The Feasts of Israel

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Genesis Chapter 12
Union Church Bible Study
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Galatians 36-7
6Even as Abraham believed God, and it was
accounted to him for righteousness. 7Know ye
therefore that they which are of faith, the same
are the children of Abraham.
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Terah
Haran Abram Nachor
Melcha
Sarai
Lot Milcha Sarai
Abram married his brother Harans daughter
Sarai Nachor married his brother Harans daughter
Milcha Lot was the son of Haran, and was
Abrams nephew
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Terah
Abraham Nahor Haran
Bethuel
Ishmael
Milcha
Isaac
Rebekah
Sarah
Laban
Esau
Lot
Jacob
Leah
Moab
Rachel
Ammon
12 Tribes
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Genesis 12 Covenant
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What is a Covenant?

• Covenant is the means God used to
• establish His set-Apart People
• Websters defines a covenant as an
• agreement among church members to
• defend a doctrine. Also, as a contact.
• Websters definition is not the Bible
• definition of a covenant!
• A Biblical covenant was sacred

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• 8 Covenants
• Edenic Covenant Gen 2
• Adomic covenant Gen 3
• Noahic Covenant Gen 9
• Abrahamic Covenant Gen 12
• Mosaic covenant Exod 19
• Palestinian Covenant Deut 30
• Davidic Covenant 2 Sam
• New covenant Jer 31, Heb 8

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• Covenants among men used to sell land, make
  treaties,
• allow use of a water well
• Mutual agreement Both parties had obligations
• One party Covenant imposed upon someone
• We tend to think of Covenant in terms of a
  promise of a
• contract
• Contracts and promises can be broken, usually
  with
• only small penalties
• This is not possible with a Biblical Covenant!

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In Hebrew, Covenant is Brit (Berit)

• Hebrew Barah cut of divide
• In Greek, word used in N.T. is diatheke
• Diatheke misses the mark substantially
• Language and culture are a package
• Cultures and their languages have unique
  concepts
• not present in other cultures
• Some Hebrew concepts, like Brit, Shalom, or
  Messiah
• have no parallel in other languages
• when a concept doesnt exist in a culture,
  neither does
• a word for that concept exist in their
  language!

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Understanding The Culture Is Key

• Bible translation problems
• are primarily because the
• translator has no in-depth
• knowledge of the culture
• Christians have believed
• that a will or testament
• is the modern day equivalent
• for a covenant Not True
• A Biblical covenant is
• Permanent unless it is
• conditional
• A permanent covenant
• cannot be retracted
• Death was the penalty for
• breaking a covenant!

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A God-Made Covenant Becomes a Physical Law of
the Universe

• Brit is also used to mean
• laws of nature
• A God-Covenant is woven
• into the fabric of the
• Universe
• The spiritual realm is the
• Source of a God-Covenant

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In The Beginning There Was No Death

• Laws of nature were
• designed for things to
• exist forever
• At some time it changed
• When did death and
• decay enter the
• Universe?
• Two separate events
• The fall of Satan
• The fall of Man

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Unconditional CovenantGenesis 12

• A divinely ordered ritual
• barath,To cut a covenant(Participants would
  divide a sacrifice, and together, in a figure
  8, would repeat the terms of the covenant)

Here God goes it alone It is unconditional.
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Abraham The First Patriarch

• Noah not a
• patriarch
• 3 Patriarchs
• Abraham gt
• Isaac gt
• Jacob
• Father, son, and
• grandson

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Genesis 121
Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of
thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy
fathers house, unto a land that I will show thee
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Genesis 121
from thy fathers house
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Genesis 122-3
2And I will make of thee a great nation, and I
will bless thee, and make thy name great and
thou shalt be a blessing 3And I will bless them
that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee
and in thee shall all families of the earth be
blessed.
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Covenant

• Abraham will become a great nation.
• Abraham will be blessed, and will be a
  blessing.
• God will bless those who bless Abraham.
• God will curse those who curse Abraham.
• Abrahams name (reputation) will become great.
• God will use Abraham to bless all families.

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Genesis 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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Separation Was Key It Must Occur in Some Form
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Separation Was Key

• Abraham just as pagan as everybody else
• Not given any special merit as was Noach
• Abraham had to separate himself from his pagan
• background
• Dividing, Electing, Separating
• Man hates letting go of things
• The familiar present always more attractive
  than the
• uncertain future
• Could separation be from family, dear friends,
  or even
• your church? YES! Abrahams story verifies
  this.

