Bible Study Group

Genesis – the book of beginnings

beginning of:

• the world
• the human race
• sin in the world
• promise of redemption
• family life
• man-made civilization
• nations of the world
• the Hebrew race

Genesis begins with God and ends with a coffin.

Gives us 2000 years of record.  It is a spiritual representation of history.  It is the record of human failure and how God met man’s need with marvelous promises of sovereign grace.

The patriarchal period is the groundwork and basis of all history.  It covers the time from Adam to Moses.  In consequence of the failures on the part of men during this early period, God called out an individual.  He put aside the race and called a man, Abraham, who was to become the father of the Hebrew nation.

The 5 Patriarchal fathers- Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, and Job (book of job should be between genesis and exodus)

Abrahamic Covenant – to make his seed a great nation and to give them the land of canaan (repeated with Isaac and Jacob) (3 covenant fathers)

Joseph is the link between the family and the nation.  When we get to Exodus, Israel is a nation.  There are atleast 130 parallels between the life of Joseph and Jesus.

Moses was educated in the palace of the Pharaoh and was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians.

God’s creative work was progressive:

The world of matter

The system of life

Man, the crown of creation

God created man in His own image to have fellowship with Himself.  Man cut himself off from God by sin.  It is only when sin is removed that we can have fellowship again.  This is why Jesus came to this earth: that he might bare our sins in his own body on the tree. (1 peter 2:24)

The fall separated us but in mercy God promised One who would redeem men from sin.  Sacrifices were made to the Lord after the fall ordered by God for the purpose of keeping before man the fact of his fall and of the coming Sacrifice.  It would be by the shedding of the His blood that man was to be redeemed from sin and death.  (lev 11:17)

The call of Abraham:

After Babel, He called Abraham out to show his grace and to establish His chosen people to whom He could entrust the scriptures, to be witness to the nations, and through whom the promised Messiah could come.

Pre-Flood

• Eden
• Fall
• 2 Seeds

Man (is) appointed mortal sorrow; (but) the Blessed God shall come down teaching (that) His death shall bring (the) despairing rest.

Baalbek Megaliths in Lebanon said to be built by Cain in a fit of raving madness.

Cain –  was a tiller of the ground;  The same as qayin (From  qanah); Kajin, the name of the first child, also of a place in Palestine

Qayin – spear; From quwn in the original sense of fixity; a lance (as striking fast) — spear.

Baalbek is the name of an archaeological site in Lebanon.In Roman times it was known as Heliopolis or City of the Sun.

An example of how ancient is the site can be found in that its holiest area (in pagan times) was the Temple of Baal-Jupiter — a hybrid between the ancient Canaanite god Baal(lord) and the Roman Jupiter.

Notice the precision cutting and architecture of the stones.  This could not be done today.  Yet we are told we came from monkeys and still evolving.

Tubal-cain

 22 And Zillah (to be dark, hover over, shadow), she also bare Tubal-cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of brass and iron:

Forger of all instruments of bronze and iron.

He was a city builder

He has even been described as the first chemist.

He made weapons of war.

He was an expert and famous in martial performances

He made inventions to reduce the effects of the curse

He is Vulcan to the pagans

He was the King of Ur 3200 B.C.

He was the holder of Plutonic theory (knowledge of the actions of internal heat), and was, therefore, a prominent alchemist.

Cain’s heritage was that of the Sumerian metallurgists — the Master Craftsmen — and the supreme Master of the Craft was Cain’s father Enki, described as the manifestation of knowledge, and the craftsman par excellence, who drives out the evil demons who attack mankind.

Tubal-Cain is the password given in the Third Degree of Master Mason.

Tubal-Cain statue in Birmingham, AL (the Iron City)

“The day has come when Fellow Craftsman must know and apply their knowledge.  The lost key to their grade is the mastery of emotion , which places the energy of the universe at their disposal.  Man can only expect to be entrusted with great power by proving his ability to use it constructively and selflessly.  When the Mason learns that the key to the warrior on the block is the proper application of the dynamo of living power, he has learned the mystery of his Craft.  The seething energies of Lucifer are in his hands, and before he may step onward and upward, he must prove his ability to properly apply energy.  He must follow in the footsteps of his forefather, Tubal-Cain, who with the mighty strength of the war god hammered his sword into a plowshare.” [Manly P. Hall, 33rd Degree, K.T., The Lost Keys of Freemasonry or The Secret of Hiram Abiff]

Alchemy: Al (Arabic, as in Allah) means “God.” Also El ( Hebrew ) for “God.”  Chem or Khem is from kimia (Greek) which means “to fuse or cast a metal.” Also from Khem, the ancient name of Egypt. The synthesis is therefore Al-Kimia: “to fuse with God.”

