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Welcome to
  • BIBLE 2202 / 2302
  • THE PENTATEUCH
  • Lecture Seven, Thurs. May 24
  • NO PLATE LUNCHES IN CLASS
  • DRINK, SMALL TIDBIT o.k.

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Lecture 7 5-23
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WHY ABRAM?
  • THE SAME REASON AS WHY NOAH
  • 2218. And in thy seed shall all the nations of
    the earth be blessed because thou hast obeyed my
    voice.
  • Heb. 11 8. By faith Abraham, when he was called
    to go out into a place which he should after
    receive for an inheritance, obeyed and he went
    out, not knowing whither he went.
  • . 622. Thus did Noah according to all that God
    commanded him, so did he.

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The Principle of Grace and Faith
  • Noah obtained grace through his faith
  • Abraham obtained grace through his faith
  • Paul says Eph, 28. For by grace are ye saved
    through faith and that not of yourselves it is
    the gift of God
  • 9. Not of works, lest any man should boast.
  • No faith, good works are useless.

5
To Perfect His Faith, Abram is Subjected To
Several Tests in Life
  • ALTHOUGH HE FAILS ONCE, IN ALL OTHERS HE PASSES.
  • EACH TIME HE PROVES FAITHFUL IN THE TEST, GOD
    GIVES HIM ADDITIONAL REVELATION
  • WE WILL NOW STUDY THE DEVELOPMENT OF ABRAMS
    CHARACTER

6
ABE PASSES THE INITIAL CALL TEST
  • TEST 1. THE LOVE OF GOD
  • 121 Get thee out of thy country, and from thy
    kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land
    that I will shew thee
  • 124. So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken
    unto him and Lot went with him and Abram was
    seventy and five years old when he departed out
    of Haran.

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THE ADDITIONAL REVELATION AFTER PASSING TEST 1
  • 6. And Abram passed through the land unto the
    place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the
    Canaanite was then in the land.
  • 7. And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said,
    Unto thy seed will I give this land and there
    builded he an altar unto the Lord, who appeared
    unto him.

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RECEIVING FURTHER REVELATION ABRAM GROWS IN FAITH
  • 127 and there builded he an altar unto the Lord,
    who appeared unto him.
  • 8. And he removed from thence unto a mountain
    on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent,
    having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east
    and there he builded an altar unto the Lord, and
    called upon the name of the Lord.
  • 9. And Abram journeyed, going on still toward
    the south.

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ABRAM FAILS 2ND TEST 1210-20GOD HAS PROMISED,
YET HE FEARS FOR HIS LIFE
  • Caused by a famine driving him into Egypt.
  • Since God had promised..why didnt Abram seek
    Gods counsel before going into a foreign
    country.
  • Regardless of Gods promise , Abram fears that he
    will be killed by those who desire his wife.
  • He fails the test and through fear lies and tells
    his wife to lie.a half lie

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ABRAM LIES
  • 11. And it came to pass, when he was come near
    to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his
    wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair
    woman to look upon
  • 12. Therefore it shall come to pass, when the
    Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say,
    This is his wife and they will kill me, but they
    will save thee alive.
  • 13. Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister that
    it may be well with me for thy sake and my soul
    shall live because of thee.

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Where Is Satan in all this?
  • Remember, he wants to prevent the promise to
    Abram being fulfilled through Sarai. His worst
    fear is Jesus coming into the world. Thorough
    2,000 more years he will use many sinful
    circumstances to prevent this from happening.
    Here he exploits Abrams weakness. But Abe will
    learn and grow stronger
  • If the marriage takes place to Pharaoh the
    promise to send a seed via Sarai will be broken.

12
GOD PROTECTS HIS PROMISED SEED. HE PREVENTS
SARAI FROM CONTAMINATION
  • 17. And the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house
    with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.
  • 18. And Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is
    this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou
    not tell me that she was thy wife?
  • 19. Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I
    might have taken her to me to wife now therefore
    behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.
  • 20. And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning
    him and they sent him away, and his wife, and
    all that he had.

13
IN PENITENT DEEPER FAITH ABRAM RETURNS TO HIS
ORIGINAL ALTAR
  • 133 And he went on his journeys from the south
    even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had
    been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai
  • 4. Unto the place of the altar, which he had
    made there at the first and there Abram called
    on the name of the Lord.
  • One might guess what Abram said to God.

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Character Test 3 Abram Passes A Brotherly
Love Test
  • 7. And there was a strife between the herdmen of
    Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle
    and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then
    in the land.
  • 8. And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no
    strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and
    between my herdmen and thy herdmen for we be
    brethren.
  • 9. Is not the whole land before thee? separate
    thyself, I pray thee, from me if thou wilt take
    the left hand, then I will go to the right or if
    thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to
    the left.

15
  • 10. And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all
    the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered
    every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and
    Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like
    the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
  • 11. Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan
    and Lot journeyed east and they separated
    themselves the one from the other.
  • 12. Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and
    Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and
    pitched his tent toward Sodom.

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After Passing the 3rd Character Test, God Gives
Abram Additional Revelation
  • 13 14. And the Lord said unto Abram, after that
    Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine
    eyes, and look from the place where thou art
    northward, and southward, and eastward, and
    westward
  • 15. For all the land which thou seest, to thee
    will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
  • 16. And I will make thy seed as the dust of the
    earth so that if a man can number the dust of
    the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
  • 17. Arise, walk through the land in the length
    of it and in the breadth of it for I will give
    it unto thee.
  • 18. Then Abram removed his tent, and came and
    dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron,
    and built there an altar unto the Lord.

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Abrams 4th Test. Refuses Money for His Kindness
  • 1421. And the king of Sodom said unto Abram,
    Give me the persons, and take the goods to
    thyself.
  • 22. And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have
    lift up mine hand unto the Lord, the most high
    God, the possessor of heaven and earth,
  • 23. That I will not take from a thread even to
    a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing
    that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have
    made Abram rich
  • 24. Save only that which the young men have
    eaten, and the portion of the men which went with
    me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre let them take their
    portion.

