Genesis 10-12

We read that Noah and his family walked on dry land. But where were the dead bodies? We know it is possible for trees and herbs generally to survive the flood, but not any living thing that has the breath of life. God did not spare them.

Genesis 6:17 “And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.”

Spirits don’t die. As the flood subsided, the dead bodies were swept of into the deep with their spirits. The deep is the pit, the Abyss, a place of darkness, i.e. the absence of God.

To those in deliverance ministry, these are the entities troubling mankind today; spirits from the waters. The inhabitants of the earth in the first place were destroyed because of the mingling of humans with angels and bore strange children. The only way these spirits multiply is through sex.

Women are special creatures. God created them for the purpose of procreation. Everything about them is to bring about multiplication; intellect, body organs, strength and other abilities. If you gave them little love, they give you a bunch of splendor with their heart. You are doomed if you showed hatred, they will give you hell.

God still needed human beings to carry out His plan of salvation. He needs a channel for realizing His agenda. He won’t violate His ordination even though He could change the course of realizing it. He won’t change or abandon His project, He will only change the person not yielding.

Do you know that after Eve, there was not any other woman whose name was mentioned in the scripture until Sarah, the barren?

Genesis 11:29 “And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; …. 30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child.”

The process of salvation started here with the choice of Abram’s family. God’s declaration against the serpent was about to take effect on earth. The unseen blood was with God, but a body was needful for the blood on earth.

Genesis chapter 12 reveals the probable reason for Sarai’s barrenness.

Genesis 12:1 “Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:”

It is written that God HAD said; which means, God had been talking Abram into covenant with Him before this stage but he was probably not yielding. Since Sarai was his wife, she was the only fit for the seed of promise; the womb of Sarai had been prepared as a channel for realizing His plan. Each time God speaks, His word is spirit and needs a body for the fulfillment. Abram yielded after God gave His promises of nationhood and blessing; a bargain was reached. Based on this, Abram departed according to God’s suggestion.

Amos 3:3 “Can two walk together, except they be agreed?”

Genesis 12:4 “So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; …: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.”

Not until there is agreement, God will not force His will on you. He may show signs of His plan. Sarai’s barrenness was not a duress on Abram to yield but to help Abram towards understanding purpose of his calling.

You will notice that, gradually, his association with his father’s house was reducing. Haran died leaving behind Lot, his son. Terah (Abram’s father) left Nahor (Abram’s brother) behind in Ur of Chaldees. Terah died on the way to Canaan in Haran, leaving Abram and Lot, with Sarai behind. Abram had nothing to hold unto but to move forward to obey the only comfort he had, God’s voice, since his father was dead.

On getting to Canaan, God appeared again to tell him that he has reached the place where he must settle. And there, Abram build the second altar ever recorded in the Bible. Now, the spirit of the call has started manifesting. His heart was being directed from loving his father’s house to loving the Lord.

Genesis 12:7 “And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.”

Altar is a symbol of worship. It is a platform for putting your sacrifice, a point of meeting with the Lord; heart to heart with God. A symbol of agreement. A platform for spiritual interaction.

It was on on the altar that Noah gave his sacrifice and God was pleased with the smell. Your heart matters before the Lord, beloved. Whatever you give the Lord, the motive is in your heart. If the motive is wrong, God cannot accept it. If it is to compete with another, it cannot be accepted. The altar Abram raised was not because of any sin or for a problem to be removed, but to appreciate God’s faithfulness. How many of you give thanksgiving offering in appreciation of God’s kindness without being told to do that? There are many offerings, beloved, but the only one that touches God’s heart is thanksgiving offering. Noah’s was a sweet savour in God’s nostril. Sacrifice is not giving what you don’t need, but giving what you need, but for a higher responsibility. This was the reason it was not hard for Abram to set his mind to sacrifice Isaac which he looked forward to for years. He was rewarded.

David is one of the greatest sinners recorded in the Bible, but he heard a good heart towards the Lord; he loved the Lord greatly and was always appreciating Him in songs and hymns. People go to church, not to praise God, but pray away their problems. That’s the reason they are not bordered whether they came late or not. Many come after praise and worship. And the moment the prayers are answered, the heart of appreciation is not in them. God must be appreciated. Being in the choir does not mean you are appreciating Him or worshiping him in the spirit; you are just a vessel being used to minister. God weighs the heart.