Enoch 65

6 And a command has gone forth from the presence of the Lord concerning those who dwell on the earth that their ruin is accomplished because they have learnt all the secrets of the angels, and all the violence of the Satans, and all their powers -the most secret ones- and all the power of those who practice sorcery, and the power of witchcraft, and the power of those who make molten images 7 for the whole earth:

And how silver is produced from the dust of the earth, and how soft metal 8 originates in the earth.

For lead  and tin are not produced from the earth like the first:

it is a fountain 9 that produces them, and an angel stands therein, and that angel is pre-eminent.’

And after that my grandfather Enoch took hold of me by my hand and raised me up, and said unto me: ‘ Go, for I have 10 asked the Lord of Spirits as touching this commotion on the earth. And He said unto me: ” Because of their unrighteousness their judgement has been determined upon and shall not be withheld by Me for ever. Because of the sorceries which they have searched out and learnt, the earth and those 11 who dwell upon it shall be destroyed.” And these-they have no place of repentance for ever, because they have shown them what was hidden, and they are the damned: but as for thee, my son, the Lord of Spirits knows that thou art pure, and guiltless of this reproach concerning the secrets.

mix and fuse:

genders

species

religions

metals

• Fallen Angels/Giants/Nephilim

ENOCH 1, 6-8

[1]Blessed the elect and righteous, who will be living in the day of tribulation, when all the wicked and godless are to be removed.

[6]And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters (2) And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children. (6) And they were in all two hundred; who descended in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it.

[7]And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them and they taught them charms and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants.  They became pregnant and they bare giants, whose height was three thousand ells:  Who consumed the acquisition of men.  The began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another’s flesh, and drink the blood.

[8]Azazel taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and the known to them the metals of the earth, and the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all coloring tinctures.

Jude 1:6-7

And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day, just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

2 Peter 2:4-6

For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;  And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

• Babel

1 Tower, 1 Language, 1 Religion

Genesis 10:8

And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

“Nimrod became a Nephilim giant through genetic modification or ritual defilement.”

Genesis 11

1And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

4And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 5And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 6And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 7Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. 8So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 9Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

• God Disinherits the 70 nations and Abraham chosen out of Ur of Chaldees

Deuteronomy 32:8-9  When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. For the LORD’S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

• Abrahamic Covenant – to make his seed a great nation and to give them the land of canaan (repeated with Isaac and Jacob) (3 covenant fathers)
• Abraham>Isaac>Jacob(12 Tribes)

Genesis 46:27 and the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt were two; all the persons of the house of Jacob, who came to Egypt, were seventy.

• Exodus
  • Exodus is the book of redemption in the OT.  Beginning with darkness and gloom yet ends in glory; It commences by telling how God came down in grace to deliver an enslaved people, and ends by declaring how God came down in glory to dwell in the midst of a redeemed people.
  • Exodus in Greek means “way out”.  Without Genesis Exodus has no meaning.  Each book of the Torah is about something and each are vitally related to each other.
  • Bondage and Oppression (under 18th dynasty Pharaoh’s Thutmose and Amenhotep II)
    

    The book opens 350 years after the closing scene of Genesis.  Genesis is about family history and Exodus is a national history.  There were only 70 person that went down to Egypt, but before the left had grown to 3 million.

  • Deliverance – The Exodus (1446 BC)

    In the construction of any great edifice a blueprint has to be drawn and a pattern made.  Our Salvation was designed by God before the foundation of the world.  We find he pattern in the book of Exodus.  Exodus is the historical picture of divine grace in the redemption of man by God to Himself by Jesus Christ, who is at once our great Apostle (moses) and High Priest (aaron).

    The story of Exodus is repeated in every soul that seeks deliverance from the enmeshing and enervating influence of the world.

    We study Exodus in order to see God’s way of delivering sinful man, and His gracious purposes in thus rescuing him.

  • Passover (12-19)

    9 plagues – then murder of the 1st born.  Hebrews saved by blood of the lamb…When I see blood I will Passover you.

    The clearest OT picture of our individual salvation through faith in the shed blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    Christ is our Passover Lamb.

