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Thursday, August 15, 2013

History of Moab


Restoring Spirit of Father to the Church
Today’s Focus: History of Moab
Scripture: Genesis 11:27; 19:30-38

Greetings Sons of God:
In as much as we see the importance of the restoration of the spirit of Father to the church we must understand that the devil has spirits and/or demons that come against the spirit of Father to destroy and/or defile the very thing that God is doing. For the next couple of messages we will look at the spirit of Moab and see how it comes against the church and the building of the House of God in the Earth.  Now we know that God hides wisdom in names so let’s examine what the meaning of Moab is:
Moab: What father?
Seems weird but let’s investigate.  Moab was not only the name of a place but the name of a person.  Moab was the firstborn son of Lot.  Understanding biblical principles of families we know that sons are a product of their ancestors.  
Genesis 11:27: Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor and Haran; and Haran begat Lot
So we see that Lot is the nephew of Haran.  Now Haran died when Lot was a very young boy and so Lot became an orphan (critical point) at a very young age.  Lot then goes with his uncle Abram and they set off on their journey.  Eventually to make a long story short, Lot’s herdsmen and Abram’s herdsmen do not get along and for the sake of peace they go off in different directions (Genesis 14:8-18) Of course, Lot ends up in Sodom and Gomorrah and Abraham intercedes for Lot’s safety and as the come out of Sodom and Gomorrah Lot and His two daughters go up into the mountains to stay.  Now right here I want to point out some critical points:

1.                          Lot was an orphan at a young age but even under the care of Abram, Lot never saw Abram as his father.  No where in scripture will you find that Lot sees Abram as his father.  This is critical.
2.                          Lot had no sons, just daughters.

With those two points it brings us to Genesis 19 and the meat of our story.  Genesis 19:30 starts with Lot’s daughter realizing that their father has no son to carry his name and so they devise a plan to get him drunk with wine, sleep with him and bare him a son.  They pull the plan off and the two daughter become pregnant and bore Lot a son each:

Genesis 19:37-38: And the firstborn bare a son and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.  And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day

Remember God hides wisdom in names:  Moab means “What Father?”  and Benammi means “Son of the people”.  These two people born of a incestuous relationship mock the role of a father and promote the rule of the people (democracy).  Of course the Scriptures state that they are the fathers of the Moabites and Ammonites which dwell in the wilderness.  It is the spirit of Moab we want to concentrate on over the next few messages because it is the Moabite spirit that comes to destroy God’s people and unless God’s people overcome this spirit, they will never inherit the promised land.


Peace, Love and Grace,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.