Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to Sunday Service Episode seven. I'm
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Speaker 1: So we've gone over some very important meet of the Bible,
Speaker 1: you know, the past, uh, the past, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: six episodes and we're gonna get into some very interesting
Speaker 1: stuff in this uh parts of the Bible for sure.
Speaker 1: And yeah, the Abraham, the Abraham Covenant is what we're
Speaker 1: going to go over. And also we're going to go
Speaker 1: over some very important typologies of Abraham with Isaac. Very
Speaker 1: interesting information there. So we'll kind of get into it first.
Speaker 1: We're going to start out at Genesis twenty one, Verse one.
Speaker 1: If you want to follow along. So Isaac is born,
Speaker 1: so it says, and the Lord visited Sarah as he said,
Speaker 1: and the Lord did for Sarah as he had spoken for.
Speaker 1: Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age,
Speaker 1: and the set time which God had spoken to him,
Speaker 1: and Abraham called the name of his son who was
Speaker 1: born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac. So
Speaker 1: let's stop there real quick now. Isaac. Actually the name
Speaker 1: it means laughter, I'm sure laughing in a way of joy.
Speaker 1: But also if you go back to Genesis eighteen twelve
Speaker 1: through fifteen, we already kind of talked, we already went
Speaker 1: over this before. But Sarah she laughs at herself, saying,
Speaker 1: after I am worn out and my Lord is old,
Speaker 1: shall I have pleasure basically talking, She's kind of lacked
Speaker 1: when God was telling her that she's going to conceive
Speaker 1: and bore a child. So that's, you know, part of
Speaker 1: the reason why his name is laughter. So yeah, so
Speaker 1: I want to go over also Romans fifteen, verses four
Speaker 1: through six, just so we know, like anything that's written
Speaker 1: here or for learning through patients comfort scriptures that might
Speaker 1: have so it says for whatever things were written before
Speaker 1: we're written for our learning that through the patients and
Speaker 1: comfort of the scriptures, might we have hope now made
Speaker 1: the God of patience and comfort grant to you like
Speaker 1: minded toward one another according to Christ Jesus, that you
Speaker 1: may with one mind, one mouth, glorified God and Father
Speaker 1: of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Right. So all it's just
Speaker 1: telling you there is that you know, everything is written
Speaker 1: for learning and for a reason. Right, So all this
Speaker 1: stuff is all written for learning and for a reason.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna find out, you know, some very interesting
Speaker 1: stuff here. So also I want to let you know
Speaker 1: that it took twenty five years for this promise to
Speaker 1: be fulfilled for Isaac to be born. So you got
Speaker 1: to understand. I kind of went over this on other episodes.
Speaker 1: The older that Isaac and Abraham, I'm sorry Abraham and
Speaker 1: Sarah became the less faith they had in having a child,
Speaker 1: you know, because which is understandable. But when God makes
Speaker 1: a promise and tells you that you're gonna bore a
Speaker 1: child through Sarah, he is going to fulfill his promise.
Speaker 1: And Abraham, I'm sure he knew that, but it's just
Speaker 1: became more and more a parent that his faith became.
Speaker 1: It seemed like less and less as they got older,
Speaker 1: you know, which makes sense because you you know, if
Speaker 1: you're at the age of ninety, which Sarah was ninety
Speaker 1: when she had Isaac, you know, can you imagine being
Speaker 1: a ninety year old woman and having a child. I
Speaker 1: mean it must have been. First of all, it's spectacular,
Speaker 1: and it's a miracle, you know, similar to when Jesus
Speaker 1: was born. You know, Jesus was born through a virgin,
Speaker 1: which was a miracle. You know, Isaac was born after
Speaker 1: she felt like her womb was closed, and she obviously
Speaker 1: was trying to conceive and believing that she was going
Speaker 1: to conceive. But the older she got, the tougher it
Speaker 1: was for her, and so much so that even when
Speaker 1: the Lord came to Abraham in Genesis eighteen, before they
Speaker 1: went to some to Megamora, before the two angels with
Speaker 1: the Sadom Megamorah, the Lord said it again, you know,
Speaker 1: and she inside laughed, and the Lord kind of checked
Speaker 1: her on that, like why are you laughing? And even
Speaker 1: asked Abraham why was she laughing? And not the same
Speaker 1: way that Abraham when he fell down and laughed. I
Speaker 1: think that was more of a playful thing. But I
Speaker 1: think Sarah laughed like like, huh really, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: so I think that's very important. So so it's interesting
Speaker 1: that she calls you know, Isaac laughter. Right, So let's
Speaker 1: let's continue reading and understand, guys, it's all about faith,
Speaker 1: you know. So back then, also understand that they didn't
Speaker 1: have the Bible to read, they didn't have the Torah
Speaker 1: to read, they didn't have the Holy Bible to read.
Speaker 1: So they don't even know the characteristics of God. The
Speaker 1: only way that they know the characteristics of God is
Speaker 1: by trusting God, by having faith, and by also the
Speaker 1: actions of God, you know, And that's what they had.
Speaker 1: He had a first hand account from God, and he
Speaker 1: was able to speak to God. And actually it says
Speaker 1: that he was able to eat with God, which was
Speaker 1: so interesting. And we went over that in Genesis eighteen.
Speaker 1: So let's continue reading here. So we're on Genesis twenty
Speaker 1: one four. Then Abraham circised circumcised his son Isaac that
Speaker 1: when he was eight years old, as God had commanded him. Now,
Speaker 1: Abraham was one hundred years old when his son Isaac
Speaker 1: was born. And Sarah said, God has made me laugh,
Speaker 1: and with all who will laugh with me. She also said,
Speaker 1: who would you have said? Who would have said to
Speaker 1: Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne
Speaker 1: him a son at his old age. So she's super excited, joyful, happy.
Speaker 1: You know. In that culture, it's all about having children,
Speaker 1: boring children. Throughout the Bible, you're going to find people
Speaker 1: that their womb is closed. They're trying to have children
Speaker 1: and bore children, and it's hard for them, and they
Speaker 1: have to pray and pray and pray. We have examples
Speaker 1: like Hannah Rachel. We're gonna get a little bit further
Speaker 1: in the Bible and show you that where people they
Speaker 1: prayed and prayed and prayed to have children and their
Speaker 1: womb was closed, you know, and as they pray and
Speaker 1: they get gathered, we're faith. You know, God was able
Speaker 1: to open the womb. So something we find out here
Speaker 1: as we're going through Who gives you the ability to
Speaker 1: have children? Who blesses you with children? Who forms these
Speaker 1: children in the womb? God does? Okay, he is able
Speaker 1: to control that. That's what the Bible's telling us here.
Speaker 1: So we got to understand that. So and certain people
Speaker 1: can't have children for certain reasons and certain things happen,
Speaker 1: you know. But some people are blessed with the gift
Speaker 1: of singleness and they're not married. You know. Paul was
Speaker 1: talking about that in the Bible, that he was blessed
Speaker 1: with the gift of singleness. Some people are blessed with
Speaker 1: having many children, some people that I agree with probably
Speaker 1: what people do. Think some of them don't deserve it,
Speaker 1: you know, and they might be doing bad stuff and
Speaker 1: you know, and things happen, you know, in life. But yeah,
Speaker 1: we just want to understand that. And now we're going
Speaker 1: to get into Genesis twenty one some of the drama
Speaker 1: that unfolds when you go against what God tells you
Speaker 1: and you end up going with your maiden like Abraham
Speaker 1: did and then boring a child. You know, this is
Speaker 1: something that happened in the earlier chapters which you've gone over.
Speaker 1: But we see what happens when you don't obey God.
Speaker 1: You go and listen to your wife and do your
Speaker 1: own thing by going, you know, becoming one with Hagar
Speaker 1: and having Ishmael. But he's still you know, as we're
Speaker 1: gonna read, he still does promise Hagar, you know, through
Speaker 1: Ishmael blessings as well. So but let's let's read this.
Speaker 1: It says Genesis twenty one, verse eight. So the child
Speaker 1: grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast
Speaker 1: on the day the same day that Isaac was weaned,
Speaker 1: and Sarah saw the son of Hagar, the Egyptian, whom
Speaker 1: she had born to Abraham scoffing. All right, let's uh,
Speaker 1: let's understand this real quick. So when a child weaned
Speaker 1: back then, what that is is weaning, is weaning off
Speaker 1: the breast, right, that's that's when you stop breastfeeding. And understand,
Speaker 1: back then, some people say that they stop breastfeeding is
Speaker 1: as late as like twelve, but if you know, when
Speaker 1: you do deep studies, it looks like it's more like
Speaker 1: three to five years old. Now, what we got to
Speaker 1: understand first of all, is that breast milk has so
Speaker 1: many nutrients and it's super healthy for you. So back then,
Speaker 1: they were you know, moving city to city, tent to tent.
Speaker 1: Some of them were nomads, and you know, in that culture,
Speaker 1: you stop breastfeeding a lot later than we do now.
Speaker 1: You know, we see people that stop breastfeeding, you know,
Speaker 1: at one years old, some children at six years old,
Speaker 1: but are six months old. I'm sorry, so what happens
Speaker 1: with them is we have some kind of replacements that
Speaker 1: we use, like formula or something like that. See, back then,
Speaker 1: they couldn't go to Walmart and buy formula, you know,
Speaker 1: they just they were giving them this breast milk because
Speaker 1: there's so many nutrients in it and a lot it's
Speaker 1: a lot more convenient for us now to wean them
Speaker 1: off of the breast. But you know, even some kids
Speaker 1: don't even get to breastfeed because some women, you know,
Speaker 1: it's hard for them to breastfeed, right, so they end
Speaker 1: up just doing formula. But you know, we have those
Speaker 1: replacements nutrients and stuff like that in the formula that
Speaker 1: they didn't obviously have back then. They couldn't go to
Speaker 1: Walmart and go buy this. So they would wean like
Speaker 1: at three to five years old and these and obviously
Speaker 1: they would actually celebrate this, you know. So and what
Speaker 1: was happening here is Abraham he made a feast that
Speaker 1: same day Isaac was weaned, So they we're celebrating the
Speaker 1: fact that he's weaning off the breast. Right. And Sarah,
Speaker 1: she saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian Ishmael scoffing.