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ABRAM BELIEVES GODS PROMISE ALTHOUGH IT SEEMS
IMPOSSIBLE
  • 15 6. And he believed in the Lord and he
    counted it to him for righteousness.
  • 1810. 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.
  • 11. Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well
    stricken in age and it ceased to be with Sarah
    after the manner of women.
  • Abraham believed God could instill life in the
    dead

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Additional Revelation follows Passing the 4th
Test of Character
  • 1512. And when the sun was going down, a deep
    sleep fell upon Abram. And, lo, a horror of great
    darkness fell upon him.
  • 13. And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety
    that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that
    is not theirs, and shall serve them. And they
    shall afflict them four hundred years.
  • 14. And also that nation, whom they shall
    serve, will I judge. And afterward shall they
    come out with great substance.
  • 15. But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace.
    Thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
  • 16. And in the fourth generation they shall
    come hither again. For the iniquity of the
    Amorite is not yet full.

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THE GENESIS OF THE ARABS THEIR SOURCE FOR
HATRED FOR THE JEWS
  • 161. Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bare him no
    children. And she had a handmaid, an Egyptian,
    whose name was Hagar.
  • 2. And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now,
    Jehovah hath restrained me from bearing. Go in, I
    pray thee, unto my handmaid. It may be that I
    shall obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened
    to the voice of Sarai.
  • 3. And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the
    Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had dwelt ten
    years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to
    Abram her husband to be his wife.

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  • 4. And he went in unto Hagar, and she
    conceived. And when she saw that she had
    conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
  • 5. And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon
    thee. I gave my handmaid into thy bosom. And when
    she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in
    her eyes. Jehovah judge between me and thee
  • 6. But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid
    is in thy hand. Do to her that which is good in
    thine eyes. And Sarai dealt hardly with her, and
    she fled from her face.

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ABRAM GROWS AND RECEIVES ADDITIONAL REVELATION-
HIS NAME IS CHANGED
  • 17 1. And when Abram was ninety years old and
    nine, Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said unto
    him, I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be
    thou perfect.
  • 2. And I will make my covenant between me and
    thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.
  • 3. And Abram fell on his face. And God talked
    with him, saying
  • 4. As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee,
    and thou shalt be the father of a multitude of
    nations.
  • .

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GOD CHANGES ABRAMS NAME
  • 5. Neither shall thy name any more be called
    Abram, but they name shall be Abraham. For the
    father of a multitude of nations have I made
    thee.
  • 6. And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and
    I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come
    out of thee.
  • 7. And I will establish my covenant between me
    and thee and thy seed after thee, throughout
    their generations for an everlasting convenant,
    to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee

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SARAH, FEARING THE FAMILY BLESSING COULD GO TO
ISHMAEL, DEMANDS HAGARS AND ISHMAELS EXILE
  • Gen. 2110. Wherefore she said unto Abraham,
    Cast out this handmaid and her son. For the son
    of this handmaid shall not be heir with my son,
    even with Isaac.
  • 11. And the thing was very grievous in
    Abraham's sight on account of his son.
  • 12. And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be
    grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and
    because of thy handmaid. In all that Sarah saith
    unto thee, hearken unto her voice. For in Isaac
    shall thy seed be called.
  • 13. And also of the son of the handmaid will I
    make a nation, because he is thy seed.

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14. And Abraham rose up early in the morning,
and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it
unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and gave
her the child, and sent her away. And she
departed, and wandered in the wilderness of
Beer-sheba. 15. And the water in the bottle
was spent, and she cast the child under one of
the shrubs. 16. And she went, and sat her down
over against him a good way off, as it were a
bowshot. For she said, Let me not look upon the
death of the child. And she sat over against him,
and lifted up her voice, and wept.
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17. And God heard the voice of the lad. And the
angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and
said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? Fear not.
For God hath heard the voice of the lad where he
is. 18. Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him
in thy hand. For I will make him a great nation.
19. And God opened her eyes, and she saw a
well of water. And she went, and filled the
bottle with water, and gave the lad drink. 20.
And God was with the lad, and he grew. And he
dwelt in the wilderness, and became, as he grew
up, an archer.
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JESUS ON ABRAHAMS FAITH
  • John 8 56. Your father Abraham rejoiced to see
    my day and he saw it, and was glad.
  • 57. Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not
    yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
  • 58. Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say
    unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. (the res.
    life)
  • 59. Then took they up stones to cast at him
    but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the
    temple, going through the midst of them, and so
    passed by

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SUMMARY It has Been Demonstrated That God is
Able and Will Keep His promise Regardless of Any
And All Complications
  • 1. Protection from the flood (Gen. 6-10)
  • 2. From the untied power of the world (11)
  • 3. Weakness of human flesh marriage
    entanglements (12)
  • 4. Frustration of sterility and human wisdom (16)
  • 5. Family rivalry and deceit (24)
  • 6. Sibling jealousy and injustice (37)
  • 7. Refusal to bear children (Er Onan) (38)
  • 8. Adultery and capital punishment (38)
  • 9. Death decree of male seed by Pharaoh (Ex. 1)
  • 10. Slaying the actual seed (N.T.)

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Abrahams Faith is Proved Genesis 221-19 Hebrews
1117,18
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Learn 1. Faith Proving Hurts
  • 1. And it came to pass after these things, that
    God did prove Abraham, and said unto him,
    Abraham. And he said, Here am I. (Cp. Mary) 2.
    And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son,
    whom thou lovest, even Isaac, and get thee into
    the land of Moriah. And offer him there for a
    burnt-offering upon one of the mountains which I
    will tell thee of.
  • Heb. 1211. Now no chastening for the present
    seemeth to be joyous, but grievous nevertheless
    afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of
    righteousness unto them which are exercised
    thereby.

