THE WAYS
OF WORSHIP
Hello
Doves!!
I
would like to share this interesting study that I
did on the ways of worship revealed in the Book of
Genesis. It
speaks a great deal of how man has worshipped God,
down through the ages, and how there is a major
division between the TRUTH AND RELIGION.
The Birth Order of Noah’s Three
Sons
This is one big onion to peel! There are so
many layers to this part of the Bible story. Layers, that
when peeled back reveal so much about God’s plan of
redemption, and the birth of the religions of man. This birth
order and what it represents, has a major impact on both
the understanding of the truth; and origins of mankind’s
religions.
The message God has for us, by
establishing this birth order and then changing it
twice, is this: there is an order, a sequence, for our
dealings with God, and we must respond in that
progression if we are to reap the full harvest of the
Lord’s desires. This
order is demonstrated repeatedly throughout the rest of
the Bible, and most markedly in the life of Jesus. There is also
a very clear message about worship; what we worship, and
how we worship, will determine our eternal destiny.
Each of the sons of Noah represents
a part of the human entity. Shem, the
eldest, represents the “spirit” of man. His faculty is
“revelation”. When
God speaks, it is always to the spirit part of mankind. Hearing God is
the first step in relationship with Him. The second
son, Japheth, represents the “intellect” or “soul’ of
man. His
faculty is to understand what God says and be
illuminated by it.
In his mind he understands what God wants him to
do.
The third son, Ham, represents the
“body”, and the material concerns of life; what we do
with what we hear and know. His faculty is
obedience, to “obey” what the spirit hears, and the mind
understands and brings that into action. In this way,
and in this order, man worships God in Spirit and in
Truth. That
was the order in which Adam and Eve worshiped God, they
had a personal relationship with Him, they heard His
voice, understood what He said, and would then obey.
Noah was the last of the pure seed
line of Seth; he was the last person on the earth,
before the Flood, to have a personal relationship with
God. Thus,
he was the last to worship God in the right order;
spirit, mind and body. God never lists the sons of Noah
in this true birth order of Shem, Japheth, and Ham. Yet, He gives
us this true order in various places, in the chapters
devoted to Noah and his sons. We are told in
Genesis 9:24 that Ham is Noah’s youngest son. But when the
Lord lists the sons, first in Genesis 9:18, and then
again in Genesis 10:1, it appears that Ham is the middle
son, and not the youngest.
In both instances God lists the birth order as;
Shem, Ham and Japheth.
Why does this happen and what is God trying to
tell us by doing this?
The reason the true birth order of
Noah’s sons is never listed by God, is that Noah’s sons
will never have a personal relationship with Him, as
Noah did. After
the flood, the whole earth would be populated by the
bloodline of these three sons, and that bloodline was
tainted by Noah’s wife.
So, in changing the birth order of the three
sons, and what they represent, the Lord establishes a
new way that man will have to worship Him.
This new way is reflected in this
birth order. Shem,
the spiritual aspect of man, remains the first and most
important; to hear God.
Ham, the youngest is listed as the middle son,
and thus the body becomes more important than the mind
and soul, and to obey more important than to understand. Japheth then
becomes the youngest son, as he represents the mind and
understanding the will of God. This new breed
of man, which comes from Noah’s offspring, will now have
to worship the Lord in this new way. Instead of
hearing, understanding and obeying; man would now have
to hear and obey, before they would understand. This is the
birth of Faith; man must have faith in a God he can no
longer understand.
God tells us, through His Holy
Word, that Satan is the Prince of the Air and the realm
in which he operates is the mind, as he pursues our
souls. When
Eve, then Adam, ate the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge,
the first thing that was corrupted was their minds. They
understood what the Serpent said with their minds. When they
acted on what he said, and obeyed him, they then
corrupted both their bodies, to shame and death, and
their spirits to live within the realm of time. If there had
been no curse, no Fall in the garden, we would still
have the original order in which to worship God. We would first
receive revelation in our spirits, understand with our
minds, and obey with our bodies.
This is what the Creator originally
planned when he created man, in His image. It is why
Christ is considered the First and the Last. He was the
first Adam, the perfect creation of God; and He will be
the last Adam, the Savior of all mankind. He is the
Alpha and the Omega.
