GENESIS
CHAPTER 14
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
OBSERVATION
STAGE
The purpose of
the observation stage is to maintain focus on the text at hand within the
normative rules of language, context and logic 
which limits the observer to the content offered by the book of Genesis.
This will serve to avoid going on unnecessary tangents elsewhere; and more
importantly, it will provide the framework for a proper and objective
comparison with passages located elsewhere in Scripture.
Remember that
something elsewhere may be true, but in the text at hand it may not be in
view.
****** EXCERPT
FROM CHAPTER 13 ******
[Gen
13:14-18]:
WHEN
ABRAM FINALLY SEPARATED FROM LOT - HE FULFILLED THE LORD'S COMMAND TO
SEPARATE HIMSELF FROM HIS RELATIVES, THE LORD THEN REITERATED HIS
PROMISES TO ABRAM AND HIS SEED, REFERRING TO AN INDIVIDUAL PHYSICAL
DESCENDANT OF THE FUTURE PROVIDED BY THE LORD SUPERNATURALLY, OF
POSSESSING THE PROMISED LAND FOREVER WHICH IMPLIED A JUSTIFICATION
THROUGH THIS INDIVIDUAL 'SEED' OF ABRAM UNTO ETERNAL LIFE. THEN HE
COMMANDED ABRAM TO WALK THROUGHOUT THE LAND, WHEREUPON ABRAM BUILT
ANOTHER ALTAR IN HEBRON BY THE GREAT TREES OF MAMRE
1)
[Compare Gen 12:6 NKJV]:
****** END
OF EXCERPT FROM CHAPTER 13 ******
I)
[Gen 14:1-12]:
A)
CHEDORLAOMER KING OF ELAM JOINED WITH AMRAPHEL KING OF SHINAR, ARIOCH
KING OF ELLASAR, AND TIDAL KING OF NATIONS AND MADE WAR WITH HIS SUBJECT
KINGDOMS: BERA KING OF SODOM, BIRSHA KING OF GOMORRAH, SHINAB KING OF
ADMAH, SHEMEBER KING OF ZEBOIIM, AND THE KING OF BELA (THAT IS, ZOAR)
AND PLUNDERED THEM TAKING LOT AND HIS POSSESSIONS CAPTIVE
II)
[Gen 14:13-16]:
A)
ONE WHO ESCAPED THE CONFLICT WHO LIVES BY THE GREAT TREES OF MAMRE NEAR
ABRAM, THE BROTHER TO THE AMORITES ESHCOL AND ANER WHO ARE ALLIES WITH
ABRAM THE HEBREW, TOLD ABRAM OF THE CONFLICT AND LOT'S CAPTURE
B)
WHEN ABRAM HEARD THAT LOT WAS CAPTURED HE PURSUED CHEDORLAOMER WITH 318
WAR TRAINED INDIVIDUALS BORN OF HIS HOUSE AS FAR AS DAN
C)
AT NIGHT TIME ABRAM DIVIDED HIS 318 MEN AND ATTACKED, PURSUING
CHEDORLAOMER'S FORCES UNTIL HOBAH. ABRAM BROUGHT BACK ALL THE PEOPLE AND
PROPERTY, LOT AND HIS POSSESSIONS IMPLYING THE LORD'S INTERVENTION TO
DELIVER OVER HIS ENEMIES TO ABRAM
III)
[Gen 14:17-20]:
A)
THE KING OF SODOM RETURNS FROM DEFEAT AND FLIGHT TO MEET ABRAM IN THE
VALLEY OF SHAVEH. THEN MELCHIZEDEK, KING OF SALEM AND OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
AND PEACE - A PRIEST OF GOD MOST HIGH AND THE GOD OF ABRAM - BRINGS
BREAD AND WINE AND BLESSES GOD AND ABRAM, DECLARING THAT GOD DELIVERED
OVER TO ABRAM HIS ENEMIES. THEN OUT OF REVERANCE TO MELCHIZEDEK AND
RECOGNITION OF GOD'S ENABLEMENT OF HIS VICTORY, ABRAM GAVE MELCHIZADK A
TENTH OF ALL HE HAD
1)
[Compare Heb 7:1-3]:
B)
MELCHIZEDEK REPRESENTS THE LORD, NOT A CANAANITE PAGAN GOD, FOR IT IS
THE LORD WHO IS PORTRAYED AS DELIVERING ABRAM WHOM MELCHIZEDEK HONORS
C)
IT IS THROUGH ABRAM THAT THE LORD WILL ETERNALLY RECONCILE MANKIND TO
HIMSELF AND RESTORE MAN'S SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE WORLD
*** REVIEW
OF EXCERPTS FROM CHAPTERS 12 & 3 ***
.................................or
skip to Gen 14:21-24
IN
THE PROMISED LAND, THE LORD WILL MAKE ABRAM A GREAT NATION (LONGEVITY