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Being Faithful Hurts
  • Hurt intensifies when we dont understand!
  • The dark and mysterious and we cant see
  • WHY!
  • Why me? Why now? Why Mt. Moriah?

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The Burden of Hurt Brings Sleepless Nights
  • 3. And Abraham rose early in the morning, and
    saddled his ass, and took two of his young men
    with him, and Isaac his son. And he clave the
    wood for the burnt-offering, and rose up, and
    went unto the place of which God had told him.

33
The Trial of Faith is A Lonely Burden
  • and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac
    his son.
  • But He didnt share his problem.

34
Hurts Hang On
  • 4. On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes,
    and saw the place afar off.

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How the Faithful Manage the Pain
  • Faith Sees Gods Healing Beyond the Hurt
  • 5. And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye
    here with the ass, and I and the lad will go
    yonder and we will worship, and come again to
    you.

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Faith Sees Profit in the Pain
  • 7. It is for chastening that ye endure God
    dealeth with you as with sons for what son is
    there whom his father chasteneth not?
  • 8. But if ye are without chastening, whereof
    all have been made partakers, then are ye
    bastards, and not sons.
  • 9. Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh
    to chasten us, and we gave them reverence shall
    we not much rather be in subjection unto the
    Father of spirits, and live?

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  • 10. For they indeed for a few days chastened us
    as seemed good to them but he for our profit,
    that we may be partakers of his holiness.
  • 11. All chastening seemeth for the present to
    be not joyous but grievous yet afterward it
    yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been
    exercised thereby, even the fruit of
    righteousness.
  • 12. Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down,
    and the palsied knees

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The Source for Strength for the Strain of Faith
  • How Can One handle that?
  • When their faith in the after-life is strong
    enough to governs the present life faith is the
    victory
  • Gen. 225 I and the lad will go yonder and we
    will worship, and come again to you.
  • Gen. 227-8 God will provide the sacrifice

39
THE DOME OF THE ROCK A MUSLIM MOSQUE STANDS OVER
THE ROCK WHERE ABRAHAM OFFERED ISAAC A SOURCE
OF SHAME HATE
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Mosque of Omar The Mosque of Omar was built in
the late 600s, about 600 years after the Romans
destroyed the temple.  Omar was the
caliph-successor of Muhammad who captured
Jerusalem from the Eastern Roman Empire. (the
last emperor of the western part of the Roman
Empire was deposed in 476 AD. The eastern Roman
Empire continued until 1453 - the year Columbus
was born.                  
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The Mosque of Omar is called the Dome of the
Rock. Its dome stands over the rock where the
sacrificial altar of the temple stood. The rock
contains four deep holes where the blood from the
sacrifices once flowed. In Muslim legends these
are the hoof prints of Al Boraq (meaning "the
lightning") the horse that carries Muhammad to
heaven in a vision. (In actual life Muhammad
never visited Jerusalem. He was only there in a
vision.)
42
By 1453 the eastern Roman Empire had long since
lost most of its territory to the Muslims. In
1453 the Turks captured Constantinople (today
Istanbul, Turkey), the capital city of the
eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire).
43
What Is God-Approved Faith?
  • 2212 For now I know that thou fearest God
  • 1. When we love God more than life
  • Eccl. 1213 Jn. 1415 Mt. 2237
  • 2. When we believe God will keep His promise
    regardless of death.
  • 2. When we believe God has resurrected His Son
    after death.

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The Writer of Hebrews on Abraham
  • By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up
    Isaac and he that had received the promises
    offered up his only begotten son,
  • 18. Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall
    thy seed be called
  • 19. Accounting that God was able to raise him
    up, even from the dead from whence also he
    received him in a figure.

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Seeing Beyond Death Anchored Abrahams/Our Soul
  • Heb. 619. Which hope we have as an anchor of
    the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which
    entereth into that within the veil 20. Whither
    the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus,
  • Jn. 856. Your father Abraham rejoiced to see
    my day and he saw it, and was glad.

46
Faith in the after-life Governed Jesus Life in
this Present World
  • John 519 The Son can do nothing of himself, but
    what he seeth the Father do for what things
    soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son
    likewise.

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How Pauls Faith Governed His Life
  • 20. I am crucified with Christ nevertheless I
    live yet not I, but Christ liveth in me and the
    life which I now live in the flesh I live by the
    faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave
    himself for me.

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The Church is the body of Christ and Christians
are the Members
  • Faith in the after-death promise of Christ must
    be strong enough to govern the Christians
    present life
  • 4. Therefore we are buried with him by baptism
    into death that like as Christ was raised up
    from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so
    we also should walk in newness of life.
  • 5. For if we have been planted together in the
    likeness of his death, we shall be also in the
    likeness of his resurrection

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  • 6. Knowing this, that our old man is crucified
    with him, that the body of sin might be
    destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve
    sin.
  • 7. For he that is dead is freed from sin.
  • 8. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe
    that we shall also live with him
  • 9. Knowing that Christ being raised from the
    dead dieth no more death hath no more dominion
    over him.
  • 10. For in that he died, he died unto sin once
    but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
  • 11. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be
    dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through
    Jesus Christ our Lord.

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  • 12. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal
    body, that ye should obey it in the lusts
    thereof.
  • 13. Neither yield ye your members as instruments
    of unrighteousness unto sin but yield yourselves
    unto God, as those that are alive from the dead,
    and your members as instruments of righteousness
    unto God.
  • 14. For sin shall not have dominion over you
    for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

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  • THERE IS NO ACCEPTABLE SAVING FAITH WHERE THERE
    IS NO PRACTICE OF THAT FAITH IN THIS LIFE
  • James 217 Even so faith, if it hath not works,
    is dead, being alone.
  • God knew Abraham feared (respected and honored)
    Him when his faith in the after life translated
    into obedience in this life.
  • The same is true for believers in all ages.
  • John 1415 If you love me, keep my
    commandments

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Abrahams Test of Faith and Ours
  • Rm. 121 ---present your bodies a living
    sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your
    spiritual service.
  • 2. And be not fashioned according to this
    world but be ye transformed by the renewing of
    your mind, and ye may prove what is the good and
    acceptable and perfect will of God.

