PODCAST TRANSCRIPT | EPISODE 352: IT WILL BLOW YOUR BRAINS AWAY! Part 2
LIFE TO THE FULL w/ Nancy Campbell
EPISODE 352: IT WILL BLOW YOUR BRAINS AWAY! Part 2
Can you imagine God using 19 different Hebrew words to describe how He wants us to multiply? It’s pretty amazing.
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Nancy Campbell: Hello, wonderful, amazing mothers! It’s you mothers who are doing the most powerful job in the whole nation. You are determining the destiny of this nation as you raise your wonderful children, your sons and daughters for God. There is nothing, there is nothing more important that you could ever be doing than raising godly children. God sees this, and He is pleased, and guess what? You are in the very perfect will of God.
When God gives you a little baby, when He gives you children, He gives them to you to raise for Him on His behalf. He doesn’t give them to you to give to somebody else. He gives them to you, and He gives you this wonderful, powerful responsibility, and yes, also this wonderful joy and delight of raising God’s children to impact the world. You have a world-changing career. There is no other career in the world that can get anywhere near it. Be encouraged today, dear mothers!
We are continuing today our podcast on the subject of “IT WILL BLOW YOUR BRAINS AWAY.” This is part two. We are looking into the Scriptures of how God wants us to be fruitful. We know that in the very beginning, the very first command God gave was to be “fruitful.” We read that and we don’t think much about it.
But when we go into the Scriptures and we see that the descriptions that God gives of how He wants us to be fruitful, it really, truly, does blow your brains away! It is amazing! Because I found 18 different Hebrew words to describe this commandment. But now, guess what, ladies? Today I found another one! I can’t believe it. So now I’ve got 19 points. I’m always finding more in the Scripture. Even though I think I have done the most thorough study, it’s amazing how many times I’ll find more.
So, let’s continue, shall we? We’re up to . . .
No. 8. NUMEROUSLY
Let’s read Exodus 1:7: “The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty. And the land was filled with them.” This is giving a description of the Israelites in Egypt and how they were fruitful and multiplied.
I don’t know whether you noticed, ladies, but in this one Scripture, just this one Scripture, there are six Hebrew words (adverbs or adjectives) to describe how they were fruitful. Let’s go over it again. “The children of Israel were fruitful (parah) and increased abundantly (sharats) and multiplied (rabah) and waxed mighty (atsam, that’s a new one we’ve got for this point), exceeding (meod) and the land was filled (male) with them. There are six Hebrew words in only one Scripture, trying to describe it. It is amazing.
Our new word for this point is atsam. I called it numerously because it means “to be numerous, to be strong, to be mighty.”
Let’s go over to Exodus 1:20: “The people multiplied and waxed very mighty (atsam).”
Psalm 105:24: “And He increased His people greatly and made them stronger (atsam) than their enemies.”
All right, let’s go to . . .
No. 9. GREATLY
And we see this word in Deuteronomy 26:5: “A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.” It’s talking about Abraham, and it gives three descriptions here to describe how he multiplied, even though he only had one son. Well, he did have more but he had the promised son, Isaac. Then, later, after Sarah had passed away, he married Keturah, and he had six more children with her.
But we see three adjectives, great, mighty, populous. The word “great” is another Hebrew word, gadol, and it means “to be large in number, magnitude, intensity, and extent.”
Some other Scriptures, Genesis 12:2: “And I will make of thee a great nation.”
Genesis 18:18: “Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him.”
No. 10. MIGHTILY
The Hebrew word here is atsum. It means “mighty, vast, numerous, strong in number, countless.” That’s the second adjective in Deuteronomy 26:5, where Abraham became a great and mighty nation.
We read this also in Genesis 18:18: “Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great (that the word gadol) and now this word, atsum, and mighty nation. And all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him.” So many of the Scriptures use more than one Hebrew word. Read also Exodus 1:9 and Micah 4:7).
No. 11. POPULOUSLY and ABOUNDINGLY
That’s the same Scripture, Deuteronomy 26:5 where “he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.” Populous in the Hebrew is rab, meaning “much, many, abounding, more numerous than, greater than, strong.”
We see it also in Exodus 1:9: “Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more (rab)and mightier than we are.” Did you know that that is God’s plan for His people? He wants them to be more and mightier than the heathen. That’s what happened in Egypt. The children of Israel were in Egypt, but they became more and mightier than the Egyptians! That’s what God wants His people to be. He wants them to fill the land as the Israelites did in Egypt.
It says: “And the land was filled with them.” God wants the land filled with His people, sharing and revealing His image, His attributes, who God is. He wants His image revealed in the world because we are made in the image of God. He wants His image to be revealed. We are image-bearers of God.
