Circle Dance

"In the secret of God's tabernacle no enemy can find us,
and no troubles can reach us.
The pride of man and the strife of tongues find no entrance
into the pavilion of God.
The secret of his presence is a more secure refuge
than a thousand Gibraltars. I do not mean that no trials come.
They may come in abundance, but they cannot penetrate
into the sanctuary of the soul, and we may dwell in perfect peace
even in the midst of life fiercest storms."
Hannah Whitall Smith

Circle Dance:

As “foreigners” in the land the children of Israel
needed to get their rest from God (and so do we).

The people were encouraged to
remember all God had done for them
over and over again…

but the kept forgetting time after time.

They needed the rest of God, as a time
to reflect on His goodness and mercy toward them.

The more prosperous they became
(by God’s hand)
the quicker they forgot God.

This reminder is especially true in that section of Deuteronomy
chapters four through eight,
where God continually told them
that when they entered the Promised Land
they were not to forget
who gave them all they possessed.

This was the whole point
of God’s instructions to the Israelites at Gilgal;

They were to return with their children
to recount the deliverance of the people from Egypt,
so that generation after generation
would not forget what God had done for them.

An interesting point with regard to Gilgal…
gilgâl (ghil-gawl') wheel or circle (return to – roll away)

gil gal which is actually repeated syllables
if you look at it in Hebrew

gal gal which means a circle

How is God’s nature pictured in the Hebrew scriptures?

He is not a triangle…
He’s a circle --
It is literally a picture of God dancing within Himself

[perichoresis:
It refers to the mutual inter-penetration
and indwelling within
the threefold nature of the Trinity,
God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.]

Do you realize how many times
there are circles in the Bible?

Every time you see something that says “gal” …

They come into the Holy land
and they create a circle of stones at Gil gal…

Where did Jesus minister?… in gal alee

Where was Jesus crucified?... gal gotha

We see all these circles in scripture
and they are little signitures of God
and discriptions of His nature.
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