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How Is Our Faith Proved to Be Genuine?
  • 23. And he said unto all, If any man would come
    after me, let him deny himself, and take up his
    cross daily, and follow me.
  • 24. For whosoever would save his life shall
    lose it but whosoever shall lose his life for my
    sake, the same shall save it.
  • 25. For what is a man profited, if he gain the
    whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self?
  • 26. For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of
    my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed,
    when he cometh in his own glory, and the glory of
    the Father, and of the holy angels.

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Our Calling
  • I Cor. 617. Wherefore Come ye out from among
    them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, And
    touch no unclean thing And I will receive you,
  • 18. And will be to you a Father, And ye shall
    be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord
    Almighty.

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God is Sovereign When Selecting the Channel for
the Promise
  • No question that Abraham Understood that the
    Calling was in Isaac, not Ishmael, even though
    Isaac was the younger Son
  • 5. And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.

56
Sovereignty is shown Also in Selection of Jacob
over Esau
  • Gen. 25 21. And Isaac intreated the Lord for
    his wife, because she was barren and the Lord
    was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife
    conceived.
  • 22. And the children struggled together within
    her and she said, If it be so, why am I thus?
    And she went to inquire of the Lord.
  • 23. And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are
    in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be
    separated from thy bowels and the one people
    shall be stronger than the other people and the
    elder shall serve the younger.

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Sovereignty Prevails Over Family sins
  • 27. And the boys grew and Esau was a cunning
    hunter, a man of the field and Jacob was a plain
    man, dwelling in tents.
  • 28. And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of
    his venison but Rebekah loved Jacob.

Problem Parental Favoritism God had revealed
that the elder would serve the younger
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  • 29. And Jacob sod pottage and Esau came from
    the field, and he was faint
  • 30. And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray
    thee, with that same red pottage for I am faint
    therefore was his name called Edom.
  • 31. And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy
    birthright.

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  • 32. And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to
    die and what profit shall this birthright do to
    me?
  • 33. And Jacob said, Swear to me this day and
    he sware unto him and he sold his birthright
    unto Jacob.
  • 34. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of
    lentiles and he did eat and drink, and rose up,
    and went his way thus Esau despised his
    birthright.

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Ancient Religious Background of Modern Terrorism
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The Source of Hatred lies in the disputed
selection process for the heir of
Abraham Which wife of Abraham was it by? Was it
Ishmael by the slave woman? Or was it Isaac by
the free woman?
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The Arabs Claim Ishmael Was the heir Apparent.
They affirm
  • 1. Ishmael was the eldest son by 14 years
    (Genesis 215).
  • 2. He was included in the covenant by
    circumcision. (Genesis 1725)
  • 3. Muhammad tops Moses and Jesus as prophet and
    his word is superior theirs.
  • 4. The Pentateuch has been edited and is
    unreliable.
  • 5. It was Ishmael that Abraham offered instead of
    Isaac.
  • Moriah (Jerusalem) is third to Mecca and Medina
    as a sacred site)
  • 6. Abraham felt great affection for Ishmael
    (Genesis 17, 18)

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Contrary to this God had Specifically Informed
Abraham Concerning the true Heir
  • 1718 And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael
    might live before thee!
  • 19. And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear
    thee a son indeed and thou shalt call his name
    Isaac and I will establish my covenant with him
    for an everlasting covenant

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When the Argument Arose
  • The next event, scripturally recorded, concerning
    Ishmael occurs during Isaac's weaning, when he
    two years old (Genesis 218, sq.). This was a
    happy occasion Abraham gave a feast, no doubt to
    express his joy.
  • 218. And the child grew, and was weaned and
    Abraham made a great feast the same day that
    Isaac was weaned.
  • 9. And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian,
    which she had born unto Abraham, mocking. This
    angered Sarah who saw it and said to Abraham,
    "Cast out this bondswoman and her son for the
    son of this bondswoman shall not be heir with my
    son, even with Isaac." Sarah apparently wanted to
    make certain that Isaac was Abraham's heir, which
    coincides with Abraham sending away other
    children that other wives bore him after Sarah's
    death.

65
God Selects Between Abrahams Sons. The Blessing
Goes to Isaac, not Ishmael
  • 2112 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be
    grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and
    because of thy bondwoman in all that Sarah hath
    said unto thee, hearken unto her voice for in
    Isaac shall thy seed be called.
  • 13. And also of the son of the bondwoman will I
    make a nation, because he is thy seed.
  • 14. And Abraham rose up early in the morning,
    and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave
    it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and
    the child, and sent her away and she departed,
    and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

66
Abrahams Understanding Caused Him to Separates
All Other Sons from Isaac
  • 254. And the sons of Midian Ephah, and Epher,
    and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were
    the children of Keturah.
  • 5. And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.
  • 6. But unto the sons of the concubines, which
    Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them
    away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived,
    eastward, unto the east country.

67
Revelation Shows Divine Selection in a Specific
Grandchild of Abraham.
  • 2521 And Isaac intreated the Lord for his
    wife, because she was barren and the Lord was
    intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
  • 22. And the children struggled together within
    her and she said, If it be so, why am I thus?
    And she went to inquire of the Lord.
  • 23. And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are
    in thy womb, (Israelites, Moabites) and two
    manner of people shall be separated from thy
    bowels and the one people shall be stronger than
    the other people and the elder shall serve the
    younger.
  • 26. and his name was called Jacob and Isaac was
    threescore years old when she bare them.

