PODCAST TRANSCRIPT | EPISODE 159: LET’S GET BACK THE GLORY, Part 1

FROM OUR HOME TO YOURS w/ Nancy Campbell

EPISODE 159 –  LET’S GET BACK THE GLORY, Part 1

God is clothed with glory and honor, but the amazing revelation is that He wants to clothe us with glory too! He brings His glory right down to the nitty-gritty of our lives. He wants us to hold on to the glory He has given us. Find out how you are God's glorious “footstool” on this earth.

Announcer: Welcome to the podcast, From Our Home to Yours, with Nancy Campbell, founder and publisher of Above Rubies.

Nancy Campbell: Hello, lovely ladies, young people, and even children who may be listening. Today I am starting a new series, well, no, it's not really a new series. It's the ending of a series I did quite a long time back. It was called “The Glory of Womanhood,” and I did ten podcasts on that subject. Can you imagine it? If you didn't ever listen to them, you can go back. They were numbers 68 to 77.

And now we are at 159! Anyway, this session, and coming up in the next few weeks, is going to be called “Let's Get Back the Glory.” And as I said, it's really a continuation of the glory of womanhood. There was one point that I never got to talk to you about.

I've now gathered up courage to talk to you about it. But I'm not even going to start today. Before I get on to it (you'll have to keep listening each week, I think we'll be able to start it next week), I want to share a few more points about the glory. They won't be the same as I shared before, but new Scriptures. Well, not new, the Scriptures have been there forever, but bringing out more Scriptures about the glory, and the glory of womanhood, because God is all about glory. God IS glory. And He wants us to reveal something of His glory.

Now of course we cannot reveal the full glory of God. But even if we can manifest some little bit of His glory, we are doing something wonderful in this earth.

In Lamentations 1:6, it says: “And from the daughter of Zion, all her beauty is departed.” Isn't that a sad Scripture? “From the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed.” Now the word “beauty” there in the Hebrew is hadar. It is a word that means “glory.” This word, this Hebrew word, is mostly translated “glory” in the Bible.

Here it's saying that all the glory is departed from women. And that's why I am entitling this series “Let's Get Back the Glory,” because God has invested glory in His creation because we are made in His image. He has invested glory in His female creation. Our glory is different from the male glory.

HADAR

God has given each one of us a different glory which is a different aspect of His character that we are to reveal to the world. Now this beautiful word hadar means . . . In fact, I think I've shared with you quite frequently that, when we look up a Hebrew word in the Bible, we find so many more adjectives to describe this word. It means “glory, glorious, magnificent, splendor, beauty, comeliness, excellency, honor, majesty, dignity.” Wow! So many different words.

I remember having one of my Above Rubies girls. She came from Jerusalem, and her name was Avigail. We loved having Avigail with us. It was quite an amazing experience, because Abigail, although she has American parents, has lived in Jerusalem all her life, and has lived amongst the Orthodox Jews. It was quite interesting. Of course, before she came, I got this email saying. “I will be sending ahead of me my kosher foods.”

I thought, “Help, what's going to happen here?” We had this great big parcel arrive and it was frozen. It was all her frozen meat to eat while she was with us. When she arrived, she brought her special pans because she couldn't cook in our pans.

She cooked kosher. She would always do her own meat in her own pans. Avigail was very, very Orthodox, but she loved Jesus with all her heart. She was so precious. When we would have our family worship, our family devotions morning and evening, we'd come to prayer time. Avigail would start out to pray in English, but she'd never survive. She'd go into Hebrew, because that was her native language.

She'd begin to pray in Hebrew. It was so amazing. Wow! You just felt the anointing when she'd get going in Hebrew.

But often when we were reading the Word, a word would come up, and we'd say, “OK, Avigail, how do you use this word?” It was a very biblical word from the Word. “But are you using this word in your language today in Hebrew?”

And one day, the word “glory” came up, and it was the Hebrew word hadar, this word we're talking about. And I remember saying to Avigail, “Tell me, Abigail, what does this word mean in modern Hebrew today?”

