Winter
2009
Rebekah
Savior of the Household of Faith
Note: Before
reading this, it would be best to read the article entitled,
The Ezer and Boethos of God. – This article
has some important revelation concerning the nameless, selfless
servant of Abraham and his obtaining and presenting the bride
without spot and wrinkle.
Without further
comment, we shall proceed to scripture and trust the Lord
that these passages will be opened unto us so that we might
see new things, with new eyes, and that we shall be strengthen
in the great commission of God, in becoming as Paul and the
Apostles, custodians of His most holy seed as did Rebekah
before them.
Genesis
24:67 And
Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah,
and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted
after his mother's death.
After the amazing testimony given by Abraham’s
nameless, selfless servant of his delivering the son of promise’s
bride without spot or wrinkle, what is written here in Genesis
24:67
is almost a let down.
In the above verse, there is no mention of the wedding,
and there is no mention of a great feast, neither is there
any mention of the servant being commended by his master as
a good and faithful servant.
Instead, what we read here is that
Isaac brought his betrothed bride to his mother Sarah’s tent.
In a separate statement, we read she
became his wife –
the word, became, would seem to imply, rather than immediately
in time, that she, at a later date, became his wife.
In a third statement we read and Isaac
agaped his wife, and that he was comforted by Rebekah of the
grief of his mother’s death, implying that
the
love and
relations he had with
Rebekah
brought healing to Isaac, and that Rebekah was able to fill
the shoes of not only being Isaac’s virtuous – fruitful wife,
but having never met Sarah, Rebekah somehow had imparted to
her the wisdom and motherly qualities of Sarah.
Genesis
23:1-2 And
Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these
were the years of the life of Sarah. And
Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land
of Canaan.
I
cannot make any assertion as to the date of the death of Sarah
and the date of the marriage of Isaac, so in this case, I
will defer to the chronological map in the companion bible
which lists Sarah’s death as occurring in 1859 BC and the
marriage of Isaac occurring in 1856 BC.
This would give a three to four year window between
these two events.
I
do not care to speculate here, but I will make a personal
observation that after my wife who fell away divorced me,
I almost grieved myself to death over her loss and the dividing
of the family and I came down with congestive heart failure.
When I was young, people we knew that had one partner,
frequently died within a matter of months grieving themselves
to death.
So when I read:
Genesis
24:1 And
Abraham was old, and well stricken in age. --
I can
not help but feel that this stricken in age is related to
the ravages of losing a loved one. I have been told that birthdays, holidays,
and the first year anniversary of their death is the hardest. So, what I am pointing out here, is that
Abraham, during that first year of mourning, would have been
pretty low, and been confronted with his mortality and his
duty to see that Isaac would have a righteous wife.
Therefore, even if the round trip of the Abraham’s
nameless, selfless servant took a year, Rebekah would have
had months of time to prepare herself before she was married.
After some meditation on the issue of Isaac
placing Rebekah is Sarah’s tent, I see by the spirit that
after his mother Sarah’s death, her selfless, nameless handmaidens
stayed on and maintained the tent.
I also see that Isaac committed Rebekah into their
well-trained hands. Isaac committing Rebekah to Sarah’s handmaidens
is akin to Naomi taking Ruth under her wing and teaching Ruth,
the Moabitess, the ways of the Lord.
These nameless, selfless handmaidens who were of great
faith – and great selflessness, imparted all unto Rebekah
that Sarah had imparted unto them. They did all as Sarah had commanded unto
them before her death, just as if she had been alive to see
her future daughter-in-law in that day.
This
goes a long way into explaining later how it was when the
bride Rebekah, after finding herself in trouble in her pregnancy,
was able without Isaac to inquire of the Lord.
Furthermore, this also explains how a daughter of the
corrupt house of “Laban” would be able to find such favor
in the eyes of the Lord, that the Lord would revealed himself
unto her, much less speak to her – in the same manner that
the Lord spoke and revealed himself unto Abraham and Sarah.
From
this, we also perceive that Rebekah was not only versed on
the life that Abraham had with God, and of the ways of the
Lord, but she had also been versed on the specifics of the
covenant that God made with Abraham, most particularly with
God’s command 00001, to be fruitful and multiply. In that command, God as part of this covenant
demanded His tithe of the seed of the righteous.
I will defer
to the chronological map in the companion bible and tell you
that between Isaac’s marriage and the birth of Jacob and Esau
in verse 25, an astonishing twenty- twenty-one years have
passed since Isaac first laid eyes on Rebekah and during all
this time, Isaac is mentioned in only a scant three verses. In these twenty something years, scripture
records no altars built by Isaac, no sacrifices made by Isaac,
nor any covenants that he made.
Genesis
26:21-22
And
Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren:
and the LORD was entreated of him.
While
Isaac acted as the head of the household and entreated the
Lord for his wife Rebekah’s bareness and scripture declares
that God was entreated of Isaac, I am not sure that this was
quite the case. I
can read that it says that Rebekah was barren – but the verse
does not speak of the cause of this bareness she suffered.
The evidence
I see to the contrary is that the name Rebekah
in
the Hebrew is a compound Hebrew word “Rib” and
“Qa”.
In
Strong's Concordance we are told Rebekah means; “choice
calf”
(which should be interpreted
as
“fruitful
calf”)
and
to go somewhat along with this notion we see that 7235
Raba means: “To be abundantly fruitful” and in 7250
we see Raba means’ ‘to sexually lie down with”.
So in Rebekah we find, "An
abundant fruitfulness” – that is waiting to pour out her tithe of
seed unto the Lord.
I would suggest that it takes only one to produce bareness,
and if scripture declares Rebekah to be fruitful then it would
appear that Isaac was the one that was not.
Of Jacob’s wives, we read two times that the Lord opened
their wombs – yet here of Rebekah, we read of no such thing. She was barren in that she could not conceive,
but it was not due to her own dysfunction, it was due to Isaac’s. And after the birth of Esau and Jacob
nowhere do we read that God closed up Rebekah’s womb – she
remained fruitful, but Isaac became once again impotent –
and we shall see in a few verses that God gives hints to Isaac
of this very thing.
What is so odd
about this, is
that Isaac
was the son of promise to Abraham.
A son who went through so much with his father and
for decades walked with his father and witnessed signs, wonders,
diverse miracles, and God visiting and speaking to his father.
This is akin to Christ walking with the apostles.
How could Isaac had a better teacher?
What could have Isaac not seen to spur him to even
greater heights and depths than his father?
But, Isaac was not like his father and did not walk
with the Lord as his father had.
I just saw that
the diminished walk that occurred between Abraham and Isaac
also occurred between Moses and his two sons, Gershom and
Eliezer, both of which died in the wilderness. And like Isaac, these two son’s of Moses
saw and heard things that we can only dream about, but in
the end, neither the signs, wonders, and diverse miracles,
and even their hearing God audibly speaking with their father,
wrought any change in them. And for that fact, it did not work anything
in the hearts of any in Israel that saw and heard those same
things.
As much as the
church of this hour idolatrously seeks after signs and wonders
and diverse miracles, so too, I can say with a certain sadness,
that even the end-time revival that is to come will not bring
about the change that evangelists claim in those that will
see and hear it. It
didn’t with Abraham, it didn’t with Moses, and didn’t with
Christ, and in the revival to come, Zerubbabel and the two
prophets though they shall as prophesied perform greater signs
and wonders, shall fare no better than Abraham, Moses, or
Christ in the area of transformed converts.
I no longer believe the 144,000 are their converts,
but rather, the number, who in the face of the emptiness and
void of the power of God we see in this hour, have expended
all their heart, soul, mind, and strength to seek the Lord
for himself. These
are those that have willingly given up houses, lands, family,
and friends, not seeking personal, material, or spiritual
gain.
Now we can begin
to see, that instead of Isaac walking in the Ek-Lektos as
his father Abraham walked in the Ek-Lektos, Isaac merely walked
in his father’s shadow, resting in the fact that his father
had seen angels, had been personally visited by God, had dreams
and visions, and was declared to be a prophet by God Himself. His father had greatly humbled himself
before the Lord, and was obedient to his heavenly call to
the withholding of nothing he desired or materially possessed. For this, it was accounted unto his father
for righteousness.
Instead, we
read that Isaac lived in all the material wealth of his father,
with the ease of all his father’s servants, and all of his
father’s flocks. – This is a picture of the Laodiceans.
This is a picture of the careless ease, which the called
of the Klesia live in the U.S., Europe and Asia today.
For a moment,
we need to contrast this with Isaac’s son, Jacob of whom instead
of a few scant verses, we see of Jacob having multiple chapters
written of his struggles and his exploits with God.
When Jacob’s dearly, beloved son was believed to be
dead – Jacob was not staggered. Nowhere in scripture do we read that Jacob
railed against God over the death of his believed son, neither
do we read of Jacob making demands of God for his son’s return
or replacement. Jacob did not attempt to bind God with
professions or confessions of God’s promises unto him and
Abraham. Instead, Jacob rested with faith and patience
in God being his Ezer and Boethos. Because of this, God was pleased in a
figure to raise Joseph from the dead and give him back to
him while Jacob yet lived.
Genesis
25:22-23
And Rebekah his wife conceived and the children struggled
together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus?
And
she went (alone)
to enquire of the LORD. 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.
Now it is hard to imagine that Isaac knew
nothing of the difficult pregnancy that Rebekah was going
through. It is equally hard to understand why Isaac
did not go and seek God once again on Rebekah’s behalf and
inquire of the Lord.
It
appears within the text, that Rebekah did go to her husband
and inquire what God had said to his father, Abraham, to know
what was prophesied of the children she was to bear.
It also appear s that she was not particularly thrilled
with his non-deplume response, for in scripture Rebekah replies:
“If
it be so, why am I thus?”
Regardless of
what was said to her, or who did the saying, we see that Rebekah
was not pleased by the saying.
Then, without any help from Isaac, Rebekah goes by
herself and inquires of the Lord as to what was wrong?
We
see here that despite what is preached in many circles today
concerning headship and coverings that the Lord does not go
to the headship of this household. God does not go and speak to Isaac in
a dream or a vision.
Instead, we see that the Lord speaks to Rebekah alone.
So that Rebekah alone received
the promise
not Isaac -- which is odd to say the least.
As we read the rest of this, we clearly see that it becomes Rebekah’s responsibility
alone to see that this command of the Lord is fulfilled.