Speaker 1: We could try to you know kind of see what
Speaker 1: that word means. But scoffing is basically like making fun
Speaker 1: or or or laughing at the child and kind of
Speaker 1: making fun of the child, you know, which Sarah obviously
Speaker 1: is not liking at this moment. It's offending her greatly.
Speaker 1: And so what she said to Abraham is cast out
Speaker 1: this bond woman and her son, for the son of
Speaker 1: this bond woman shall not be heir with my son,
Speaker 1: namely with Isaac. And the matter was very displeasing in
Speaker 1: Abraham's sight because of his son. See, but here's what happens.
Speaker 1: I think I think there's you know, God's promise is
Speaker 1: through Isaac. Obviously Jesus comes through the line of Isaac,
Speaker 1: very important. And God doesn't want this beef to continue
Speaker 1: between Sarah and between Hagar, right, so it's causing problems
Speaker 1: between the you know, for the relationship between Abraham and
Speaker 1: now Abraham is probably keeping Hagar around, not because he
Speaker 1: wants to continue to sleep with her or continue to
Speaker 1: be with her, it seems, but only keeping Hagar around
Speaker 1: to take care of Ishmael because this is his son
Speaker 1: as well. Right. So it's obviously when you have a child,
Speaker 1: which I have three and I actually have two more
Speaker 1: on the way. Uh, you know, God willing, I have
Speaker 1: twins in the oven. You know, my wife is pregnant.
Speaker 1: So uh, God is great and he does he miss
Speaker 1: you know, he does miracles and gave us some twins.
Speaker 1: You know, so I understand how it is. I don't
Speaker 1: know how it is to have a child with somebody
Speaker 1: else and then still have my wife. That's you know
Speaker 1: that that's happening a lot nowadays. But obviously, uh, you
Speaker 1: don't see it a lot where you're you're with your
Speaker 1: wife and then you know the girl that you're with
Speaker 1: your ex is actually you know, living in the same household.
Speaker 1: You could see how uncomfortable that would be, you know.
Speaker 1: So this is what's happening. So obviously there's an ongoing
Speaker 1: beef that Sarah had in the very beginning. She didn't
Speaker 1: she she she gave him permission to go into her,
Speaker 1: but you could tell right away that there was some
Speaker 1: jealousy and that she was kind of like, hey, I
Speaker 1: don't want you to, you know, I don't want you
Speaker 1: to you know, she didn't want it to happen. She
Speaker 1: obviously she approved it, and she said it because she
Speaker 1: felt like, you know, her faith was going down. But
Speaker 1: obviously you see here it's starting to bother her now
Speaker 1: where she's like send them away, And it was hurting
Speaker 1: Abraham deeply here. But he sought the Lord, you know.
Speaker 1: It seems like he went to the Lord, and in
Speaker 1: his old age he's learning to do this a lot
Speaker 1: more to sought the Lord, you know. So this is
Speaker 1: what God said to Abraham, it says, but God said
Speaker 1: to Abraham, do not let it be displeasing in your
Speaker 1: sight because of the lad Ishmael or because of your
Speaker 1: bond woman. Whatever Sarah has said to you, listen to
Speaker 1: her voice. For in Isaac your seed shall be called.
Speaker 1: Yet I will also make a nation of the son
Speaker 1: of the bond woman, because he is your seed. So
Speaker 1: Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and
Speaker 1: skin of water, putting it on her shoulder. He gave
Speaker 1: it and the boy to Hagar and sent her away.
Speaker 1: Then she departed, wandering in the wilderness of Bersheba. So
Speaker 1: that's what's happening here. Let's go and check out something
Speaker 1: real quick that is interesting about this situation. First of all,
Speaker 1: you guys could imagine your son, you sending your son
Speaker 1: off like that. It's really, it would be really hard
Speaker 1: to do that, obviously, because I think they said he
Speaker 1: was a teenager at this point. So Abraham loved Ishmael
Speaker 1: as well, and Abraham love Isaac, Isaac through Sarah. With Sarah,
Speaker 1: he loved so much. But do you really want this
Speaker 1: kind of fighting and stuff happening there between him? But
Speaker 1: this is a very interesting passage even it's used by
Speaker 1: Paul and in illustration of Christians that you know, kind
Speaker 1: of the illustration is that legalistic Christians that are in
Speaker 1: bondage compared to the Christians that are free in faith.
Speaker 1: So let's go ahead and read that Real Quick escalationis
Speaker 1: for twenty two through thirty one, and he uses this
Speaker 1: scenario to kind of explain people that are in bondage
Speaker 1: compared to like a free, free person that's in faith,
Speaker 1: you know, full of grace. So listen it says, for
Speaker 1: it is written that Abraham had two sons, the one
Speaker 1: by a bond woman and the other by a free woman.
Speaker 1: But he is but he was on the But he
Speaker 1: who was of the bond woman was born according to
Speaker 1: the flesh, and he of the free women through promise,
Speaker 1: which things are symbolic, for there are two covenants, the
Speaker 1: one from Mount Sinai, which gives birth to bondage, which
Speaker 1: is Hagar. For Hagar is in Mount Sinai and Arabia,
Speaker 1: and corresponds to Jerusalem, which now is and is in
Speaker 1: bondage with her children. But the Jerusalem above is free,
Speaker 1: which is the mother of all of us all, for
Speaker 1: it is written, rejoice, oh barn you who do not bear,
Speaker 1: break forth, And shall you who are in labor not
Speaker 1: in labor. For the desolate that has many children, then
Speaker 1: she who has a husband. Now we are brethren, as
Speaker 1: Isaac was, are children of promise, as he was born
Speaker 1: according to the flesh. Then persecuted him who was born
Speaker 1: according to the spirit, So saying basically that Isaac was
Speaker 1: born according to the spirit, obviously because God was involved,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's a miracle. The other one was
Speaker 1: born according to the flesh, right according to Abraham, going
Speaker 1: against God. Not like God told them not to do that.
Speaker 1: But obviously they made that plan themselves, and they went
Speaker 1: according to the flesh instead of according to the spirit.
Speaker 1: Even it is so. Now, nevertheless, what does the scripture say,
Speaker 1: cast out the bond woman and her son, For the
Speaker 1: son of the bond woman shall not be heir with
Speaker 1: the son of the free woman. So then brethren, we
Speaker 1: are are we not children of the bond woman, but
Speaker 1: of the free right. So we got to understand that
Speaker 1: we are actually free of bond slavery, and we know
Speaker 1: we're in grace, but we got to understand though there's
Speaker 1: some there's definitely some things there. I want to bring
Speaker 1: that up because that's the he uses this story in
Speaker 1: particular to kind of go over that subject. But what
Speaker 1: we got to understand is, if you look at James,
Speaker 1: faith is dead without works, right. So we'll get into
Speaker 1: that later in the New Testament. But you know, so
Speaker 1: we got to make sure that we got to kind
Speaker 1: of define what faith is there. You know, we are
Speaker 1: saved by grace through faith, but we got to define
Speaker 1: what faith is. Is faith just believing, Yeah, that's what
Speaker 1: it's says in John three sixteen, but also in James,
Speaker 1: it says that faith is dead without works, right, So
Speaker 1: we got to make sure. I'm not saying that we're
Speaker 1: saved by works. It says that we're not saved by works.
Speaker 1: No man shall boast. But what I am telling you
Speaker 1: is that you got to be a disciple, and you
Speaker 1: got to, you know, there's a lots to it. So obviously,
Speaker 1: right now, this is just the foundation we're building for
Speaker 1: you guys as we're going through the Word of God.
Speaker 1: But what I like to do is when I find
Speaker 1: something that matches the stories that I'm going over and
Speaker 1: matches certain things, I like to go up to the
Speaker 1: New Testament and show you guys when they're using these
Speaker 1: type of examples, so that you can see why I'm
Speaker 1: going through the Book of Genesis and why I'm going
Speaker 1: to try to go through the Old Testament before we
Speaker 1: get to the New Testament, right, because there's some important
Speaker 1: stuff here, and there's a foundation being laid for whom
Speaker 1: for Jesus when he comes right and this is an
Speaker 1: example of that. You see that good still comes out
Speaker 1: of evil, right evil, you know, being Abraham going and
Speaker 1: hooking up with Hagar and having Hagar have Ishmael and Ishmael,
Speaker 1: there's still twelve kings that come out of him and
Speaker 1: all these nations come out of him as well. So
Speaker 1: there's some good that comes out of evil, you know.
Speaker 1: So let's continue reading here. It says that then she
Speaker 1: departed and wandered Hagar into the wilderness of Beersheba, and
Speaker 1: the water in the skin was used up, and she
Speaker 1: placed the boy under one of the shrubs. Then she
Speaker 1: went and sat across from him, at a distance of
Speaker 1: about a bow shop. First she said to herself, let
Speaker 1: me not see the death of the boy. So she
Speaker 1: sat opposite of him and lifted her voice and wept.