AND MANY DESCENDANTS), MAKE ABRAM’S NAME GREAT THROUGHOUT THE EARTH
FOR ALL HISTORY, AND IN ABRAM WILL ALL MANKIND THROUGHOUT HISTORY BE
BLESSED WITH THE OPPORTUNITY FOR ETERNAL LIFE VIA A MESSIAH SAVIOR
DESCENDANT
GENESIS
CHAPTER 3 DECLARES GOD'S PLAN FOR THE ETERNAL RECONCILIATION OF MAN TO
GOD AND THE RESTORATION OF MANKIND'S SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE EARTH THROUGH
AN INDIVIDUAL DESCENDANT OF EVE WHICH CHAPTER 12 IMPLIES WILL BE
FULFILLED THROUGH THE LORD'S MAKING ABRAM A GREAT NATION AND A GREAT
NAME THROUGH HIS SEED TO BE A GREAT AND ETERNAL BLESSING TO ALL MANKIND
THROUGHOUT THE AGES AND ETERNITY
*** EXCERPT FROM
GENESIS CHAPTER 3 ***
[Gen
3:14 NKJV]:
FOR
DECEIVING EVE AND CAUSING HER AND ADAM TO SIN, THE LORD GOD CURSED THE
SERPENT WHO WAS POSSESSED BY SATAN, GOD'S ADVERSARY, MORE THAN ANY OTHER
CREATURE, RELEGATING SERPENTS NOW TO CRAWL ON THEIR BELLIES, EATING DUST
AS A SIGN OF JUDGMENT UPON SATAN'S REBELLION
1)
[Compare Gen 1:26 NIV]:
2)
[Compare Gen 1:25, 31NIV]:
3)
[Compare Ez 28:1-19]:
4)
[Compare Isa 14:12-15]:
5)
[Compare Job 1:6 NIV]:
[Gen
3:15]:
TWO
SPIRITUAL (NOT BIOLOGICAL) SEEDS ARE IN VIEW:
1)
THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO FOLLOW SATAN IN SPIRITUAL REBELLION ARE DECLARED
SEED OF SATAN - ANGELS AND HUMANS ALIKE. THEY ARE FURTHER DECLARED BY
GOD TO BE AT ENMITY WITH THE WOMAN, EVE, AND HER SEED:
2)
A SEED, WHICH BIOLOGICALLY COMES FROM THE MALE, IN ORDER TO BE THE SEED
OF THE WOMAN, HAD TO BE PRODUCED INTO A FEMALE PHYSICAL DESCENDANT OF
THE WOMAN SUPERNATURALLY AND SPIRITUALLY BY GOD TO RESULT IN AN
INDIVIDUAL MALE DESCENDANT TO REPRESENT THE HUMAN RACE - A
MESSIAH-SAVIOR - IN THE BATTLE WITH SATAN AND HIS SEED TO PROVIDE
ETERNAL RECONCILIATION FOR HUMANITY WITH GOD AND REGAIN SOVEREIGNTY OF
THE HUMAN RACE OVER THE WORLD
THE
SEED OF THE WOMAN PORTRAYS A SUPERNATURAL BIRTH VIA A SPIRITUALLY
PROVIDED SEED WHO WILL REPRESENT ALL OF HUMANITY IN BATTLE WITH SATAN
AND HIS SEED TO REGAIN THE LOST SOVEREIGNTY OF THE HUMAN RACE OVER THE
WORLD AND PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR EVERY INDIVIDUAL HUMAN BEING TO BE
ETERNALLY RECONCILED WITH GOD RELATIVE TO SIN. THIS MESSIAH-SAVIOR WILL
BRUISE SATAN'S HEAD = DELIVER A MORTAL BLOW TO DESTROY HIM, AND SATAN
WILL BRUISE HIS HEEL - A NON-MORTAL BLOW
*** END OF EXCERPTS
FROM GEN 12 & 3 ***
IV)
[Gen 14:21-24]:
A)
THE KING OF THE WICKEDEST OF CITIES, SODOM - IN CONTRAST TO THE
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF MELCHIZADEK, KING OF SALEM - OFFERS TO MAKE A WICKED
DEAL WITH ABRAM IN ORDER TO GAIN A HOLD ON HIM: 'GIVE ME THE PERSONS
[YOU RESCUED] AND TAKE THE GOODS FOR YOURSELF' HE SAYS
B)
ABRAM'S RESPONSE TO THE KING OF SODOM'S OFFER OF A PORTION OF THE WAR
SPOILS WAS THAT HE HAD TAKEN AN OATH TO THE LORD TO TAKE NOTHING SO THAT
IT COULD NOT BE SAID THAT THE KING HAD MADE HIM RICH - AFFIRMING ABRAM'S
ALLEGIANCE TO THE LORD. ON THE OTHER HAND ABRAM DID REQUEST THE FOOD
THAT THE YOUNG MEN ANER, ESHCOL AND MAMRE ATE AND THEIR PORTION FOR THEM
- AS THEY WERE NOT OF HIS HOUSEHOLD
C)
ABRAM'S OATH TO THE LORD TO REFUSE SPOILS FROM THE WAR FROM THE KING OF
SODOM WAS ABRAM'S PLEDGE OF ASSURANCE TO THE LORD OF HIS UNDIVIDED
ALLEGIANCE
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