“Who
- raised up the righteous man / Abraham from the east…
- gave the nations before him,
- and made him rule over kings…
- calling the generations from the beginning?
I the LORD, the first, and with the last.” (Isaiah 41:1-4)
This defines Abraham as the LORD’s Melchizedek – in the generations / lineage / order that began with Adam.
“The isles / Gentile nations saw it, and feared…So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith…[to make idols].” (Isaiah 41:5-7)
Some background information really helps put Abraham as Melchizedek in his lifetime in context.
Prior to the flood, the false spirit gods physically manifested to humanity as what we call angels, and this materialization enabled them to impregnate human women to generate hybrid giants. Noah’s flood eliminated this capability, leaving only the immortal gods’ spirits loosed from their bodies free-floating on earth.
But these pure energy beings’ incessant drive for what human beings can provide is the ultimate narcissistic relationship.
So, in order to “form a more perfect union” for worshippers to focus their transfer of resources – physical, psychological and spiritual energies through food, finances, frenzied states of being – to the spirit beings (with the hope that the god will reciprocate with its resources), as with lost limbs entire artificial bodies were made for the evil spirits to inhabit.
“and all the sons of the earth in those days greatly transgressed against the LORD, and they rebelled against him and they served other gods, and made unto themselves, at that time, every man his god; gods of wood and stone…
And the king [Nimrod] and all his servants, and Terah with all his household were then the first of those that served gods of wood and stone.” (Jasher 9:4-7)
While Nimrod’s demographics are not given in the Bible, we can extrapolate Nimrod’s general lifespan from his relatives’, i.e. that he lived until about 2126, confirming Jasher’s report that Abram was born and raised (like Moses in Egypt) during Nimrod’s chaotic reign based in Babylon.
- “the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
- as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt / stayed there.
- the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.” (Genesis 11:1-11)
From Jasher 7:49-51
“Abraham’s father Terah the son of Nahor, prince of Nimrod’s host, was in those days very great in the sight of the king and his subjects, and the king and princes loved him, and they elevated him very high. Terah called the name of his son that was born to him Abr- / Father / Authority / Priest-king in those days of a (singular) am / nation because the king had raised him in those days, and dignified him above all his princes that were with him.
In other words, Abram had a massive inheritance which included being given the means to build his own city-state of which he would be priest-king under the Most High Priest-King, standard practice for expanding the kingdoms at the time.
Instead!
“By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went…For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.” (Hebrews 11:8-10)
This is because “Terah took Abram his son secretly, together with his mother and nurse, and he concealed them in a cave, and he brought them their provisions monthly. And the LORD was with Abram in the cave and he grew up, and Abram was in the cave ten years, and the king and his princes, soothsayers and sages, thought that the king had killed Abram. Abram knew the Lord from three years old, and…was in Noah’s house thirty-nine years, and Abram he went in the ways of the LORD until the day of his death” (Jasher 8:35-9:6)
“Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing…my covenant [of dominion over the whole earth] is with thee, and thou shalt be a father / Spiritual Authority of many nations. Neither shall thy name any more be called Abr-am / father of a single nation, but thy name shall be Abr-ah-am; for a father of many nations have I made thee.” (Genesis 12:1-2, 17:1-5)
When we keep the background history in focus, we realize that the old, pre-flood order of Melchizedek carried through the flood by Noah then passed down to Shem and then Eber was literally devastated when in the days of Peleg, Eber’s son, “was the earth divided” both physically and linguistically, making world-wide rule soooo much more difficult!
Abraham was the first post-flood Melchizedek over a new paradigm of one humanity split into multiple nations speaking a multiplicity of languages under Nimrod at the tower of Babel. What a confusion indeed! How much more difficult to preach the gospel to every creature under heaven!
“But / Except! thou, Isra-el / Prince / Minister of God…the seed / regeneration itself of Abraham / hint, hint “Father of MANY nations“
- my friend / united with me as closely as in “making” love.
- Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth and called thee from the chief men thereof [Nimrod himself]
- and said unto thee, Thou art MY servant;
- I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.
Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.” (Isaiah 41)
Jeshurun / Upright Ones are the international people of YHVH within the Hebrew Commonwealth.
“Moses commanded us a law,
- even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob
- and he was king in [international] Jeshurun / Upright Ones / Hebrews / followers of Eber the son / replica / heir of Shem
when
- the heads of the people / mixed multitude of nations the Hebrews
- AND the tribes of Israel
were gathered together.” (Deuteronomy 33:4-5)
The Hebrews pre-existed the establishment of the nation of Israel as a world-wide monotheistic religion worshipping the Creator and Sustainer of Life scattered throughout the world after the breakup into nations at Babel – and continued to exist as scattered worshippers of YHVH.
- “when he had reigned two years over Israel…Saul blew the trumpet [calling to war] throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear [respond to the call to war, as Israel’s allies]…
- “And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel…some of the Hebrews went over Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead.” (I Samuel 13)
- Hiram of Tyre during David’s and Solomon’s reigns
- the Queen of Sheba
- and others.
“Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him…that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel…I have surnamed thee,- given you my family name – Hebrew Son of God – though thou hast not known [been taught about] me by name.” (Isaiah 45:1-4)
Cyrus must have been practicing, or drawn to, the monotheistic Zoroastrianism, while tolerating the pagan religions of the many nations in his empire.
Simply being born into a Jewish family doesn’t guarantee eternal salvation, nor does Name It and Claim It work.
The man who led the revolt against Moses’s leadership of the [singular] nation of Israel is not named, undoubtedly because he worked undercover and no-one could testify who fomented the rebellion, but there is only one man who had enough entrenched political power within Israel at that time to lead a revolt against latecomer Moses’ leadership.
A man from the tribe of Ephraim.
Moses’ right-hand man, a man who like Moses, would have been learned in all the administrative wisdom of Egypt’s world-wide government, basically, the Vice President, who did indeed succeed Moses as ruler of Israel was “Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man [of the tribe of Ephraim]…and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.” ((Exodus 33:7-11, Deuteronomy 34:7-9)
Aristocratic families provide unmatched generational wealth and peerless educational, political, business connections to their children beyond the reach of any average individual in one lifetime. In addition to Joseph’s Egyptian holdings, Jacob had bequeathed to Joseph a double portion of inheritance by adopting his two sons Ephraim and Manasseh which translated into a double portion of influence and power within the nation of Israel.
“Jeroboam…an Ephrathite…was a mighty man of valour: and Solomon…made him ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph [tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh]…[eventually leading to civil war]…Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day…
And Jeroboam…[repeating his forefather’s method of seizing control] made two calves of gold, and said unto them...behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.. sacrificing unto the calves that he had made.” (I Kings 12)
“So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day. And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.” (II Kings 17:22-23)
And the worst of the bad kings of Judah rejected his own ancestral King David to identify with, by taking the name of a rebel Ephrathite, Jeroboam’s brother and joint-heir.
“Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel…and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols.” (II Kings 21)
- For I beheld, and there was…no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.
- Behold, they [my ministers] are all vanity;
- [BUT] Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him:
- HE shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles…for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles… ” (Isaiah 41)
“Thus saith the Lord that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen. For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring…Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.” (Isaiah 44:1-6)
Interestingly, Isaiah’s written pronunciation using “s” instead of “sh” matches Ephraim’s regional accent, the northern ten tribes to whom Isaiah is writing.
You don’t get more personal than that.
Secret code to Ephraim from God – “I hear you.”
