Our COVENANT GOD - the ABRAHAMIC COVENANT (Ref. 32) - 19 December 2017 - From the desk of Celia Joy Martins
With ancient Babylon in FULL BLOOM - NIMROD AND HIS CONSORT WIFE SEMIRAMIS as KING AND QUEEN - their abominational BRUTAL and SEXUAL DISTORTED religion of PAGANISM THRIVING all over the globe after the Tower of Babel's confusion - MAN all over the world believing in many many many FOREIGN gods - ABBA YHWH - CHOSE ABRAM, the son of Terah, descendant of Shem, to be the 'father' of the Hebrew nations that was to be born from Abraham.
ABRAHAM: Abram was born in the land of UR of the Chaldeans. The Chaldean-tribe lived in SOUTHERN BABYLONIA - the southern part of Iraq today - (Gen. 11:28, 31 and Gen. 15:7).
CHALDEAN KINGS OF BABYLON:
Jewish Literature claims that when Abraham was born, the "MIGHTY NIMROD" was REIGNING in BABYLON, before the tower of Babel.
RULING HIS FOUNDED BABYLONIAN KINGDOM (a group of cities which formed the mighty Babylon) with an EVIL BRUTAL CONTROLLING HAND was his just as EVIL and totally IMMORAL consort wife Semiramis (Queen Easter/Ishtar).
JOINT TOGETHER - NIMROD - SEMIRAMIS and BABYLON - are the "mother" of all IDOLATRY and SEXUAL IMMORALITY all over the world - the "whore" of Babylon as in the Bible - 'seated' on MANY WATERS - INFLUENCING the ENTIRE WORLD'S LEADERS.
Rev. 17:1 "One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls then came and spoke to me, saying COME WITH ME! I will show you the DOOM (SENTENCE, JUDGMENT) of the GREAT HARLOT (IDOLATRESS) WHO IS SEATED ON MANY WATERS. (Jer. 51:13).
:2 [She] with WHOM the RULERS of the EARTH HAVE JOINED IN PROSTITUTION (idolatry) and with the WINE of WHOSE IMMORALITY the INHABITANTS of the EARTH have become INTOXICATED. [Jer. 25:15, 16]
:3 And [the angel] bore me away [rapt] in the Spirit into a desert (wilderness) and I saw A WOMAN SEATED on a SCARLET BEAST that was all COVERED with BLASPHEMOUS TITLES (names) and he had seven heads and ten horns.
:4 The WOMAN was ROBED IN PURPLE AND SCARLET AND BEDECKED WITH GOLD, PRECIOUS STONES, and PEARLS, [and she was] HOLDING IN HER HAND a GOLDEN CUP FULL OF THE ACCURSED OFFENSES and the FILTH of her LEWDNESS AND VICE. [Jer. 51:7].
:5 And ON HER FOREHEAD there was INSCRIBED A NAME OF MYSTERY [with a SECRET SYMBOLIC MEANING]: BABYLON the GREAT, the MOTHER OF PROSTITUES (IDOLATRESSES) and of the FILTH AND ATROCITIES and ABOMINATIONS of the EARTH.
:6 I also saw that the WOMAN was DRUNK [drunk] WITH THE BLOOD of the SAINTS (YAH'S PEOPLE) and the BLOOD of the MARTYRS [who witnessed] for YAHSHUA. And when I saw her I was utterly amazed and wondered greatly.
:15 And [the angel further] said to me, The WATERS that you observed, WHERE THE HARLOT IS SEATED, are RACES and MULTITUED AND NATIONS and DIALECTS.
:18 And the WOMAN that YOU SAW is HERSELF the GREAT CITY WHICH DOMINATES and CONTROLS the RULERS AND the LEADERS of the EARTH."
ABRAHAM:
With NIMROD AND SEMIRAMIS' EVIL PAGAN and BRUTAL KINGDOM AND RELIGION FIRMLY in PLACE - Abraham was born of Terah, a descendant of Shem but also a HIGH PRIEST in Babylon.
