ABRAHAM BIBLE QUOTES
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THE BOOK OF GENESIS
CHAPTER
11
ABRAHAM BIBLE QUOTES STUDY
The descendants of Shem are spreading out through Persia, Arabia, and Syria.
At the same time, the descendants of Ham are spreading out in Canaan, Egypt
and Africa. And the descendants of Japheth are spreading northward through
what is now Turkey. So each of Noah's sons took their families and
went different ways. Did you know that your family tree traces back to one
of these three sons? If your family is from anywhere in Europe, you are from
Japheth and if your family are from the Middle East, you are from Shem and
if they are from Africa and Egypt area ... You are from Ham. Pretty cool
huh?
Now in the ninth generation of Shem's descendants, a man named
Abram was born. His family was from a land called Ur of the Chaldees
which is about 150 miles southeast of Babylon which is now called Iraq where
all the problems are.
Abram's wife was Sarai and she
was barren and had never had a child. Abram also had a
brother who died and left a son, Abram's nephew, named Lot. Abram's dad
took Abram, Sarai, and Lot and intended to move to Canaan, but when they
came to Haran, which is a couple hundred miles north of Canaan, they settled
there.
Abram was just an ordinary person. He wasn't famous for
anything that we know of up to this point in his life. But one day when
Abram was 75 years old, the Lord came to him and told him to leave his father's
house and go to a special land that He would show him.
Put
yourself in Abram's sandals for a moment. We're not talking about
scheduling the movers to come and pack while you fill out the address change
form at the post office, then hop on a plane with the family and meet the
movers at your new home. We're talking about gathering up the tent,
the flocks, the herds, the camels, food, clothing, furniture, and any other
possessions you may own and hiking it hundreds of miles across unfamiliar
territory. By the way, there are no restaurants on the way, and you don't
even know where the destination is. All you know is this invisible God said "Go unto a land that I
will show thee."
Well, God added a couple of HUGE blessings along with the deal.
He said that He would make a great nation out of Abram which meant that he
was saying that Abram would have children despite his wife being barren and He would make his
name great and that he would be a blessing. And for the icing on the cake,
God said, And I will bless them that bless you, and curse him that curses
you, and in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.
This is
great news for a 75 year old man who has no children! See, in those
times, having many children was very important to people who were godly,
because it was God's commandment to "be fruitful and multiply, and replenish
the earth." Not to mention having someone to carry on YOUR bloodline. At
either rate it was a request from God which took loads of faith to take you
and your family across the wilderness into the unknown. But He did and God
honored him for his faith.
THE BOOK OF GENESIS
CHAPTER 12
Abram and the blessings that God had promised him if he would, in
faith alone, go to a land where God would take him. Did they pack up
and go? Indeed they did. Abram, his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the people who belonged to their "clan" in Haran, formed a caravan and
headed out for the unknown.
They headed south, and they came to the land of Canaan. Then
when they got to a place called Sichem, God appeared to Abram and told him
he would give this land to his children's children. From this point on, it became known as
the "Promised Land." So Abram built an altar for
God there and kept going until they came to Bethel. Abram built another
altar there, and they pitched their tents and settled for a while.
There was a terrible famine and shortage of food at the time.They
headed for Egypt because there was food there. Abram remembered a custom
that the Egyptian pharaoh had of abducting beautiful wives and killing the
husbands and the wife became one of pharaoh's harem
and Abram was afraid that when the Egyptians saw that Sarai
was a beautiful woman, they would kill him. So Abram told Sarai to say
that she was his sister, that way, they would let him live. As it happened, the princes of the
Pharaoh (the name for the
ruler of Egypt) saw Sarai and told the Pharaoh about her. She was
taken to live in the pharaoh's house.
This
angered God of course and God caused the Pharaoh and his family to have awful plagues
on account of Sarai. When the Pharaoh figured out why he was being plagued,
he called Abram and told
Abram to take his wife and all that he had come with to Egypt and to leave, and he ordered his
men to get rid of them. Sarai had a handmaid during her time with Pharaoh
named Hagar and she too left with them.