With revelation
comes responsibility – and this responsibility does not end
with the woman being submitted to her husband, even if he,
as in this case, is the son of promise, Isaac.
This does not negate the woman’s responsibility; her
duty before God does not end by being submitted to her husband,
a local pastor, or even a “powerful ministry” as in Rodney
Howard Brown, or a denomination, even much vaunted the Southern
Baptist Convention.
Rebekah seeking
the Lord alone and receiving the Word of the Lord alone did
not happen in the house of Abraham, neither did it happened
in the house of Jacob. This lends to the thought that there was
something very wrong with Isaac’s walk with God.
Contrary to
the doctrines and traditions of men that fill a great many
churches, ministries, and denominations, Divine
intervention with the use of a woman occurs quite a few times
in Scripture. Sarah, Rebekah, Tamar, Rahab, the Harlot, Manoah’s wife, Hannah, Ruth, Bathsheba, the widow woman of Samaria, Esther, Elizabeth, and Mary, the mother
of Jesus.
Of these, all
twelve found favor in the sight of the Lord, nine received
revelations from the Lord apart from a man, eight received
miracles from the Lord, six were in Christ’s genealogy, six
were gentiles, six are mentioned in the New Testament, five
were visited by angels or the Lord, five were barren and received
seed of the Lord, four were mentioned by Christ and Paul as
women of faith, four left their kindred, nations, and father’s
house to become part of the seed of Abraham, four by the letter
of the law were adulteresses, two usurped authority over men,
and two delivered Israel.
All twelve of these women individually surpassed the
acts and deeds of 11 of the sons of Israel – who, fallen and
corrupt teachers have taught, are seated on 12 of the 24 thrones
in the book of Revelation.
I predict that
in heaven there are going to be a few surprises that will
confound the prejudice and legalistic teachings we have heaped
unto ourselves. Many
men will be greatly humbled from their exalted view of themselves,
their ministries, and their superior teachings. Many women that would not dare to even
look upon the throne, believing themselves to be empty and
unworthy vessels, shall be moved up front.
The Lord also
does not stop with only telling Rebekah that the blessing
upon Abraham’s seed will be given to the younger, the Lord
next reveals unto Rebekah something that has been lost to
the Church since the days of the Apostles.
One
people being
(shall
be) stronger than
the other people.
Here,
the Lord is prophesying that out of Rebekah’s womb shall come
two nations and two people; the seed of the righteous in Jacob,
and ultimately the redeemer, Christ Jesus, and the seed of
the serpent, Esau, and ultimately, The
Antichrist aka, The
Fierce King of Daniel.
The word
“5794
Az fierce”
in Daniel means much the same as “553
Ames stronger” here
in Genesis. But more importantly the word ”
5794 Az fierce” is derived from the word “5795
Ez Goat” As we shall see, by faith Rebekah puts
the goatskin of the fierce king upon Jacob, so that Isaac
blesses the seed of Israel instead of the seed of the Fierce
King.
Muhammad was
of the adulterous seed of Esau, and of the seed of the Catholic
Church. At some point, he realized that because
of Jacob and Rebekah’s actions, the blessing of Abraham passed
from his people to the Jews and from then unto those the Klesia
and the Ek-klesia. For this reason, and this reason alone,
Muhammad came to have his insane hatred of the Jews and Christians
alike. This hatred of Muhammad and of Islam is
the enmity God prophesied of to Adam and Eve concerning the
seed of the serpent and the seed of the righteous.
This enmity is a perpetual state of war, with the seed
of the serpent continually stepping upon the head of the righteous,
seeking their overthrow and their destruction - as Cain did
to Able - as Israel did to the prophets and to Christ - as
the fallen church under Constantine did to the Jews - as the
Roman Catholic Church did to the Protestants – and, as the
Protestant churches did to the Jews and to true believers
in Christ. This
is all of the same spirit, and all are of the same adulterous
and corrupt seed. Now
here, at the end of days, the fullness of the Antichrist in
Islam shall seek to do the same to all Jews and all Christians.
This is the seed of the serpent’s
final solution. And,
as prophesied by Daniel, Christ and John in the Book of Revelation,
the Fierce King shall seek to utterly wipe out all of the
Jews and utterly wipe out the
Klessia that
there will be nothing left to bring forth the Ek-klesia from.
Genesis
25:24-26 And
when Rebekah’s days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold,
there were twins in her womb. And the first came out red,
all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name (was called)
Esau. and after that Esau came out, the second child’s hand
(reached out of the womb and)
took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:
The
Lord has shown me what we see here is Jacob reaching out of
the womb to grip Esau’s heel. And what we could not see here
is that Esau as he emerged from Rebekah’s womb was standing
on Jacob’s head.
This event was
prophesied of immediately after the fall in the garden.
Genesis
3:15 And
I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between
thy seed and her seed.
(and)
it
(the
seed of the serpent)
shall bruise thy head, and thou
(the
seed of the righteous)
shalt bruise his heel.
It should
be of no surprise to the readers of this website that the
fallen and corrupt church has preached this verse 180 degrees
out of phase for untold centuries. – Thus the Klesia has been
carrying the serpent’s water for him by hiding and obscuring
truth from the Ek-Klesia in the last hour.
But the hour
has come, and now is at hand, that the Lord shall unseal the
word of God unto those who have been made of quick understanding.
Daniel 12:4 But
thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even
to the time of the end.
1 Chronicles 28:19 David said all this the LORD made me understand in writing
by his hand upon me, even all the works of this pattern.
This is
the Key of David!
Daniel
11:33-35
And
they that understand (The Ek-klesia)
among the people (The Klesia) shall
instruct many: yet they (The Klesia)
shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by
spoil, many
days.
Now when they shall fall, they (The Klesia) shall
be holpen with little help (Not helped at all):
but many shall cleave to them with flatteries. And some of
them of understanding (The
Ek-klesia)
shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white,
even to the time of the end: because it (The coming forth from the
Ek-klesia of the Ek-lectos)
is yet for a time appointed.
Genesis
26:27 And
Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them. And the
boys grew. And Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field;
and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.
Jacob
was a man of no discernable talent like his father, Isaac.
Jacob was a mother’s child just like his father, Isaac, as
demonstrated in Gen 24:67. So that everything that Isaac wasn’t,
he saw in his son, Esau, and therefore his soul clave unto
Esau.
Genesis
25:28 And
Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah
loved Jacob.
This is
sad indeed when we can see that Esau with venison was able
buy Isaac, just as Jacob was later able to buy Esau’s birthright
with a bowl of lentils. Because this defect was found in Isaac,
the entire seed of the righteous was put at risk. However, the Lord knowing beforehand what
Isaac was about to do, as He also foreknew with what occurred
with Adam and Eve, the Lord had a plan of salvation already
in motion. The Lord had already chosen a deliverer
in the person of Rebekah, the least and the newest addition
to the household of faith.
We see here
that when Isaac was overcome, Rebekah, steadfastly obeying
the command of the Lord, (Obedience is faith) and we
read: Rebekah
agaped Jacob (and was not taken in by Esau.)
And I perceive
by the Spirit that this unholy love between Isaac and Esau
is prophetic of the church and the Antichrist in the last
hour. For as
Isaac, despite the word of the Lord was smitten with Esau,
so shall the church be smitten with the Antichrist.
Daniel
11:32
And
such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he (The Antichrist) corrupt
by flatteries:
Daniel
11:34 Now
when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with little (Not helped at all):
but
many shall cleave to them with flatteries.
Thereafter,
in the remainder of the chapter, we read of Esau despising
his birthright and selling it to Jacob for a bowl of lentils.
(Now this is an extremely
significant event, which we will return to and explain a little
later.)
Genesis 26:2 And
the LORD appeared unto Isaac, and said, Go not down into Egypt.
Following what we have looked at so far, it becomes
evident that this visit of the Lord to Isaac was not in any
way like when the Lord came to visit his father, Abraham.
This was a visit not based on Isaac’s obedience and
personal friendship with the Lord. Instead, we see that this visitation is
more on the order of Lot by the two Angels, who raked his
chestnuts out of the fires of hell - which was only done because
of the faithfulness of Abraham, who set his face as a flint
to walk before the Lord. A man whose love and selflessness extended
beyond himself to his slaves, even to his selfish and greedy
cousin Lot, who, had despoiled him by taking of all the choicest
of land for himself and leaving Abraham, so to speak, with
the dregs.
The visitation here of the Lord
is to save Isaac from his sin, for it appears that nothing
less would have deterred Isaac from going to Egypt despite
his father Abraham’s foreboding vision and his making his
son Isaac swear to him that in all his days that he and his
household would never go to Egypt.
Another example of this type of visitation in scripture
is when the Lord appeared to Cain before he slew Able.
This appears to have been done because of a failure
of Adam and Eve to diligently watch over their children against
the coming of the serpent, despite God’s prophetic warning.
Genesis
26:3-5
Dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of, Sojourn in this
land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto
thee, and unto
thy
seed,
I will give all these countries, and I
will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father.
And
I will make thy
seed
to
multiply as the stars of heaven, and (I)
will give unto
thy
seed
all these countries; and in
thy
seed
shall
all the nations of the earth be blessed; Because
that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments,
my statutes, and my laws.
The first point is that this visit is not really about Isaac
and his walk or lack thereof; it is about commandment 00001
to be fruitful and multiply. It is about Isaac paying the Lord his
tithe of his fruitfulness.
Children
are the heritage (the inheritance or the tithe)
of
the Lord. For without Isaac’s obedience in seeking
to flood the earth with the seed of the righteous, the seed
of the serpent shall multiply unhindered and make disciples
of all nations and inherit the earth just as what occurred
before the flood.
The
Lord is seeking to stir something in Isaac that he might become
jealous for the seed of the Lord, that he would contend with
the Lord about his own impotence and become fruitful himself,
and that he might become the protector and watchman over God’s
seed as he was called to do as the head of the household.
This
commandment 00001 has been the single most disobeyed commandment
by Israel and by the Church.
The harlotry and adulteries that were in Israel are
in the Church, if you have eyes to see and ears to hear.
The harlotry and adulteries are the continual mixing
of the seed of the righteous with the seed of the serpent.
It is the continual mixing of the flesh and the Spirit.
It is the continual loving of the things of this world
and the mixing of them in the church by Christianizing them.
The harlotries and adulteries of our fathers are called
the traditions and doctrines of men.
