Part 17 of: Something to make you go hmm.

Have you ever asked yourself, are looks deceiving? As we of the leadership team of Grace Message Church Ministries approach you on this here fine 31st day of the 5th month of the 2018th year, we will be dealing with appearances. The character in whom we will be using, his name is Absalom. The name itself means: principal shalom—which gives us the right to call him; ʼAbshâlôwm; which means: father of peace (i.e. friendly). Nevertheless vengeance will change your friendly attributes which lie dormant within; as is shown in these words from the Amplified Bible: this purpose has shown itself on Absalom’s determined mouth ever since the day Ammon (his half-brother) humiliated (his full) sister Tamar. Though this was his name meanings, or represented his character, he did not fit the part; or he did not allow his character to be developed out of him (and this is what the enemy will do to hinder our God like characters from being formed in us). If Absalom could have gotten over what happened with Ammon and Tamar, David was destined to make him king, as is shown with the love in which David had for his beautiful son Absalom. Yes, our characters are somewhere within us hiding (and they must be hard pressed as an olive would be); even as the grown anointed king was in little ruddy sheep keeping lad David. Please understand this, who are your physical parents, is very vital in a person’s life. If Elkanah and Hannah were not Samuel’s physical parents, Samuel would have never been left at the temple with a high priest which was not his father. In saying that, Absalom’s mother, she was taken as part of a spoil, in which David and his six hundred men invaded Absalom’s mother’s land. That land is where the Geshurites dwelt. Absalom’s mother’s name was Maacah, and she was the daughter of a king. She was kept alive because she was beautiful to David, and that was the only reason (secretly, she was a hidden part of God’s plan in chastising king David). The meaning of the name Maacah is; emasculate. Yes, emasculate; which is, to deprive a male of certain parts which characterize the sex; she felt castrated, though she was a woman. Keep in mind, the reason why she felt this way, she was the daughter of a king, but she was taken captive by another king named David (which was a hidden blessing to her, if she just could have gotten over her lost past; and say as Paul said: forgetting those things which are behind). Unforgiveness will make a woman swell up as if she was a man. This mentality, it affected her seed, Absalom; for he even felt emasculated and castrated. One thing Absalom and his mother Maacah had in common was their looks. Looks really ran in Absalom’s family, that’s starting with mother Maacah, to Absalom and to his little sister Tamar!!!! Looks will be this whole side of the family’s down fall, for man looks on the outward appearance, but God searches the heart. David, being Absalom’s father, and Maacah being Absalom’s mother, the boy had a strong battle raging within him: that’s his mother not allowing him to forget where she came from; that when Absalom got in trouble with David his father, he would run for protection to his mother’s father (his granddad) as is shown in the 37th verse of the 13th chapter of the Second scroll of Samuel in these words from the Amplified Bible: but Absalom fled and went to [his mother’s father] Talmai, the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. At that moment of Absalom’s arrival, his grandfather should have sent him back to his father David (which would have shown respect to the king, from another king). This proves that Maacah’s people held vengeance in their hearts against David also (how do you treat someone, when they do not understand the arts of war)? If Maacah’s father would have won the battle against king David and his men, her father would have taken prisoners also, but their faces would have been more pleasant and their characters would have fully developed according to their territory in which they dwelt and were born in. What the majority of God’s people (being and remaining immature saints) they fail to realize this one factor: God brings out the majority of His children’s character in rough terrain, better known as foreign land; Selah!!!! This indicates, that Absalom’s opportunity was presented before him in Jerusalem, but his feelings disqualified him; for his gift which made room for him was his beauty. Even Moses was a goodly child, as is stated in the 2nd verse of the 2nd chapter of the scroll of Exodus. From the Amplified Bible, that same 2nd verse of the 2nd chapter of the scroll of Exodus describes Moses as being an exceedingly beautiful son (and Moses’ gift of beauty made room for him in Pharaoh’s palace). But God was going to bring Moses’ character and authority out in a foreign land, in which he was not born. So stop crying about the situations and the rough terrains in which you find yourselves; just buckle down for the ride, as Joseph did in the 28th verse of the 37th chapter of the scroll of Genesis in these words: Joseph’s church brethren drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and the Ishmeelites brought Joseph into Egypt. Get this fact, as horrible as the pit was to Joseph, it was designed to keep him in place, until his bus was coming by; which were called Midianites, being merchantmen. Our busses may not be called Midianites; but it carries a name which is foreign to our upbringing (which seems barbaric to our beliefs in God, which is very much confusing to us). We have much more to say concerning Absalom, but we will be pausing here for the moment, for enough has been said to make you go hmm. We will speak with you at a later date, that’s is it’s the Lord’s will, until then, sayonara!!!!