THE BOOK OF GENESIS
CHAPTER 13
Abram was always very
rich in cattle, gold, and silver. He was heading back to a land of famine
where gold and silver can't buy or produce food for his cattle and the
people who tend them for him. A land that God promised would make him a
great name and a great nation from his seed. You've got to surmise that
Abram had moments where he felt overwhelmed. It was all a test.
Nevertheless, he
traveled on, until he arrived back at the place in Bethel where he pitched
his tent at the beginning. They settled there once again for the time
being and at the same altar, Abram prayed.
Abram's nephew Lot also
had flocks and herds and tents and family and workers. Soon the land wasn't
able to sustain them because they had so much livestock. As things became
crowded there was fighting between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and of
Lot's men. So Abram said to Lot, Let's not fight, we're family. We have
the whole land in front of us. If you choose the right side, I'll take the
left, and if you choose the left, I'll take the right.
So Lot looked over the
land and chose the side on the east, which was the area of Jordan. Abram
remained in the land of Canaan.
Then after Lot had
left, God said to Abram, Look from where you are to the north, south, east
and west, as far as you can see. All the land that you see, I will give it
to you and to your seed for ever. And I will give you as many descendants
as the dust of the earth. Now go and walk through the land. So once again,
God assured Abram of his promise.
Abram chose a place
about 30 miles south of Bethel in Hebron, and that was where he pitched his
tent and built another altar to God. Note: This is where the name "Hebrew"
comes from.
Okay, let's review a
little bit about Abram and what's happened to him so far. An ordinary
childless 75 year old man is promised by God that he will be given land,
have oodles of children and become a famous nation forever. He leaves his
father's house and takes his wife, nephew and many riches with him. He
comes to Canaan where God tells him that this is the Promised Land. Then
traveling through famine, he goes to Egypt and then back up to Canaan.
There he peaceably separates from his nephew because the land can't support
their wealth. God reassures Abram of His promise and Abram settles in
Hebron. So there you have it in a nutshell.
We, as Christians are oft times asked by God to sojourn into
the unknown as well and as we are learning from Abraham, we need only have
faith that HE will see us through.
THE BOOK OF GENESIS
CHAPTER
14
Abram and Lot separated because all that they
owned was growing too fast for the land to support, and Lot chose to settle
in the plain of Jordan. In particular, he pitched his tent in the
direction of Sodom. Now Sodom had a terrible reputation of being a
community of extremely wicked people.
As if that wasn't bad enough for Lot to deal with while trying
to follow God's plan, you have in the meantime, a war brewing. You see,
five of the several kings of Canaan, served a king named Chedorlaomer for
twelve years. Well, they were getting a little tired of it. So in the
thirteenth year, they rebelled. Then in the fourteenth year, Chedorlaomer
buddied up with three of his king pals and they went to battle. Five kings
waged their war in the salt sea, which was full of slimepits at
the time. The kings of Sodom and Gomorrah tried to escape but were defeated
there,
and those that were left ran to the mountain.
The kings from Canaan lost and the winners took all the
valuables from Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food, and went their merry
way. Oh, one more thing, they took slaves ... One of which was Lot, and all he owned, too.
Now, one
guy, who escaped came and told Abram what happened. When Abram
heard this, he gathered three of his allies and 318 of his workers and told
them all of a rescue plan. They defeated the four kings and their armies and
brought back all the valuables, as well as Lot and his belongings, and the
women and the people too.
Melchizedek, who was king of Salem and priest of the most high
God, met Abram on his way home and blessed him then blessed God who
delivered Abram's enemies into his hand. So Abram gave Melchizedek tithes,
or one tenth, of all they brought back.