ABRAM'S EARLY LIFE:
Some important events that are only hinted here and there in Jewish Scriptures is hardly told of anywhere of the father of the Hebrew nation until he was seventy five years old.
A most important event is of Abraham's DISOBEDIENCE of NIMROD, the KING and FORERUNNER - the SPEAR-HEAD - the TRAILBLAZER PAGAN-PIONEER of a BRUTAL and VIOLENT KINGDOM - the ARCHITECT and ORIGINATOR of ALL the HEATHENS (the PEOPLE that do NOT ACKNOWLEDGE YAHWEH as GOD) AND IDOL WORSHIPPERS OF HIS TIME, which led to Abram being thrown into a burning furnace.
The FULL STORY of this and other events in Abraham's early life was at first only told by word of mouth - from generation to generation until the details were finally recorded by the Scholars [students] of the "Talmud" (The literature of the conversational Torah - The five Books of Moses of the Hebrew Bible) in various Midrashim [Rabbinic Literature].
FROM "ABRAHAM'S EARLY LIFE" by Nissan Mindel.
"Abraham (who was first called Abram) was born in the year 1948 after Creation (1813 BCE). ... His father's name ... was Terah, who was seventy years old when Abraham was born. Abraham's mother's name was Amathlaah. The town in which he was born was called Cutha, in Mesopotamia ...
Abraham was the TENTH GENERATION removed from NOAH ... a direct descendant of SHEM ... When ABRAHAM WAS BORN, SHEM was 390 years old, and his father was 892 years old. Abraham was 58 years old when NOAH DIED. These are important facts, for, as we shall see later, Abraham spent many years in the HOUSE OF NOAH AND SHEM, and RECEIVED INSTRUCTION from THEM. Thus he LEARNED ALL the DETAILS about the FLOOD from the VERY MEN WHO BUILT the ARK and SURVIVED the FLOOD.
(NOAH KNEW METHUSELAH for many hundreds of years, who in turn knew Adam for many hundreds of years, which means that Abraham received reliable information about EVERYTHING that happened since the very first day of Creation!)
The MIGHTY KING NIMROD:
Terah, Abraham's father, was the chief officer or minister of the first king mentioned in the Torah, the MIGHTY KING NIMROD OF BABYLON (also known by its former name, Shinear, and the land of the Chaldees).
TERAH WAS AN IDOL WORSHIPPER, LIKE HIS KING, and their CHIEF GOD WAS THE SUN."
NIMROD'S STARGAZERS:
On the day of Abram's birth, Nimrod's STARGAZERS told the king that Terah's NEWLY BORN-SON would ONE DAY BE A DANGER TO HIS THRONE. NIMROD ORDERED TERAH TO SENT HIM the BABY, to be PUT TO DEATH. Terah, however, OUTWITTED the KING, by sending the baby of a slave who was born on the same night as Abraham, and Nimrod killed the baby with his own hands, believing that he was not safe from the threat.
The baby Abram, with his mother and nurse, were hidden in a cave for ten years. At the age of three years, Abram knew that it was silly to worship the sun or any other idol, but that there was a great G-D, who CREATED the SUN and the MOON, and the WHOLE WORLD, Who though Himself unseen, sees everything and knows everything, and is the REAL KING OF THE WORD, MORE POWERFUL than NIMROD. And since that time, Abraham's faith in G-D grew stronger every day.
At the age of ten, Abraham decided to leave the cave and to go to old Noah and Shem ... Abraham made his way from the low country to the mountainous region of Ararat in the land of Kedem, where Noah and his family lived. He was made welcome by old Noah and Shem, who taught him all they KNEW ABOUT G-D, and the WAYS of G-D.
