Kingdom Come

At the time of the Land Grant to unnamed seed in chapter 13, Abram had no seed.

His first seed is Ishmael, whose mother was Egyptian, i.e. from the line of Cush.

^“And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife…I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her…And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!” (Genesis 17)

Understand what Abraham is requesting when he uses the formulaic phrase “live before thee / be accepted permanently in thy presence as a ruler of your kingdom.”

Many of the old Babylonian letters…include a greetings formula in which one or two deities are invoked and the hope is expressed that they will give long life to the recipient.

Abraham is clearly following the same formula, also used towards kings in expressing good wishes for the extension of their life / genetics / ongoing rule over the kingdom through their heirs. The contrary condition helps define this blessing. 

“whosoever, whether man or women, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live:” (Esther 4:11)

“When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory…Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:” (Matthew 25:31,34)

Abram is asking that his descent / dynasty also be counted from Ishmael who would therefore also be an heir of the land grant made 15 years earlier.

And God grants Abram’s request.

Continue reading “126) Melchizedeks Share God’s Blessings: Isaac”

“Jerusalem…the city which I have chosen me to put my name there…for all the earth is mine.“ (Ezekiel 24:2, I Kings 11:36, Exodus 19:5)

The garden of Eden is not found on earth today, no doubt it was flooded under the Mediterranean Sea at the time of Noah’s flood.

However the entrance to the garden of Eden, being “eastward in Eden” (Genesis 2:8), must still be above water on “the mountain of the LORD” since the gateway to the garden is where the Adams would have continued making the blood sacrifice for sin as taught by YHVH.

This is where Abel’s blood sacrifice was accepted over Cain’s vegan offering, for obvious reasons. Cain did not engage in activities designed to achieve peace, undividedness-unity, alliance with God through respecting his ways. Not even – notably – with his brother. Cain was either competing with his brother to be the favorite, or competing to be an equal with God directly. In any case, unity / peace with God requires unity / peace with his family.

“Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.” (Genesis 4:3-5)

How did God show respect to one and not the other? Standard MO is fire from heaven,

“the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden…and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep / guard the way of the tree of life.” (Genesis 3:22-24)

Continue reading “118) Jerusalem At The Gateway To Eden Is YHVH’s Worship Center For His Commonwealth Of Nations”

Isaac chose his favorite son Esau to be his only begotten son / heir, logically because he was another fighter like Ishmael, but once again God backs a peaceable man to represent him.

“Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying…my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee. And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother…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.” (Genesis 27:1-13)

Archaeological evidence shows a plethora of ancient curses…such beliefs and practices have continued to the present day…sometimes called jinx, hex, or black magic…The aim is to see harm befall the recipient – bad luck may dog them, death may take them, or any number of dire (or annoying) fates may plague them. In antiquity a curse was a powerful phenomenon, often viewed as the summoned wrath of gods or the presence of evil forces.

Jacob wins the sibling tug of war for the appointment because he values it so much he risks the curses on his life – more than once – to grab hold of it.

“And his father Isaac said unto him…

• God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:
• Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee:
• be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother’s sons bow down to thee:
• cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee. (Genesis 27:11-29)

Continue reading “127) Melchizedeks Are Cursed And Broken: Jacob”

Troy having been destroyed beyond repair and the Greeks having been decimated, the survivors on both sides, led by their respective heroes Trojan Aeneas and Greek Odysseus, sail west over the same sea.

Accordingly the much later Roman account, the Aeneid, has both groups visited some of the same locations, experienced the same difficulties and encountered the same strange creatures such as the Cyclops. This is academically accounted for by Virgil’s plagiarism of Homer’s epics the Iliad and the Odyssey, but the sea between Troy and Greece isn’t so large so the shipping lanes so numerous as to assume out of hand that the two groups wouldn’t run into the same remarkable circumstances. 

Gathering scattered auspicious lines from Roman Virgil’s Aeneid:

The Trojan chief [Aeneas] appear’d in open sight,
August [godly] in visage, and serenely bright.
His mother goddess, with her hands divine
Had form’d his curling locks, and made his temples…
Like polish’d ivory…Or Parian marble, when enchas’d in gold [anticipating Caesar’s statues]…
goddess-born…the great Aeneas…from celestial seed your lineage‘

“O hospitable Jove / Jupiter / Zeus! we thus invoke,
With solemn rites, thy sacred name and pow’r…

To the Cumaean coast at length he came,

Where there is a resident prophetess of Apollo,

Continue reading “116) Biblical Perspective Of Virgil’s Aeneid”

Continue reading “111) The Gentiles”

The following has been condensed from the original, beginning with Jacob’s return from Harran to claim his inheritance of the Promised Land from his father Isaac.

Continue reading “128) The True God-Man Alliance Defeats Giants”

In the Dark Ages following the Flood, Jacob and his 12 sons was simply a small family, “all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten  (70).” (Genesis 46:5-7, 26-27)

“Now Israel loved [merged, identified with] Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his [maturity, wisdom] old age: and he made him a coat of many colours. And when his brethren saw that their father loved / felt one with him more than all his brethren [i.e. as the LORD God had when he made Jacob his heir over Esau] they hated / repudiated identity with him.” (Genesis 37)

Joseph’s famous special coat was undoubtedly the means by which Jacob / Israel publicly proclaimed his heir to the Melchizedekian priest-kingship. 

