Exo 17:16 And he said, A hand is on the throne of Yah; war is to YHWH with Amalek from generation to generation.
Ancient Jewish belief spoke of Messiah, the Word, warring against and ultimately defeating Amalek.
Targum Jonathan
Exod 17.16 “from the generation of this world, and from the generation of the Messiah, and from the generation of the World-to-Come.”
Aramaic Targum
“And the Lord said unto Mosheh, Write this memorial in the book of the elders that were of old, and these words in the hearing, of Jehoshua, that blotting, I will blot out the memory of Amalek from under the heavens. And Mosheh builded an altar, and called the name of it, The Word of the Lord is my banner; for the sign which He hath wrought (in this) place was on my behalf. And he said, Because the Word of the Lord hath sworn by the throne of His glory, that He by His Word will fight against those of the house of Amalek, and destroy them unto three generations; from the generation of this world, from the generation of the Meshiha, and from the generation of the world to come.”
Jerusalem Targum
“And he said, The oath hath come forth from beneath the throne of the Great One, of all the world the Lord; the first king who will sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the sons of Israel, Shaul, the son of Kish, will set the battle in array against the house of Amalek, and will slay them; and those of them that remain will Mardekai and Esther destroy. The Lord hath said by His Word that the memory of Amalek shall perish to the age of ages.”
“Keep in mind what the house of Amalek did unto you in the way, on your coming up out of Mizraim; how they overtook you in the way, and slew every one of those among you who were thinking to go aside from My Word; the men of the tribe of the house of Dan, in whose hands were idols (or things. of strange worship), and the clouds overcast them, and they of the house of Amalek took them and mutilated them, and they were cast up: but you, O house of Israel, were faint and weary from great servitude of the Mizraee, and the terrors of the waves of the sea through the midst of which you had passed. Nor were the house of Amalek afraid before the Lord. [JERUSALEM. Who overtook you in the way, and slew among you those who were thinking to desist from My Word, the cloud overcast him, and they of the house of Amalek took him and slew him. But you, people of the sons of Israel, were weary and faint; nor were they of the house of Amalek afraid before the Lord.] Therefore, when the Lord hath given you rest from all your enemies round about in the land that the Lord Your God giveth you to inherit for a possession, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the heavens; but of the days of the King Meshiha you shall not be unmindful.”
The Targum states that Amalek attacked those who were being tempted to go aside from the Word. Today a spiritual counterpart would be those who attack believers who are in a season of doubt. Those who attack the deity of Messiah or His “Messiahship”. Those who attack the inerrancy of the Holy Scriptures.
The Amalekites are associated with the Nephilim….are the true Amalekites those who attack believers in the end of days and their faith in the Holy Scriptures when fallen angels return to earth?
Num 13:28 But the people that live in the land are fierce, and the cities are walled up, very great. And also we have seen the children of Anak there.
Num 13:29 Amalek lives in the land of the Negeb, and the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite live in the hills. And the Canaanite is living by the sea, and beside the Jordan.
Num 13:30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, We will certainly go up, and we will seize it, for we are well able to do it.
Num 13:31 And the men who had gone up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people, for it is stronger than we.
Num 13:32 And they sent out an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the sons of Israel, saying, The land into which we passed, to spy it out, is a land eating up the ones living in it. And all the people we saw in its midst were men of stature.
Num 13:33 And we saw the giants there, the sons of Anak, of the giants. And we were in our own eyes as grasshoppers, and so we were in their eyes.
Amalek – Phoenicia connection
Historians claim that the royal houses of Europe are the descendants of Merovee who, in turn, was descened from a supposed marriage of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene. However, Merovee claimed to have descended from the Trojans, whose roots lay in the Spartans of ancient Greece. According to Homer’s Iliad, the Spartans were first called Danaans, and hailed from Phoenicia, home of the Israelite tribe of Dan. Recall that the Targums associate Amalek with the tribe of Dan as well.