Now this
is an interesting point to make. Because of this action, people think of tithing as giving the church one tenth of what we earn in
our "jobs." But have you ever thought that we are to give one tenth of
everything we DO? Not just monetarily speaking. How about for example, if
you work for worldly things for forty hours per week, could you spend four
hours per week serving God in some way? You listen to the radio for an
average of three hours a day. Would tithing be listening to Spiritual music
for a couple of hours a week? Abram had the right idea. Listen to what he
says when he's given the opportunity to keep the loot from his victory.
When they
got back to Sodom, the king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the people, and take
everything else for yourself as a reward for what you have done. But Abram said
to him, I promised the Lord who owns
Heaven and earth that I wouldn't take a thread, even down to a shoe buckle
so then you'll never have good reason to say you made Abram rich. And he
added, I only want what the share of the allies and those who went with me
want, let them take their portion.
Lot could
probably explain to you better than anybody: Sometimes you end up in a
bad place without meaning to and it's a blessing when God steps in to rescue
you from certain danger. This won't be the last time Lot finds himself
in that situation, as you'll find out down the road.
THE BOOK OF GENESIS
CHAPTERS
15 AND 16
It's been ten years now
that Abram has been living in Canaan and the last time he talked to God, he
told Sarai that the Lord told him that if he could look up to heaven and
count the stars, that's how many descendants he would have. Well, the
promises that Abram keeps talking about seems to be getting a little old to Sarai.
Sarai's impatience and lack of faith gets the best of her. You
see, she had an Egyptian handmaid whose name was Hagar. So, Sarai said to
Abram, Look now, the Lord has kept me from having children. Take Hagar and
maybe we can have a child by her.
Oh, what a can of worms that opened. Does that remind you that
this isn't the first time a woman's advice has been a man's heartache?
Once Hagar had conceived, she despised Sarai
and vice versa. When she told
Abram about the animosity, he told Sarai to deal with it however she saw
fit.
Sarai demonstrated her regret of her idea by dealing harshly
with Hagar, and Hagar ran away. The angel of the Lord found her by a
fountain in the wilderness and asked her where she was going. Hagar said
that she was running away from her mistress. The angel told Hagar to go
back and obey Sarai, and told her that she would have so many descendants
that they can't be counted. Does that ring a bell?
Then the angel told her that she was going to have a son and
that she should call him Ishmael because the Lord heard her affliction. And
he will be a wild man and he will be in conflict with every man and every
man will be in conflict against him and he'll live with all his brothers.
So Hagar returned, and gave birth to a son and Abram named him
Ishmael. Abram was 86 years old when Ishmael was born.
As this story unfolds it will make you look at things in a different light
when you find out how something so very long ago, is not just a simple
story, but in fact is still affecting the world now, more than ever.
THE BOOK OF GENESIS
CHAPTER
17
Abram is 99 years old, and
God appeared to Abram again. And God told him, I am the Almighty God; walk
before me, and be thou perfect.
Hold on, you may say, nobody can be perfect except God. That is
quite true; however, one can control themselves and practice only those
qualities that are godly: faith, honesty, charity, sincerity,
righteousness, etc. So God is asking for us to strive to be perfect.
God continued, And I will make my covenant between me and you,
and will multiply you exceedingly. So God was still unwavering about
keeping his promise to Abram that He first made 24 years before about having
a son.
Abram fell on his face and God told him more. Abram would be a
father of many nations. His name would no longer be Abram but he would
now be called Abraham and
God's Covenant would be everlasting, to be a God to him and to his
descendants after him forever. All the land of Canaan, God gave to him as
an everlasting possession. And God told Abraham to keep His covenant and
for his descendants to keep His covenant in their own generations.
As for
Sarai, God changed her name to Sarah. Then he promised again that He would
bless her and give Abraham a son born from her.
Abraham said in his heart, shall a child be born to a man who is
100 and a woman who is 90?
And Abraham said, O that Ishmael might live before you!
But, God
said ... Sarah will most certainly have a son, and you will call him
Isaac: and I will set up my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant,
and with his seed after him, God told him. As for Ishmael, I've heard your
concern. I have blessed him and will multiply him exceedingly; he will be
the father of twelve princes and I will make him a great nation. But my
promise is with Isaac, which Sarah will give birth to at this set time in
the next year. Then God went up from Abraham.
