According to the “woke”, Abraham would be classified as a racist but he was far from it. He lived in the land of the Canaanites in peace with the Hittites for his life. Abraham integrated the race of Ham! Some would consider him a progressive because him and the Hittites were as one nation.
Abraham resided with the tribe of Heth whose seed were called Hittites. They were gentlemanly toward each other. When Sarah died, Heth was willing to give Sarah a proper burial for free. [i] However, Abraham had lived as if he was one of them. Any Hittite would have to pay for the grave site and Abraham did not want special treatment merely because he was different. Thus, Abraham paid for Sarah’s entombment in the Cave of Machpelah.
Theologians have not identified the location of Machpelah. They cannot even agree upon its meaning, but rabbinical Jews accept the meaning “double” as accurate, and even provide a location:
Tomb of Adam and Eve.—In Rabbinical Literature: (Hirsch, Seligsohn and Schechter 2002-2021)
The name of "Machpelah" (= "the doubled one") belongs, according to the Rabbis, to the cave alone, their reasons for the name being various: it was a double cave, with two stories (Rab); it contained pairs of tombs (Samuel); it had a double value in the eyes of people who saw it; any one buried there could expect a double reward in the future world; when God buried Adam there He had to fold him together (Abahu; 'Er. 53a; Gen. R. lviii. 10). Adam and Eve were the first pair buried there, and therefore Hebron, where the cave was situated, bore the additional name of "Kirjath-arba" (= "the city of four"; i.e., of the tombs of Adam and Eve, Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob and Leah ('Er. 53a; Soṭah 13a; comp. Gen. R. lviii. 4).
According to Pirḳe R. El. xxxvi., the cave of Machpelah was at Jebus, and the reason that induced Abraham to buy it was the following: When Abraham went to fetch the calf for his guests (comp. Gen. xviii. 7) it escaped to the cave of Machpelah. Abraham ran after it, and when he entered the cave he saw Adam and Eve lying in their beds as though they were sleeping, while lighted candles were around them, exhaling a fragrant odor. Abraham, filled with a desire to possess the cave, determined to buy it at any price. The Jebusites, however, refused to sell it to him until he had sworn that when his descendants conquered the land of Canaan they would spare the city of Jebus (Jerusalem).
It makes sense that the Cave of Machpelah is the tomb of Adam and Eve. The Cave of Treasures is in much sacred literature. Wikipedia says about it:
In the title Cave of Treasures which was given to the “Book of the order of the succession of Generations" there is probably a double allusion, namely, to the Book as the storehouse of literary treasures, and to the legendarily famous cave in which Adam and Eve were made to dwell by God after their expulsion from Paradise. (Wikipedia; “Cave of Treasures)
Wikipedia refers to the Cave of Treasures as “a double illusion” in that it contained literature. But it also contained gold, frankincense, and myrrh that God gave to Adam and Eve at their wedding (See the “Book of 1 Adam and Eve”). That means two things: (1) That the Cave of Machpelah is the Cave of Treasures, and (2) it is outside the central area of the Garden of Eden itself. In other words, outside the gates of the place of “Peace”.
“Salem” is peace, and the Jebusites (Canaan’s seed) were squatters on that land. The Hebrews, as with Hittites, lived peaceably with the Jebusites. Jebus was the brother of Heth. Perhaps Abraham had resided with both Heth and Jebus, although the latter went unmentioned.
Why else would the post-Exodus Hebrews got along so well with the Jebusites? Perhaps because Abraham faired so well with his brother, Heth.
Just where was Abraham? Perhaps in the middle of the Garden of Eden, the very place of peace. Why did he get along so well with Canaanites? Because they lived in Paradise!
However, this commentary is not about the place of peace, but about peace itself. Abraham lived in peace with a cursed race of people. [ii] God’s Will was done there in earth as in Heaven, according to the Lord’s Prayer. [iii]
If nothing else, the Holy Land is prototypical Paradise in earth as in heaven. It too may have arisen as Jesus, but perhaps it was just burned to the foundation. It was called “Salem” (peace), and later, “Jerusalem” (the foundation of peace). The question is, What happened to the beautiful Garden of Eden? Did it burn with Sodom and Gomorrah, and if so, did Canaan’s son do his reasonable service to God and Shem and build the city of Jebus there?
Abraham and the Hittites proved that those of different races can reside together in peace. The descendants of Ham were the dark races, but the Bible mentions nothing about their color. What was different about them? Their ancestor, Ham, sinned, and his sin was accounted to them for generations — specifically three or four. [iv] Canaan was cursed because he was the second generation from sinful Ham, and then Heth and Jebus were cursed because they were the third generation. With that, the sons of Ham, even Canaan, are no longer cursed.
But why three or four generations? Perhaps wickedness from the Wicked One has much ado with the blood. The Bible forbids incestuous relationships and intermarriage of certain people. Why so? Their blood is not diverse enough. They share, in modern terms, too much DNA and their genetics are too much alike.