When God spoke that first commandment in Genesis, and said: “Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth,” He didn’t stop. That was actually only half the sentence. It goes on to say: “And also to take dominion.” That is what God wants His people to do, to take dominion.
God doesn’t want evil to take dominion. He wants righteousness to take dominion.
He wants the land to be filled with righteousness and goodness and mercy, and His salvation, and all that He is.
This is the plan. This is God’s heart, and this happens when we multiply, because it is another fact that the people, no matter whether they’re, Christian, non-Christian, or whoever they are. But if they fulfill God’s principle of being fruitful and multiplying, they will take dominion.
We see this happening in the UK where they have opened their doors, their gates of their land to all these Islamic people. Over the last number of years, more and more and more have been coming in. Now they are overtaking the land. They’re taking dominion. Actually, that’s what they have planned to do.
In fact, I don’t know whether any of you would remember the name of David Pawson, a great man of God. He’s passed away now. If you're younger, you most probably don’t know his name. If you're older, you most probably do. Many, many years ago, God woke David Pawson up and gave him this prophetic word that the UK was going to become an Islamic nation. It absolutely terrified him. He could not believe it. He didn’t know if what he was hearing was from God or not, because it was so unbelievable.
He brought it before many, many other men of God and pastors, to check it out. Did they believe it was right? They all were aware that it was a word from God. Unless the UK stopped what they were doing, this is what would happen. Now we’re seeing, before our very eyes, just what is happening. They’re completely taking over because they multiply. They don’t limit their families and the more they multiply, the more they will take dominion. Read also Exodus 5:5 and 2 Chronicles 1:9.
No. 12. POWERFULLY
This is the Hebrew word gadal. It’s different from gadol. Some of the words are similar, but they are different Hebrew words.
We see this word in Genesis 48:19: “I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.”
No. 13. GROWINGLY
I’ve had to make up some English words to keep up with all these Hebrew words! There are so many Hebrew words. I’m finding it hard to find enough English words to describe them. This Hebrew word is dagah. It means “to increase, to multiply.”
Genesis 48:16: “The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them.” This is Jacob blessing the children of Israel, his children, his twelve sons. “Let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.” The word “grow” there is dagah. It means “to increase and multiply.”
No. 14. INCREASINGLY
The Hebrew word is paras. It means “to break forth, break out, to increase.”
Genesis 28:14: “And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad (that’s the word paras, spread abroad, to break forth, to increase) to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.” That was God’s promise to the Israelite people.
Exodus 1:12: “But the more they afflicted them . . .” This was when they were in Egypt, and because they had grown more and mightier than the Egyptians, the Pharoah was intimidated. That’s why he put hard tasks and persecution upon the Israelites. But it says: “The more they afflicted them” What’s happening? Did they think, “Oh, no! Here we are. We’ve got to build these cities for Pharoah. We’re getting beaten and whipped. They’re not giving us enough food. There’s terrible persecution. This terrible life, and we can’t have any more children in this kind of lifestyle! We’ve got to stop!”
But no, the Word says: “But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew.” That word is “to break forth and increase.” Wow, that’s a real challenge, isn’t it? Today, even in the little excuse, “Oh, I don’t think that we could really afford another baby,” people will stop having children.
“Oh, I don’t think we would ever have enough money to send our children to college, so we’d better not have any more!”
“Oh, but my mother, and mother-in-law, and everyone is telling me to stop. Oh, I think we’d better stop having more children. We can’t have any more than two!” Then others say, “Oh, well, it would be too hard on my body. I don’t think I can have any more children.” They don’t realize that we, as women, were created for the very purpose of having children.
But we have all these excuses that come up. Whereas, back in Exodus, wow, let’s read what was really happening. Exodus 1:11: “Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens . . . And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor: and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigor.” But verse 12: “But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew.”
1 Chronicles 4:38: “These mentioned by their names were princes in their families: and the house of their fathers increased greatly.” That’s that word paras. Actually, this reminds me of this whole passage that we are talking about where I started this series in Jeremiah 29, which was the word of the Lord that Jeremiah gave to the people of Judah when they were taken to Babylon.
They were captives in Babylon, but God came to them. He said, “This is what I want you to do while you're there.” What He told them was the very things He had told this in the very beginning. We’ve been talking about them. There were seven things. Number one, they were to build houses. Number two, dwell in them. Number three, to plant gardens. Number four, to eat the fruit of them.
Now we are at number five, TO INCREASE. I’ll read you that Scripture. It’s Jeremiah 29:6: “Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.” Just as in Egypt, when they were under this hard bondage and rigor, they continued to multiply. God said, “Even while you are in Babylon, I don’t want you to diminish. Keep on increasing and multiplying.”