He is telling us that God, Himself, came to
inhabit corrupt human flesh, and die, so that we, who
believe in Him, and hear and obey Him, could once again
return to a state of Grace, where we can have a personal
relationship with Him.
AWESOME!!!!
But, there was a fall, man’s
intellect was darkened and our ability to obey was
greatly impaired. So
God’s original sequence of hear, understand, obey is no
longer God’s choice for us. He chooses for
us to hear, obey, and then understand. He changes the
birth order of Noah’s sons to help us comprehend this. Even better
than that, He writes the Gospels to correspond to this
new way of worship.
The
Synoptic Gospels:
This new sequence of worship; hear,
obey and then understand, is emphasized in the order of
the first three New Testament Gospels. Synoptic means
“accounts told from the same point of view”. Each of the
Gospels depicts Jesus a little differently; the first
three, the Synoptic Gospels, depict Him in a way that
follows our pattern.
The Book of Matthew was written by a Jew, for the
Jews, and Jews, of course, are the sons of Shem. Jesus is
depicted, in this book, as the King of the Jews, the
Promised Messiah, divine, the fulfiller of Jewish
prophecy, and the Lion of Judah. This book
especially presents Jesus as a consequence of spiritual
revelation. (Shem).
The Gospel of Mark was written for
the Gentiles. They
are the outsiders and strangers to the commonwealth of
Israel. In
this Gospel, Jesus is primarily shown in His deeds, His
actions. In
this He represents the body of man, the part of man that
obeys the Lord through action. Thus, as the
body is the servant of man, so Jesus presents Himself as
the Servant of Man. (Ham).
Luke’s Gospel is written by a
Greek, for the Greeks, who are the sons of Japheth. In this
Gospel, Jesus is a man, and is referred to as the Son of
Man. This
Gospel appeals to the mind of man, as it has the most
logic and poetry of all the Gospels. It is also the
most historically and geographically accurate. Jesus is shown
as a man, this appeals to the human element in all of
us, the soul realm, and the mind of man. (Japheth)
A New Way
of Worshiping in Truth
This new way, for fallen man to
worship God, is firmly established, in the very
beginning of the Bible and is carried through to the
very end. We
are to hear God and obey what He says, even when we do
not understand with our minds. Even as born
again Christians, we are to follow this order. God does not
require that we understand Him, but obedience is
essential. Christ,
Himself, asked the Father “why?” on the cross. Jesus did not
understand the separation from God that had to take
place, in order that He dies for all of mankind’s sin. He obeyed
without fully understanding, and the result was the most
glorious event in the history of the world!!!!
Because Christ died for us, and if
we are born again, we can begin to lift the veil, which
has been placed on our minds, and understand much
better. Even though we will not have complete
understanding until we are once again with the Creator,
this vague (“through a glass darkly” I Cor. 13)
understanding, enables us to develop and have more
faith.
Another
Birth Order Change
(The
birth of religion)
Through the birth order of Noah
sons, the Lord has given us the correct and spiritual
way in which he wants man to worship Him. This way,
continues throughout the whole of the Bible. We can trace
this new way of worship all the way from Shem to Christ. So, when He
changes this birth order again, what is He trying to
tell us? What
happened between the listing of the birth order in
Genesis 9:18 and 10:1, and the actual listing of the
genealogy of Noah’s sons, that begins in Genesis 10:2?
We know that Ham had sex with his
own mother, and the product of that union was Ham’s
youngest son named Canaan.
Before this act of incest occurs, the birth order
is Shem, Ham and Japheth; thus showing man the new way
of worship now required by God.
After this act of incest occurs,
Noah curses Ham’s son Canaan and blesses Shem and
Japheth. Although
the birth order stays the same in Genesis 10:1, thus
reinforcing the new way the Lord wants His people to
worship Him, it is totally reversed when the actual
genealogies are listed beginning in Gen. 10:2. Could it be
that the Lord is telling us, that a great majority of
mankind will choose this reverse order, due to the
further corruption of the seed line of Noah?
