#Kenizzites

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God's Covenant with Abram (Romans 4:1-12; Galatians 3:1-9; Hebrews 11:8-19; James 2:14-26)

1 After these things the word of Jehovah came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.

2 And Abram said, O Lord Jehovah, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and he that shall be possessor of my house is Eliezer of Damascus? 3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. 4 And, behold, the word of Jehovah came unto him, saying, This man shall not be thine heir; But he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. 5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. 6 And he believed in Jehovah; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness. 7 And he said unto him, I am Jehovah that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.

God Confirms His Promise (Numbers 34:1-15; Romans 4:13-25)

8 And he said, O Lord Jehovah, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? 9 And he said unto him, Take me a heifer three years old, and a she-goat three years old, and a ram three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon. 10 And he took him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each half over against the other: but the birds divided he not. 11 And the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him. 13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; 14 and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. 15 But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. 16 And in the fourth generation they shall come hither again; for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.

17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces.

18 In that day Jehovah 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:

19 the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite, 20 and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim, 21 and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite. — Genesis 15 | American Standard Version (ASV) The American Standard Version Bible is in the public domain Cross References: Genesis 2:21; Genesis 10:16; Genesis 13:7; Genesis 14:14-15; Genesis 16:1; Genesis 21:17; Genesis 25:8; Exodus 3:10; Exodus 19:18; Leviticus 1:14; Ecclesiastes 2:7; Jeremiah 34:18; Luke 1:18; Acts 7:2; Acts 7:5-6; Romans 4:3; Romans 4:18; Galatians 4:28; 1 Thessalonians 2:16; Revelation 9:14

Genesis 15 Bible Commentary - Matthew Henry (complete)

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God’s Grace and Abram

After the sun went down and darkness fell, Abram saw a smoking firepot and a flaming torch pass between the halves of the carcasses. So the Lord made a covenant with Abram that day and said, “I have given this land to your descendants, all the way from the border of Egypt to the great Euphrates River— the land now occupied by the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,…

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The Fighting in Gaza Is Just The Latest Part of a Very, Very Old and Complicated Conflict in the Middle East

The name has changed, but the questions about who owns “Israel” have been a cause of conflict and bloodshed since God promised the land to Moses 4,000 years ago. “To your descendants, I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates – the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.…

[evangelistedissoncharles]

Good morning brothers and sisters! Following God fully

‭Numbers 32:12 NKJV‬

[12] except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the Lord.’

Follow God fully means to follow God sincerely. That’s what Caleb did. He wasn’t a hypocrite. He didn’t follow God out of a works righteousness or follow God because he wanted to impress people. He followed God sincerely with his heart. He loved God. He could say with John, “We love Him because He first loved us.” And we know he followed God sincerely because when the people picked up stones in Numbers 14:9, Caleb didn’t flinch.Caleb endures the insults, the jeers, the stones that are about to come his way. And wondrously the Lord intervened and the glory of the Lord appeared suddenly. God came to deliver Caleb.

Brethren, let us be true to God. We follow God fully by the strength of the Lord Jesus Christ, by the grace of the Holy Spirit in us, which He gives to us for Christ’s sake. And when we’re taunted and when we’re mocked and when we’re persecuted, just remember what we’re enduring is nothing compared to what our Savior endured for us.

[nlockett]

Allotment for Caleb

6 Now the people of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the Lord said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh Barnea about you and me. 7 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh Barnea to explore the land. And I brought him back a report according to my convictions, 8 but my fellow Israelites who went up with me made the hearts of the people melt in fear. I, however, followed the Lord my God wholeheartedly. 9 So on that day Moses swore to me, ‘The land on which your feet have walked will be your inheritance and that of your children forever, because you have followed the Lord my God wholeheartedly.’[a]