No. 15. FULLNESSLY
Well, I am really running out of English words, but we’re finding a new one to describe these Hebrew words. This time its melo, and it means “fullness, that which fills, a mass, a multitude.”
Genesis 48:19: “Jacob said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great [gadal] but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude [melo] of nations.”
Here’s another new Hebrew word. We’re up to the fifteenth Hebrew word. Can you believe how many different words God has to describe multiplying and filling the land? That’s how much it is on the heart of God. This is why I’m calling this session, “IT WILL BLOW YOUR BAINS AWAY.”
Ladies, we read the Bible. Yet, I don’t think we really read it! We don’t really know what it’s saying. Here I’ve just given you all these different words. It takes more than one English word to describe each one, because it’s so big, and so vast. Each one is very similar, but then, a slightly different meaning. God has all these different words.
It’s the same word that’s used in Isaiah 6:3: “The whole earth is full of His glory.” Yes, the whole earth is filled with the glory of God’s creation, but God’s greatest creation is man, who He created in His image. God wants His greatest creation, that which He created in His image, to fill the earth. He wants it filled with His people, because they are His glory, far greater than the physical creation of the world.
No. 16. INNUMERABLY
It’s the word mana, but it’s not the word manna that God gave to His people to feed them in the wilderness. That’s a different Hebrew word and we spell that with two “n’s.” This is the Hebrew word mana, and it means “to count, to number.”
Genesis 13:16: “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.” Here God is describing that He wants His people to be multiplying in numbers, so much so that you can’t really count them. Like the dust of the earth, you can’t count the dust of the earth.
1 Kings 3:8: “And Thy servant is in the midst of Thy people.” This is Solomon praying. “Which Thou hast chosen, a great people that cannot be numbered for multitude.”
No. 17. COUNTLESSLY
Here’s another word that is just too much to count. The word in the Hebrew is saphar (pronounced sa-fare) and it means “to number, to take a count of.” It’s often used for a scribe writing down things.
Let’s see where they used this word. Genesis 15:5: “And He brought [Abraham] forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell (saphar) count the stars if thou be able to number them: and He said unto him, So shall thy seed be.” As Abraham looked up into the starry sky, and he was out there in the desert where he could see the stars so clearly. Oh, we can see the stars out where we live here in the county, but we have houses around us, and so on. I can imagine what it must have been like out in that desert and how the stars would have been so clear.
Often people come to our home, and we have them for a meal. Then it’s time to go and we go down the stairs with them to wave goodbye to them. Often, it's a dark night and they come out of the door, and they say, “Wow! The stars are so glorious!” They often live in the city, and they just don’t get to see the stars like we see them out here.
But Abraham would have seen them even more greatly. As he looked up to the stars, God said to him: “Abraham, so shall your seed be.” And the next Scripture says: “And Abraham believed God.” He believed. At that time, he didn’t even have one son although God had promised him a son.
Often, when I read that Scripture, for many, many years I somehow thought that Abraham was believing God for his one son. But I was wrong. I wasn’t reading the Scripture correctly. God told Abraham to look at the stars which he couldn’t even count. He said, “You can’t even number them, Abraham, but that’s what I’m going to make your seed.” And he believed God for a multitude to come forth from his loins. What great faith that he had!
Genesis 16:10: “The angel of the Lord said unto her (that was Hagar) I will multiply thy seed exceedingly that it shall not be numbered [saphar] for multitude.” Although the greatest promises were for Isaac, God did not leave Ishmael out. He received the promise too.
Genesis 32:12: “I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.”
Jeremiah 33:22: “As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant.”
Hosea 1:10: “Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered.”
I’ll give you one more: 1 Kings 3:8. Once again, this is Solomon praying. “Thy servant is in the midst of Thy people which Thou hast chosen; a great people that cannot be numbered or counted for multitude.”
Wow! Now we’re up to . . .
No. 18: ADDINGLY
I thought that was all we had. This one is yasaph. It means “to add, to increase, to do it again, to do it more.”
Genesis 38:5: “And she yet again conceived, and bare a son.”
Deuteronomy 1:11: “The Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more [yasaph] as you are, and bless you as He hath promised you.”
Psalm 115:14: “The Lord shall increase you more and more (yasaph) you and your children.”
A GENERATIONAL VISION
Wow! That’s a great promise. Do you want to take hold of that promise, dear mothers? Not just for you. You see, this is a vision. This is not only talking about your current family, and the children God has given you. Yes, it is talking about the children God wants to give you, but it’s more than that. It's their children, and their children again, and down the generations.
