14/06/2026
THE APPOINTED
I learnt something new yesterday from the Hebrew interpretation that I found fascinating and wanted to share it with you.
The bible teaches us in the Hebrew, that God's APPOINTED ministers in the temple in Israel were from the tribe of Levite, they were also appointed over all the instruments of the sanctuary.....they were ordained for the fulfilling of sacred purposes.
Jonah the prophet of God was called to give a message to Nineveh, but he ran away from his calling. In scripture, God caused a large fish to swallow him and after 3 days and 3 nights to carry him back to the shore.
During his frustrations and emotional wrestling with God, he encountered several events, the leafy plant that grew to give him shade, then a worm that ate the plant that shaded him, and then a desert wind that blew from the east...... why these events? (for details read the book of Jonah); but only after all these events was Jonah able to know and understand the heart of God.
So what is the connection between ministering priests, Jonah, plants, worms and winds...?
In the book of Jonah, in the original Hebrew language, it doesn't say God caused or arranged etc, a fish to swallow Jonah. It say's, that God APPOINTED the fish to swallow Jonah. It's the same Hebrew word used of God appointing the Levites to ministry in His sanctuary.
The same word is also used when God appointed the plant, appointed the worm and God appointed the east wind.
The same word used of God appointing the Levites His holy ministers, is used of the fish, the plant, the worm and the wind.
The connection, they too were ALL holy ministers!!!
Equally appointed to accomplish the purposes of God and bring His prophet to the appointed place.
Just as one would miss the truth of fish, plants, worms and wind being God's ministers, so often we miss our problems as appointed ministers.
For THE CHILD OF GOD, everything, the good, the bad, the joy, the sorrows, the problems, the victories and defeats, the wounds, the rejections, the losses, the past, the worms and the winds, ALL things are appointed. Each is an appointed minister ordained to bring about God's purposes, God's blessings/favour, God's calling and destiny in your life.
We are the blessed!
What you thought were your problems were actually holy ministers, appointed to bring you to the appointed fulfilment of God's calling on your life.
I Chronicles 9:28
Jonah 1:17; 4:6-8
2 Thessalonians 1:11
Romans 8:28
Psalm 139:16
Oh the joy's and depths of God's truth in scripture!