Speaker 1: Another thing we got to understand here is the angel
Speaker 1: of the Lord came to Hagar when she first got
Speaker 1: sent out, when and Sarah sent her out the first
Speaker 1: time and told her that many nations will come through
Speaker 1: is Ishmael. So there was a promise there. He said, I,
Speaker 1: you know, will make your descendants as much as the stars. Right,
Speaker 1: so there was already a promise back then. Hagar has
Speaker 1: gone through fifteen years. Maybe I don't know how old
Speaker 1: he was at the time. Some people say he was
Speaker 1: fifteen at this time. Sixteen. Maybe she forgot about that
Speaker 1: promise because right here she is thinking that the boy's
Speaker 1: gonna die. All Abraham gave her was the water and
Speaker 1: you know enough, you know, some bread. He could have
Speaker 1: given her so much more, but he sent her off
Speaker 1: with this amount. Obviously, I think, you know, this is
Speaker 1: just me speculating, and that he didn't want to get
Speaker 1: Sarah mad and try to show favor to her and
Speaker 1: give her, So what he did is he just gave
Speaker 1: her through faith and bread, knowing that his descendants will
Speaker 1: be many, so obviously he's going to live through this.
Speaker 1: So he gave her the amount that he felt and
Speaker 1: sent them on their way. And obviously they're going through
Speaker 1: the desert. Water is scarce, and they used up all
Speaker 1: their water, and she is now weeping, crying. Now God
Speaker 1: has obviously seen everything that she's been through. She was
Speaker 1: a servant, an Egyptian servant to Abraham and Sarah and
Speaker 1: been with them for a long time. She was just
Speaker 1: serving them, and then she ended up Abraham ended up
Speaker 1: going into her having Ishmael, and she was probably taking
Speaker 1: care of Ishmael, probably a good mom, doing her thing,
Speaker 1: and then Sarah all of a sudden said, hey, you
Speaker 1: know what, send them away. So now she's in an
Speaker 1: I feel bad for this woman. Now she's in a
Speaker 1: position where she's in the desert. They're out of water,
Speaker 1: you know, they're probably out of food, and they're just like,
Speaker 1: she's crying out to the Lord, not want to see
Speaker 1: my son die. So they go a bow shot away,
Speaker 1: and she's crying out and who hears her? And God
Speaker 1: heard the voice of the lad. So she was weeping.
Speaker 1: But obviously Ishmael was probably like praying, God, if you're real,
Speaker 1: you know, I need you, you know. So God heard
Speaker 1: the voice of the lad Ishmael. Then the Angel of
Speaker 1: God called to Hagar out of heaven and said to her,
Speaker 1: what ails you? Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard
Speaker 1: the voice of the lad where he is a rise,
Speaker 1: Lift up the lad, Hold him with your hand, for
Speaker 1: I will make him a great nation. So now once
Speaker 1: again we got that promise coming back. And this is
Speaker 1: the Angel of God. So this is really interesting. It
Speaker 1: doesn't say an angel a n it says the Angel
Speaker 1: of God. There's also an the Bible the angel of
Speaker 1: the Lord. I think this is interesting. And he's also
Speaker 1: speaking from heaven. I always have to tell you guys
Speaker 1: certain things. How is he speaking from heaven on this
Speaker 1: heliocentric model where heaven is further and further ever expanding away.
Speaker 1: He's speaking from heaven because God's throne is located above
Speaker 1: the firmament. Speaking from heaven down to the earth. This
Speaker 1: is no problem on the model I've taught you guys,
Speaker 1: go back to the very first episode and you will
Speaker 1: see very interesting. So then God opened her eyes and
Speaker 1: saw a well, and she saw a well of water,
Speaker 1: and she went and filled the skin with the water
Speaker 1: and gave the lad a drink. So God was with
Speaker 1: the lad, and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness
Speaker 1: and became an archer. He dwelt in the wilderness of Paran,
Speaker 1: and his mother took a wife for him from the
Speaker 1: land of Egypt. So we don't know if this well
Speaker 1: was then, and he just led her to the well.
Speaker 1: We don't know if this is supernaturally put by God,
Speaker 1: but somehow that well was. She saw the well and
Speaker 1: they got to drink, filled the wine skin and gave
Speaker 1: the lad a drink. And that that's what they need
Speaker 1: in the desert. When you're walking through the desert, just
Speaker 1: you know you're feeling like you're about to die. Well,
Speaker 1: God provided, right. God promised already in earlier chapters that
Speaker 1: he was gonna have many as much as the stars,
Speaker 1: just like he promised Abraham that he was descendants will
Speaker 1: be as much as the stars. Said the same thing.
Speaker 1: The Angel of the Lord said this to Hagar, So
Speaker 1: he's keeping his promise. That's what we're seeing here a
Speaker 1: lot and in these chapters is God is keeping his promise. Now. Obviously,
Speaker 1: if you feel like, hey, God has taken to way
Speaker 1: too much time, we're not. God is not on our watch.
Speaker 1: He's on his own watch, and he has his own plan,
Speaker 1: he has his own will, and he's gonna let it
Speaker 1: be done. But if he makes you a promise, obviously
Speaker 1: it's gonna be fulfilled, you know. And we see that here. Now,
Speaker 1: sometimes us humans we forget, We just go, hey, you
Speaker 1: know what, I know, he might have promised me this,
Speaker 1: Like you know, Abraham and Sarah they kind of just
Speaker 1: you know, start laughing and giggling at the fact that
Speaker 1: God promised them twenty five years ago. Look they have Isaac,
Speaker 1: and look at this. They're in the desert. They're about
Speaker 1: to die of thirst. And what happens, God delivers. God's
Speaker 1: promise comes through again and it's very interesting. So, you know,
Speaker 1: and later on we'll hear about his descendants Ishmael, but
Speaker 1: we don't really hear anymore where Abraham and Ishmael get
Speaker 1: back together and talk or speak. Now, who knows what happened,
Speaker 1: But it's not biblically written that you don't see them
Speaker 1: get back together and talk or anything like that, or
Speaker 1: Hagar and Abraham talking. In any way, we do find
Speaker 1: out who who what descendants come through Ishmael's line, which
Speaker 1: is very important. You know, a covenant with Abimelech. And
Speaker 1: it came to pass that at the time that Abimelech
Speaker 1: and and Ficole, the commander of his army, spoke to
Speaker 1: Abraham saying, God is with you and all that you do. Now, therefore,
Speaker 1: swear to me by God that you will not deal
Speaker 1: falsely with me, with my offspring, or with my posterity,
Speaker 1: but according to the kindness that I have done to you,
Speaker 1: that you will do to me and to the land
Speaker 1: in which you have dwelt. And Abraham said, I swear,
Speaker 1: I will swear. Then Abraham rebuked to Bimlic because of
Speaker 1: a well of water which a Bimlik servants had seized.
Speaker 1: So let's stop there. They're in the desert. You know,
Speaker 1: this is so important. Water is vastly important. It's something
Speaker 1: that we actually take for granted. We get in America,
Speaker 1: not saying in other countries. Some countries they don't take
Speaker 1: it for granted because they don't get you know, they
Speaker 1: don't get the water that we get. But I work
Speaker 1: for the water industry, you know, I work for a
Speaker 1: water company, and we definitely do take it for granted.
Speaker 1: I see what goes on behind the scenes to deliver
Speaker 1: this water, and there is a lot of infrastructure and
Speaker 1: things that need to be taken care for this water
Speaker 1: to be delivered. But this is right here. You see
Speaker 1: that Abraham rebuke to Bimleck because of a well of water.
Speaker 1: So excuse me, And abim Malek said, I do not
Speaker 1: know who has done this thing. You do not tell me,
Speaker 1: nor had I hurt it until today. A Bimlek is
Speaker 1: a king. One of his servants is having a dispute
Speaker 1: with Abraham about a well. Looks like they try to
Speaker 1: take it from him, and Abraham is bringing us to
Speaker 1: his attention, and at bim Malik is like, hey, you
Speaker 1: know what, I'm busy with all this other stuff going on.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize this happened, But now that you brought
Speaker 1: it to my attention, I will take care of it.
Speaker 1: So Abraham took two sheep and oxen and gave them
Speaker 1: to a Bimelek, and the two of them made a covenant,
Speaker 1: and covenant is basically two people coming together and making
Speaker 1: that covenant. And let's read this. It says in Abraham
Speaker 1: set seven ooh lambs of the flock by themselves. Then
Speaker 1: a Biboleic asked Abraham, what is the meaning of the
Speaker 1: seven uh lambs which you have set themselves? And he said,
Speaker 1: you will take these seven uh lambs from my hand,
Speaker 1: and they may be my witnesses that I have dug
Speaker 1: this well. Therefore he called that place Bersheba, because the
Speaker 1: two of them swore an oath there. Thus they made
Speaker 1: a covenant in Bersheba. So Bimelek rose with Ficole, the
Speaker 1: commander of the army, and they returned to the land
Speaker 1: of the Philistines. Then Abraham planted a tamaris tree in Bersheba,
Speaker 1: and there called on the name of the Lord and
Speaker 1: the Everlasting God. And Abraham stayed in the land of
Speaker 1: the phili Sin's many days, all right, So I think
Speaker 1: that's super interesting. Ishmael cried out to God, Abraham, yep, okay,
Speaker 1: here we go. So I kind of went over that
Speaker 1: whole thing. I think that was a pretty cool little chapter,
Speaker 1: the chapter twenty one, And now we're gonna get into
Speaker 1: some really interesting stuff in chapter twenty two. Here, this
Speaker 1: is a very very interesting chapter right here. Okay, guys,
Speaker 1: this is Abraham's faith confirmed, all right, before we go
Speaker 1: into this chapter. Actually, we'll read the chapter first and
Speaker 1: then I will go into the hall of faith. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of names mentioned in the Book of
Speaker 1: Hebrews talking about how this faith is you know, is
Speaker 1: been tested him and just shows all the faith that
Speaker 1: all these these gentlemen had in the Bible. And I
Speaker 1: like to go over that. But let's read this Genesis
Speaker 1: twenty two. It says, now, but came to past after
Speaker 1: these things, that God tested Abraham and said to him, Abraham,
Speaker 1: and he said, here I am he said. Then he said, haeik,
Speaker 1: now your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love,
Speaker 1: and go to the land of Mariah and offer him
Speaker 1: as a burnt offering on one of the mountains in
Speaker 1: which I shall tell you. All right. So, now this
Speaker 1: is just something very very interesting because God he hates
Speaker 1: human sacrifice. Okay, he hates human sacrifice. There's a you know,
Speaker 1: if you look in the Bible. Later on in the
Speaker 1: later chapters, we're going to go over these things. But
Speaker 1: Moloch was a god that they used to, you know,
Speaker 1: put a fire and they would take children and put
Speaker 1: them on the fire. There was a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: going to bail, human sacrifice offering to bail. Nowadays you
Speaker 1: see satanic richul abuse and and things like that happening
Speaker 1: behind the scenes where people are being sacrificed. We have
Speaker 1: even if you go to Bohemian Grove, they do mock sacrifices.
