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.
