PODCAST TRANSCRIPT | EPISODE 351: IT WILL BLOW YOUR BRAINS AWAY!
LIFE TO THE FULL w/ Nancy Campbell
EPISODE 351: IT WILL BLOW YOUR BRAINS AWAY!
We talk about "the time of life." What is it? Then we begin our new study called IT WILL BLOW YOUR BRAINS AWAY. God's vision FAR EXCEEDS our puny mind and understanding.
Announcer: Welcome to the podcast, Life to The Full, with Nancy Campbell, founder and publisher of Above Rubies.
Nancy Campbell: Hello, ladies! Continuing our study of THE THEOLOGY OF CONCEPTION, I want to look today at Genesis 18, the most beautiful story of when God came to speak to Abraham and Sarah. Remember, He came as three men. Whether it was three angels, or the Godhead, we don’t know for sure. But they came to meet Abraham and Sarah at their tent and to give a specific message, actually a very specific message to Sarah, who was in the tent. She didn’t even come out of the tent. But God spoke to her even in the tent.
Let’s read it here. Genesis 18:10: “And He said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.” We know that Sarah laughed in herself, because she couldn’t believe that being old as she was, that she could ever conceive.
Verse 13: “And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old? Is anything too hard for the LORD?” Nothing is too hard for God. That word “hard” and also “is” are actually very interesting. Both those little words that you take no notice of in this Scripture are actually the Hebrew word pala.
Pala, oh goodness me! Pala is one of the most wonderful words in the Old Testament. This word means, this is the amazing thing. When you look up a Hebrew word, you will usually find more than one word to describe the English word because there’s not enough English words to describe it.
In fact, we, in our inability, we can never fathom the fullness of this Hebrew language in the Bible, because you take a word, but every letter of that word has a meaning. Then every letter has a number which also has a meaning. We only read on the surface. We don’t read all the revelation in every word.
It’s like my brother said to me when I was down in New Zealand just before Christmas. He is in the last stages of Parkinson’s. Much of his time is spent in bed. He was sharing with me how he just loves to meditate and contemplate the Word while he’s in bed and how he loves the Word of God. He said to me, “You know, Nancy, I believe that we’ll have the Word even in eternity, because Jesus says: ‘Heaven and earth will pass away, but My Word shall never pass away,’ and that we will come into greater revelations of things in His Word that we could never even understand here on this earth.”
But this word pala, which is translated “Is anything too hard?” It means “marvelous, wonderful, surpassing, extraordinary, miraculous, astonishing, beyond the bounds of human power or expression.” That’s the full meaning of that word.
So, God is saying, “Goodness, what’s giving you a baby when you’re 90 years old, and Abraham’s 100? It’s nothing to Me! Oh, goodness me! I work in miracles that are astonishing and miraculous and extraordinary.” He says: “Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life.” He repeated that a second time: “according to the time of life.”
It was such a miracle for Sarah to conceive at her age. She was past menopause. She was no longer able to conceive in the flesh. But I believe that the miracle that God gave to Sarah was that He brought back to her again her cycle so that she began to cycle again each month.
Of course, in a woman’s cycle in those childbearing years, from when she begins to cycle until she reaches menopause, the average time of a woman reaching menopause is about 50 years of age, although many are infertile before then. The average age of infertility today in this country is about 45 years of age. But to women who will conceive later, some will conceive when they’re 50 or even above that which is miraculous. But some will become infertile, even before that.
But it’s in this time, this season of childbearing and having our cycles (and before we go on, to talk more about this . . . this time in our lives, ladies, is only a short time). Sometimes I think mothers think, “Oh, this is my cycle for the whole of my life, and I’ll be having babies forever, and I’ll end up with 30 children!” Ridiculous nonsense! No, that is not true.
Usually women who trust the Lord to receive from the Father the children He wants for them, usually it’s only an average of six, eight, ten, twelve or so children. You may meet some mothers with more children that that, but it’s not huge numbers.