Bedecked in the long flowing robes of pomp and ceremony,
the children worship their father’s long venerated traditions,
and give homage and honor to their dead so that from the grave,
they continue to rule over the Lord’s heritage and they yet,
while being dead, are able to put spot, blemish, and their
mark upon their children and thereby, generation upon generation
has, God’s seed been marred and the bride polluted.
Genesis
26:3-5 I
will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father.
-- In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
-- Because
that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments,
my statutes, and my laws.
This
statement
is extremely telling.
As God, from His own mouth declares, He has not blessed
Isaac materially or made his flocks and lands fruitful because
of Isaac’s walk, or because Isaac’s heart has been found perfect
before the Lord. Instead,
God declares; “(I have done all these things)
Because
I made and oath that can not be broken with Abraham and because
Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments
my statues and my laws.”
These
are backwards looking statements, that are reminiscent of
the chastisement and correction that God spoke through the
prophets to the backslidden kings of Israel and Judah.
And to these kings, God continually stated that He
had not blessed their lands with fruitfulness for the walks
or the works of these perverse and corrupted kings, but
for Abraham, Isaac and Jacob’s sake. God repeatedly charged that none of
them followed the Lord as did David their father before them. So that when God is saying that Isaac
was not at all like Abraham his father – this is a very bad
thing. In this verse, we see the specific accusations
from the Lord regarding Isaac.
First that Isaac appears to have some problems
obeying the word that proceedeth from the mouth of the Father. God apparently had spoken certain things
to Isaac and Isaac did not pursue the Lord to their fulfillment
at great personal cost, as his father, Abraham did.
As Abraham was untested and unfruitful at the first,
and he had to be tested on all points, as later Christ was.
So, God tested Abraham on all points and he was deemed
righteous, but this is not so in the story of Isaac.
Scripture indicates that Isaac lived off his father’s
riches that he lived a life of careless ease with his father’s
servants seeing to his every need and desire, and we see that
this careless ease grew and expanded even into Isaac’s walk
with God, for he slumbered also in the bliss of his father’s
legacy with God.
Secondly God says Abraham kept my charge – and
that charge was the covenant of the circumcision. – Which
we can say with some confidence that Isaac kept.
This charge also contained within it the serving of
the Lord alone and that would have been understood as a delighting
in the Lord and a cleaving unto Him. In the life of his father, this was accomplished
when God declared unto Abraham that He alone was his Ezer
and Boethos. Clearly
this event never occurred in the life of Isaac; who instead,
lived under the promises Abraham had received of God. – Which
since the 1970’s men have greatly lauded. But, we see by the Sprit, that to live
in the promises given to others is greatly inferior compared
to those who walk in the Spirit and obtain the tokens and
promises of God themselves. Thousands of thousands and ten thousands
of ten thousands in the corrupt and fallen church of this
hour clamor and cry out for Isaac’s walk of careless ease,
while the pews of the church of the righteous lay empty and
disrepair, for of a truth, none seek to suffer the loss of
the walk of Abraham or of Jacob.
This charge
that God gave Abraham had one other extremely important component,
and that is Command 00001, which Abraham
and Sarah religiously obeyed.
Even Abraham’s servants seemed to understand that this
commandment of God to be fruitful and multiply, contained
within it a jealously to watch over the seed of God, and a
seeing to it that the Lord was to have a righteous seed upon
the earth. In
Isaac, we do not see this diligence, or this watchfulness,
instead, we see a reckless negligence to the level that would
have had the promise given unto his father, Abraham, passed to the seed of the serpent in Esau, hastening
the destruction of seed of the righteous.
Regarding this
fruitfulness, Abraham, his father actually had eight
named sons from three wives and an
unspecified number of sons and daughters from his concubines.
I see now as I write, that six of Abraham’s eight sons
and all of these unspecified sons and daughters were being
born after Isaac was married. In Abraham’s old age he got a second wind
and began dripping with fruitfulness.
This sign and wonder occurred before Isaac’s sight
and yet, it provokes not the son.
Isaac’s dereliction
of duty concerning commandment 00001, left Rebekah pregnant
only once. And as we have already noted, scripture does not
say God closed Rebekah’s womb. Isaac’s impotence in the natural was the
outward manifestation of the inward impotence of his walk
with God. – We can see that Isaac feared the Lord rather than
loved the Lord. And, we can see that nowhere in scripture
does it say that Isaac became the friend of God, as Scripture
says of both his father, Abraham and his son, Jacob.
Genesis 26:24 And the LORD appeared unto
him (Isaac) the same night, and said,
I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with
thee, and will bless thee,
and multiply thy
seed for
my servant Abraham's sake.
Here again we
see God trying to provoke and prod Isaac into a greater fruitfulness. Clearly, the Lord in this visitation has
come to bring up his demand of Isaac’s obedience of command
00001. Note that the Lord does not speak here
of the blessing and fruitfulness He has bestowed upon Isaac’s
cattle, or the blessing and fruitfulness He has bestowed upon
Isaac’s crops, or the blessing and fruitfulness he has bestowed
upon Isaac’s menservants and maidservants. Instead, God speaks quite pointedly of
His expected tithe that Isaac has robbed him of. The Lord has come seeking of Isaac the
overflowing inheritance of seed that is due him. But unlike Sarah, or Rachel or Manoah’s
wife, or Hannah – Isaac was not humbled.
Isaac did not prostrate himself before God. There was nothing in Isaac, the son of
ease, that would repent or cry out that his wound might be
healed and so, Isaac remained in disobedience and impotent
unto the day of his death.
One of the most abused passages in the bible by the people
who preach tithing and the prosperity Gospel is in Malachi 3. But
the words of the prophet here have been closed and hid from
those that are wise in the world.
Malachi
3:7-10 Return
unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.
But ye said, Wherein shall we return? Will a man rob God?
Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed
thee? In tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse:
for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. Bring ye all
the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in
mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts,
if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you
out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive
it.
The
meaning of these words are clearer in the Greek Septuagint.
Malachi
3:7-10
Return unto me and I will return unto you. Saith the Lord
Almighty. But ye said wherein shall we return? Will a man
insult God? for ye insult me. But ye say wherein have we insulted
thee? In that the tithes and the first fruits are with (from)
you –
(It is not that they are not given or offered as we see in
the following verse)
and ye
do surely look off from me and insult me. The
year is completed and ye have brought all the produce into
the storehouses but
there shall be the plunder thereof in its house , return now
on this behalf saith the Lord Almighty see if I will not open
to you the torrents of heaven and pour out my blessing upon
you until you are sated.
I
see here by the Spirit, and the context of the entire chapter
will bear this out, that God is speaking here of the sin of
Isaac. Who as stated above, has his fields and
flocks overflowing, not for his own righteousness, but for
the sake of his father, Abraham.
We see of Isaac that he too looked
off from the Lord and insulted God by
not obeying commandment 00001 and paying the tithe of raising
up and watching over a righteous seed that he might present
it before the Lord without spot or wrinkle.
This is what the prophet laments.
This is what Christ and the Apostles preach and teach
throughout the Gospels and Epistles of commandment 00001,
rather than of the robbing of God and redemption by tithing
of corrupt mammon.
Genesis
26:34-35
And
Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter
of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the
Hittite: Which
were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
Isaac and Rebekah
were
grieved because they knew this was adultery – the seventh
commandment Thou
shalt not commit adultery -- was a commandment given in regards of the
mixing of the seed of the righteous and the seed of the serpent. Although the word adultery in English
in modern times has come to mean having sexual liaisons with
thy neighbor’s wife, or with some other woman – the word adultery
means to adulterate – to mix seed.
This is an accurate translation of both the Greek and
Hebrew. In the
Law, we see thou shalt not mix wool and other fibers in your
garments, thou shalt not mix seed in your fields, thou shalt
not cross breed cattle or any other animals and the Jews seed
was to be pure also. When God created the twelve tribes, if
they would have committed adultery and all intermarried, Israel
would have become only one tribe. So, in order there to be twelve tribes,
they could not commit adultery among themselves. And, in order for there to be a holy seed
unto the Lord, likewise the seed of the righteous could not
commit adultery with the seed of the serpent.
Incidentally
the tenth commandment is in regard to sleeping with thy neighbor’s
wife.
At the time
of Abraham, there was only one family on the earth that God
allowed the seed of the righteous to obtain a wife from.
So Abraham, watching over God’s seed in his son, did
not allow him any opportunity to consort with the daughters
of the Canaanites – he instead sent a servant. Isaac did not have that same watchfulness
and sent no one, so it should be of no surprise that Esau’s
hormones at age forty were burning within him. This neglect of Isaac’s did not just hurt
his household as we see in this passage, but it hurt the household
of Laban as well. (Which we shall discuss shortly)
In regard to
the righteous seed that one could marry in the days of Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob, this was a rather rare commodity – and the
rareness of this commodity is actually pointed out quite bluntly
in the life of the Judah who had three sons – one which married
a Canaanite woman named Tamar, and the thing displeased the
Lord. The Lord killed the man as he did the
husband of Ruth, and as He would have done in reverse regarding
Bathsheba’s Hittite husband.
Tamar found repentance, cleansing, and acceptance of
the Lord and according to the Law, it fell upon the next of
kin, Onan, the son of Judah, to raise up seed unto this woman
– so that she might pay her tithe unto the Lord. But Tamar was despised in the eyes of
Onan who did not discern the Lord’s body and saw not by the
spirit that she had been declared clean by the Lord.
In other words, Onan did not walk in the Spirit, but
by the letter of the law – specifically the 7th
commandment and he was condemned by the letter of the law
for not raising up seed unto his next of kin’s widow and thus
destroyed. So
we come once again to the shortage and thou shalt not commit
adultery. We see that Judah had a third son that
was yet a child, and Judah advised Tamar to wait for his third
son to grow up, that when he was of age, he could see to Tamar’s
needs – so as there was a shortage in that day in the house
of Judah of able bodied righteous unadulterated men and women
, so also was there a shortage in the days of Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob. The
Lord has shown me that there was this same shortage and dearth
in the early church.
The Lord has
shown me that as in the days of Abraham Isaac and Jacob, where
there was an extreme shortage of able bodied righteous unadulterated
men and women, so it was in the early church in the Epistles.
Imagine if you will, that the churches like with Abraham
Isaac and Jacob were centered around households.
Many of these fledgling assemblies only contained a
few households and when the children came of age, as young
men and women, they sought marriage but there was not the
availability of local spouses.