Our next reading is Gensis chapters 13-15

May the good Lord circumcise our hearts for the kingdom life, in the name of Jesus.

Supo Abayode

MFM, Delaware, USA

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Genesis 7-9   ANGER OF THE WATERS

For God to clean up the dirt and mess caused by the mingling of the sons of God and the daughters of men and the outcome of this unholy and ungodly union, He needed a man to be a channel; a man for the assignment. By grace, Noah was chosen.

Genesis 7:1 “And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.”

Noah was an obedient man who would not violate the commands of God. Now, this is hard to do in midst of a crooked generation. Evil had taken over, yet Noah could still maintain his status quo in the Lord.

Genesis 7:5-6 “And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him. 6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.”

Methuselah was Noah’s grandfather. He lived the longest without any good thing as testimony for the Lord. He was still leaving when Noah was building the Ark. Noah was born when Methuselah was 369 years old. The flood was when Noah was 600 years old,Genesis 7:6. And the Methuselah died at 969. Then, it can be concluded that Methuselah might have died in the flood. His son, Lamech, Noah’s father, died 5 years prior to the flood at age 777. At his death, Methuselah was 964 years. Unfortunately, there is no record he was among those saved from the flood.

The Flood

The flood was a mystery. Two fountains were opened to pour out the fury of God;

1. The great Deep, and
2. The windows of heaven

Genesis 7:11-12 “In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.”

The waters God separated at creation (Genesis 1:7) came into agreement that day. When God commanded the dry land to appear and the waters under heaven to gather as Seas (plural) they had their fountains. All are still under direct authority of their creator. Every element listens to God’s command; none of them rebels.

Psalms 148:8 “Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word: … 9-12”

All creations were made by the word and, therefore, must fulfill His word after being created. There is no place in this world that was not by His word, especially the earth. All the mappings and allotments were of the word.

Proverbs 8:27-30 “When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: 28 When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: 29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth: 30 Then I was by him, as one brought up with him (NKJV says “a master craftsmen”): and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;”

The summary of the destruction was that, as many as had the breath of life in the land of the living were destroyed by the flood together with their possessions.

We need to know that, in this scenario, the earth was not destroyed, neither was the heaven destroyed. Only the inhabitants of the earth was destroyed because of the evil increasing among them. The more they forget God, the more evil increased.

The flood lasted for 5 months before subsiding. The storm obeyed the instruction of God to push the water away from the earth back to where it came from.

Genesis 8:3 “And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.”

The words used in Gen 7:24 (prevailed), Gen 8:1 (asswage) and Gen 8:3 (abate) are words used to describe the activities of storms.

After the settlement of the water and Noah could walk on dry land, he sacrificed to the Lord. Noah became the first person in the Bible to build and altar and made a sacrifice of burnt offering unto the Lord.

Genesis 8:20 “And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.”

God smelt it and made a covenant with Noah. The earth was empty, but God blessed Noah to replenish it. To replenish means to make plenty (fill up) again as it was. His sacrifice was accepted. He entered into covenant with Noah with a token of abstinence for eating blood. The sacrifice was not because of his sin or the sins of his children, but to appreciate the mightiness of God. I am not sure if it was God who requested for this sacrifice or his own thought. But, it is very likely that he did that after the covenant in chapter 9. Then, his first killing for meat was sacrificed to God which God accepted and was provoked to bless Noah.

Unfortunately, Noah repeated the sin of those that perished in the flood; drinking to the point that his nakedness was not covered before his grand child, Canaan.

Genesis 9:21 “And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.”

Canaan became the first to be cursed after the flood.

Your sacrifice to God is very important. It must be clean and of pure heart with good motive. Many give with the motive of receiving back. The truth is that God cannot be bribed. It is not the gift that matters but the intent for the giving, the motive behind the giving. That was the difference between the offering of Cain and Abel. Cheerfulness of heart gives your offering more weight. Giving grudgingly makes our offering to lose weight and makes unhealthy and unclean. In case of Noah, God said all the animals are given to him as meat, but the Bible says he picked the clean ones to offer unto the Lord; that is a gift from a clean heart.

Genesis 9:3 “Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.”