Can
you imagine the relief in Abraham's heart when he heard God's promise
again? All of the moments of wondering if he heard God correctly, or maybe
God had forgotten, have now come to a screeching halt. Come back again and
find out what happens as Abraham continues on with renewed faith and hope to
a future of bright promises.
God made covenants with man and mankind. His old Covenant was the Old
Testament. But then ... God made a New Covenant and called it the New
Testament ...
Jesus went to
Matthew's house and many followed. There were a lot of sinners there
who sat down to eat with Jesus and His disciples. When the Pharisees
(Religious leaders) saw it, they asked the disciples, Why does Jesus eat
with sinners? Jesus heard, and answered them, "People who are well
don't need a doctor, but the sick do. But you go and figure out what
this means: I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, because I came to
call sinners to repentance, not the righteous." (Matthew 9:10-13)
Jesus
gave us words to ponder when He said "But you go and figure out what
this means: I will have mercy, and not sacrifice" ... But what did He
mean? Let's find out.
Jesus also said ... No man sews a piece of new
cloth on an old garment, or the patch will shrink and the tear will be
worse. Neither do men put new wine into old bottles or the bottles break
and the wine runs out and the bottles are ruined, but they put new wine
into new bottles, and both are saved. (Matthew 9:14-17) What was Jesus
saying? He was teaching of the New Covenant (Testament). You can't have
a new game with the same old rules or you'll just have . . . the same
old game. He was showing them that in this New Covenant ... Sacrifice is
being replaced by mercy now. What Jesus was saying was, God is putting a
new promise into new hearts and both will be saved. Remember
Jeremiah
31:31-34: THE NEW COVENANT. Accept this TRUTH and share it with others.
Did you know that just
as the Bible has 66 books, that the book of Isaiah has
66 chapters? In addition, the Bible is divided into
two sections, the Old Testament (LAW) and the New
Testament (GRACE).
The Old Testament has 39 books and the New Testament
has 27 books. The book of Isaiah is divided in like
manner. The first 39 chapters are based on laws and
punishment. The last 27 chapters foretell of the
promise of the coming Messiah (Jesus)... Cool huh? Is
this just a coincidence or a form of prophecy of the
Old Covenant ending and a New Covenant being
instituted?
A Covenant is an agreement between two parties. In
this case the agreement was between God and man. It
was based on LAW given to the people by God, through
Moses. The Old Testament is based on this Old Covenant
and the New Testament is the New Covenant. Our Father
told us in the Bible that we will KNOW that He is God
cuz He tells us things that will happen before they
occur. Did our Father prophecy, through His servants
the prophets, of the coming of this New Testament?
ABSOLUTELY ... In
Zechariah 11:7-14 He tells us that He will break
His Old Covenant (Old Testament) and even prophesied
the timing that the Old Covenant would end and the New
Covenant would begin. He said that the Jewish people
would consider His worth as ... 30 pieces of silver.
(The amount the Jewish Religious leaders paid Judas to
betray Jesus) Now that's just too wild. God prophesied
through a prophet hundreds of years before it
happened. He KNEW the people would trade Him up and
even told the exact amount. So, as our Father promised
... He will prove HE is God by keeping us posted as to
what will be, by revealing it to the prophets.
But our Father did not
stop there ... In
Jeremiah
31:31-34 ... He said that He will make a NEW
Covenant (Testament) and explains what it will be. He
said that He would place the LAW within our hearts and
forgive all of our sins and remember the sins no more.
Now this does NOT mean that the Law is of no effect,
rather it is saying that when you believe in Jesus,
God will place the laws within your heart. It is
confirmed that He had performed this act in the New
Covenant (Testament) in
Hebrews
8:6-8 ... It says that God found the Old Covenant
to possess faults and that Jesus is the mediator of
the New Covenant (Testament) Think of it this way ...