    Passover is the Heart

    Take a Lamb

    Christ’s sinless life didn’t save us, his blood that shed death and resurrection did

    Sprinkle the blood

    Blood is not sufficient, blood applied is.  Not blood in the basin but blood applied saves a soul.  Not all the blood shed on the cross can save a soul from death unless it is applied.  Not feelings, person worthiness, only the blood.

    Eat the lamb

    Direction for nourishment, Salvation first the feeding – fellowship, worship, walk, and service.

    Remove the Leaven

    Search me and see if there is any wicked way in me.  Unrighteousness must be removed before we are to eat with God (Marriage Supper of the Lamb)

    Bitter Herbs

    Christ tasted the bitter cup for us and bitterness too we must suffer.  The lamb was not to be feasted upon raw but one that suffered, passed through the fire

    Be Ready to Leave

    They ate standing and dressed, ready to go.  Peaceful feasting in the houses of Israel; awful mourning in the house of Egypt!

    • The Passover sealed them
    • The passage of the Red Sea steeled them
    • The left Egypt under the blood, marked men.
    • They passed through the Red Sea directed.
    • God led them out and shut the door behind them
  • The Law (20-24)

    We see the law given, broken, and restored.  Up to this time in Israel’s history all has been about grace and mercy.  God had heard the cry of their bondage and answered them.  God selected a leader and trained him.  god defeated their enemies.  God fed them and yet they rebelled.  Now a new order of things is brought about at Sinai.

    the law demands nothing short of perfection.  Only one has been able to keep it perfectly.  Christ not only kept the law but He paid the complete penalty for the broken law.  He suffered so we might be spared.

    If a man could not keep the law, why was it given?  That we might know our exceeding sinfulness.

    God’s Law reveals our sin condition but doesn’t cleanse us from it.  (Just like a doctor reveals the condition of a sick patient).  It did not make man sin, it showed him that he was a sinner.

    The law is God’s mirror to show us our exceeding sinfulness.

There was not provision made in the law for failure.  It is all or nothing – the whole law or a broken thing.  One hole in a bowl, one crack in a pitcher, unfits it for its purpose.  One flaw in a character mars the perfection God requires under the law.

The Tabernacle:

God told Moses He wished a sanctuary or holy dwelling place which should point to Christ and tell of His person and work.

With the cloud of glory over it, taught the people that God was dwelling in their midst.  It was the common center and rallying point which could be moved from time to time.

God gave the tabernacle as a detailed picture of the Redeemer to come, in His many offices, and as a dwelling place for His visible glory on earth.

Outer Court:

The brazen altar on which the burnt offerings were sacrificed (Christ is our sin offering)

The Holy Place:

The golden lampstand (typifying Christ, the light of the world, and the bread of presence) Christ is the Bread of life, and the golden altar of incense symbolizing His intercession for us

Holy of Holies:

Draw back the veil (Christ’s body) we see the ark of the covenant, symbolizing God’s presence   Into this Holy of Holies, the high priest came only once a year to sprinkle the blood of atonement.  Christ is not only our High Priest but that He was our atonement, so we can go into the HH (the presence of God) ant any time with boldness.

Teaches us the redeemed must do the will of their Redeemer, consecrating themselves to His service, and submitting to His control.  Therefore, the moral law is given, followed by the ceremonial law which was provision for the violator of the moral law.

• God created the universe and everything in it with 22 Hebrew letters but his greatest creation was Man.  
• Our DNA  is encoded in the Bible.  
• Humans have 2 copies of 22 base pair chromosomes and one copy inherited from each parent giving us a total of 46.
• Chromosome 22 spans more that 51 million DNA building blocks (base pairs).  
• Chromosomes contain all of the DNA information that makes you into who you are.  
• It is stored in the blood.
• The pillars of Solomon’s temple measure 23 cubits high represent the two parents chromosomes that go into making each one of us, add these two pillars together and you’ve got a human body, the Temple of God!
• Even more special are the names that Solomon gave to these pillars.
• The left pillar was named “Jachin“, this literally translates as “GOD shall establish“; and the name of the second pillar “Boaz” translates as “Strength” or “In Strength“.
• If you string these two pillars together, Jachin Boaz, you get “GOD shall establish in strength“.
• God shall establish, in strength, his new Kingdom in which WE are the new Temple of God.
• Each of us have 46 chromosomes

• Jesus was the Word made flesh, and when He shed His blood on the cross, he became the perfect sacrifice and atonement for our sins. 
•  When He defeated death and ascended to heaven He sent out the Holy Spirit to dwell in us.
• Jesus lived 33 years – 33 vertebrae
• 4 gospels – A heart has 4 chambers
• Rev 4:4  – 24 Elders surrounding the throne (heart) – 24 Ribs

Luke 9 : The Ministry of the Twelve

(Matthew 10:5-15; Mark 6:7-13)

1Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases. 2And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick. 3And he said unto them, Take nothing for your journey, neither staves, nor scrip, neither bread, neither money; neither have two coats apiece. 4And whatsoever house ye enter into, there abide, and thence depart. 5And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them. 6And they departed, and went through the towns, preaching the gospel, and healing every where.

