1 Chronicles 16:22 Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
In the kingdom of God, there are different vessels. God has designed every one for His personal use. Before God uses a person, He allows the person to experience certain things so that the person can mature (Study the Life of Moses and Joseph in the old Testament).
Most of the time God will allow the person to go through some pains because he wants the person to master and overcome the pain. God allows these things to happen because there are people facing the same problem. For God to set these people free, He uses the one He has trained to set those people free. When you come to Ghana, there are many ministers who have pass through pains but the Lord maintained them. God allowed them to pass through the pain because He needed them to set a group of people free.
In the animal kingdom, the strongest ones dominate. Watch wildlife for more wisdom. You can also watch documentaries of lions and other animals. Animals are symbols of God’s wisdom. A leader must be strong and courageous (See Joshua 1:6-7).
There are uncountable reasons for God's anointing.
God anoints his people before He uses them because they are special unto Him.
God will never anoint someone whom He does not cherish.
Any Christian God anoints is special to Him.
We can see from the scriptures that, God is commanding us not to harm His anointed ones, and the called prophets. Why is God telling us not to touch his anointed ones and the prophets?
It is because they are His mouthpiece.
They are God’s delegate on earth.
God has chosen them to perform a special assignment beyond the strength and imaginations of men.
They are the vessels through which God wrought his miracles on earth.
God uses them to alert the world He exists.
God uses them to make the impossible possible.
God uses them to set the captives free.
What do we see and hear today? Most people insult and scandalize anointed men of God. They reduce them to the lowest degree. They disregard them because they don’t fear God. When Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because when he went to marry an Ethiopian woman, Miriam became leprous (See Numbers 12:1-16).
Aaron escaped the judgement of God because of his role in the leadership of Moses and the anointing upon his life. There are people who insult anointed men and women of God because of their political power and connections. There are people who scandalize God’s anointed because of their temporal wealth. God may spare you because of His of grace and the anointing but know that, at the right time, God will strike if you don’t repent and apologize. I want us to read from the scriptures.
2 Samuel 1:14 And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?
I advise that you start from verse one of the chapter for a better understanding. An Amalekite saw King Saul lying half dead on the battlefield. Saul called the Amalekite to strike him to death because he was in pain. After the Amalekite killed King Saul, he took the crown and cloth of King Saul to King David because he wanted to let David and his people know that Saul was dead.
When David heard that an ordinary man killed Saul, he ordered his men to kill the Amalekite because Saul was an anointed leader. The lesson behind the story is clear. Do not touch the Lord’s anointed (consecrated ones) and the prophet. Let us search for the Greek word “TOUCH”
(properly) to touch, i.e. lay the hand upon (for any purpose
(euphemism) to lie with a woman)
violently, to strike (punish, defeat, destroy, etc.)
KJV: beat, (X be able to) bring (down), cast, come (nigh), draw near (nigh), get up, happen, join, near, plague, reach (up), smite, strike, touch.
· No one should seduce and sleep with God’s anointed because it brings the anger of God upon the victim.
· No one should destroy God’s anointed because it brings the anger of God upon the victim.
· No should strike God’s anointed because it brings the anger of God upon the victim.
Child of God, don’t use the grace of God as a license to attack people especially the Lord’s anointed and His Prophets. God knows how to deal with His anointed when they violate His law. The best way to approach God’s anointed and His prophets when they violate the law is to pray for them and engage them privately if you have the opportunity to contact them. Look around you.
· Are there some anointed vessels around you?
· How are you treating them?
· Do you handle them as you handle other people?
Divine Key: Respect and honour God’s anointed from your heart and God will bless you.
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