Instead of waiting and seeking God with patience that
he would send or guide them to a holy and chaste in the Lord
wife or husband, hence Paul and the apostles continually cry
out about the church being filled with fornication and adultery
and believers being unequally yoked.
In one case, a son even marries his widowed mother,
supposing because she is sold out to God she is a worthy candidate.
It is unreasonable to think, as is spoken in commentaries,
that the early church was plagued with adultery and fornication
between its members – this would speak to sexual orgies and
widespread husband and wife swapping taking place.
That never happened. What happened was there were a lot of
desperate men and women that saw no hope in site of finding
spiritual mates, and instead went to relatives and the local
watering hole and chose for themselves as Esau did with the
Canaanite women. In
doing so, they were committing adultery, that is mixing the
seed of the serpent back into the line of the church and filling
it with problems and sin and worldliness that should have
never been in their midst. And this set up a war between flesh and
spirit and this set up high divorce rates in the early church
so much so that Paul had to address who could divorce who
and who thereafter could remarry in the church and who would
have to live for the rest of their life with the bed that
they chose to climb into.
In the big picture,
this adultery and fornication of the early church cost them
big. This act threw all of these local churches
into disarray and their members under the condemnation of
the devil. Many
of them, as demonstrated in the book of I Corinthians, failing
to discern the Lord’s body were struck with weakness sickness
and death. This piece of revelation has given me
great enlightenment and has caused many passages to leap and
cry out in scripture.
Blessed be His name!
I see also by
the Spirit that this very thing of adultery and fornication
has come in full circle in our day.
For in the last 30 years, a plague of divorce has once
again overthrown the household of God, so that now the church
is once more filled with adultery fornication and even abortion. Because of this, the seed of the Lord
languishes and the true house of the Lord – the holy Jerusalem,
that is the seed of the righteous in the earth, perishes before
our eyes.
Esau had been
given the commandment of God not to marry the daughters of
the Canaanites. He had been given command of God not to
marry the children of Ishmael.
Esau was to have gone to the house of Laban, and his
wife would have been Leah. His disobedience affected not only the
house of Isaac and Esau, but it also adversely affected the
house of Laban and Jacob.
When Jacob arrived to marry Rachel – he also had to
marry Esau’s “widow,” for Esau in a figure had perished for
his sin from before God.
Jacob was called upon by the Lord to raise up righteous
seed unto her.
All of this
came to pass in large part because Isaac did not watch diligently
over his seed. Isaac sent no servant for Esau unto Laban’s
house to fetch a wife for his son.
So instead, Esau casts his eye out on the local waters. And he, the man of the flesh, could not
wait for a woman of God’s choosing, so instead, he reached
out with the arm of the flesh to that which was neigh unto
him for his personal self-gratification.
In so doing, Esau cursed his household and his seed
forever.
Genesis
27:1-2 And
it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were
dim, so that he could not see, (This
blindness was caused by the Lord) he called Esau his
eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him,
Behold, here am I. And he said,
Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:
In the next chapter
we read that over 40 years have passed and now Isaac is old,
completely blind and impotent.
Isaac is now just as old as Abraham was when Sarah
first conceived. We read how after age 100, that Abraham
was still vigorous and had many children by another wife and
by many of his concubines. But here we see Isaac is under
the judgment of God as is the church in this day.
1
Corinthians 11:29
For
he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh
damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. For
this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
This eating and drinking unworthily of
the Lord’s increase or blessing of the land and of the vine
– is the not discerning of the Lord’s body, which we shall
declare to be here, to be believers not discerning of Christ’s
holy seed, as in Onan and Tamar – and this not discerning
brings judgment. It
brought judgment in Isaac when he did not discern the Lord’s
holy seed and became jealous over it and its protector.
It brought judgment upon the whole of the church at
Corinth and it brought judgment upon the whole of early church
and Apostolic Fathers until the glory departed from the early
church altogether. This very same judgment has now fallen
upon the church to this hour whether it is Fundamentalist
Pentecostal or even Charismatic.
As the seven churches of Asia Minor perished, and the
Coptic Church perished, and the Eastern Orthodox Church was
consumed by Mohammad.
His seed now rises before your eyes, and shall make
war, and consume and stamp under foot and utterly destroy
all that is of the klesia in Europe, the Middle East, and
Asia. And this
shall all come to pass before this generation shall pass away. There is a cry in the spirit for the church
to repent and prepare itself for what is to come.
And these things
that I write have been hid and none have seen them, and yet
when the Spirit of Truth reveals it, and I include myself
in among the number of the unknowing, it is somehow all too
familiar to us. It
is as if we have known these things all along, and yet seeing,
we saw it not and hearing these things of the Lord, we heard
them not.
I sense the
fear of the Lord in there words and I sense that heavy judgment
and many stripes await those who have made themselves teachers
and preachers and have led God’s children into such gross
disobedience of commandment 00001. For they have destroyed the temple of
God in that they have destroyed His seed and destroyed His
inheritance.
For had the
church been obedient, the nations over the past 1800 years
would have indeed been made the Disciples of Christ – but
instead, the earth is filled with violence, vanity, and blood,
as nation after nation has been made the disciples of the
serpent and heed his commandments.
This
grief of mind unto Isaac of Eau’s adultery was not very deep
or lasting. For
in the very next verse Isaac is mentioned, we see that Isaac is old, stricken
with age. With full knowledge that Esau is no longer acceptable
unto the Lord, Isaac still does not agape Jacob, but instead,
Isaac continues to agape Esau despite his having despised
his birthright and despite his disobedience in enjoining himself
to Canaanite women and corrupting his seed with the seed of
the serpent forever.
We
need to see here that Isaac, in direct disobedience to the
Lord, calls Esau that he might bless him and the seed of the
serpent that is to come forth from him.
And
Isaac called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, -- make
me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that
I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.
As
we mentioned above, Isaac has been beguiled; he has been taken
by Esau’s flatteries and is now prepared to sell the blessing
of Abraham for a bowl of savory meat.
In so doing, he is planning on selling out the righteous
seed for all time – so for Abraham’s sake, the Lord must now
act, and the vessel, the only vessel his has – Rebekah; the
babe in Christ, Rebekah the newest member of the household
of faith. This is akin to the child, Samuel ministering
before the Lord, and the Lord calling unto the child, for
the fate of the nation rested upon him in that day.
So the fate of all of Israel rested upon Rebekah in
this day.
Rebekah having
received the commandment of the Lord agaped Jacob for all
of those 40 years and she became the guardian of God’s seed,
and his heritage.
And
Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard
thy father speak unto Esau thy brother -- Now
therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I
command thee.
Understand
here that clearly Rebekah is usurping the authority over Isaac
and in direct disobedience to his wishes and commandments. Rebekah does this knowing she is placing
herself in jeopardy to do so -- For Isaac is the anointed
of the Lord, and if any curse is to come from his lips, she
says she will take it in her own body to see to it that Jacob
receives the promise of the Lord unto Abraham from the hand
of the corrupt and stricken by God Isaac.
Genesis
27:11-14
And
Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother
is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:
My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him
as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me,
and not a blessing. And
his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only
obey my voice,
and go fetch me them. And he went, and fetched, and brought
them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such
as his father loved.
And as Naomi prophesied to Ruth the word
of the Lord, a word that was at variance with the letter of
the law as commanded by God concerning the next of kin, Ruth
walked in obedience; Ruth walked in the Spirit and was not
made subject to the letter of Law, but to the Spirit of the
Law. Ruth followed
the law of the Spirit.
Ruth obeyed the righteousness of the Law.
Ruth followed the Spirit of righteousness.
So here too,
Rebekah prophesies the word of the Lord unto Jacob, which
also is at variance with the letter of the law regarding inheritances
and the first borne. Jacob obeyed the word of the Lord from
the mouth of a woman preacher, and in so doing, Jacob walked
in the Spirit, Jacob walked in the righteousness of the Spirit,
and therefore was not made subject to the letter of the law.
In order to
conduct this, God caused Isaac to become blind and stricken.
By faith Rebekah became the nameless, selfless servant
of Abraham. Rebekah became the keeper of God’s seed
and watched in hope for this day for forty years, so that
Jacob, a man of no discernable talents, a man not Agaped of
his earthly father, who for 40 years was unrecognized for
his faithfulness in his father’s house, who for forty years
was not recognized for his seeking of God and spiritual service,
and for forty years his humility went completely unnoticed
by Isaac. – Time and again in scripture, the Lord chooses
the humble, the no talents, who for decades build in silence
other people houses.
So this sacred
duty now falls to Rebekah, not Isaac that she must act alone
as the lone defender of God’s seed and prepare Jacob for his
calling. It was
after all, Rebekah that had inquired of the Lord 40 years
earlier. It was
to Rebekah, 40 years earlier, that the promise was revealed,
that the elder would serve the younger, and it was Rebekah
that said regardless of whether I will be cursed of God, I
will see to it that what was spoken unto Abraham by the Lord
concerning his seed, will be fulfilled.
By faith Rebekah obtained for her son Jacob a better
inheritance.
1 Timothy 2:12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp
authority over the man, but to be in silence.
Note here that Paul says I not
The Lord or The Holy Ghost commanded me to teach this. This
I here of Paul is the same as the I of
Peter concerning the circumcision, which Paul rebuked Peter
from head to foot for partaking of.
This event is recorded two times in the New
Testament, in Acts, and later in the Paul’s Epistles.
Paul himself was so disturbed that Peter, one of the
chiefest Apostles, was found in sin, filled with prejudice,
and had shrank from the charge the Lord had given unto him
– for of all things, “the fear of the brethren” that Paul
unloaded all over him publicly without speaking to him in
private first, or coming to him with two or three witnesses.
I find no fault in Paul over this because he saw this
by revelation of the spirit and the words he spoke were the
mind of the Spirit. So Paul, in this matter, walked in the
Spirit and therefore was not subject to the letter of the
law, (Even the Letter of NT Law) because he obeyed the Spirit
of the law. – This has given the theologians of the flesh,
fits, because this defies the patterns that they ever seek
to emulate as “true spirituality.”
Obedience comes first from hearing the word that proceedeth
– which they hear not, for they know Him not.
And, faith cometh by obedience to that word that proceedeth.
