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")
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