The destroying, or the nullifying of the testimony of life will therefore be pursued along the line of Corrupting it.
It is perfectly clear, with the most hasty glance through the Word of God right from Genesis onwards, that that has been the way by which the adversary has always sought to Nullify God's Testimony in this universe...
By corrupting it and introducing elements which counter its utter transparency, its perfection of purity, bringing in other foreign elements and features.
In some way the enemy must get a link between what is of God as light, and what is of his own kingdom as darkness, if he is going to nullify God's testimony of life.
In our last meditation we were engaged with those chapters in the second book of the Chronicles from chapter 29 to 32, and there we saw that the Lord's testimony had been nullified.
It had been set aside, the House of God was closed.
The lamp in the House of God was extinguished, the altar was not functioning, the priesthood was polluted and defiled; everything was out of action.
It was in death.
Hezekiah's movement was to bring it all back into life.
It was a matter of recovering a living testimony, a testimony in life out of the grip and power of death.
It is perfectly clear as you read what leads up to that time, that the nullifying was along the line of corrupting...
And Hezekiah's activity was to get rid of the corruption, to cleanse, to purge...
To get rid of all the foreign elements that had come in, and by being in, had nullified.
Then we saw that after all this faithfulness, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came against Jerusalem and Judah.
As the margin says, "to break them up", to break up the testimony.
The Enemy's Method of breaking up has always been by Corrupting, by introducing foreign elements.
So you find whenever the Lord reacts to a situation like that, there is always a great place given to Purging...
And the instrument used for the recovering of the testimony in life is always one who has peculiar insight to Discern, to Detect where the corruption is, and to Deal with it.
~T. Austin Sparks