Really, when we think about it, our cycle is not for long. When I think of, goodness, since I went through menopause, I have been a woman post-menopause for well over 30 years of my life! Wow! That’s a long time!
So, back to Sarah. I believe God restored her cycle, which is a beautiful thing. In her cycle, there is “the time of life.” Every month there is a time of life, the time of ovulation. It’s the only time you can conceive, in that time of life.
During that time, God came and visited Sarah, and she conceived. In fact, if we go over to Genesis 21:1, it says here: “And the Lord visited Sarah, as He had said.” “As He had said”. What does He say? “I will return unto thee according to the time of life. And the LORD visited Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken. For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age.”
That’s another beautiful word, isn’t it? God visited Sarah. When did He visit her? During the time of life. That’s when she could conceive. Isn’t it an amazing thing? What a privilege women have to receive a visitation of God. Wow! I hear people say, “Wow, I’d love to be visited by God and have an experience with God.” Well, every time you conceive, you've been visited by God. Because it’s only God Who can give conception.
We read the same thing about Hannah. Remember God, after great prayer and intercession, He gave her Samuel? And then she dedicated him to the Lord and took him up to the temple. But God saw her sacrifice, and the Bible says that “He visited” (that same word again), He visited Hannah five more times, and He gave her five more children (1 Samuel 2:21).
We’re back to this time of life. Wow! It’s a very special time you have every month. But once again, it also has serious consequences, because in this time of life, when God wants to come and visit a woman, He may not come every month. My, there are some mothers who are desperate for children. They’ve been waiting for years for children and maybe they only end up with one or two. It’s not how many children you have. It’s just being open to the visitation of God, when He plans to visit you in those times of life. He doesn’t visit every cycle. No. But God does it in His perfect timing.
When we say “no,” and some women, during that time of life, they make it a time of stopping, the time of death instead. They say, “No, God, I don’t want You to visit me! Help! No, I’m doing everything in my power to stop Your visitation!” This is what we’re really doing. We’re stopping a visitation of God. God’s way is the time of life, not the time of stopping life.
That brings us to contraception again. All contraception is “contra” to embracing a life. It’s not God’s plan. The sad thing is that many contraceptives today, or most of them, can be even abortifacient. They are more than contraception, such as the pill and all its associates, all its brothers and sisters and cousins. They keep bringing out new ways of stopping life.
The basic thing of the pill actually has three mechanisms to hinder the baby being conceived. It attempts to suppress ovulation. If that’s successful, of course, there will not be conception. That’s contraception. Secondly, it thickens the woman’s cervical mucus, which stops the sperm from getting up into the reproductive tract. That is also contraception. Those things can stop life but they’re not abortifacient.
But they’re not always successful. That doesn’t always work. If manufacturing companies are going to be able to sell the pill, they’ve got to make it work. So, they do have another mechanism, which is usually fool proof. If the first two do not work, it also causes changes in the lining of the womb so that it becomes a hostile environment.
If there is conception, if conception has broken through the first two ways of trying to suppress it, if there is conception, now there’s a new life. But what is the next thing after conception? It is implantation. That happens six to seven days or so after conception. That’s when this newly conceived life, with all the DNA of a person, that DNA that will be in them when they’re 80-plus years of age, that little life comes to implant in the uterus, in the lining of the womb, to grow and feed, and begin to develop.
But if this little new life comes to implant, and because of the change in the lining of the womb which has now become shriveled, the new life tries here and there and yet there’s nowhere for it to implant. What happens? This newly conceived baby, this zera, which is a life, a person, dies. It dies in the womb. Abortifacient.
This doesn’t happen all the time. The trouble is, with these abortifacient methods, the pill and all the ones that go with it that they keep inventing, the actual breakthrough conception, may only happen one or two percent of the time. Or it could happen one hundred percent. We don’t know. Therefore, no Bible-believing person can take the pill, knowing that there could be a death in her womb of her own flesh and blood, the child ordained by God.
