Chariots

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Short Summary
The discourse explores the biblical symbolism of chariots as representations of divine power, guidance, and spiritual journey rather than mere physical vehicles. It emphasizes that earthly trials and challenges, though often painful, serve as God’s chariots to elevate believers spiritually when they surrender personal control and trust solely in God. Through scriptural examples and reflections, the message encourages embracing hardships as means of divine deliverance and transformation, leading to triumph and closer union with God.

Long Summary
Detailed Summary of the Discourse on “Chariot” with Biblical References

Theme and Title:
The discourse centers on the symbolic and spiritual significance of “chariots” in the Bible, particularly focusing on how believers can ride in God’s chariots, representing divine guidance, protection, and spiritual elevation.

Introduction and Context:
The speaker begins by referencing *Streams in the Desert, Volume 3*, highlighting Psalm 104:3, which describes God’s creative power:
*”Who maketh the clouds his chariot.”* (Psalm 104:3)
This imagery sets the stage for understanding chariots as vehicles not just of physical transport but of spiritual ascent and divine presence.

Earthly vs. Divine Chariots:
– Earthly chariots symbolize human efforts, trials, and obstacles that may initially seem burdensome or grievous.
– God’s chariots are spiritual conveyances that carry the soul to heavenly places, triumphing over life’s difficulties.
– The discourse emphasizes that God must “burn up” with His fire every earthly chariot standing in the way of our spiritual mount into His chariot.
– *Hebrews 12:11* is cited to affirm that chastening, though painful, produces righteousness and peace for those exercised by it.

Spiritual Interpretation of Chariots:
– According to Smith’s Bible Dictionary, chariots were typically war vehicles, but spiritually they represent doctrinal truths and memory-knowledges.
– Horses symbolize understanding; thus, chariots symbolize doctrines and the knowledge that carries the soul forward.
– The chariots of God are described as “20,000, even thousands of angels” (Psalm 68:17), invisible yet powerful conveyances of the soul.

Biblical Examples and Their Lessons:
– *2 Kings 6:4,14,17*: Elisha’s servant sees a mountain full of horses and chariots of fire, revealing God’s protective army unseen by human eyes. This vision strengthens faith.
– *2 Kings 2:11-12*: Elijah’s ascension in a chariot of fire symbolizes divine authority and supernatural transition. Elisha’s response exemplifies spiritual longing to follow God’s path.
– *Deuteronomy 32:12-13* and *Isaiah 58:14*: God leads His people on high places, using spiritual chariots to elevate them, feeding them with blessings.

Trials as Chariots of Triumph:
– Trials, disappointments, sufferings, and misunderstandings may appear as crushing juggernauts but are in reality God’s chariots carrying believers to victory.
– The key is to “mount” these trials by finding God in them and trusting His love, akin to a child hiding in a mother’s arms (Isaiah 46:4).
– This perspective transforms hardships into spiritual vehicles for growth and triumph.

The Necessity of Abandoning Earthly Supports:
– The soul must be brought to the place where all earthly refuges (experiences, relationships, works) fail before it can fully rely on God alone—“He only.”
– Visible, tangible “chariots of Egypt” (Isaiah 31:1) represent worldly powers that ultimately fail.
– God often removes these to compel reliance on His invisible, divine chariots (Micah 5:10; Haggai 2:22; Isaiah 66:15-16).

Paul’s Example of Spiritual Chariots:
– Paul counts all former gains as loss for the surpassing worth of knowing Christ (Philippians 3:7-9).
– His “thorn in the flesh” (2 Corinthians 12:7-10) is interpreted as a divine chariot that brought him to greater spiritual strength through weakness and dependence on God’s grace.

Joseph’s Life as a Model:
– Joseph’s journey through slavery and prison, though seeming like defeats, were his chariots to future triumph and kingdom (Genesis references).