10 “Now then, just as the Lord promised, he has kept me alive for forty-five years since the time he said this to Moses, while Israel moved about in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old! 11 I am still as strong today as the day Moses sent me out; I’m just as vigorous to go out to battle now as I was then. 12 Now give me this hill country that the Lord promised me that day. You yourself heard then that the Anakites were there and their cities were large and fortified, but, the Lord helping me, I will drive them out just as he said.” Joshua 14:6-12 (NIV)

[craftylovegentlemen]

Genesis

Chapter 15

1 After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. 2 And Abram said, LORD God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus? 3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. 4 And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. 5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. 6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness. 7 And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it. 8 And he said, LORD God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? 9 And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. 10 And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not. 11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away. 12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. 13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; 14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. 15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. 17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.

18 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: 19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, 20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, 21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

Genesis 15

Diane Beauford

[thefunbible]

Genesis 15

01 After these things The Earl’s word came to Bill in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Bill. I am your shield, your super magic, exceedingly bigly reward.”

02 Bill said, “Lord The Earl, what will you give me, since I go pretty-much-sterile, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”

03 Bill said, “Behold, you have given no varmints to me: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir.”

04 Behold, The Earl’s word came to him, saying, “This male will not be your heir, but he who will come out of your own ejaculate will be your heir.”

05 The Earl brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” He said to Bill, “So your human-spawn will be.”

06 He accredited in The Earl, who credited it to him for fanaticism.

07 He said to Bill, “I am The Earl who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it by brutally and mercilessly colonizing it.”

08 He said, “Lord The Earl, how will I know that I will inherit it?”

09 He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a girly goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon. Do you have any idea how much I love barbecue?”

10 He brought him all these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn’t divide the birds.

11 The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Bill drove them away.

12 When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Bill. Now terror and great nighttime fell on him, for he had severe nyctophobia.

13 He said to Bill, “Know for sure that your human-spawn will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.

14 I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth;

15 but you will go to your spermers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.

16 In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet ripe enough for me to murder them.”

17 It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.

18 In that day The Earl made a bigly-deal with Bill, saying, “I have given this land to your human-spawn to brutally and mercilessly colonize, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

19 the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,

20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,

21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites will be brutally colonized by your offspring.”

[lordgodjehovahsway]

Joshua 14: God Has Joshua Divide The Land Amongst Israel's Nine Tribes

1 Now these are the areas the Israelites received as an inheritance in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun and the heads of the tribal clans of Israel allotted to them. 

2 Their inheritances were assigned by lot to the nine and a half tribes, as the Lord had commanded through Moses.

3 Moses had granted the two and a half tribes their inheritance east of the Jordan but had not granted the Levites an inheritance among the rest, 

4 for Joseph’s descendants had become two tribes—Manasseh and Ephraim. The Levites received no share of the land but only towns to live in, with pasturelands for their flocks and herds. 

5 So the Israelites divided the land, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Allotment for Caleb

6 Now the people of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the Lord said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh Barnea about you and me. 

7 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh Barnea to explore the land. And I brought him back a report according to my convictions, 

8 but my fellow Israelites who went up with me made the hearts of the people melt in fear. I, however, followed the Lord my God wholeheartedly. 

9 So on that day Moses swore to me, ‘The land on which your feet have walked will be your inheritance and that of your children forever, because you have followed the Lord my God wholeheartedly.’

10 “Now then, just as the Lord promised, he has kept me alive for forty-five years since the time he said this to Moses, while Israel moved about in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old! 

11 I am still as strong today as the day Moses sent me out; I’m just as vigorous to go out to battle now as I was then. 

12 Now give me this hill country that the Lord promised me that day. You yourself heard then that the Anakites were there and their cities were large and fortified, but, the Lord helping me, I will drive them out just as he said.”

13 Then Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave him Hebron as his inheritance. 

14 So Hebron has belonged to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite ever since, because he followed the Lord, the God of Israel, wholeheartedly. 