So what use then is scripture? It is of use in everyway –it is our schoolmaster,
and our instructor of sin, righteousness, and the judgment. It shows us the way to God. It teaches what is Holy and Unholy, and
when we meditate therein day and night, and delight in it
– we do occupy until He comes as speaks unto us the word that
proceedeth. Even as he did unto Abraham, and we note
here that even as great as the walk and fellowship with God
Abraham had, the Lord did not visit him daily, but Abraham
walked with God daily. – The Lord departed for days and even
years to see what Abraham would say and do with the word He
had instructed him with.
So also we see in the lives of the Apostles, for we
can see clearly in the book of Acts that the Lord did not
visit Peter, James, or even John daily.
But when the Lord does come:
Luke 12:37 Blessed are those servants,
whom the Lord when he cometh shall find watching: (Delighting themselves in Him and obeying
His commandments) verily I say unto you, that he
shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and
will come forth and serve them.
Proverbs 8:30 Then
I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily
his delight, rejoicing always before him; (This is the watching that God seeks).
1 Timothy 2:12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp
authority over the man, but to be in silence.
However powerful Paul’s walk was
with the Lord, and regardless of all the revelation he had
received, “above and beyond even all the other Apostles combined,”
Paul was not infallible, just as Peter was not infallible.
And as Scripture in the Old Testament does not hide
the sins of the kings, prophets, and holy men of God – the
books in the New Testament not only reveal the Apostles’ strengths,
but the bible also reveals their weaknesses and fallibilities. Elsewhere we have discussed Paul in his
own words describing his being filled with pride and that
the Lord had to intervene by humbling him for the rest of
his days by a messenger from Satan which he calls “an infirmity
“ among other things. – And we can see in Scripture that this
very thing came upon Isaac.
This is the same action that befell the Church of Corinth
to those that did not discern the “Lord’s Body.”
So, we see here that Paul himself,
being filled with his own prejudice of women, shrunk away
from the charge given unto him by the Lord as did Peter.
But in that day, there was none that could stand before
Paul and rebuke him before all the brethren.
Rebuke him over what?
Over those twelve women cited in Scripture who were
led by the Spirit and not made subject to the letter of the
law (The chiefest among them
being Rebekah who by the spirit usurped her husband’s express
wishes and authority – and by her selfless act, all of Israel
and the church was blessed) For without her selfless
act – Paul would have never been named an Apostle and able
to write Timothy the words he wrote above.
From the word that proceedeth
out of the mouth of God unto Paul we read: “there is neither
male nor female in Christ Jesus.” This requires no further explanation.
In the Book of Acts, whom Paul commissioned
Luke to write, we read the following words: “The Evangelist Philip had
four daughters all who prophesied” and thus all four
women were permitted to speak and teach what they had seen
and heard of the Lord in their respective churches. So also
is it in this hour, for all women who walk in the Spirit in
any church. These
too should be allowed to prophesy, praise, sing, exhort, and
teach, whatsoever they have seen and heard of Him -- lest
the body be deprived of what they heard.
And not only that, but the Lord
also revealed unto Paul, by His Spirit, that: The
Lord had broken down the middle wall of partition in the church. Here, Paul was speaking of the wall in
the temple and synagogues that separated the court of the
gentiles from the court of Jews.
But Paul’s blindness and hardness of heart allowed,
after such partition walls had been done away with in Christ,
to be erected once more in the churches he presided. I want to be clear here, for in the temple
and the synagogues, there was not only one wall or partition,
there were in fact two.
The first was the court of the gentiles that separated
them from the congregation of Israel and the second wall of
partition separated the women’s court from the men’s court.
This wall of partition was not
in Christ’s ministry. Paul himself also commissioned Luke to
write a gospel that meticulously records all of these things. In the Gospel of Luke, we read time and
again that women were allowed to meet with Christ, touch Christ
and make their demands of Christ without their husbands or
father’s present. In other words, they sought him without
covering. Christ
himself marveled at the faith of several of these women and
found no fault in them. At the same time, Christ continually upbraided
the Apostles for their unbelief and Christ continually found
fault in the Apostles.
So we see that many of the women that came to Christ
obeyed a higher law and were justified therein.
Of the women that preached the Gospels, not the least
of which was the Samaritan woman, which not only brought salvation
to her husband and household, but to dozens of households
in the city of Samaria.
Paul’s highly prejudicial and
self-serving doctrine: “I
suffer not a woman to teach -- but to
be in silence,” was not so in the first three chapters
of the book of Acts.
For example, in the first church in Jerusalem, all
met and that includes Jew, Gentile, Male and Female without
partition on Solomon’s porch.
Additionally, when they came together on that porch,
they all spoke of the newness of life that was in them.
They all shared that which the Lord had revealed to
every member.
Ephesians 4:15-16 But
speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things,
which is the head, even Christ: From whom the whole body fitly
joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth,
according to the effectual working in the measure of every
part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself
in love.
Romans
12:3-4
For
as we have many members in one body, and all members have
not the same office: So we, being many, are one body in Christ,
and every one members one of another.
This membership,
one of another, finds its basis in Scripture of Adam and Eve,
for even thou the woman was taken from the man of whom Paul
declares the woman to be the Glory of Adam. Between bone marrow and blood, their bodies
are the same and one can not distinguished one from the other.
(I
am not speaking here from a scientific standpoint.) Bone is bone, human blood is human blood,
and human marrow is human marrow, whether the donor is male
or female in blood or marrow is not an issue.
Likewise of
Christ, He testified that He came forth from the bosom of
the Father. Christ is declared by Paul to be the Glory
of God, and Christ said, “If you have seen Me you have seen
the Father.” Christ
was the ‘weaker vessel” and spoke the words that proceedeth
from the mouth of the Father - preached and taught and healed.
Christ did not speak of Himself, but of the Father. Likewise, a man or woman in Christ is
not to speak of themselves, but of the word that proceedeth
from the mouth of the Father. There
is therefore no distinction between these vessels in Christ. And if the truth be known, it was women
that first proclaimed the resurrection, not the Apostles –
when the Apostles were without faith or hope.
And it was Christ Himself and the Father that sent
these women on more than one occasion to preach to Peter and
the other faithless Apostles.
As we noted earlier in the book of Acts in
the first three chapters there is no evidence of a wall of
partition that was erected on Solomon’s porch, nor in the
house meetings throughout Jerusalem, in which the church met.
We further see that not allowing
women to prophesy and proclaim what they saw and heard was
not true in the church that Philip was in, nor was it true
in the church that met in Alexandria, Egypt that Philo describes
in his writings.
For the most part, Protestant
Churches never recognized this wall of partition.
However, I have attended services in very frigid, legalistic
Calvinist churches, where the women and men are segregated
on opposite sides of the church.
But regardless, most churches having no physical separation
of men and women in their congregations or having erected
any physical partitions, there has been, and still is, a strong
spirit of malice and prejudice towards woman, especially woman
teachers and woman preachers.
When Paul spoke what the Lord revealed unto him by
the Spirit, “When ye come together everyone hath…,” Paul never
said in any of his Epistles to a church that by the command
of the Lord, this does not include gentiles or women.
I
Corinthians 14:34-35
Let
your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted
unto them to speak (The
word “Speak” in the Greek is Lalein: To converse, To babble);
but they are commanded
to be under obedience as
also saith the law.
And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands
at home: for it is a shame
(aichron)
for
women to speak (the word is not Logos, but
to converse Lalein)
in the church.
In the Greek Septuagint the word Aichros
is used 6 times in Genesis 41 concerning the seven bad years
Pharaoh saw. And the word Aichroos
is used one time
Proverbs 15:10 Correction is
grievous (a
shame) unto him that
forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.
This
verse appears to be more of a rebuke to Paul than to women.
So, this word
that Paul uses aichron is not in the Law of Moses even once.
However,
of the Babylonia Talmud, the Online Jewish Encyclopedia says
the following:
”In the area
of education, women were traditionally exempted (This
would be as is women were not allowed to read the bible or
bible study materials)– and often discouraged
– from any study beyond a understanding of the practical aspects
of Torah, and the rules necessary in running a Jewish household
– both of which they have an obligation to learn. Until the
early 20th century, women were often discouraged from learning
Talmud and other advanced Jewish texts. Women are exempt (by
exempt they mean disallowed) from having to
follow most of the set daily prayer services, and most other
positive time bound mitzvot”
“As such, the Halakha (traditional
law codes) (This
is not in the Torah) specify
that women are not eligible to be counted in
a minyan (Minyan
is defined as a minimum of ten men. The meaning of this in
the Talmud is that a woman can not be “counted among their
number” and therefore can not participate in prayer and scripture
reading, or Talud reading or the discussion of these.) afor purposes of
time-specific prayer, as a minyan is a quorum of those
who are obligated.”
“--
Orthodox synagogues do not allow a woman to become the president
of a congregation, or to give the customary d'var Torah
(brief discourse on the weekly Torah portion) during services.
Supporters of these positions believe
that they are essential to preserving modesty, are based in the Halakha
R.
(Rabbi)
Berman explains the Ra'avad's position as having the following
-- components:
1. A
man may not hear a woman's speaking voice. (The
Rabbi’s of the Talmud were so sexually repressed that they
are the ones that invented the clothing and coverings that
we later see in Roman Catholic Nun’s and the walking tents
(Burkas) Muslim women are bound to wear.)
2.
A man may not recite keri'as Shema (This
is the recital of certain response reading texts)
while hearing his wife's singing voice
or another woman's speaking voice
(Paul
in commanding that the women be silent and saying in the law
it is a shame for women to speak in the assembly is quoting
this.)
R.
(Rabbi)
Berman cited the extremely stringent view
of R.(Rabbi)
Yehudah he-Hassid in his Sefer Hassidim that not
only may a man not listen to a woman's voice, but a woman
may not listen to a man's voice.(Of
this Paul instructs for the women to ask their husband(s)
at home for the teaching other men are giving)
The implication that a woman may also be sexually aroused
by a man's voice, much like a man might be aroused by a woman's
voice, seems clear even if quite unique in the Halakhic
literature (In
other words these repressive and perverse traditions are only
contained the Halakha writings -- Hebrew: הלכה;
also transliterated as Halakhah, Halacha, and Halachah) are
the collective corpus of Jewish
religious
law, (In
the gospels we understand this as the laws of scribes, lawyers
and the pharisees) (which) include biblical law (the 613
mitzvot) and later talmudic and rabbinic law as well.)
