Rock Bottom? Basket Cases!

ROCK BOTTOM? BASKET CASES?

By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com (YouTube: Wade Hughes)

There is an idiom we can talk about: BASKET CASE. The term BASKET CASE became widely used in WW 1, a Basket case referred to a soldier so wounded that he had no arms, no legs --- If he lived they did first aid to stop the bleeding and the other soldiers would transport the wounded soldier in a basket.

WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT BASKET CASES ARE?

Basket case means to be so distressed and in such a mental state that one cannot function properly. Basket cases need someone or something to help out of this situation. A basket case was made ineffective. They need extreme, external help --- Basket cases are not able to cope. They need to be bailed out. They face serious problems, crisis, real trouble --- they can’t handle. They require help.

THERE ARE SOME BASKET CASES IN THE BIBLE. REMEMBER JOCHEBED MAKING A BASKET.

PHARAOH PASSED A LAW TO KILL THE BABY BOYS OF ISRAEL/HEBREWS. PHARAOH'SH LAW WAS SURE. PHARAOH WAS DESPERATE TO KEEP CONTROL OF EGYPT. PHARAOH NEVER FEARED GOD. Every baby boy must die. Amram and Jochebed hid baby Moses 3 months. That is all they could do. THEN JOCHEBED MADE A BASKET OUT OF PAPYRUS AND SHE PITCHED IT WITH TAR TO WATER PROOF THE BASKET. Jochebed had her daughter, Miriam, place the basket in the Nile River by faith.

BABY MOSES was found by Pharaoh’s daughter. There was a divine plan for this basket case. MIRIAM placed Baby Moses in the river to watch over him. This basket could be likened unto Noah and the ark. God had a plan and a purpose for this boy.

Exodus 2:3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.

BY FAITH AMRAM, JOCEBED AND MIRIAM HAD TO TRUST THE BASKET. THERE WAS NOTHING MORE THEY COULD DO. BY FAITH THE BASKET (ARK) WAS LAUNCHED IN THE NILE RIVER.

Exodus 2:4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him. 5 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it. 6 And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.

YOUR PAST MUST NOT DEFINE THE FUTURE. GOD’S PLAN WAS FROM THE BASKET TO PHAROAH’S PALACE. JOCHEBED TAUGHT AND TRAINED MOSES AT HOME UNTIL HE WAS WEANED. PHAROAH THAT HAD ORDERED HEBREW BOYS DEATH, PAID TO EDUCATE, TRAIN AND PREPARE MOSES FOR GOD’S CALL.

Exodus 2:10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.

EPHAH IS A WORD IN THE KJV…WE HAVE LEARNED THAT EPHAH IS THE KJV WORD FOR BASKET, A HEBREW DRY MEASUREMENT BASKET. ZECHARIAH HAD 8 NIGHT VISIONS FROM GOD. ZECHARIAH WAS CALLED OF GOD TO ENCOURAGE THE HEBREWS TO REBUILD THE TEMPLE. THERE IS A PROBLEM THE ILLUSTRATION OF A WOMAN IN THE BASKET.

In this vision Zechariah sees a flying basket. There were two woman in the basket…It is a measuring basket. GOD SAYS HE HAS HAD ENOUGH OF GOD’S PEOPLE PLAYING WITH SIN. ZECHARIAH is calling GOD’S PEOPLE TO RETURN AND REBUILD ISRAEL. God is tired of sin. GOD WILL MEASURE THE SIN, PUT IT IN A BASKET WITH A LEAD COVER AND SIN WILL RETURN TO THE PAGAN LANDS OF BABYLONIA.

Zechariah 5:5 (NIV) Then the angel who was speaking to me came forward and said to me, "Look up and see what this is that is appearing." 6 I asked, "What is it?" He replied, "It is a measuring basket." And he added, "This is the iniquity of the people throughout the land." 7 Then the cover of lead was raised, and there in the basket sat a woman! 8 He said, "This is wickedness," and he pushed her back into the basket and pushed the lead cover down over its mouth. 9 Then I looked up--and there before me were two women, with the wind in their wings! They had wings like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth. 10 "Where are they taking the basket?" I asked the angel who was speaking to me. 11 He replied, "To the country of Babylonia to build a house for it. When it is ready, the basket will be set there in its place."