Speaker 1: They say, mock. Who knows if it is or not.
Speaker 1: But also if you go to some videos of Cern,
Speaker 1: I've seen the one video of Cern where they were
Speaker 1: in front of Cern next to that destroyer Shiba, and
Speaker 1: they were doing a mock sacrifice. So maybe it's real.
Speaker 1: I don't know, mock sacrifice, who knows, But it's things
Speaker 1: that happen now. But what we have to understand, do
Speaker 1: you guys understand this whole thing right here? I want
Speaker 1: to show you real quick before God hates human sacrifice.
Speaker 1: Let's look at Leviticus twenty verses one through five, so
Speaker 1: I can kind of show you guys that then the
Speaker 1: Lord spoke to Moses saying again, you shall say to
Speaker 1: the children of Israel, whoever of the children of Israel
Speaker 1: or the strangers who dwell in Israel. Who gives any
Speaker 1: of the descendants to Moloch, he shall surely be put
Speaker 1: to death. The people of the land shall stone him
Speaker 1: with stones. I will set my face against that man
Speaker 1: and will cut him off from his people, because he
Speaker 1: has given some of his descendants to Moloch to defile
Speaker 1: my sanctuary and profane my holy name. And if the
Speaker 1: people of the land should in any way hide their
Speaker 1: eyes from the man, then he gives of his descendants
Speaker 1: to Moloch and they do not kill him, then I
Speaker 1: will set my face against that man and against his family,
Speaker 1: and I will cut him off from his people, who
Speaker 1: prostitute themselves with him, and commit all the tree with Moloch. Okay,
Speaker 1: So we got to understand. And so this is a
Speaker 1: test for Abraham, a true test. Right, This is a
Speaker 1: test Abraham's faith. Did he need it? Okay? I was
Speaker 1: just trying to read my notes, Sarah, So listen, this
Speaker 1: is this is the chapter is called Abraham's Faith confirmed.
Speaker 1: That's what it says here in my Bible. Right. So
Speaker 1: got to understand, Like I said before, Abraham and Sarah
Speaker 1: don't have the Holy Bible to read to find out
Speaker 1: the character of God. They have a first hand account
Speaker 1: of God. And what happened is he promised that Isaac
Speaker 1: would have descendants, right, and it's going to be many
Speaker 1: as many as the stars. Right, So we got to
Speaker 1: understand this. Abraham a covenant or promise. Abraham already knows
Speaker 1: that God has promised him this, and Abraham already delivered
Speaker 1: Isaac already to him, telling him that Sarah would have
Speaker 1: Isaac at old age, and it already happened. So at
Speaker 1: this point Abraham's faith is strong and he acts a
Speaker 1: little different now, so much so that soon as God
Speaker 1: told him this, you need to take your son bring
Speaker 1: him up on the land of Mariah, which, let me
Speaker 1: tell you, guys, this very interesting. If you go into it,
Speaker 1: it'd be Jerusalem and the highest mountain would actually be
Speaker 1: go Gotha. So this is traditionally they say Mariah is
Speaker 1: where the temple was built, and the highest land is
Speaker 1: go Gotha. What's actually where Jesus was crucified, right, So
Speaker 1: I think this is very interesting. Traditionally, right, they say
Speaker 1: that that Mariah is where the is where the temple
Speaker 1: was right, So, and the highest mountain would be go Gotha,
Speaker 1: where Jesus was crucified. So now we have Abraham kind
Speaker 1: of being in the position of God the Father, and
Speaker 1: Isaac being in the position of Jesus Christ right here right,
Speaker 1: So we have Abraham, a human being, going to take
Speaker 1: his They say, he says, your only son, whom you love.
Speaker 1: Which I need you guys to understand that this is
Speaker 1: the first because we've already gone from Genesis one all
Speaker 1: the way to Genesis twenty two. We've already read through
Speaker 1: all that in the other episodes, and you don't ever
Speaker 1: see the word love. This is the first time the
Speaker 1: word love appears. And when something appears for the first time,
Speaker 1: then it's always important. Okay, this is God knows that Abraham,
Speaker 1: he he is old age, he had this child. He
Speaker 1: waited twenty five years for this promise the Russea, which
Speaker 1: whom he loved. This woman, she was beautiful even in
Speaker 1: her old age, so much that he was lying for,
Speaker 1: you know, to tell all these kings and pharaohs about
Speaker 1: her so that they don't take her. But listen, he
Speaker 1: loved his son. Same thing in the New Testament, where
Speaker 1: God the Father loves Jesus like he's gonna give his
Speaker 1: only be got well, Actually he loved the world, so
Speaker 1: he gave his only begotten son, for whoever believed him
Speaker 1: shall not perish, or should not perish, but have everlasting life. Wow,
Speaker 1: now we have this a typology happening in the Old
Speaker 1: Testament everythudevery the Old Testament. There's all these This is
Speaker 1: foundations set up for the New Testament. This is a
Speaker 1: foundation set up through Abraham to just this is prophetic
Speaker 1: stuff that's gonna happen here. That this is prophetic. You're
Speaker 1: gonna see as I go through this. So he tells
Speaker 1: him to take your son, Isaac, your only son, Isaac,
Speaker 1: whom you love, and go to the land of Mariah
Speaker 1: and offer him as a burnt offering on one of
Speaker 1: the mountains, of which I shall tell you. Choose that mountain,
Speaker 1: because that's where Jesus is going to be crucified. This
Speaker 1: is why he's gonna lead you to that mountain. So
Speaker 1: Abraham rose up early in the morning. No longer is
Speaker 1: he not listening to the Lord. But he has so
Speaker 1: much faith that morning he woke up and said, here
Speaker 1: we go, let's go. We're gonna go ahead and go
Speaker 1: up here. He has faith that God is gonna still
Speaker 1: bring these descendants to Isaac. So either he's gonna have
Speaker 1: to kill his son as this altar and God's gonna
Speaker 1: raise him from the dead, or God is gonna do
Speaker 1: some type of mirac this miracle or its or he's
Speaker 1: not gonna end up having to do this. He knows. So,
Speaker 1: so Abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled
Speaker 1: his donkey and took two of his young men with him,
Speaker 1: and Isaac his son, and he split the wood from
Speaker 1: the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place
Speaker 1: in which God had told him. Then on the third day,
Speaker 1: very interesting, the third day. There's a lot of third days.
Speaker 1: If you go through the Bible and kind of look
Speaker 1: at all the threes of the the third day, or
Speaker 1: Jesus rose again on the third day, you'll see, you know,
Speaker 1: you could do a Bible study and all the all
Speaker 1: this third day stuff. So on the third day, Abraham
Speaker 1: lifted his eyes and saw the place so far off,
Speaker 1: and Abraham said to his young men, stay here with
Speaker 1: the donkey the lad, and I will go yonder and worship,
Speaker 1: and we will come back to you. So he's telling
Speaker 1: his servant, stay here with the donkey the lad. Isaac
Speaker 1: and I will go yonder and worship, and we will
Speaker 1: come back to you. So he is declaring that he
Speaker 1: is going to come back with Isaac. He knows he's
Speaker 1: going to come back with Isaac. So Abraham took the
Speaker 1: wood and burnt offering and laid it on his son, Isaac.
Speaker 1: So he's got the wood, and Isaac is carrying that
Speaker 1: wood up the mountain. Who else carried the wood up
Speaker 1: the mountain? Who else carried it? Jesus he carried the cross, right,
Speaker 1: So this is a typology completely. Isaac, he's carrying the
Speaker 1: wood which he's going to go up that mountain. Jesus
Speaker 1: carried the cross up to that mountain. You knew he
Speaker 1: was going to die on sacrifice himself for our sins.
Speaker 1: So Abraham took the wood of the burno offering and
Speaker 1: laid it on Isaac's son, and he took the fire
Speaker 1: in his hand and a knife, and the two of
Speaker 1: them went together. If you look at that burst, if
Speaker 1: you look at that burst, when it says that two
Speaker 1: of them went together, in a little bit further down,
Speaker 1: it means that the two of them went in agreement.
Speaker 1: It says, but Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and
Speaker 1: said my father. And he said, here I am my son.
Speaker 1: Then he said, look the fire and the wood, but
Speaker 1: where is the lamb of a burnt offering? And Abraham
Speaker 1: and said, my son, God will provide for himself the
Speaker 1: lamb for a burnt offering. So the two of them
Speaker 1: went together or went in agreement. That's what's really interesting.
Speaker 1: They both went in agreement. And also he says, Abraham said,
Speaker 1: my son, God will provide for him instead of saying
Speaker 1: for himself. And then and then in the King James,
Speaker 1: let's read that really quick. And the King James, uh,
Speaker 1: let's see what it says my father and here I
Speaker 1: am my son. Behold the firing lamb and God, God said,
Speaker 1: God will provide. It says God will provide himself a
Speaker 1: lamb for a burnt offering. Right, doesn't say for himself.
