Friday, May 21, 2021

SUBSTANCE AND SOULS

  You might have missed a word of great importance all the many times that you have read about the adventures of Abraham. That one word has tremendous implications! Read on.

  In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. [i] Those are two substances — one seen and the other the unseen. God, the heaven, and the earth are three substances, and three stasis. They together are one person. Hence, the “Godhead,” or “Holy Trinity,” is “homeostasis,” meaning similar states. They too are in “homostasis,” (sic) a new word in this commentary to mean three states in one man.

  Substances make up existence, and them working together is all existence in harmony. In the beginning was the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Yes, the Son was there! [ii]

  Now, here we go again… a new beginning and a new genesis:

And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came. (Gen 12:5)

  Abram took three substances to Canaan: physical substance, souls, and invisible Substance, for God went with them. How is that known? Abram built altars to honor his traveling Companion.

  Abram and Sarai were the new “Adam” and the new “Eve” just as Noah and his unnamed wife had been. God would regenerate Adam’s kind again, but this time, Cain’s kind would be allowed to live. “Prosperity” would be for the seed of Abram. That was the Covenant from God. Hence, God is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Israel). The Israelites are God’s chosen and peculiar people. [iii] The Israelites descended from Shem, and indeed they would live in tents. [iv]

  By “tents” it is meant that they would travel wherever God would take them, and He would be their God, and they would be His people. [v] Cain means “wanderer” but the Israelites would have a destiny; their land would be the land of Canaan.

  To prove that the Israelites were God’s people, God soon established a test: “Moses said unto the people, ‘Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.’” His people would shun sin.

  How to identify the rules against sinning? The Finger of God wrote them on stone for perpetuity. His people are to sin not. His people do not break the tablets of stone, or even the invisible “tablets” for the Law is written on the hearts of His people. [vi] There are always seen substance and the unseen. The Law can be summarized as “love” [vii]— good will toward God and others. You cannot see love but it is there if God’s Will is done!

  Moses broke the Tablets of Stone, but even broken, they remained the Law. Thus, erecting stone tablets means little, because Jesus, “The Finger of God,” writes them on the hearts of God’s people.

  Just as the stone means little, neither did the real substance that Abram carried with him. Those physical substances were real property. They were things tangible that were a burden to the men or animals that carried them.

  They were headed to what would later be called, “The Land of Milk and Honey.” They were headed to Paradise, and therein would be all the real property that they would ever need. Now, to the meat of the message: “The souls that they had gotten in Haran; into the land of Canaan they came.”

  Abram multiplied his entourage in Haran. The word, “Haran” used as a place name means “parched.” (Wikipedia). Abram took souls from a parched land to a paradise. If one is observant, the Bible, as well as ancient Jewish sacred writings, identifies the land of Canaan (Israel) as the Garden of Eden. Abram was symbolically taking dying souls from a parched land to a place of life; the very place that God breathed life unto Adam, to wit: “The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul” (Gen 2:7).

  “Father Abraham” is antitypical of the Lord God. He took men from parched ground back to the Garden, and therein, they became living souls (nephesh). Why is it not written “the men” rather than “the souls?” Men would be ‘adami. The intent may have been for Adam’s sin not to be repeated, thus, “souls” rather than “men.”

  God was not worried about their flesh when he sent them to the land of Canaan. The Canaanites there were merely flesh. They were all “Cains” and “Canaans” without souls. They were of the Wicked One. God intended to displace soulless Canaanites with Semites with souls. He would do that to provide a place for souls to live in peace. Jesus said to the Israelites:

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. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. (John 14:3-4)

  God took Abram to a place that He would prepare. He had used the Canaanites to repair Paradise lost.

  In the midst of that Paradise was a great city. As servants of Shem, Canaanites (Jebusites) built Jerusalem, and Melchizedek would be their priest. As priest, Jerusalem would be built to God’s Instructions and prepared a place for the Israelites (Semites). Jerusalem was God’s big “Tent,” built for Shem’s progeny, and there it is: “God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant” (Gen 9:27); from God’s Covenant with Noah, and here was Abram headed that way!

  Abram headed to Canaan, not for himself, but to plant his seed. God’s time is not our time. Those souls would need to be patient and persevere sin in Egypt. They would wander around (in the manner of Cain, “the Wanderer”), until the place for them was prepared. When sin became so severe that the Israelites were all but lost, then God gave them grace. He told Moses, “I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared” (Exod 23:20). That “Angel” is Jesus.