Practical Applications:
– Believers are encouraged to see every trial, cross, or difficulty as a chariot sent by God to carry them to spiritual heights.
– Faith is needed to “open the eyes” to see God’s unseen chariots of deliverance rather than focusing on visible enemies or hardships.
– The story of a sister at a convention demonstrates practical victory through accepting difficult circumstances as God’s chariots, leading to peace and patience.

Symbolism and Theological Significance:
– Chariots symbolize power, divine intervention, spiritual warfare, and God’s providential movement in the believer’s life.
– They represent the journey of spiritual transformation and elevation into heavenly places in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2:4-6).
– The “heavenly places” are interior spiritual realms, not just physical locations.

Encouragement to Trust God’s Sovereignty:
– Psalm 62:5-8 and Psalm 68:4, 24, 32-34 encourage trusting God as the only rock, refuge, and source of salvation.
– The discourse closes with a reminder to sing praises to God who rides upon the heavens, reinforcing His sovereign power and protection.

Key Bible Verses Cited:
– Psalm 104:3: God maketh the clouds His chariot.
– Hebrews 12:5-11: Chastening is a sign of God’s love producing righteousness.
– Psalm 62:5-8: Trust in God alone as refuge and salvation.
– Isaiah 52:12: God as rear guard, protecting His people.
– Psalm 68:17, 32-34: God’s chariots and strength in the clouds.
– 2 Kings 6:4,14,17: Vision of horses and chariots of fire.
– 2 Kings 2:11-12: Elijah’s ascension in chariot of fire.
– Deuteronomy 32:12-13; Isaiah 58:14: Riding on high places via God’s chariots.
– Philippians 3:7-9: Paul’s losses for the gain in Christ.
– 2 Corinthians 12:7-10: Paul’s thorn as a chariot to strength.
– Isaiah 46:4: God carries His people even to old age.
– Isaiah 31:1; Micah 5:10; Haggai 2:22; Isaiah 66:15-16: Destruction of earthly chariots to foster dependence on God.
– Psalm 45:3-4: God girds Himself and rides prosperously in chariots.
– Proverbs 20:24: Man’s ways are uncertain, but God’s chariots establish our goings.
– Zechariah 6:1-8: God’s chariots as instruments of divine judgment.
– Isaiah 40:31: Those who wait on the Lord will mount up with wings like eagles.

Final Exhortation:
The discourse ends with a prayerful blessing, urging believers to trust God daily, mount His chariots, and rise to heavenly places, turning trials into triumphs by faith and submission to God’s will.

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This comprehensive summary captures the theological depth, scriptural foundations, and practical spiritual applications from the discourse on biblical chariots, emphasizing their role as divine vehicles for spiritual progress, protection, and ultimate victory in Christ.

Transcript

So the title is basically Chariot. Then we split many of us, and so many times in our lives some friends seems to stand out with us semantically with the word children we began saving. The monetized was used in devotionals that we remember Unity. Those courses were in Bible cities. So we need to know that perhaps someday we could give a ch which leads us here today.

We’d like to begin by reading From Streams in the Desert, Volume 3, where we read in the Psalms how our ever loving, wise and powerful heavenly Father went about his process of creation, along with the Logos and we who maketh the clouds his giant. Psalms 104, verse 3, and in quotes. We cannot ride in our own chariots in God’s at the same time God must burn up with fire, with the fire of his love every earthly chariot that stands in the way of our mounting into His. Would you mount into God’s chariots, then take each thing that is wrong in your life as one of God’s chariots for you, asking Daniel to open your eyes, and you will see his unseen thrills of deliverance. Whenever we mount into God’s throats, we have the translation not into the heavens of others as we entered it, but into heaven within us, away from the low groveling plane of life, up into the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, where we shall ride in triumph over all beloved but the fight that carries the soul over the road is generally some placening, but for the present doth not seem joyous, but grievous.

Hebrews 12:11.