Abraham stayed there for nearly 39 years, until the year 1997. It was at the end of this period, when he was 48 years old, while still in Noah's house, that Abraham heard about the WORLD-SHATTERING EVENT of the TOWER OF BABEL, which TOOK PLACE in the LAND OF SHINEAR, WHERE NIMROD REIGHNED SUPREME. Nimrod and his people wanted to build a tower that would reach up to heaven, so that they might establish their REIGN UPON the HEAVEN AS WELL AS ON THE EARTH. It was the HEIGHT OF ARROGANCE AND DEFIANCE OF MEN AGAINST YHWH G-D, and it LED TO CONFUSION AND TO THEIR DISPERSAL AND DIVISION INTO SEVENTY TONGUES AND NATIONS. Abraham decided that it was high time to go out and teach them to truth about G-D, and about the FALSEHOOD AND WORTHLESSNESS of the IDOLS. He KNEW that in DEFYING NIMROD, and EVEN HIS OWN FAHTER, he would be RISKING HIS LIFE, for NIMROD HAD PROCLAIMED HIMSELF GOD AND DEMANDED THT ALL the PEOPLE WORSHIP HIM.
At the age of fifty (in the year 1998) Abraham returned to his father's house in Babylon: Terah was a HIGHT PRIEST of the IDOL WORSHIPPERS. He had TWELVE CHIEF GODS, ONE for EACH MONTH of the YEAR AND OTHER IDOLS. In fact, there was a workshop in Terah's house, where idols of wood, stone, silver and gold were made. People came to offer sacrifices to these idols, or to buy them, and Terah had a thriving business. ...
Abrahams activities, in words and deeds, AROUSED NIMROD'S ANGER. Both Abraham and his father were ordered to appear before the king. Here the king's stargazers at once recognize Abraham as the one about whom they had warned the king. Terah was taken to task for deceiving the king, and he put the blame on his older son Haran, who was 32 years older than Abraham. Haran had secretly followed Abraham, but he was not quite sure whether he was wise in doing so. He thought that he would come out openly on Abraham's side, if and when Abraham would come out victorious. Nimrod ORDERED ABRAHAM BE THROWN into a BURNING FURNACE.
When Abraham came out UNHARMED, HARAN DECLARED HIMSELF ON ABRAHAM'S SIDE AND CHOSE TO BE LIKEWISE THROWN INTO the FURNACE, and HE WAS BURNT TO DEATH. Abraham on the other hand, whom G-D HAD SO WONDERFULY SAVED FROM THE FIRE, was ACCLAIMED BY ALL the people, and they were to WORSHIP him. But Abraham told them to worship G-D, Who had saved him from the burning furnace and that he himself was nothing but a human being. Nimrod was greatly afraid of Abraham. He gave him many precious gifts, among them Eliezer, a member of the king's household, who became Abraham's trusted servant and friend.
Two years later, Nimrod ... who had been worried about Abraham all the time, decided to try again to kill him, and sent men to capture him. ... Eliezer learned of the plot and informed Abraham in good time. Abraham, with his band of followers, numbered over 300, fled to Noah. About a month later, his father Terah came to visit him there. Abraham persuaded him to give up his idolatry. He pointed out to him, moreover, that his life was also in danger, for Nimrod would not spare him. So Terah gave up his high position at Nimrod's court, and decided to go with Abraham to the land of Canaan, where they would be free to worship G-d, out of reach of Nimrod.
Thus Terah, his son Abraham and his wife Sarai, and Lot, Haran's son, and all their household left Ur of the Chaldees in Babylon and set out for Canaan. On the way they came to Charan ('Haran'), where Nahor lived, found it a good place and stayed there." (Abraham's Early Life by Nissan Mindel - Published and copyrighted by Kehot Publication Society - http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/112063/jewish/Abrahams-Early-Life.htm)
THE CHALDEANS were intelligent but also aggressive warlike people. In 731 BC Ukinzer, a Chaldean, became the king of Babylon but his reign was short - a few years later another Chaldean Merodach-Baladan became king over Babylon - then in 626 BC Nabopolasser - also a Chaldean became king and during his reign the word "Chaldean" became synonymous for Babylon with many verses of the Bible referring to the word Chaldean as Babylonians. (Is. 13:19; 47:1, 5; 48:14, 20) Successors to the throne after Nabopolasser were NEBUCHADNEZZAR, AMEL-MARDUK, NABONIDUS and THEN BALSHAZZAR - KING of the CHALDEANS (Dan 5:30).