Speaker 1: I think in the New King James, that's a bad translation.
Speaker 1: God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering.
Speaker 1: That's prophetic right there. That is prophecy that God will
Speaker 1: provide himself a lamb instead of not for himself, but
Speaker 1: will provide himself a lamb. So let's go back to
Speaker 1: the the New King James, and I read out of
Speaker 1: the New King James. Uh, and I will try to
Speaker 1: point these things out about the King James. The reason
Speaker 1: why I read out of the New King James. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna let you guys know. It's just it's it
Speaker 1: flows better for me because I'm reading the Bible to
Speaker 1: you guys, and it's it's when I read the New
Speaker 1: when I read the King James, I can read it
Speaker 1: and and you know, but uh, sometimes it's a little
Speaker 1: choppy for me. So I'll go back when I see
Speaker 1: certain things that aren't in the in the in the
Speaker 1: King James as best as I can. So let's go
Speaker 1: back to this. So Rose early. Okay, here I am son,
Speaker 1: and my son God will provide for himself the lamb
Speaker 1: for a burnt offering. So the two of them went together.
Speaker 1: Then they came to the place in which God had
Speaker 1: told them. And God and Abraham built an authar there
Speaker 1: and an altar there, and placed the wood in order.
Speaker 1: And he bound Isaac, his son, and laid him on
Speaker 1: the altar upon the wood. And Abraham stretched out his
Speaker 1: hand and took the knife to slay his son. So
Speaker 1: you can imagine him if you're watching on a Patreoni ski.
Speaker 1: You could see what I'm saying. You can imagine him
Speaker 1: just going up like this with the knife. And Abraham
Speaker 1: stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay
Speaker 1: his son. All right, so let's stop there real quick. Wow,
Speaker 1: Isaac the son that he loved, and it says his
Speaker 1: only son. That is not true because what about Ishmael.
Speaker 1: But God is only recognizing Isaac because of his promise
Speaker 1: through Abraham. Right, he was the son that was built,
Speaker 1: I mean, that was born through God. He's the promised one.
Speaker 1: He is the one that was that was that's recognized
Speaker 1: here as this only begotten son. You know, kind of
Speaker 1: the same type of language that God uses for Jesus.
Speaker 1: So interesting. You kind of see a lot of ways
Speaker 1: that that there's connections between, you know, typology of Christ
Speaker 1: and Isaac. Really interesting. And Abraham stretched out his hand
Speaker 1: took the knife to slay his son. But the Angel
Speaker 1: of the Lord steps in again, called to him from
Speaker 1: heaven and said Abraham, Abraham. So we said, here I am.
Speaker 1: He said, do not lay your hand on the lad
Speaker 1: or do anything to him. For now I know that
Speaker 1: you fear God, since you have not withheld your son
Speaker 1: your only son from me, all right? So what do
Speaker 1: we have here? We have the Angel of the Lord,
Speaker 1: capital a the Messenger of the Lord. Some people believe
Speaker 1: and even me, I do believe that the Angel of
Speaker 1: the Lord is Jesus in the Old Testament, a Christophany.
Speaker 1: Here we have the angel or the messenger of the Lord.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that Jesus is an angel. Don't take
Speaker 1: it that way. But that word angel doesn't mean angel
Speaker 1: like with the wings like he got in the background. Here.
Speaker 1: What that word means. It means messenger. Right, my whole
Speaker 1: screen is like you see that. It's like basically it's
Speaker 1: like too, like a fallen angel fighting against an angel.
Speaker 1: That's what this Josh Bunday Christian conspiracy podcast logo is.
Speaker 1: But this is so interesting. But the Angel of the
Speaker 1: Lord called to him from heaven, Abraham, Abraham, so listen
Speaker 1: once again, calling from heaven. But the Angel of the Lord,
Speaker 1: I believe it's a Christophany, is witnessing a man, not Jesus,
Speaker 1: who's you know, I believe is God dying on the cross,
Speaker 1: but a man about to do this the same thing
Speaker 1: that's gonna happen in the New Testament later on where
Speaker 1: God sends has only begotten son to die for our sins.
Speaker 1: This is so interesting that the Angel of the Lord
Speaker 1: shows up, the messenger of the Lord, the Word of
Speaker 1: the Lord called out to him for Abraham. Abraham, so
Speaker 1: he said, here I am, And he said, do not
Speaker 1: lay your hand on the lad or do anything to him.
Speaker 1: For now I know that you fear God, since you
Speaker 1: have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.
Speaker 1: So by this point Abraham's faith is built so much
Speaker 1: because God has, you know, fulfilled his promises with him.
Speaker 1: He knows that God is going to fulfill his promise.
Speaker 1: I believe that Abraham, by faith knew that even if
Speaker 1: he did kill his son Isaac right here, that God
Speaker 1: is going to raise him from the dead or somehow
Speaker 1: God's promise is going to be fulfilled. Now, what we
Speaker 1: have to understand is God. He must have known the
Speaker 1: voice of God. He must have known when he speaks
Speaker 1: to God. He must know that more than now. Now,
Speaker 1: I hear a lot of people try to say, I
Speaker 1: heard the voice of the Lord and glory God told
Speaker 1: me to do this, and God said I need to
Speaker 1: do this, and you know, I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: I've never had God speak to me like how he's
Speaker 1: speaking Abraham here. But man, he must have known the
Speaker 1: voice of the Lord, because you know, there is a devil,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? And think about it. What
Speaker 1: if the devil was telling him to do this? You
Speaker 1: know what I mean? He obviously has so much faith
Speaker 1: in God that he knew that God was the one
Speaker 1: testing him here, testing his faith? What kind of tests?
Speaker 1: What kind of faith? Uh? You know is uh? You
Speaker 1: know your faith can't be can't be trusted if it
Speaker 1: can't be tested. That's pretty much what I wanted to
Speaker 1: say there. And keep in mind that Abraham didn't have
Speaker 1: a Bible learn about God. He only trusted him from
Speaker 1: his experiences. Like I was saying earlier, he trusted God
Speaker 1: so much in this situation that I kind of want
Speaker 1: to tell you something real quick. Listen to James one, two,
Speaker 1: and then fourth through eight says, my brother encountered all
Speaker 1: the joy when you fall into various trials. But let
Speaker 1: patience have its perfect work. Let that you may be
Speaker 1: perfect and complete, lacking nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom,
Speaker 1: then let God. Then let him ask of God, who
Speaker 1: gives to us liberally and without reapproach and to be
Speaker 1: given him. But let him ask in faith with no doubting.
Speaker 1: For he who doubts as like a wave of the sea,
Speaker 1: driven and tossed in the wind. For not, for let
Speaker 1: not that man supposed that he will receive anything from
Speaker 1: the Lord. He is double minded, a man unstable in
Speaker 1: all ways. So I'm just talking about the faith aspect
Speaker 1: of asking God. And then I also wanted to read
Speaker 1: some more stuff to you guys about this scenario, and
Speaker 1: let's read. Let's read about faith really quick, the Hall
Speaker 1: of Faith, right, I kind of want to go like
Speaker 1: a It's like, instead of Hall of Fame, it's the
Speaker 1: Hall of Faith. And I just want to read real
Speaker 1: quick Hebrews eleven if you guys want to turn there,
Speaker 1: Hebrews eleven one through forty. I know it's a long
Speaker 1: bit to read, but I kind of want to go
Speaker 1: over this. It's very important we're save by grace through faith.
Speaker 1: All these people that I'm mentioning here have faith in.
Speaker 1: Abraham is mentioned here, and so is Isaac. Okay, Abraham
Speaker 1: and Isaac. This whole scenario is mentioned here. You'll catch
Speaker 1: it as I'm reading. But there's also a lot of
Speaker 1: other men of faith that are mentioned here. So I
Speaker 1: think it's interesting. So now faith is the substance of
Speaker 1: things hoped for the evidence of things not seen. For
Speaker 1: by it the elder obtained a good testimony. By faith,
Speaker 1: we understand that the worlds were framed by the word
Speaker 1: of God. Very interesting. God spoke and things existed, so
Speaker 1: that the things which are seen were not made of
Speaker 1: things which are visible. By faith, Able offered to God
Speaker 1: a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, to which he obtained
Speaker 1: witness that he was righteous God testifying of his gifts,
Speaker 1: and through it, he, being dead, still speaks by faith.
Speaker 1: Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death,
Speaker 1: and he was not found because of God had taken him.
Speaker 1: For before he was taken he had this testimony that
Speaker 1: he pleased God. But without faith, it is impossible to
Speaker 1: please him or please God. Right without faith, it is
Speaker 1: impossible to please God. For he who comes to God
Speaker 1: must believe that He is and that He is the
Speaker 1: rewarder of those who diligently seek him by faith. Noah,
Speaker 1: being divinely warned of things not seen, moved with godly fear,
Speaker 1: prepared an arc for saving his household by which he
Speaker 1: condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which
Speaker 1: he according to faith. By faith, Abraham, here we go
Speaker 1: obeyed when he was called to go to the place
Speaker 1: which he would receive as an inheritance, and he went out,
Speaker 1: not knowing where he was going. By faith, he dwelt
Speaker 1: in the land of promise, as in a foreign country,
Speaker 1: dwelling intents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs by whom
Speaker 1: of whom the same promise. For he waited for the
Speaker 1: city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Speaker 1: By faith. Sarah herself also received strength to conceive a seed,
Speaker 1: and she bore a child when she was age, because
Speaker 1: she judged him faithful, whom he had promised. Therefore, one
Speaker 1: man and him as good as dead, were born, as
Speaker 1: many of the stars and the sky, in multitude innumerable
Speaker 1: as the sand which is by the seashore. These all
Speaker 1: died in faith, not having received the promises, but having
Speaker 1: seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them,
Speaker 1: and confessed that there were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Speaker 1: For those who say things declare plainly that they seek
Speaker 1: a homeland, and truly, if they had called to mind
Speaker 1: the country from which they had come out, they would
Speaker 1: have had opportunity to return. But now they desire a
Speaker 1: better that is, a heavenly country, which is awesome. Therefore,
Speaker 1: God is not a shame to be called their god,
Speaker 1: for he has prepared a city for them by faith.