The Peace of the righteousness into them that are exercised in their body, no matter what the source of his chasteners set to throw your soul into the high plains of spurs, in which your glad surprise that it is God’s love that sends the chariots his chariots, in which you may ride prosperously over all darkness. Let us be thankful for every trial that will help to destroy our earthly chariots, and will compel us to take refuge in the chariots of God, which always stand ready and waiting beside us in every trial.

My soul, wait thou only upon God for my expectation is from him. He only is my rock and my salvation he is my defense. I shall not be moved. Psalm 62, verse 5 through 6. We have to be brought to the place where all other refuges fail before we can say he only we say he and my experience, he and my church relationships, he and my Christian work.

All that comes after the end must be taken away from us, or must be proved useless before we can come to the he only only then may we mount into God’s chariots. If we want to ride with God upon the heavens, all earth riding must be brought to an end. He who rides with God rides above all earth born clouds. Oh, may no earthborne cloud arise to hide thee from thy servant’s eyes. No obstacle can hinder the triumph course of God’s chariot.

That was a quote from Hannah Whittle Smith what does chariot mean in the Bible? Smith’s Bible Dictionary Chariot means a vehicle used either for warlike or peaceful purposes, but most commonly the farmer that is warlike. The Jewish chariots were patterned after the Egyptian, and consisted of a single pair of wheels on an axle upon which was a car with high front and sights, but open at the back, and then a scripture to go with that open back. The Lord will go before you the God of Israel will be your rear guard. Isaiah 52:12 NIV chariots are frequently mentioned in the word, but hardly anyone knows that they signify doctrinal things of good and truth, and also the memory knowledges belonging to doctrinal things.

The reason is that when a chariot is mentioned, nothing spiritual enters the idea, but only the natural historical and it is the same with the horses in front of the chariot, and yet by horses in the word are signified things of the understanding, and therefore by a chariot are signified doctrinal things, and the memory knowledges of belonging thereto. Chariot in the King James eight Hebrew and two Greek words are translated chariot. Of these the word appearion In Song of Solomon 3, 9 is strictly a palanquin, or covered litter. The term normally means cart, used for transport, as in Psalms 469, where it refers to supply wagons used in war.

Whether this means that Hebrews who didn’t generally use chariots often in battle as opposed to their enemies, may be up to question and discussion.

The chariots of God are 20,000, even thousands of angels. The Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the Holy Place, Psalm 68:17. Chariots are for conveyance and progress. Earthly chariots carry the bodies of those who ride in them over all intervening distances, or or obstacles to the place of their destination, and God’s chariots carry their souls.

No word can express the glorious places to which that soul shall arrive who travels in the chariots of God. I want to repeat that phrase. God’s chariots carry their souls. No words can express the glorious places to which that soul shall arrive who travels in the chariots of God, and our verse tells us they are very many all around us on Every side they wait for us, but we do not always see them.

Earth’s chariots are always visible, but God’s chariots are invisible. We read in 2nd Kings 6, verses 4, 14, 17 therefore, therefore sent he thither horses and chariots, and a great host, and they came by night, encompassed the city about, and when the servant of the man of God was risen early and gone forth, behold and host compass the city both with horses and chariots, and his servants said unto him, alas, my master, what shall we do? And he answered, fear not, for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.

And Elisha prayed and said, lord, I pray thee, open his eyes that he may see, and and the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw, and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha. We believe that what Elisha’s servant saw was a vision of heavenly messengers displayed as warriors, horses and chariots. The servants faith was increased.

This record of Elisha is quite interesting in faith building. We recently said it in class in our prayers of the Righteous Book. There Elisha calls on his young servant to trust in his God and gain the faith that Elisha had already attained.

We believe there are are times when our own faith needs strengthening. This may require not only help from above, but also from some brother or sister, some spiritual leader who we may look up to. These dear brethren can be our chariots to a stronger faith and a more successful walk. This is the prayer we need to pray for ourselves and for one another. Lord, open our eyes that we may see.