68
Evidence that Esau was Unworthy of the
Birthright
  • 2529. And Jacob sod pottage and Esau came from
    the field, and he was faint 30. And Esau said to
    Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red
    pottage for I am faint therefore was his name
    called Edom. 31. And Jacob said, Sell me this day
    thy birthright. 32. And Esau said, Behold, I am
    at the point to die and what profit shall this
    birthright do to me? 32And Jacob said, Swear to
    me this day and he sware unto him and he sold
    his birthright unto Jacob. 33. Then Jacob gave
    Esau bread and pottage of lentiles and he did
    eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way
    thus Esau despised his birthright.

69
Selection Cannot be Offset by Human Preference or
Willnot even a Father
  • REGARDLESS OF DIVINE REVELATION, ISAAC SEEMS
    DETERMINED TO GIVE THE BLESSING TO ESAU
  • 271. And it came to pass, that when Isaac was
    old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not
    see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto
    him, My son and he said unto him, Behold, here
    am I. 2. And he said, Behold now, I am old, I
    know not the day of my death3. Now therefore
    take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and
    thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me
    some venison4. And make me savoury meat, such
    as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat
    that my soul may bless thee before I die.
  • How could Jacob do this?
  • 2527. And the boys grew and Esau was a cunning
    hunter, a man of the field and Jacob was a plain
    man, dwelling in tents. 28. And Isaac loved
    Esau, because he did eat of his venison but
    Rebekah loved Jacob.

70
Right Goal, but Wrong Way
  • 275 And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau
    his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for
    venison, and to bring it.
  • 6. And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son,
    saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto
    Esau thy brother, saying,
  • 7. Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat,
    that I may eat, and bless thee before the Lord
    before my death.
  • 8. Now therefore, my son, obey my voice
    according to that which I command thee.
  • 12. My father peradventure will feel me, and I
    shall seem to him as a deceiver and I shall
    bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing. 13.
    And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy
    curse, my son only obey my voice, and go fetch
    me them.

71
Jacob And His Mother Earn the Hatred of Esau
  • At the time Jacob received the blessing he still
    had not committed himself to live by faith in
    God. Though God had designated Jacob as heir of
    Abraham's blessing shortly before his birth
    (2523), Jacob and his mother were both weak in
    faith and resorted to deceit to obtain the
    blessing from Isaac (Genesis 27). This earned
    Jacob the hatred of his brother. Esau seethed
    with anger and set out to kill him (2741)

72
Esau Could Not Regain the Loss of the Blessing
  • Hebrews 1216 Lest there be any fornicator, or
    profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of
    meat sold his birthright.
  • 17. For ye know how that afterward, when he
    would have inherited the blessing, he was
    rejected for he found no place of repentance,
    though he sought it carefully with tears.

73
Prophecy about Esau
2740. And by thy sword shalt thou live, and
shalt serve thy brother. 41. And Esau hated
Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his
father blessed him and Esau said in his heart,
The days of mourning for my father are at hand
then will I slay my brother Jacob.
74
Out of Spite, Esau Marries into the Ishmaelites
  • 288. And Esau seeing that the daughters of
    Canaan pleased not Isaac his father
  • 9. Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto
    the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of
    Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to
    be his wife.

75
These Were Bitter Enemies of Jacob by Time of
David
  • Psa. 832 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult
    and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
  • 3. They have taken crafty counsel against thy
    people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
  • 4. They have said, Come, and let us cut them
    off from being a nation that the name of Israel
    may be no more in remembrance.
  • 5. For they have consulted together with one
    consent they are confederate against thee
  • 6. The tabernacles of Edom, and the
    Ishmaelites of Moab, and the Hagarenes
  • 7. Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek the
    Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre

76
The Blessed promise was to A Faithful Israel . .
. BUT
  • They Failed to Drive the enemy out
  • They assimilated the heathens culture and
    worshipped their gods.
  • They killed their own prophets.
  • They killed their own Messiah.
  • They made the Temple of worship a den of
    merchandise
  • Their city was destroyed and tribal identity lost

77
Because Israel Did Not Keep Faith Ezekial Said
  • Ez. 941. And he (he who seeks possession of the
    land) shall plant the tabernacles of his palace
    between the seas. . .
  • in the glorious holy mountain
  • This means because of submitting to other
    religions and unfaithfulness in general, the
    Jewish Temple in Jerusalem would be torn down
    and replaced by another.

78
Jesus Added to the Prophecy
  • Mt. 241 His disciples came to him for to shew
    him the buildings of the temple.
  • 2. And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all
    these things? verily I say unto you, There shall
    not be left here one stone upon another, that
    shall not be thrown down.
  • Jesus The temple will be destroyed.
  • EzekielAliens will build theirs in its place

79
TODAY THE DOME OF THE ROCK A MUSLIM MOSQUE STANDS
OVER THE ROCK WHERE ABRAHAM OFFERED ISAAC A
SOURCE OF SHAME HATE TO THE JEWS
80
Mosque of Omar The Mosque of Omar was built in
the late 600s, about 600 years after the Romans
destroyed the temple.  Omar was the
caliph-successor of Muhammad who captured
Jerusalem from the Eastern Roman Empire. (the
last emperor of the western part of the Roman
Empire was deposed in 476 AD. The eastern Roman
Empire continued until 1453 - year Columbus was
born.
81
The Mosque of Omar is called the Dome of the
Rock. Its dome stands over the rock where the
sacrificial altar of the temple stood. The rock
contains four deep holes where the blood from the
sacrifices once flowed. In Muslim legends these
are the hoof prints of Al Boraq (meaning "the
lightning") the horse that carries Muhammad to
heaven in a vision. (In actual life Muhammad
never visited Jerusalem.)
82
By 1453 the eastern Roman Empire had long since
lost most of its territory to the Muslims. In
1453 the Turks captured Constantinople (today
Istanbul, Turkey), the capital city of the
eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire).
83
Carved out by the U.N. After WWII and motivated
by sympathy aroused from the HolocaustNo peace
since!
ARABS NO! Its ours. We were here before you were.
JEWS Its ours We were here before you were!
The present jihad was held in abeyance for
centuries because of foreign domination of the
lands. They are now independent nations
84
History Has Demonstrated
  • Neither the Arabs resistance to the selection of
    Grace, nor
  • The Israelites unfaithfulness prevented Jehovah
    from fulfilling His promises