Cain was of the Wicked One. [v] He surely had the DNA of Lucifer in his blood. After original sin, the generations of Cain and Seth are given. There were two races of people, not of different colors, but their blood was different. It surely looked the same with the naked eye but inside the DNA of Lucifer had perhaps mingled with the DNA of Eve, the mother of all the living. [1] Now it is known what blood really looks like, and it is much different one from another, and certainly different from the other primates!
After generations, in the case of Cain, their blood became so tainted that they were reprobate. Cain’s brother, Seth, had resided on Holy Mount Herman, and Cain’s seed on the Plain east of Mount Eden. The point is that they intermarried. The progeny of Seth became more righteous and the progeny of Cain more decadent. Satan used that to tempt the Sethites. They came down form the Holy Mountain and intermarried with the daughters of Cain. [vi]
The generations of intermarriage affected their DNA on both sides. It took many generations to develop much different blood. The last generations of Cain had more intensely contaminated, corrupted blood. It all looked the same, but it was spiritually much different. Adam’s kind continued to devolve, and then it was the time for God to improve the blood to what it was before.
Only eight righteous people were on the ark. The blood of Cain was destroyed except for one person. Perhaps through Ham’s wife, the DNA of Cain made it through the flood because Canaan was cursed. It is noted that the admixture of Seth and Cain looked much different than them. They were gigantic.
Even today, there are those with XYY DNA, called “XYY Syndrome” and those males who are of that DNA are significantly larger (National Organization of Rare Diseases).
Canaan had the DNA of righteous Noah and his wife, but in the third generation, the blood became cursed. A different “race” of people was the outcome. Not that they all were of a different color but were of the Wicked One for generations. Now, after many generations, Noah’s progeny has devolved until they are as those prior to Noah. [vii]
Paul called a spade a “spade”: “They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one” (Rom 3:12). In other words, the blood of mankind is not diverse, but is all the same. Everyone now is of the Wicked One! [viii] The Jews are even now “tares” in the field of the Holy Land, right alongside the Canaanites. Their blood was intermingled over the years until now even Semites and Japhethites are sinners along with cursed Canaan! None are without sin; no not even one!
Just why is the genealogy of Jesus of mixed blood? He was a “Jew” by birth, but in His blood, there was no DNA of Canaanites except those who God set apart.
Jesus, if the blood tests of Ron Wyatt are correct, had His own blood type. [2] If that is true, the blood of Jesus was from Mary and that elusive YY-DNA that exists in one place — in the supernatural realm. That test revealed that rather than 46 chromosomes, the “Blood of the Messiah” had 24. Missing, is the male DNA. Indeed, Eve was the mother of all living, [ix] but Adam was not the father of all living! Why Mary’s blood line alone? Because Jesus had no paternity other than His Father in heaven.
Now back to Abraham. He did not want his line to marry Canaanites:
3 And I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: 4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac. (Gen 24:3-4)
“Thee” in that passage is Abraham’s servant who would manage his affairs. He was worried that Isaac might marry a Canaanite woman. Was he prejudiced because those people were mere servants to “Prince Abraham”, or was he concerned with the Will of God?
In my commentary about “Multiplication”, [3] I wrote that Isaac was not Abraham’s fleshly son, but his spiritual son; that Isaac was of God and Sarah. That seems far-fetched but that is true of Joseph and Mary’s child as well. In other words, Isaac had the Good DNA of God and the righteous DNA of Abraham.
But how did Isaac receive Abraham’s DNA? Why else would Abraham marry his half-sister? To continue the DNA of Abraham with her as surrogate! Does scripture not make sense?
Abraham desired that Isaac’s DNA not devolve though marriage. That had nothing at all to do with race, but righteous blood. Canaan’s blood was cursed. It was of the Wicked One, even now after three generations after God destroyed the DNA of the world and started afresh.
Jesus has the DNA of Rahab the prostitute through Mary, the DNA of the Maobite, Ruth; and the DNA of many others. So far as is known, He dd not have the unpurified blood of Canaan nor Cain in Him. With each Covenant, God cleansed the bloodline and started a new spiritual race of people. Abraham’s “son”, Isaac, was the beginning of that new race, and surely God did not want corruptible flesh to be in the bloodline of Jesus!
David was “shapened in iniquity,” [x] but even he was spiritually pure. God did that work in his heart. You see, it is not the genetics that matter, but the spirit. David was, “a man after God’s own heart.” [xi] He was not born with the heart of God but was after it! He sinned often and terribly before he found God’s heart; the love or Good Will of God. [xii]
David was born again! He had been shapened by his bloodline in iniquity, then God cleansed his heart from sin. He was reshapened in righteousness, and Jesus was of the seed of David. Unlike David, however, Jesus was shapened in righteousness because the fickle priestly bloodline of Joseph was not in Him!