In Gen, 10:2 the Lord, through
Moses, lists Japheth’s genealogy first, Ham’s second and
Shem’s third. When
we consider the implications of this, in regards to what
each son represents; we see that man will choose to
worship God first with his mind/soul; (Japheth), second,
with his body; (Ham), and last with his spirit; (Shem). In this way,
the Lord shows us the birth of religion, and how
religion equals the worship of man, and not the worship
of God.
Religion was created by the
mind/soul of man, not the Will of God. God is showing
us that the great majority of mankind will worship the
mind/soul, and body over the spirit. Man wants to
understand God, first, with their mind and body, before
they hear from God in their “spirits”. The fact that
they have no “spirit”, unless they are “born again”
leaves them in a dire situation.
The conclusion is this, one must
have a “spirit” in order to receive revelation from God,
and that “spirit’ is the Holy Spirit, and the only way
to the Holy Spirit is Christ. Therefore, if
man has no “spirit” of God, the Holy Spirit, then what
kind of “spirit” is he worshiping in his religious
practices? There
is only one answer.
The order that God established for worshiping Him
will be perverted by man, and this perversion will
become the religion of the Anti-Christ.
Man will make understanding, with
his mind, (illumination) his top priority. He will then
obey this illumination of mind, before he considers the
revelation of his spirit.
The exact same thing that Eve did in the Garden,
she chose illumination over revelation. She listened
to and obeyed the Prince of the Mind, (Satan, and the
Serpent) without revelation (hearing), from God. This order
shows that man will put himself above God, just like
Satan did. They
will choose illumination (an understanding based on
religion, and called enlightenment) over the revelation
of the Truth of God.
Review/Recap
Garden
of Eden: Walked
with God; revelation, illumination, obedience; hear,
understand, obey
Shem, Japheth, Ham; Spirit,
mind, body
Pre-Fall, Adam and Eve had a
personal relationship with God; they worshipped Him in
Spirit and Truth. They
heard the Lord, understood what He said and then obeyed. Even after the
Fall, there are some very special men of God that still
walked with Him, thus having this pure relationship and
worshiping in this order. We now know these men are the
“sons of God’ of which Noah was the last.
After
the Flood; New Order of Worship for God’s
people; revelation, obedience, illumination; hear,
obey, understand
Shem,
Ham, Japheth; Spirit, body and mind
Because Noah’s seed line is
corrupted by him marrying a Cainite, God establishes a
new order in which fallen man must worship Him. He must hear
and obey without understanding, because his mind has
been darkened by sin.
This way of worship will be observed and
practiced by God’s people throughout the rest of human
history. Even
Jesus, whom is God, must follow this order, while human.
Birth
of the False Gospel; Man-made worship; the
Spirit of the Anti-Christ
Illumination (enlightenment),
obedience, revelation; Understand, obey, hear
Japheth,
Ham, Shem; Mind, body, spirit
Upon reflecting on what happened in
the Garden, we can see that this spirit of the
Anti-Christ was the spirit that Eve obeyed, when she ate
of the Tree of Knowledge.
The Serpent tempted Eve to put her mind, and body
before her spirit.
Eve understood the Serpent and obeyed the Serpent
before she heard the voice of God. When Adam did
the same thing, God had to throw them both out of the
Garden before they ate of the Tree of Life; or His new
creation would be bound to worship Satan, eternally.
This spirit of the Anti-Christ
caused the Fall. Because
Adam and Eve chose their minds and bodies over their
spirits when they obeyed the Serpent, their minds were
darkened, and their bodies would, now, grow old and die. This spirit of
the Anti-Christ is carried down through Cain’s seed
line, and then through Noah’s seed line, via his wife,
to his three sons.
These three sons populate the whole earth after
the Flood.
This spirit of the Anti-Christ is
alive and well to this very day. Mankind no
longer desires to hear God, obey God, and then
understand God. They
seek, instead, to understand themselves, by using their
minds, souls, and bodies to connect with their own
spirit. Unfortunately
this spirit they are hoping to connect with is not the
Spirit of God; it is the spirit of Satan. In fact, in
these end-times, this spirit, this false gospel, has
taken over every religion on the planet, including
Christianity.
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Patti C.