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A. -- `Heavenly places'! these words come in Ephesians, where we read, `Blessed with all spiritual blessings in
heavenly places' (Eph. 1:3).
B. -- And in chapter 6?
The Amorite, Principalities and Heavenly Places
A. -- Yes, I have it:
`Spiritual wickedness in high (heavenly) places' (verse 12).
Certainly the parallel holds good there. Where the special blessings of the church are, there the spiritual Amorite
is to be found. This term `Canaanite' or `Amorite' includes, I see:
`Principalities and powers, rulers of the darkness of this world' (verse 12).
I had not thought that the Amorites could typify angelic beings, but I am anxious to know the answer to the other
question as to the Amorites.
The Two Seeds, The Master Key
A. -- We are now to consider the Amorites, and particularly wherein they differ from Israel. The difference can only
be one of nationality, for they are descendants of Adam equally with Israel, and Scripture further declares that `all
things are of God'.
B. -- Let us take up our study at that point. You quote `all things are of God'. Now I believe the expression `all
things' is limited, as `all Israel' is limited, to the `seed' and the `promise'; but a few passages of Scripture will help
us. Let us turn to John 8. In verse 33 it is recorded that certain Jews claimed descent from Abraham, and this is
admitted by the Lord in verse 37: `I know that ye are Abraham's seed'.
Here we can place the Amorite; he too could say, `We be Adam's seed', and we should have to reply, `I know
that ye are Adam's seed'.
The Lord however continued:
`I speak that which I have seen with My Father: And ye do that which you have seen with your father' (John
8:38).
Here a distinction is drawn. You might of course say that `My Father' indicates God, and `your father' indicates
Abraham, but this would be untrue. The Lord's meaning is made clear in verse 44:
`Ye are OF YOUR FATHER THE DEVIL'.
`Of God' and `not of God'
The Greek words are ek tou patros. In verse 47 we read that the Lord says:
`He that is OF GOD heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are NOT OF GOD'.
The Greek words are ek tou Theou. Here we have a perfect parallel. We have it positively stated that these men
were of their father the devil, and negatively that they were not of God. Turn to Matthew 13 and read the parable of
the tares in verses 24-30. I suppose you know that our English tares are not intended here?
A. -- Yes, I understand that the reference is to a false wheat, the Eastern dewan, which I take to mean false doctrine.
B. -- You are right as to the dewan, but not as to the typical meaning. Let us turn to the explanation of the parable.
`The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the
CHILDREN OF THE
WICKED ONE' (Matt. 13:38).
Here you have wheat typifying the sons of the kingdom, and dewan the sons of the wicked one: