01 Genesis:13-14 - Pastor Chuck Smith - C2000 Series

13th chapter of the book of Genesis in Chapter 12 we find that Abram had gone down into Egypt because of the famine and there as the result of a lack of faith and trusting God to take care of him he had Sarah pass herself off as his sister God brought a plague upon the Egyptians because the Pharaoh and Marla's taken her into his harem and he rebuked Abram for the deception and ordered his men to allow Abram to travel freely and so now Abram is returning from Egypt in chapter 13 he went up out of Egypt he and his wife and all that he had and locked with him into the South that would be into the south part of the land of Canaan into the area of bear Sheva Kadesh Barnea Hebron there in the southern part and Abram was very rich in cattle in silver and in gold so God had blessed Abraham in a material way rich in cattle silver gold and he went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel under the place where his tent had been at the beginning between Bethel and AI so when Abram first came into the land his first stop was at Shechem and then he came back towards the Jordan River at a high point this is the highest point in the Jerusalem range of mountains which begins actually in the area of Samaria and goes almost to bear Sheva just before you get to bear Sheva you the Jerusalem mountain sort of fade out but this is the highest point and there is this mountain between the city of Bethel and AI the mountain in which he had just a tremendous view of the entire land Abram when he first came there was able to see the entire land and there he built an altar unto the lord and worshiped the lord and now he returned again to this spot of bethel the place is actually sort of a significant place it was near Bethel there that Jacob was fleeing from the wrath of his brother Esau and he used the pillow of a rock and he had the dream and the awareness of the presence of God and there God made the covenant with Jacob and said I am going to be with you whether so ever you go I'm going to bless you I'm going to prosper you and I'm going to bring you back into this land and Jacob sort of made his deal with God and said if you'll be with me if you'll bless me and prosper me I'll give you a tenth of everything I get and so Jacob made his deal with God and he left from the place of Bethel later on in Jacobs career God said to him I am the god of Bethel and the LORD commanded him to return to Bethel it was at Bethel that Jacob first became conscious of God and God then challenged him to return to that place really of your first consciousness more or less is Jesus called upon the Church of Ephesus to return to their first love that place where you first met God or you first became conscious of God and it seems that God seeks to call us back to that place of our beginnings the beginning of our faith the beginning of our devotion the beginning of that excitement of knowing God and walking with God sometimes we begin to take things for granted our Christian experience begins to sort of just become a prosaic kind of a thing I just sort of you know go along with it and and I lose the excitement God said to Israel at one time where is the even of the espousal you know when I first called you out and and upon all the people was holiness under the Lord in other words the consciousness of the people was a God consciousness they were so aware of the presence of God and and they were so excited in the things of God and God is saying where is the excitement of that his spousal when I first drew you out of Egypt and and all of you were aware and conscious of me and we see movements of God's Spirit such as we are experiencing here and it's so exciting just the the work of the Lord and the excitement of everyone just being you know turned on for Jesus and just you know we realize his presence is power we see his work and there is that beauty of the excitement of God's work and our midst there's always a sad and tragic day when that excitement begins to wane a bit and we begin to take for granted those things that at one time we're so special and important and exciting to us god help us that we will never take for granted his goodness his grace and the blessings that we've experienced I pray that that excitement shall never diminish but each day will be excited with the presence of God and with the work and the power of his spirit in our lives that will never lose that that just over odd kind of an experience that God is working in our midst God is demonstrating his love and his power that will always have that fresh relationship with Jesus Christ and so Abram returned to Bethel the place where he had built an altar and offered a sacrifice unto God and God had first promised to him the whole land that was before him and lot also which went with Abram had his flocks and his herds in his tent and the land was not able to bear them that they might dwell together for the substance was great so that they could not dwell together and they were developed a strife between the herdsmen of Abrams cattle and the herdsmen of lots cattle the Canaanite and the perizzite dwelt in the land and so here there began to be a division between lot and Abram lot was Abraham's nephew but Lots father Haran died very early and lot was left as an orphan and so Abram more or less adopted in as much as he did not have any children of his own up to this point he had more or less adopted lot and raised lot so lot was really like a son to Abram and journeyed with him but now they both become very