And she thought for a little while. And she said, “This is what is means to us today.” She said, “It's beyond honor. It's beauty from above. Glory.” And she said, “Many Hebrew mothers, many Jewish mothers, love to call their daughters Hadar because of the beauty of its meaning, meaning that it's God's glory. It's beauty from above.” It is such a beautiful word.

We go to Proverbs 31:25, where it's used: “Strength and honor are her clothing,” and this Scripture says; “And she shall rejoice in times to come.” The word “honor” there is hadar. When we are reading the Word of God, they often use different words for the same Hebrew word. So sometimes it's translated “glory.” Sometimes it's translated “honor.” Sometimes it's translated something else.

That's why it's so great, going back to the Hebrew to know what this really is. It's “glory.” That's the picture of the Proverbs 31 woman. She is clothed with strength and glory. Now ladies, the amazing thing is, that this word hadar, and it's here talking about us, talking about the woman who's clothed with glory, it's exactly the same word that's used to describe God.

In Psalm 104:1, it says: “Thou art clothed with glory and honor (hadar).”

1 Chronicles 16:27: “Glory and honor (hadar) are in His presence; strength and gladness are in His place.”

This glory, of course, is God's glory. This word describes the glory of God. But what amazes me, dear ladies, is that the same word that is ascribed to God, is given to us. Isn't it amazing? I find that so hard to take in. But you see, God created us in His image, and He wants us to reveal just some of that glory. Not that we will ever, ever even comprehend all of His glory, but something of His glory, for every part of His nature and His character are His glory. And He wants that nature, those characteristics that are in Him, to be revealed in us.

This is how we are meant to walk on this earth, revealing the glory of God.

Psalm 8:5-6 says: “For Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels and hast crowned him with glory and honor (hadar). Thou hast made him to have dominion over the works of Thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet.” This is talking about man that God created, although it's also a Messianic prophecy of Christ, which is repeated in Hebrews 2:7-8.

That's one of the Hebrew words for “glory.” There are so many different Hebrew words. There's about ten different Hebrew words for “glory.” I'm going to tell you about some of the main ones.

KABOD

Another word is kabod. The meaning of kabod is very similar to hadar, meaning “glorious, gloriously, glory, honor, honorable.” And it also means “to have weight and heaviness.” It's to be weighty and heavy with glory.

This word is also ascribed to God to describe who God is. It's used 202 times in the Bible. It's the most common word for “glory.” But this is also ascribed to us as women!

Proverbs 11:16: “A gracious woman retains honor.” The word is kabod. Glory. This weighty, heavy glory. Isn't that amazing?

And what does it say? “A gracious woman retains her glory.” The Douay-Rheims Bible translates it, “A gracious woman shall find her glory.” But I like the word “retains.” In the Hebrew, it's tamak. It means “to keep fast, to hold up, to maintain, and don't it let it go.”

You see, lovely ladies, we have already been given glory. When God created us as females as His feminine creation, to reveal His nurturing anointing, He put this specific glory in us. And He wants us to reveal this glory to the world. And He wants us to hang onto it. He doesn't want us to let it go, like we read in Lamentations, how “the daughter of Zion has lost all her glory.”

Have we lost our glory, or are we keeping it? Are we hanging on to it? Are we living in it? This is the challenge. We're to LIVE in it.

We are living in an hour of great deception. We have such deception today, as the liberals and the (I don't know, all these -isms, these feminisms, and these humanisms, all these -isms, are bringing in this transgender, and everything that is against how God created us.

We must stand against this, dear ladies. We cannot get used to it. There are so many evil things that are coming into our society, that are becoming the norm. We must be careful as we're raising our children, that our precious children and our young people do not accept them as the norm.

We cannot allow them to accept them as normality. Because more and more around us, in the schools, and in the colleges, and in society, it's becoming normality. But it is not normality. It is against God, and we must stand against it. We must hang on to the glory that God has given to us, given to us by creation, given to us as His female creation.

We are to reveal the glory, and the beauty, and the excellency, and the majesty of the femininity and the womanliness of the nurturing anointing that He has put within us.

We will hang onto it. In the midst of deception, can you hang on to truth? Can you hang on to the glory that God has given to you? Oh, I encourage you today, dear ones, and young people who are listening. DHANG ON TO YOUR GLORY! There is so much coming against who God created us to be. In the midst of deception, we must hang onto it. We will not let it go!

