reetings, holy children of God, in the wonderful name of our lord and saviour Jesus, the Christ. The sermon subject for today is:

ABRAHAM, THE PATRIARCH OF ISRAEL, HAD TWO SONS ISHMAEL, AND ISAAC. ISHMAEL FATHERED TWELVE SONS. ISHMAEL’S NAME IS MENTIONED IN THE HISTORY OF BABYLON. GOD SPOKE THESE WORDS, GN:17:20 AND AS FOR ISHMAEL, I HAVE HEARD THEE: BEHOLD, I HAVE BLESSED HIM, AND WILL MAKE HIM FRUITFUL, AND WILL MULTIPLY HIM EXCEEDINGLY; TWELVE PRINCES SHALL HE BEGET, AND I WILL MAKE HIM A GREAT NATION. BUT IT IS ABRAHAM’S SON ISAAC THAT CAME INTO THE PROMISES OF GOD. GN:17:21 BUT MY COVENANT WILL I ESTABLISH WITH ISAAC, WHICH SARAH SHALL BEAR UNTO THEE AT THIS SET TIME IN THE NEXT YEAR. 22. AND HE LEFT OFF TALKING WITH HIM, AND GOD WENT UP FROM ABRAHAM. THE NAME ISRAEL CAME FROM GOD, AND DEFINED ACCORDING TO MY BIBLE ENCYCLOPEDIA, “GOD STRIVES.” A NAME GIVEN TO JACOB, THE SON OF ISAAC. GN:32:24 AND JACOB WAS LEFT ALONE; AND THERE WRESTLED A MAN WITH HIM UNTIL THE BREAKING OF THE DAY. 25. AND WHEN HE SAW THAT HE PREVAILED NOT AGAINST HIM, HE TOUCHED THE HOLLOW OF HIS THIGH; AND THE HOLLOW OF JACOB’S THIGH WAS OUT OF JOINT, AS HE WRESTLED WITH HIM. 26. AND HE SAID, LET ME GO, FOR THE DAY BREAKETH. AND HE SAID, I WILL NOT LET THEE GO, EXCEPT THOU BLESS ME. 27. AND HE SAID UNTO HIM, WHAT IS THY NAME? AND HE SAID, JACOB. 28. AND HE SAID, THY NAME SHALL BE CALLED NO MORE JACOB, BUT ISRAEL: FOR AS A PRINCE HAST THOU POWER WITH GOD AND WITH MEN, AND HAST PREVAILED. 30. AND JACOB CALLED THE NAME OF THE PLACE PENIEL: FOR I HAVE SEEN GOD FACE TO FACE, AND MY LIFE IS PRESERVED. MANY MEN HAVE SEEN JESUS, THE SON OF GOD’S FACE, BUT NO MAN HAS SEEN GOD THE FATHER’S FACE, AND LIVED. JN:1:18 NO MAN HATH SEEN GOD AT ANY TIME; THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, WHICH IS IN THE BOSOM OF THE FATHER, HE HATH DECLARED HIM. EX:33:20 AND HE, GOD, SAID, THOU CANST NOT SEE MY FACE: FOR THERE SHALL NO MAN SEE ME, AND LIVE. JACOB HAD TWELVE SONS, WHICH BECAME THE TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL. NOW THE NAMES OF THE SONS OF JACOB WERE. GN:35:23 THE SONS OF LEAH; REUBEN, JACOB’S FIRSTBORN, AND SIMEON, AND LEVI, AND JUDAH, AND ISSACHAR, AND ZEBULUN; 24. THE SONS OF RACHEL; JOSEPH, AND BENJAMIN: 25. AND THE SONS OF BILHAH, RACHEL’S HANDMAID: DAN, AND NAPHTALI: 26. AND THE SONS OF ZILPAH, LEAH’S HANDMAID: GAD, AND ASHER: THESE ARE THE SONS OF JACOB, WHICH WERE BORN TO HIM IN PADANARAM. JACOB ADOPTED TWO OF JOSEPH’S SONS: EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH. THEREFORE THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL ARE FOURTEEN. IN THESE VERSES OF SCRIPTURE JACOB IS SPEAKING, AND HE SAYS, GN:48:5 AND NOW THY TWO SONS, EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH, WHICH WERE BORN UNTO THEE IN THE LAND OF EGYPT BEFORE I CAME UNTO THEE INTO EGYPT, ARE MINE; AS REUBEN AND SIMEON, THEY SHALL BE MINE. THERE WERE TWELVE