15 (Hebron used to be called Kiriath Arba after Arba, who was the greatest man among the Anakites.)

Then the land had rest from war.

[casmong]

Pharaoh of Egypt.

Understanding the Pharaoh of Egypt gives context to the circumstances from which the Israelites were physically rescued from, and why they had such a hard time escaping spiritually; and because they could not spiritually free themselves from Egypt, all the adults who left Egypt died on the wilderness journey [Numbers 14:29], and only a representative two survived to enter the promised land: Joshua son of Nun (Hebrew, tribe of Ephraim) and Caleb son of Jephunneh (Kenizzite) [Numbers 26:55]; which speaks of God not being partial, and of both Jews and gentiles inheriting the promised land the spiritual kingdom of God.

The word ‘pharaoh’ [Hb פַרְעֹה : Paroh - a title of Egypt kings] is actually a loan word from the ancient Egyptian language, which originally meant ‘great house’, of royal court, and (in new kingdom) of king. The word eventually began to be used metonymically to describe both the king’s palace as well as its resident Egyptian king. Pharaoh was the word the ancient Hebrews used to refer to the Egyptians kings, but it was never the Egyptians kings official title, nor was it the name Egyptians used to refer to their rulers. The YAHWEH and His inspired writers chose to use pharaoh instead of Egyptian rulers’ title, which among other things had several references to the idols gods of Egypt, which we know are nothing, and YAH was neither interested in nor wanted His people to keep on their memory. The full title of the Egyptian king consisted of five names, each preceded by one of the following titles: Horus, Two Ladies, Golden Horus, King of Upper and Lower Egypt, and Son of Ra.

Of special note is that the Egyptians believed their pharaoh to be the mediator between the gods and the world of men, that after death the pharaoh became divine and associated with Osiris ‘the god of the dead’, and that the pharaoh was all-powerful, all knowing and controlling nature and fertility.

While teaching about YAH’s power over the pharaoh and Egypt, and His authority to do whatever He pleases[Romans 9:15], Paul mentioned that “God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known“[Romans 9:22], YAHWEH indeed made known His power over the pharaoh and Egypt, by controlling nature and fertility with the plagues of uncontrollable proliferation of frogs, lice, flies, livestock pestilence, locusts (fertility) that overrun their cities and homes; and also water turning to blood, boils, darkness, and the death of firstborn children (nature); all of which neither the Pharaoh nor their idol gods had any power to prevent, and revealing that the pharaoh (and the idol gods of Egypt) was not all powerful as claimed, neither was he all knowing, as he had to ask Moses to know what the name of the God of the Hebrews (slaves).

The pharaohs built grandiose and elaborate tombs, intended to immortalize their greatness, which ironically only served as monuments that testify to the fact that they are all dead, and are not coming back to life. YAH promises life and the dead coming back to life (viz resurrection), and while disputing with the Sadducees who don’t believe in resurrection of the dead, Jesus points out the contrast between YAHWEH ‘the God of the living’, and the pharaoh and the idol gods of Egypt, with strong allusions particularly to Osiris ‘the god of the dead’ when he said “now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.” [Luke 30:37-38]

Paul further clarified who exactly was the true mediator between God and man, who unlike the dead and entombed pharaohs shackled to the grave, Jesus the Anointed demonstrated that he actually had power over death when he came back to life, and his resurrection attested to the authority he was given, which was the basis of the apostle Paul’s argument when he exhorted Timothy that “there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus”[I Timothy 2:5]

The pharaohs made many claims to power and greatness, but made no attempt at claiming immortality, as that can easily be proven false, and they spent most of their time and resources preparing for their death ceremonies, and their tombs, and made arrangements for their replacement after they were dead and gone. The death of the first born was therefore a major tragedy for them, as it threatened their family ‘name’, dynasty and legacy. YAHWEH is not a man nor a mortal nor is He even capable of death![I Timothy 6:16], but we understand that His son Jesus the Anointed “was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.”[Romans 4:25], and now we see Jesus “Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.”[Romans 6:9]

“Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.” Romans 8:24

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The Abrahamic Covenant

1 After this the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying,

“Do not fear, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”

2 But Abram said, “Lord God, what will You give me, seeing I am childless and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?” 3 Abram said, “Since You have not given me any children, my heir is a servant born in my house.”

