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Dealing with Kronos: Spirit of Abuse and Time
The oldest stories about 'Father Time' describe an entity with a seraph's body, and heads like the angelic cherubim. Kronos is a voracious spirit of abuse who consumes the past. Bound in chains to prevent him eating the future, nevertheless through the power of unresolved past trauma he wants to devour the present too.
We can believe we've escaped abuse when, in reality, complicity with Kronos has locked us into a maximum security spiritual prison. We need the Redeemer of wasted time to aid us. Scripture provides unexpected and important principles for dealing with the tactics, agenda and ploys of Kronos.
This book is a companion volume to Dealing with Belial.
We can believe we've escaped abuse when, in reality, complicity with Kronos has locked us into a maximum security spiritual prison. We need the Redeemer of wasted time to aid us. Scripture provides unexpected and important principles for dealing with the tactics, agenda and ploys of Kronos.
This book is a companion volume to Dealing with Belial.
258 pages, Paperback
Published September 1, 2022
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Anne Hamilton
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For twenty years, I was the coordinator of an annual camp for children based around The Chronicles of Narnia. That experience shaped a lot of my thinking about how readers enjoy fantasy.
Like CS Lewis, my fantasy story Many-Coloured Realm began with a picture in my mind's eye: a boy without arms floating in a field of stars and faced with an impossible choice.
My non-fiction series beginning with God's Poetry can be traced back to the observation that Lewis comes from the Welsh word for lion. The discovery of name covenants led to the discovery of threshold covenants, as well as many other long-forgotten aspects of our Judeo-Christian heritage.
I love exploring words, mathematics and names. All of these combine in my books, whether they are fiction or non-fiction, or whether they're for adults or children, whether they're academic in tone or primarily devotional. I hope my readers always come away from my books with a renewed delight for the world around us and a child-like wonder for its awesome aspects.
For twenty years, I was the coordinator of an annual camp for children based around The Chronicles of Narnia. That experience shaped a lot of my thinking about how readers enjoy fantasy.
Like CS Lewis, my fantasy story Many-Coloured Realm began with a picture in my mind's eye: a boy without arms floating in a field of stars and faced with an impossible choice.
My non-fiction series beginning with God's Poetry can be traced back to the observation that Lewis comes from the Welsh word for lion. The discovery of name covenants led to the discovery of threshold covenants, as well as many other long-forgotten aspects of our Judeo-Christian heritage.
I love exploring words, mathematics and names. All of these combine in my books, whether they are fiction or non-fiction, or whether they're for adults or children, whether they're academic in tone or primarily devotional. I hope my readers always come away from my books with a renewed delight for the world around us and a child-like wonder for its awesome aspects.
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July 24, 2023
Anne Hamilton has a gift for seeing between and underneath the lines of stories we know well. It is especially laser beamed in this the ninth book of her Strategies for the Threshold series.
Like, Abraham. The ultimate patriarch, so a good guy, right? Except for that uneasy squirm story of raising his knife to kill his long awaited son Isaac. What the…?
Another of Anne’s gifts is linguistics. Plus, she’s exceptionally well read. She explores the Hebrew word for God, Elohim, and links it with another meaning, judges. She quotes Michael Heiser and many Second Temple readers who understood the word to mean angels. And, in the construction ha’elohim, the angels. Or heavenly beings. The Book of Enoch refers to fallen angels, or Watchers, who descended to Mount Herman and bound themselves by mutual curses to seek out human women as mates. A rethink of Genesis 6:11 translates to “Now the earth was corrupt because of the angels and was full of violence.”
While Hamilton admits it’s not possible to prove the translation means the angels rather than God, it does make sense that it might be fallen angels who tempted Abraham to kill his son. Saved by "the angel of the Lord, Yahweh", who came to the rescue with a ram in the thicket. She poses “Could this be a test set by a group of threshold guardians rather than a trial orchestrated by God?” And that it was the fallen angels that tested Jesus.
“Why would God allow Abraham to be tested in such a harsh and callous fashion? Why would God allow the spirit of abuse such free rein in Abraham’s life? “
Because Abraham had been an enabler, a co-dependent, of his wife Sarah’s abuse of Hagar.
This is a more feasible explanation of one of the great Bible conundrums.
“God in his mercy gave Abraham time to change. But time eventually came against him.”
The reap and sow principle is inevitable, and the reaping for Abrahams abuse was four hundred years of slavery for his descendants.
This book cites other Biblical examples of abuse and how Jesus reversed the consequences, reset the -the Ancient of Days- through the Cornerstone.
Themes from previous books recur and enlarge: honour and dishonour; repentance and forgiveness; “(‘The Lord rebuke you!’ I a declaration that de-claws the enemy.”)
This review has dealt with the former aspect of the subtitle "Spirit of abuse and time." For the latter, some clues are those aforementioned Watchers and the aforementioned Ancient of Days. Hamilton explains better than I can a spirit called Kasyade, one of the Watcher rebellion, who instructed humanity in the art of assault, such as striking an embryo to bring about an abortion. "Kasyade the womb-striker and Kronos the child-eater; together with the mind control of Belial, affects our society's attitude towards children so deeply that they have long been seen as a comodity." This segue into child abuse would be grim reading were it not for the hope of "chesed" that reminds us of the covering hand overshadowing protection, the goodness, kindness and faithfulness.
The final chapter and prayers deal with the spirit of abuse in survivors of failed abortions, challenges that are well worth reading and absorbing, with meditation, prayer to heal traumas. Sadly there are all too many who might find this relevant in their lives. This book is exceptional in raising, dealing with and enabling healing.
Highly recommended.
Like, Abraham. The ultimate patriarch, so a good guy, right? Except for that uneasy squirm story of raising his knife to kill his long awaited son Isaac. What the…?