Now, the seed of Abraham certainly includes everyone. Only the “seeds” of Jesus remained pure and good. God is not a respecter of persons [xiii] and cares little for your[xiv] genealogy. He does care much about the DNA of your blood right now! You must be reshapened “very good” [xv] — reimaged in the image of God.
People are shapened with different “mists” and “dust” much like Adam. [xvi] The word, “mist” from the Hebrew ed, means “vapor” or “exhalation” as well. Where scripture renders “water” it implies, “cause to drink (intake water).” Water in the Hebrew can be rendered, “semen” (Strong’s Dictionary).
Adam sprung from the semen of God but with no mother. His DNA would have been pure YY, given that assumption as correct. With that said, Adam shared his breath with Eve but as a female, hers would be transformed to XX to distinguish the genders (No confusion there!).
Jesus is the Son of Man and the Son of God because He has Eve’s DNA in Him but not Adam’s. That could not be because Adam was the brother of Jesus, as both were sharpened by the Breath of God.
Abraham was neither hateful nor prejudiced. He only wanted to keep Isaac’s blood clean from evil as best he could, and that was ensuring that cursed blood was avoided.
Of course, in the case of Moses, even his tainted blood was avoided because Zipporah was an Egyptian. Jesus was descended from Aaron, the bother of Moses. Aaron’s wife was the daughter of Amminadab, meaning, “my people are noble” (Wikipedia). That noble line was from Judah. Judah, however, married a Canaanite woman, but the Testament of Judah reveals that he was reshapened from iniquity.
You see, genealogy and race are not important, but the “color” of the blood is. All blood is contaminated. We are all “Samaritans”, a bastardly people of all races. “Bastards” in that they were not Sons of God. They did not have much of the noble blood of Joseph in them. Over the years intermarriage with those with noble blood devolved them unto what the Jews consider “beasts”.
The New Testament justifies the Samaritans. They could be “very good” as well; even more “good” than the Jews, as the “Story of the Good Samaritan” relates.
Jesus died for the bastardly Samaritans. They too could be born again! They were some of the “whosoever” in John 3:16 who God wanted never to perish. Jesus died for “whosoever” is born again and reimaged like Jesus.
With that said, Abraham looked not at their color, or ignobility, but the hearts of the Hittites. They were willing to give the “mother of Jesus” their part of the Promised Land and a place to rest in the Garden of Eden along the “River of the Garden” (the Jordan River).
The moral of the story is not to look at the skin of anyone but where their hearts lie. The Hebrews killed those whose hearts were not with God, but Abraham honored people different than him with much silver… as much as the land was worth!
Rather than looking at the mob looting stores, burning buildings, and hating Christians as if they are heathens, we should look at them as a band of “whosoevers” that God wants to preserve.
The problem is that we are not “Abraham’s”. Abraham found grace and remained faithful. Our problem is that we find grace but lack faith.
Is it worth your immortal soul only to hate people? No, its not, but Satan gambles that it will. Honestly, most are like those who mobbed Jesus and killed Him; they knew not what they were doing. The same goes for those who are destroying this nation.
The entire thread in scripture is indeed, Hate the sins but love the sinner. Abraham respected the Ways of the Hittites but not the ways of many other of the heathen Canaanites. People can and should be judged by their ways. We can never change the ways of sinners, but God can. Rather than looking for loot, mobs, to find grace, need to seek Jesus. The role of the Christians is like the Greeks request of Philip; to help them find Jesus.
So, what is the solution to hatred? Not legislation because laws have always created division and more hatred. That is the situation throughout the Bible. Even Jesus was killed because it was the Law of the Land. He was to them an imposter; He was posing as God.
The mob killed Jesus because they became the Law. Calvary became their “autonomous zone.” They found Jesus, then had their way with Him, just like the folks of Sodom did the other angels.
Actions can be used against one when they are judged, but sin color cannot be. The way to prevent hatred is not to diminish the color of anyone but correct their actions, not to reimagine them as liberators, but as agitators who need to find Jesus to relieve the agitation!
(picture credit: USA Today; "George Floyd Protests")
[1] I have written on that subject in my previous commentaries numerous times.
[2] See the video, “The Blood of Jesus,” on YouTube.
[3] https://kentuckyherrin.blogspot.com/search?q=Isaac+Ishmael
[i] Gen 22
[ii] Gen 9:25
[iii] Mat 6:10
[iv] Deut 5:9
[v] 1 John 3:42
[vi] Gen 6:2
[vii] Luke 17:26
[viii] Mat 13:38
[ix] Gen 3:20
[x] Psalm 51:5
[xi] 1 Sam 3:14
[xii] Psalm 51
[xiii] Acts 10:34
[xiv] Tit 3:1
[xv] Gen 1:31
[xvi] Gen 2:6
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