This is a vision that we must have, not only for ourselves, but we must pass it onto our children. They have got to get the vision. It saddens me to see families, and many times, they’ve opened their hearts to embrace the children God wants to give them. They have all these beautiful children, but they grow up. They get married, and they limit their families. They’re not challenged by the vision.
This is a family vision. This is not only for now but for the generations to come. Take this Scripture: “The Lord shall increase you more and more; you and your children.” Do you have a vision for your children to bring forth children? Oh, I do. I long for my children to bring forth children. And now, I long to see my grandchildren who are getting married to bring forth children. Oh, that’s the greatest joy of my heart.
IT'S A PROACTIVE VISION
That’s what it was talking about in Jeremiah 29:2, where it says that: “You are to take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters, that you may increase and not diminish.” So, we see the vision there. It’s a very proactive vision. It’s not, “Oh, well, if it happens, that will be fine.” No! It’s a proactive vision.
We should take hold of a promise like this and claim it for our family. “The Lord shall increase you more and more, you and your children.”
Isaiah 26:15: “Thou hast increased the nation, oh Lord. Thou hast increased the nation. Thou art glorified.” The word “increased” is yasaph. Do you notice that it says: “The Lord has increased the nation. He is glorified.” God is glorified when the nation is increased, especially God’s people.
No. 19. NUMBERLESSLY
Now, I’ve got to give you the number 19, and I only discovered this one today. It’s found in Numbers 23:10: “Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!”
This was part of the prophesy of Balaam. Do you remember the story of how Balek, the king of Moab, hired Balaam to come and curse the children of Israel? Because Balek looked out upon the children of Israel, and he saw that they were so vast and so numerous. They were a threat to him, and he was terrified of them. He wanted Balaam to come and curse them.
So, Balaam came along, and you remember the story of how even the donkey tried to stop him. Even the donkey spoke to him. That was quite a miraculous thing. But every time Balaam began to speak words of cursing over the children of Israel, instead God poured forth out of his mouth great blessings! Oh, blessing after blessing after blessing!
It wasn’t just one. It was about three different prophecies, maybe four. I know it was at least three that he gave over the children of Israel. They were all powerful, oh, incredible glorious prophetic words. This one is saying: “Who can count the dust of Jacob? Who can number even the fourth part of Israel?” The word “number” there is the word mispah, and it means “innumerable.” So, there we have another one, so I’ll have to have an English word for that. I’ll call it “innumerably.” But I’ve already got “innumerably” so what’s say we call it “NUMBERLESSLY.” Read also other Scriptures where this word is used:1 Chronicles 22:4, 16; 2 Chronicles 12:3; Job 5:9; 9:10; 25:3; Psalm 147:5; Isaiah 40:26; Hosea 1:10; and Joel 1:6.
So, there we are. We found 19 different Hebrew words just to describe how God wants us to be fruitful and multiply. Can you believe it, ladies? Does it blow your brains away? Wow! We really have to begin to think like God thinks, don’t we? I love that Scripture in Isaiah 55:8-9: “For My thoughts are not your thoughts. Neither are your ways My ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts higher than your thoughts.”
Oh, dear ladies, and dear me! Help! We’ve got to get our very lowly thoughts up to God’s higher thoughts. One of the biggest things in life is to begin to think like God thinks. To stop thinking our puny thinking which is so puny and shallow and to get up to God’s thinking, which is so much higher.
The only way we do this is knowing His truth, knowing what He says, knowing His ways, knowing His mind. We find this as we read it in the Word. When we discover it, we’ve got to somehow get our minds around it and begin to think like He thinks! Yes, and so, we’ll end on that prophetic word again.
I love the Scripture: “Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like His.” Balaam is prophesying from the Word of the Lord. Even though he meant to be cursing Israel, instead he says, “Oh, I want my whole end to be like Israel! And all the blessings God has for them, and all the blessings that have come out of my mouth for them.” Amen.
All right, ladies. That’s it for today but there’s more next week. I haven’t finished yet.
“Dear Father, we come to You today in the Name of Jesus. I pray for every wife, every mother, every daughter, and whoever else is listening. Lord God, bless them. I pray that You will lift our puny minds up, Lord, up to Your thinking, Your way of thinking, to how You think, Lord. Let us be those who think Bible thinking, rather than our own puny thoughts.
“Oh, Father, I pray for any mothers who are listening who are with child today, and the baby is growing in their womb. I pray for them, that You will bless them. I pray, Lord, that You will protect this little baby, and, Lord, that these little ones growing in the womb will grow to full term. And that You will give them the blessing of a safe and natural birth, and You will bless these babies, and bring them forth to be filled with Your glory and Your knowledge, and that they will be true image-bearers in this world. We ask it in the Name of Jesus. Amen.”
Blessings from Nancy Campbell
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