The Earth Filled with Hamas and Divine Judgment

In Genesis 6:11, "The earth was also corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence." That's exactly what it says in the story of Noah before He flooded the earth because of violence. So, the Hebrew word translated as violence is *hamas*. If you didn't know that, it's pretty interesting, right? Think about the terror group Hamas in Gaza right now. That's the word for violence in Genesis 6. That word is used there. So, if your Bible does not use violence there, I do believe it's a misinterpretation because that word is *hamas*, which means violence. So, God did destroy the earth, as He said, because the earth was filled with *hamas*, with violence, which is pretty interesting when you think about the terrorist group in Gaza. It refers to violence, wrongdoing, oppression, and injustice. This is the word used to describe the condition of the earth, *hamas*, before the flood. Genesis 6:5 also describes the continual wickedness of humanity's thoughts.

Then in Genesis 6:13, God tells Noah that "the end of all flesh has come before Me because of what? Because the earth is filled with *hamas*, filled with violence." So, my friends, He destroyed the world. He said twice because of violence was all over the earth. So again, when we look at our world today, violence is all over the world as well. Everybody's weaponizing their own religion for it as well, weaponizing the Holy Scriptures as well. And so the earth is filled with violence, just as in the days of Noah. And just as in the days of Noah will be, just as the days of the Son of Man. So, the progression of the corruption begins in Genesis 4:8 when Cain murders Abel. Genesis 4:23-24, Lamech magnifies vengeance. Genesis 6, the earth becomes filled with corruption and violence, just like it is now. And in Genesis 7, judgment comes through the flood. And judgment is about to come through the fire and the sword at this time.

So, the narrative reveals how far humanity has fallen. The world God created and called very good, God called it very good. What He created has become corrupted by human wickedness. And violence is explicitly identified as a central reason for the coming flood, for the coming judgment. So, the teaching principle that we have is the judgment of Noah's generation demonstrates that God does not overlook humanity's corruption and violence indefinitely. God hates violence, but He judges in righteousness. So, these scriptures that we're going to look at prove the point of how He looks at these things. And in Psalm 11, verse 5, it declares that "the Lord hates the wicked and the one who loves violence." This is a crucial distinction. God's hatred of violence does not mean scripture presents all uses of force, every war, every act of judgment as morally identical. God Himself exercises divine righteous judgment, but He condemns cruelty, oppression, unjust and innocent bloodshed, and the love of violence, which we're seeing across the world right now.

The patriarch Jacob's response to Simeon and Levi after Dinah was raped and they murdered the Shechemite men. This is a very important understanding, I think, for our Jewish friends, our Israeli friends, and really our Christian Zionist friends, and whoever our Christian friends, to what the patriarch Jacob said. And if one's not familiar with this story, I'll tell you really quick. Most are. Whenever Jacob entered the promised land with the 12 tribes, Dinah, his daughter, was raped by the men of Shechem. Right? So then Levi and Simeon took the sword to them and killed them, killed them, killed them. Well, look at what Jacob's response to that was when he blessed the tribes in Genesis 49. Look at Jacob's heart posture. And again, I mention this because his daughter was raped. Think about that. All the men out there, including myself, think about that. Your daughter was raped. I'm sure most of us would have done what Simeon and Levi would have done, or they did do.

Most of us probably would have done that as well, and we would have been what Jacob said as well. So again, most of us would have done, most men would have done what Levi and Simeon did. And that's the reason why the patriarch Jacob, who loved God, and he's one of the patriarchs. Look at what he said about Simeon and Levi in the blessings: "Simeon and Levi are brothers; instruments of cruelty are in their dwelling place. Let not my soul enter their counsel; let not my honor be united to their assembly, for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will, self-will they hamstrung an ox. Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their wrath, for it is cruel. I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel." So now, if you look at where Simeon's tribe is, Simeon is located in the tribe of Judah. And then you know where Levi is, is with the Messiah. The tribe of Levi will be with Yeshua, you know.

And so there's many reasons probably for that that everybody knows about with the Torah, but also because he had to separate Simeon and Levi because of what they did. And together they would take care of people. So again, if we can look at it even today, all of my Israeli friends who I love and who I stand with, my Jewish friends who I love and I stand with, we got to make sure that we're not acting like the enemy, that our heart posture is not like the enemy. We've got to make sure our heart posture is like Jacob, like the patriarch Jacob, like Abraham, like Isaac. We've got to get back to the heart of the patriarchs because God loved the patriarchs, and He told them how to behave in the land that they were going to inherit forever, and the descendants as well. And now we have the descendants over there that need to be reminded that we can't just always get revenge because we've been done wrong.

