Saturday, April 24, 2021

COVENANTS - Part 1 of 2

  The Bible is basically the Last Will and Testament of the Lord God of the universe. Wills are thought of as given multiple choices, the selection of one choice, is the faculty of the will. The document called a “will” is a testament of that choice or choices. A “testament” is a sworn document to the conditions of the will. The only condition to the will of God was stated by the heir and executor, Jesus, the Son of God.

  Jesus is the only naturally and spiritually borne son of God. Jesus was “born” by Mary, but “borne” by God. All others must be what? “Born again” (John 3:7) to be legal heirs of God.

  When “Noah found grace” (Gen 6:8), then God would “borne” him. Born is carried in the womb and borne is transported from some place to another place. Jesus was born in the sense that Mary carried Him but borne in the sense that God transported Him from one realm to another. God would also transport Noah from one realm to another.

  But you say, “It was one place to another!” That remains unknown! Noah was born on a Holy Mountain (Mount Hermon, most certainly) and was borne to another Holy Mountain in the range of Ararat. What made them holy? God was on both mountains. He traveled on the good ship “Noah” to keep Noah and all mankind safe. Hence, the Ark was a type of Cross.

  It is translated, “Marvel not; ye must be born again.” [i] The word translated “born” in the Hebrew is yalad.  Its primary meaning is “to bring forth” (Gensenius Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon). Indeed, Noah found grace and God brought him forth from one realm to another. Noah may have gone nowhere! Perhaps the conditions of the world changed as the map changed with it. At any rate, based on today’s calendar, Noah if anything, went a short distance geographically, but a great distance in the spiritual world. He was transported from evil to good... from sin to a lofty haven (heaven). [ii] That would be a new ‘Paradise’ in the world.

  Nicodemus failed to understand how a person could re-enter his mother’s womb and be born! [iii] The scholar, Nicodemus, did not understand his own religion. Noah had not come from his mother’s womb again but was transported on a voyage from one existence to another! As such, Christians are not born (carried) in their mother’s womb anywhere, but on Noah’s “yacht” so to speak. Why yacht? Jesus as well as said that: “In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you” (John 14:2).

  In the Father’s House that Noah built, there were many rooms. “Mansions” is assumed. The direct translation is “many abodes.” Each animal and person on the Ark abode in rooms for many days to be borne to a Holy Mountain. Yes, it was really the Lord’s yacht built by Noah to the plans that the Lord provided.

  Now for covenant, which means, “a usually formal, solemn, and binding agreement” (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). Agreements are parties of two parts. Whether with Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, the priests, or mankind; God was always the Party of the First Part. It was always the same agreement with different people. That Adam would have dominion in the world [iv]is as valid as Christians overcoming the world by endurance to the end! [v]

  Just what was God’s Part in all the covenants? Jesus said, “e of good cheer; I have overcome the world!” The Father overcame Paradise for Adam because He is the “Husbandman” of the Garden and when Jesus came, He as God, remained the Husbandman. [vi]

  As soon as Noah was on Holy Ground, rather than a newly created “Paradise,” what did Noah do? “Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard” (Gen 9:20). Like Adam a thousand or so years before, Noah repeated Adam’s mistake of becoming “as God.” [vii] Then the cycle began again: “He drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent” (Gen 9:21).

  What had Adam done? He was uncovered under the Serpent’s “tent,” to wit: “The eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked” (Gen 3:9). The canopy of the Tree of Life was God’s Tent, or Tabernacle, but Adam and Eve would go into the “tent” of evil knowledge. They soon realized that they were naked and built their own small tent — aprons of fig leaves, from the tent of Satan. [viii]

  Ham saw Noah naked and dishonored his father. Adam saw himself naked and realized that he had dishonored His Father! Both Adam and Noah broke what would become the “Fifth Condition” of God’s Last Will and Testament (The Fifth Word of God or what Christians consider to be commandments.)

  What did Moses do? He took dominion on the Holy Mountain when he became the husbandman. Rather than bestowing that honorable mention on his New Father, since he had been borne again, Noah honored Lucifer. God was the Vine on that Holy Mountain although Jesus was there! [ix] Noah became the Husbandman and the Vine, causing Ham to dishonor his father. It was not necessarily that his dad was naked but that he was a pretend God with his own will.

  Noah, as Adam before him, ate God’s fruit and claimed it as his own. Adam ate of the Tree of Knowledge and Noah ate of the vine of knowledge. Both ate God’s fruit but honored Lucifer instead. Adam became aware and sober, but Noah became drunken. Why is drunkenness so disgraceful to God? (1) Wine is a mocker [x] and (2) Noah, now unsober, lost his vigilance. [xi] As such, his “adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour,” and that allowed Satan to devour Canaan whose seed still carries the curse (of Islam). Canaan had been borne, not of God, but was surely, like Cain, of the Wicked One. Even his name is a copy of Cain’s! Satan had made it through the flood hidden, perhaps, in the womb of Ham’s wife, Na'eltama'uk.

  Na'eltama'uk is translated as “Eliakim” meaning “Baal” (El) “set up.” (Abarim Publications), or to be blunt, “Satan set them up!” Perhaps she was a child of the sons of God and the daughters of men. [xii] Perhaps she had Satan in her DNA and was of the Wicked One.

  Now for the key verses:

11 I will establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. 12 And God said, “This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: 13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. 14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: 15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. (Gen 9:11-16)

And since this is getting lengthy, we will continue tomorrow. 

 (picture credit: iBible)






[i] John 3:7

[ii] Gen 1:1

[iii] John 3:4

[iv] Gen 1:26

[v] Mat 10:22

[vi] John 15:1

[vii] Gen 3:5

[viii] Gen 2:7

[ix] John 1-3, 14

[x] Prov 20:1

[xi] 1 Pet 5:8

[xii] Gen 6:4

No comments:

Post a Comment