At the height of the Babylonian Empire, the Chaldeans were a group of people that were influential and highly educated as documented in ancient writings.
In the times of Daniel, Babylon was known as the intellectual (academic) center of western Asia.
The Babylonians (Chaldeans) were FAMOUS (RENOWNED) for their STUDIES and KNOWLEDGE of ASTROLOGY (fortune-telling, soothsaying, clairvoyance, forecasting, prediction, astral-prophecy) through ASTRONOMY - [stargazing, starwatching, space science, astro-physics].
They kept ASTRONOMICAL RECORDS for over 360 years. They were highly skilled in the astral - celestial, starry-hosts, planetary, cosmological studies in the existence of a unique being, generally seen as some king of a god is - its origin - evolution etc. - also in lunar, stellar, solar and cosmic predictions and studies.
The Chaldeans influenced Nebuchadnezzar's decision to throw Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego into the furnace (Dan. 3:8) and were well-known as "WISE MEN AND ASTROLOGERS" during the time of the Jewish captivity in Babylon. (Dan. 1:4; 2:20; 4:7; 5:7, 11).
It is also these "WISE MEN" (of the east) that followed the STAR of BETLEHEM months after Yahshua was born to find the new KING (Matt. 2:2).
Interestingly - the SAMARITANS of the New Testament were DESCENDANTS of the CHALDEANS:
The SAMARITANS of the New Testament were DESCENDANTS of the Chaldeans. Acts 8 tells us of the FIRST GREAT DECEIVER (HERETIC, LIAR, FRAUD, SWINDLER, CHEAT) who DECEIVED the name of the MESSIANIC believers -
SIMON MAGNUS or SIMON the MAGICIAN. Simon was also the HIGH PRIEST of the SAMARITANS who lived NORTH of JUDEA and DESCENDANTS OF the CHALDEANS.
SYNCRETISM: (The mixture (merger, union, unification, mix, blend of different religions, cultures, or 'schools' of thought)
The CHALDEANS were TRANSPLANTED by the ASSYRIANS into that area in the eight century BC and BROUGHT THEIR BABYLONIAN (CHALDEAN) RELIGIOUS CUSTOMS and TRADITIONS WITH THEM. With time, living NEAR the JEWS, the Samaritans ADOPTED some Jewish practices but KEPT their PAGAN GRADITIONS AND CUSTOMS. They also ADOPTED some Greek and Persian philosophies and customs. THIS MIXTURE IS CALLED SYNCRETISM.
It was SIMON MAGNUS - the MAGICIAN that saw and heard Philip the follower of Yahshua the Messiah - preaching the Gospel in Samaria pretending to BELIEVE Philip's preaching.
When Peter and John left Jerusalem to go to Samaria to continue Philip's work, starting in Samaria to complete the BAPTISIMAL ceremonies, many MIRACLES MANIFESTED with the CONVERSIONS, and when SIMON MAGNUS SAW what happened, HE WANTED TO HAVE the SAME POWERS - OFFERING Peter and John MONEY in trying to obtain it.
When Peter REBUKED him for his corruption, bribery and attitude, Simon the magician left without being converted. No hands were laid on him and he did not receive the Holy Spirit.
Simon Magnus then ADDED some PRACTICES AND METHODS HE SAW from Philip, Peter and John and MIXED it with the SAMARITAN ALREADY MIXED RELIGION. His NEW RELIGION BECAME TWISTED and DISTORTED INTO A COMBINATION OF JEWISH CEREMONIES, BABYLONIAN PRACTICES, PERSIAN AND GREEK MYTHOLOGY AND MYSTERIES.
