THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND THE BLESSING OF THE LORD !

THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND THE BLESSING OF THE LORD ! And God looked upon the earth, and, behold it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them. . . And, behold, I, even I, and do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, where in is the breath of life, from under heaven; and everything that is in the earth shall die. But with thee will I establish my covenant. . .(Genesis 6: 12 through 18). Once the flood was over and the tide of wickedness has been steamed, mankind got a fresh start. Noah and his family stepped Out Of the Ark upon an earth that had been given a reprieve from the works of the devil. Remembering, no doubt, the stories he'd been told about Adam's sin in the Garden of Eden, the first thing Noah did was honor God and fellowship with Him over the tithe. He built an altar to THE LORD and brought of every clean beast, and of every clean from all and offered burnt offerings. And God BLESSED Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand or they delivered (Genesis 9:1-2). If that BLESSING sounds familiar, it's because God said to Noah and His family the same thing He said to Adam in (Genesis 1:28): Be BLESSED ! I empower you by declaration, to excel in everything good ! Prosper and fill up the earth, have dominion over everything in it ! Noah needed that BLESSING. Everything on earth has been wiped out except his family and one boatload of animals. We think the devastation of category 4 and 5 hurricanes is massive--- and it is !--- But it doesn't even begin to compare to what Noah saw. When he stepped off the Ark, there wasn't one trace of civilization left anywhere. He must have looked around and thought, How are we ever going to get this place restored ? How are we going to make it habitable again ? God answered those questions when He gave him THE BLESSING. With that BLESSING, He equipped this one, little family to turn the whole planet back into a Garden of Eden. For a moment, things were like they'd been before The Fall of Adam. All mankind was once again BLESSED. Since Noah and his sons--- Shem, Ham and Japheth--- represented all the races and nations that would ever inhabit this planet, THE BLESSING could have been passed on through them to all the families of the earth. Like Adam and Eve, however, Noah and his sons messed things up. Noah made the mistake of getting drunk. That opens the door for Ham to sin. Then Japheth started living, not by faith in THE BLESSING, but by his own wits and human strength. Doesn't that sound familiar. Before long, he and Ham had invented their own system of commerce. They came up with the Babylonian- style, fend-for-yourself, today many people call it hustling ! Dog- eat dog, lie-cheat-and steal economy we see in the world today, (More about that later). Only Noah's first son, Shem, stuck with God. So, it was through the bloodline of Shem that a man named Abram was born. Incidentally, one of the sons of Noah is the African nations, that's why you see so much poverty, sickness, and disease, as well as spiritual death in the African nations. And it was through Abram--- who would later be known as Abraham--- that God made His next, mysterious move toward forever restoring THE BLESSING. I WILL BLESS THEM THAT BLESS YOU: Now THE LORD has said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee: and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will BLESS thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a BLESSING: and I will BLESS them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be BLESSED. So Abram departed, as THE LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was 75 years old when he departed out of Haran (Genesis 12:1-4).