THOUSAND FROM EACH TRIBE NUMBERED IN HEAVEN, TWO TRIBES WERE NOT NUMBERED EPHRAIM, AND DAN. WHEN JACOB WENT DOWN INTO EGYPT THERE WERE SEVENTY SOULS THAT CAME WITH HIM. EX:1:5 AND ALL THE SOULS THAT CAME OUT OF THE LOINS OF JACOB WERE SEVENTY SOULS; FOR JOSEPH WAS IN EGYPT ALREADY. IT WAS WHILE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE IN EGYPT THAT ISRAEL MULTIPLIED AND BECAME A NATION. ISRAEL WAS IN EGYPT FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS. EX:12:40 NOW THE SOJOURNING OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, WHO DWELT IN EGYPT, WAS FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS. WHEN ISRAEL CAME OUT OF EGYPT, THERE IS NO RECORD AS TO HOW MANY MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN CAME OUT, BUT THEIR ARMY NUMBERED SIX HUNDRED THREE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AND FIFTY MEN. NM:1;45 SO WERE ALL THOSE THAT WERE NUMBERED OF THE CHILDRED OF ISRAEL, BY THE HOUSE OF THEIR FATHERS, FROM TWENTY YEARS OLD AND UPWARD, ALL THAT WERE ABLE TO GO FORTH TO WAR IN ISRAEL; 46. EVEN ALL THEY THAT WERE NUMBERED WERE SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND AND THREE THOUSAND AND FIVE HUNDRED AND FIFTY. 47. BUT THE LEVITES AFTER THE TRIBE OF THEIR FATHERS WERE NOT NUMBERED AMONG THEM. WHY WERE LEVITES NOT NUMBERED WITH THE ARMY OF ISRAEL? BECAUSE THEY WERE CHOSEN OF GOD TO BE HIS. NM:3:12 AND I, BEHOLD, I HAVE TAKEN THE LEVITES FROM AMONG THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL INSTEAD OF ALL THE FIRSTBORN THAT OPENETH THE MATRIX AMONG THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL: THEREFORE THE LEVITES SHALL BE MINE; 13. BECAUSE ALL THE FIRSTBORN ARE MINE; FOR ON THE DAY THAT I SMOTE ALL THE FIRSTBORN IN THE LAND OF EGYPT I HALLOWED UNTO ME ALL THE FIRSTBORN IN ISRAEL, BOTH MAN AND BEAST: MINE SHALL THEY BE: I AM THE LORD. THE LEVITES WERE CHOSEN FOR SPECIAL SERVICE. DT:10:8 AT THAT TIME THE LORD SEPARATED THE TRIBE OF LEVI, TO BEAR THE ARK OF THE COVENANT OF THE LORD, TO STAND BEFORE THE LORD TO MINISTER UNTO HIM, AND TO BLESS IN HIS NAME UNTO THIS DAY. THIS IS THE COMMANDMENT THAT GOD GAVE TO ISRAEL CONCERNING THE PEOPLE THAT DWELT IN THE LAND OF CANAAN WHEN ISRAEL RETURNED AFTER FOUR HUNDRED THIRTY YEARS OF BONDAGE. DT:7:1 WHEN THE LORD THY GOD SHALL BRING THEE INTO THE LAND WHITHER THOU GOEST TO POSSESS IT, AND HATH CAST OUT MANY NATIONS BEFORE THEE, THE HITTITES, AND THE GIRGASHITES, AND THE AMORITES, AND THE CANAANITES, AND THE PERIZZITES, AND THE HIVITES, AND THE JEBUSITES, SEVEN NATIONS GREATER AND MIGHTIER THAN THOU; 2. AND WHEN THE LORD THEY GOD SHALL DELIVER THEM BEFORE THEE; THOU SHALT SMITE THEM, AND UTTERLY DESTROY THEM; THOU SHALT MAKE NO COVENANT WITH THEM, NOR SHEW MERCY UNTO THEM; DT:7:3 NEITHER SHALT THOU MAKE MARRIAGES WITH THEM; THY DAUGHTER THOU SHALT NOT GIVE UNTO HIS SON, NOR HIS DAUGHTER SHALT THOU TAKE UNTO THY SON. DT:7:6 