4 Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, “This man will not be your heir, but a son that is from your own body will be your heir.” 5 He brought him outside and said, “Look up toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” And He said to him, “So will your descendants be.”

6 Abram believed the Lord, and He credited it to him as righteousness.

7 He also said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess it.”

8 But Abram said, “Lord God, how may I know that I will possess it?”

9 So He said to him, “Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”

10 Then Abram brought all of these to Him and cut them in two and laid each piece opposite the other, but he did not cut the birds in half. 11 When the birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.

12 As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram, and terror and a great darkness fell on him. 13 Then He said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will live as strangers in a land that is not theirs, and they will be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years. 14 But I will judge the nation that they serve, and afterward they will come out with great possessions. 15 As for you, you will go to your fathers in peace and you will be buried at a good old age. 16 In the fourth generation, your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”

17 When the sun went down and it was dark, a smoking fire pot with a flaming torch passed between these pieces. 18 On that same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great Euphrates River— 19 the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, 20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaites, 21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.” — Genesis 15 | Modern English Version (MEV) The Holy Bible, Modern English Version. Copyright © 2014 by Military Bible Association. Published and distributed by Charisma House. Cross References: Genesis 2:21; Genesis 4:28; Genesis 10:16; Genesis 13:7; Genesis 14:5; Genesis 14:14-15; Genesis 16:1; Genesis 21:17; Genesis 25:8; Genesis 26:24; Genesis 28:4; Genesis 28:11; Genesis 35:29; Exodus 3:8; Exodus 3:10; Exodus 3:22; Exodus 12:40; Exodus 19:18; Leviticus 1:14; Leviticus 1:17; Leviticus 12:6; 1 Kings 18:38; Ecclesiastes 2:7; Isaiah 17:1; Jeremiah 34:18; Luke 1:18; Acts 7:2; Acts 7:4-5; Acts 7:6; Acts 7:17; Romans 4:3; Romans 4:9; Romans 4:18; 1 Thessalonians 2:16; Hebrews 11:12; Revelation 9:14

[monsooninn]

Berakhot 3b: 19. "Ignition."

19. And how is my opinion: Rabbi Abba Bar Kahnah said, I will not say except [even] in the words of the Torah and all that is the words of Dalma.

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"How, the Father of the Grain Priestess said, I will not say even in the words of the Torah and all that is the words of the Shepherd of the Sheep."

The Value in Gematria is 8444, חד‎ד‎ד‎, haddad, "The Voice of the Thunder."

For all of our discussion about the Torah and the Religion, until Ignition takes place, right after puberty hairiness when attaining to the fullness of the Self [even if it means emptying into someone else] becomes the most important thing one can ponder is challenged in the Name of the Goodness of God, all is moot.

Ignition has three stages. All pertain to the course of the Euphrates the Big Gusher of Eden and its terminus at the Mediterranean Sea. Once one experiences the gusher, one travels the course. The course [see below] ends at the Mediterranean where "one finds one's greatness reflected back upon himself."

From Lekh Lekha:

"17 When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces.

18 On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi[k] of Egypt [dry streambed, meaning they were free of the waters of the Flood] to the great river, the Euphrates— [the fruitful]

19 the land of the Kenites [people of the spear, Senators], Kenizzites [hunter], Kadmonites [primitive],

20 Hittites [the terribles] , Perizzites [wildling] , Rephaites [shades],

21 Amorites [complainers], Canaanites [the low], Girgashites [take and stroke] and Jebusites [down trampler].”

Ignition then is aqeous rather than flammable like a river is charged and explodes from the mouth into the river bed and then follows the channel its history has carved for itself.