prosperous the hand of the Lord's blessing upon their lives and you remember Abram had about 300 men servants that he could armed for battle gives you a Sai idea of the size of the the multitude that was going with Abram and lot was probably just about in the equal position and so because the land just wasn't big enough to for all of them to graze their cattle and sheep together and strife began to rise up between the servants of a lot in the servants of Abram Abram called lot and he said unto him let there be no strife I pray thee between me and thee in between my herd men and I heard men for we're brothers is not the whole land before thee separate thyself I pray thee from me and if you will take the left hand I will go to the right if you'll depart to the right hand then I will go to the left and lifted up his eyes and beheld all the plain of Jordan that it was well watered everywhere before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah it was even as the Garden of the Lord like the land of Egypt as thou comes to zora so at that time of course it was not too long after the flood the the great african rift was probably somehow related to the flood as we mentioned there was a whole change of the geographical surface of the earth at the time of the flood and in the beginning the Dead Sea was formed actually because there was no outlet for the Jordan River and in the beginning there would not have been the high salt content which has been leached out of the soil through the years and because there is no outlet for the Dead Sea all of the mineral salt contents has just continued to build up over the millennia so that today of course there's not possible that anything can live in the Dead Sea but at that time there was probably not the high concentration of salts that we have today and before Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed it was all well watered and and it was a place of really lush vegetation of course you're in a deep depression 1200 feet below sea level almost 1,300 feet below sea level there at the surface of the Dead Sea and the weather is tropical type weather gets very hot in the summertime and stays quite mild in the wintertime usually in the wintertime it is in the 70s high 70s low 80s can get up into the 90s even during the wintertime down there and so it's great for growing tropical kind of foods papaya mango and of the tropical types of foods and of course all kinds of vegetation citrus fruits and so forth grow very profusely down there around Jericho today where they have a good water supply a fresh water supply so it is interesting because you're in such a deep rift so low that there are Springs that just come out of the mountains and flow then on into the valley and before the destruction of Sodom Gomorrah much more it was like the Garden of the Lord it was like the Garden of Eden so lot looked down at that lush tropical area and he chose to move down in that direction and lot chose all of the plain of Jordan and lot journeyed East and they separated themselves one from the other and Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan and lot dwelt in the cities of the plain and he pitched his tent toward Sodom this was you might say sort of the beginning of the backsliding of lot first of all his choice was a fleshly choice he really didn't consider Abraham and Abraham's needs but looking to himself first he pity he chose the plain of Jordan and then he pitched his tent toward Sodom the next time we find him he is sitting in the gates of Sodom or actually living in Sodom because he's captured as he lives in Sodom so at the beginning pitching towards Sodom attracted somehow by this wicked City but the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly is a very wicked place and yet lots seemed to be somehow attracted by it there does seem to be a certain type of an attraction to sin Satan does make it look very attracting there is a way that seemeth right unto men but the end thereof are the ways of death you want to look down the road and find out what it leads to sin can be very exciting sin can be very thrilling it would be it would be wrong to say that it isn't it can be very pleasurable but it eventuates and dead the wise man will look down and see where is the road leading it might be a fun road to travel it might be filled with allurement excitement but where is the path leading me my ambition is to someday ride the rapids either in the Grand Canyon or Idaho I just would love to get on a raft and go down the rapids and I think that it really I'm just looking forward to someday doing that either now in the Millennium but someday I'm going to ride the rapids but there are Rapids that I have no desire to ride and those are the rapids above Niagara Falls now I don't doubt but what they're just as exciting is the Grand Canyon or any other Rapids e you might ride but I don't like where it is so you go down we fun exciting thrill thrill man Aurora the Falls is getting louder you know you're heading for destruction and so the person in the path of sin excitement thrilling but you're heading towards destruction the end there are are the ways of death Lott was attracted he pitched his tent towards Sodom this exceedingly wicked and sinful City even before a lot ever got there enabran dwelt in the land of Canaan lot dwelled in the cities of the plain pitched his Hinton then the Lord said unto Abram after that lot was separated from him it was probably a difficult experience lot had become like a son to Abram he was close Abram loved him and parting