Luke 10: Jesus Sends Out the Seventy

1After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come. 2Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest. 3Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves. 4Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way. 5And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house. 6And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again. 7And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house. 8And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you: 9And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you. 10But into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say, 11Even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you. 12But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city.

The Seventy Return with Joy

17And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. 18And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. 19Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. 20Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.

The Holy Spirit at Pentecost

And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 3And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. 4And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

5And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. 6Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. 7And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? 8And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?

Babel – God divided the people and confused their languages.

Pentecost – God sent cloven (divided) tongues and this time they were confused in amazement.

United Nations Logo with the wreath of Apollyon and 33 sections

1 language – machine code 1 and 0’s

• Abraham chosen out of Ur of Chaldees
• Abrahamic Covenant – to make his seed a great nation and to give them the land of canaan (repeated with Isaac and Jacob) (3 covenant fathers)
• Circumcision
• Journey to Egypt

• Seperation of Lot
• God renews covenant – seed shall be like the dust of the earth
• Battle of Kings
• Lot rescued from Sodom
• Melchizedec blesses Abraham
• Promised an Heir – and that his seed will be like the stars in heaven
• Hagar(Egyptian handmaid) and Ishmael
• Renamed to Abraham from Abram – Renewed covenant that every male child be circumcised at day 8
• Renamed to Sarah from Sarai – God promises son who shall be called Isaac who he will establish covenant with
• Ishmael (from hand maid/ was circumcised at 13) blessed to be a great Nation and 12 princes according to his nations.
• Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed(was said to be as lush as the garden of eden)
• Birth of Moab and Benammi (Ammonites) through incest with Lot
• Birth of Isaac
• Sacrifice of Isaac on Mount Moriah
• Abraham blessed because of obedience – I will multiply thy seed as stars of heaven and sand of seashore and shall possess the gate of his enemies
• Search for wife for Isaac – Rebekah (sister of Laban) – married when Isaac was 40
• Isaac and Ishmael bury Abraham
• Rebekah and Isaac give birth to Jacob(heel grabber) and Esau(red, hairy, hunter, man of the field)
• Birthrights – Esau sells birthright (after killing Nimrod?)
• Isaac deceives Abimelech king of Philistines and prospers
• Esau at 40 marries Hittite
• Jacob steals blessing – God will give him the dew of heaven, and fatness of earth, corn and wine, nations and servants will bow down to thee
• Esau would live by the sword and serve Jacob
• Esau takes wives from Ishmaelites
• Jacobs ladder
• Jacob – Rachel(wife)/Leah(wife)/Bilhah(concubine)/Zilpah(concubine) (12 tribes)
• Jacob and Laban
• Jacob and Esau meet
• Jacob wrestles with Angel
• Jacob settles in Canaan
• Dinah defiled – brothers revenge
• Jacob renamed to Israel
• Isaac Dies
• Esau dwells in Mount Sier – Kings and Dukes of Edom
• Josephs Dreams
• Joseph sold to Ishmaelites then to Potiphar
• Joseph tempted and accused of rape then imprisoned
• 2 dreams of Pharaoh – 7 years of plenty / famine
• Joseph made ruler
• Joseph has Manessah and Ephraim
• Joseph and brothers meet
• Jacob goes to Egypt
• Israelites enter Egypt
• Jacob settles in Goshen (Rameses)
• Joseph and  sons blessed by Jacob – 12 Tribes
• Joseph buried in Egypt

Genesis 46:27

and the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt were two; all the persons of the house of Jacob, who came to Egypt, were seventy.

Canaan (11) – Phoenicians/the -ites (suffix for a rock, mineral, or fossil)

AMORITES

15:16“Then in the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.”

48:21And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers. 22Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.

 mountain dwellers; answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge

“the land of the MAR.TU (Amorites)”

They are described as a powerful people of great stature “like the height of the cedars,”

The Amorite king, Og, was described as the last “of the remnant of the Rephaim” (Deut. 3:11). The terms Amorite and Canaanite seem to be used more or less interchangeably, Canaan being more general and Amorite a specific component among the Canaanites who inhabited the land.