It is the Voice of God behind all of this telling us to do it but it is the Water that carries the sound. From the most primitive to the most sophisticated classes of people, the Voice of God insists we free ourselves from all the forms of violence, form sane governments , enduring communities and fulfill the Covenant He forged with us ages ago.

The Mishnah says the shepherds, world leaders must go first which makes sense if anyone else is going to want to try to do this.

[sutrala]

In Genesis, God gave irrevocable title to the Holy Land to the Hebrews. "On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, 'To your descendants I have given this land – from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates – the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites,...

[craftylovegentlemen]

Genesis

Chapter 15

1 After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. 2 And Abram said, LORD God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus? 3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. 4 And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. 5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. 6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness. 7 And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it. 8 And he said, LORD God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? 9 And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. 10 And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not. 11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away. 12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. 13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; 14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. 15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. 16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. 17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. 18 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: 19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, 20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, 21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

Genesis 15

Diane Beauford

[prju77]

No Time has Been Lost! - Your Lion Bite Word For Today!

Beloved, I would remind you today that no time has been lost. Though the years have passed chronologically, no time has been lost in the spirit. I see you!

Despite the circumstances and how things have looked around you, I know that your faith has not wavered. Your trust in who I am has never wavered. You have not been moved by what you’ve seen, you have only been moved by my promise. You have been faithful in holding fast to my name; you have been faithful in doing the work of my kingdom. In all of this you have grown even deeper in your intimacy with me.

I say to you, no time has been lost.

Beloved, there is still a battle, but you WILL WIN! Now, is the time to rise up in strength in me. Now is the time to rise to a greater level of boldness fueled by my Spirit. Now is the time that you will go in and take the land. You will go in and dispossess every enemy squatter on your promised land to possess your inheritance. By my Spirit I am anointing you with fresh strength and with new vitality and wherever your feet step, my glory will be known. No time has been lost!

Activation:

Declare aloud: The Lord is with me. So, by the Spirit of the Lord and by His power and might, I will drive out the giants from the land and possess my inheritance!

Joshua 14:6-15 (NLT) "A delegation from the tribe of Judah, led by Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, came to Joshua at Gilgal. Caleb said to Joshua, “Remember what the LORD said to Moses, the man of God, about you and me when we were at Kadesh-barnea. I was forty years old when Moses, the servant of the LORD, sent me from Kadesh-barnea to explore the land of Canaan. I returned and gave an honest report, but my brothers who went with me frightened the people from entering the Promised Land. For my part, I wholeheartedly followed the LORD my God. So that day Moses solemnly promised me, ‘The land of Canaan on which you were just walking will be your grant of land and that of your descendants forever, because you wholeheartedly followed the LORD my God.’ “Now, as you can see, the LORD has kept me alive and well as he promised for all these forty-five years since Moses made this promise—even while Israel wandered in the wilderness. Today I am eighty-five years old. I am as strong now as I was when Moses sent me on that journey, and I can still travel and fight as well as I could then. So give me the hill country that the LORD promised me. You will remember that as scouts we found the descendants of Anak living there in great, walled towns. But if the LORD is with me, I will drive them out of the land, just as the LORD said.

So Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave Hebron to him as his portion of land. Hebron still belongs to the descendants of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite because he wholeheartedly followed the Lord, the God of Israel. (Previously Hebron had been called Kiriath-arba. It had been named after Arba, a great hero of the descendants of Anak.) And the land had rest from war!"

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Numbers 32: The Gadites And Reubenites Try To Stop Moses From Sending Them Across The River Of Jordan

1 The Reubenites and Gadites, who had very large herds and flocks, saw that the lands of Jazer and Gilead were suitable for livestock. 