is never an easy experience you see lot taking off in it it's always harder to be the one that's left it's always easier I think to go than to be the one that's left behind and and to see them going it always gives you sort of an empty sinking feeling as they sort of disappear over the hill you know and I can imagine for Abram it was a hearing been traveling for years together now for probably something like 50 years they've been together clothes and now he sees lot taking off and there has to be an ache in the heart a lump in the throat and so the Lord comes to comfort Abram and the Lord said unto Abram after that lot was departed from him lift up now thine eyes and look from the place where thou art northward southward eastward westward for all the land which you see to thee will I give it and to thy seed forever God's promise to Abraham from the area there at between Bethel and AI this mountain peak looking towards the North you see the area of Samaria you can look clear on up and see Mount Hermon on a clear day and he wasn't bothered with smog in those days looking towards the east you see the Mount of Moab looking towards the south you see the area of Jerusalem the southern range of the Jerusalem Mountains clear on down to the area of bare Shiva looking towards the west you see the Sharon Plains and the Mediterranean so God said just look to the north the South the East the West just as far as you can see Abram I'm going to give you this land to you and to your seed and God was going to give it to him forever but Jimmy Carter's going to take away part of it from him what's that make him I get in trouble I see marks I get a dozen letters tomorrow but they just come out I have to apologize and other people I guess I'm too open I just say what's in my mind some but anyhow and I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth so that if a man can number the dust of the earth then shall thy seed also be numbered now God promised hey I'm going to multiply you see like the dust of the earth now later on we will get to it this evening a little later on God said to Abram in chapter 15 look up into the heavens and I am going to make your seed like the stars of the sky innumerable he that's an interesting interesting thing because modern science in that day thought that there were six thousand one hundred and twenty six stars they didn't think they were innumerable many of the ancient people had counted the stars and up until the time of Galileo we didn't realize that there were so many stars out there in the universe but now they has to make the number of stars to be just so vast that you really can't count them all there are billions of galaxies like our Milky Way galaxy and there are billions of stars in our Milky Way galaxy someone has estimated that there might be as many as 10 to the 25th power stars but it's also interesting they've estimated that if you would take the amount of sand in a cubic inch and take the volume of the earth is probably 10 to the 25th power grains of sand that make up the earth so in God's saying I'm going to make your seed as the sands of the sea or as the dust of the earth and then as the stars of heaven they're probably sort of an equal number here but the interesting thing is God said the whole idea is that there will be innumerable you won't be able to count them now God's promise was that you can't count them and David's sin was what he tried to count them he took a census God didn't want a census taken of his people because God's promise is there going to be innumerable as the sands in the sea you're not going to be able to count them Davidson was in taking a census and counting the people and it brought God's judgment against Israel because of David's sin and counting the people so since then they didn't take census in Israel but everyone had to put a shekel into the temple Treasury and then they count the shekels but the Orthodox Jew to the present day will not count off in a group if you're in a group and you're playing party games you've got a number in the group an Orthodox Jew will not be numbered and so they'll say you're not one not two not three not four not five you know I figure out ways to get around things you know so we're not really not numbering because you're not one and you're not two but the promise of God is the dust of the earth cannot be counted or numbered so the descendants that I am going to give unto thee now the Lord said arise and walk through to the land through the length and the breadth of it for I will give it unto thee then Abram removed his tent and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre which is in Hebron and built there an altar unto the Lord so Abram moved from the place about 20 miles north of Jerusalem ur old 12 15 miles north of Jerusalem actually to a place approximately 22 miles south of Jerusalem still on the Jerusalem Hills or they are the mountains of Jerusalem they call them down now south of the valley of Eshcol now s goal was a place with a beautiful stream and well watered and the grapes in the area of Eskil were just phenomenal they still are today some of the most delicious grapes ever had in her life came from the valley of Eshcol and right in it of course is adjacent to the area of Hebron when Joshua and Caleb came spying out the land some 400 years later in order to prove to the people that the land was a very fertile land they picked a cluster of grapes that was so big that they had to carry it in a staff between them and they took back this huge cluster of grapes to show the people