Speaker 1: Going back now to Abraham, by faith, Abraham, when he
Speaker 1: was tested, offered up Isaac. And he who had received
Speaker 1: the promise that offered up his only begotten son, whom
Speaker 1: it was said, and Isaac, your siege shall be called,
Speaker 1: concluded that God was able to raise him up even
Speaker 1: from the dead, from which the also received him in
Speaker 1: a figurative sense. By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau
Speaker 1: concerning things to come by faith. Jacob, when he was dying,
Speaker 1: bless each one of the sons, Joseph and worship leaning
Speaker 1: on the top of his staff by faith. Joseph, when
Speaker 1: he was dying, made mention of the departure of children
Speaker 1: of Israel, and gave instruction concerning his bones by faith. Moses,
Speaker 1: when he was born, was hidden three months in the
Speaker 1: parents by his parents because they saw he was a
Speaker 1: beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the King's command.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, I'm sorry about that command. By faith, Moses,
Speaker 1: when he became an age, refused to be called the
Speaker 1: son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with
Speaker 1: the people of God than to enjoy the passing's pleasure
Speaker 1: of sin, estimating the reapproach of Christ's greater riches and
Speaker 1: the treasure of Egypt, for he looked to the reward
Speaker 1: by faith, he forsook Egypt by fearing the wrath of
Speaker 1: the king, he endured as seeing him as invisible. By faith,
Speaker 1: he kept the passover and sprinkling of the blood, lest
Speaker 1: he who destroyed the firstborn should touch them. By faith,
Speaker 1: they passed through this red seeds as dry a land,
Speaker 1: whereas the Egyptians attempted to do so. Where he drowned
Speaker 1: by faith. The walls of Jericho fell down after they
Speaker 1: encircled for seven days. By faith, the harle that Rahab
Speaker 1: did not perish with those who did not receive, and
Speaker 1: she had received the spies with peace. And I shall say,
Speaker 1: for the time fail me to tell him of Gibeon
Speaker 1: and Barack, Samson and Jacob, also David and Samuel, and
Speaker 1: the prophets whom, through faith the duke Kingdom's work. Righteousness
Speaker 1: of taint promises stopped, the mouth of lions quenched, the
Speaker 1: violence of fire, escaped the edge of the out of
Speaker 1: the weakness, were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned
Speaker 1: to the flight of the armies and aliens. Who received
Speaker 1: army of the aliens. That's really interesting. Women received their
Speaker 1: dead raised to life again. Others were tortured, not according
Speaker 1: to deliverance that might obtain better as resurrections. Still others
Speaker 1: had trial, mocking scourgings. Yes, of the chains of imprisonment.
Speaker 1: They were stoned, and son and two were tempted and
Speaker 1: slain by the sword. So I just want to tell
Speaker 1: you guys that it says that being desolate, afflicted, tormented,
Speaker 1: of whom the world is worthy. They wandered in deserts
Speaker 1: and mountains and dens and caves and the earth. All
Speaker 1: these things that were obtained and good testamentmony through faith.
Speaker 1: Did not receive the promise God having provided something better
Speaker 1: for us, They should not be made perfect apart from us.
Speaker 1: I read all that stuff just so you guys know
Speaker 1: that this is all by faith and in this life
Speaker 1: we live now. Man Moses was our sorry Abraham was
Speaker 1: so faithful in obedience that he took his son that
Speaker 1: he loved up on the mountain. What I want to
Speaker 1: tell you, guys is I you know, I love my
Speaker 1: daughters so much. You know, once you have children, as
Speaker 1: you guys know that this story touches me in a
Speaker 1: different way now because before when I read this, when
Speaker 1: I didn't have children, I would be like, Okay, well
Speaker 1: he's taking his son up and well sounds good. Whatever
Speaker 1: it's it's it's like it's it's not as meaningful as
Speaker 1: when you have children. And you know, and if you
Speaker 1: don't have a child and you read this, just understand
Speaker 1: that you can you can imagine the love that he
Speaker 1: had for Isaac and for God to tell him to
Speaker 1: do this, He must have so much faith and obedience
Speaker 1: for him to take him up on this mountain. And
Speaker 1: I just think that we need to understand that these
Speaker 1: these types of scenarios are are are so important for
Speaker 1: us to understand the faith which was so important for
Speaker 1: us to have, but also to understand the obedience that
Speaker 1: Abraham had that he went that morning, he took his
Speaker 1: son up there, knowing that God's going to provide and
Speaker 1: did all this stuff obedience. You know, something that we
Speaker 1: as Christians need to pray for. I think it's so important,
Speaker 1: me and myself included, geez, I try to pray to
Speaker 1: God for obedience. It's it's hard for some people in
Speaker 1: this life that are Christians and to even abstain from
Speaker 1: you know, from drinking, or abstain from smoking cigarettes, or
Speaker 1: abstain from watching pornography, or abstain from doing drugs, or
Speaker 1: abstain from going to clubs and hooking up with a
Speaker 1: bunch of women, or abstain from sexual pleasures or or
Speaker 1: or abstain from you know, just anything that we have
Speaker 1: because because everything is so readily available, it's hard for
Speaker 1: us right now. But obedience is so important that we
Speaker 1: see this and this is the lesson that we should understand.
Speaker 1: First of all, we need to have a lesson in
Speaker 1: faith here that he is so faithful to God that
Speaker 1: he's going to bring his son, which he loves, up
Speaker 1: to that mountain knowing that God will provide. But also
Speaker 1: what we need to understand here is God is going
Speaker 1: to do this later with his son Jesus for us,
Speaker 1: and he's actually watching a human being have so much faith.
Speaker 1: I mean, it had to make God smile. I don't know,
Speaker 1: doesn't say that God smiled, But I just think that
Speaker 1: I think that Jesus seeing this, you know, because I
Speaker 1: believe that Jesus saw this as well, saying a human
Speaker 1: being acting out the same thing that's going to happen
Speaker 1: later on. It's just crazy, these typologies that happen in
Speaker 1: the Bible that we need to learn from. But one
Speaker 1: thing we need to learn from as Christians and in
Speaker 1: human beings, right here is the obedience of Abraham, the
Speaker 1: faith of Abraham. Right That's why I was reading that,
Speaker 1: all of faith, all these different stories in the Bible
Speaker 1: which we will get to, we will learn from. Okay,
Speaker 1: so let's continue reading Genesis twenty two. Then Abraham lifted
Speaker 1: his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a
Speaker 1: ram caught in the thicket by his horn. So Abraham
Speaker 1: went and took the ram and offered it up for
Speaker 1: a burnt offering instead of his son a ram er.
Speaker 1: I thought he was going to provide a lamb. He says,
Speaker 1: God himself will provide a lamb, But no, he provided
Speaker 1: a ram. Is Abraham a liar? No? When he said
Speaker 1: that statement, that is prophetic? Who is the lamb, God's
Speaker 1: only begotten son, Jesus Christ, that's the lamb. But he
Speaker 1: does provide here in this scenario a ram, which I
Speaker 1: thought was very interesting. I do believe that the reason
Speaker 1: why he provided the ram is because that prophetic that
Speaker 1: he's going to provide a lamb. It makes you think,
Speaker 1: what do you mean that he's gonna provide a lamb? Well,
Speaker 1: and Jesus is written in every page of the Old Testament, okay,
Speaker 1: and we see it right here. Who is that lamb?
Speaker 1: That is Jesus, right, that is Yrshu of the Missiak,
Speaker 1: the Messiah. That's who that lamb is. But he does
Speaker 1: give him a ram, right, and he's caught in the
Speaker 1: thicket by his horn. So Abraham went and took the ram,
Speaker 1: offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his
Speaker 1: son Isaac, who sweat off your brow right there then,
Speaker 1: and Abraham called the name of the place the Lord
Speaker 1: will provide. And it is said to this day in
Speaker 1: the mount of the Lord, it shall be provided. In
Speaker 1: the mount of the Lord, it shall be provided. The
Speaker 1: Lord shall provide. Yes, Amen, God does provide. What does
Speaker 1: he provide for us? Not only does he provide this ram,
Speaker 1: instead of Isaac. Thank God he provided that ram, because
Speaker 1: if he would have killed Isaac and Isaac would have
Speaker 1: not lived, then obviously the to say, will not you know,
Speaker 1: the Messiah will not be born. But no, God provided
Speaker 1: and God fulfilled his promise, and he provided that ram.
Speaker 1: And this is what he calls that mountain and the
Speaker 1: mount of the Lord. It shall be provided. And the
Speaker 1: Angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time
Speaker 1: out of heaven and said, by myself, I have sworn,
Speaker 1: says the Lord, because you have done this thing and
Speaker 1: have not withheld your son, your only son, Blessings that
Speaker 1: will bless you, and multiplying, I will multiply your descendants.
