Grace Bible Church
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Pastor-Teacher
Robert R. McLaughlin
Sunday,
January 16, 2022
GEN 12:1 “Now the Lord said to Abram, Go forth from your country, And from your relatives And from your father’s house, To the land which I will show you; And I will make you a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great; And so you shall be a blessing; And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
Any nation that blesses and protects the Jews will be blessed by God, any nation that curses and attacks the Jews will be cursed by God.
What is God’s message in allowing it to happen?
To seek God for spiritual answers.
What really is happening? What are the spiritual answers?
GEN 12:3, why would God say to Abraham, the first Jew, “I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse.”
GEN 27:29 “Cursed be those who curse you, And blessed be those who bless you.”
God allows things to be shaken -- so that the things that are NOT shakable -- will remain, like His Word [or Bible Doctrine], integrity, character and love.
God’s grace must guard us; unless the Lord guards us, we don’t have a defense, we are totally out-gunned by the enemy.
What Satan means for evil, God can turn into good, GEN 50:20 “And as for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive.”
To these tragedies, we should respond as a city set upon a hill, Mat 5:14 “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.”
There will be people in our lives that are observing how we as believers are responding to this tragic event, ISA 58:12.
ISA 58:12 “And those from among you will rebuild the ancient ruins; You will raise up the age-old foundations; And you will be called the repairer of the breach, The restorer of the streets in which to dwell.”
Believers in the Lord Jesus Christ need to become a “repairer of the breach”, to cease pointing the finger and use these situations for the church to come together. not divide apart…
These attacks we are dealing with are because of the angelic conflict and because the god of this world, Satan, is the promoter of all anti-Semitism and desires to wipe out Israel.
Anti-Semitism is a person, a group, an organization, or a nation who is hostile to the Jews.
The first objective is historical in which Satan sought to keep our Lord from being born, when that failed he tried to kill His humanity before He reached the cross, GEN 4:1-8; 6:1-6; MAT 2:13-16, LUK 22:44.
When Adam and the woman sinned in the garden, the first prophecy of our Lord becoming a man was given to Satan, who was represented by the serpent, in GEN 3:14-15.
GEN 3:15 “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed [Satan’s seed is represented by the Adamic nature, JOH 8:44] and her seed; [a reference to the Lord at the point of His incarnation or the virgin birth] He [the seed of the woman] shall bruise you on the head [literally crush the head of Satan] And you [Satan] shall bruise him on the heel, [a reference to the cross].”
The word “enmity” is the Hebrew noun “ `eybah” which means a hatred that may be open or concealed; or a hostility which is hatred showing itself in attacks or aggression.
The devil commands millions of angels {REV 5:11 cf with REV 12:4} and certain ones were delegated to frustrate the possibility of The Lord Jesus Christ ever becoming true humanity to fulfill this prophecy.
The first satanic attack on Christ becoming true humanity was when Cain murdered Abel in GEN 4, which was a satanic attack on Adam’s seed.
GOD USED THE EXACT CURSE THAT HE GAVE TO THE WOMAN TO BRING FORTH THE SAVIOR.
Satan knew he had to cut off that line from Adam to Christ, GEN 4:8 “And Cain told Abel his brother. And it came about when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.”
In this attempt to destroy all true humanity, fallen angels invaded earth and copulated with females, producing half-angel -- half-human beings, documented in GEN 6:1-6.
GEN 6:1-2 “Now it came about, when men [humanity] began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of the gods [fallen angels] saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took or seized wives for themselves, whomever they chose.”
Gen 6:3 “Then the Lord [God the Father] said, “My Spirit [Holy Spirit] shall not strive or plead the cause of God in man’s soul forever, for in his going astray, he is flesh [mortal]. Therefore, his days will be one hundred and twenty years.”
This verse refers to the antediluvian ministry of the Holy Spirit. --- this would be a period of time before the flood.
GEN 6:4 “The Nephilim [the fallen ones or the fallen angels who followed Satan] were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of the gods [like Zeus, Neptune, Pluto] came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.”
The phrase “Nephilim” refers to the fallen ones, half-human half-demon creatures.
Because of the influence of these creatures, the genetic destruction of true humanity was highly contagious and spreading out throughout the entire world.
Many times some great disaster happens and individuals wonder why God allows such things when in reality it is the grace of God at work preserving the human race from self-destruction.
In GEN 6:5-13 is the divine evaluation of the Nephilim period.
He brought in the flood to destroy the earth and in His grace he used a very willing and obedient visible hero named Noah, to fulfill His promise.
After the destruction of the human race in the flood, Satan was not finished, he never will be finished because even after he is put in prison for 1,000 years, he was still not rehabilitated, REV 20:1-10.
All human beings are descended from Adam through Noah’s three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Shem is the father of the Akkadians, Chaldeans, Arabs, Lydians, Syrians, etc.
Abraham was in the line of Shem, and at age 99 he began the new racial species of the Jew.
The source of salvation must come from the true humanity of Jesus Christ.
1PE 2:24 “He carried our sins in His own body on the cross.”
Whenever God has to judge the world to protect the human race from self-destruction, He always protects the believer from this extreme catastrophe, which in this case was a universal flood that destroyed all nephilim and all animal life on the earth except what was in the ark.
The glitch in Satan’s plan was the divine preservation of eight people, Noah and his wife and their three sons and wives who were the last remains of uncorrupted humanity.
Every time Satan tried to attack the humanity of Christ from being born, God used the curse of Satan and turned into a blessing for the human race.
Through the curse of the fall of man, -- God will provide a savior.
Kill Abel, -- he’ll make God’s hall of fame in HEB 11:4 “though he is dead, he [Abel] still speaks.”
Infiltrate the human race with angelic seed, God will destroy the earth and preserve true humanity and remind them through the rainbow that God will never do it again.
Persecute God’s people and in EXO 1:12 “The more you afflict them, the more I will multiply and prosper them,”
Attack God’s people, God’s client nation, and God will turn the curse into a blessing.
Just like in the days of Noah, in the midst of a wild and evil environment, God always has His man, His woman, His people, those who hear the wake-up call and have the humility to go forward with the plan of God in spite of all the opposition and distraction.
MAT 1:21 will happen “She will give birth to a son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”
God created Adam, Adam—–Man, Seth—–Appointed, Enosh—–Human, Kenan—–Curse, Mahalalel—–The blessed God, Jared—–Shall come down, Enoch—–To consecrate Himself, Methuselah—–His death shall bring, Lamech—–Conquering, Noah—–Rest
MAN APPOINTED HUMAN CURSE THE BLESSED GOD SHALL COME DOWN TO CONSECRATE HIMSELF HIS DEATH SHALL BRING CONQUERING REST!