For the world all around us is full of God’s horses and chariots waiting to carry us to places of glorious victory. But they may not look, excuse me, they may not look like chariots. They may look like enemies, sufferings, trials, defeats, misunderstandings, disappointments, unkindnesses. They may look like Juggernaut, cars of misery and wretchedness that are only waiting to roll over and crush us into the earth. But they really are chariots of triumph in which we may ride to those very heights of victory for which our souls have been longing and praying.

We read in Deuteronomy 32:12 and 13, where Moses spoke to the people, so the Lord alone did lead them, and there was no strange God with them. He made him ride on the high places of the earth, and I add that he rode in spiritual chariots, that he might eat the increase of the fields, and he made him to suck honey out of the rock and oil and out of the flinty rock and from Isaiah 58, verse 14 and in part if we would ride in the high place of the earth, we must get into the chariots that can take us there and only the chariots of God are equal to such lofty writing as this. Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord, and will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. We may make out of each event in our lives either a juggernaut car to crush us, or a chariot in which to ride to heights of victory. It all depends upon how we take them, whether we lie down under our trials, and let them roll over and crush us, or whether we climb up into them as into a chariot, and make them carry us triumphantly onward and upward.

The following is a quote from Hannah W. Smith Again, Secret of a happy life the chariots of God I hope and trust in quoting from Ms. Smith. I’m not plagiarizing and it came to pass as they still went on in talk, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven and Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof, and he saw him no more and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in 2 pieces, 2nd Kings 2:11 and 12 the following is a partial repeating of a previous paragraph. Whenever we mount into God’s chariots, the same thing happens to us spiritually that happened to Elisha.

We shall have a translation not into the heavens above us, as Elisha did, but into the heaven within us, which, after all, is almost a grander translation than his. We shall be carried up away from the low, earthly, groveling plane of life, where everything hurts and everything is unhappy up into the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, where we shall ride in triumph over all below Brought my phone with me this time to check the time we read in Ephesians 2, verses 4 through 6. But God, who is rich in mercy for his great love, wherewith he loved us even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ by grace you are saved, and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. These heavenly places are interior, not exterior and the road that leads to them is interior also. But the chariot that carries the soul over this road is generally some outward loss, trial or disappointment, some chastening, that does not indeed seem for the present to be joyous, but grievous, but that nevertheless afterward yields the peaceable fruits of righteousness to to them that are exercised.

Hebrews 12:11 and ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children. My son despite despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him for whom the Lord loveth, he chastens and scourges every son whom he receives. If ye endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons. For what son is he whom the Father chastens not? Hebrews 12:5 7 Look upon these chastenings, no matter how grievous they may be for the present, as God’s chariot sent to carry your souls into the high places of spiritual achievement and uplifting, and you will find that they are after all paved with love.

King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon. He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love for the daughters of Jerusalem. Song of Solomon 3:9, 10 all of God’s dealings with his son’s bride are precious and vehicles who or chariots meant to lead us safely into the heavenlies there to be covered by the purple of royalty. Your own individual chariot may look very unlovely it may be a cross grain, relative, or friend it may be the result of human malice, or cruelty, or neglect. But every chariot sent by God must necessarily be paved with love, since God is love, and God’s love is the sweetest, softest, tenderest thing to rest oneself upon that was ever found by any soul anywhere it is his love indeed that sends the chariot.

Was the Lord displeased against the rivers? Was thine anger against the rivers? Was thy wrath against the sea, that thou did ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation. Habakkuk 3:8 the clouds that darken our skies, and seem to shut out the shining of the Son of righteousness, are after all, if we only knew it, his chariots, into which we may mount with him and ride prosperously over all the darkness.