The Old Covenant is kinda like a bride who married a
man and obeyed out of fear but lacked a foundation of
Love ... The Marriage failed just as many marriages on
earth do now for the same reasons. A marriage based on
fear and obligation is as nothing compared to one
based on LOVE. The marriages with a foundation in LOVE
can overcome all trials and tribulations the world
will throw at em. It is ETERNAL. God said that He
looked down on Earth and He could not find one soul
that had done good. NO, not one. Soooooo, in order to
save His children, He had to sacrifice His Son Jesus
as to establish a NEW blood Covenant worthy of
cleansing the sins of the people ... In the days of
Moses, blood was sprinkled on the people to establish
the Old Covenant. (Kinda like a blood pact between
friends) Now, in the New Covenant, it is the blood of
Jesus that established the New Covenant. In this
marriage ... It is different in that the bride would
CHOOSE to obey their husband because they loved Him in
FAITH because of what He has done for them. He
sacrificed His life so that those he loved might LIVE.
This marriage will prove to be worthy and ETERNAL.
They will make it through the trials and tribulations
that the world will throw at em cuz ... They LOVE Him.
That brings us to today with the CHOICE of Faith and
Love ... Is not our Father AWESOME?
THE BOOK OF GENESIS
CHAPTER 18
One day Abraham was sitting at the doorway of his tent, and
when he looked up, he saw three men coming near. Now it is a custom in
Israel that strangers are to be treated as well as if not better than
family. He ran to meet them, bowed
to the ground and said, My Lord, if I have done well in your eyes, please
don't pass by, but stay and wash your feet and rest under the tree. I'll
bring some bread and you can relax.
But, just who are these three people? Abraham addressed one as "My
Lord," and we all know who it is when God comes in the flesh on earth.
The other two will later be identified as two angels of the Lord when they
save Lot and his family from destruction at Sodom. Know who these three are?
It was Jesus and two of His angels.Jesus confirms this when he says
that Abraham was glad to see Him and this statement puzzled all of the
Pharisees. Now you know what He meant. Let's get back to the story.
So Abraham hurried into the tent and told Sarah to quickly make
some loaves of bread and to use the best flour. Then he ran out to the
herd, brought in a young calf and gave it to one of his servants who hurried
to prepare it.
When the food was ready, he brought it to them with butter and
milk and waited on them as they ate under the tree. That's
right Jesus and the Angels did eat. Isn't that cool?
They asked Abraham, Where is Sarah, your wife? And he answered,
In the tent. Then the Lord said to him, Sarah will have a son. Sarah heard
it in the tent door which was behind Him.
Sarah
laughed to herself saying, I am this old and I
will have the pleasure of a child, and Abraham too?
The Lord then asked Abraham, Why did Sarah laugh, saying, Will I
really have a child, being so old? Is any thing too hard for the Lord? At
the chosen time I will return to you and Sarah will have a son.
Then
Sarah, overhearing from behind them said, I didn't laugh, because it
troubled her that He knew. Jesus replied, No, but you did laugh and
said the name of the child would be Isaac which meant laughter.
Jesus brought a little piece of humble pie for Sarah to have for
dessert.
After that the men got up and looked toward Sodom and Abraham
walked with them a short way to see them off. As they were leaving, Jesus
told Abraham that because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah was so loud, and the
sin there was so dreadful, He was going to see if it was as bad as it's cry
that came to Him, and He would know if it wasn't.
As they started off toward Sodom, Abraham, knowing that Lot and
his family were there, delayed their leaving, asking, Will you destroy the
righteous along with the wicked? It wouldn't be like you to do that. What
if there are fifty righteous in the city? Will you spare it for them?
The Lord answered, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous
souls, then I'll spare the whole place for their sakes.
Abraham asked again, this time saying, I know I'm just dust and
ashes, but what if there are forty righteous? And the Lord said He would
not do it for forty's sake.