2 So they came to Moses and Eleazar the priest and to the leaders of the community, and said, 

3 “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo and Beon— 

4 the land the Lord subdued before the people of Israel—are suitable for livestock, and your servants have livestock. 

5 If we have found favor in your eyes,” they said, “let this land be given to your servants as our possession. Do not make us cross the Jordan.”

6 Moses said to the Gadites and Reubenites, “Should your fellow Israelites go to war while you sit here? 

7 Why do you discourage the Israelites from crossing over into the land the Lord has given them? 

8 This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to look over the land. 

9 After they went up to the Valley of Eshkol and viewed the land, they discouraged the Israelites from entering the land the Lord had given them. 

10 The Lord’s anger was aroused that day and he swore this oath: 

11 ‘Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of those who were twenty years old or more when they came up out of Egypt will see the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob— 

12 not one except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun, for they followed the Lord wholeheartedly.’ 

13 The Lord’s anger burned against Israel and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation of those who had done evil in his sight was gone.

14 “And here you are, a brood of sinners, standing in the place of your fathers and making the Lord even more angry with Israel. 

15 If you turn away from following him, he will again leave all this people in the wilderness, and you will be the cause of their destruction.”

16 Then they came up to him and said, “We would like to build pens here for our livestock and cities for our women and children. 

17 But we will arm ourselves for battle and go ahead of the Israelites until we have brought them to their place. Meanwhile our women and children will live in fortified cities, for protection from the inhabitants of the land. 

18 We will not return to our homes until each of the Israelites has received their inheritance. 

19 We will not receive any inheritance with them on the other side of the Jordan, because our inheritance has come to us on the east side of the Jordan.”

20 Then Moses said to them, “If you will do this—if you will arm yourselves before the Lord for battle 

21 and if all of you who are armed cross over the Jordan before the Lord until he has driven his enemies out before him— 

22 then when the land is subdued before the Lord, you may return and be free from your obligation to the Lord and to Israel. And this land will be your possession before the Lord.

23 “But if you fail to do this, you will be sinning against the Lord; and you may be sure that your sin will find you out. 

24 Build cities for your women and children, and pens for your flocks, but do what you have promised.”

25 The Gadites and Reubenites said to Moses, “We your servants will do as our lord commands. 

26 Our children and wives, our flocks and herds will remain here in the cities of Gilead. 

27 But your servants, every man who is armed for battle, will cross over to fight before the Lord, just as our lord says.”

28 Then Moses gave orders about them to Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun and to the family heads of the Israelite tribes. 

29 He said to them, “If the Gadites and Reubenites, every man armed for battle, cross over the Jordan with you before the Lord, then when the land is subdued before you, you must give them the land of Gilead as their possession. 

30 But if they do not cross over with you armed, they must accept their possession with you in Canaan.”

31 The Gadites and Reubenites answered, “Your servants will do what the Lord has said. 

32 We will cross over before the Lord into Canaan armed, but the property we inherit will be on this side of the Jordan.”

33 Then Moses gave to the Gadites, the Reubenites and the half-tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan—the whole land with its cities and the territory around them.

34 The Gadites built up Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer, 

35 Atroth Shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah, 

36 Beth Nimrah and Beth Haran as fortified cities, and built pens for their flocks. 

37 And the Reubenites rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh and Kiriathaim, 

38 as well as Nebo and Baal Meon (these names were changed) and Sibmah. They gave names to the cities they rebuilt.

39 The descendants of Makir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, captured it and drove out the Amorites who were there. 

40 So Moses gave Gilead to the Makirites, the descendants of Manasseh, and they settled there. 

41 Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, captured their settlements and called them Havvoth Jair. 

42 And Nobah captured Kenath and its surrounding settlements and called it Nobah after himself.

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Canaanites

According to scripture, a mystery is not something that is unknown or unknowable, but is rather something being developed that we are not aware of as yet, that is being made known or revealed to more people.

“Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:” - I Colossians 1:26-27

To a Jew living in Jesus’ first advent, having a shared hope with a gentile was unthinkable, even though there have been several prominent gentiles in Jewish history and ancestry. Even after God revealed directly to Peter three times that He is accepting gentiles [Acts 10:11-17] Peter still struggled to accept the idea, and had to be rebuked in public by Paul [Galatians 2:11-14]. It was an obstacle that many Jews had great difficulty overcoming.

God commanded that all the Canaanite tribes be removed from the land of promise, saying “thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:” [Deuteronomy 20:17]

As far as scripture is concerned, the Canaanites were all the ungodly people who were dwelling in the land YAH promised to give to Abraham and his SEED, that may have lived there for many generations, but they do not belong there because God has given it to the Hebrew people of God. The instructions were for Israel to first offer a city the opportunity to surrender and accept the gift of life and peace, if they refused the offer then they would be completely obliterated from existence, without mercy.

The Kenizzite were an Edomite tribe referred to in the covenant God made with Abraham. They are not mentioned among the other inhabitants of Canaan in Exodus 3:8 and Joshua 3:10

The Hittites were originally a group of people from Asia Minor near the Black Sea, that became a dominant empire in antiquity, but like all empires eventually declined, with their descendants living interspersed around Syria and the Levant region, including Canaan.

Jericho was a city state, and was the first of the cities conquered by Joshua after crossing the Jordan River into promised land [Joshua 2:1].

The Gittites were inhabitants of Gath or Gat, which was one of the five city states of the Philistine pentapolis during the Iron Age (Gaza, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ekron, and Gath). It was located in northeastern Philistia, close to the border with Judah. Goliath was also from Gath [I Samuel 17:23]

YAHWEH vision of the promised land and kingdom of God is unchanged, and the land and the kingdom of God will not be inhabited by the former Canaanites, but exclusively by the righteous: “Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.” [Zachariah 14:21]

That means that the Father will realize His vision, that all of the citizens of the blessed age will worship YAH exclusively, and all will revere His only begotten son and king over the kingdom: Jesus the Anointed.

There were several people who were supposed to be excluded from the promises, but by their allegiance and commitment to YAH were accepted as His people, and not categorized by their natural lineage. These include: Caleb was born a Kennezite [Numbers 32:12], but abandoned the natural to become the spiritual Hebrew Caleb, of the tribe of Judah [Numbers 13:6].

Uriah was born a Hittite, but by his actions and integrity was considered and treated by YAHWEH as one of His own, and when king David arranged for Uriah’s murder in order to hide his adultery with Bathsheba, God was very displeased, and punished David severely.

Rahab was originally a prostitute who lived and worked in the walls of the Canaanite city of Jericho, but by her faith and her actions was no longer a Canaanite as she abandoned old life, choosing rather to be remembered among the Hebrews, and became a mother in Israel: as her son was Boaz the husband of Ruth, and the great-grandmother of David the faithful king, the man after God's own heart.

Ruth was born of Moab, but abandoned her old life and chose God and the Hebrew people. saying to her mother-in-law Naomi: “intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried”[Ruth 1:16]

Obed-edom was born a Gittite (of the Philistine city of Gath) [II Samuel 6:11], but abandoned his old life and heritage and chose the Hebrew people and their God, and in the time after Uzzah was struck dead for touching the Ark of the Covenant, in a botched attempt to move it from Abinadab’s house to Jerusalem ‘on a cart’, where both David as well as the Levites were afraid of the Ark of the Covenant, Obededom was brave enough to accept the privilege and blessing of being the caretaker of the symbol of YAH presence among the Hebrews.

These were gentiles of Canaan who were supposed to be condemned and destroyed, but they accepted the terms of peace they were offered, and they changed allegiance from evil and death to righteousness and life, to serve the living God, they were no longer considered Canaanites, but rather were remembered favorably by YAH.

“Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.” - Acts 10:34-35