Kingdom Come

This is the essential basis of becoming a son / permanent member of God’s family:

1. The Savior of mankind known as the Seed of The Woman is the same human destined to fulfill YHVH’s covenant of dominion over the earth.
2. All humans who carry the human genome are able to be identified with the Promised Seed / Deliverer Messiah / Christ.

For as in Adam all die,

• • even so in The Designated Seed Savior / Christ shall all be made alive…
•  And so it is written, The first man / Adam was made a living soul [by the Creator]
  • the last Adam was made a quickening spirit [like the Creator]

Note that the Savior of mankind is called the “last” rather than the “second” Adam. All Jesus’ fathers in the order of Melchizedek are also the original “Adam” / designated driver of the universe, such as Abraham the father of all who share his spiritual identity.

But this is not an automatic entitlement. Those who refuse to submit to YHVH as their Father / Authority are on their own.

1. Unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from
2. Isaac his son” (Genesis 25:5-6)

The “sons of the concubines” are very intentionally NOT called “sons of Abraham” because, while genetically linked to him, he did not accept them as members of his family. 

This is not as heartless as it might seem, nor can it be explained as simply avoiding conflict. Modern Western cultural practices are different from other cultures in time and place. Many matrilineal societies persist across the world to this day, meaning kinship is passed down through the maternal, not paternal line.

That doesn’t provide a biblical explanation of Abraham’s dismissal of the sons of his concubine, however.

Another explanation is that, at this early stage of history when everyone was only eleven generations descended from only one set of parents over four hundred years, everyone was still so genetically linked to each other that it was not by paternity but the culture they chose that they were identified, mandated by the ruling god(s).

This consideration is scientifically supported by a genetic study showing that after 700 years, anyone of English origin in the 20th century would be related to 80% of the English population of 5-6 million persons born in the 13th century.

Without using complex calculations (the bane of anyone forced to take a Statistics class in college) we can reasonably extrapolate that the human population produced in only four hundred years from a starting population of 3 sets of parents were 100% related to each other. The hybrid giants were of course, the exception, identified by name from the particular cluster of giant genes passed down by their forefathers.

 “And Isaac called Jacob…and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.” 

This is not the individual Canaan, whose lifespan had ended by now, this is the tribe / culture of Canaan. 

Like Lot, who had rejected Abraham’s God-given authority over him. Canaan’s family / tribe / culture did not believe on Abraham’s name / attribute of YHVH-granted Father of Many Nations but instead followed Canaan as authority / Father over his people.

In contrast to the “sons of the concubines”, Ishma-el / The LORD Hears is called “Abraham’s son”…whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s handmaid, bare unto Abraham“ (Genesis 25:12)

Ishmael is a biblically legal son of Abraham because he

• received him / accepted what he offered,
• and therefore was given [legal] power / rights, authority, jurisdiction, inheritance rights to become [after proven by his actions] one of the sons of Abraham’s God,
• even to them that believe on his name / attribute of YHVH:” (John 1:12)

Ishmael’s inheritance is not documented in this portion of scripture because it was previously detailed.

“And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee / in thy presence serving in thy kingdom as a prince before the King of the world!

And God said…I have heard / agreed to thee: Behold, I have blessed him...twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him [one of your many nations] a great nation [Islam / Submission to God.”] (Genesis 17:18-20)

And Ishmael’s land grant –  from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria (Genesis 25:16-17), the trade route between the two wealthiest nations, becoming the trade route between East and West of the entire world from that time until our own modern era, is part of Abraham’s total land grant.

“In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:” (Genesis 15:18) 

If you can’t believe that there can be righteous Muslims it may be because you attribute righteousness and wickedness to entire nations, when it is patently clear that there are wicked Jews like Netanyahu carrying out genocide and ethnic cleansing on Palestinians exactly as the Christian Nazis did to Jews in Europe, and Religious Right Christians supporting President Trumps’ unconstitutional and cruel treatment of non-white immigrants to the US, pervasive lying, covering up of his sex crimes, and warmongering.

Righteousness is a personal relationship with God proven through carrying out his covenantal way of living. It is not cultural dogma demonstrated one day a week in a social setting.

• “And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
  • Old enough that his orders could have been resisted by a rebellious teenager.
• And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
  • Old enough to understand what he was sacrificing, and big enough to refuse to give up the greatest concentration of sexual pleasure sensors if he chose to. Compare the Western outrage against female circumcision.
• In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.” (Genesis 17:24-26)
  • In a joining ceremony like wedding or adoption, Ishmael CHOSE to accept Abraham’s GOD’S offer to become his son / heir.
  • Muslims are still the largest single religious group to circumcise boys. In the Sunnah (the Prophet Muhammad‘s recorded words and actions), Muhammad stated that circumcision was a “law for [Islamic] men.”

God’s reason for having “sons” is not to lavish them with self-indulgence either now or in the hereafter, but to have a reciprocal relationship in which we share his workload of Creation and Salvation as well as the rewards of victory over adversity, achievable only by developing into his likeness through personal experiences.

Genesis 49 details the varieties of estates / nonmaterial benefits bequeathed by Jacob / Israel to his heirs, which we surely understand by the use of wills to this day.

