The Jordan River as a raging torrent represents what prevents us from entering into the land and facing the enemies of the heavenly life (inner states of genuine love). 11Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other. When her mother said that she wanted the head of John the Baptist, Herodias' daughter did not pause to consider if such a request was morally correct or if it was pleasing to God; she was so concerned about "pleasing mom" that she returned to the king and asked for John the Baptist's head on a platter. However, "dancing" that is not led by the Spirit of God is directly associated with Canaanite spirits. This relates to the word plasso, which means "to form, to mold". 13But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly." The Canaanite spirit will never disappear on its own. Since the word egel for "calf" in Hebrew has a "masculine" connotation, we can say that the calf was a "young bull", meaning that the children of Israel were like "female cattle", or "cows", dancing around the young bull. From this, we can see several connections with things previously said in this article: As we said above, Genesis 13 relates the Hebrew word for "plain" with one of the Hebrew words for "dancing", and the Greek word plax means "a flat thing, a level surface", which is very much related to the concept of a "plain". First posted: June 26, 2004 His eldest son, Zidon, was the father of the Sidonians and Phoenicians. You will receive a link to create a new password via email. Canaan speaks of the coming of the Father and the Son to make us Their home. Since salvation in Scripture is described as a process that starts when you and I are born again (Philippians 2:12-13), we must understand that total salvation is the restoration of all which man lost when he sinned against God, which implies a growth process, and, therefore, it also implies growing pains (Hebrews 12:4-13). Lost your password? This is why people who are born with the Spirit of Service are very prone to fall under the influence of Canaanite spirits; in an effort to serve others, these people sometimes throw personal convictions out the window when these convictions get in the way of the other person's service request. (Malachi 4:1-6). 13But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly" (Genesis 13:12-13). This relates to ideas of defensiveness and self protection in a negative sense of hiding transgressions through being secretive and causing confusion. The consequences in the natural realm will then take care of themselves. Notice that verse 22 above says that Herodias' daughter danced and pleased Herod. When our service promotes the kingdom of another "master", the word "allotri-episkopos" applies to us. Intelligence gathering is an important undertaking in military campaigns and as we saw earlier Joshua in preparing for the Israelite campaign sent out spies. This spirit was trying to wear down Moses so he would give up on his posture of intercession for Joshua and the army. "infected" with any of them, and to recognize them in the hearts of (Exodus 32:19-20). 23And he sware unto her, Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will give it thee, unto the half of my kingdom. When someone loses his or her prophetic calling in life due to deliberate hard-heartedness, his or her prophetic purpose is lost; he or she becomes useless, in a spiritual sense, and, once that happens, it is equivalent to having your calling cast into the fire of Sheol (by the way, if you fear that you have lost your prophetic calling and if that causes pain in your heart, your calling is not yet lost; those who lose their calling become so callous that they simply don't care). He will lift up a mighty prophetic Church in the latter days that will shake the spiritual foundations of this Earth and manifest God's latter-rain glory. Dancing is, in essence, an act of pleasing others. It is used of walled villages and means to hide or conceal. Everything in the Word is given for our spiritual welfare. God willing, we will post a future article that talks more about the relationship between the Canaanite spirits and "cows" in Scripture, as well as their relationship with "dogs", "mockery" and "carnal judgment". The name "Canaanite" is also sometimes used to designate the non-Israelite inhabitants of the land in general (Gen. 12:6; Num. Those of you who were born with the Spirit of Service must be very careful not to be controlled by Canaanite spirits. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (14.9MB). (1 Corinthians 2:13-16), "15Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)16In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel." Your mere presence wherever God sends you exerts a pastoral influence on the spiritual atmosphere around you, and you are affecting people's spiritual lives through your pastoral anointing, even if you are not audibly preaching a sermon from a pulpit. The meanings of the Canaanite tribes given here are general but more can be seen of their nature or quality as mental states from the meaning of their names. This is why they have dancers in strip clubs; these dancers, who are women trapped by Canaanite spirits, dance around the client, doing all the moves that the client may find to be "pleasant". 