Genesis 8:20-21 “And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; …”

May the Lord accept our good offering in the name of Jesus

Supo Abayode

MFM, Delaware, USA

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Bible-in OneYear- Day 2 (January 2)

Genesis 4-6

In Genesis 3, we saw how man fell through sin against God. We talked about how Satan negotiated for the serpent’s earth body to deceive man. Eve assumed the serpent to be just one of the animals she was taking care of, not knowing that Satan had negotiated for the body. We need to be very careful of wrong assumptions this year.

1 John 4:1 “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.”

Believing foul spirit caused man to fall for sin. Beloved, that evil spirit is still talking today. It is your duty to learn to recognize the source of the voice you are hear. The scripture says there are many voices and all of them have specifics to identify the source.

1 Corinthians 14:10 “There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.”

The personality that spoke to deceive Eve, was the same personality that spoke to Jesus through the serpent and Peter in the New Testament.

Matthew 16:23 “But he turned, and said to Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan; thou art an offense to me: for thou savorest not the things that are of God, but those that are of men.”

It appeared to Eve as a serpent but used the mouth of Peter to Jesus. As at the time it interacted with Eve, the enemy had no access to human being then.  But through its success in Gen 3, access was gained into human beings. It may not necessarily lie but could have a great influence. Eve could not resist the suggestion of Satan in the serpent, but it was recognized and resisted when it appeared to Jesus in Luke 4. The motive of its seeming truth must always be weighed and viewed in line with the Word of God.

The transaction in Chapter 3 locked up evil in man as power of sin. This power of sin is the root of all other sins. The power of sin worked in Cain against Abel in chapter 4.

1. Anger
2. Envy
3. Hate
4. Murder
5. Lie
6. Indifference

All these sponsored by the Power of sin.

Genesis 4:7 “… and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. …”.

Before chapter 3, men never needed to call upon the Lord because God was always visiting anyway. But the moment the spirit of man became dead to God and he was driven out of the Garden of Eden, he felt his emptiness and started seeking the supernatural. There is a place within us that is to touch the supernatural. That part is our spirit. If the spirit is not revived, the soul touches the dark world. This is how a person is possessed; the soul interacting with the dark world. Your spirit does not do that; it only touches God if alive. That is the part we use to relate with Him. Men began to try to contact God in the time of Seth, the junior brother of Abel.

Genesis 4:7 “If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.”

The gruesome sin that displeased God was when men began to conceive for spirits (sons of God). Spiritual immorality increased, and more demonic beings increased.

Genesis 6:2 “That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.”

Evil spread over the earth. Wickedness became the order of the day; witch craft at high level and God concluded to destroy the inhabitants of the earth.

Genesis 6:2 “That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.”

As we discussed in the previous reading, God still need somebody of earth body to carry out His agenda. In Chapter 6, one with good grade of righteousness was chosen, the person of Noah.

Genesis 6:2 “That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.”

May you find grace in the eyes of the Lord in Jesus name. Amen.

Supo Abayode

MFM, Delaware. USA

MYSTERY OF CREATION

In these three chapters, we shall see the events of creations, and beginning of man and Satan’s invasion to the earth. Man was first conceived in God as an abstract idea or notion. Which means, Man was a spiritual concept of God. God is spirit. Therefore, any thing that has to do with Him is spirit. The foremost of this idea was for the domination on earth. Man was not conceived to live in heaven, but on earth. To rule and dominate. Hence, there inbuilt quality of man, his capacity, his wiring was for the earth. Just as a car is designed to run on roads and not on railroads, water ways and air. An aero plane is designed to fly. If any is taken to where it is not designed for, it will malfunction. As a spirit, man cannot function on earth without an earthy body. Anything that would function on earth must have an earthy body as a rule. God, Himself, cannot carry out anything on earth without an earthy body. His idea cannot be realized on earth without a body. For His plan to work, he needed an earthy body. You may wonder why this is so. Reason will be in another discussion. But as a clue, dark spirits were to be barred from the earth. But if they don’t have an earthy body, it will be impossible for them.

For the earth to be convenient for man, God created many things by His word. He formed things also by the same word. These are the happenings in Genesis chapter one. As soon as the earth was prepared for the comfort of man, that entity (idea in Him) which is the spirit in Him had to manifest. God then talked to Himself; God the Father, God the Son (Word) and God the Holy Spirit.

Genesis 1:26 “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”

They formed or made the body from the earth and released the idea within (a spirit) as a breath into the earthy body.

