Before God would make Abraham the Father of many nations he had to have the same quality of a parent, which is set after the likeness of God the 'possesser of heaven and the earth.""And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God./And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:" (Gen.14,18-19)
Let us consider the Word, God called Abraham out of his comfort zone because the eternal Word presided over man and blessed himin his Son. "Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you./And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty." (2 Cor.18-19)This was established in the everlasting Covenant so all the heavenly blessings are promised by the Covenant. Abram would not take even a shoe latchet from Sodom.Sodom is what the cursed of God shall take, he is a Canaanite and it what the Spirit warns here,"And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah." We shall come to Gerar as well so the Spirit is giving us a capsule shot at history from the life of Abraham how he dealt with kings of Sodom and Gerar,(20.1). Noah cursed Canaan not because of Ham but for what he stood for in the world of the Spirit. "And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren." Meaning he was a son of perdition, servant to several corrosive appetites like covetousness.lust of the flesh etc.,The chapters 10-11 we may consider similar to the middle Ages in our own church history where the Apostolic church gave rise to heresies all enlarged upon by the spiritual sons of Shem Ham and Japheth.
God blessed Abraham in his Son and without holding on to it, and without eye of faith, clear, how shall the world of Spirit mean to a believer?
History of nations has never been created by flesh and blood. Consider pagan nations none which can do without attributing their origin to supernatural world of gods. The story of the founders of Rome suckled by she-wolf is a legend. Athens cannot do without it and neither can Akkadians who attribute a mother goddess that created the earth and heavens. They are listed in the table of nations in Ch.10 but nevertheless they had to have their myth, so they have sky god as well. The Spirit of God sets God as the maker, and possessor of heaven and the earth This explains the sin of intermingling sons of God with daughters of men in 6.1-2. It was Satan's way of muddying the make up of heirs of righteousness
Satan sins from the beginning and heresies in the church did not come on its own accord. Neither did gods from Olympus descend in the hearts of the descendants of Javan. Our struggle is not with flesh and blood but with spiritual wickedness in high places. How can the bride of Christ negotiate the ungodly without her eyes of faith open and totally focussed on Christ, the captain of our salvation?
In this context the blasphemy of attributing the curse on Canaan on the basis of his colour was the worst of misinterpreting the scripture wilfully. In what way Simon Legree has civilised Africa, judging from Sudan it looks like another lie.
Before God would make Abraham the Father of many nations he had to have the same quality of a parent, which is set after the likeness of God the 'possesser of heaven and the earth.""And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God./And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:" (Gen.14,18-19)
Let us consider the Word, God called Abraham out of his comfort zone because the eternal Word presided over man and blessed himin his Son. "Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you./And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty." (2 Cor.18-19)This was established in the everlasting Covenant so all the heavenly blessings are promised by the Covenant. Abram would not take even a shoe latchet from Sodom.Sodom is what the cursed of God shall take, he is a Canaanite and it what the Spirit warns here,"And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah." We shall come to Gerar as well so the Spirit is giving us a capsule shot at history from the life of Abraham how he dealt with kings of Sodom and Gerar,(20.1). Noah cursed Canaan not because of Ham but for what he stood for in the world of the Spirit. "And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren." Meaning he was a son of perdition, servant to several corrosive appetites like covetousness.lust of the flesh etc.,The chapters 10-11 we may consider similar to the middle Ages in our own church history where the Apostolic church gave rise to heresies all enlarged upon by the spiritual sons of Shem Ham and Japheth.
God blessed Abraham in his Son and without holding on to it, and without eye of faith, clear, how shall the world of Spirit mean to a believer?
Satan sins from the beginning and heresies in the church did not come on its own accord. Neither did gods from Olympus descend in the hearts of the descendants of Javan. Our struggle is not with flesh and blood but with spiritual wickedness in high places. How can the bride of Christ negotiate the ungodly without her eyes of faith open and totally focussed on Christ, the captain of our salvation?
In this context the blasphemy of attributing the curse on Canaan on the basis of his colour was the worst of misinterpreting the scripture wilfully. In what way Simon Legree has civilised Africa, judging from Sudan it looks like another lie.
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