3And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah" (Numbers 21:1-3). (Romans 8:17-19). The Canaanite Spirit uses wealth and material gain to bring God's people into compromise and backsliding. They were financial giants. (Matt. These qualities speak to the negative things in the human proprium or ego, and even the history of Canaan in the Word adds weight to these qualities. Canaan, the land of promise, is akin in meaning to the spiritual fulfillment of the Jewish feast of Tabernacles. Your hands will then be free from the responsibility of his blood, because you will have warned him in time and acted in God's righteousness (Ezekiel 33:1-11). (Ephesians 5:9-10). As we saw above, Canaanite spirits make a concerted effort to shut down the person's mind and to get him or her into a drunken stupor where emotions are no longer inhibited by a sober mind. Canaan. The word translated as "charger" by the King James translators in Mark 6:25 and Mark 6:28 is the Greek word pinax, which means, "a board, a dish, a platter", and apparently is derived from the Greek word plax, meaning, "a flat thing, a level surface". The river as falsity that flow from evils represents the torrent of thought that flows from negative emotions that we entertain within our life. From time to time, allow others to dance for you, and be grateful to them for it, but never allow anyone to dance for you when they have not been sent by God to do so. We have something of their meaning described for us in the teachings of the Church – from the work the Arcana Coelestia…. The common theme that runs across its related root words is that of piercing and we get meanings like to cut, to tear off, to frighten. Exodus 3:8 — "And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and t… A Canaanite “shuts off” his mind and is … This is our enemy too as we can't serve two masters and this world's possessions are temporary. Having a Spirit of Service is not wrong in and of itself. When we remember the story in the midst of the torrent we will find we are given power that is able to stem the flow of thoughts. 18For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. Hittites spirits deceive us about whom or what we are to die for, while Canaanite spirits deceive us about who or what we are to live for and serve. The actions of Ham, of exposing others, drew a curse on Canaan his son which means spiritually that this kind of behaviour produces nothing but what is accursed which is found in the meaning of root word for Canaanite as we have seen. We loose touch with that side of ourselves that remembers our connection to the Lord and get carried away in the lower world of our own self centeredness. But we have the mind of Christ." He died in 1691. What is also interesting about this root is that it is related to other roots that share a common meaning being that of “domination” and the Heavenly Doctrines teach that the love of self is the love of dominating others. An important quality in a good servant is the desire to please the person being served. You don't have to be "ordained" by a pastor in front of a congregation to be recognized by God as a prophet. By not condemning the Canaanite spirit inside of her to destruction, and by not confronting the young man over his filthy behavior, she is doing him more harm than good. 24And she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? We are like the children of Israel in Exodus 32 who have fashioned a calf, a "God" according to our own likings and soulish interests, and we dance around this "God" as if we were holding a sacred feast for the One True God (Exodus 32:5). We could make an aim over the course of the next week, to be aware of when our thoughts are flowing from negative emotions. 21And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee; 22And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in, and danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat with him, the king said unto the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give it thee. The best authorities relate this word tentatively back to a root wood which means a “scabby skin disease”. (Genesis 13:10-13). This means that you must be willing to cut off all relationship with anything or anyone that promotes or harbors the Canaanite spirit. For example, a young lady might be so in love with a young man who is touching her improperly that she prefers to expose her body to his fornicating hands than to lose her relationship with him. This is a common term used in the Heavenly Doctrines so it’s important that we get a sense of what it means for us. 5Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: 6And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse." Pray for drug dealers to be grieved with disease and heartache, to be without any rest or peace in their lives until they either repent or are killed. We can now reveal the spiritual