Psalm 4:2 asks the question: “How long will you turn My glory into shame?” When we, as women, turn away from our femininity, from our womanliness, from our motherliness, from our nurturing anointing, we are turning the glory that God gave us into shame.

That's why it says in Titus 2, where it encourages the older women to teach the younger women to love their husbands, and love their children, and be keepers at home, that if they do not fulfill these mandates, it will blaspheme the Word of God. It will be shameful to the Word of God.

In Jeremiah 2:11, it says: “My people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.” That's a testimony of so many women today. Out there in the secular world, and sometimes even in our church world, many precious women who, they love Jesus, they love God with all their hearts, their hearts have been cleansed by the Blood of Jesus, but their minds have not yet been transformed according to the Word of God.

They’re thinking like society around them. They are, without sometimes even realizing it, changing their glory into that which doesn't profit. They're wooed out of the home into a career. They're taken away from where their glory is, where God wants them to shine with their glory, and taken into that which does not profit.

They put all their lives into that. Will they take it into eternity? No. We can only take our redeemed soul into eternity. Everything else will be left behind, except the redeemed souls of our children. Oh, that's an eternal Word.

We see the opposite of kabod in that story of Phinehas, when Phinehas' wife. . .  He was one of the sons of Eli, who was the priest before Samuel came on the scene. He had two sons who were living sinful lives, even though they were supposed to be the priests of God.

At that time, the Philistines came against Israel, and so they took the Ark of God out of the Holy of Holies. They took it with them into battle, thinking, “Oh well, the Ark will protect us!” But the Ark didn't protect them because God wasn't with them. They had turned away from God and God didn't protect them. The Ark was captured.

When the news came, Phinehas' wife was in childbirth, and the shock of the Ark being captured by the Philistines, it was more than she could bear. She died in childbirth, but before she died, the son whom she'd birthed, she called Ichabod. The correct pronunciation is Eekabode, because “kabod,” meaning, “the glory of the Lord has departed from Israel.”

We are either living in the kabod, in the glory, or we are becoming Ichabod, the glory of God has departed. We're seeing the glory of God departing from womanhood in our nation. But let's be those who will stand for what God wants, for His glory, and we will maintain the glory that He has given to us because that's what God wants.

TIPHARAH

And now we're going to come to another Hebrew word, tipharah. This word is another word to describe the glory of God, and also the glory that He gives to us.

Isaiah 46:13. God calls Israel “My glory.” It means “glory, an ornament, beauty, bravery.”

Isaiah 60:7: “I will glorify, I will beautify, the house of my glory.” Tipharah. We are now His House. Once there was a House in Jerusalem. Before that, there was a Tabernacle where God dwelt. And then when Solomon built the Temple, it was a beautiful, glorious temple, covered in gold and precious jewels. God dwelt there in the Holy of Holies.

But then that was also destroyed. And now God dwells in us, if we have been born again, and we have received and invited Him to come and be Lord of our lives. He has come to dwell and live with us. We have become His House, His Temple.

Isaiah 62:3: “Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.”

Lamentations 2:1: “How hath the Lord cast down from heaven unto earth the beauty (or the tipharah) of Israel, and remembered not His footstool in the day of his anger!”

Now here's another interesting thought. The footstool. Back in the Old Testament, in the time of the Tabernacle, and then the time of the Temple, God called it His footstool. He came to dwell in the Holy of Holies on this earth, but it was really just His footstool. All of His glory was not there because, well, God's glory is so vast. I mean, how could it be contained in the Holy of Holies? It was like the footstool of His glory.

In 1 Chronicles 28:2, David said: “Hear me, my brethren and my people: I had in mine heart to build an house of rest for the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord, and for the footstool of our God.” David understood too, that this glory that God would bring to fill the Tabernacle, and later fill the Temple, was just the footstool of His glory.

And just as we have now become His House, we are really His footstool. Isn't that a beautiful thought? We are His footstool on this earth.

