Battle of the Ages by Lester Sumrall

Author:Lester Sumrall
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Spiritual Warfare, Christian Life, General, Religion, Fundamentalism, Biblical Reference, Biblical Criticism & Interpretation, History
ISBN: 9780937580875
Publisher: Sumrall Publishing
Published: 1984-12-31T22:00:00+00:00

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THE SEED IS PLANTED

In the very next chapter in Genesis 12, God finds a man! For the first time God indicated that through a certain man the redeemer would come. God spoke to Abraham in Genesis 12:2,

"I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing."

This is the first promise to an individual that the great honor of bringing the world redeemer was his. That is the reason the devil rose up in fury to fight Abraham and his seed for nearly 4,000 years. That is the reason the devil bitterly hates the people of Abraham and the land of Israel. Satan very well knew that it would be a seed of this people who would bruise his head. He released his hottest fury against Abraham.

BARREN WIVES

When God found Abraham in Ur of the Chaldees, the first thing He wished to do was bring him out from among those heathen people. God always separates His people from the devil's people. God told Abraham in order to be His man he must leave Ur of the Chaldees. He could not live in the midst of spiritual bondage, idol worshipers and satanic superstitions. God's man must be alone to commune with God, so that He could lead and guide and converse with him.

As soon as God chose Abraham to be the forebearer of the Messiah, his wife Sarah was barren. She could not give birth to a child. This was not a physical problem—it was not something that just happened. Before God could bring about the promise to Abraham and produce a son through whom a redeemer would come to bruise the serpent's head, He had to cause a miracle of conception to take place.

Abraham was 100 years old and his wife was 90 years old before a male child was born to them who could be the emancipator of the human race. And so the devil lost his struggle. Though Sarah for fifty, sixty, or seventy-five years had desired a son, the devil stood off and tormented her, causing Ishmael to be born through a handmaiden who could have no part in bringing the Messiah. Here again the struggle seemed hopeless. Then God prevailed through a supernatural means and Isaac was born (Genesis 21).

In Genesis 25 we find the next development. Isaac married Rebecca who could not have a son. Rebecca was barren for twenty years. This was not a natural situation. Again the devil said, "I will stop the promised seed who will destroy my power from coming."

These scriptures reveal there was an unseen battle in the heavens raging in fury from generation to generation.

Again a miracle had to take place before Rebecca could bear a son, and through this son the redeemer could come to this world.

In the following generation, Jacob was chosen as the one through whom the redeemer would come.

Immediately his wife Rachel was barren (Genesis 30:1). She, as his mother and grandmother, suffered agony and torment.

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