Abraham persisted, asking about thirty, then twenty, and finally
he said, I don't want to make you angry, but I have to ask this last time,
suppose there are ten. And the Lord said, I will not destroy it for ten's
sake. Then the Lord went his way when He was done speaking with Abraham and
Abraham went back to his tent.
You've got to admire the courage of Abraham for asking again and
again. He was a man with a big heart and he loved his nephew. Lot had come
a long way with him and Abraham thought he was a righteous soul, so he most
probably didn't view his action as being brave at all, but simply, the right
thing to do.
THE BOOK OF GENESIS
CHAPTER 19
We will be looking into the story of Sodom and
Gomorrah. Just the names Sodom and Gomorrah raise the brow and
bring up the guard of those familiar with the places. As we look in on Lot, Abraham's
nephew, we find him sitting at the gate of Sodom and Gomorrah. The "gate" is a term
used for the entrance of the city. While sitting there, the two angels
who were with Jesus visiting Abraham, in our last episode, arrive just as it turns evening.
When Lot sees them, he gets up to meet them and invites them to his house to
stay the night.
The angels turn down the offer and say that they'll remain in
the street all night. Lot, having lived in the city for some time and
knowing about the evil of the place, pleads with these two strangers to reconsider.
The angels accept his offer and Lot makes them a feast.
Before
they all turn in for the night, the wicked men of the city surround the
house and call out to Lot, asking him where the men are that went into his
home, and shouting to send them out so they could defile them. See in Sodom
and Gomorrah, murder, rape and homosexuality were commonplace. That is why the men of the city were demanding for Lot to send out
his two new "friends" ...
Lot goes outside and hurriedly shuts the door behind him
to try and resolve the issue. He
says to these men, Please, I beg you, don't do such wickedness. And he
said, Listen, I have two virgin daughters, let me bring them out to you and
do to them what you think is right, but don't harm these men, that's why
they're under the protection of my roof.
Now
that's odd huh? Strange as it may seem, as I revealed in the last story, it was
very honorable to be accommodating to strangers before even your own family,
and for Lot to offer his daughters in order to protect the angels was their
custom.
The men of the city shouted and mocked Lot, saying, You aren't
even from here, you're a stranger yourself and you want to be a judge? Now
we'll deal worse with you than with those two. They came close to breaking in
the door, when the angels reached out and pulled Lot into the house to them.
The angels then struck all the men outside with blindness, so that they
couldn't even find the door to Lot's house.
The angels told Lot that if he had any loved ones in the city,
to get them out, because the Lord had heard how loud the cry is that comes
from Sodom and Gomorrah, and He has sent these two angels to destroy it as
to stop the tears. So Lot went and warned others to hurry up and leave
the city because the Lord
was going to destroy the city, but they didn't believe him.
At the break of dawn, the angels told Lot to hurry and take his
wife and his two daughters that lived with him and leave quickly so they
wouldn't be devoured by the wickedness of the city.
Lot hesitated. Certainly not because he enjoyed living among
all the evil and wickedness that was all around him, but remember, he had
been there for a while now and was rich in flocks and herds and gold and
such. There wasn't time to round up all the livestock. These strangers
were saying get out, and get out now.
So here's Lot, lingering around. But because of the Lord's
mercy, the angels took hold of him by the hand and his wife's hand and the
hands of his two daughters, and led them outside the city.
Then the
Lord said, Run for your life and don't look
back,
and don't stay anywhere in the plain, but go to the mountain so you won't be
destroyed.
And Lot said, You've been graceful and have shown me mercy by
saving my life. I can't go to the mountain or else some evil will find me
there and I'll die. But there is a little city near there, Oh please let me
go escape there and my life will be saved.
The Lord said to Lot, I'll allow you this, and I won't destroy
the city that you're talking about. Now hurry and go there because I can't
do anything until you get there. When Lot arrived in Zoar (the name means
Little), the sun had risen and the Lord rained fire and brimstone out of
heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah. All the plain and all the people of the
cities there and all that grew out of the ground was destroyed.