85
God is Faithful He Has Fulfilled Every Promise
made to Abraham in Christ
  • Both Earthly and Spiritual

God kept the Land promise God kept the posterity
promise God has kept the Seed promise All nations
have been blessed
I Cr. 120. For all the promises of God in him
are yea, and in him Amen, There fore the
Christian knows
86
THE FACTS MAKE THE CLAIM FOR PALESTINE AS A
DIVINE RIGHT FOR ANYONE IS NO MORE IRRELEVANT.
NEITHER JEW, ARAB OR CHRISTIAN HAS A LIGITIMATE
DIVINE CLAIM FOR THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE LAND SINCE
CHRIST. TO WAGE A TERRORIST CAMPAIGN FOR THE
LAND, CALLING IT A JIHAD OR HOLY WAR INVOLVING
NATIONS IS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY BASED ON
HATRED, SELFISHNESS AND DECEPTION. THE ARABS
HATRED FOR THE JEWS IS SO INTENSE THAT THEY
SACRIFICE THEIR CHILDREN TO KILL JEWS AND ANYONE
WHO LENDS SUPPORT TO THE JEWS.
87
Jacobs Struggles Leads to the Discovery of the
Greatest Blessing of all
  • His struggle for the birthright of the first born
  • His struggle with his brother at birth
  • His struggle with God for the divine blessing.


    1) His dream.
  • 2) His Vision
  • IV. The origin of the name Israel


88
Jacobs Struggles Leads to the Discovery of the
Greatest Blessing of all
  • His struggle with his brother at birth
  • His struggle for the birthright of the first born
  • His struggle with God for the divine blessing.


    1) His dream.
  • 2) His Vision
  • IV. The origin of the name Israel


89
Esau Aptly Describes The Former Man Jacob, the
Supplanter
  • 27 36. (ESAU) And he said, Is not he rightly
    named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two
    times he took away my birthright and, behold,
    now he hath taken away my blessing.
  • Although weak in faith, Jacob has a quality that
    will earn him a new Name He desires the best in
    life and will struggle to get it. He doesnt
    realize here what the best thing is

90
But Jacob Makes an Amazing Discovery
  • God reveals to him that the best part of the
    blessings is not in a Dwelling Place Here but in
    the dwelling place of God
  • God Renews the covenant with Jacob in a Dream
  • 28 14. And thy seed shall be as the dust of the
    earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west,
    and to the east, and to the north, and to the
    south and in thee and in thy seed shall all the
    families of the earth be blessed. Heres where we
    come in!

91
Jacobs Awareness Grows But is Still Limited
  • 2816. And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and
    he said, Surely the Lord is in this place and I
    knew it not. 17. And he was afraid, and said,
    How dreadful is this place! this is none other
    but the house of God, and this is the gate of
    heaven. 18. And Jacob rose up early in the
    morning, and took the stone that he had put for
    his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and
    poured oil upon the top of it. 19. And he
    called the name of that place Bethel but the
    name of that city was called Luz at the first.
  • 20. And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will
    be with me, and will keep me in this way that I
    go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to
    put on, 21. So that I come again to my father's
    house in peace then shall the Lord be my God
    22. And this stone, which I have set for a
    pillar, shall be God's house and of all that
    thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth
    unto thee.

92
It Dawns on Jacob the Magnitude of the blessing.
Its a Covenant with God
  • 17. And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is
    this place! this is none other but the house of
    God, and this is the gate of heaven.
  • Divine revelation is a fearful thing Proverbs.
    17 Where Gods speaks is a place
    of great reverence Ex. 35

    Where God speaks is his house.
    His Habitation is everywhere.
    The covenant with God is the
    Gate to heaven
  • THIS DISCOVERY IS ESSENTIAL TO THE BLESSING OF
    GODS HOUSEHOLD TODAY.

93
One Can See Shadows of Jesus as the Embodied
Covenant of God
  • The pillow stone becomes a Pillar stone.
  • A rock of little consequence becomes a marker
    stone for Gods house. Isa. 28


  • The Stone symbolized the promised Blessing of
    God.
  • It is an anointed stone. (Lk. 418)

94
Jesus Uses Jacobs Dream in Regard to Himself As
the New Covenant
  • Nathaniels Discovery---Must be ours for the
    bless.
  • JN. 147. Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and
    saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom
    is no guile!
  • 48. Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest
    thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before
    that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the
    fig tree, I saw thee.
  • 49. Nathanael answered and saith unto him,
    Rabbi, thou art the Son of God thou art the King
    of Israel.

95
Jesus is the New Covenant
  • 50. Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I
    said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree,
    believest thou? thou shalt see greater things
    than these.
  • 51. And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I
    say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open,
    and the angels of God ascending and descending
    upon the Son of man.
  • JEREMIAH 3131----MATTHEW 2628

96
Jacob Arrives at Uncle Labans
  • 1. Gen. 29 Dramatic meeting of Rachel shows the
    providence of God in keeping His promise.
  • Agrees to work 7 years for his beloved Rachel
  • 2. Deception runs in Rebekahs family 3141
  • 3. Jacobs marriage turns into a nightmareugly
    unloved Leah was switched for Lovely Rachel.
  • 4. Jacob is given Rachel also, but must work an
    additional 7 years.
  • 5. Leah is given Ziplah, and Rachel Bilhah for
    handmaids
  • 6. The setting is complete for forming the nation
    of Israel

97
Competition Between Two Wives Gives Birth to the
Nation of Israel
  • 2930- The Sadness of unloved Leah
  • 1. ReubenThe Lord has seen my misery.
  • 2. SimeonThe Lord has heard (I am unloved)
  • 3. Levi Attached (My husband will now love
    me)
  • 4. Judah... Praise or let Him be praised.
  • Leah manages her problem showing great faith.