Gird thy sword upon thy thigh almost mighty with thy glory and thy majesty and in thy majesty ride in thy chariots prosperous, prosperously, because of truth and meekness and righteousness and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. Psalm 45, 3 and 4 There is none like unto the God of Jeshuron, the poetic name of Israel, who rides upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the skies. Deuteronomy 33:26 A late writer has said that we cannot by even the most vigorous and toilsome efforts, sweep away the clouds, but we can climb so high above them as to reach the clear atmosphere overhead and he who rides with God rides upon the heavens, far above all earthborne clouds, riding along in God’s chariots.

Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth. O sing praises unto the Lord Selah to him that rides upon the heaven of heavens which were of old. Lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a mighty voice ascribe ye strength unto God his excellency is over Israel, and his strength in the clouds. Psalms 68:32 34.

This may sound fanciful, but it is really exceedingly practical when we begin to act it out in our daily lives. One example, and this is someone else’s story, not mine, one example. I knew a sister at one of our conventions, who was put to sleep in a room with two others on account of the crowd. She wanted to sleep, but they wanted to talk and the first night she was greatly disturbed, and lay there fretting and fuming, long after the others had hushed and she might have slept. But the next day she heard something about God’s chariots and that night she accepted these talking sisters as her chariots, to carry her over into sweetness and patience.

And she lay there feeling peaceful and and at rest. When, however, it grew very late, and she knew they all ought to be sleeping, she ventured to say slyly, sisters, I am lying here riding in a chariot, and the effect was instantaneous in producing perfect quiet. Her chariot had carried her over to victory, not only inwardly, but at last outwardly as well. If we would ride in God’s chariots instead of our own, we should find this to be the case continually.

Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many, and in horsemen, because they are strong. They are very strong, but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel neither seek the Lord. Isaiah 31:1 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. They are brought down and fallen, but we are risen and stand upright. Psalm 27 and 8.

Our temptation is to trust in the chariots of Egypt, or the world we can see them they are tangible and real, and they look so substantial, while God’s chariots are invisible and intangible, and it is hard to believe they are there. Our physical eyes are not open to see them.

By the messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and has said, with the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice for trees thereof and I will enter into lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel. 2nd Kings 19:23 this made us think of Isaiah 14:13, 14 where it says of Satan, for thou has said in thine heart I will ascend into heaven, and I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation in the sides of the north. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds. I will be like the most High.

This is this has always been an amazing thing to me that here the Logos had been involved in creating Satan, and the Logos went totally one way and Satan the other. It’s just hard to imagine being perfect and making that choice. We try to reach the high places with the multitude of our chariots. We depend first on one thing and then on another to advance our spiritual condition and to gain our spiritual victories. We go down to Egypt for help, and God is obliged often to destroy all our own chariots before he can bring us to the point of mounting into his.

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots. Micah 5:10 if we show our dependency on perceived earthly powers, God will destroy those chariots, and I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen, and I will overthrow the chariots and those that ride in them, and the horses and their riders shall come down everyone by the sword of his brother. Haggai 2:22 God wants us to be dependent solely upon him.

We lean too much upon a dear friend to help us onward in the spiritual life, and the Lord is obliged to separate us from friend. We feel that all our spiritual prosperity depends on our continuance under the ministry of a favorite preacher, and we are mysteriously removed. We look upon our prayer meeting or our Bible class as a chief source of our spiritual strength, and we are shut up from attending it, and the chariot of God, which alone can carry us to the places where we hoped to be taken by the instrumentalities upon which we have been depending, is to be found in the very deprivations we have so mourned over God must burn up with the fire of his love. Every chariot of our own that stands in the way of our mounting into his for behold, the Lord will come with fire and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh. Isaiah 66, 15 and 16 Let us be thankful then for every trial that will help us to destroy our chariots, and will then compel us to take refuge in the chariot of God, which stands ready and waiting beside us. My soul, wait thou only upon God, for my expectation is from him. He only is my rock and salvation he is my defense I shall not be moved in God is my salvation and my glory. The rock of my strength and my refuge is in God.

