HOW TIME WAS DIVIDED- Part 1

 The way of the world is importance of first sons. “Primogeniture is the right, by law or custom, of the firstborn legitimate child to inherit the parent's entire or main estate in preference to shared inheritance among all or some children, any illegitimate child or any collateral relative” (Wikipedia).

  Abraham himself is the founding father in his special relationship to God. Yahweh, with the “Covenant of Pieces,” made Abraham the father of His own children. Do not think biological children but spiritual ones. Spiritual Jews and Christians are descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Gen 32:9). With that said, when Abraham died, Jacob laid on the bed with his “father” Abraham and felt safe in Abraham’s bosom.

  When Abraham died, his soul immediately went to the heavenly Paradise. Jacob felt safe in Abrahams’s bosom because Abraham was safe in Paradise and Jacob was therefore in Paradise with Abraham. He received Abraham’s inheritance and Isaac did as well.

  By the law of primogeniture, Esau would have been in Abraham’s bosom. He had missed the inheritance as well when Jacob was there in Isaac’s bosom when Isaac died. Note that when Lazarus died in apostolic times, he too was in Abraham’s bosom. Abraham is the spiritual father of all who trust God, and the Abrahamic Covenant of the Pieces remains to this day,  the “Covenant of Grace.”

  Esau was an heir of Abraham as well, but that did not make him a spiritual child of God. Neither does it make Edomites (the seed of Esau) part of the Covenant of the Pieces. Hence, Esau’s children, the Arabs, are not part of the Covenant of Grace because although they have biological lineage from Abraham, they are not his spiritual children. As such, Islam is not part of the Covenant of Grace and are not even a “piece” in God’s Covenant with Abraham.

  Terah was the father of Abraham, and his due was the estate of Terah in Ur. Abraham hated his father’s idols, and as such he destroyed them and fled to another land. He knew that when he did that, his inheritance would be gone. The law of primogeniture had been broken when the idols were broken! God saw that Abraham would not depend on things for security, but on the Invisible God. Although Abraham lost the inheritance from Terah, he received a greater inheritance from God!

  Primogeniture involves several things: land, money, pride, and power. The oldest son literally “lords” over his brothers and sisters. Terah was not Abraham’s Lord and he gave up his birthright to follow God in the Paradise of Canaan.

  Therein God supplied. He had not the love of money, which is the root of all evil, so God adopted Abraham as a second son, since all his other “sons” in chronology were either dead or undeserving. Even Terah was passed over in favor of Abraham because God was not his God.

The key verses for today follow:

KEY VERSES: ²¹ Isaac intreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and the Lord was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. ²² And the children struggled together within her; and she said, “If it be so, why am I thus?” And she went to enquire of the Lord. ²³ And the Lord said unto her, “Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger...” ²⁵ The first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau. 26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob… ³³ And Jacob said (To Esau), “Swear to me this day;” and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. { Gen 21:21-23, 25-26, 33)

  Rebecca was barren thus her womb represents the world, and specifically Paradise where Adam was born. Adam was God’s first biological son, and Jesus His first spiritual Son As such, Jesus’s share was only the Garden Paradise, but Adam’s the entire world. Adam received the larger portion (piece) because of the love of “money.” The medium of exchange throughout time has always been what was most valuable to the inhabitants. The fruit of the Tree of Life was free, but they were spiritual fruits. Adam put his eyes on “shiny things” that were on the forbidden tree. He was given land to live on, but only in 5500 years (The Books of Adam and Eve) would Adam receive his spiritual inheritance. Ironically, God gave Lucifer, His invisible first son, the world. (Jesus was not created but as God, always Existed).

  Lucifer is the “prince of the power of the air” (Ephes 2:2), meaning the spirit of the world who controls the world with the law of sin. His inheritance was the land all over the world, but Jesus retained Paradise, and is King there to this day.

  Lucifer’s conspiracy is to what? “I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High” (Isa 14:14). Lucifer, now “gentleman of the manor” called, Sata, has all the land, but his attempt to control the heavens was foyled when Jesus suffered death on the Cross. Jesus suffered death but did not die. On that same day Lucifer, as Satan in Judas, lost the land. He returned to the invisible realm where he shall remain until he comes again in bodily shape as the Antichrist.

  Jesus is Lord of all. He is, as the sign said,” King of the Jews.” He is the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and like both Isaac and Jacob, when He came in the Flesh, He was from the second son of Abraham, and of God! The crucifixion finally terminated any thoughts of the validity of the Law of Primogeniture.

  Note that, but in the case of Abraham, who gave up his birthright by becoming the spiritual and soon, the legal son of God, second sons were the Way of God, as we saw with Seth who got Cain’s inheritance and so on. Noah received the world as the son of God, not as the son of Lamech. And of his sons, and this is important, Shem — Noah’s first son — got the land, but Japheth, the third son, was destined to obtain the spiritual world. Although the second son, Ham lost his birthright, because of sin. His sons would serve both Shem and Japheth’s sons.

  It is written, “God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant” (Gen 9:27). Japhethites are Gentiles. Gentiles would live in the “tents” of Abraham’s line who descended from Shem! Abraham had control of the inheritance until Jesus came as the second son. The Abrahamic Covenant pointed toward the final dissolution of primogeniture. It turns out that even the lines of both Esau and Jacob would lose their inheritance, but by grace, during the Great Tribulation, it will be a Great Day for Shemites as they obtain their portion of the spiritual inheritance (Rev 21:12).

  “Tents” in that verse has two meanings: (1) safe from the elements in facilities, and (2) safe from the spiritual powers in the invisible church. Tents, in the wilderness, served the purpose of God worship. Those tents were like the canopy of the trees in the Garden that stood all around the Tree of Life in Paradise.

  Tabernacle worship mimics worship in the Garden Paradise and what will be in Heaven (Rev 2:7). When those tents were set facing the Tent in the middle, that represented Paradise and the Tree of Life (Jesus) in the midst. Gentiles would be the second sons and live in the tents in which the Jews lived for so long. In the end, Gentiles and Christians will share those tents! That is the final “peace on earth” which would come with the second advent of Jesus; when Jews will regain a piece of their inheritance, and Gentiles will again live in the tents of Shem.

  Why did God not want a House as His Estate? Because His Plan was to have His “Temple” in the souls of men. Those tree canopies in the Garden were what God had in mind. He saw those trees as men standing, and they were His “tents.”

  Likewise, those tents in the wilderness were not what was so important, but the souls looking toward Him standing inside them. The “tents” since Jesus died, are no longer there, but the souls of men still are! That Temple is the True Inheritance that God intended all along, and only in the end will Christians get their material portion. “The meek shall inherit the Earth and have their abundance of peace” (Psalm 37:11). “Shall” means in due time… in God’s Time. I believe that shall be on “the eighth day” (eternity) after God again rests on the seventh day — with His “Millennial Reign.”

  Hence, the Abraham Covenant, the Covenant of Pieces, will not be finalized in that time, this time, but some time in the future. The names “Jacob” and “Esau” are symbolic of time — Esau the first time period in the birth process and Jacob the second time in the same. “Birth” is generation. Their birth signifies regeneration. Just as birth is in two stages, so is rebirth. Just as Bartimaeus received his sight in two stages, so goes the blind world!

  Tomorrow, we shall look at God’s Time through the eyes of blind Isaac and the flesh of Rebecca, as God’s time was divided from one into two.

(picture credit: The Life Institute; :Twins in the Womb)