Basis for our Studies this Year:
The Bible tells us that the “End (of the world) is declared from the “beginning” (Isaiah 46:10). Certainly, this means that the early Biblical record of human history bears End-time prophetic significance. But, it’s actually even more specific than that. The original Hebrew word translated as “beginning” in Isaiah 46:10 is תישאר (rê’shı̂yth). This is the root of Bereshith, which is the Hebrew name of the first Book of the Bible, “Genesis”. In other words, prophecies of the End of the World are found in the Book of Genesis.
The Torah is one of the five keys for unlocking End-time Prophecy… Prophecy is unlocked through the Statutes!
Genesis 10 and the Prophetic Table of Nations - the Amorites:
Connecting
End-time Bible Prophecy with the Genesis 10 Nations to discover the prophetic
application and role of each ancient kingdom…
Scripture
tells us that Genesis is a prophetic template
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Isaiah 46:10
– “The end is declared from the Beginning (Genesis)”
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Genesis 10:16 – the Amorites are named as the children of Canaan, son of Ham
The "Genesis 10 Nations," or the Table of
Nations, is a Biblical chapter listing the descendants of Noah's three
sons—Shem, Ham, and Japheth—as the founders of various peoples and nations
after the Flood, symbolizing the spread of humanity across the earth, with
specific lineages linked to regions around the Mediterranean, Asia, and Africa.
Key descendants include Japheth's sons (Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal,
Meshech, Tiras) settling northwest, Ham's sons (Cush, Egypt, Put, Canaan) in
Africa/Middle East, and Shem's sons (Elam, Ashur, Arphaxad, Lud, Aram) in the
Near East, with Noah's grandson Nimrod establishing early kingdoms like Babylon
and Assyria.
Prophetic
Shadow: The
Amorites resisted Israel and fought against it. Also they would not allow
Israel to pass peaceably through their land, on their way Home…
Judges 11:17-20 – “Then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king of Edom would not hearken thereto. And in like manner they sent unto the king of Moab; but he would not consent: and Israel abode in Kadesh. Then they went along through the wilderness, and compassed the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came to the east side of the land of Moab, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, but came not within the border of Moab: for Arnon was the border of Moab.. And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land unto my place. But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.”
There is
a literal and spiritual application to this prophecy
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The
spiritual Amorites are working to hinder our passage to our spiritual
destination
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Yahweh
ultimately judges these resisting groups:
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Ezekiel 35:3-5 - Thus says Yahweh God, Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir [the
capitol of Edom], And I will stretch out My Hand against you And make you a
desolation and a waste. I will lay waste your cities And you will become a
desolation. Then you will know that I Am Yahweh. Because you have had
everlasting enmity and have delivered the sons of Israel to the power of the
sword, at the time of their calamity, at the time of the punishment of
the End.”
Israel
encounters the Amorites from Kadesh Barnea (or Kadesh)… mentioned 10x in Scripture, which is the
number of testing and (specifically) testing related to Torah. Ten is the
number of proving in Hebrew.
Kadesh
Barnea is mentioned in Genesis 14:5-7: In the time of Abraham, the Horites,
Amalekites, Amorites, Mt. Seir inhabitants, Mt Paran dwellers, were all in or
near Kadesh Barnea.
Abraham fought to save Lot and the inhabitants of Sodom (Genesis 14:7-17)…
The
Amorites are descended from Canaan, grandson of Noah. Their land was north of
Moab. “Amorite” means “fast talker” “drawing near to bitterness”, “highlander”
and “mountain dweller (denotes one who takes command, with a sizable force)”
Amos
2:9 - “Yet
destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of
the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit
from above, and his roots from beneath.”
Og, king
of Bashan was an Amorite giant, being at least 12 feet tall, and sleeping in a
13.5 foot bed.