Yet it is so sad that the majority are on the pill today. You can talk to Christian couples. I have talked to them. “Oh, you're getting married, and you're looking forward to having children?” “Well, no. We’re going to wait. We want to make sure we’ve got everything we need before we think about having children. We want time to get to know one another.”
I truly get sick of hearing that. No, that is not God’s plan. You’ll get to know one another just as well having a baby, as not having a baby. You do not have to stop having a baby so you can get to know one another. That’s not God’s plan for marriage.
But most of them will say, “Oh, we want to wait.” I will gently say, “So, what are you doing to stop babies?” Because you have to do something. They will say, “Well, of course, we’re on the pill!”
“Oh. Do you know how it works?”
“No, no. Everybody’s on the pill, aren’t they?”
Most people don’t know. They don’t know that every time they take it, there is an opportunity for death to take place. We, as God’s people, we must know the truth and walk by the truth. Amen? We dare not be guilty of one of those most important ten commandments; “Thou shalt not kill.” Amen.
Well, now I want to move on to something that’s all part of this subject. It’s all part of it. But I am calling it, “IT WILL BLOW YOUR BRAINS AWAY,” because actually I think it WILL blow your brains away! I want to now go into the Word of God to see how He wants us to be fruitful.
We all know that first command that God gave in the Bible: “Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth.” I think everybody knows that command, and yet, isn’t it amazing that the majority of Christians don’t take any notice of it today? When you think about it ladies, how much do we truly fear God? How much do we truly believe His Word?
The very first command, the very first word He spoke into the ears of man, if we can think, “Oh, well, I don’t have to take notice of it,” we’re playing God. We’re saying, “I’m God. I’ll do what I want, thank you!” Yet these were the very first words.
But, oh goodness me! That’s not the part that blows your brains away. Some time back, I did a check of all the Scriptures in the Word of God. Now you know how I love to find out everything. If I’m doing a study on any subject in the Word, I will go and find, not only every Scripture, but every Hebrew word on that subject so I can truly feel God’s heart and know what He’s saying.
Well, I found 18 different Hebrew words about the way God want us to be fruitful. He doesn’t want us to only be fruitful, but He gives us 18 different adjectives or adverbs to describe how He wants us to do it. I’m going to share them with you, because we really should know what God says, don’t you think?
All right. Now the trouble I had, ladies, was trying to get English words to coincide with 18 Hebrew words, because I don’t know. God has more words in the Hebrew language than we have in our English language. But let’s get started, shall we? I will give you just a few Scriptures on each one, and if there’s a lot of them, sometimes there’s a load of them, I’ll pop them in the transcript for you to look at further if you would like to do that.
No. FRUITFULLY
Well, of course, we know that: “Be fruitful.” That was the very first word God said. The Hebrew word is parah, which means “to be fruitful, to increase.” That is the foundation, but it wasn’t only fruitful.
No. 2. MULTIPLYINGLY
That was the next thing. “Be fruitful and multiply.” The Hebrew word is rabah, or ravah. You can use either. It means “to be many, to be abundant, to increase greatly and exceedingly, to enlarge.”
Just one or two more Scriptures: Genesis 22:17: “And blessing I will bless thee and in multiplying (rabah) I will multiply (rabah) thy seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore, and thy seed shall possess the gates of his enemies.” You notice that it’s two times in that one Scripture, that word rabah.
Then it goes on to say: “Thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies.” Thy seed, thy zera, coming from the sperm. But sperms can’t possess the gates of enemies. No, sperms grow into people.
Genesis 16:10: “I will multiply (rabah) thy seed exceedingly (rabah), that it shall not be numbered for multitude.” Once again, the word rabah is pretty amazing, meaning “to be many, abundant, increase greatly and exceedingly, enlarge.” Whoo! That’s a big enough meaning. But then it says it two times, again!
