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3. What does Genesis 6:9 say?

COMMENT: Noah was “pure in his generations” and so he and his racially
unmixed family were preserved whilst those outside of the ark were de-
stroyed. This is only about those on the “face of the earth”, a phrase which
does not mean the whole globe. Later, the Children of Israel were to destroy
the mixed breed of the Canaanites. These could NOT “receive the things of
the spirit of God”.

4. What was it that this people could not do? Romans 8:16.

COMMENT: They could NOT witness in their spirit and say, “The spirit itself
beareth witness with our spirit that we are the children of God”, as an Israelite
is able to do. This principle is a continuing theme in the Bible.

5. What was YEHOVAH God restoring through Abraham and Sarah? John
1:12.

COMMENT: Through Abraham and Sarah, YEHOVAH God was restoring the
spiritual power for Abraham’s seed to “become the Sons of God”. YEHOVAH
was making a new beginning with Abraham. None other than the seed of
Abraham, through the child of promise, Isaac, has this opportunity or potential.

6. What are we told in Hebrews 11:18?

COMMENT: Abraham’s seven other sons did not have this seed identity be-

cause they were not “In Isaac”. The descendants of Isaac were begotten of
the spirit from their conception.

7. What are those who believe among Isaac’s descendants regarded as? Ga-
latians 3:16; II Corinthians 1:21-22.

COMMENT: As being anointed by the spirit.

8. Does I Corinthians 2:7-16 confirm this?

COMMENT: Paul confirms this telling the “brethren” (kinsmen of the same
womb of Sarah) that they have not received the spirit of the world, but the
spirit of YEHOVAH God (verse 12). He says that through this we might know
(or comprehend) the things that are freely given to us, (the brethren), of
YEHOVAH God. He goes on to further declare that the “natural” man (those
not born of Isaac’s line) cannot receive the things of the spirit of
YEHOVAH God. He agrees with the Messiah who says that anyone who is
not begotten of the original sowing (in the womb of Sarah) cannot “see” the

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