A Boomer friend of mine who enjoys collecting antique Bibles
admitted to me once that he’d never read the Bible even though he’d made a
dozen or so attempts, always starting in Genesis 1 but fizzling before he was
even half way through the first 50 chapters.
What a lot of people don’t realize is that while the first
11 chapters of Genesis cover approximately 2,000 years of human history, the
rest of the book doesn’t even cover 350-375 years!
As Jordan explains, “First, you have the beginning of the
human race with Adam. Then you have the beginning again with Noah after the
Flood. You say, ‘Well, why would He put 2,000 years in 11 chapters and chapters
12-50 cover less than 400 years?’
“The reason is the first 11 are foundational material. They’re
not there to describe all of the details; they’re there to show you those four
divine institutions God established for the perpetuation and the foundation of
the human race—volition, marriage, the family and nationalism.”
*****
“In Genesis 12, something far more significant took place on
the world scene then in 1776 with the signing of the Declaration of
Independence that laid our country’s groundwork.
“Those kinds of things come and go, and while this might
happen to America and that might happen, in Genesis 12, God gave birth to a
nation!
“Now, when a nation is born, it’s a wonderful thing but, brother, when God gives birth to a nation, that’s something SPECIAL because God didn’t do that but ONE time in all of human history!
“And it’s with this nation that He gave birth to through
Abraham that we arrive at Genesis’ ‘third beginning.’ ”
*****
With God’s re-populating of the earth after the Flood, the idea was that, in order for man to function properly, he would, on the basis of volition, bind himself to the authority of God’s Word and choose a mate based on the Word’s principles of marriage.
“When you break down the family unit—breaking down
volition, marriage and the family—you have the chaos you see today in the modern
cities like Chicago.
“Just
being married is a big thing nowadays; being willing to make the commitment to
be bound together and become one flesh, becoming this one new personality that
comes through marriage.
*****
“Nationalism and human government is designed to give those
other three institutions (volition, marriage, family) the protection necessary
for them to function without interference.
“In Genesis 12, the world came to the place where nationalism
was subverted by the satanic policy of internationalism at the Tower of Babel.
“Before the Flood, the earth was filled with violence, compelling
God to fully destroy the wickedness. After the Flood, the world was filled with
idolatry, prompting God to set aside a people for Himself.
“When the world deserved only His wrath for its rebellion,
God chose out one man by the name of Abraham to bring salvation and blessing to
all the nations. He separates Abraham out and, later on, builds a ‘middle wall
of partition’ between Abraham and the other nations so it’s obvious that there
can be no union; no compromise. They’re set apart and a big wall is built
between them.
*****
“God exhorts His nation in Isaiah 51: 1-4, ‘Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
[2] Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
[3] For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
[4] Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.’
“Abraham being told to ‘Get out of thy country!’ and ‘Separate
yourself from them!’ was God’s judgment upon the nations of the earth.
“Notice in Isaiah, though, God calls Abraham ‘the hole of
the pit.’ That’s not a real flattering title!
“Deuteronomy 26:5 says, ‘And thou shalt speak and say before
the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into
Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great,
mighty, and populous:’
“Abraham
was over in Mesopotamia, just a Syrian ready to perish; he’s a guy who’s ripe
to die and go to hell. The reason he was that way is in
Joshua 24:2: ‘And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of
Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even
Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other
gods.’
“They were idolaters! They bought into the scheme of Genesis
11! They had become a part of the satanic purpose to thwart what God was doing.
“In fact, they had even moved over there to the Chaldees.
They were in the land of Shinar as participants in that evil program.
“God says, ‘You were just a hole in the pit; you were lower
than a snake’s belly in a wagon rut,’ as we’d say Down South. ‘You weren’t some
exalted guy; you were just a reprobate ready to go to hell.’ ”
(New article tomorrow)
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