. But in that silence, you can hear God the loudest, you know. And I and I think sometimes we can't be distracted by the silence and assume that his silence is an excuse to say he's not there anymore. It is an excuse to say that his promises have been nullified, that what was spoken over you is is no longer in effect, um, that his word stopped. You know, some people believe truly, like that things of the Bible, the the miracles of the Bible, you know, the Holy Spirit and how God operates, that all ended at some point. Like, don't believe that. Read the word and understand this the simple fact that, you know, when Jesus came as the light of the world, sticking to the Hanukkah theme, right? The miracle that took place during that 400 year silence, that shows that God was not completely gone. Like, just because he's not yelling, just because he's not saying something to you, does not mean that he's still not there, right? Because otherwise, the miracle of the Maccabees and the oil being lit for eight days couldn't have happened. They wouldn't have been able to overthrow the king who was over there blaspheming the temple. They wouldn't have been able to do certain things that was done by the hand of God, because God had already had the precedent that he established earlier, well before the Maccabees, that if God is with you, no one can stand against you, right? If you were set apart and you were righteous in his sight, there was nothing that was going to be able to stop you from doing what was his will to be done. And in this case, rededicating the temple, right? Getting out the pagan idolatry and the worship, right? And so don't for a second think that if you're having one of those silent moments in your life and you're having one of those quiet moments where you're like, God, are you still here? We let's let's let's think about what Paul says, right? Like, you can look out into the earth, you can look out into the world, and and God is made manifest in his creation alone. That's why there will no one will be without excuse. Because they will be able to just look around and say, no, God is here, God is real, right? And so when you're going through these moments in your life, when you're having situations and you might be downtrodden or whatever the case may be, and you feel like God isn't really there, go back to remember the last thing that he told you. When was the last thing that he said? Because maybe that's that's what's what's being held up in your relationship, is that you still haven't done the last thing, right? And if you think about the Jews, if you think about the people of God, his the set of partners that he had called them to be, they they had kind of stopped. Otherwise, the Greek wouldn't have been able to be there in the first place, right? And so you got to go back to the last thing. And because the Maccabees were were so like had that righteous zeal for the Lord, and they was like, no, what we're not gonna do is sacrifice a pig in the temple of the Most High, our God, Elohim. We're not we're not gonna do that, right? And so it was that last straw that brought the camels back that says, No, I'm gonna stand on righteousness today, right? And in that moment, boom, God is just like, you didn't need me to send a prophet to tell you that. And if you think about Jesus and when he was even talking uh in his ministry, every time he would have conversations with the Pharisees, if you think about Stephen even post-Christ, um, when he says, No, you you crucified all the prophets, all the prophets have been killed. God is always sending a message out, right? It's whether we adhere to it or it's whether we listen to it. That that's the differentiating factor between whether we're successful in his sight or we're failing in his sight, right? But luckily, because of Christ, we again we have that power to do that. We have the power to change, we have the power to repent, we have that access to go before the throne without having to do all the sacrificial, you know, food offerings, grain offerings, and and meat offerings. We don't have to do that because the aroma that is now pleasing to the Lord is our obedience to him. The aroma that is now pleasing to the Lord is our submission and saying that no, you have kingship, you have lordship over our lives. It is not I who lives, but it's you who lives inside of me. Right? That's the again, that's that miracle that we have access to today. And so don't ever think for a moment that because you're in a situation or in a circumstance where you feel that that God is being quiet and that that it's silent and that nothing can really change in your life, your circumstances can't change. Go back to the last thing he said, go back to the last conversation, and if you don't, if you don't have one that you can recall, go back to his word, right? Because if you go back to his word, his word is there and it's readily available and it's still active and living, right? Meaning that as you read it, even though it was written 2,000 years ago, it's still applicable to your soul today because the Holy Spirit was poured out amongst all flesh. And so when you read it, you can be convicted. You can say, well, even though the word smoking or vaping or HBO or Disney Plus or Paramount Plus is not in the text, if I read that word and I get this conviction that says, ooh, I should probably not, that's that's evidence of it being active and living, right? And so we go back to the last thing that he said. We repent, we renew, we rededicate, and then we keep it pushing. We can't get stagnant in this space to where we we have no excuse, right? Like the Maccabees could have had the excuse that, well, we hadn't had no prophets in a while. Things are looking kind of bad. I mean, is God still with us? They could have decided that and not done anything. And had they done that, Judaism, the Jews, the Jewish people would no longer be in existence today. But because they stood on righteousness, because they stood on business and they stood on what God said to do the last time that he spoke, right? The last thing that he said through his prophets, because they stood on that, a miracle took place. And they were able to not only just reclaim the temple, but they were able to sustain the bloodline leading all the way up to Yeshua the Messiah, our King and our Savior and the Lord of Lords, right? And so stay motivated, be encouraged, remember that simple fact, right? That though you might not hear that voice, though you might not see, see fire fall from heaven, though you might not see some of the things that they saw in the biblical times, God is still very much real, prevalent, and speaking, whether you have ears to hear or you don't. And so maybe it's a heart posture that has to change in order for us to really hear clearly what God is telling us to do in our lives today. What he's telling us to put down, what he's telling us to pick up, what he's telling us to how to walk and how to talk and how to live and how to love and how to be ambassadors for his namesake. He's still there, even if it seems like it's quiet. So, with that, I will see y'all tomorrow. Love y'all. Be blessed.