The Biblical Amorites seem to have originally occupied the region stretching from the heights west of the Dead Sea (Gen. 14:7) to Hebron (13:8; Deut. 3:8; 4:46–48), embracing “all Gilead and all Bashan” (Deut. 3:10), with the Jordan valley on the east of the river (4:49), the land of the “two kings of the Amorites,” Sihon and Og (Deut. 31:4; Josh. 2:10; 9:10). Both Sihon and Og were independent kings. These Amorites seem to have been linked to the Jerusalem region, and the Jebusites may have been a subgroup of them (Ezek. 16:3). The southern slopes of the mountains of Judea are called the “mount of the Amorites” (Deut. 1:7, 19, 20).

Five kings of the Amorites were first defeated with great slaughter by Joshua (10:10). Then more Amorite kings were defeated at the waters of Merom by Joshua (Josh. 11:8). It is mentioned that in the days of Samuel, there was peace between them and the Israelites (1 Sam. 7:14). The Gibeonites were said to be their descendants, being an offshoot of the Amorites who made a covenant with the Hebrews; when Saul later broke that vow and killed some of the Gibeonites, God sent a famine to Israel.

Assyriological discovery has explained the varying use of the name. The Hebrew form of it is a transliteration of the Babylonian Amurru, which was both sing. and plural. In the age of Abraham the Amurru were the dominant people in western Asia; hence Syria and Palestine were called by the Babylonians “the land of the Amorites.” In the Assyrian period this was replaced by “land of the Hittites,” the Hittites in the Mosaic age having made themselves masters of Syria and Canaan. The use of the name “Amorite” in its general sense belongs to the Babylonian period of oriental history.

The Amorites were warlike mountaineers. They are represented on the Egyptian monuments with fair skins, light hair, blue eyes, aquiline noses, and pointed beards. They are supposed to have been men of great stature; their king, Og, is described by Moses as the last “of the remnant of the giants” (Deuteronomy 3:11). Both Sihon and Og were independent kings. Only one word of the Amorite language survives, “Shenir,” the name they gave to Mount Hermon (Deuteronomy 3:9).

REPHAIM– ref’-a-im, re-fa’-im (repha’-im, from rapha’)

“a terrible one “hence “giant,” the shades or spirits of the departed, dwelling in Sheol or Hades, generally rendered in our version, “the dead”.  The giant Goliath and others were the remains of the Rephaim, or of the kindred family of Anakim. Their magnitude and strength are often spoken of in Scripture. They appear to have excelled in violence and crime, and hence are monuments of divine justice.

The aborigines of Palestine, afterwards conquered and dispossessed by the Canaanite tribes, are classed under this general title. They were known to the Moabites as Emim, i.e., “fearful”, (Deuteronomy 2:11), and to the Ammonites as Zamzummim. Some of them found refuge among the Philistines, and were still existing in the days of David.

AMELEKITES

A powerful people, who dwelt in Arabia Petraea, between the Dead Sea and the Red Sea, perhaps in moving troops. We cannot assign the place of their habitation, except in general it is apparent that they dwelt south of Palestine, between Mount Seir and the border of Egypt; and it does not appear that they possessed many cities, though one is mentioned in 1 Samuel 15:5. They lived generally in migrating parties, in caves or in tents, like the Bedaween Arabs of the present day. The Israelites had scarcely passed the Red sea, when the Amelikites attacked them in the desert of Rephidim, and slew those who, through fatigue or weakness, lagged behind; and for this unprovoked assault on the people of God, the doom of extermination was passed upon them, Exodus 17:8-16. They came again into conflict with a part of the Israelites on the border of the promised land, Numbers 14:45; and after 400 years, Saul attacked and destroyed them at the command of the Lord, 1 Samuel 15:1-35. A remnant, however, escaped and subsided afterwards; David defeated them on several occasions, 1 Samuel 27:8 30:1 2Sa 8:12; and they were finally blotted out by the Simeonites, in the time of Hezekiah, 1 Chronicles 4:43, thus fulfilling the prediction of Balaam, Numbers 24:20. Haman, the last of the race mentioned in Scripture, perished like his fathers, in conflict with the Jews. See the book of Esther.