These blind Pharisees Scribes
and Lawyers can not see that without the unclean woman Rebekah
not only speaking preaching and teaching, but overruling her
husband, and riding roughshod over all the so-called laws
of Rabbi’s in the Talmud and Halakha – they would net be meeting
and able to recite any of their response readings or perverse
laws. For it is only through the unclean woman
Rebekah that there are any Jews period and we might add that
it is only because of courageous acts of the unclean woman
Rebekah that Paul was able to preach and teach in the church.
“One who looks
at a small finger of a woman and intends to enjoy it is like
one who looks at private parts. Even to hear the
voice of [a woman is]
Ervah (Heb. nakedness, nudity, shame, pudenda) or to look
at her hair is forbidden.”
(Mishneh Torah Hilkhos Issurei Bt’ah 21:2) (Here Paul translates the Hebrew word
in the Talmud Ervah as the Greek word Aichros
as: A shame)
So,
using the test of the Boreans in the Book of Acts, and finding
that what Paul wrote in these verses are not written in the
Law of Moses, or the Prophets, but is written in of all the
corrupt sources, the Babylonian Talmud. We
judge these words of Paul contained in the 1 Corinthians 14:34-37
and also in I Timothy 2:12 to be not of God but belong to
the corrupt teachings of the Scribes, Pharisees and Lawyers
– who
Christ Himself continually derided as making the Law of Moses
of none effect.
Nehemiah 10:28 And
the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters,
the singers, the Nethinims, and
all they that had separated themselves
from the people of the lands unto
the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters,
every one having knowledge, and having understanding;
We observe here that in the days of Nehemiah the men stood beside
their women their sons and their daughters -- without partition,
and all receved wisdom and understanding from the same Spirit
-- and this is in a figure the "greater glory of latter house."
And the test of this wisdom and understanding by the Spirit
is these wives and daughters prlocaliming that which they
have seen and heard toe to toe with the men and their sons.
This is the prophecy of Joel, this is Pentecost, This is walking
in the Spirit.
Numbers 11:25-27 And the LORD came down
in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that
was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it
came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they
prophesied, and did not cease. But there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of
the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the
spirit rested upon them; and they were of them that were written,
but went not out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied
in the camp.
We see here, in a figure in Moses, that the
Lord was, by His Spirit, going to bring the wall of partition
down between the tabernacle, and the mixed multitude of the
encampment of the congregation. For when the outpouring of the Holy Ghost
occurred in their midst under the law, the men were separated
by a partition from the woman and the stranger – in that day
the Lord gave forth a sign when Eldad and Medad prophesied
without the camp among the women and strangers that those
that were to partake of the Spirit were not only men, and
elders and the chiefest among the congregation, but that the
Spirit was to be partaken of by the gentiles and women and
children, even the babes among them..
And
Joel prophesied that it God’s Spirit would fall upon ALL flesh.
That it would fall not only upon
His men but upon His handmaidens as well.
In Acts, chapter two, Peter then declared to be exactly
what was demonstrated in the midst of Jerusalem that day. So we need to understand that on that
day, men and women in Acts 2:4 stood side by side, shoulder
to shoulder on the streets of Jerusalem as the Spirit gave
them utterance, (This was God’s choosing, not men’s) speaking in
other tongues, preaching and proclaiming the wonders of God
to all those around them.
And for this Spirit falling upon
and enabling handmaidens to prophesy and preach and teach
what they have seen and heard, Peter declares:
Acts 2:39 For the promise (of this pouring out of God’s Spirit) is unto you,
and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as
many as the LORD our God shall call.
Therefore,
I declare unto you, that whosoever denies those who would
walk in the Spirit to minister or to speak in their midst,
whether they be male or female, or slave, or free, the same
is at enmity with God. And whoso shall deny Christ to speak through
another unto him whether they be male or female, slave or
free, is none of His.
Therefore, we conclude by the
Spirit, that those who would seek to undo or to inhibit in
any way what the Lord hath joined together through the destruction
of the wall of partition of the law, are of like spirit of
those who were spoken of as being members of the concision,
who set about to strip the liberty that we have received of
His Spirit and to again bring us under bondage of the flesh,
casting out from their midst all those, whether male, female,
slave, or free, who would seek to walk in the Spirit and obey
the word that proceedeth from the mouth of the father.
And so the
question comes; if the Spirit of Lord rested upon Rebekah
to the saving of her household, should she then have held
her peace in favor of her husband Isaac, and obeyed him, rather
than speak forth and perform the word of the Lord?
God forbid! For
such actions would not be submission in obedience as unto
the Lord as men would suppose, but according to the Law of
Spirit, such actions would be in direct disobedience to the
Lord and Master of all things.
1 Corinthians 7:15-16 But if the unbelieving
depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under
bondage (of the Law) in such cases: but God hath called
us to peace. For what knowest
thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband?
or how knowest thou, O
man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?
This not knowing,
is one who does not yet know the voice of the Lord. This not
knowing, is the carnal mind and flesh in us that would spy
out the land all around us and seek greener pastures elsewhere
for our own pleasure and personal gratification because we
deserve better, we are not happy here, and our desire to be
served and pleasured is not being met.
But oh sinner, these are not the questions for one
to ponder. Have you met the Lord in the pit in which
you were dug? Have
you seen His glory and heard His voice as Joseph did? Have you indeed been defrauded and lost
all as Christ allowed to be done unto Him?
For the issue is not your husband or wife; it is you
and your corrupt walk filled with your own will, your own
wants, and your own desires, and until you are changed, until
conversion and light comes upon your soul, you shall carry
the darkness within you no matter what field you go to.. But,
if you will seek the Lord with all your heart, and serve your
husband or wife whom you can see, as you would Him who you
cannot see, then my blessings shall fall upon thee and thy
household and upon all thy seed.
When Christ said, “No man can
serve two masters,” this especially comes into play in the
households of those who are unequally yoked (90% of all believers)
where one serves Christ and the other serves the god of this
world. The household
can not serve both and thus builds enmity between the man
and the woman – it is the wineskin that bursts and all the
seed therein is spilled out on the ground and all are marred.
Rebekah was
not of this mind. Instead, she, like Philip and Stephen, (who waited tables in the
church of Jerusalem in the book of Acts) was filled with the Holy Ghost. Though she was a woman of prayer, she
was a woman of great humility.
Nowhere in scripture does she bring a single charge
to her husband, even though he is in obvious deep trouble
with God. Nowhere does she deface him despite his
grave disobedience and omissions.
Instead, she serves and Agapes him whom she has seen
as unto Him who she has not seen.
1 John 4:20 If
a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar:
for he that loveth not his brother
whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
I
have seen all too many wives over the years that believe they
have this incredibly deep relationship with God and in every
way possible they let everyone know that their husband is
not so, and frequently this is done in front of him. In church, these same women sit cold and
indifferent next to their husbands.
I have observed them rebuff their husbands for even
the smallest bit of public affection as being unchaste and
unholy. Yet, when they give testimony, pray, or
share the least little bit, they are all aglow and gushing
with emotion of their walk with God and what He is saying
and doing.
I
John 4:20 If a wife says, I Love God and despises her husband she
is a liar; for she that agapes not her husband whom she hath
seen, how can she claim she agapes God whom she hath not seen?
Salvation
comes to households, not to churches.
A church is merely a meeting of saved households. And if the truth be known, the center
of the household is the husband and the wife and the marriage
bed.
The
cancer that the enemy has set between husbands and wives to
the destruction of households has now come to roost in the
local church. Assemblies
today are filled with the wreckage of shattered households.
These churches are filled with the divorced, filled
with believers living in adultery, filled with couples not
speaking to each other, filled with people who use going to
church as a weapon to their husband or mate, and others who
are on the verge of divorce and separation.
What this is really about, is the devil trying to induce
the whole of the church to abort itself in abject defiance
of commandment 00001.
And of this we have many things to say but we shall
save much of this for another article so as not to weary our
hearers.
Even though
Isaac was obviously in deep trouble with God, and despite
his grave disobedience and troubling omissions, Rebekah in
scripture, brings no railing accusation against Isaac.
She does not slap Isaac around with her prayers, her
relationship with God and her exploits in God. She does not withhold herself as a carrot
and stick to gain control over him and “bring him around,”
it is more in the order of her humility, her diligence, and
her unconditional, overflowing love.
Romans 12:20 Therefore
if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink:
for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
Romans
12:20
Therefore wives if thine difficult and disobedient husband
hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink for in so doing
thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.
This hunger
and thirst encompasses a lot more than giving him a cup of
cold water and a dry piece of toast.
This is the wife making herself as Christ did, a servant
of no reputation. This is the ek-klesia serving the Lord
with all their heart, all their soul, and all their strength. This is the wife becoming the weakened
and compromised husband’s Ezer and Boethos to the saving of
the household. And the core of this household is in the
marriage bed, for as we commune with the Lord, so is the husband
and wife to commune together and when it is working with God,
you sense his presence and anointing and when it is working
between a husband and wife you should sense and feel rippling
coals of fire.
Hebrews
11:20
By
faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.
This should read: By faith Rebekah usurped
Isaac’s express wishes and caused Isaac to bless Jacob above
Esau and thereby placing the blessing of Abraham upon all
of Israel’s seed to this day.
John 21:18 Verily, verily,
I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdest thyself,
and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be
old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall
gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
Jesus speaking to Peter says: “Simon-Peter, while you
are young you gird yourself as you will. You are able to prepare
yourself for ministry, and go in and out as you will – but
the hour will come when you are old, when you no longer will
be able to gird yourself and you will come to depend on others
to gird you, and that day, you will no longer be your own,
but will be carried in and out by others where they will.”
Genesis
27:13
And his mother said unto him: Upon me be thy curse, my son:
only obey my voice,
and go fetch me them. And he went, and fetched, and brought
them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such
as his father loved.
We find this same girding here with Jacob.
– Scripture says that Jacob was a plain man – a man of no
special talents – And Rebekah is here to see that this man
of no talent receives the promise of the Lord.
This is a demonstration of the ministry of helps.
The ministry of helps is not the one who tows around
a mop bucket or cleans the church between meetings as men
have said. It
is a ministry given by the Spirit – and therefore one must
be endowed by the Spirit to do such and its service cannot
be performed or even duplicated by the flesh.
Christ did not die on the cross and send the Holy Ghost
so that some building might be cleaned 2-3 times a week or
the water in the toilet might be blue or green.