FOR THOU ART AN HOLY PEOPLE UNTO THE LORD THY GOD: THE LORD THY GOD HATH CHOSEN THEE TO BE A SPECIAL PEOPLE UNTO HIMSELF, ABOVE ALL PEOPLE THAT ARE UPON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. WHY DID GOD DRIVE OUT OR DESTROY THOSE NATIONS THAT WHERE IN CANAAN LAND? GOD DROVE OUT OR DESTROYED THE HITTITES, GIRGASHITES, AMORITES, CANAANITES, PERIZZITES, HIVITES, AND THE JEBUSITES, BECAUSE OF THEIR ABOMINABLE CUSTOMS. LV:18:22 THOU SHALT NOT LIE WITH MANKIND, AS WITH WOMANKIND: IT IS ABOMINATION. 23. NEITHER SHALT THOU LIE WITH ANY BEAST TO DEFILE THYSELF THEREWITH: NEITHER SHALL ANY WOMAN STAND BEFORE A BEAST TO LIE DOWN THERETO; IT IS CONFUSION. 24. DEFILE NOT YE YOURSELVES IN ANY OF THESE THINGS: FOR IN ALL THESE THE NATIONS ARE DEFILED WHICH I CAST OUT BEFORE YOU: 25. AND THE LAND IS DEFILED: THEREFORE I DO VISIT THE INIQUITY THEREOF UPON IT, AND THE LAND ITSELF VOMITETH OUT HER INHABITANTS. 26. YE SHALL THEREFORE KEEP MY STATUTES AND MY JUDGMENTS, AND SHALL NOT COMMIT ANY OF THESE ABOMINATIONS; NEITHER ANY OF YOUR OWN NATION, NOR ANY STRANGER THAT SOJOURNETH AMONG YOU; 27. (FOR ALL THESE ABOMINATIONS HAVE THE MEN OF THE LAND DONE, WHICH WERE BEFORE YOU, AND THE LAND IS DEFILED;) 28. THAT THE LAND SPUE NOT YOU OUT ALSO, WHEN YE DEFILE IT, AS IT SPUED OUT THE NATIONS THAT WERE BEFORE YOU. 29. FOR WHOSOEVER SHALL COMMIT ANY OF THESE ABOMINATIONS, EVEN THE SOULS THAT COMMIT THEM SHALL BE CUT OFF FROM AMONG THEIR PEOPLE. 30. THEREFORE SHALL YE KEEP MINE ORDINANCE, THAT YE COMMIT NOT ANY ONE OF THESE ABOMINABLE CUSTOMS, WHICH WERE COMMITTED BEFORE YOU, AND THAT YE DEFILE NOT YOURSELVES THEREIN: I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD. THIS NATION, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, HAS ALWAYS BEEN A GOD FEARING, GOD LOVING NATION. BUT IN THESE LAST DAYS THE LAW MAKERS HAVE LET THE ATHEIST, THE AGNOSTIC, THE SKEPTICS, THE DOUBTER, AND THE UNBELIEVERS INFLUENCE THEM TO STRIKE DOWN THE LAWS THAT MADE SODOMY A CRIME, THEREBY LEGALIZING SODOMY; WHICH IS AN ABOMINATION TO GOD. THE OLD TESTAMENT, THE WRITTEN WORD OF GOD, HAS TAUGHT US THAT GOD DESTROYED, SODOM, AND GOMORRA, FOR THEIR ABOMINABLE CUSTOMS, AND WHEN ISRAEL RETURNED FROM EGYPT GOD DROVE OUT OR DESTROYED, THE NATIONS THAT WHERE IN CANAAN LAND FOR THEIR ABOMINABLE ACTS THAT DEFILED THE LAND. DT:9:5 NOT FOR THY RIGHTEOUSNESS, OR FOR THE UPRIGHTNESS OF THINE HEART, DOST THOU GO TO POSSESS THEIR LAND: BUT FOR THE WICKEDNESS OF THESE NATIONS THE LORD THY GOD DOTH DRIVE THEM OUT FORM BEFORE THEE, AND THAT HE MAY PERFORM THE WORD WHICH THE LORD SWARE UNTO THY FATHERS, ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB. HOW MUCH LAND DID GOD PROMISE TO GIVE TO ISRAEL? GN:15:18 IN THE SAME DAY THE LORD MADE A COVENANT WITH ABRAM, SAYING UNTO THY SEED HAVE I GIVEN THIS LAND, FROM THE RIVER OF EGYPT UNTO THE GREAT RIVER, EUPHRATES: 19. THE KENITES, AND THE KENIZZITES, AND THE