HITTITES

 (Heth)-  terror; abolish, affright, be make afraid, amaze, beat down, discourage, to break down, either (literally) by violence, or (figuratively) by confusion and fear; (they were the ones who took down Babylon)

In Judges 3:3 the Hittites are described as dwelling “in Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon unto the entrance of Hamath,”

Their empire was the beginning of the iron age

Hittite prosperity was mostly dependent on control of the trade routes and metal sources.

The Hittite military made successful use of chariots.^[4] Although belonging to the Bronze Age, they were the forerunners of the Iron Age, developing the manufacture of iron artifacts from as early as the 18th century BC; at this time, gifts from the “man of Burushanda” of an iron throne and an iron sceptre to the Kaneshite king Anitta were recorded in the Anitta text inscription.

After 1180 BC, general turmoil in the Levant occurred that was conjectured to have been associated with the sudden arrival of the Sea Peoples.^[5][6] The kingdom disintegrated into several independent “Neo-Hittite” city-states, some of which survived until as late as the 8th century BC. The history of the Hittite civilization is known mostly from cuneiform texts found in the area of their kingdom, and from diplomatic and commercial correspondence found in various archives in Egypt and the Middle East.

 JEBUSITES

From buwc; trodden, i.e. Threshing-place; Jebus, the aboriginal name of Jerusalem;  trample, loath, oath, tread down, under foot, be polluted

GIRGASITES

 (dwelling on a clayey soil), The, one of the nations who were in possession of Canaan east of the Sea of Galilee before the entrance thither of the children of Israel.

HIVITES

 Perhaps from chavvah; a villager;  (life-giving, i.e. Living-place); by implication, an encampment or village — (small) town.  Chavvah (or Eve), the first woman — Eve.

In Judges 3:3 the Hittites are described as dwelling “in Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon unto the entrance of Hamath,” and in accordance with this the Hivite is described in Joshua 11:3 as being “under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh,” and in 2 Samuel 24:7 they are mentioned immediately after “the stronghold of Tyre.” Hence, the Septuagint (Codex Alexandrinus) reading must be right in Genesis 34:2 and Joshua 9:7, which makes the inhabitants of Shechem and Gibeon Horites instead of Hivites; indeed, in Genesis 48:22 the people of Shechem are called Amorite, though this was a general name for the population of Canaan in the patriarchal period. No name resembling Hivite has yet been found in the Egyptian or Babylonian inscriptions.

ARKITES

from araq (to gnaw); The Arkites inhabited Arqa, a city in the north of what is now Lebanon.

SINITES

thorn; clay;

ARVADITES

 Probably from ruwd; a refuge for the roving;  to wander restlessly, roam, have the dominion, be lord, mourn, rule;  They inhabited Arvad/Arwad, an island city that is now part of Syria.

Arvad: An island city off the coast of Syria some 30 miles North of Tripolis, and the race inhabiting it. It was a barren rock covered with fortifications and houses several stories in height. The island was about 800 ft. long by 500 wide, surrounded by a massive wall, and an artificial harbor was constructed on the East toward the main land. It developed into a trading city in early times, as did most of the Phoenician cities on this coast. It had a powerful navy, and its ships are mentioned in the monuments of Egypt and Assyria. It seems to have had a sort of hegemony over the northern Phoenician cities, from Mt. Cassius to the northern limits of Lebanon, something like that of Sidon in the South. It had its own local dynasty and coinage, and some of the names of its kings have been recovered.

ZEMARITES

shaggy; wool; inhabited the town of Sumra, at the western base of the Lebanon range. In the Amarna tablets (B.C. 1400) Zemar, or Zumur, was one of the most important of the Phoenician cities, but it afterwards almost disappears from history.

HAMATHITES

a place in damascus; 2 walls; fortified.   They inhabited the Kingdom of Hamath, located in what is now western Syria and northern Lebanon.

ZUZIMS

the posts of a door; splendor; beauty; restless, sprouting

HORITES

 Cave-men, a race of Troglodytes who dwelt in the limestone caves which abounded in Edom.

Their ancestor was “Seir,” who probably gave his name to the district where he lived. They were a branch of the Hivites (Genesis 14:6; 36:20-30; 1 Chronicles 1:38, 39). They were dispossessed by the descendants of Esau, and as a people gradually became extinct (Deuteronomy 2:12-22).

PERIZZITES

 Genesis 15:20, ancient inhabitants of Palestine, who had mingled with the Canaanites, or were themselves descendants of Canaan. They appear to have dwelt in the center of Canaan, Gen 34…30; Jos 11…3; 17.15; Jud 1…4-5; but there were some of them on each side of the river Jordan, in the mountains, and in the plains. In several places of Scripture, the Canaanites and Perizzites are mentioned as the chief people of the country; as in the time of Abraham and Lot, Genesis 13:7. Some remnants of this race existed in Solomon’s day, and were subjected by him to a tribute of service, 1 Kings 9:20. See CANAANITES.