Here we clearly
see that Rebekah is the one who girds him, when Jacob lay
helplessly before the Lord. She first watched for this day occupying
her time with Agape love towards her husband and to Jacob. When the hour comes, Rebekah gives Jacob
the word of the Lord and he obeys as unto the Lord even as
he saw his mother do since he rested upon her knee.
It is Rebekah then that prepares the goat, skinning
it and butchering it, for Jacob, the man of no discernable
talents, cannot gird himself in this. It is Rebekah that cooks the goat into
a savory meal, for Jacob, the man of no discernable talents,
cannot gird himself in this either.
When Jacob is
afraid, Rebekah also rehearses Jacob in what he is to say
and do, for Jacob, the man of no discernable talents, cannot
gird himself in this either.
When Jacob fears
a curse upon him if he fails, it is Rebekah that girds him
in shielding him with her own body to protect him.
When Jacob says he is smooth skinned and Esau is hairy,
it is Rebekah that not only hears from the Lord the answer
to gird Jacob in goatskin, and when Jacob can not even do
this himself, she does not rebuke him or demand he pick himself
up by his own boot straps, Rebekah, without word, then girds
Jacob with the goatskin. And, when Jacob is afraid with the meal
in hand, it is Rebekah that nudges him into the tent.
I want you to
see how much Rebekah became Jacob’s Ezer and Boethos.
I want you to see how much her actions mirror the way
Christ and the Holy Ghost speak and minister unto us.
Nowhere in this does she speak for and of herself. She truly becomes the selfless, nameless
servant even as Sarah’s handmaidens had taught and demonstrated
before Rebekah when she was first brought to Sarah’s tent.
The
name Rebekah is a compound Hebrew word “Rib” and
“Qa”
In
Strong’s Concordance we are told Rebe-kah means; “choice
calf”
(which should be understood
as fruitful
calf)
To
go along with this notion of choice being fruitful we see
that 7235
Raba means: “to be abundantly fruitful” and in 7250
we see Raba means’ ‘to sexually lie down with” However the second part of her name
“Qa” is 6895
Qabab which means: “To curse, or To be cursed.”
So
Rebekah’s name in the Hebrew really means; “She
that will bring forth the fruit (or seed)
of the curse.” We see now that Rebekah’s name foretells
of her giving birth to the two seed lines, in one of whom
all the earth shall be blessed and in the other that all the
earth shall be cursed. For in her womb, as two brothers, are
Christ and the Antichrist, the seed of the righteous and the
seed of the serpent.
One
may ask how are both lines the seed of the curse. It is through Eve’s sin and the sealing
of it by Adam that all of the creation was made subject to
the curse.
Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one
man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death
passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
And
after the fall, God prophesied to Adam and Eve of this coming
event in Rebekah and thereby, all their seed was to look to
this day - from this would spring forth redemption.
Genesis 3:15 And
I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between
thy seed and her seed. (and)
it (the seed of the serpent) shall bruise thy head,
and thou (the seed of the righteous) shalt bruise his heel.
All
of this has been a great mystery and has been hid from the
church and all its theologians for over 1800 years.
But thank God that He is opening these things to us
once again – that we might see once again the hope of His
calling that is unto us.
The
name Jacob is also a compound word in the Hebrew 3290 “Ya” and “Qob’ Which Strong’s say means: One
who follows, One who replaces, or
One who follows after the heel. This is a very corrupt translation because
neither of the two Hebrew words making up Jacobs name have
the word follow, replace or the word heel in it.
– This is an interpretation not a translation that
is based on the text and not the Hebrew itself.
Further when I was in Bible School, we were taught
that Jacob’s name meant
trickster, supplanter, or deceiver.
I
now am able to judge by what God has revealed by His Spirit
that this is false, it is also in interpretation which is
passed upon Esau’s or the Fierce King’s or Mohammad’s or the
Antichrist’s or Satan’s POV.
Genesis 27:36 And
he (Esau) said, Is not he rightly
named Jacob? For he hath supplanted me.
And
since this blind and corrupt interpretation rang forth, it
has been taught in all quarters, like so many of the other
teachings and doctrines of men that have beset the church,
which came not from the word that proceedeth from the Father,
nor from words that the Holy Ghost teacheth, but it proceedeth
from the prince of darkness.
For this interpretation not only maligns the name of
Jacob and distorts his testimony. (I
have heard many over the years question how God could love
such a crooked conniving liar like Jacob?
And only the notion of Calvinism could be cited as
the answer. ) But this doctrine has done more than malign
Jacob – this false interpretation of Jacob’s character has
been imposed upon the whole of Judaism. (How can the Jews be God’s
chosen people. . .) Further, this false interpretation distorts
the whole of scripture -- and brings accusation against God
for loving one who purportedly walked in the spirit of the
father of lies. And by guile and deceit, he took the birthright
and by guile and deceit and deception he took the blessing
of Abraham. And
by deceit deception and using witchcraft he spoiled Laban’s
household also. It is important to note that this blasphemy
is not only spoken of and taught in the church, but this unrighteousness
and sin is spoken of in agnostic and atheist and Islamic websites
as well.
Now
we will see for ourselves if these things be so or not.
The name Jacob
is also a compound word in the Hebrew 3290 “Ya” and “Qob’.
The
first word in the Hebrew is 3257
“Ya” which
means Shovel
(for altar fires). This is extremely significant. And the second word is
6895 “qabab’
which means: To
curse or to be cursed
As I mentioned elsewhere, the revelation
that the Lord speaks to me is progressive, and He speaks as
pleases Him, line upon line and here a little and there a
little, so it is best to read the oldest articles first and
the newest last.
Here
now is an excerpt from “Whom Do Men Say Adam is?”
Genesis
2:21-22 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep (Heb.
Nabu Greek Ek-Stasis)
to fall upon Adam, and he slept: (Heb Yasen)
and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead
thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man,
made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
The
Nabu of God is the spirit of prophecy. Ek-Stasis is high prophecy
where one is said to be beside themselves.
The
following is from my Hebrew Interlinear:
But for Adam was not found a helper suited to him. And Jehovah
God made to fall on Adam the Nabu
Spirit of God. And he slept (Yasen became still or inactive)
and He (God)
took
from the side of the Adam and closed up the flesh underneath
and the Jehovah God formed from that which he had taken from
the Adam and brought her unto the Adam. And said the Adam
this is now at last bone from my bones and flesh of my flesh
and bone of my bone for this shall now be called
woman.
The word for woman in the Hebrew is “Issa.”
The root word is Es
“Flame” or
“Fire”
Issa
in Hebrew is actually “Altar
of Fire.”
The
Nabu Spirit of God fell on Adam, and Jehovah God began to
speak through Adam’s own lips as God later did with Moses,
Samuel, David, and the prophets. And by this utterance of tongues of men
and of angels, Eve grew out from Adam’s side. And the Lord Jehovah separated Eve from
Adam and formed her into the image and likeness of Adam, and
when God was finished He showed her to Adam.
And as Adam did with all the other animals before so
did he with her. But scripture notes here that something
different happened this time.
And Adam seeing what Jehovah had created for him Adam prophesied
with the Nabu Spirit of God yet upon him.
And Adam said: Now
this is at last bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh for
this shall now be called woman. Adam did not call her by the Spirit of
God “female man” or “wife of man” as men have taught. – Adam
prophetically called her Issa
in
the Hebrew,
“Altar
of Fire.”
We now look
once more at Jacob’s name in the Hebrew
The name Jacob in the Hebrew is 3290 “Ya” and “Qob’.
The
first word in the Hebrew is 3257
“Ya” which
means Shovel
(for altar fires). And
the second part of Jacob’s name in Hebrew is: 6895
“Qob”
or “Qabab” which mean: To
curse or to be cursed. What Jacob’s name in the Hebrew means is:
He
who shall remove the curse. And that curse is the curse that fell upon
the whole of mankind after the fall.
Genesis
3:16-19 Unto
the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and
thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children;
and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule
over thee. And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened
unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of
which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it:
cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat
of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall
it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the
field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till
thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken:
for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
What
you are reading here is a curse that limits fruitfulness –
both to the woman and to the man.
In Jacob, this fruitfulness is restored unto Israel
and all his seed and through Christ; this fruitfulness was
given also unto the church. This is an extremely important step in
God’s plan of salvation and the redemption of men. But with the doctrines and traditions
of men this has been utterly shrouded and instead, Jacob,
and all of Israel, and the word of God and even God himself,
have all been maligned and called into question by what takes
place here. And
this shows how angry the devil was and still is over this
intervention of God, besides the virgin birth and speaking
in tongues; this is the single passage of Scripture that is
attacked the most. And as we have already noted this unrelenting
withering attack is not just from perverted “Christians,”
but from Atheists, Agnostics, Humanists, and most notably,
Islam. To this day, the whole of the seed of
the seed of the serpent is in an uproar over this passage
of scripture, as is their father, the devil.
Genesis
27:15-17 And
Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which
were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger
son: And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his
hands, and upon the smooth of his neck: And she gave the savoury
meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand
of her son Jacob.
We
need to note here that as John the Baptist had the Spirit
of the Lord upon him from his mother’s womb, so the Spirit
of the Lord was upon Jacob from his mother’s womb.
And as the spirit of the serpent is declared to be
upon the Antichrist in the Book of Revelation, so was the
spirit upon Esau from his mother’s womb. So in the womb of Rebekah, these two seeds
were at enmity and perpetual war.
When Esau came out first and stepped upon Jacob’s head
and bruised it, so by the Spirit of God, Jacob was strengthened
and reached out with power while yet in the womb and bruised
Esau’s heal.
When
Esau came in and asked for Jacob’s pottage, it was not as
men have corruptly said that Jacob tricked or deceived Esau.
It is by the Spirit of the Lord that Jacob spoke and
made his request known, and because it was a righteous request,
Esau could not refuse the word of the Lord that proceeded
out of the mouth of Jacob.
Here again is the Lord speaking to this
supplanting in an older article. Whom Do Men Say Adam Is And
I marvel now at these words
As
bad as things were the day that Adam and Eve fell from grace,
with the man Adam and the Woman upon on the ropes, the devil having successfully
supplanted the man not once but twice taking his birthright,
and then taking away from him dominion of all of creation the devil was not able at that time to
fully implement his plan for the man and the woman yet lived,
and he knew all too well that it was through their seed that
he was to be undone.