This is also consistent with the fact that, in keeping with

• Shem’s sons Arphaxad and Asshur,
• Abraham’s sons Ishmael and most of those from Keturah,
• and Isaac’s son Esau,

Jacob’s older sons don’t act any better than the heathen nations around them.

Archaeologists…discovered the remains of a 6,000-year-old massacre that…was likely carried out by “furious ritualised warriors”.

The Neolithic group appeared to have died violent deaths, with multiple injuries to their legs, hands and skulls. The way in which the bodies were piled on top of each other suggested they had been killed together…

Continue reading “129) Melchizedeks Are Made Men in Brutal Organizations: Joseph”

“Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father’s children shall bow down before thee. Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:” (Genesis 49:8-11)

We recognize Judah’s legacy in the name of the Jews. But what on earth did Judah do to inherit the right to rule? After all, this man’s reputation would have destroyed his chances if he was running for election in a democratic campaign against his brothers.

Even with the best of intentions he constantly messed up.

Even if we give him credit for acting in good faith – knowing the open hostility between his father Jacob and his Uncle Esau who had married into the Canaanites, his sturm und drang way of dealing with the affair between his sister Dinah and Shechem the Canaanite just created more problems. Most of all, it put such stress on his father’s favorite wife (not Judah’s mother) that she died giving birth to Jacob’s last son Benjamin.

Even if we give him credit for trying to save Joseph from being killed by the other nine brothers, his way of dealing with the situation was the direct cause of his father irretrievably losing his “only begotten son” into the diaspora of slavery,

Then doesn’t he marry himself and his sons to Canaanite women! From a psychological / literary perspective he appears to be rejecting his identity as a son of Jacob. East of Eden all over again. The book [by John Steinbeck] explores themes of depravity, beneficence, love, the struggle for acceptance and greatness, the capacity for self-destruction, and of guilt and freedom. It ties these themes together with references to and many parallels with the biblical Book of Genesis (especially Genesis Chapter 4, the story of Cain and Abel).

Judah was a miserable example of a Hebrew, far more Cain than Abel, undoubtedly a great example of the degeneration of the Hebrews “in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation” (Philippians 2:15)

The biblical account of God’s choice of Judah’s as heir to Isra-El / Prince of El over his 11 other brothers is reported in a lengthy, and dramatic, therefore obviously meaningful, account featuring Tamar, a despised woman. As happens all the time in our own culture, she was brutalized then passed and discarded as trash from man to man.

Continue reading “130) Melchizedeks Are Converted: Judah”

“And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit YOU / the fourth generation, and bring YOU out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying…YE shall carry up my bones from hence.” (Genesis 15:15,  50:24-26)

And young Moses, filled with vigor and zeal, was up for it.

“When Moses was grown…he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren. And…he slew the Egyptian. Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses.

Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian…Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock. And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them [one against many], and watered their flock…And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.” (Exodus 2)

De ja vu of Jacob watering Laban’s flock! Bear in mind that what is also repeated is that when Moses joined Reuel’s household, Reuel had complete authority over him, just as Laban had over Jacob.

Continue reading “131) Melchizedeks Overcome Curses – Jethro”

“And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives…When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live…And Pharaoh charged all his people [including his enslaved Hebrews], saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river.” (Exodus 1)

Infanticide has been the norm within many cultures throughout history.

What Pharaoh didn’t know was just how much faith-based fight some of these Hebes had in them.

“And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. And the woman conceived, and bare a son…And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes…put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.

“And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river [doubtless during a religious festival such as is common in India] ...she saw the ark among the flags…when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews’ children…and he became her son.

And she called his name Moses…Because I drew him out of the water.” (Exodus 2:10)

Let’s not be idiots and think this characterization memorializes a physical action. As a psychiatric provider my job is to identify the unseen psychological drives behind the seen actions. 

The daughter of Pharaoh is publicly broadcasting her defiance of Pharoah’s order to “cast into” by “Drawn Out!”

We’re not told if Pharaoh’s daughter was motivated by allegiance to the previous monotheism the current regime was overthrowing. It’s very likely that she was drawn to identify with the Hebrews because she, too, was abused by the royal family in some way. Not only is domestic violence a woman’s greatest risk for harm and death, she could have been barren from the consequences of all the diseases of **warning! ancient pornography!** hyper sexualized Egypt’s sexually transmitted diseases. Perhaps she was unmarriageable so childless in a society where “marriage was deeply involved in the exercise and manipulation of political power, in the creation and distribution of prestige.”

We can certainly draw the conclusion that after she acted independently of her society’s rules she was “despised and rejected of men”. (Isaiah 53:3)

Can we not recognize / know / honor this Egyptian woman for her contribution in Moses’ development into the greatest biblical leader the world has ever known, acknowledged even by humanists?

Whoa! Wait! What about Jesus Christ?

Straight up – without Moses Jesus Christ has no standing.

“The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me [Moses]” (Deuteronomy 18:15)

What is so Christ-like / prototypically Melchizedekian about Moses?

Continue reading “SECTION XXII: Melchizedeks Rescue From Sin And Death: Moses”