KADMONITES, 20. AND THE HITTITES, AND THE PERIZZITES, AND THE REPHAIMS, 21. AND THE AMORITES, AND THE CANAANITES, AND THE GIRGASHITES, AND THE JEBUSITES. AS LONG AS ABRAHAM LIVED, GOD DID NOT GIVE ABRAHAM ENOUGH OF THE LAND OF CANAAN THAT HE COULD PUT HIS FOOT ON. IN THESE VERSES OF SCRIPTURE STEPHEN IS GIVING TESTIMONY TO THE HIGH PRIEST. ACTS:7:4 THEN CAME HE (ABRAHAM) OUT OF THE LAND OF THE CHALDAEANS, AND DWELT IN CHARRAN: AND FROM THENCE, WHEN HIS FATHER WAS DEAD, HE REMOVED HIM INTO THIS LAND, WHEREIN YE NOW DWELL. 5. AND HE (GOD) GAVE HIM NONE INHERITANCE IN IT, NO, NOT SO MUCH AS TO SET HIS FOOT ON: YET HE PROMISED THAT HE WOULD GIVE IT TO HIM FOR A POSSESSION, AND TO HIS SEED AFTER HIM, WHEN AS YET HE HAD NO CHILD. WHEN GOD SPOKE OF ABRAHAM’S SEED, HE DID NOT SAY SEEDS AS MANY, BUT SEED, ONE SEED. AND THAT SEED IS JESUS CHRIST. GAL:3:16 NOW TO ABRAHAM AND HIS SEED WERE THE PROMISES MADE. HE SAITH NOT, AND TO SEEDS, AS OF MANY; BUT AS OF ONE, AND TO THY SEED, WHICH IS CHRIST. WE, THAT HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST, THAT HAVE RECEIVED THE WASHING OF REGENERATION, AND THE RENEWING OF THE HOLY GHOST ARE MEMBERS IN THE BODY OF CHRIST. AND BECAUSE OF OUR SPIRITUAL UNION WITH CHRIST, WE ARE HEIRS WITH CHRIST IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD. GAL:3:29 AND IF YE BE CHRIST’S THEN ARE YE ABRAHAM’S SEED, AND HEIRS ACCORDING TO THE PROMISE. WHY DOES ISRAEL HAVE SO MUCH TROUBLE? IT IS BECAUSE DAVID, KING OF ISRAEL, KILLED URIAH THE HITTITE, AND TOOK URIAH’S WIFE AS HIS WIFE, FOR THIS REASON THE SWORD SHALL NEVER DEPART FROM THE HOUSE OF DAVID. 2SM:12:9 WHEREFORE HAST THOU DESPISED THE COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD, TO DO EVIL IN HIS SIGHT? THOU HAST KILLED URIAH THE HITTITE WITH THE SWORD, AND HAST TAKEN HIS WIFE TO BE THY WIFE, AND HAST SLAIN HIM WITH THE SWORD OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON. 10. NOW THEREFORE THE SWORD SHALL NEVER DEPART FROM THINE HOUSE; BECAUSE THOU HAST DESPISED ME, AND HAST TAKEN THE WIFE OF URIAH THE HITTITE TO BE THY WIFE. ISRAEL WHEN COMPARED TO THE GENTILE NATIONS SURROUNDING IT, ISRAEL IS AS A LION AMONG SHEEP. MI:5:8 AND THE REMNANT OF JACOB SHALL BE AMONG THE GENTILES IN THE MIDST OF MANY PEOPLE AS A LION AMONG THE BEASTS OF THE FOREST, AS A YOUNG LION AMONG THE FLOCKS OF SHEEP: WHO, IF HE GO THROUGH, BOTH TREADETH DOWN, AND TEARETH IN PIECES, AND NONE CAN DELIVER. GOD SHALL SOON CALL ALL THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD TO FIGHT AGAINST ISRAEL. ZEC:14:1 BEHOLD, THE DAY OF THE LORD COMETH, AND THY SPOIL SHALL BE DIVIDED IN THE MIDST OF THEE. 2. FOR I WILL GATHER ALL NATIONS AGAINST JERUSALEM TO BATTLE; AND THE CITY SHALL BE TAKEN, AND THE HOUSES RIFLED, AND THE WOMEN RAVISHED; AND HALF OF THE CITY SHALL GO FORTH INTO CAPTIVITY, AND THE RESIDUE OF THE PEOPLE SHALL NOT BE CUT OFF FROM THE CITY. 3. THEN SHALL THE LORD GO FORTH, AND FIGHT AGAINST THOSE NATIONS, AS WHEN HE FOUGHT IN THE DAY OF BATTLE. 