The Sin of Amalek

Journey of the Sons of God to the Promised Land Today’s Focus: The Spirit of Amalek – The Sin of Amalek Scripture: Deuteronomy 25:17-19 Greetings Sons of God: Deuteronomy 25:17-19: Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt. How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God. Therefore it shall be, when the Lord thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the rememberance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it. The major characteristics of the spirit of Amalek is one of being a coward and cruel. They did not desire a fair fight. In Exodus 18:8 the Scriptures say that Amalek came and fought Israel at Rephidim. Rephidim means rest. So in a place where they would temporarily rest from their journey from Egypt. The Amalekites came out and attacked Israel but how they did it was they attacked from the back and killed those who were feeble and or weak that were in the back. Now remember the children of Israel were moving as a massive group of people towards Sinai and this fact is crucial in understanding how God solves the problem when dealing with Amalek. Of course in Exodus 18 the nation of Israel would overcome this attack and defeat the Amalekites. Why is all of this significant and what does this have to do with the sons of God? Natural Israel is a picture of Spiritual Israel, who is the House of God, the sons of God, the church. After being delivered from the world and being baptized the enemy will try to come in and “pick-off” the weak and feeble who are not spiritually mature or strong. Remember Amalek is a sum of His parents and grandfather, Esau. So he has no regard for spiritual things and a lover of earthly material things. He attacks those who desires spiritual things but picks out the weak and feeble to attack. This shows the coward and cruel nature of this spirit. Those who are spiritually immature are very susceptible to this spirit if they are not protected and cared for after being saved and delivered from the kingdom of darkness. The spirit of Amalek picks these sons off by flooding them with the number one device of the enemy, deception. In the next message we will see how God deals with this spirit and how we as the House of God will overcome this spirit. Peace, Love and Grace, Calvin Calhoun, Jr.