The Sounds of War (The Genesis Series Book 2) (31 page)

Fallen angels taught men the use of magical incantations that would force demons to obey man. After the flood, Ham the son of Noah unhappily discovered this and taught it to his sons. This became ingrained into the Egyptians, Persians, and Babylonians. Ham died shortly after the fall of the Tower of Babel. Nimrod, called Ninus by the Greeks, was handed this knowledge and by it caused men to go away from the worship of God and go into diverse and erratic superstitions and they began to be governed by the signs in the stars and motions of the planets. Recognitions of Clement 4:26-29

The rest of mankind…still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk. Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality, or their thefts. Revelation 9:20-21, NIV

A
t the age of fifty, four years after the fall of the great tower, Abram left the house of Noah and made peace with his father, Terah.

Terah mov
ed north and settled in a place called Charan. Originally intending to move to the land of Canaan, Terah traveled up the Euphrates River and upon reaching Charan made the decision to remain in the territory of his ancestors, because he was unwilling to relinquish his idols or his pride, Terah would remain where his gods received respect. Living a total of two hundred and five years, Terah died in Charan.

Twenty five years after moving into his father’s household and protection,  Abram upon reaching the age of
seventy-five took Sarai, his wife, Lot, his nephew and all he possessed and traveled to the land of Canaan.

Nimrod would die many yea
rs later, in the land of Canaan. Nimrod received a fatal head wound in a hand-to-hand battle with Esau, Abram’s grandson. Semiramis outlived Nimrod, but she too met a violent death, stabbed to death by her son, Marduk.

Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go out from your country and from your family and from your father’s house, into the land to which I will be your guide. And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing. To them who are good to you will I give blessing, and on him who does you wrong will I put my curse. And you will become a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.”

So Abram went as the Lord had said to him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went away from Haran. And Abram took Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother’s son, and all their goods and the servants, which they had got in Haran, and they went out to go to the land of Canaan. And Abram went through the land till he came to Shechem, to the holy tree of Moreh. At that time, the Canaanites were still living in the land. And the Lord came to Abram, and said, “I will give all this land to your seed.”

Then Abram made an altar there to the Lord who had let himself be seen by him. And moving on from there to the mountain on the east of Beth-el, he put up his tent, having Beth-el on the west and Ai on the east: and there he made an altar and gave worship to the name of the Lord. Genesis 12:1-8, BBE

And he said, “My brothers and fathers give hearing. The God of glory came to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he was living in Haran, And said to him, Go out of your land, and away from your family, and come into the land to which I will be your guide. Then, he came out of the land of the Chaldeans, and went into Haran; and from there, when his father was dead; he was guided by God into this land, where you are living now. And God gave him no heritage in it, not even enough to put his foot on. But he gave him an undertaking that he would give it to him and to his children after him, though he had no child at that time.” Acts 7:2-5, BBE

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the sign that the things not seen are true. For by it our fathers had God’s approval. By
faith, it is clear to us that the order of events was fixed by the word of God, so that what
is seen has not been made from things, which only seem to be.

By
faith, Abel made a better offering to God than Cain, and he had witness through it of his righteousness, God giving His approval of his offering: and his voice still comes to us through it though he is dead.

By faith Enoch was taken up to heaven so that he did not see death; he was seen no longer, for God took him away: for before he was taken, witness had been given that he was well-pleasing to God: And without faith it is not possible to be well-pleasing to Him, for it is necessary for anyone who comes to God to have the belief that God is, and that He is a Rewarder of all those who make a serious search for Him.

By faith Noah, being moved by the fear of God, made ready an ark for the salvation of his family, because God had given him news of things which were not seen at the time; and through it the world was judged by him, and he got for his heritage the righteousness which is by faith.

By faith Abraham did as God said when he was ordered to go out into a place which was to be given to him as a heritage, and went
out without knowledge of where he was going. By faith, he was a wanderer in the land of the agreement, as in a strange land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who had a part with him in the same heritage: For he was looking for the strong (city), whose builder and maker is God. Hebrews 11:1-10, BBE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

As always, there are so many to thank when you put together a work of this size. Family, friends, mentors and others, some who know me personally and others who have no idea I exist. Nonetheless, I want to extend my profound appreciation to each. I am grateful for each person’s impartation, advice, prayers, and assistance. I hope that I properly express my gratitude to each of you.

To my beautiful daughter, Leighann, my wonderful son-in-law, Emmett and my superlative grandchildren
, Caleb, Kirsten, Joshua, Emeleigh, and Elijah – I love you and I’m so grateful that you are mine. Thank you for your prayers and words of encouragement, and thanks for allowing me to go into my cave and write. Most of all, I thank you for lending your names to my characters, that alone has made the writing so much more fun.

Megan, my words are inadequate to express my feelings
. You have more than once gone beyond the call of duty. Your understanding of these books has exceeded your years. I’m not only grateful  you have a ‘sharp’ eye to catch the grammatical errors, but you also see like an eagle into the ‘spirit’ of where the books are headed. You are my adopted ‘seed.’

To my many friends - you know who you are - thank you for the lunches and dinners and that you have so graciously allowed me to share my weirdness as I wrote book one and two (and rewrote one and two).
What I’m the most grateful for are your prayers, I felt them more than once as I worked and reworked these books.

Finally, not forgetting all the others whose works and research has contributed so very much to these books, your willingness to share your revelation by writing books and producing media
that has made this work so much easier, I thank you.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sue Watkins born in Galveston, Texas, grew up in Houston, Texas, and from the age of two lived in the Metropolitan area of North Houston until recently.

For most of her adult life, she was a practicing Certified Public Accountant, yet hidden in her heart was a desire to write.

In the summer of 2010, her life began to take a new direction and after receiving “The Seed War” as an open vision and a confirming dream, she began to write the vision and to develop it into a story line beginning in November of 2010. After finishing the manuscript of “The Seed War” in 2012, she retired and began to research “The Sounds of War.”

Late in 2013, after writing the third book, “The Sacrifices of War,” the author decided to revise “The Seed War” and “The Sounds of War,” and re-publish her first three books as part of a new five volume series titled
The Genesis Series
.