John Gills, who is a Bible commentator who lived many years ago (but I love reading his commentary), he says of this Scripture: “This is denoting that the church is the place where the Lord grants His presence through Christ, the antitype of the mercy seat and Ark; and which is the seat of His rest and residence; where He takes His walks, and where His footsteps of rich grace are seen; where His lower parts, His feet, His works, His acts of grace are beheld; where He favors with communion with Himself; where His power and glory are observed, and His beauty is upon His people.”

That's a beautiful description of the footstool of God, which was originally the Tabernacle and the Temple. But now it's us! Yes, we are His footstool. Yes.

In Isaiah 60:13, God says: “I will make the place of my feet glorious.”

Ezekiel 43:7, speaking about the glory of the Lord filling Ezekiel's temple, that's another temple that's yet to come: “And He said unto me, 'Son of man, the place of My throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever.”

We get this understanding that it's His footstool, the place of the soles of His feet. And so, lovely ladies, this is what you are. Yes, it was the glory of God. The glory filled the Tabernacle. The glory of God filled the Temple. The glory of God wants to come and fill our temples, our earthly bodies. Yes. But we are really just His footstool. We cannot contain all the glory of who God is.

But we can experience some of it. We are His footstool. We are right here on the earth, in the nitty-gritties of life. You are there in your kitchen, with your children all around you, with all that you have to do each day in your home, and caring for your children and your little ones, and all you have to accomplish. In the nitty-gritties of life, in the duties of life, this is where you are at the footstool of God.

And He comes down, down to fill you with His glory. Can I take you to Psalm 133? I love this beautiful Psalm. Only three verses, and it's the psalm of unity: “Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!” And there's an exclamation mark there.

“It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down” (Do you notice that, ladies? “Went down, down, down, to the skirts of his garments.” This is just so amazing. It's talking about the anointing that God poured upon the high priest. He poured His anointing oil upon him.

But that oil did not just stay on his head. That oil flowed down over his face and over his garments. I often think about this, because the high priest's garments were the most glorious, beautiful garments that you could ever read about. I haven't got time to talk about them today. But they were just incredible.

And yet God got this oil pouring all over them. And they go right down, and they ran down, down, down, to the very bottom, to the skirts, to the hem of his garment!

I love the Passion translation. It says: “It's as precious as the sacred scented oil, flowing from the head of the high priest Aaron, dripping down upon the head and running all the way down to the hem of his priestly robe.”

Dear lovely ladies, oh, this is what God wants to do for you in your home. He wants to pour out His anointing oil all over you, pour out His glory all over you. And it drips down, right down to the hem of your garment. Right down to the skirts. Right down to the nitty-gritty.

Lovely ladies, when you are doing the most mundane job in your home, when you're down cleaning up a mess that's on the floor. When you're kneeling down changing diapers, when you're right down in the nitty-gritty of it all, the glorious God is there with you. He lets His glory run down to the skirts of your garment, right down to the hem.

You see, God comes down to where we are. He's right there with you, where you are now. Oh, yes. And don't little ones love to hang onto the skirts of your garment? I remember when my little ones would want to hide under my skirts. Well, not really hide if you're wearing your skirt too short, can they?

But oh, so many times, people would come, and when they're little, they're shy, and they'd hide under my skirts. And maybe when I was going somewhere, they'd be hanging onto my skirts. Even around the home, sometimes I could hardly walk because they're hanging onto my skirts! Because they just want Mummy! They always want Mummy, Mummy, Mummy!

This is the life of motherhood, our little ones hanging onto our skirts. Oh, don't despise the fact that you're down in the nitty-gritty of it all, because this is where the glory is. The glory comes right down to the hem. Amen?

Let's pray. “Oh, dear Father, we thank You with all our hearts that You are the God of glory, glory beyond what we can ever fathom, and how we'll hardly even be able to comprehend even in the eternal realm. And yet You give us something of Your glory. And You want us to reveal Your glory.

Lord God, You want us to manifest it, even in our homes, with our little ones all around us, Lord God, right down to the hem of our garments.

Oh God, we thank You, we thank You that You didn't keep the glory in heaven. Lord, You let it fall down. You've let it run down, right down to where we need it. We thank You in the Name of Jesus. Amen.”

Nancy Campbell * www.aboveuribes.org

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Transcribed by Darlene Norris