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BIBLE LANGUAGE
It’s amazing, isn’t it, how we think so differently to the way God thinks. Especially about children coming into the world.Let me give you a couple of examples from Scripture. The Bible tells us in Genesis 14 of how four kings and their armies came against Sodom and Gomorrah and
defeated them. Along with confiscating all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, they also took Abraham’s nephew, Lot and his family.
Abraham rose up and went out with his home-trained army of 318 men, defeated them, and rescued Lot and his family. On his way home he met Melchisedec, King of Salem and priest of the most high God, and Abraham gave him tithes of all he had gained.
Then we go over to the New Testament and Hebrews 7: 9, 10 tells us that not only Abraham paid tithes to Melchisedec, but his great grandson! How could that be? He wasn’t even born!
Let’s read it: “And as I may so say, Levi . . . paid tithes in Abraham, For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.” He paid tithes years before he was born!
God saw Levi, his great grandson in his loins, even when he was not a twinkle in Abraham’s eye.
We also read in 2 Samuel 7: 12, 13 how God told David that a son who was not yet even thought of by David would come forth from his loins to be the next king.
“And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of this kingdom forever.”
The Bible says a seed would come forth from David. The word is “zera” in the Hebrew and is a word that is used for sperm as well as for people. God planned for Solomon to be born and build the temple before he was even thought of by David.
God sees future generations before they are born! He has children planned to come into the world. We had better not stop God’s plans. His plans are far greater than our plans.
Be encouraged today,
Nancy Campbell