Speaker 1: Hold on, whoa, whoa, whoe. The Angel of the Lord
Speaker 1: called the Abraham a second time out of heaven and said,
Speaker 1: by myself, I have sworn, says the Lord, because you
Speaker 1: have done this thing and have not withheld your son,
Speaker 1: your only son, Blessings that will bless you, and multiplying,
Speaker 1: I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven
Speaker 1: and as the sandwich of the seashore. And your descendants
Speaker 1: shall possessed the gait of their enemies. Understand that that's
Speaker 1: really really interesting that the Angel of the Lord, or
Speaker 1: the Word or the messenger of the Lord called the
Speaker 1: Abraham a second time out of heaven. Where's heaven located,
Speaker 1: It's up. Where's hell located, It's down. He's calling out
Speaker 1: of heaven. And this is the Angel capital A. Not
Speaker 1: that Jesus is an angel, but Jesus is the messenger
Speaker 1: or Jesus is the Word of the Lord. By myself,
Speaker 1: I have sworn, says the Lord, because you have done
Speaker 1: this thing, you know, so understand that. And it's really
Speaker 1: interesting that he says, blessings, I will bless you multiplying.
Speaker 1: I will multiply. So the Angel the Lord saying, I
Speaker 1: will do this. Wow in your seed, all the nations
Speaker 1: of the earth shall be blessed because you have obeyed
Speaker 1: my voice. So Abraham returned to his young men, and
Speaker 1: they rose and went together to Berceeba, and Abraham dwelt
Speaker 1: in Bersheba. Genesis well twenty two to nineteen. Let's go
Speaker 1: to that really quick, Genesis twenty two. Genesis twenty two.
Speaker 1: I just kind of like to do this sometimes. Nineteen.
Speaker 1: What does Bersheba mean? I think it means covenant. Let's
Speaker 1: see what that means, oh, well, of the sevenfold Oah
Speaker 1: is what Bersheba means. So yeah, I think that's interesting,
Speaker 1: right there, anything else obeyed? My voice sown a second time.
Speaker 1: Let's see what does it say together? Excuse me, mountains
Speaker 1: the I want to just look at that word together
Speaker 1: real quick. Both of them went together, and just want
Speaker 1: to point out that I believe that means in agreement,
Speaker 1: union all together alike. Yeah, so it's in agreement. So
Speaker 1: here we go. Let's continue reading. We're in Genesis twenty two,
Speaker 1: verse twenty. That whole lesson right there was just amazing.
Speaker 1: Like I said, it's all about obedience and all about faith.
Speaker 1: So let's continue to read. The Family of Nahar is
Speaker 1: what the title is. Now. It came to pass after
Speaker 1: these things that it was told abrahams saying, indeed, Malak
Speaker 1: also was born children to your firstborn Nahara, who is
Speaker 1: his firstborn, Buzz, his brother Camille, the father of Aaron,
Speaker 1: chest Hazo, phil Dash, Jefflapp, Mathiel, and maule Begat Rebecca.
Speaker 1: These eight Malachaia boor to noahor Abraham's brother. His concubine
Speaker 1: whose name was Ramu, also bore Toba Kaham Tosh and
Speaker 1: macab So we're hold this because bethle begat Rebecca. This
Speaker 1: is just showing you Abraham's brother. So this is a
Speaker 1: just telling you about Rebecca, which is gonna come in
Speaker 1: a little bit here. Uh, just wanted to They wanted
Speaker 1: to just tell you that because later you know, it's
Speaker 1: gonna later on in the story. So I think that's
Speaker 1: really cool that they let us know that. So Sarah's
Speaker 1: death and burial were on Genesis twenty three. Okay, yes, Uh,
Speaker 1: this is Sarah whom Abraham loved. He loved this woman.
Speaker 1: This was his woman. He was with her for a
Speaker 1: long time, going through all this stuff, God's promises, sadaminga moura,
Speaker 1: them moving, them, going here, them him knowing his descendants
Speaker 1: are coming through. They've gone through all this with Hagar.
Speaker 1: But all this stuff they went through, we get to
Speaker 1: see all of it. This is obviously a very important
Speaker 1: woman in the Bible because we get to see it.
Speaker 1: Talks about her death and her burial and her funeral.
Speaker 1: We don't see that with the other women in the Bible.
Speaker 1: This is the only woman we get to see. We
Speaker 1: get to hear about her burial, which I think is
Speaker 1: She's an important figure in the Bible, an important vessel,
Speaker 1: I would say, used by God, right, used by God
Speaker 1: to show faith, to have the Abraham and Covenant, to
Speaker 1: have Isaac. So let's read here. It says Sarah lived
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty seven years. These were the years
Speaker 1: of the life of Sarah. So Sarah died in Kadrath Arabah,
Speaker 1: that is, hebron in the land of Canaan. And Abraham
Speaker 1: came to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.
Speaker 1: You know, I've never had a wife die before. One
Speaker 1: thing that they should appreciate back then is look how
Speaker 1: long they got to live. Look at everything they went through.
Speaker 1: But obviously Abraham loved this woman and he wept for her.
Speaker 1: He cried, And this is the land of Hayburn. So
Speaker 1: let's we're in Genesis twenty three. Let's see if I
Speaker 1: have any good notes on this whole thing right here.
Speaker 1: What I do, guys, I just want to be honest
Speaker 1: with you guys, and tell you, guys, my whole thing
Speaker 1: is I tried to every single chapter that I go through.
Speaker 1: I'm literally trying to find all these nuggets and whatever
Speaker 1: I could find for you guys, and I'm doing studies
Speaker 1: throughout the week. Now. Not only is this blessing you guys,
Speaker 1: I hope, I pray that is blessing you guys with
Speaker 1: information on the Bible and blessing you with faith, and
Speaker 1: blessing you with obedience, and blessing you with everything He
Speaker 1: needs to bless you with. God is blessing you, not me.
Speaker 1: I'm just a man. But it's also blessing me because
Speaker 1: I'm able to read through the Bible. Now. I've always
Speaker 1: said on my podcast, Josh Monday Christian Conspiracy Podcast, said
Speaker 1: I love the Bible, and I love to teach the Bible,
Speaker 1: and I love to go through the Bible. And you
Speaker 1: know what, it's something that this show is completely engulfing
Speaker 1: me into the Word. And I am so appreciative of
Speaker 1: God for giving me this opportunity. And also I'm appreciative
Speaker 1: of Jonathan Jacob and I mentioned Julia too because she's
Speaker 1: also in the program. But I'm very appreciative that God
Speaker 1: had these gentlemen ask me to do this because it's
Speaker 1: helping me to go verse by verse, word by word
Speaker 1: through the Bible. And I think it's so important for
Speaker 1: everybody that's listening, and important for myself as well, included
Speaker 1: for me to learn the Bible. God said, hey, you
Speaker 1: love the Bible. I'm just thinking this speculating that God
Speaker 1: was just like, you love the Bible so much, Well,
Speaker 1: then teach it verse by verse. God has a good
Speaker 1: sense of humor. So let's see here. So Sarah's one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty seven years old. She got to see
Speaker 1: Isaac reached the ripe age of thirty seven because she
Speaker 1: was ninety when she had him. Okay, what I want
Speaker 1: to tell you guys about this story is it was
Speaker 1: customary to bury someone that died in the land that
Speaker 1: they are from. They need to need to be buried
Speaker 1: next to their ancestors. It's customary, it's a tradition. But
Speaker 1: what's very interesting is he chose the barrier in Hebron, right,
Speaker 1: he chose to bury her there. Normally, what he would
Speaker 1: do is he would take her back to the land
Speaker 1: that they were in Mesopotamia, where they were from. But no, see,
Speaker 1: Abraham was promised this land for his descendants and he
Speaker 1: knows that. So now he's basically gonna bury her in Hebron,
Speaker 1: which is modern day Palestine. Right. Uh, Now, I don't
Speaker 1: know some people have these differences on Palestine and Israel,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of differences happening. I I personally
Speaker 1: have neighbors that are that are Palestinian, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I love Palestinian. I love Israel. I love everybody, black, white, anything,
Speaker 1: I love everybody. And uh, these neighbors are very good
Speaker 1: and they have this is the same hospitality that you
Speaker 1: see in the Bible. There they have. They're very hospitable
Speaker 1: and very nice people. But so he's burying them in Hebron,
Speaker 1: which is modern day Palestine slash Israel, depending on your beliefs.
Speaker 1: So he is making a claim on this land. Instead
Speaker 1: of him taking and burying her in Mesopotamia, where they're from,
Speaker 1: He's now burying him in Hebron, knowing that this land
Speaker 1: is going to be promised to him and that he
Speaker 1: is gonna he is basically staking claim on this land.
Speaker 1: We'll come back to those notes as we read. So
Speaker 1: then Abraham stood up from before his dead and spoke
Speaker 1: to the sons of Heath, saying, I am a foreigner
Speaker 1: and a visitor among you. Give me property property for
Speaker 1: burial place among you, that I may bury my dead
Speaker 1: out of my sight. Still weeping, you know, probably still
Speaker 1: feeling this emotion, but he wants to stay claim on
Speaker 1: this land, knowing that this will be this land is
Speaker 1: promised to him. Not only does descendants promised to him,
Speaker 1: but also this land is promised to him. Som And
Speaker 1: the sons of Heath answered Abraham, saying to him, hear us,
Speaker 1: my lord, you are a mighty prince among us bury
Speaker 1: your dead and the choices of your burial places. None
Speaker 1: of us will withhold from you his burial place that
Speaker 1: you may bury your dead. Now, what we got to
Speaker 1: understand about Abraham. He has plenty of oxen, plenty of camel,
Speaker 1: plenty of money. I think he is wealthy. You know,
Speaker 1: he has a lot of things going on. They're calling
Speaker 1: him a prince at this point, right, so I think
Speaker 1: that's really interesting, it says. Then Abraham stood up and
Speaker 1: bowed himself to the people of the land, the sons
Speaker 1: of Heath, the Heathites, that's what they are, and he
Speaker 1: spoke to them, saying, it is it is your wish
Speaker 1: that I bury my dead out of my sight, hear me,
Speaker 1: and meet with Ephron, the son of Zohar h for
Speaker 1: me that they give me the cave of Makaloth which
Speaker 1: he has, which is at the end of his field.
