Holy Spirit led Philip to a eunuch employed under the queen of the Ethiopians.

Acts 8:26-28

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“Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Arise and go toward the south along the road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is desert.” Acts 8:26

The angel of the Lord gave direction to Philip to lead him to man who was ready in heart and mind to receive Jesus as the Christ and Savior. The Holy Spirit leads us to people whose heart is good soil for receiving the Gospel seed. They are willing to hear about Jesus, have been reading the Bible, and are eager to hear Believers explain the word of God to them. In today’s culture, which is global, there is a spiritual desert where belief in God does not bloom, faith in Jesus Christ does not bloom, and the fruit of the Holy Spirit does not bloom. If we are ever led to share our born-again experience, it will be in a desert environment. Our born-again experience is the gospel of Jesus written on our heart. A heart receptive to Jesus would be like a lone and scarce desert flower.

Today, people are led by the voice of the beast that also has power over physiology to give them what to do and speak. The beast leads people to places and to other people, sometimes by what seems to be a coincidence and other times with the full awareness of the person being led. The beast empowers people of today’s atheistic culture with uncanny knowledge and heightened intuition. It makes them seem to have a GPS system built within themselves. I know a person who loves to flaunt how much extraordinary knowledge she has in finding places without having any familiarity with the area. She even curses the GPS unit on her car for being useless. However, this type of leading has nothing to do with God, Jesus Christ, nor the Holy Spirit, unless it is to disrupt a Christian gathering [which happens frequently in my experience]. Where the door could open to share the Gospel, by the guidance of the Holy Spirit, there will appear those who live by the GPS of the beast to trample on the gathering. The beast sets itself up as God, within the temple of God [our body], as if it is God. Click here for a post on 2 Thessalonians 2:4

“So he arose and went. And behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who had charge of all her treasury, and had come to Jerusalem to worship, was returning. And sitting in his chariot, he was reading Isaiah the prophet.” Acts 8:27-28

“Candace, the queen of the Ethiopians”” is not the name of a person but is a title like “Pharoah, the king of Egypt”. She was a ruler over the Ethiopians. A eunuch is a man who does not have sexual relations with anyone [someone who has been emasculated], as our Lord Jesus says, “For there are eunuchs who were born thus from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake.” Matthew 19:12 This is prophetic for today’s culture as men are being “emasculated” as women gain more and more authority and power in the world [and in the home]. The home built with our Lord Jesus as the head over the family is very rare in today’s atheistic culture.

Philip was led by the angel of the Lord to the emasculated eunuch. The eunuch was an employee under Candace who had charge over all of her finances. He was a non-Jewish “God-fearer” who was learning the Scriptures in Jerusalem according to the laws of Judaism. “God-fearers” were non-Jewish people whom the Jewish leaders allowed into their scripture readings, but were not considered to be equal with the Jewish people. The eunuch was returning from one of the scripture readings in Jerusalem, and sitting in His chariot reading from Isaiah.

The Jewish rulers would never have allowed those prophetic Scriptures to be applied to Jesus as the Christ, the Son of God, and the Lamb of God. But the eunuch was curious what those Scriptures meant, so God sent Philip to him. The eunuch was reding from Isaiah 53:7-8, as stated in Acts 8:29-31. That portion of Isaiah speaks of how Jesus was like a sheep led to the slaughter, like a sheep at the shearer is silent [Jesus didn’t open His mouth in protest]. Justice was taken from the Christ, Jesus. The question is asked, “Who will declare His testimony?”

As followers of Jesus Christ today, we know the fallen churches have abandoned the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For that reason, we must explain the Scriptures from such as found in Isaiah 53, which is summed up in this verse, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” John 3:16-17 Our born-again experience is the Gospel of Jesus Christ written on our heart.

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11