characteristics of the 7 types of evil spirits by looking at the name of each nation that they manifested into: Table of Evil Spirits Name Meaning of Name Character (evil manifestation) Hittites Sons of Heth (terror) – extreme As we will see in future articles, the connection between "cows" and Canaanite spirits is very strong throughout the Bible. Then, instead of thinking about what she wanted from the king, Herodias' daughter quickly ran to her mother to see what Herodias wanted; in other words, the daughter saw the king's words as an opportunity to please her mother. Those of you who have been asked to dance on stage in front of an audience probably know how embarrassing it is to dance for others (especially if "ants in his pants" is the phrase that comes to people's minds when they see you dance). This is why most pastors (who by definition have the Spirit of Service) tend to be friendly people who like to have contact with people. End of: The Seven Nations of Canaan *Note from Pass the WORD: This was written in the late 1600’s when Thomas Bromley was a part of the Philadelphian Society with Jane Lead. The prophetic remnant of the latter days will be a "no holds barred" type of Church, a Church that will unleash punishing and unrelenting spiritual warfare against iniquity, paving the way for the greatest revival mankind has ever seen. The Heavenly Doctrines describe the Jordan River in this case as “falsities from evils”. 19For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God." Then, Herod felt a desire to please her back, telling her to request anything from him; in other words, Herod made himself available as a "servant" ready to please her back by giving her the gift she desired. How can we possibly see the enemies within when our thoughts are occupied with negative thinking that flows from harbouring negative emotions? The passage quoted above (Exodus 32:19-20) also establishes a connection between "calves" and "dancing". The percentage of American adults identifying as gay, lesbian, transgender, or bisexual increased to 4.5 percent in 2017, up from 4.1 percent in 2016 and 3.5% in 2015. (1 Corinthians 10:31-33). The term Canaanite traces its root from a word meaning “what is low” and so we are immediately reminded that what is low spiritually equates to what is most external that belongs to the love of self. Pray for them to find no peace whatsoever until they recognize their sins and expose their lives to the cleansing effect of Jesus' blood. Those of you with the Spirit of Service don't mind dancing and humiliating yourselves in front of others. Mad cow disease is a physical manifestation of a judgment that God is beginning to carry out in the spirit world against the Canaanite spirits. Each of these names corresponds to the seven kinds of evil spirits mentioned in the New Testament. This represents an essential element in the spiritual life which involves acquiring spiritual intelligence which, with us, involves the discipline of self examination with a view to gaining a little insight into the quality of the states of our own inner life. The Levant region was inhabited by people who themselves referred to the land as 'ca-na-na-um' as early as the mid-third millennium BCE. Everything else is vain and pointless (Matthew 12:30, Psalms 127:1-5). The Word in giving us the names of these tribes of Canaanites that the Lord says he is going to evict from the land provides us with what’s needed to further build our spiritual intelligence. (Genesis 10:19), "12Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom. It was this evil power that caused Esau to sell his birthright for a plate of beans, Genesis 25:29-34. Notice how everyone was trying to please everyone in this passage, and notice how the Canaanite desire to please people can be so strong that you end up doing things your convictions wouldn't normally allow you to do. The seven pagan tribes in Canaan that Israel would destroy so that they could claim the land of Canaan as their own represent seven different kinds of carnal character traits found within us. You and I, my brother and sister, are agents of God's spiritual judgments on Earth. To do this we will draw from a number of sources to gain a better sense of the Canaanites within the psycho-spiritual dimension of our minds. If my pleasing of another person is done to prevent that person from pain and suffering that he or she needs to go through in order to have fruits of righteousness produced in him or her, I am working towards the destruction of that person, not the person's salvation (Proverbs 23:14, 13:24, 29:15; Matthew 18:15; James 5:19-20, 2 Corinthians 7:8-11). Service and humiliation go hand in hand: "4Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. It would appear then in the sense that it occurs last in the series of names to be linked to actions in which all other qualities are found. It must always be proactively attacked and destroyed. The Rebbe explained that Amelek is the spiritual source and root of the spiritual evil of the seven evil nations – the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Girgshites, Jebusites and Rephaim [Genesis 15:20-21]. In fact without crossing our own psycho-spiritual Jordan we can’t come into contact with what is represented by the Canaanites. This word means “to subdue” and carries the meaning of breaking up; of fear and breaking down courage, it means what is frightening and is used in the Word to describe a state of panic or anxiety. (Mark 6:17-28). The Canaanite spirit is like a bad plague. He will not understand that he is sinning against God until he is confronted. When the Bible refers to "dancing", it refers to more than the act of "shaking your bad self", as we will see later in this article. AC 10638. Here we have the task that we can work with. His son Ham saw him lying naked and looked to expose him to ridicule to his brothers Shem and Japheth. Another painfully common example of how people with the Spirit of Service might value relationships over God's justice would be when a mother "loves" a son so much that she bends over backwards to help him out of problems caused by his willful desire to live a life of sin and unrighteousness. This name means merchants who humiliate. If our service does not work as seed to produce fruits of righteousness in others, working instead to strengthen or condone their iniquity, it becomes useless service in the eyes of God: "9As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever. We remember that what belongs to spiritual life is unable to exist in the midst of negative emotions and uncharitable thoughts. The phrase "busybody in other men's matters" in verse 15 above is the translation for the Greek word allotriepiskopos, which literally means, "one who supervises a stranger's affairs". Our primary source will be the Word and the Heavenly Doctrines, but we can also add what is known of these peoples historically as to how they lived and in particular what is known concerning their religion. If the son did not receive Jesus as his Savior, he will end up in hell along with his prophetic calling. (1 Peter 4:14-17). 7Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter. 6And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play." Finally we come to the Jubusites. Even though the Gospel calls us to a life of suffering in service and self-sacrifice, not all suffering is necessarily of God: "14If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. In a sense, we can say that the children of Israel were revolving around the calf, i.e.- dancing around the calf, in the same way that a woman would sensually dance around a man she likes. Some of these people are so hardened in their hearts that they will never repent; they only stay around on Earth to contaminate and destroy the lives of more and more people, so, in those cases, it is better for them to die. A great deal can be inferred directly from the meaning of the word "Canaanite". (Acts 10:25-26). It shares the meaning with other roots of to act negatively, with related words that mean, to tread down; deceive, shatter, despise and scatter. The Canaanites were motivated by greed and lust for the accumulation of earthly and material wealth. "Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you." The 11 tribes that descended from Canaan eventually inhabited the region along the eastern Mediterranean between Egypt and Syria. In verse 31, Paul declares that we must do all things to the glory of God. 18And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit"  (Ephesians 5:15-18). By race the Canaanites were Semitic. 16Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf. It also carries the meaning of “merchandising” or “wares that are traded”, and this brings us back to the idea of the love of the world. Abraham grasped the true meaning of the Promised Land; he knew Canaan represented the coming Messiah. However, it is impossible to truly defeat them in the Spirit if you are not willing to commit yourself to their total destruction, in your life and in the lives of others. Otherwise, there will be no repentance, and, hence, no salvation from hell. When we fall under a Canaanite influence, we start dancing to the desires of others and become like spiritual "plains", lowlands that have been "molded" into spiritual flatness by the desires of men instead of allowing God to mold us and shape us. This is a spiritual battle, and the battle must be fought with spiritual weapons. There is very little information in the Word or the Heavenly Doctrines regarding the Girgashites. People under Canaanite influence are constantly worried about what people might think. In other words, it refers to investing your service in things that serve the interests of another master besides your own. 21:3; Judg. The name "Hormah" mentioned at the end of the passage above means, "devoted unto destruction" or "set apart to be destroyed". CANAANITES. Notice that God's latter-day manifestation is not equated with rainbows, smiley faces, and a field of beautiful roses with delicate butterflies dancing all around. Now that we have found a spiritual connection between dancing and Canaanites, we must understand the spiritual meaning of dancing. If we can get more of a handle on what these tribes represent then we will know what to look for within. 