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Concept of Separation Is Central To Christs
Teaching
If any man come to me, and hate not his father,
and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren,
and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he
cannot be my disciple.
Luke 1426
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Concept of Separation Is Central To Christs
Teaching
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth
I came not to send peace, but a sword. 35For I am
come to set a man at variance against his father,
and the daughter against her mother, and the
daughter in law against her mother in law. 36And
a mans foes shall be they of his own household.
37He that loveth father or mother more than me is
not worthy of me and he that loveth son or
daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38And
he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after
me, is not worthy of me.
Matthew 1034
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Separation Must Occur in One Form or Another to
Serve Yahweh
And every one that hath forsaken houses, or
brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or
wife, or children, or lands, for my names sake,
shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit
everlasting life.
Matthew 1929

• Bible uses words like Set-Apart, Sanctified,
• Distinction, to indicate separation.
• Holy set-apart, sanctified, distinct,
  separated

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Genesis 125
And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his
brothers son, and all their substance that they
had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten
in Haran and they went forth to go into the land
of Canaan and into the land of Canaan they came.
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Genesis 126-7
6And Abram passed through the land unto the place
of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the
Canaanite was then in the land. 7And 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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Abraham in Canaan

• By means of separation
• Abraham ratified the
• covenant
• This is a Permanent
• Covenant
• 1975 2000 BC
• 350 Years since flood
• Sarai and Lot go with
• Abraham
• Canaanites consisted of
• many tribes from the line
• of Ham and his son,
• Canaan
• 1st Stop was Shechem
• (Today called Nablus)

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Genesis 128-9
8And 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. 9And Abram
journeyed, going on still toward the south.
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Abraham Goes To Egypt

• Goes to Egypt to
• seek relief from a
• famine
• It was typical for
• tribes in that area
• of Middle East to
• go to Egypt for
• food
• People traveled
• readily, over well-
• marked routes

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Genesis 1210
And there was a famine in the land and Abram
went down into Egypt to sojourn there for the
famine was grievous in the land.
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Genesis 1211-13
11And 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 12Therefore 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. 13Say, 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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Genesis 1214-16
14And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come
into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that
she was very fair. 15The princes also of Pharaoh
saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh and
the woman was taken into Pharaohs house. 16And
he entreated Abram well for her sake and he had
sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants,
and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.
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Genesis 1217-18
17And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with
great plagues because of Sarai Abrams wife.
18And 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?
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Genesis 1219-20
19Why 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. 20And
Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him and
they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he
had.
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Abraham Prepares A Deception

• Sarai was 75 years old
• Abraham really
• prospers in the land
• Egypt
• Is given the brides
• price for Sarai (a
• customary gift)
• When Pharaoh
• discovers that Sarai is
• Avrams wife, he
• returns her
• Orders Avram out of
• Egypt

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Importance In Keeping This Covenant
Sheep and Goat Judgment How People treat Israel
Matthew 2531-46
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31When the Son of man shall come in his glory,
and all the holy angels with him, then shall he
sit upon the throne of his glory 32And before
him shall be gathered all nations and he shall
separate them one from another, as a shepherd
divideth his sheep from the goats 33And he shall
set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on
the left. 34Then shall the King say unto them on
his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father,
inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the
foundation of the world
Matthew 25
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35For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat I
was thirsty, and ye gave me drink I was a
stranger, and ye took me in 36Naked, and ye
clothed me I was sick, and ye visited me I was
in prison, and ye came unto me. 37Then shall the
righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we
thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and
gave thee drink? 38When saw we thee a stranger,
and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
39Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and
came unto thee?
Matthew 25
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40And the King shall answer and say unto them,
Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done
it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye
have done it unto me. 41Then shall he say also
unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye
cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the
devil and his angels 42For I was an hungered,
and ye gave me no meat I was thirsty, and ye
gave me no drink 43I was a stranger, and ye took
me not in naked, and ye clothed me not sick,
and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Matthew 25
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44Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord,
when saw we thee an hungered, or athirst, or a
stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and
did not minister unto thee? 45Then shall he
answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you,
Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of
these, ye did it not to me. 46And these shall go
away into everlasting punishment but the
righteous into life eternal.
Matthew 25
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Important and Practical Lessons

• The call which came to Abram comes to each one of
  his believing children
• - The call for absolute confidence in God,
  
• - to step out in simple and unquestioning
  faith
• - to separate ourselves from the world to
  a life of pilgrimage
• - dependency on Jehovah
• Beware of going down to Egypt
• - The friendship of the world is enmity
  with God
• - Time spent in Egypt (the world) is
  wasted
• - Days lived out of communion with God produce
  naught but wood, hay and stubble

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Names Changed Genesis 17

• r'b.a
• yrf

• Abram

Sarai
h'r'b.a hr'f
Abraham Sarah
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Genesis
End Genesis Chapter 12