But Lot's wife looked back, despite the warning from the two
angels and she turned into a pillar of salt.
Lot, traveled to a little city called Zoar, which is at the south end of
the Salt Sea for those of you who are interested in geography. His wife,
who could not resist looking back, as the Lord had warned, is standing
somewhere in between, as a pillar of salt.
Meanwhile, Abraham, got up early that morning and stepping
outside of his tent, went to the place where he was last in the company of
the Lord and two of His angels, pleading for the lives of any innocent in
the city where his nephew lived. When he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah
and the plain of Jordan, all he could see was smoke, as if it was coming out
of a furnace. But God remembered Abraham's request and sent Lot out of the
middle of the destruction.
But Lot didn't stay in Zoar. He, in fact, was afraid to live
there and ended up going to the mountain that the Lord told him to go to in
the first place. His two daughters went with him and they settled in a
cave.
One day, the older daughter said to the younger one, Our father
is old. Let's make him drink wine and we will lie with him so that we can
keep our father's bloodline alive. So the first night, the older daughter
went in, and the second night, the younger went in. But, Lot was passed out
from being drunken and didn't even know that anything happened.
The older daughter had a son and called him Moab, which is where
the Moabites came from, and they inhabited the area on the east side of the
Salt Sea. And the younger daughter also had a son and called him Benammi,
which is where the children of Ammon came from, and they populated the area
northeast of the Salt Sea. Both of these are the area which is today called
Jordan.
Remember the story of the Fallen angel's offspring with the
daughters of men in the
NOAH'S ARK
story we talked about? Well, here's a little more to that giant story for
you. The area where the Moabites (descendants from Lot and his oldest
daughter) lived was once the area where in times before the Great Flood it
was where these giants lived. They had "families" or "clans" or "tribes" or
whatever they called genealogical lines of giants. The Moabites referred to
this particular group as Emims. The area of Ammon was also known as a land
of the giants that the Ammonites called Zamzummims and they lived there
after the previous giants, the Anakims were destroyed by the Lord. Notice
that the giant's sect names end in "im." You can find this information as
well as more about other giants in Chapter 2 of the book of Deuteronomy.
So what have we learned from this story. First of all, don't stick
around in surroundings that you know are bad because sooner or later, God
will come a calling and when you are on your way leaving your past always
remember the echo of the Angel's words ...
"Don't
look back"
... Secondly,
Hebrews 13:2
says ... Don't forget to entertain strangers, because by doing so, some have
entertained angels without even knowing it. And third, when the Lord
or His representatives (Angels) tell you to do or not to do something like,
"Don't look back" ... DON'T.
THE BOOK OF GENESIS
CHAPTER 20
It happened that shortly after Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding area
was destroyed by God, Abraham and Sarah left Hebron and settled in the north
part of the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. Abraham visited a city called Gerar and found that the people there weren't very godly and Abraham feared
that they would kill him for his wife Sarah.
So, as he did once before to protect Sarah, Abraham said that she was his
sister. The king of Gerar whose name was Abimelech sent for Sarah to
be brought to him.
God appeared to Abimelech in a dream one night and said to him, You're as
good as dead because the woman that you took is a man's wife. But
Abimelech hadn't been with her yet. He explained to God, I'm
innocent, didn't he tell me she is his sister? And she told me that he
is her brother.
God told Abimelech, I know that you did this in the honesty of your heart
and I kept you from sinning against me, so I didn't allow you to make her
your wife. Now give the man his wife back. He is a prophet
and he will pray for you and you'll live. If you don't give her back,
you and all your family will die.
God is so gracious. He always gives people the opportunity to CHOOSE
to do the right thing.
Abimelech got up early the next morning and told all his servants what God
said to him in his dream and they were all very afraid. Then he called
Abraham, and said, What have you done to us? What made you do such a
thing?
Abraham said, I did it because I thought, surely the fear of God isn't in
this place; and they'll kill me to get my wife. And truly, she is my
sister; we have the same father, but not the same mother; and I married her.