Gen 14:7 And they turned back and came to Enmishpat which is Kadesh, and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites who lived in Hazazon Thamar.
John Gill commentary
and smote all the country of the Amalekites; which, according to Josephus (k), reached from Pelusium in Egypt to the Red sea; they inhabited Arabia Petraea, for he (l) says, the inhabitants of Gobolitis and Petra are called Amalekites; which name is generally supposed to have been given them here by way of anticipation, since the commonly received opinion is, that they were the descendants of Amalek, a grandson of Esau, who was not born when this war was waged, see Gen_36:12; but the Mahometan writers derive the pedigree of Amalek, from whom these people had their name, from Noah in the line of Ham, and make him to be some generations older than Abram, which with them stands thus, Noah, Ham, Aram, Uz, Ad, Amalek (m); and they speak of the Amalekites as dwelling in the country about Mecca, from whence they were driven by the Jorhamites (n): and indeed it seems more probable that the Amalekites were of the posterity of Ham, since Chedorlaomer, a descendant of Shem, falls upon them, and smites them; and they being confederates with the Canaanites, and are with the Amorites, Philistines, and other Canaanitish nations, always mentioned, seem to be a more ancient nation than what could proceed from Amalek the son of Eliphaz, since Amalek is said to be the first of the nations, Num_24:20; nor does there ever appear to be any harmony and friendship between them and the Edomites, as it might be thought there would, if they were a branch of Esau’s family; nor did they give them any assistance, when destroyed by Saul, so that they seem rather to be a tribe of the Canaanitish nations; and they are, by Philo (o) the Jew, expressly called Phoenicians:
(k) Antiqu. l. 6. c. 7. sect. 3. (l) lbid. l. 3. c. 2. sect. 1. (m) Taarich, M. S. apud Reland. Palestina illustrata, tom. 1. p. 81. (n) Alkodaius, apud Pocock. Specimen Arab. Hist. p. 173. (o) De Vita Mosis, l. 1. p. 636. (p) Travels, tom. 1. p. 143. Ed. 2. (q) Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 17. (r) Antiqu. l. 9. c. 1. sect. 2.
The link between the supposed ancestors of the Merovingians and Phoenicia is interesting. The word Phoenicia comes from the Greek word Φοινίκη ‘Phoenike’ which literally means palm tree but is also the source of the English word Phoenix. The phoenix is the symbol of death and resurrection mentioned in detail throughout the series of studies on the mark of the beast.
Another interesting link to Phoenicia is that the land and people are associated with Amalek, the eternal enemy of YHWH who seeks His throne (Exodus 17:13-16). Amalek was the first of the nations (Numbers 24:20) which existed in the days of Abraham (Genesis 14:7). They are said to be a Canaanite nation, descended from Ham according to Philo (De Vita Mosis 1.1). They are associated with the Nephilim (Numbers 13:28-33) just as the Merovingians who claim descent from the beast from the sea. The doctrine of adherents to the Merovingian bloodline is that Messiah Jesus isn’t YHWH in the flesh and claim the Bible is full of errors which lines up with the aforementioned character of Amalek by translators of the Targums. For more details see:
Mark of the Beast 10 – The Holy Grail
In Hebrew, Amalek is spelled עמלק.
ע – Ayin – Eye
מ – Mem – Water
ל – Lamed – Staff
ק – Qof – Horizon
Ayin (looking towards) qof (horizon, sea, west) Mem (water) lamed (staff, gathering). The picture formed by the word Amaleq is the gathering (לק laq) of the people (עם am) which come from the sea…ie the beast from the sea (Revelation 13).
This warfare between Messiah and Amalek is the epitome of the warfare between the Seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent promised in the beginning (Genesis 3:15). This spiritual war has lasted since the beginning but has already been won by Messiah Yahshua/Jesus. For more on this see:
Genesis 1:20-23 ‘Day 5’ “Living creatures, birds & fish”
For more on the subject of the Messiah see:
Jesus is Messiah YHWH
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