Journey of the Sons
of God to the Promised Land
Today’s Focus: The
Spirit of Ammon: History and Sin of Ammon
Scripture: Genesis
19:36-38; Deuteronomy 23:3-6; Leviticus 18:21
Greetings Sons of
God:
Genesis
19:36-38: Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. 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, sh also bare a son, and called his name Ben-ammi: the same is the
father of the children of Ammon unto this day.
So here we see that
Ammon is actually a person named Ben-ammi who is a son of Lot. We know the two sons of Lot, Moab and
Ben-ammi are sons through an incestuous relationship between Lot and his two
daughters. Now, Ben-ammi means “son of
my people”. This is a crucial piece to
understanding the spirit of Ammon. We as
sons of God are not called sons of a people, but sons of God denoting that God
is our Father and ruler of our lives. A
son of the people denotes a rule of the people over the people. This is picture of democratic rule. We know that democratic rule is completely
opposite of the Kingdom of God and we will examine this in a subsequent
message. Now let’s look at the sin of
Ammon:
Deuteronomy
23:3-6: An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the
Lord; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation
of the Lord for ever: Because they met you not with bread and with water in the
way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee
Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee. Nevertheless the Lord thy God would not
hearken unto Balaam; but the Lord thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto
thee, because the Lord thy God loved the.
Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for
ever.
Now we see the Lord points out two reasons to
never let an Ammonite or Moabite within the congregation of the Lord. First, they did not desire to even help
Israel coming out of the wilderness with bread or water. It was the Ammonites, in particular that did
not allow Israel to pass through their land.
Second, the Ammonites conspired with Moab and the Midianites to cause
the children of Israel to sin against God by the Balaam who was sent to curse
Israel.
Now I want to point out this important point
about the Ammonites because we will visit this in the next message. The Ammonites worshipped a false god named
Molech (Leviticus 18:21). Molech is a false
god that the Ammonites worshipped and sacrificed children to by laying living
babies on a steel pan that is heated with a fire under it. As the baby screams to death there is someone
below the huge statue beating a drum to drown out the screams of the baby. The sacrifice of children was very prevalent back
then and the spirit of Ammon is still prevalent today.
In the next message for the sake of time and
information we will examine the spirit of the Ammonite in action today.
Peace, Love and Grace,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