Like Philip, Johan and Peter, he went from CITY to CITY PREACHING his NEW RELIGION.
When he reached Rome, he had already attracted a VAST NUMBER of FOLLOWERS and BECAME SO POWERFUL and INFLUENTIAL that people HONORED him as a god. Even a statue of him was erected on the Tibet River.
In his STATE OF VANITY, Simon Magnus EXCEEDING HIMSELF and DIED WHILE TRYING to PLAY GOD in some SUPERNATURAL ACTIVITIES. Rumors were that he wanted to be BURIED ALIVE to RE-APPEAR in THREE DAYS LIKE YAHSHUA. Some others proclaimed that he wanted to PROVE his SUPERNATURAL POWERS by FLYING off a towering building. Simon's EVIL WORK WAS ONLY the START of FALSENESS and DECEITFULNESS.
ABRAHAM and HIS MEN KILLED NIMROD:
Amazingly, through the hand of YAHWEH, it was ABRAHAM AND HIS MEN - pursuing the KINGS of the east, that KIDNAPPED the people of Sodom of which Lot and his family were part of - that KILLED NIMROD (as ONE of the KINGS). YAHSHUA as the CAPTAIN of the HEAVENLY ARMY Himself was with Abraham.
After Abraham and his men's victory, in the valley of the kings, YAHSHUA - in the form of Melchizedek, the KING OF SALEM (KING OF PEACE) - the very first HOLY COMMUNION TOOK PLACE between Melchizedek and Abraham.
The ABRAHAMIC COVENANT:
The Abrahamic covenant is THREE-FOLD by the CHOICE of YHWH - the ALMIGHTY:
1. ABRAHAM as the "FATHER" of the HEBREW nation
2. The LAND of CANAAN as the PROMISED LAND to ABRAHAM AND HIS OFFSPRING as AN EVERLASTING POSSESSION
3. ABBA CHOSE ABRAHAM to be the "INSTRUMENT" THROUGH WHICH ALL PEOPLE WOULD be BLESSED. (Fulfilled in the New Covenant - Out of Abraham's bloodline came the MESSIAH YAHSHUA and the NEW COVENANT - Jer. 31:31-40; Luke 22:17-20)
The Abrahamic COVENANT was originally INITIATED by YHWH to Abraham (of Ur of the Chaldeans) who was living in Haran as:-
A promise of land,
A promise of descendants and
a world-wide blessing. (Gen. 12:1-3)
When Lot and Abraham's paths separated - YHWH AGAIN promised the land to Abraham and his descendants. (Gen. 13:14-17).
In Gen 15:1-21 the covenant is RATIFIED.
In Gen. 17:1-27 when Abraham was 99 years old, the covenant was RENEWED and his name was changed from Abram (exalted father) to Abraham (father of a multitude). Yah promised a son through Sarah through which the covenant would extend. The sign of the covenant was the CIRCUMCISION for all males at 8 days old.
Gen. 22:15-18 - The covenant CONFIRMED through Abraham's OBEDIENCE "AND IN YOUR DESCENDANTS ALL THE NATIONS of the EARTH SHALL FIND BLESSING"
Rom 9:6-8 "For not all Israelites are true Israelites nor are all Abraham's descendants his children, but as Scripture says, 'through Isaac shall your descendants be called' That means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of Yah; it is the CHILDREN of the PROMISE WHO ARE TO BE CONSIDERED DESCENDANTS."
Thank You ABBA for YOUR AMAZING - REDEEMING LOVE - Thank You for INCLUDING the GENTILES INTO THE PROMISE of a BLESSING as EARLY as Your COVENANT with ABRAHAM. THIS IS MIND-BLOWING O WONDERFUL SAVIOR - that EVEN AT THAT TIME YOU WERE THINKING OF US ALL!. WE PRAISE YOUR NAME - GLORY TO YOU O YHWH - GOD of the UNIVERSE - KING OF kings and MASTER of masters. In YAHSHUA MESSIAH'S NAME. Amen.