We can just read these Scriptures and just gloss over them, or we can begin to read here how God thinks, and how He wants us to increase. God’s plan is for His people to multiply and fill the land with His glory, with His image, with His truth, with His salvation, with everything that He is.
God doesn’t want evil to fill the land. No! He wants His people to fill the land and righteousness to fill the land. How does righteousness fill the land? How does truth fill the nation? It happens through people! God’s heart and His plan is always for His people to be the ones who are bringing everything into subjection and dominion.
When we diminish, we become weaker;
When we multiply, we become stronger!
That’s why, when He said those first words, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, subdue and take dominion,” He didn’t finish at “fill the earth.” No, He kept speaking and saying, “Subdue and take dominion.” How do we take dominion? By multiplying. When we diminish, we become weaker. When we multiply, we become stronger, and we take dominion. This is God’s plan.
No. 3. FILLINGLY
You’ll have to excuse me making up some English words, because I’ve got 18 English words to think about here. This word, this Hebrew word, is male, pronounced mah-lay. It means “to fill to completion, to be filled to overflowing.” That’s, of course, in the first mandate, Genesis 1:28, “Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth.” To fill the earth means “to fill the earth, to fill to completion, to fill to overflowing.”
It’s a sad thing that in these last years, the deception has come into the household of faith. People, instead of listening to God’s Word, they’re listening to the world. They followed the world. They followed the pattern of the ones who maybe, at the most, have three children. No longer are the people of God filling the land. Not only filling physically, but filling the land with His truth, and His righteousness, and His glory, and the image of God.
Instead, it’s this big fight against evil which we’re even fighting now, even as President Trump is seeking to eradicate the evil in the swamp, it’s a fight. These people are fighting back and protesting in the streets. Even now, Elon Musk is exposing all the millions and trillions that they have stolen of our tax-paying money to give to all these ridiculous nonsense things. Really, it’s money laundering, and it’s all coming back to them.
They have become millionaires, not just on their salary. They couldn’t do that. But they’ve become millionaires. How? Because of what they have been doing. Now, of course, they don’t like the exposing of this. They are fighting and protesting on the streets. But imagine, if God’s people had not diminished, had not fallen into the ways of the world, and if there were so many more millions of God’s people filling the earth with His glory.
Let’s see some other Scriptures here. Genesis 9:1. It’s repeating Genesis 1:28 again.
Exodus 1:7: “The children of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty. And the land was filled with them.” That’s God’s plan.
Psalm 80:8-9: “Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt . . . and it filled the land.”
Psalm 127:5: “Happy is the man that has his quiver full of them.” Yes, “full of them.” You know, it is so sad that there are even pastors who will make fun and laugh at big families in their congregation. And they will make snide remarks about people who keep having babies, when actually they’re speaking against the very Word of God they proclaim to be spokesmen for. Wow.
Zechariah 8:4-5: “Thus saith the LORD of hosts.” Oh, I love this Scripture. “There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem” (I think this will be in the time of the millenium) “and every man with his staff in his hand for very age. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.” Isn’t that the most beautiful picture? I love that. The streets filled with boys and girls playing in them. That is the blessing of God.
Well, I actually grew up with that blessing. I’m sure it’s not anything like the way it will be in that glorious time. But when we grew up years and years ago, way back in the dim, dark ages, we would all come home from school. We didn’t know about homeschooling in those days, sadly. But then schools weren’t what they are today.
We would all come home, all the children from each home in the street. We’d walk home together, and then we’d go in and throw our cases inside. Then we’d come out to play. We would play together on the streets. They were so safe. Nobody had to worry about anything. But today, you can’t do that. My! You dare not let your children out on the streets. You can’t even let your children walk home after school. You’ve got to take them, unless they’re going on a school bus, because it would be too dangerous.
Ezekiel 36:18. This is a prophetic word for Israel. God wants His land to be filled with flocks of men. All these wonderful words, “filled.”
