Monday – October 14, 2024, Tishrei 12, 5785
COLUMBUS DAY
Video link: https://youtu.be/5HzFw_yqbew
Greetings dear and precious saints of God and greetings to you that are not saints of God, you are still precious. Welcome back to The Three Minute Word. Today in place of our study of Isaiah I will be talking about this transition in our nation from celebrating Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day. I suppose many of you like me, remember singing the song about Columbus sailing the ocean blue in 1492. So why the change?
This is a bit like Israel having an Amorite Day for they and others were the indigenous peoples of that land until the Israelites led by Joshua entered the land about 1400 BC. However, the land was deeded to the Israelites (Abram/Abraham) around 2000 BC. They were not a nation in the time of Abram but were a mighty nation in the time of Joshua. So, what was the judgment that allowed the Israelites to take the land previously occupied. The following Scripture lists the people that God authorized His people to displace.
Genesis 15:19-21 (KJV)
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.
God told Abram/Abraham this land would belong to His Seed/seed forever but not yet. Why?
Genesis 15:16 (KJV)
16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
Read this rather lengthy passage from Leviticus carefully and see if any of it sounds familiar for today as well as explaining how Israel was able to occupy another’s land legally. Listen to Moses warn the people that what happened to the people of Genesis 15:19-21 could happen to them if they take the same path. What about us dear ones?
Leviticus 18:20-30 (KJV)
20 Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour’s wife, to defile thyself with her.
21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.
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.
Some may be wondering, what does this have to do with Columbus Day and perhaps some others are seeing where this is going.
Lord willing, I will pick up right here tomorrow. Remember, we love you, the Lord loves you, and there is nothing you can do about either one.
By: Dr. David R. Wood, Bible Teacher, and Prophetic Voice
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