Another of Anne’s gifts is linguistics. Plus, she’s exceptionally well read. She explores the Hebrew word for God, Elohim, and links it with another meaning, judges. She quotes Michael Heiser and many Second Temple readers who understood the word to mean angels. And, in the construction ha’elohim, the angels. Or heavenly beings. The Book of Enoch refers to fallen angels, or Watchers, who descended to Mount Herman and bound themselves by mutual curses to seek out human women as mates. A rethink of Genesis 6:11 translates to “Now the earth was corrupt because of the angels and was full of violence.”
While Hamilton admits it’s not possible to prove the translation means the angels rather than God, it does make sense that it might be fallen angels who tempted Abraham to kill his son. Saved by "the angel of the Lord, Yahweh", who came to the rescue with a ram in the thicket. She poses “Could this be a test set by a group of threshold guardians rather than a trial orchestrated by God?” And that it was the fallen angels that tested Jesus.
“Why would God allow Abraham to be tested in such a harsh and callous fashion? Why would God allow the spirit of abuse such free rein in Abraham’s life? “
Because Abraham had been an enabler, a co-dependent, of his wife Sarah’s abuse of Hagar.
This is a more feasible explanation of one of the great Bible conundrums.
“God in his mercy gave Abraham time to change. But time eventually came against him.”
The reap and sow principle is inevitable, and the reaping for Abrahams abuse was four hundred years of slavery for his descendants.
This book cites other Biblical examples of abuse and how Jesus reversed the consequences, reset the -the Ancient of Days- through the Cornerstone.
Themes from previous books recur and enlarge: honour and dishonour; repentance and forgiveness; “(‘The Lord rebuke you!’ I a declaration that de-claws the enemy.”)
This review has dealt with the former aspect of the subtitle "Spirit of abuse and time." For the latter, some clues are those aforementioned Watchers and the aforementioned Ancient of Days. Hamilton explains better than I can a spirit called Kasyade, one of the Watcher rebellion, who instructed humanity in the art of assault, such as striking an embryo to bring about an abortion. "Kasyade the womb-striker and Kronos the child-eater; together with the mind control of Belial, affects our society's attitude towards children so deeply that they have long been seen as a comodity." This segue into child abuse would be grim reading were it not for the hope of "chesed" that reminds us of the covering hand overshadowing protection, the goodness, kindness and faithfulness.
The final chapter and prayers deal with the spirit of abuse in survivors of failed abortions, challenges that are well worth reading and absorbing, with meditation, prayer to heal traumas. Sadly there are all too many who might find this relevant in their lives. This book is exceptional in raising, dealing with and enabling healing.
Highly recommended.
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May 4, 2023Not rated because it is an author review.
I was about to take a three-month holiday from writing. I'd just finished the final draft of Dealing with Belial: Spirit of Armies and Abuse and was celebrating and thanking God and also informing Him about my plans for time off. A still, small Voice spoke and asked: "Why don't you look at the word for 'God' in the story where Abraham is asked to sacrifice Isaac?"
"Yes!" I stupidly said. "That sounds like a cool idea."
Less than an hour later, my plans for a vacation from writing had been entirely tossed aside and I was already typing away at Dealing with Kronos. Because what I found in the Hebrew was something so ambiguous that I began to wonder if Abraham had been tested by one of the threshold guardians and not God. But if that were so, then why would the spirit of abuse have legal rights in Abraham's life? I had to go through the story of this faith hero and look at it critically for what I'd missed. Finally it dawned on me where the complicity in Abraham's life could have come from: when he went down to Gerar, he asked his wife Sarah to repeat the deception they'd told 25 years before in Egypt and say she was his sister. It's not just lack of trust in God's protection that we see here, it's a deliberate choice to put the people of Gerar in harm's way. Abraham knew that many Egyptians had died because of his previous deception, but that did not stop him doing the same to the people of Gerar.
Abraham had been passively complicit with the spirit of abuse for years while Hagar was being mistreated by Sarah. But this is active complicity. And it's enough to give the spirit of abuse the right to test his loyalty.
This story, and other unusual perspectives, are found throughout the book. It is a companion volume to Dealing with Belial: Spirit of Armies and Abuse.
I was about to take a three-month holiday from writing. I'd just finished the final draft of Dealing with Belial: Spirit of Armies and Abuse and was celebrating and thanking God and also informing Him about my plans for time off. A still, small Voice spoke and asked: "Why don't you look at the word for 'God' in the story where Abraham is asked to sacrifice Isaac?"
"Yes!" I stupidly said. "That sounds like a cool idea."
Less than an hour later, my plans for a vacation from writing had been entirely tossed aside and I was already typing away at Dealing with Kronos. Because what I found in the Hebrew was something so ambiguous that I began to wonder if Abraham had been tested by one of the threshold guardians and not God. But if that were so, then why would the spirit of abuse have legal rights in Abraham's life? I had to go through the story of this faith hero and look at it critically for what I'd missed. Finally it dawned on me where the complicity in Abraham's life could have come from: when he went down to Gerar, he asked his wife Sarah to repeat the deception they'd told 25 years before in Egypt and say she was his sister. It's not just lack of trust in God's protection that we see here, it's a deliberate choice to put the people of Gerar in harm's way. Abraham knew that many Egyptians had died because of his previous deception, but that did not stop him doing the same to the people of Gerar.
Abraham had been passively complicit with the spirit of abuse for years while Hagar was being mistreated by Sarah. But this is active complicity. And it's enough to give the spirit of abuse the right to test his loyalty.
This story, and other unusual perspectives, are found throughout the book. It is a companion volume to Dealing with Belial: Spirit of Armies and Abuse.
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