No. 4. ABUNDANTLY
The Hebrew word is sharats, and means “to swarm, to abound.”
Genesis 9:7: “And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.”
The modern Living Bible says of that Scripture: “As for you, be fruitful and multiply. Swarm over the earth and multiply.” That is the actual correct rendering of the Hebrew word.
No. .5. EXCEEDINGLY
The Hebrew word this time is meod, which means “vehemently, wholeheartedly, exceedingly much, muchness, to a great degree, abundantly, greatly, speedily, diligently.” Whoo! Do you see how many meanings there are in the Hebrew words?
Genesis 17:2: “And I will . . . multiply thee exceedingly.” Two times meod is used.
Genesis 17:20: “Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly.” It’s used two times again!
Genesis 17:6: “And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.” Notice, it’s not just “fruitful.” It’s “exceeding fruitful.” Meod, which is “exceedingly much, abundantly, greatly,” and so on.
Oh now, here, and this verse we’ve got three different adverbs to show how God wants us to be fruitful. Genesis 47:27: “And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew (parah) and multiplied (rabah) exceedingly (meod).” There God uses three different Hebrew words to describe them filling the land.
I think that’s most probably enough of that one to read to you. I’ll just give you a couple more Hebrew words and we’ll leave the rest for next time.
No. 6. PLENTEOUSLY
This is the Hebrew word yathar, meaning to “just over, to exceed, to cause to abound, over and above, beyond measure.” Do you get how God thinks? He is never boring, normal, average. It’s always more than, over and above, beyond what we could ever think.
Deuteronomy 28:11: “And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy womb.” Amen?
No. 7. MULTITUDINOUSLY
How’s that for a word? The Hebrew word here is rob, or rov. You can use the “b” or the “v.”
Genesis 32:12: “I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.” The word means “multitude, numerous, abundant, multiply by the myriad, ten thousand, be increased, more in number.”
Genesis 48:16: “Let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.”
One more, Deuteronomy 1:10-11: “The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude. (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)”
Well, ladies, we’re just getting started on that. We will look at the rest of those words next time. I just hope you’re getting a feel of God’s heart because I’m not making this up. I’m reading the Scriptures! That’s all it is. I think we are not really very familiar with the Scriptures, so we don’t know God’s heart.
Ladies, we’ve got to be ladies of God’s heart, even as David was. God chose a man after His own heart. That means a man who would think like God, and act like God, and feel like God. We can only understand that if we get to know His Word and His truth.
“Dear Father, we pray that You will open our blind eyes to Your truth. Help us to see as You see, to think as You think, to feel as You feel. We pray that You will draw us more and more into Your truth and more and more into Your ways. I pray Your blessing upon every family listening. In the Name of Jesus. Amen”
Blessings from Nancy Campbell
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Further Scriptures for:
No. 1. FILLINGLY (parah)
Numbers 14:21; Psalm 127:5; Isaiah 27:6; and Luke 14:23.
No. 2. MULTIPLYINGLY (rabah)
Genesis 9:1,7; 17:2, 20; 26:4, 24; 28:3; 35;11; 47:27; 48:4; Exodus 1:7, 10, 12, 20; Exodus 32:13; Leviticus 26:9; Deuteronomy 1:10; 6:23; 7:13; 8:1; 13;17; 30:5, 16; Joshua 24:3; 1 Chronicles 5:23; 8:40; 27:23; Nehemiah 9:23; Psalm 107:38; Isaiah 9:3; 51:2; Jeremiah 23:3; 29:6; 30: 19; 33:22; 16:7; Ezekiel 36:10, 11, 37; 37:26; and Zechariah 10:8.
No. 5. EXCEEDINGLY (me’od)
Deuteronomy 6:3 and Psalm 105:24.
No. 7. MULTITUDINOUSLY (rob)
Genesis 16:10; 32:12; Deuteronomy 10:22; 1 Kings 3:8; 4:20; and 1 Chronicles 4: 38.