What many readers may have missed in the list of twelve tribes’ varied inheritances was that, while Jacob’s biological son Dan is listed, he was not blessed but cursed in his inheritance. This may well be the origin of the superstition that the number 13 is cursed since the text clearly states that

• Jacob had twelve sons
• Dan is listed has being one of Jacob’s sons onto whom Jacob bequeathed an inheritance
• yet Jacob cut both of Joseph’s two sons Ephraim and Manassas into the 12-way split of land
• therefore Dan’s inheritance is not a blessing like the others. 

“Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward. I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.” (Genesis 49:16-17)

The clear description of Dan as a sneaky death-dealing saboteur of his brethren is confirmed by the distinction between As + noun means ‘in the role of’ to like + noun means ‘in the same way as’.

“The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” (John 10:10)

His name was not given by Jacob, but by his mother Rachel.

“And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. And Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God’s stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her…And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.

And Rachel said, God hath judged me / Elohim dananni, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.” (Genesis 30:1-6)

We can’t rely on Rachel’s judgment that it was Jacob’s God Elohim who vindicated her.

For one thing, this is not how he operates. Abram waited years for a son from his own body, in faith that YHVH’s way was the only way.

Rachel proved her paganism when, as she fled with Jacob back to the land of Canaan, she stole her father’s gods clearly believing they empowered her, as she did not relinquish them until forced to by her husband. Elohim was just one of many gods to be appealed to in order to get HER way.

Significantly, when Rachel applied the name Dan to her son it was KNOWN as the place-name, i.e. name of its founder, one of Canaan’s giant hybrid tribes.

“And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants…and pursued them unto Dan…And…unto Hobah…the left hand of Damascus.

These geographical details are put there for a reason.

On the left of Damascus is Mount Hermon, where the pre-flood fallen angels set up base camp for invading earth to breed demigod monsters with human women (Genesis 6:1-4)

The ancient city-state of Dan was therefore a Canaanite giant stronghold along with the other giant city-states referenced in Genesis 14 at this early stage of post-flood history.

Upon entering the land of Canaan to finally take possession of the promised inheritance Moses prophesied that

“Dan is a lion’s whelp: he shall [future tense] leap from Bashan.” (Deuteronomy 33:22)

Like Jacob’s prophecy, this too reflected Dan’s inherently evil nature.

“and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh / Joseph’s son; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.” (Deuteronomy 3:12)

From a biblical perspective Joseph only became the giant man of God that he was because Rachel died before he was raised under the influence of an ungodly mother. See accounts of the kings of Judah and their mothers for corroboration.

Dan, on the other hand, was rejected as God’s son. Initially given a land inheritance on the coast when the twelve tribes of Israel entered the promised land, in the last days his tribe is not found in Revelation 7 when “there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.” 

Instead, his twelfth portion was transferred to Simeon who was initially scattered without any recognition in Israel (Genesis 49:5-7), but who, we must infer, like Levi, converted their fighter nature to serve God.

Dan’s choice to reject The Hebrew God is detailed in the book of Judges, a quick synopsis here:

“the Amorites [giants] forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley [so impoverished quality of life akin to that of the Appalachian mountain people]… yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed [i.e. in comparison the Danites failure to win their battles was due to failure to trust in God.]

the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in…And the children of Dan sent of their family five men…to spy out the land, and to search it; [following Moses’ example of invasion] and they…came to Laish [outside the boundary inherited by the twelve tribes] and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, quiet and secure…

And there went from thence of the family of the Danites…six hundred men appointed with weapons of war…unto mount Ephraim, and came unto the house of Micah…the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish…said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image?…And these went into Micah’s house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image [golden calves].

And they said unto [the priest]…go with us, and be to us a father and a priest…And they…came unto Laish…and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire…set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh [son of Joseph, not a Levite], he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.” (Judges 18)

This exactly replicates the rejection of the Hebrew God who dictates – in every sense of the word – his way to a people who didn’t want to go that way.

“the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods…And he…made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt…And they…offered burnt offerings [roasted meat], and brought peace offerings [wine]; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play [have an orgy]” (Exodus 32:1-6)

And again, when the northern ten tribes of Israel seceded under Jeroboam, from the tribe of Ephraim:

“the king…made two calves of gold, and said unto them…thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan [which probably had voluntarily joined Israel for defensive purposes during an era of constant warfare, exactly as in our day].” (II Kings 12:26-29)

The captivity of the northern tribes of Israel and its bordering peoples occurred when “Tiglathpileser, king of Assyria, took the northern ten tribes captive to Assyria.” (II Kings 15:29).

After the northern ten tribes of Israel were absorbed into nations throughout the world, Dan may have returned to the area.

The Druze religion is fundamentally a mystery religion practiced by the priests and most Druze know only limited parts of their theology. While there rumors of some relationship with calves, these can’t be confirmed.

Consistent with “These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt…”, “the Druze religion is believed to have started in Egypt, over time incorporating elements of Ismaili Islam, Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, and other philosophies”. Its comprehensive teachings are known only to a privileged few members.

The Druze keep to themselves and even today do not allow conversion to Druze or marriage to non-Druze. A work colleague struggling between his desire to marry an American girl and his father’s threat to permanently disown him asked for my advice, since I was steeped in the culture from my 15 year marriage to a Lebanese immigrant. I could only tell him that being disowned was a better option than the alternative – constant attacks against the wife, but one way or another it was up to him to choose birth family or an American wife, he’d never have both.

The same goes for everyone’s spiritual family. Simply being born into a certain religion doesn’t confer membership in God’s family. “Ye must be born again” by choice, giving up one’s previous identity.