Clouds and God's People - One in the Same!

Allow me to share this revelation with you. Let's look at clouds for a minute.

In the natural, a cloud is a visible mass of vapor. There are different kinds of clouds. There are low clouds called stratus and stratocumulus, which are seen near the earth. There are middle clouds called altostratus, altocumulus, and nimbostratus, that are higher than the low clouds. Then there are the high clouds, called cirrus, cirrostratus, and cirrocumulus, which appear very high in the sky. Just like the clouds, the people of God are of more than one height in the spirit. In Jesus speaking to the church at Laodicea, He said that they were neither cold nor hot, but lukewarm. God wants us on fire for and in His kingdom!

In scripture, God used them miraculously! When God brought the Israelites out of Egyptian bondage, He used the cloud as a guide for His people. Exodus 13:21-22 "And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night: He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people."

Let's take a look at the revelation in this. In Hebrews 12:1, we "are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses". What cloud of witnesses? Those who have died or shed their garments and moved into the spirit realm; those who are spoken of in Hebrews Chapter 11, and those before them. At that time, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and others were in the cloud.
1 Corinthians 10:1-2 "Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea." There were people in the cloud!

In Exodus 16:10, the Israelites were in the wilderness, and saw the glory of the Lord appear in the cloud. Exodus 24:16 "And the glory of the Lord abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day He called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud." God was in the cloud.
Numbers 9:15-23 reads that "on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle", and the people journeyed according to the cloud. (2 Chronicles 5:13-14) states that when Solomon dedicated the temple, the cloud appeared! Notice here that the praise and thanksgiving of the people and use of the musical instruments unto the LORD was very powerful. It invoked the presence of that cloud "so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud - for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God!" My God!

Those in the spirit realm wanted to keep fellowship with the people of God! Once the children of Israel are taken captive into Babylon, you don't hear anything else about the cloud until Mark 9:1-7 and Luke 9:28-34 when Jesus took Peter, James and John with Him up on the mountain where He was transfigured before them. The cloud appears and so does Moses and Elias, and God spoke out of the cloud that overshadowed them! There were people in the cloud! We are compassed with a great cloud of witnesses now! There is a spirit realm that we cannot see with our natural eyes that surrounds us, and our loved ones that are gone on are in that realm right here where we are! They are not off beyond the blue; they are right here witnessing all we go through. That's why we must overcome right here and right now so that we can deliver them! (Hebrews 11:39-40 & Hebrews 12:1). I have to point this out! In Luke 9:34, isn't it amazing how they entered the cloud and didn't die and sail off to do it! All you have to do is get into a high place in the spirit to be in fellowship with those in the spirit realm!! Glory!

Let's see what Jude said about the clouds, and I'm finished for the day. Remember previously what was said about the natural clouds - the low clouds and the high clouds. The low clouds symbolize people in the church that are yet carnal minded. The Bible is still a story book to them. It's still just information for them. But the high clouds symbolize those persons who are being transformed by the renewing of their minds to see as God sees. The Bible has and is becoming revelatory to them. It's not just information to them but revelation!

Jude 12 "These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds"! Wind moves clouds in the natural. In the spiritual, the clouds without water are those that are void of the water of life - the truth of the fullness of the gospel of the kingdom of God! The clouds with water are those that are getting the truth and their spiritual eyes are coming open to the revelation of THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. The clouds are GOD'S people! Thank you Jesus. It's TRUTH that makes us free! Be blessed of the LORD!

- Pastor Gracie Perry