O NE OF the greatest joys of my life has been in taking a pas sage of Scripture, which may be ob scure and confusing, and explaining it with the help of the Holy Spirit. Everything in the Bible is like every thing in your body. There is a use for each portion. Though we may not understand it to start with, God does reveal His truth in a wonderful man ner. For instance, take the Scripture, “At Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar.” This is found in I Chronicles 26:18. It re fers to a house called Parbar which was located on the west side of the temple. Connecting Parbar and the temple there was a runway (cause way) which enabled the priest to move to Parbar which was his rest house. This was a place of relaxation where the priest went- after he had offered sacrifices. There were heayy parts of the animals which had to be placed on the altar and he needed a time for physical refreshment. Now, God is telling us several things here. Even as the priests need ed rest, so too, God has ordained that we should rest in Him. In the case of Parbar, porters were provided for assistance. On the porters’ side, God knew nobody would ever see them. Few people care anything about these workers; they never make the front page of the newspapers. They were common ordinary laborers. The Lord, however, took care of them. He saw to it that they were rewarded. He gives them a specific job. The Lord placed four of them in the long runway. Then, since they were needed the least in the rest house, He only put two there. Our lesson is that if we want to learn something about the Lord and to grow in His grace, you will seek a
place to serve. So go to your lovely Lord. He will put you in the place He sees your talents can be most greatly used. He will plant you someplace in the harvest fields. I t may be in Africa or in the slums of New York. He will put you where the need is greatest and where He sees you can supply that need. As another example of interesting Scripture, consider th e miraculous handwriting on the Wall in Daniel’s day. When Belshazzar saw that, it gave him a “nervous spell.” He knew it didn’t have anything good to say about him. He had been living a wick ed life. But why does it say the fingers of a man’s hand wrote the words? Because this is all God ever uses in writing for us. He does the thinking and the arranging of the words. Man’s finger holding the pen is all He needs. The words were written, “Mene Mene Tekel Ufarsin.” None of the astrologers or “wise” men of the king dom could say what that phrase meant. Daniel was not at the king’s sinful orgy. Christians today won’t go to that kind of place. So Belshazzar sent out to find him. But when Daniel interpreted what was on the wall he changed the last word. He didn’t inter pret “Ufarsin” ; he said “Peres.” Why did he do this? When the message was divinely inscribed, Darius, with his army, was outside the city of Babylon. But by the time Daniel had arrived to interpret the message, some time had elapsed and the kingdom was being destroyed. The river which flowed through the city had been di verted in a strategic military move. The armies marched in under th e gates right down through the river bed and the supposed invincible city was lost‘to the invaders. Daniel couldn’t say, “Thy kingdom shall be -taken away from thee and 6
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