98
Jesus claimed this identification for Himself
John 858. Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily,
I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
99
Rachels Bitterness
  • Barren, she gives Jacob her handmaiden Bilah
  • 5. Dan vindicated
  • 6. Naphtali wrestling ( The fight with her
    sister)
  • LEAH RESPONDS BY GIVING JACOB ZILPAH
  • 7. Gad fortune
  • 8. Asher blessing (God is prospering her)

100
Rachel Become Desperate to Give Jacob More
Children
  • Gen. 3014. And Reuben went in the days of wheat
    harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and
    brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel
    said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's
    mandrakes. (Fertility stimulant)
  • 15. And she said unto her, Is it a small matter
    that thou hast taken away my husband? and
    wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also?
    And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee
    to-night for thy son's mandrakes.
  • 16. And Jacob came from the field in the
    evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said,
    Thou must come in unto me for I have surely
    hired thee with my son's mandrakes. . . . 17.
    And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived,
    and bare Jacob a fifth son.

101
More Children by Leah/Rachel
  • LEAH
  • 9. Issachar . . . hire
  • 10. Zebulun gift and honor (My husband will
    now honor me because I give him another son)
  • ------Dinah . . . Justice
  • NOW RACHEL HAS TWO MORE SONS
  • Joseph add (another son) Jacob leaves Laban
  • Ben Oni son of my sorrow Jacob renames him
    Benjamin son of my right hand

102
JACOBS CONFESSION THE NEW NAME
GEN. 3222. And he passed over the ford Jabbok.
24. And Jacob was left alone and there wrestled
a man with him until the breaking of the day.
25. And when he saw that he prevailed not
against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh
and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint,
as he wrestled with him. 26. And he said, Let
me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will
not let thee go, except thou bless me. 27. And
he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said,
Jacob. 28. And he said, Thy name shall be
called no more Jacob, but Israel for as a prince
hast thou power with God and with men, and hast
prevailed.
103
Jacob Wrestles With God, His Name is Changed to
Israel, Meaning Rule With God
  • 3224. And Jacob was left alone and there
    wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the
    day.
  • 25. And when he saw that he prevailed not
    against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh
    and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint,
    as he wrestled with him.
  • 26. And he said, Let me go, for the day
    breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go,
    except thou bless me.

104
Jacobs Name is Changed
  • And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou
    bless me
  • 32 27. And he said unto him, What is thy name?
    And he said, Jacob.
  • 28. And he said, Thy name shall be called no
    more Jacob, but Israel (to rule with God) for as
    a prince hast thou power with God and with men,
    and hast prevailed.
  • A Confession of His Old Name Qualifies him for
    the New Name! --- Because he overcame. Rev.
    217

105
The Angels Name is Of No Consequence / only
messengers
  • 29. And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I
    pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it
    that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed
    him there.
  • 30. And Jacob called the name of the place
    Peniel for I have seen God face to face, and my
    life is preserved. Ex. 3320
  • 31. And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose
    upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.
  • 32. Therefore the children of Israel eat not of
    the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow
    of the thigh, unto this day because he touched
    the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that
    shrank.

106
Lessons from This
  • The Divine Blessing come by Struggle
  • It will endure through the nightHang on!
  • Your tenacity determines your evaluation of the
    blessing.
  • The struggle will bring handicaps that will
    follow you throughout life.

107
Jacob Returns to Bethel
  • 35 9. And God appeared unto Jacob again, when
    he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him.
  • 10. And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob
    thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but
    Israel shall be thy name and he called his name
    Israel.
  • 11. And God said unto him, I am God Almighty
    be fruitful and multiply a nation and a company
    of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come
    out of thy loins
  • 12. And the land which I gave Abraham and
    Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed
    after thee will I give the land.
  • 13. And God went up from him in the place where
    he talked with him.
  • DEBORAH AND RACHEL DIE

108
The story turns to Joseph
109
Recall Gods word to AbrahamOnce Spoken, the
Word of God Cannot be Offset
  • 15 13. And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety
    that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that
    is not theirs, and shall serve them and they
    shall afflict them four hundred years
  • 14. And also that nation, whom they shall
    serve, will I judge and afterward shall they
    come out with great substance.
  • The dialogue will now reveal how this will
    transpire

110
How will they Come to be in A Land that is not
theirs?
  • Gods ways are Mysterious
  • God Selects Joseph for Preserver Gen. 37
  • Intense hatred/rejection get him to Egypt.
  • 378. And they hated him yet the more for his
    dreams, and for his words.
  • 3728 and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for
    twenty pieces of silver and they brought Joseph
    into Egypt.
  • NOTE How this reminds of Pauls journey to Rome

111
GEN. 38 Divine Judgment/Selfish Determination
Cannot Offset the Word of God Genesis 38
  • Promise is to be through Judah 4910
  • Two sons (Er, Onan) die childless both BY Tamar
  • Judah postpones Levirate marriage to his youngest
    Son
  • Tamar, impatient, tricks Judah into adultery by
    playing the harlot and secures his signet
    bracelets, and staff. And he gave them to her,
    and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.
  • When her pregnancy is discovered they would put
    her to death, but she produced Judahs articles
    and was spared. One of the twins she bore, Perez,
    was in the lineage of Christ

112
Hatred and Envy Falls OUT to the Fulfilling of
the Word
  • 3. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his
    children, because he was the son of his old age
    and he made him a coat of many colours.
  • 4. And when his brethren saw that their father
    loved him more than all his brethren, they hated
    him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.
  • 5. And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it
    his brethren and they hated him yet the more.

