A STUDY IN GENESIS
We now come to what I will call a three-part miniseries within our study on Genesis. Today, we begin a micro study into chapter 14 as well as the implications and applications for today. You might wonder how this historical lesson might be applicable today, but I can assure you it is very much applicable.
Read verses Genesis 14:1-17 and see that we are provided an account that should be startling to the reader. Any astute Bible student will realize that this list has Nephalim there. They are back, the flood which put them in check is no longer. In the brief years, the enemy is about bringing their armies from the spiritual into the physical. The breeding process has restarted. For more information on this, I would encourage you to go to LA Marzulli’s research and see the incredible analysis of God’s Word revealing Satan’s gene manipulation is back.
However, there is a check this time. Instead of unrestricted access to the world and its population, God has apparently placed blockers, or restrictions on what they can and cannot do. One of those is Abram coming to the rescue of his brother-n-law and the kings who allied with him. This section of scripture has two other parts that we need to recognize, Moses is writing this account down for an audience. Examine Genesis 14:14 “Now when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his three hundred and eighteen trained [servants] who were born in his own house, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.” There is concrete evidence and accounts relayed to the reader for them to go and physically observe. They went as far as Dan’s territory. For the children of Israel this would have been a place they would have known like the back of their hand. For us today, we can look at a map of the land of the tribes and see that Dan’s territory was divided into two parts. One on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean in what we would now know as Jaffa. This area was given to Israel already by God through Abram and yet Abram is helping others who lived there. He is rescuing those who are on his land from an enemy that one day would be vanquished by Abram’s descendants. For those who believe this is not their land and ignore God’s promise, just examine what Abram was doing in a time that he did not need to. This has and will always be Israel’s right.
Hold until relieved, our Blessed Hope is coming,
JL