4. AND HIS FEET SHALL STAND IN THAT DAY UPON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, WHICH IS BEFORE JERUSALEM ON THE EAST AND TOWARD THE WEST, AND THERE SHALL BE A VERY GREAT VALLEY; AND HALF OF THE MOUNTAIN SHALL REMOVE TOWARD THE NORTH, AND HALF OF IT TOWARD THE SOUTH. AND THIS IS THE PLAGUE THAT GOD SHALL PLACE UPON THE NATIONS THAT FIGHT AGAINST ISRAEL, THEY SHALL BE CONSUMED WHILE THEY STAND UPON THEIR FEET. ZEC:14:12 AND THIS SHALL BE THE PLAGUE WHEREWITH THE LORD WILL SMITE ALL THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE FOUGHT AGAINST JERUSALEM; THEIR FLESH SHALL CONSUME AWAY WHILE THEY STAND UPON THEIR FEET, AND THEIR EYES SHALL CONSUME AWAY IN THEIR HOLES, AND THEIR TONGUE SHALL CONSUME AWAY IN THEIR MOUTH. 13. AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS IN THAT DAY, THAT A GREAT TUMULT FROM THE LORD SHALL BE AMONG THEM; AND THEY SHALL LAY HOLD EVERY ONE ON THE HAND OF HIS NEIGHBOUR, AND HIS HAND SHALL RISE UP AGAINST THE HAND OF HIS NEIGHBOUR. 14. AND JUDAH ALSO SHALL FIGHT AT JERUSALEM; AND THE WEALTH OF ALL THE HEATHEN ROUND ABOUT SHALL BE GATHERED. WHO ARE THE TRUE JEWS, THE CHOSEN PEOPLE OF GOD? JESUS CHRIST IS A JEW ON HIS MOTHER’S SIDE, AND WE THAT HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST THAT HAVE RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST HAVE BECOME A MEMBER IN THE BODY OF CHRIST. WE THAT ARE IN THE BODY OF CHRIST, BECAUSE OF OUR SPIRITUAL UNION WITH CHRIST, ARE THE CHOSEN PEOPLE OF GOD. ROM:2:28 FOR HE IS NOT A JEW, WHICH IS ONE OUTWARDLY; NIETHER IS THAT CIRCUMCISION, WHICH IS OUTWARD IN THE FLESH; 29. BUT HE IS A JEW, WHICH IS ONE INWARDLY; AND CIRCUMCISION IS THAT OF THE HEART, IN THE SPIRIT, AND NOT IN THE LETTER; WHOSE PRASIE IS NOT OF MEN, BUT OF GOD. WHY SHOULD PEOPLE BE SO CONCERNED ABOUT WHO OWNS CANAAN LAND? HEAVEN SHALL COME TO EARTH, IT SHALL ALIGHT ON CANAAN LAND, AND ACCORDING TO LAW; WHOSOEVER OWNS THE LAND OWNS WHAT IS BUILT THEREON. RV:21:1 AND I SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH: FOR THE FIRST HEAVEN AND THE FIRST EARTH WERE PASSED AWAY; AND THERE WAS NO MORE SEA. 2. AND I JOHN SAW THE HOLY CITY, NEW JERUSALEM, COMING DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN, PREPARED AS A BRIDE ADORNED FOR HER HUSBAND. 3. AND I HEARD A GREAT VOICE OUT OF HEAVEN SAYING, BEHOLD, THE TABERNACLE OF GOD IS WITH MEN, AND HE WILL DWELL WITH THEM, AND THEY SHALL BE HIS PEOPLE, AND GOD HIMSELF SHALL BE WITH THEM, AND BE THEIR GOD. GOD SHALL REIGN IN ETERNITY FROM MOUNT ZION. IS:2:3 AND MANY PEOPLE SHALL GO AND SAY, COME YE, AND LET US GO UP TO THE MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD, TO THE HOUSE OF THE GOD OF JACOB; AND HE WILL TEACH US OF HIS WAYS, AND WE WILL WALK IN HIS PATHS: FOR OUT OF ZION SHALL GO FORTH THE LAW, AND THE WORD OF THE LORD FROM JERUSALEM.