hey this this land is really fertile this is great so Abram moves south plains of Mamre which are near Hebron some 20 miles or so south from Jerusalem this is the end of side one for side two of this message please turn the cassette over at this point and it came to pass in the days of AM Rafael the king of shinar now Shinar is Babylon and Arioch the king of Eleazar which is Babylonia and kido Limor the king of elam which is Persia and titled the king of or so we don't know exactly what nations that comprise for Kings they made war with Bera the king of Solomon with very sure the king of gomorrah and shin abbe the king of admah and these kings really in no sense of reading their names off because we're not going to remember them anyhow but they are the kings of the plain the area where there were five cities in this lush area of the Jordan Valley there that comprised the cities around Sidon now these were joined together in if Confederacy in the valley of Siddim which is the salt sea and twelve years they served Kia lemur so the key to Larimer the king of Persia had conquered the area and had put them under tribute and they have been under tribute for 12 years in the 13th year they rebelled against the tribute 13 is a very interesting number the number of rebellion and so it is significant that it was in the 13th year that they rebelled the number 13 is a number that does appear in other places it's always a a number of rebellion it happens to be the number of Satan every name for Satan in the Greek when you take the gamut Rhea the numeric value of those names and total it up it's always divisible by 13 very interesting thing I don't know what it means but it is just the number of rebellion and has been scripturally the number of Satan the number 13 and that is why 13 has become considered as an unlucky number and that is why whenever you get into spiritism spiritual seances and so forth and you begin to dabble in those realms of spiritism the number 13 becomes a very significant number I don't know if you've ever been through the Winchester rifle house the woman supposedly was being directed by the spirits and in the building of that house and she had men working there continually but as you go through the house you'll find 13 windows in a room or you'll find six steps down seven steps up and the number 13 is woven through the house all the way in the dimensions of the rooms in the number of windows and the steps and so forth and she used that number through the whole house it is a number that anyone who dabbles in to spiritism is familiar with because so many of the see once's and so forth are the number 13 is an important number to them and interestingly enough it is a number of scripturally a number of satan the number of rebellions so twelve years they served the king in the thirteenth year they rebelled now in the fourteenth year he got together with these kings of Babylon Babylonia and they made an invasion in the area that is today Jordan but in history was Moab and they invaded the cross the high country clear on down to the area of of Edom the coming down to the it gives you the city all of the cities that they conquered here and they came on finally across to Kadish they came south and then began to move west as they came to the area of Edom and Mount Seir is where it was and then across to keish having conquered all of these cities and archaeology has certainly confirmed this particular part of history here in the Bible as they have uncovered vast cities that were never rebuilt they they just totally wiped out the cities and all took the spoils and the cities were never rebuilt they have dated the ruins and so forth to about the 17th century BC to the 19th century BC so that it puts it about the time of this invasion and they've actually discovered many of these cities that are named here and the ruins of these cities as they have put their Spade to the tales and have uncovered really a vast civilization once existed there but they were wiped out by this invasion of the Babylonian Confederacy with the Persian confettis ray of Kings now the whole purpose of the invasion was ultimately to get at Sodom these five cities of the plain that had rebelled against the tribute that they were paying to kedo la Mer the king of elam and so they came in verse 10 to the valley of Siddim which was full of slime pits now the word slime pits is actually the asphalt pits this was an area of a lot of tar asphalt pits down there in the valley which when God sent fire from heaven to consume Sodom probably set these things on fire and they probably burn for months once you get that hot enough to where it's ignited and burning it probably went on and on and on so it was an area that was full of signs it's actually it's an interesting thing that in the Tower of Babel they used pitch for mortar the word pitch there again is it is a word that signifies tar Rockefeller when he read the Bible saw that and figured hey it's tar there must be oil and that's why he began to explore for oil over in that area of Saudi Arabia and Iran and so forth and that's why he became such an extremely wealthy man he read his Bible and used his hand and so the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled and fell there and they that remain fled into the mountains now of course if you're down there man you know that there's there's all kinds of steep cliffs and caves and hiding places and masata one of the mountains down there that would overlook the area that was once tyre and sidon and so these Kings took all of