113
Gods Word Cannot Be Offset by Destroying Joseph
  • NOT BY HIS BRETHREN WHO HATED HIM
  • 3719. And they said one to another, Behold,
    this dreamer cometh.
  • 20. Come now therefore, and let us slay him,
    and cast him into one of the pits, and we will
    say, And evil beast hath devoured him and we
    shall see what will become of his dreams.
  • 21. And Reuben heard it, and delivered him out
    of their hand, and said, Let us not take his
    life.
  • 22. And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood
    cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness,
    but lay no hand upon him that he might deliver
    him out of their hand, to restore him to his
    father.
  • 28. And there passed by Midianites, merchantmen
    and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the
    pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for
    twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph
    into Egypt.

114
Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the
guard
  • 3920. And Joseph's master took him, and put him
    into the prison, the place where the king's
    prisoners were bound and he was there in the
    prison. 21. But Jehovah was with Joseph, and
    showed kindness unto him, and gave him favor in
    the sight of the keeper of the prison. 22. And
    the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's
    hand all the prisoners that were in the prison
    and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of
    it. 23. The keeper of the prison looked not
    to anything that was under his hand, because
    Jehovah was with him and that which he did,
    Jehovah made it prosper.
  • Because of his character, and gift of dream
    interpretation, he eventual was made governor of
    Egypt and brought his family into Egypt where
    they thrived for 400 years.

115
Josephs prophetic Dreams Are Fulfilled.
  • 42 6. And Joseph was the governor over the
    land, and he it was that sold to all the people
    of the land and Joseph's brethren came, and
    bowed down themselves before him with their faces
    to the earth.

116
Genuine Repentance
  • 4431. It shall come to pass, when he seeth that
    the lad is not with us, that he will die and thy
    servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy
    servant our father with sorrow to the grave.
  • 32. For thy servant became surety for the lad
    unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto
    thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father
    for ever.
  • 33. Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant
    abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord
    and let the lad go up with his brethren.
  • (Judah had saved Josephs life, 3726)
  • 34. For how shall I go up to my father, and the
    lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the
    evil that shall come on my father.

117
Josephs View of All that had Happened
  • 455. Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry
    with yourselves, that ye sold me hither for God
    did send me before you to preserve life.
  • 6. For these two years hath the famine been in
    the land and yet there are five years, in the
    which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.
  • 7. And God sent me before you to preserve you a
    posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by
    a great deliverance.
  • 8. So now it was not you that sent me hither,
    but God and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh,
    and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout
    all the land of Egypt.

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JOSEPH DIES IN EGYPT B UT DESIRES TO BE MOVED.
20. But as for you, ye thought evil against me
but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as
it is this day, to save much people alive. 21.
Now therefore fear ye not I will nourish you,
and your little ones. And he comforted them, and
spake kindly unto them. 22. And Joseph dwelt in
Egypt, he, and his father's house and Joseph
lived an hundred and ten years. 23. And Joseph
saw Ephraim's children of the third generation
the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh
were brought up upon Joseph's knees. 24. And
Joseph said unto his brethren, I die and God
will surely visit you, and bring you out of this
land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to
Isaac, and to Jacob. 25. And Joseph took an oath
of the children of Israel, saying, God will
surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones
from hence. 26. So Joseph died, being an
hundred and ten years old and they embalmed him,
and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
119
GENESIS CLOSES WITH THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
(JACOB) IN EGYPT.
EXODUS OPENS WITH A PHAROAH THAT FEARS THE GROWTH
OF THE ISRAELITES AND SEEKS TO DIMENISH IT BY
EXTERMINATING THE MALE POPULATION

ABRAHAM CA. 2100 B.C.
Jacobs
migration into Egypt 1870 B.C MOSES
WAS BORN ABOUT 1527 B.C. ISRAEL
430 years in Egypt
EXODUS ca. 1445
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EXODUS
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EXODUS 1 God Saves Moses, His chosen deliverer,
from Pharaohs law of Male Infanticide
  • Ex. 116. And he said, When ye do the office of
    a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon
    the stools if it be a son, then ye shall kill
    him but if it be a daughter, then she shall
    live.
  • 17. But the midwives feared God, and did not as
    the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the
    men children alive.
  • GOD MOCKS PHARAOH (SATAN) BY RAISING MOSES IN HIS
    HOUSE AND EDUCATING HIM.

122
GOD USES PHARAOAH TO EDUCATE MOSES
Exodus 23. And when she could not longer hide
him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and
daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the
child therein and she laid it in the flags by
the river's brink.
4. And his sister stood afar off, to wit what
would be done to him. 5. And the daughter of
Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river
and her maidens walked along by the river's side
and when she saw the ark among the flags, she
sent her maid to fetch it. 6. And when she had
opened it, she saw the child and, behold, the
babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and
said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.
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MOSES MOTHER REARS HER CHILD IN PHAROAHS HOUSE
7. Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter,
Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew
women, that she may nurse the child for thee? 8.
And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the
maid went and called the child's mother. 9. And
Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child
away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee
thy wages. And the woman took the child, and
nursed it. 10. And the child grew, and she
brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he
became her son. And she called his name Moses
and she said, Because I drew him out of the
water. 11. And it came to pass in those days,
when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his
brethren, and looked on their burdens and he
spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his
brethren. 12. And he looked this way and that
way, and when he saw that there was no man, he
slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
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EXODUS 2 13-16 AT 40, MOSES KILLS AN EGYPTIAN
FOR WHIPPING AN ISRAELITE AND FLEES FOR HIS
LIFE Goes to Midian and becomes a sheep herder
for Jethro who becomes his Father-in-law. Another
40 years pass and God is now ready to use him as
a deliverer for the children of Israel from
Egyptian slavery and form them into a nation
under God.
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God Calls Moses
1. Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father
in law, the priest of Midian and he led the
flock to the backside of the desert, and came to
the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
2. And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him
in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush
and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with
fire, and the bush was not consumed. 3. And
Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this
great sight, why the bush is not burnt. 4.
And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to
see, God called unto him out of the midst of the
bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here
am I. 5. And he said, Draw not nigh hither put
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