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The Genesis 14 kings (Part 4)

First posted: January 9, 2012

 

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This is a continuation of the word on the Genesis 14 kings posted earlier...

 

 

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Genesis 14:7

"And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar" (Genesis 14:7)
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They returned: shuwb in Hebrew = "to return, to restore" <== points to a period of restoration of things (Acts 3:20-31)

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Came to En-mishpat, which is Kadesh
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En-mishpat
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En-mishpat = "fountain of judgement"

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en: fountain <== from ayin, meaning "eye" ==> judgements ==> apostolic

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∴ En-mishpat: speaks of a place where judgements flow on a consistent and well-established basis

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Kadesh = "holy" ==> the prophetic ==> a place imbued with prophetic holiness

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∴ En-mishpat, Kadesh <== The apostolic and the prophetic are intertwined, operating in perfect harmony, combining the dynamic fluidity of the prophetic and the "foundational, establishing" nature of the apostolic, with God's judgements flowing continuously and His Presence well-established

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Smote all the country of the Amalekites and the Amorites
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Amalekites: those who have attacked the remnant at their weakest (Exodus 17:8-16, Deuteronomy 25:17-19, 1 Samuel 15:3)

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Amorites: those made great by those attacks

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In Hazezon-tamar = "dividing the date-palm"
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Tamar speaks of the weak remnant carrying out prophetic intercession to forge the outbreak of God on Earth (Genesis 38) ==> Pharez = "breach" ==> the breaker anointing (Micah 2:12-13)

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"dividing Tamar" <== those who have worked to cut up the weak, prophetic-intercession remnant ==> Exodus 17:10-12, Exodus 17:15 ==> Jehovah Nissi ==> the Philadelphia Spirit of God (Rev 3:7-13)

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God "holds a grudge" against those who attack His prophetic remnant, His priests (Matthew 18:6-10) ==> The 6th-seal vengeance of God

 

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Genesis 14:8

"And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim" (Genesis 14:8)
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The 5 kings joined in the battle against God's 6th-seal avengers

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The phrase "with them" in the King James version does not appear in the original text

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Notice that the only evil king whose name is mentioned is "Zoar" <== a 2nd hint (besides the "Chedorlaomer hint" in Genesis 14:4-5) indicating that something was wrong
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The 12+ years of abiding within the judgement atmosphere of the "vale of Siddim" had stripped these kings of many things; this is why their names (which speak of their character) are stripped by the Holy Spirit from verse 8; however, one name, the "insignificant" one ("Zoar") was left, meaning that the judgements enforced by the 4 kings was not complete, dismissing certain unrighteousness as "insignificant" and leaving it behind

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The word "battle" was translated from the Hebrew word milchamah, which is better translated as "war"
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The first 2 times that milchamah is ever used in Scripture is in Genesis 14 (v2 and v8); it is not used again until Exodus 1:10

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The 5th time it is used is in Exodus 15:3, which declares that Jehovah is a "male of war" and that Jehovah is His "name" ("name" speaks of nature)

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This illustrates the relevance of Genesis 14 in the context of God's very nature and the establishment of His Kingdom on Earth

 

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Genesis 14:9

"With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings with five" (Genesis 14:9)
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This verse emphasises the "change in priority" that had taken place in the 4 kings, with the Eagle- and Man-Face kings (Chedorlaomer and Tidal) "leaping over" the Ox- and Lion-Face kings (compare order of kings in this verse versus order in v1)
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==> the prophetic anointing and the natural side of man had become more relevant than his "angelic" nature, which is essential to His coming (Jude 1:14-15)

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==> the prophetic anointing over natural man had become more relevant than the expansion of God's Kingdom (which is done through His apostolic-Lion judgements and His evangelistic-Ox conquest endowment)

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==> the Lion face of judgements was being relegated to last place ==> a matriarchal, non-judgement influence had surreptitiously crept in

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This is the first time that the Holy Spirit explicitly compares the number of kings on one side (4) against the number of kings on the other side (5)
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The number "4" is translated from the Hebrew word arba; Genesis 14:9 is only the second time arba is used to refer to the number "4" by itself; the first time is Genesis 2:10 to refer to the 4 "heads" that the river of Eden broke off into
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This speaks of a single nature made up of 4 facets

