Dragonflies
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August 17, 2008 |
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 With more than 5,000 different breeds around the world and with approximately 100 found in Korea, dragonflies usually prey on such insects as mosquitoes and flies. Superb hunters with a huge appetite, it is said that a dragonfly must have about 200 mosquitoes a day to feel satisfied.
As of late, members of Manmin are rejoicing on account of these dragonflies. They hear from around Korea, Japan, the United States, and Africa of the appearances of dragonflies. Whether at church, workplaces, courtyards of their homes, dragonflies fly around Manmin members and sit on their hands, forehands, and noses, while pesky mosquitoes have become yesterday's news.
Smiles hang on the faces of Manmin members when they see dragonflies flying in groups. Could it be that they are returning to their childhood, to a time when they have at least once stayed out well into the evening in desperate and sometimes futile attempt to catch those dragonflies? To Manmin members today, however, dragonflies have become their good and intimate friends. On Wednesday, July 9, 2008, countless dragonflies flew down from the Sun's perimeter for about 2 hours and delighted Manmin members. After that incident, hundreds and even thousands of dragon flies are found above the church grounds and elsewhere.
How can all this be explained?
While reading Exodus, we come across a scene in which Moses leads the Israelites across the Red Sea on foot (Exodus 14). God "swept the sea back by a strong east wind all night" (v. 21) and this is possible with a strong gust when winds blow from both directions, split the seawater left and right, and form walls on either side. This means that while some 2 million Israelites including children and elderly and all their livestock crossed the Red Sea, these gusts kept blowing. Today, when a hurricane or a tornado sweeps by houses and buildings, they fly away into the sky. How, then, could Moses and the people of Israel freely walk through the rough winds?
This is possible if God opened up an invisible spiritual space and placed Moses and the Israelites therein. In other words, if He placed a transparent "glass tunnel" in the split Red Sea and the people of Israel crossed through that tube, this may be understood more easily.
 In His righteousness, God placed in an instant the people of Israel who trusted and followed Moses and allowed them to walk through freely and easily through the strong winds. The Egyptian army chasing them, however, did not trust and follow Moses and thus could not enter his spiritual space. In other words, as they remained in the fleshly space, they were unable to experience God's power and ended up drowning in the Red Sea.
The same principle applied in Joshua 3:14-17 when the Israelites attempted to cross the overflowing Jordan River. When "the feet of the priests carrying the ark were dipped in the edge of the water," we find that "the waters which were flowing down from above stood and rose up in one heap, a great distance away at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those which were flowing down toward the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off."
In addition, God manifested inexplicable works of His power through the spiritual space with the star that led the magi from the east (Matthew 2:9); the Plague of locusts on Egypt (Exodus 10); manna and quails in the wilderness (Exodus 16:13-14); Elijah's outrunning of a king's chariot (1 Kings 18:46); and Philip's sudden disappearance after he preached the gospel to an Ethiopian eunuch (Acts 8:39).
Our God, who is the same yesterday, today, and forever, is testifying to the fact that He is alive today by protecting Manmin members from car accidents in which vehicles are totaled, clouds that appear and roll up in disappearance just as suddenly, with the movements of stars, and with dragonflies.
An endeavor in which something is created out of nothing is possible not only in Biblical times but for all eternity to all of God's children who wholly believe and trust in their Father.
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