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| Photo Courtesy of Missionary Dennis Moore |
The scene of Moses laying hands on Joshua his disciple where the mantle falls to Joshua...
When God's Spirit fell it must have been fantastic...I can feel the charge in the air!
Then, there is the amazing telling of Elijah dropping his mantle and Elisha picking it up whereby he received the spirit of Elijah...it must have been an awesome moment!
In both instances a mantle was passed.
The passing of the mantle is the giving of ministry from the teacher to his disciple.
Some believe that each of these stories the mantle was a tallit or prayer shawl.
It may have just been a simple piece of cloth or a cloak. Interestingly enough is that when a Jewish person dies his fringes (tzit-tzit) are cut off because he can no longer fulfill God's commandments.
Moses was buried by God and Elijah was taken up.
Now Jesus when He finished His ministry doesn't pass on a mantle, or so it appears....
If He did have a mantle, who got it?
Since Jesus is God robed in flesh, His mantle is too big for any one person to receive, but it was received by many.
He ascended and the Holy Ghost fell on 120.
On the Day of Pentecost the 120 received the mantle of Messiah, then to others ... it still falls on us today.
When the Holy Ghost fell it was the mantle, it was the ministry that we all have.
We have a part in His mantle, we have a part in His anointing.
This is our calling, to have a part in His ministry, through the mantle of the Messiah.
"And the Lord, He it is who doth go before thee. He will be with thee, He will not fail thee, neither forsake thee. Fear not, neither be dismayed.”
Deuteronomy 31:8
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