Trust in him always, ye people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us. Sila Psalm 62:5, 8 and then the Going forward the this phrase that I’m going to read is slightly repeated from before we have to be brought to the high place where all other refuges fail us before we can say he only we say he and something else he and my experience, or he and my church relationships, or he and my Christian work and all that comes after the end must be taken away from us or must be proved useless before we can come to the he only as long as visible chariots are at hand, the soul will not mount into the invisible ones. Sing unto God, sing praises to his name, extol him that rides upon the heavens by his name Jehovah, and rejoice before him.

Psalm 68:4 if we want to ride with God upon the heavens in his chariot, and we have to be brought to an end of all our writing upon the earth, they have seen thy goings, O God, even the goings of my God, my King in the sanctuary again Psalm 68 verse 24 and this is a little side note and I was talking to some brethren about this. It’s just really amazing and cool what you can find on AI and I don’t depend on it, but when I saw this I was just, I was just floored and we found it was very interesting and I quote in the Bible King refers to God as the ultimate sovereign, but also specifically to Jesus Christ, Christ as the promised Messiah who will reign as King of Kings during the future millennium, fulfilling Old Testament prophecies about David’s eternal throne which with resurrected saints reigning with him over the earth in perfect righteousness. Jesus earthly rule as king during this thousand year period. The millennium fulfills covenants bringing peace and justice, as described in books like Isaiah, Daniel, and Revelation. To see God’s goings we must get into the sanctuary of his presence and to share in his goings, and go with him again in his chariots, or we must abandon all earthly goings.

Surely isn’t this an amazing quote off the Internet? Man’s goings are of the world. How can a man then understand his own way? Proverbs 20:24 when we mount into God’s chariots, our goings are established, for no obstacles can hinder its triumphal course. All losses therefore our gains that bring us to this Below we quote from Paul, where after his conversion he began writing in God’s chariots, rather than in the chariots of the law, in its strictness and lack of love when he was Saul but what things were gained to me those I counted loss for Christ, yea, doubtless and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, he do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith.

Philippians 3:7 9 Saul, who became Paul, was an extremely talented, motivated, educated, and driven person before his revelation and appearance of the risen Lord. Paul understood this, and he gloried in the losses which brought him such unspeakable gain, and from 2 Corinthians 12:7 10 unless I should be exalted above measure, through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan, to buffet me. Lest I should be exalted above measure for this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me and he said unto me, my grace is sufficient for thee, for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly, therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in in distresses for Christ’s sake for when I am weak, then am I strong again. 2nd Corinthians 12:7 10 even the thorn in the flesh for Paul, the messenger of Satan sent to buffet him, became only a chariot to his willing soul, that carried him to heights of triumph, when he could have reached in no other way to Take pleasure in one’s trials. What is this but turning them into the grandest of chariots?

And on Joseph Joseph had a revelation of his future triumphs and reigning but the chariots that carried him there looked to the eye of sense like the bitterest failures and defeats. It was a strange road to a kingdom through slavery and a prison, and yet by no other road could Joseph have reached his triumph, his dream, his chariots, how he rode in his chariots and his triumph. That’s various references from Genesis. Go into your chariot.

Take each thing that is wrong with your lives as God’s chariots for you. No matter who the builder of the wrong may be, whether men or devils, by the time it reaches your side, it is God’s chariot for you, and is meant to carry you to a heavenly place of triumph. Shut out all the second causes and find the Lord in it. Say, lord, open my eyes, that I may see not the visible enemy but thy unseen chariots of deliverance, which was mentioned previously, and now a word as to how one is to mount into these chariots.

My answer would be simply this. Find out where God is in each one of them and hide yourself in him. Or in other words, do what the little child does when trouble comes who finds his mother and hides in her arms. The real chariot, after all that takes us through triumphantly, is the carrying of God, and even to your old age I am he, and even to poor hairs will I carry you I have made and I will bear even I will carry and will deliver you.