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"Head" speaks of Kingly Authority ==> The 4 facets are essential in establishing God's Kingship

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Eden was a territory where God reigned through man, a territory from which man was to expand the Dominion of God into all the Earth (Genesis 1:26-28)

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The number "5" is translated from the Hebrew word chamesh; Genesis 14:9 is the first time that chamesh is used to refer to the number "5" by itself
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The word chamesh is very similar to the Hebrew word for "Ham" (cham) ==> spiritually speaking, the number "5" is very susceptible to the matriarchal, anti-judgement "Hamite" spirit

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The second time chamesh is used to refer to the number "5" by itself is in Genesis 18:28, when Abraham is talking to God about the number of righteous in Sodom <== this emphasises the connection between chamesh and the Canaanite spirit of Sodom

 

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Genesis 14:10

"And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain." (Genesis 14:10)
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The word "slimepit" was translated from the Hebrew words beer meaning "well" and chemar meaning "bitumen"
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chemar is derived from chamar meaning "to boil, foam up" <== points to "spiritual geysers" that "bubble up" from below on account of heat <== points to Balaam when he flees into the wilderness after the damage inflicted by red-horse Abel
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Hence, it is no coincidence that chamar can also be translated as "to be reddened"; this is how it is translated in Psalm 75:8 ("the wine is reddened") <== the spiritual escape made by the enemy after he has been "reddened" (i.e.- worked on by the red horse)

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Bitumen is black, which emphasises the connection to Balaam, since Balaam is the form that the enemy takes during the black-horse stage

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chemar only appears 3 times in Scripture: Genesis 11:3, Genesis 14:10, and Exodus 2:3
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Genesis 11:3 --- This verse speaks of how those who began to built the Tower of Babel used "brick for stone" and "slime for mortar" (i.e.- bitumen [chemar] for mortar) <== the brick refers to the hard-headed Girgashite "redness" of Cain, and the bitumen refers to the slimy, underhanded "blackness" of Balaam

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Exodus 2:3 --- This verse speaks of how Moses' mother put Moses in an ark of papyrus reeds, daubing the ark with bitumen and pitch and placing it among the reeds by the river bank
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Pharaoh was acting like a murderous Cain, murdering the young males of Israel (in the same way that the Jebusite spirit of Cain seeks to emasculate those under their control)

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As Cain murders Abel, the remnant are forced to flee into the black-horse wilderness and into black-horse anonymity, which correlates with Moses "fleeing" in an ark daubed with black bitumen and pitch and becoming an "unknown"

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The "fleeing" of the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah emphasises the connection to the leadership that morphs into Balaam and flees after murdering red-horse Abel during the black-horse stage

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The "falling" of the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah also emphasises the connection to Balaam, since Balaam describes himself as "falling, but having his eyes open" --- Numbers 24:4, Numbers 24:16
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The phrase "into a trance" added by the KJV translators in Numbers 24:4 and Numbers 24:16 does not appear in the original Hebrew text

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The Hebrew word used for "falling" in Numbers 24:4 and Numbers 24:16 (naphal) is the same word used in Genesis 14:10 to describe the "fall" of the 2 matriarchal kings

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∴ The bitumen wells (i.e.- the "slimepits") speak of an atmosphere of black-horse stagnation

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God's 6th-seal vengeance is carried out by green-horse believers who have gone through 4th-seal Death and the difficult 5th-seal isolation period; these are the believers who have "tithed" with their very lives. However, Genesis 14:10 reveals that there was more of a "black-horse" influence at a play than a "green-horse" influence as the 4 kings tried to overtake the 5 kings; this is why the 5 kings were able to flee
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It is no coincidence that the lack of a "green-horse tithe" is made evident in verse 10 of Genesis 14

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Black-horse riders wear down the enemy; green-horse riders exterminate him ==> The 4 kings were behaving like black-horse (i.e.- 3rd-seal) riders when they were actually in the midst of a 6th-seal season, a season during which they had to manifest an anointing from the 4th seal and beyond

 

God willing, we will continue studying Genesis 14 in a future posting ...