NAMES

The War of the Kings

Amraphel – one that speaks of secrets; (keeper of the gods) – Babylonian king Hammurabi

 Previous to this engagement, however, the Elamites and their allies had attacked the Rephaim (Onkelos: “giants”) in Ashtaroth-karnaim, the Zuzim (O: “mighty ones,” “heroes”) in Ham (O: Chamta’), the Emim (O: “terrible ones”) in Shaveh-kiriathaim, and the Horites in their Mount Seir, by the Desert. These having been rendered powerless to aid the revolted vassals, they returned and came to Enmishpat, or Kadesh, attacked the country of the Amalekites, and the Amorites dwelling in Hazazontamar

Arioch – Lion-like, venerable.  long; great; tall

(1.) A king of Ellasar who was confederate with Chedorlamer (Genesis 14:1, 9). The tablets recently discovered by Mr. Pinches (see CHALDEA) show the true reading is Eri-Aku of Larsa. This Elamite name meant “servant of the moon-god.” It was afterwards changed into Rimsin, “Have mercy, O moon-god.”

Chedorlaomer (= Khudur-Lagamar of the inscriptions), king of Elam.

 Many centuries before the age of Abraham, Canaan and even the Sinaitic peninsula had been conquered by Babylonian kings, and in the time of Abraham himself Babylonia was ruled by a dynasty which claimed sovereignity over Syria and Palestine. The kings of the dynasty bore names which were not Babylonian, but at once South Arabic and Hebrew. The most famous king of the dynasty was Khammu-rabi, who united Babylonia under one rule, and made Babylon its capital. When he ascended the throne, the country was under the suzerainty of the Elamites, and was divided into two kingdoms, that of Babylon (the Biblical Shinar) and that of Larsa (the Biblical Ellasar). The king of Larsa was Eri-Aku (“the servant of the moon-god”), the son of an Elamite prince, Kudur-Mabug, who is entitled “the father of the land of the Amorites.” A recently discovered tablet enumerates among the enemies of Khammu-rabi, Kudur-Lagamar (“the servant of the goddess Lagamar”) or Chedorlaomer, Eri-Aku or Arioch, and Tudkhula or Tidal. Khammu-rabi, whose name is also read Ammi-rapaltu or Amraphel by some scholars, succeeded in overcoming Eri-Aku and driving the Elamites out of Babylonia. Assur-bani-pal, the last of the Assyrian conquerors, mentions in two inscriptions that he took Susa 1635 years after Kedor-nakhunta, king of Elam, had conquered Babylonia. It was in the year B.C. 660 that Assur-bani-pal took Susa.

Tidal – that breaks the yoke; knowledge of elevation

Its Babylonian Equivalent:  The only name in the cuneiform inscriptions resembling Tidal is Tudhula, or, as it was probably later pronounced, Tudhul. This, from its form, might be Sumerian, meaning “evil progeny,” or the like. In addition to the improbability of a name with such a signification, however, his title “king of goyim,” or “nations,” in Genesis 14:1, presupposes a ruler of another race.

Bera – Gift, or son of evil,

Birsha – Son of wickedness,

Shinab – father of changing

Shemeber – name of force; name of the strong, soaring on high, lofty flight

Zoar – small

3All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.

Places

SIDON– chase, hunt, sore, take provision; to lie alongside (i.e. In wait); by implication, to catch an animal (figuratively, men); catch, food, hunter, venison

SIDDIM– Tilled field

UR  – fire, light; From ‘owr; flame; hence (in the plural) the East (as being the region of light) — fire, light. See also‘Uwriym.

SEIR– (hairy, Shaggy) Seirath, hairy; goat; demon; tempest

SODOM– their secret; their cement

Its crimes and vices were so enormous, that God destroyed it by fire from heaven, with three neighboring cities, Gomorrah, Zeboim, and Admah, which were as wicked as itself, Genesis 19:1-20. The plain of Siddim in which they stood was pleasant and fruitful, like an earthy paradise; but it was first burned, and afterwards mostly overflowed by the waters of the Dead Sea or Lake of Sodom.

