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↝CAUSE MY PEOPLE TO KNOW THEIR ORIGIN PAST ↜

[Ezekiel 16:3 NKJV] — and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem: “Your birth and your nativity are from the land of Canaan; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

[Ezekiel 16:3 LG] — "and you shall say, ‘Thus says the Lord to Jerusalem: Your root and your birth are of the land of Canaan: your father was an Amorite, and your mother a Hittite."

[Ezekiel 16:3 NET] — "and say, ‘This is what the sovereign LORD says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite."

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He, Who speaks things into being, spoke these words to Jerusalem, in this Bible verse in red.

[b]●1● Jerusalem, your Birthplace and nativity (root) was in Canaan: — [/b]You were not born in Zion, you were born a Canaanite. This declaration humbles the Jews and the City of Jerusalem, so that they may understand their origin was of the uncircumcised nation, whom they regarded as dogs.

The Lord Jesus Christ Himself said to a Canaanite woman, “Is not good to take the children's bread and cast it out to the dogs (Canaanites, uncircumcised Philistines, Samaritans or Gentiles, seen as dogs or outcasts by those of Jerusalem and the Jews). But on this Bible verse in red, the Lord declared Jerusalem was born a Canaanite.

The same way the Lord humbled the holier than you pride of Israel by showing the people of Israel were no different from Africans or Ethiopians before God, lest they feel they are angels while others as lower beings, just because they are Israeli or Jewish. As it is written,

[Amos 9:7 NET] — "“You Israelites are just like the Ethiopians in My Sight,” says the LORD. “Certainly I brought Israel up from the land of Egypt, but I also brought the Philistines from Caphtor and the Arameans from Kir.”

So, Jerusalem herself was born a Canaanite, having an Amorite as a father and a Hittite as a mother. The same way we Christians must understand that we were once pagans, and Gentiles cast away. We were like wild animals or wild olive tree branches, but God brought us in. Therefore, cause My people to know their origins, past or history:

[1 Corinthians 12:2] —
"You know that you were Gentiles, carried away to these dumb idols, even as you were led.”

[‭Ephesians 2:11-13 NIV‬] —
Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “the circumcision” (which is done in the body by human hands) — remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

Keep this knowledge, this memory or remembrance, that no righteous nation or city had a perfect past. Those we despise today are those we were in the past before the Mercies of God chose and separated us. Therefore, the Jerusalem that was called holy city of Israel was once a Jebusite and native of the children of Canaan, whom Noah cursed.

The Lord God will rewrite the birthplace, nativity or origin, of those of us who enter into the Kingdom of God and eternal life by the Lord Jesus Christ. Then He will declare this one or that one was born in Zion, not in Canaan or in any pagan/Gentile/uncircumcised nation.

[‭Psalm 87:4-6] — “I will include Egypt and Babylonia when I list the nations that obey Me; the people of Philistia, Tyre, and Ethiopia I will number among the inhabitants of Jerusalem, those born there.” Of Zion it will be said that these ones are born there and belong there and that the Almighty will make her strong. The Lord will write a list of the peoples and include them all as citizens of Jerusalem, as they are born in her.

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●2● Jerusalem, your Birthplace and nativity (root) was in Canaan; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite: —

Do you recall that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, had tribal or racial bias against their sons marrying either a Canaanite woman, a Hittite or an Amorite woman? Though they dwelt among these peoples, and loved their lands, yet they discriminated against daughters of these natives marrying their sons. Apart from Esau who married two of the daughters of those natives, including one Hittite, the rest of them took wives from far country of Syria, instead of daughters of Canaanites, daughters of Amorites or daughters of Hittites, their neighbors.

Well, behold, the Lord God Himself took His own first Wife, Jerusalem, from where Abraham, Isaac and Israel, considered a taboo to marry from: — Yes, the Lord God married a daughter of the Canaanite, who's father was an Amorite and her mother was a Hittite, and she is called, “Jerusalem.” Nevertheless, Jerusalem was still a Virgin, undefiled, when the Lord God married her. And it has to do with the Lord marrying her as a Teenager or what some people call ‘underage marriage’ (under 18 years or under 16), which is their problem. I have taught that it is better to marry a girl of 13 years young virgin to a man, than to marry an above 18 years old woman that is not a virgins. So, do not fight Muslims who marry 13 years virgin, for their matrimony is better than Christians who married having body counts in fornication.

So why did God want them to separate themselves from the Canaanites, and not intermarry with them, etc?

QuinQ:
So why did God want them to separate themselves from the Canaanites, and not intermarry with them, etc?

It was the same reason we were warned, "Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers." It was not about their ethnicity, but about their faith or religion. So, such instructions from God to not marry daughters of certain nations or ethnicity usually had exceptions when there's a true conversion first from their idols or religion into the faith or covenant relationship with God.

Solomon married many strange women from those ethnicity that God warned them against marrying from, lest they corrupt or turn the Israeli away from the faith into idolatry (their religion or abominable practices). The point of them being called "Strange Women" though wives of Solomon, was because they were not converted into the faith and discipline of the Lord God of Israel as inductee first into God's family before Solomon joined himself with them. So, they were married to Solomon, but they still worshiped their own idols or strange religions, doing their own abominable practices, and they became the ones who converted Solomon into their own religion instead of vice versa.

Here is the point: To marry from such people, they must be converted into the faith, covenant or beliefs of the Lord God:

It wasn’t about ethnicity—non-Israelites like Ruth (a Moabite) and Rahab (a Canaanite) became part of Israel because they embraced the God of Israel. Then they were married after they were converted.

This principle continues in the New Testament in a spiritual sense: Christians are warned not to be “unequally yoked” with unbelievers (2 Corinthians 6:14), emphasizing the need for unity in faith, not ethnicity.