  God’s Plan was always to have a place for His people. Abram, along with Melchizedek, prepared that place on Mount Moriah. Canaanites were the servants who built that place. Hence, the Palestinians to this day claim Jerusalem and Canaan’s land as their own. They merely squatted in Israel until God handed the deed to that land to Abraham.

  Adam and Eve were told to multiply. Noah and his wife were told to multiply. They each thought to multiply their flesh, but God had another substance in mind. God meant to multiply souls. Then Lucifer stepped in and multiplied flesh. Cain was “of the Wicked One” [viii] and he was sent out unto the parched  land of Nob to multiply flesh.

  Before the flood, Seth’s seed was sown on the plain (Nob) beside the City of Adam, not in the ground, but in the flesh from Cain’s multiplication. When the flesh multiplied, they built a city and a tower to reach the heavens to make a name for themselves. [ix] Then their flesh was scattered. God had not wanted flesh, but souls that belonged to Him!

  Abram did that! He understood God’s Will for him. He went to the parched land of Haran and converted the dying, and then God breathed life unto their nostrils, just as in the beginning. Abram multiplied souls for God. That is what God had in mind all along until Satan sneaked into Paradise in the Serpent.

  Why did Adam and Eve make aprons of fig leaves to cover their genitalia? Because they misunderstood God. God would plant their seed, but they most certainly planted their own. Since Cain was of the Wicked One, Satan planted his seed in Eve and Adam’s seed perhaps fell to the dirt from which it came.

  God covered all their flesh with the skin of a lamb. God provide a full-body chastity belt! He would show them how to multiply. Righteous Abel was made a living soul by God. There was no carnal knowledge to do that. God did not begat Abel, but He overshadowed Eve and Abel was conceived in the womb just as the Holy Spirit of God overshadowed Mary. However, outside the Garden, Adam and Eve would need to use the carnal knowledge that they had obtained from the Wicked One.

  Thereafter, the flesh is the idol of fallen men. Everything in the world are substances to appease the flesh. Even righteous Abraham carried substance for the flesh, as he also brought souls to Canaan land. God saw no sin in those souls, but only in those who brought the substances for the flesh. Sin would remain in the world even with righteous Abraham.

  The Garden Paradise to this day contains parched land around the Dead Sea. Sin parched that land, and soon sin burnt it to the ground with fire and brimstone as Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed.

  Not to worry, sinners! Those two cities have been rebuilt. Joppa and Tel Aviv are now that “parched land” where sin abides in the flesh. Those twin cities are the eastern homosexual “paradise” (for them) and parched land to God. My bet is that when Jesus returns to reign, that Joppa and Tel Aviv will burn to the ground, if not before He returns!

  I am nearly finished. “The Great Commission” is to, “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” (Mat 28:19). That is what God meant all along when He commanded to multiply!

 Abram got that right. He would do as God requested. He saw men as “souls” for God’s Purpose rather than flesh for the purposes of Satan. Abram would do as suggested. His seed would be planted on holy ground (Canaan) to displace the unholy there, and then enlarged all over the Earth.

  Abram multiplied living souls. He got it right. That is why to Christians and Jews, he is “Father Abraham” and why God is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The seeds of Abraham are more than flesh, but souls that multiplied from his seed.

  The best Seed was used for the Greatest Seed ever planted. Abraham planted Jesus on Holy Ground on Calvary, and thereafter life was again breathed unto all of Adam’s kind… if only they breath God’s Breath of Life. Adam perhaps spilled his seed on unholy ground to no avail. Jesus, however, spilled the breath of life on the ground for all to “drink” of its Living Water. But for that to happen those of the Wicked One must come to the “well” to “drink” on Calvary.

  Adam did not multiply in the Garden, so long afterwards, Jesus multiplied living souls. Adam was to do that, but Jesus finally did what Adam did not!

(picture credit: Dreamstime.com; "Soul")


 



[i] Gen 1:1

[ii] John 1:1-3

[iii] Deut 14:2

[iv] Gen 9:27

[v] Lev 26:12

[vi] Rom 2:15

[vii] Mat 22:40

[viii] 1 John 3:12

[ix] Gen 11:4

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