the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all of their rituals supplies and they went their way and they took lot Abrams brothers son who dwelt in Sodom and his Goods and departed and there came one that had escaped probably one of Lots servants and they told Abram in the Hebrew and of course this is the first time the word Hebrew is used it probably comes from the name of his great-great-great grandfather Eber and so he was called the Hebrew here it's a name that was adopted later but Israel was the name that really is adopted for the people because of Jacob and Israel defines more the nation that got it blessed the Hebrews would include actually the Arabs in a technical sense because they're the descendants of Ishmael for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite brother of Eshkol and brother Vayner and they were confederate with abram so Abram had these others that he was dwelling in this area of Mamre with Eskil from whom the valley of Eshcol became named later on and his two brothers mem memory and a nur and when Abram heard that his brother that his lot was taken captive he armed his trained servants that were born in his own house 318 and he pursued them unto dance so gives you the size of Grimm's wealth and all that he had 318 men who were his own servants that he could armed for battle you can imagine you know if you had that many servants you'd have a real food supply problem you know feeding everybody because you're responsible to take care of them all so Abram was a man of very vast means very vast wealth that he could support and keep that many servants they pursued them as far as Dan now Dan is in the uppermost part of Galilee it's just before you get to the base of Mount Hermon it's probably five miles from Vanya's where the jordan river comes right out of the base of Mount Hermon and so you're clear on up at the northern end of the Upper Galilee which means from the area of Hebron he pursued them about a hundred and twenty-five miles which without armored weapons carriers and so forth that was a pretty long jaunt for these guys to go figuring that on sort of a forced march you can get twenty five miles a day you get an idea of how far they pursued these armies on up to the area of Dan where they caught up with them in the area of Dan and he divided himself against them and he and his servants by night he smote them and pursued them to Hoba which is on the left hand of Damascus now Damascus is some 45 miles beyond so he came upon them at night took them by surprise which was probably the wisest thing he could do because they the the armies that he was facing were numbering in we're from fifty to a hundred thousand men and here he comes up with his 318 servants plus those of the three brothers that went with him Confederate with him and so probably at most an army of 500 or so coming against several thousand who had just wiped out almost a whole civilization wiped out five kings of the plain tough guys and Abram came on them at night now they probably number one figured no one would dare attack us unless they had a huge force at night they couldn't see how many Abram had and they were taken by surprise they were confused they began to flee but from that point it was hard to flee because you've got to go right on up the Golan Heights you're in a box canyon and so whenever you flee the direction you always try to flee at least his own and so they started heading home up Mount Hermon really because they came to the left side of Damascus which means that they went on up Mount Hermon and as they were fleeing gave Abram and his men a chance to really wipe at their flanks and and to come up and to destroy them as they were coming up on them pursued them all the way to homo which is to the left of Damascus that would be going north and so Abram destroyed actually these armies that had come and he brought back all of the goods and he also brought again his brother or his literally his nephew lot and his goods and the women also and the people so these kings had taken a lot of captives that they would have made slaves Abram rescued them all and was bringing them back and as he was returning the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of kedo Lamar and the kings that were with him at the valley of shaveh which is in the King Dell and Melchizedek the king of Salem brought forth bread and wine and he was the priest of El El Young or the God the Most High the Most High God and He blessed him and said blessed be Abram of the Most High God possessor of the heaven and earth and blessed be the Most High God which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand and Abram gave him tithes of all so briefly we are introduced to this interesting mystical person now hezid egg of whom the scripture speaks very little it tells us nothing of Melchizedek parentage nothing of his mother and father tells us nothing of his genealogy all that it tells us that is that he was a servant or a priest actually of the Most High God he came out to Abram with what bread and wine which are the symbols of communion and he gave these unto Abram and then he blessed Abram now the lesser is always blessed by the greater therefore in blessing Abram it puts him a level above Abram in Abram giving tithes of all that he had to him again it was a signifying of the lesser paying the tithe to the greater to the servant or the priest of the Most High God so Abram received the blessing recognized the man as a priest of the Most High God gave tithes of all of the spoils that he had taken