Rest
assured that God was not stunned that Adam had fallen and
He did not wring His hands knowing not what to do.
Before
Adam dropped the pit from the fruit, God said: “I so love
this man Adam, I shall redeem him.”
And God set in motion the plan of redemption.
And here
again in a later Moses
Speaking on the Tribulation and End Times, the Lord further speaks on this supplanting
and links the event to Esau
Luke
4:5-6
And
the devil, taking Christ up into an high mountain, shewed
unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
And the devil said unto Christ, All this power will I give
thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me;
and to whomsoever I will I give it.
This was the
birthright of Adam that traded in order to temporarily receive
temporary sustenance for his flesh -- that is to say Eve.
And
like unto Esau, the man Adam though he cried with great tears
of repentance, and howled with great anguish such as has never
been heard in the earth before or since – there was no place
of repentance found for him. For
that day, Adam saw he had been supplanted not once, but twice.
(As also Esau was)
The man Adam
not only had lost his birthright, but the man that had created from the red earth no
longer could receive of that greater life or greater witness
of the father, and thus was banished from the Garden.
When I wrote
these words I saw by the Spirit both times, Jacob despoiling
Esau. But I had no understanding of what I saw,
other than that Adam had been despoiled twice. I drew no significance to it other than
Adam had been despoiled twice.
But for reasons unknown to me, the Lord has once again
visited me with His grace as it has pleased him, to make known
to my unfruitful understanding that in Jacob, Esau was despoiled
twice and what had been taken by the serpent from Adam was
taken back from the seed of the serpent by Christ in Jacob. This was a foreshadowing in Israel of
what Christ was to accomplish on the Cross and by His Resurrection
for the whole of mankind when He
led captivity
(he
who captured all of humanity) captive.
Genesis
27:15-17 And
Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which
were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger
son: And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his
hands, and upon the smooth of his neck: And she gave the savoury
meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand
of her son Jacob.
Rebekah was
an intelligent woman, and coming into this, she knew full
well that dressing Jacob in Esau’s clothes would not fool
Isaac.
Her cooking
goat instead of venison along with some of her homemade bread
could NEVER pass for Esau’s cooking.
Any husband knows his wife’s cooking from someone else’s.
And, putting
wiry rough thick goatskin on Jacob’s arms and chest could
NEVER pass for hairy human arms.
The things that
the Lord had her to do, and had her son Jacob to obey her
in, could not fool a blind man.
Jacob
would have been quite a site wearing the garments of one who
stood head and shoulders above him, goatskin tied to his arms
and chest and carrying in a completed different meal than
was requested.
Jacob
was not a child, but a 40 year old man of a humble spirit,
and did not want to do this at all.
He was afraid and probably looked on with horror as
to what the Lord, through his mother, laid out what he was
to say and do and dress up like. – This was not done to fool
Isaac, for the Lord needed none of this to do so.
This was the Lord testing Jacob’s faith – in his obedience,
to see if Jacob would obey His voice regardless of how humiliating
or crazy it may have seemed.
We
see this same thing done over and over in scripture: Israel
looking upon a brass serpent on a pole and being healed, Moses
striking a rock and water gushing out, Israel marching around
Jericho, a man who receives super human strength as long as
his hair is not cut, Gideon’s army of three hundred men that
lap water like dogs and are armed only with pitchers and lamps,
and in the New Testament, we read of the blind man who walks
all through Jerusalem with mud on his eyes.
All
of these were tests of the Lord to prove whether the hearer
of the word that proceedeth would take heed unto the Lord,
or go in their own way. In scripture we read of the deeds of those
that would be led by the Spirit and follow the lamb wherever
he leads.
We
live in a corrupt and sinful generation, where the preachers,
teachers, and evangelists all pour over these scriptures seeking
patterns wherewith they can bind God and make Him their servant
to heal and deliver and do miracles, signs and wonders at
their beck and call.
The Lord compasses sea and land in this hour to find
one that would seek Him as Abraham did, as Sarah did, as Rebekah
did, as Jacob did, as Joseph did, as Moses did, as Joshua
did, as Samuel did, and as David did, but he cannot find one
with a heart after Him as was in these men and women.
So,
because of Jacob’s discerning the word that proceedeth out
of the mouth of the Father coming from the mouth of a woman
–even his mother, the Lord was pleased to give the promise
that was first spoken to Abraham, who we might add followed
the Lord diligently having himself never seen the promise,
into the hands of Jacob that was to see the promise’s first
leaf before he passed from the land of the living.
Jacob
walked in the Spirit and was not made subject to the letter
of the Law, thus pleasing the Lord and received, at the hand
of Isaac, a better promise. The promise that had been first taken
from Adam by the father of Esau, even the serpent.
Genesis 27:36 And Esau said,
Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these
two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he
hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved
a blessing for me?
Romans
8:1There
is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ
Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Romans 8:4 That the righteousness
of the law (Not the Letter
of the Law)
might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but
after the Spirit.
Romans 3:21But now the righteousness
of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the
law and the prophets;
Romans 3:28 Therefore we conclude
that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the
law.
Romans 4:13 For the promise, that
he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or
to his seed, through the law, but through the
righteousness of faith.
In Romans 8:4,
the righteousness of faith is call the righteousness of the
Law and it is declared to be done by walking in the spirit,
not in the flesh. The letter pertains to the flesh, but
the righteousness or spirit of the law supercedes the letter.
Romans 4:14 For if they which are
of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made
of none effect:
The letter of the Law is the faith of the Pharisee
and it voids out the righteousness or the spirit of the law. By the legalism of the letter of the law,
no man is saved or justified before God, as it is by obedience
to the spirit or the righteousness of the Law.
It is Christ’s obedience to the word that proceedeth
that saves and delivers.
This is why no matter how hard men try to derive patterns
in scripture to trap God and enslave Him to fulfill their
perverse and corrupt desires, the Lord cannot be taken by
the guile of men, even when they quote and warp their lusts
in scripture, for it is contrary to the spirit or the righteousness
of the law.
Romans 4:16 Therefore it is of faith
(The righteousness of the Law - it is of the spirit of the
law and is obtained only by obedience that can discern it’s
voice and call), that it might be by grace;
charis (the entering is the gift of God) to the end the promise (the
promise to Abraham) might be sure to all the
(righteous) seed;
In other words God opens and closes the gates of the sheepfold
by the righteousness and spirit of the Lord, and only those
that are given the gift to hear and understand can enter in
to partake of the promise. Therefore, the Lord is able to keep the
ek-lektos pure and unspotted.
Because salvation and the entering therein is run by
God alone, and you have to walk and have a history with God
and be tested and proven as Adam, Christ, and Abraham and
Jacob, before he shall allow you to enter therein.
Romans 6:14 For
sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under
the law, but under grace.
And sin did not find out Tamar, Rebekah and Jacob, Naomi
and Ruth, not David when
Ezekiel 36:27 And I will put
My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes,
and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
1 John 3:24And he that keepeth (Obeyeth) his commandments (the
word that proceedeth – the spirit of the law, the righteousness
of the law) dwelleth in him, and he in
him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit
(Indwelling
Spirit that liveth and speaketh in us) which he hath given us.
1 John 4:13 Hereby know we that
we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of
his Spirit.
So
the question comes then, if this these things be so, and Rebekah
and her obedience is so important, where is it in the New
Testament?
Titus 2:3-5 The aged women (Greek;
“The Woman elders”) likewise,
that they be in behaviour (Greek;
“Bright lights” Kat-astemate to arrange in order. “Aster:
means to shine brightly as a star, “Asteios” means to be fair
comely and beautiful) as becometh holiness, not false accusers,
not given to much wine,(that
they may be)
teachers of good things; (what is righteous) That they may teach the young women to be sober (To
be sober is not in the Greek),
to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet,
chaste, keepers at home, (Greek
Oiko-upous overseers of the house)
good, obedient (Upo-tasso
to submit one self, to render obedience, to place one under
subjection. The same word is used in Luke 2:51 And Christ
went down with them, (His parents) and came to Nazareth, and
was subject unto them. Ephesians 5:24 Therefore as the
church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their
own husbands in every thing.) to
their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed
(Greek: (is much milder) Spoken evil of).
A
better reading of Titus 2:3-5 would be: The
woman elders should be bright lights of holiness, not false
accusers, or given to much wine, but teachers of good things,
that they might teach (and instruct) the younger women, (as
Sarah, Rebekah and Naomi)
as teachers of righteousness, to Phileo their husbands, to
phileo the children, to be discrete, (In
their service unto the Lord) to
be chaste, to be guardians of their home (Like
Rebekah) Filled with
goodness, and placing themselves in subjection to their OWN
husbands (as Sarah did,
As Rebekah did, As Christ also placed himself in subjection
to his own parents and as also the Church is to be subject
to Christ alone her husband.)
Since we see demonstrably that the only
text Titus could be speaking from is in Genesis, concerning
where Rebekah by faith girded Jacob. We see clearly now that
Titus declares when Rebekah usurped Isaac’s authority and
Isaac’s express wishes, she was acting as the guardian of
her own household. Titus
declares here that Rebekah was discrete and that her actions
were not self-seeking, but chaste, and that she did so because
she loved her husband and loved God’s seed. In other words, Rebekah not only became
Jacobs Ezer and Boethos, but she became Isaac’s Ezer and Boethos
when he no longer could help and protect himself.
Now
I want to draw you to the Apostle’s next words:
Titus
2:6-9
Likewise exhort the young men to be discrete. In all things
shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing
uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, Sound speech, that cannot
be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be
ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you. Exhort servants
to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them
well in all things; not answering again;
This will come as a shock to some, but who is it that is exhorting
these young men here?
By context, it is still the elder women
who are the guardians of the husband’s household and acting
as Rebekah as she exhorted and commanded Jacob. And again in verse 9, who is it that is
exhorting these servants to be obedient to their masters? It is these elder women,
who are the guardians of their husband’s households that are
once again exhorting and teaching (male
and female) servants to be subject to her husband
as she also is. This also appears to be a reference to
Sarah’s nameless, selfless handmaidens whom she brought up
in the fear and admonition of the Lord and to love and serve
her husband. So after her death, these in Sarah’s stead
taught Rebekah the fear and admonition of the Lord, to love
and serve her husband.
I feel to stop here, because to
further speak would be to dilute the precious things that
the Lord has graciously illumined here.