'They Went up.' (Old Testament)
a) Genesis 17:22; 35:13. God.
b) Genesis 19:30. Lot.
c) Genesis 29:10. Jacob.
d) Genesis 38:12; 44:18. Judah.
e) Genesis 45:25; Exodus 13:18; Judges 20:18; 20:23 & 20:26. The Children of Israel.
f) Genesis 46:29; 50:7 & 9. Joseph.
g) Exodus 12:38. A mixed multitude.
h) Exodus 17:10. Moses, Aaron and Hur.
i) Exodus 19:3; 24:13; Deuteronomy 9:9. Moses.
j) Exodus 24:9. Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu and Seventy Elders.
k) Numbers 33:38. Aaron.
l) Deuteronomy 1:43. God's People in a sinful way.
m) Deuteronomy 34:1. Moses, to see the promised land.
n) Joshua 6:20; 10:7. Joshua and his army, into Jericho.
o) Judges 2:1. The Angel of the Lord.
p) Judges 8:11. Gideon, by the caravan route.
q) Judges 9:48. Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon.
r) Ruth 4:1. Boaz went up to the gate.
s) 1 Samuel 1:7. Hannah went up yearly to the House of the Lord.
t) 1 Samuel 1:21. Elkanah and all his household went up yearly to offer to the Lord.
u) 1 Samuel 2:19. Samuel's mother and father.
v) 1 Samuel 13:15. Samuel, for his ministry journey.
w) 1 Samuel 15:34. Saul, to his house.
x) 1 Samuel 23:19. The Ziphites went up to Saul.
y) 1 Samuel 23:29. David went up to live in Engedi.
z) 1 Samuel 24:22. David and his men went up to the stronghold.
(This QT shows those in the Old Testament who went up)
PRAY: That when it is time to go up, we will go in a good and smooth way)
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'They Went Up' (New Testament)
a) Matthew 3:16. Jesus, from the water of Baptism.
b) Matthew 5:1; 14:23; 15:29. Jesus, on to the mountain.
c) Matthew 17:24. The tax collectors to Peter.
d) Luke 5:19. On the roof, to get their friend healed.
e) John 2:13; 5:1. Jesus, to Jerusalem.
f) John 7:10. Jesus, to the Feast of Tabernacles.
g) John 7:14. Jesus, into the Temple to Teach.
h) John 11:55. Many Jews, to purify themselves.
i) Acts 24:11; Galatians 1:18; 2:1. Apostle Paul to Worship in Jerusalem.
j) Acts 25:1. Emperor Festus, to Jerusalem.
(Through this Second one I find those people of whom it was written in the New Testament: They Went Up)
PRAY: That we will be ready and willing to go up to wherever the Lord wants us to go.
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Chris.
There are times that the Lord simply wants us to 'get up and go home'. We should not be too persistent if doing what we want to do is not working out and materialising. One of the ways in which it is easy to go out of God's Will is through persisting in what we want in the name of 'faith'. In the end God has His Way and leads us to the place where we went wrong, to our home.