unto him nothing Morissette of melchizedek until we get to the hundred and tenth song and suddenly out of nothing that seems to relate to the rest of the hundred and tenth Psalm we read the words I have sworn and will not repent I have made thee a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek now Abraham's son Isaac had a son Jacob who had twelve sons one of Jacob's sons was Levi and when the law was established Levi was the tribe that was to become the priestly tribe and so they were called the order of Levi or the Levitical order of priesthood order referring to the family now here is an order of priesthood that precedes the Levitical order and is superior to the Levitical order in that Levi in essence when Abram paid ties the great-great-grandfather of Levi Levi in essence was paying tithes unto Melchizedek so it puts the order of priesthood of Melchizedek in the superior order to the Levitical order and God is sworn and will not repent I have made thee a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek that Psalm had to remain a mystery as did Melchizedek himself until we come to the book of Hebrews when the mystery begins to unravel for the author of the book of Hebrews when he begins to point out the fact that Jesus though he is from the tribe of Judah of which the Scriptures have nothing to say concerning the priesthood but even though years of the tribe of Judah he of the order of priesthood of Melchizedek the superior order of priesthood thus he can be the great high priest of those who will come into God through him now Melchizedek was called the king of righteousness as well as the king of peace king of peace is Salem which is the early name for Jerusalem so he was one of the first kings of Jerusalem but he was also called the king of righteousness now it is interesting when he refers to Christ who is of the order of Melchizedek and he talks about Christ making intercession for us as our great high priest wherefore we have a great high priest even Jesus Christ the righteous again the repetition of that word the righteous king of righteousness we have a great high priest Jesus Christ the righteous one literally who has entered into heaven for us now you see how the Word of God is so beautifully tied together here's just a little snatch in Genesis by itself we don't understand it very much if that was all that was said mark is that it would be just lost in history as a mystical character we know very little about him and then when David comes along in Psalm 110 and said I was sworn and will not repent I made the priest forever after the order of Melchizedek getting what in the world is David anima Psalm doesn't make sense it doesn't make sense until it's all put together in Hebrews and we realized that Jesus is our great high priest he's not of the tribe of Levi true for he had to be the Lion of the tribe of Judah to fulfill the prophecy of the Messiah but he is also the priest but not after the Levitical order after the order of Melchizedek who has neither mother nor father or genealogy now there are many Bible scholars who believe that Melchizedek was none other than Jesus Christ himself very possible jesus said to the Pharisees Abraham rejoiced to see my day and saw it they said what do you mean Abraham saw you you're not 50 years old so Jesus could have been referring to this particular incident now after Abram received the elements of communion the bread and wine received the blessing then the king of Sodom verse 21 said unto Abram give me the persons and take the goods to thyself you know just give me the hostages that you've recaptured and you keep all of the loot and Abram said to the king of sodom i have lifted up my hand unto the Lord the Most High God LL Yom he uses the same term now that that Melchizedek could use concerning God ll Yom the Most High God I've lifted up mine hand to unto the Jehovah the Most High God the possessor of heaven and earth that I will not take from a thread to a shoelace I'll not take anything that is yours lest you would say I made abram rich Abram had acknowledged that the blessings and the riches that he had had come to him from God he was not about ready to let any man take credit for making him wealthy he didn't on anyone both things they well I made Abram rich God had blessed Abraham had prospered him and Abram wanted only God to get the glory so he refused to take any not even a thread or a shoe lace he said except just the food that these young men went to battle with me of eaten and so forth and these others let them have their share but I'm not going to take anything because I don't want you saying I made Abram rich it's an important lesson for us to learn and that is never take the boughs for the work of God or never let man take the credit for the work of God man seems to always like to take credit for what God has done well I fasted for many weeks and I did this and I did that and I made this commitment and I made this sacrifice and III and on because I am so wonderful God has done all of this oh how horrible when man seeks to take credit for what God has done the Bible says that no flesh should glory in his sight and so Abram was very wise in this recognizing that the hand of God's blessing had been upon his life and would continue upon his life because God had promised it he said hey and I won't even take a shoelace from you as in time to come I don't want you to say hey I made Abraham rich recognizing that God was the one who had blessed him with these riches

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