14But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. This is why Israel made a vow to destroy the Canaanites' cities. In Joshua 3:10 we have mentioned the names of seven tribes that are in the land of Canaan that the Lord says He will evict from the land. The Bible very clearly declares that all of us who have given our hearts to the Anointed One (Christ) are priests and ministers of God (Revelation 1:6, Isaiah 61:6), and, as such, we all have gifts and ministries that are to be manifested on Earth. This remembering of ourselves in connection with the Lord is what it means to step into the waters. Don't dance to please the desires of pigs and dogs. If my pleasing of others does not work towards producing righteousness in them, it is not working towards their salvation. Canaanite believers, in their zeal to please others, are prone to give people more than they need or deserve. His descendants were under a curse in consequence of the transgression of his father ( 9:22-27). Therefore, when the Bible refers to Sheol or "hell", it is referring, in a spiritual sense, to a life that has strayed from its prophetic purpose and is no longer useful. This is clear from the meaning of ‘driving out from [before] the face’ as moving or shifting something away from the interiors composing thought and affection (for ‘driving out’ means moving or shifting something away, while ‘the face’ means interior things, see in the places referred to in 9546; and the interiors of a human being are the things present in his understanding and will, or thought and affection, so that ‘driving out from the face’ means moving [evils and falsities] away from these); and from the representation of the nations in the land of Canaan as evils and falsities,…[2]…When it says that if he [Moses] observed what Jehovah commanded He would drive out those nations from [before] his face the meaning is, If they carried out the chief commands laid down by eternal truth evils and falsities would be moved or shifted away. Words related to this root carry meanings of covering over, transgression, to confuse, scurry, to be secretive, darken and bind or restrain. Dancing, literal and spiritual, is a public exposition of weakness in order to please others. As we said above, Aaron molded a golden calf to the liking of the children of Israel in order to please them and to give them the "God" they wanted. The root meaning is to be humbled or subdued. Once the person's judgment against heavy drinking has been "shut off", the person starts to drink, and, soon, the alcohol shuts off all sober judgment and inhibition, and the person goes into a strong and public display of emotions. What is the spiritual meaning of dreaming about a birthday party? Please enter your username or email address. Canaanite mother, are you willing to let all of this happen because this short life would be "too painful" without your son near you? He had eleven sons, who were the founders of as many tribes ( 10:15-18). https://logopraxis.online/sermons/the-inner-meaning-of-the-canaanites-jos-39-11 If he did receive Jesus as his Savior, he will escape hell literally, but his prophetic calling will be lost, and, the day he faces God, he will understand all the eternal things that he gave up for the sake of temporary things, and he will be vomited out by God (Revelation 3:14-22), cast away from God's presence forever, even if he himself does not end up "physically" in hell. By nature, you are prone to derive pleasure from pleasing other people. Genesis 15:19-21 — "The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites." Sometimes, this "contact" is so literal that they always like to go around hugging people, patting people on the shoulder, shaking hands, etc. I am fully convinced (and I write this knowing that God is reading what I am writing) that all believers are born with at least one of the fivefold ministries. Canaan, as a person, has a peculiar origin. Canaanites create a type of "peer-pressure" atmosphere that make convictions subservient to the desires of men. God has allowed the manifestation of this disease in these latter days to portray the current condition of His Church, which has allowed itself to be under a pastoral matriarchy that emphasizes a gospel of "grace" and blessing and downplays God's justice and judgments. All but the last 2 paragraphs appeared in a 1744 printing of this work. Those of you who have a strong desire to serve and to please others were definitely born to be pastors, and are very probably already working as pastors in the spirit world, even if you don't currently work full-time at some congregation. Consequently no evil at all or falsity of evil comes in, for the Lord moves them away. Dancing is not wrong in and of itself. 1:10). Spiritual: they were commanded not to imitate the ways of the Canaanites (Leviticus ch.18 and many other passages).

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