Apples of Sodom

sod’-um: Josephus (BJ, IV, viii, 4) says that “the traces (or shadows) of the five cities (of the plain) are still to be seen, as well as the ashes growing in their fruits, which fruits have a color as if they were fit to be eaten; but if you pluck them with your hands they dissolve into smoke and ashes.” What this “Dead Sea fruit” is, is uncertain. The name “Dead Sea apples” is often given to the fruit of the Solanum Sodomaean “a prickly shrub with fruit not unlike a small yellow tomato.” Cheyne thinks that the fruits referred to by Josephus (compare Tacitus Hist. v.37) may be either

(1) those of the `osher tree (`usar, Calotropis procera, described by Hasselquist (Travels, 1766)), found in abundance about Jericho and near the Dead Sea, which are filled with dust when they have been attacked by an insect, leaving the skin only entire, and of a beautiful color. Tristram describes the fruit as being “as large as an apple of average size, of a bright yellow color, hanging three or four together close to the stem”; or as suggested by Tristram

(2) those of the wild colocynth; the fruit is fair of aspect with a pulp which dries up into a bitter powder (EB, article “Sodom,” col. 4669, note 2). This colocynth is supposed to be the “wild vine” mentioned 2 Kings 4:39. The “vine of Sodom” of Deuteronomy 32:32 has been supposed to bear the “Dead Sea fruit”; but most modern writers regard the passage as figurative.

GOMORRAH – rebellious people; submersion, to overwhelm with water

One of the CITIES OF THE PLAIN (which see) destroyed by fire from heaven in the time of Abraham and Lot (Genesis 19:23-29). It was located probably in the plain South of the Dead Sea, now covered with water.

ASHTEROTH

 Ashteroth Karnaim: Ashteroth of the two horns, the abode of the Rephaim (Genesis 14:5). It may be identified with Ashtaroth preceding; called “Karnaim”, i.e., the “two-horned” (the crescent moon). The Samaritan version renders the word by “Sunamein,” the present es-Sunamein, 28 miles south of Damascus.

BASHAN 

“The place of the Serpent”

Two of its major cities, Ashtoreth and Edrei (Deut 1:4,  Joshua 13:12) were considered gateways to the underworld realm of the dead.

God brought the Israelites there to encounter Sihon and Og (Deut 3:2-3; 31:4).  The two kings of the Amorites and rulers of the Rephaim.

There is strong evidence that the biblical giants or Rephaim of the Bible were the architects the Circle of the Rephaim.

Genesis 14:5

The Refaim inhabit the place called Ashtherot-Karnaim. Just ten miles from the rings is the site of an ancient Canaanite city called Ashtherot.

Joshua 12:4

 King Og of Bashan, the last of the Refaim, who lived at Ashtarot… ruled a territory stretching From Mount Hermon in the north.

Deuteronomy 3

King Og‘s iron bedstead is kept at Rabbah… and measures thirteen and a half feet long and six feet wide. The Refaim were a large and powerful tribe, as tall as the Anakim (giants).

Chronicles 20 (the last of the Anakim is killed)

And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each hand, and six on each foot: and he also was the son of the giant.

But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David’s brother slew him. These were born unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants”. (1Ch 20:6-8) Notice here also, that he was the son of a giant, an Elouid.

According to tradition, the Nephilim had enormous psychic abilities. They performed levitation, mind control, and remote viewing. They had the power of pronouncing and removing curses and diseases, and had ways of knowing and predicting the future. They were extremely intelligent. They knew all about science, architecture, and engineering. They combined these skills with their powers of intelligence to build the Pyramids and the other great monuments around the world.

The Rephaim are known from biblical, Ugaritic, and Phoenician sources. In the Bible two uses of the term are discernible. The first is as a gentilic (e.g., Gen. 14:5; 15:20; Deut. 2:11) referring to a people distinguished by their enormous stature.

Especially singled out are Og king of Bashan (Deut. 3:11) and the powerful adversaries of David’s heroes (II Sam. 21:16, 18, 20).  The Bible’s emphasis on the size and might of the Rephaim is responsible for the Septuagint’s renderings gigantes and titanes.

Jesus begins building his church at the gates of hell

This is where Jesus said the gates of hell will not prevail against His church:

Matthew 16:17-19

And Jesus said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven;

ELITES QUEST FOR ATLANTIS

NASA’s space shuttle missions:

“A Colombian Enterprise to Endeavor for the Discovery of Atlantis… and all Challengers shall be destroyed”

CIRCLE OF BASHAN (GILGAL REPHAIM) Bashan is known as “The place of the Serpent”

PLATO’S DEPICTION OF ATLANTIS

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