I know that's what human beings want to do, including myself. But we've got to overcome the vengeance. We've got to overcome the revenge and let God get the revenge. Why? Because when you read the biblical prophets, God is going to take care of every one of these Islamic countries. Yeshua, when He returns, it will be an absolute massacre what He's going to do to the Islamic nations. Now, I love the Muslim people. That's why they need to wake up and repent and come to Yeshua because of what's going to come down on the Middle East, including to Israel. So, my friends, when we read the biblical prophets, we've got to understand that, you know, we've got to understand that when we're done wrong, we can't always just go on the warpath and just kill a lot of civilians, like unfortunately America has done, and unfortunately the Israelis have done as well, the two countries I love the most. We can't do that.

That's what the scriptures say. Now, I know everybody, not everybody, but some people's hearts are for vengeance and revenge and bloodshed and all that, but God says, "Do not enter into that." Don't enter into that. Look at what the patriarch Jacob said to every one of us about vengeance and about murder and all of these things. "Let not my soul enter their counsel. Let not my honor be united to their assembly. Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their wrath, for it is cruel."

So again, I say this in love to everybody, especially to our Jewish friends and our Israeli friends. What do you think the patriarch Jacob would say right now? With all of the things that we discuss about repentance and what they need to do with obedience, repentance, and all of these things, I believe that Jacob would say the same thing today to all of us to make sure that we're not going on the revenge path that it seems like we're doing over in the Middle East.

So again, America and Israel, in my personal opinion, we can't act like the enemy. We can't go on the revenge path. We can't kill a lot of innocent civilians. That is murder, so to speak. That's what the Bible says. So, we can't because our side's in the wrong. We've got to call it out. We can't be partial and say, "Well, the Islamists are mad or the Islamists are evil because they're killing all these innocent people. 1,200 innocent Jewish people were killed on October 7th." But that doesn't give us the right to go kill 100,000 civilians in Gaza. It just does not. That's what He's talking about. That does not give us the right to do that. Remember, Jacob's daughter was raped. He, his daughter was raped, and he still told Simeon and Levi, "No, do not do that. Let not my soul enter into that. Let not my honor be united to their assembly. Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their wrath, for it is cruel." And personally speaking, I believe that he would say that to the United States of America and also to the Israeli government as well, the governments of both countries.

I believe the patriarch, if he was on this earth today, including Moses and the prophets, you're about to see what Yeshua says as well, they would tell us not to enter into that. Let the governments do what they do. But for all of us, the individuals, do not enter into that heart posture. And I've just seen way too many Jewish people and Christians who say they love God have too much of this bloodshed on their hands, man. Too much of this blood in their eyes, ready to go kill every Arab in the area, every Muslim in the area. And no, that's not what the Bible teaches. That's not the posture that we need to have. Again, if they're terrorists, please go kill them. But you don't kill civilians. Period. You just don't. I mean, go kill the terrorists all you can, but don't kill civilians because that's intentional killing. Don't let people fool you. It's intentional. And that's not good. You cannot tell me when the United States has killed two million civilians in the Middle East that that's all just mistakes.

No. You don't kill two million civilians in the Middle East and think you're in God's grace. Well, look at the United States of America now, right? So again, we have done a lot of bad things, and people need to take national accountability, personal accountability, and not let their heart enter into that, just like the patriarch Jacob said, because who's Jacob? Israel. That's his name is Israel. So I think he has a say in this. I think he has a big say in this of his heart posture because they're named after him. Jacob is Israel. The God of Jacob, the God of Israel. You don't think God's going to stand on what Jacob told Simeon and Levi? You think He's going to change His mind? Of course He's not. He's going to remind our Jewish friends, remind me, remind you, remind our Christian friends to do not let our hearts enter into that. And we're going to see what Yeshua says as well. So, we see the personal vengeance here with Simeon and Levi.

That was out of alignment with the Most High. That's why Jacob said what he said there. And I'll read it one more time and we'll move forward: "Simeon and Levi are brothers; instruments of cruelty are in their dwelling place. Let not my soul enter into their counsel. Let not my honor be united to their assembly. For in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they hamstrung an ox. Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their wrath, for it is cruel. I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel."

And one more thing I'd like to say here to give balance to this understanding is this: They were very zealous for the Lord. They were very zealous for righteousness and justice. That's pretty obvious by what they did. Remember what happened on Mount Sinai whenever they created the golden calf. Moses came down from the tribe of Levi. Moses, the Levites, he came down and said, "Whoever's with the Lord, come with me." And only the Levites came to him, and then they slew 3,000 people.

So again, we have to understand God will use divine justice through Moses or through the Levites, but it doesn't give them the right or me the right or you the right to do personal vengeance. There's a whole different deal there. Remember, that was a command by God for them to do that. To them to take the sword and kill the idolaters of the golden calf and all this stuff. They did not get that commandment from Jacob, or they did not get that commandment from God. Simeon and Levi did not get that commandment from God to go kill the Shechemites. So again, we have to understand how God works. If it's from Him, divine judgment. If it's our personal vengeance, we're out of alignment. And that's why Jacob said what he said to Simeon and to Levi, but also to all of us as well, so that we don't enter into that with our souls, with our heart postures as well. So now let's go to Nebuchadnezzar. Another divine judgment by God.