Isaiah 46:4.

The baby carried in the chariot of its mother’s arms rides triumphantly through the hardest places and does not even know they are hard, and how much more we who are carried in the chariot of the arms of God, accept his will in the trial, whatever it may be, and hide yourself in his arms of love. Say, thy will be done thy will be done over and over. Shut out every other thought but the one thought of submission to his will and of trust in his love. Make your trial thus your chariot, and you will find your soul riding upon the heavens with God in a way you never dreamed could be.

I have no doubt that if all our eyes were open today, we would see our homes and our places of business and and the streets we traverse filled with the chariots of God. There is no need for any one of us to walk for lack of chariots. That cross that has made life a burden to you, and it has been the juggernaut car to crush your soul into the dust may now be a glorious chariot to carry you to the heights of heavenly patience and long suffering, that misunderstanding, mortification, unkindness, disappointment, loss, or that defeat all these are chariots waiting to carry you to the very heights of victory you have so long to reach. Mount into them with thankful hearts and lose sight of all second causes in the shining of his love who will carry you in his arms safely and triumphantly over it all Got a few minutes left Chariots in the Bible symbolize power, divine intervention, and God’s sovereignty, reflecting both historical realities and spiritual truths throughout the Scripture. Chariots also symbolize divine intervention and protection.

In 2 Kings 6:17, the prophet Elisha’s servant is granted a vision of a mountain full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha, signifying God’s protection protective presence. This imagery reassures believers of God’s unseen power and support in times of trouble, illustrating that true strength comes from God rather than earthly forces. Beyond their military implications, chariots represent the movement of God’s will and authority. As in 2 Kings 2:11, Elijah ascends to heaven in a chariot of fire, symbolizing divine authority and the extraordinary ways God communicates with humanity. This event illustrates the chariot as a divine vehicle, emphasizing God’s active involvement in the lives of his prophets.

Chariots are also associated with divine judgment. In Zechariah 6:1:8, God administers justice through chariots, which serve as instruments of his will. This connection reinforces the idea that chariots symbolize God’s authority and his execution of his plans in the world.

In summary, chariots in the Bible are rich in meaning, representing both the historical realities of ancient warfare and the profound spiritual truth of God’s power, protection, and his providence. They serve as reminders of God’s sovereignty and his active engagement in the lives of his people, encouraging believers to trust in his strength and his guidance throughout their journeys. The spiritual meaning of the chariot encompasses several interpretations. In biblical contexts, chariots symbolize power, divine presence, and the movement of God’s will. They represent divine guidance and spiritual warfare, conveying messages of God’s intervention and judgment.

The chariot signifies the beginning of a spiritual journey, encouraging focus and the willingness to embrace new experiences. Chariots can also symbolize the transformation of believers, representing the elevation of the soul to a higher spiritual realm. Additionally, they reflect the trials and tribulations facing life, symbolizing the challenges that believers must overcome. They that wait upon the Lord shall mount up with wings as Eagles, Isaiah 40:31. Many are the lessons to be learned from the present chaotic world condition.

We are taught the way of simple faith. As we are driven back to the word of God and prayer we should make use of these adverse conditions. He wants us to mount up on wings. As eagles we can turn the storm clouds into a chariot. We who keep close to the road of life and do not respond to the upward calling do not have time to breathe the lofty air of the heavenlies.

We who turn unto the Lord the Omnipotent One have the power of wings and we rise from our tiresome journey into the higher heavens of the glories of our Most High. That was from streams in the desert. It’s been a great blessing preparing and researching for this talk for which I received many blessings. I pray that some of the scriptures and points have also given you some food for thought. May God continue to guide you daily and may you ride with him in his glorious chariots to heavenly places.

In closing we pray our Heavenly Father will add his blessing and forgive anything said in error. Selah and Amen.

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