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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)
They returned: shuwb
in Hebrew = "to
return, to restore"
<== points to a period of restoration of things (Acts 3:20-31)
Came to En-mishpat, which
is Kadesh
En-mishpat
En-mishpat =
"fountain of judgement"
en:
fountain
<== from ayin, meaning "eye" ==>
judgements
==> apostolic
∴ En-mishpat: speaks
of a place where judgements flow on a consistent and
well-established basis
Kadesh = "holy" ==>
the prophetic ==> a place imbued with prophetic holiness
∴ 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
Smote all the country of the Amalekites and
the Amorites
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)
"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)
God "holds a grudge" against those who
attack His prophetic remnant, His priests (Matthew 18:6-10) ==> The
6th-sealvengeance of God
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)
The 5 kings joined in the battle against
God's 6th-seal avengers
The phrase "with them" in the King James
version does not appear in the original text
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
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
The word "battle" was translated from the
Hebrew word milchamah,
which is better translated as "war"
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
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)
This illustrates the relevance of
Genesis 14 in the context of God's very nature and the establishment
of His Kingdom on Earth
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)
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)
==> 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)
==> the Lion face of judgements was
being relegated to last place ==> a
matriarchal,
non-judgement influence had surreptitiously crept in
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)
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
This speaks of a single nature made
up of 4 facets
"Head" speaks of
Kingly
Authority ==> The 4 facets are essential in establishing God's Kingship
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)
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
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
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
"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)
The word "slimepit" was translated from the
Hebrew words beer meaning "well" and
chemar
meaning "bitumen"
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
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)
Bitumen is black, which emphasises
the connection to Balaam, since Balaam is the form that the
enemy takes
during the black-horse stage
chemar only appears 3 times in
Scripture: Genesis 11:3, Genesis 14:10, and Exodus 2:3
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-headedGirgashite
"redness" of Cain, and the bitumen refers to the slimy,
underhanded "blackness" of Balaam
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
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"
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
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
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
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
∴ The bitumen wells (i.e.- the "slimepits")
speak of an atmosphere of black-horse stagnation
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
It is no coincidence that the lack of a
"green-horse tithe" is made evident in verse
10 of Genesis 14
Black-horse riders
weardown 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 ...