Genesis 2:7 “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”

As soon as the breath entered the formed earthy body, a soul was created, which got its living from the life of the breath.  So, here, the Spirit of God carried out the making from the a raw material, the earth and God’s breath of God gives life.

Job 33:4 “The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.”

In this simple understanding, we could see that man has:

1. A spirit.
2. A soul
3. A body

We quite understand the body. We also understand the spirit now, a part of God. But the soul may  not be so clear to many.

The Spirit

God is spirit and to connect Him, we need something like Him or of Him. For instance, the only part on our body built for sight are the eyes. They cannot perceive sound waves except there is something that will interpret the sound, such as scientific graphical representation. The part of us that is designed specifically to detect sound waves are the ears. If the ears became deaf, the person is dead to sound waves.

Same way with the spirit in man. The only part of man that could relate with God, i.e., designed to contact God is the spirit of man. If this spirit became dead, man is dead to God and where there is death, life is the only thing needful there.

The Soul

This is intangible. It houses the spirit of man. It is in the blood of man. It carries the life for the body. It is who we are. It is created by the breath of God. This is what expresses who we are. It comprises three aspects of us.

1. The Mind
2. The Emotion, and
3. The Will.

None of these aspects communicates directly with God because they are not created to do that. But the mind communicates with spirit of man, other spirits and the environment. The response of its communication is the emotion and the action of the emotion is the Will, the most powerful. If a mind receives a provocative info, the emotion reacts, and the will expresses it. If the will is curbed, then it is said that the man has control over.

The Body

This carries the five senses of man to relate with the environment.

As we read in Genesis chapter 3, man lost the glory he carried at creation and his power was defiled. Satan is spirit also. He could function on earth without an earthy body. He, however, succeeded in negotiating for the body of the serpent through which he related with man. All animals came from the earth by God’s command.

Genesis 2:19 “And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.”

No spirit in them. Through the serpent, man’s spirit died, a relationship was broken and Satan encroached the soul of man, using the power of the soul to carry out his evil enterprise on earth. Man became dead to the righteous God and enslaved to Satan through sin. Death entered the earth.

Romans 5:12 “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: …. 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.”

We inherited death because the above says, “…, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, …”

To cover the sin, instead of the leaves Adam and Eve used (Genesis 3:7), and restore the injured relationship, a life was needed.  The only source of life is the blood. Which simply means there has to be an atonement for the soul of man. The soul of man was under siege by the power of iniquity.

Leviticus 17:11 “For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.”

God killed an animal and used the skin(Genesis 3:21) to cover the nakedness of man because the glory that was covering before fall had departed. The shed blood was to repair the injury and restore the relationship.

Remember that these are all of animals. They are not strong enough to remove the sin, nor powerful to stop sin.

The Life

God cannot stand sin because it is Satan’s identity. It has become his nature.

1 John 3:8 “He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.”

Through sin, Satan acquires and possesses. Therefore, whoever sin only identifies with Satan. Here we see that it was the soul that sinned and enslaved. Deliverance is needed here. For as long as a man remains in sin, there is no relationship with God. No matter the number of rams and goats slaughtered as sacrifice, God does not delight in them. He wants the relationship as in the beginning back.

Isaiah 1:11 “To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.”

When man fall, he suffered three devastating blows.

1. His spirit was dead to God and therefore lost the glory of God

Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;”

2. His soul was invaded by darkness
3. His body received the curse of death and sickness entered.

Man needed redemption in this condition. He needed life for the dead spirit, deliverance for the enslaved soul and healing for the sick body.

This is the reason for the Son of God to come to the world. He is a spirit also, and therefore, he needed a body. God, Himself, prepared a body for Him.

Hebrews 10:5 “Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:”

He is the true sacrifice that God cannot despise. He carried the blood of life to repair the injured relationship and a body for the healing of man.

Isaiah 53:5 “But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”

1 John 5:11 “And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.”

There is only one way back to God and that is Jesus. There is only one life for our salvation and that is of His shed blood. There is only one route to eternal life, and that is to believe and be born again. By this, the seed is planted to break the power of sin and to yield the fruit of righteousness

1 John 3:9 “Whoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.”

Beloved, believe Jesus’ testimony of Himself which is true.

John 14:6-7 “Jesus saith to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh to the Father, but by me. 7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.”

John 3:15 “That whoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.”

May the Lord keep your soul and bless your days in this year with His unfailing presence in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Keep the fire burning.

Supo Abayode

Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries

Delaware