And when God told me to leave my father's house I told her, Please do me
this favor; wherever we go, say you are my brother.
Abimelech gave sheep and oxen and men servants and women servants to
Abraham, and returned Sarah to him. He told Abraham to live anywhere
in his kingdom that he pleased. And he told Sarah that he gave Abraham
a thousand pieces of silver.
Apparently, Abimelech had heard about when God plagued the house of Pharaoh
for the same reason. This time the Lord closed up all the wombs of the
house of Abimelech because of what happened. But when Abraham prayed
to God, He healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidservants; and they were
able to have children again.
THE BOOK OF
GENESIS
CHAPTER 22
Greetings,
Daily Bread readers. This is one of the better
recognized stories, in the Bible, from the book of Genesis. Many people
when they hear the name Abraham, identify him to this story.
There was a day when the Lord tested Abraham. He called out to
him and Abraham answered, Here I am. God said to him, take your only son
Isaac, who you love and go the land of Moriah and offer him there as a burnt
offering (a sacrifice) on a mountain, I'll show you where.
Did you read that? God referred to Isaac as Abraham's only
son. This is a big hint as to whom God's promise would be with later in
the Bible. Another interesting fact is that God sacrifices HIS only Son
(Jesus) later in the Bible.Keep that in mind as ya read on.
After all the time that Abraham and Sarah waited for Isaac, and
all the hope, and the joy they must have had to finally have their dreams
come true, that God would ask for Isaac's life, and for Abraham to kill
him. Can you imagine the courage, faith and strength that Abraham had to
have? Why would God promise that Isaac would inherit the promise, and then
have Abraham sacrifice him? Abraham's faith in God was so strong, and his
love for God was so loyal, that all he knew to do was obey without
question. Now that my friends, is love. Paul said it best, in
1 Timothy 1:5, The bottom line is to love unconditionally and to have
faith unfeigned. What is that ... Faith unfeigned? To feign is to pretend,
so unfeigned faith is real, sincere, genuine, heartfelt, honest, authentic,
earnest, unaffected, undoubted, faith. And that's the exact kind of faith
that Abraham had.
Abraham got up early and took a donkey and two of his workers
with him, and Isaac, his beloved son, and they split the wood for the burnt
offering and then left for the land of Moriah.
On the third day that they traveled, when Abraham could see the
place from a distance, he told his workers to stay there with the donkey and
that he and Isaac would be going further on to worship, and they would
return for them later.
Isaac carrying the wood, and Abraham carrying the torch and the
knife, they went together to the place God spoke of. Now Isaac didn't know
what was going to happen, but he knew what a burnt offering was and he said
to his Dad, Abraham ... I see the fire and the wood, but where's the lamb
for the burnt offering? Abraham answered; God will provide the lamb.
When they reached the place which God told him of, Abraham built
an altar there, and laid the wood neatly on top. He tied Isaac and laid him
on top of the wood. And then Abraham lifted the knife to kill his son for
the sacrifice.
Just then, an angel of the Lord called out to him and said,
Abraham, Abraham, don't touch the boy. Now I know that you love God more
than anything, and that you would give your favorite thing in the world.
This brings back a remembrance of the story of Abel's gift to
God and how pleased He was with it. Even more precious must have been
Abraham's willingness to give Isaac to God.
And God certainly did provide the sacrifice. Abraham looked and
there was a ram caught by the horns in the brush behind him, so he took the
ram and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of Isaac.
Then the angel of the Lord called to Abraham again. And He
confirmed His promise once again and said, Because you didn't hold back your
son, your only son, I will bless you and make your descendants as
many as the stars of the Heaven and as the sand on the sea shore and they
will own the land of their enemies and in them, all the nations of the earth
will be blessed because you obeyed my voice.
The REAL story behind the scenes is how God DID sacrifice His Son for our
sins. This story was a shadow of things to come. Check out the
Jesus Story
to see the TRUE Ultimate Sacrifice.
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