God’s People in God’s Sight

God refuses to look at His people save as what He has made them, Num 22, 23, 24. I am under divination and enchantment if I look at them in any other way. There is none against them. “He hath blessed; and I [the enemy] cannot reverse it”, v 20!

Four things are true about them. God’s people are sanctified (chap 23: 9); justified (chap 23: 21); have God with them (chap 23: 21); and are strong, chap 23: 22-24.)

That brings out another thing, they are entirely hidden in Christ, chap 24: 5-9. “How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel”. He speaks now of their covering.

Finally, they are thus ready for the coming of the Lord, chap 24: 17-19. “There shall come a Star out of Jacob .... Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion”. And the result of His coming will be, the complete and final overthrow of the enemy. “He shall perish for ever”, chap 24: 24.

From Helps for the Poor of the Flock—vol 3, 1897