Speaker 1: Let him give it to me at the full price
Speaker 1: as a property for a burial place among you, full rip,
Speaker 1: you know, just let me, let me have it. He
Speaker 1: wants to bury U Sarah, and he wants these uh
Speaker 1: this So now Efron Dwoth among the sons of Heath,
Speaker 1: the Heathites, and Ephron the heath the Hittite. Sorry, not
Speaker 1: the Heathight the Hittite, answered Abraham, in the presence of
Speaker 1: the sons of Heath, all who entered at the gate
Speaker 1: of the city, saying, no, my lord, hear me, I
Speaker 1: give you this field and cave that is in it.
Speaker 1: I give it to you in the presence of the
Speaker 1: sons of my people. I give it to you bury
Speaker 1: your dead. So what people tend to read here sometimes
Speaker 1: is some people they read this and they think that
Speaker 1: the guy's just being a nice guy and wants to
Speaker 1: give it to them. But it's going to be paid.
Speaker 1: There's a price that's going to be paid. This is
Speaker 1: like a bargaining between these two. This is bargaining to
Speaker 1: take away some of the what they what they found
Speaker 1: out about the Hittites on some of the I guess
Speaker 1: they found some old laws from the hit Tights in
Speaker 1: a When you own land, there's some taxes that you're
Speaker 1: obligated to pay if you have it. So some people
Speaker 1: speculate that this gentleman was knew that and he was like, Hey,
Speaker 1: I want to get rid of some of my lands
Speaker 1: so I don't have to pay the taxes on it.
Speaker 1: That's what some people say about this verse. And you're
Speaker 1: going to see that he full rips Abraham right here,
Speaker 1: and he pays full price for it, like you said earlier.
Speaker 1: Then Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land,
Speaker 1: and he spoke to Ephron and the hearing of the
Speaker 1: people of the land, saying, if you will give it,
Speaker 1: please hear me. I will give you money for the field.
Speaker 1: Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there.
Speaker 1: And Efron answered saying to him, my word, listen to me.
Speaker 1: The land is worth four hundred shekels of silver. What
Speaker 1: is this between you and me? So bury your dead.
Speaker 1: And Abraham listened to the e Fhron, and Abraham wighed
Speaker 1: out the silver for Efron, which he had named, and
Speaker 1: the hearing of the sons of Heath four hundred shekels
Speaker 1: of silver and currency in the merchants. What I thought
Speaker 1: was interesting is they're doing this deal and the gates
Speaker 1: of the city they don't you know, the gates of
Speaker 1: the city is where they make deals. You know, they
Speaker 1: don't have a city council, they don't have a city hall.
Speaker 1: But this is where people were, you know, were married
Speaker 1: and deals were made and oaths were made. This is
Speaker 1: where judges were and you know, in the gates of
Speaker 1: the city where they would do this type of stuff.
Speaker 1: So that's what's happening here. Four hundred shekels of silver
Speaker 1: is quite hefty for this land. But like I said,
Speaker 1: Abraham is wealthy man. You know, he's wealthy, so he
Speaker 1: wants this land. He wants to bury you know, Sarah,
Speaker 1: and he chooses to pay that four hundred shekels of silver. Now,
Speaker 1: what people were buried here in this grave site that
Speaker 1: Abraham is a purchasing right here. Well, according to Jewish tradition,
Speaker 1: it is the site of the graves of Abraham, of Sarah,
Speaker 1: of Isaac, Rebecca, Jacob, and Leah. These graves have been
Speaker 1: buried under the church built in Beslatine period in Israel,
Speaker 1: which is now used as a mosque. I think that's interesting.
Speaker 1: But Rachel was buried in Bethlehem, but Rebecca, Isaac's wife
Speaker 1: was was was also buried in there. That's according to
Speaker 1: Jewish tradition. That and this is actually a double cave,
Speaker 1: so there's actually, you know, two different spots here in
Speaker 1: this cave. And according to a Jewish tradition, that's who
Speaker 1: was buried there. Okay, Sarah, Abraham, Rebecca, all these different
Speaker 1: people in the Bible that we that we read in
Speaker 1: Abraham's family. So I think this is very interesting. He
Speaker 1: does pay that four hundred shekels of silver for this,
Speaker 1: which is very hefty for this, but he just pays it.
Speaker 1: And obviously he's taken claim to this land, and that's
Speaker 1: very interesting. So the field of Ephron, which was in
Speaker 1: Meltek was before memory, the field and the cave which
Speaker 1: was in it, and all the trees that were in
Speaker 1: the field, which were within the surrounding borders are deeded
Speaker 1: to Abraham as possession in the presence of the sons
Speaker 1: of Heath before all who went in the gate of
Speaker 1: his city. And after this, Abraham buried Sarah, his wife
Speaker 1: in the cave of the field. Mcaplef before memory. That is,
Speaker 1: hebron in the land of Canaan. So the field and
Speaker 1: the cave that is in it were deeded to Abraham
Speaker 1: by the sons of Heath at the property of a
Speaker 1: burial place. So he buries his wife Sarah, which we've
Speaker 1: actually read through here, and you guys understand the whole
Speaker 1: if you guys go from you know, if you guys
Speaker 1: go back a couple episodes, you see everything that happened
Speaker 1: between Abraham and Sarah and everything that went along, you know,
Speaker 1: with Lot and the Sodomigamoora and all these different scenarios
Speaker 1: are happening through Abraham, and you guys will learn all
Speaker 1: this cool stuff that we went over. So if you
Speaker 1: guys are just tuning in for the first time in
Speaker 1: episode seven, go back to episode one and listen to
Speaker 1: episode one, two, three, four, or five six. What you're
Speaker 1: gonna get is a bunch of meat and a bunch
Speaker 1: of interesting stuff, and it's going to build up to
Speaker 1: get into this point of Genesis twenty three where Sarah
Speaker 1: death and burial and uh. People need to understand that
Speaker 1: that uh, that Abraham he loved his wife. They were
Speaker 1: trying to bore children together and they lived, and they
Speaker 1: saved a lot, and they you know, got kidnapped, and
Speaker 1: they went through all these things together Ishmael and Hagar.
Speaker 1: All this stuff happened, and they went through so much stuff,
Speaker 1: and as they were going and so much faith was built.
Speaker 1: And and you see that he was weeping for his wife.
Speaker 1: We're weeping for his wife. And now she passed. So
Speaker 1: now we're gonna continue here Genesis twenty four. A bride
Speaker 1: for Isaac. Right, So this is this is very important
Speaker 1: because Isaac needs to have children, right, We need these
Speaker 1: descendants that become many. So let's let's check this out.
Speaker 1: And this is some very awesome stuff too, of faith
Speaker 1: and how to handle certain things, and how to choose
Speaker 1: a wife. It would have been cool if before I
Speaker 1: chose my wife, I did the same kind of test
Speaker 1: to see the servitude of of her beforehand. You'll see
Speaker 1: some really cool stuff here here in Genesis twenty four.
Speaker 1: So let's see if I have anything else in my
Speaker 1: notes for Genesis twenty three. This is Genesis twenty three,
Speaker 1: four hundred shekels. We already went over that buried deals
Speaker 1: were made in the city. Yeah, you don't really need
Speaker 1: to know anything else. I don't have anything else in
Speaker 1: my notes about chapter twenty three. We're gonna go to
Speaker 1: chapter twenty four now and we'll continue reading. Let's do that.
Speaker 1: So a bride for Isaac Chapter twenty four. First one,
Speaker 1: Now Abraham was old, well advanced in age, and the
Speaker 1: Lord had blessed Abraham and all things. So Abraham said
Speaker 1: to the oldest servant of his house, who ruled over
Speaker 1: all he had, Please put your hand under my thigh,
Speaker 1: and I will make you swear by the Lord, the
Speaker 1: God of Heaven and the God of the Earth, that
Speaker 1: you will not take a wife, that you will not
Speaker 1: take a wife for my son from the daughters of
Speaker 1: the Canaanites. So he did not want Isaac to marry
Speaker 1: any of the Canaanites. Nope, he wants him to go
Speaker 1: back to his old country Mesopotamia, and he wants to
Speaker 1: get a wife from his tribe. Right, he wants to
Speaker 1: marry his tribe. You know, if you look at the Canaanites,
Speaker 1: a lot of them were giants, right, Look at all
Speaker 1: the giants that dwelt in the land of Canaanites. Look
Speaker 1: at the DNA. Right. We went over sa Toomingamora. Maybe
Speaker 1: the second incursion. There is some DNA that is kind
Speaker 1: of up here. Again, there's Raphaeim in the land. There's giants,
Speaker 1: there's Amorites, which are giants. The king of Bashan, there's
Speaker 1: all these different He doesn't want that Canaanite DNA. He
Speaker 1: wants to go back to his land. He knows that
Speaker 1: that is clear of giants. That's what I believe, you know.
Speaker 1: So what does he do? He tells him swear. So
Speaker 1: put your hand under my thigh and I will make
Speaker 1: you swear by the Lord. Yeah. So if you kind
Speaker 1: of go into if you kind of go into that
Speaker 1: whole scenario. The ancient form of oath swearing described in
Speaker 1: verses two through four and nine is explained by Charles F. Feiffer.
Speaker 1: According to the Bible, Biblical idiom children are said to
Speaker 1: issue from the thigh or loins of their father, placing
Speaker 1: the hand under the thigh, signifying that in the event
Speaker 1: that an oath we violated, the children who had issued
Speaker 1: or might issue from that thigh would avenge the act
Speaker 1: of disloyalty. This has been called a swearing biposterity and
Speaker 1: is particularly application here because the servant's mission is to
Speaker 1: ensure a posterity for Abraham through Isaac. Okay, so we
Speaker 1: got to understand that, all right, So this is this
Speaker 1: is this is such a cool story. But that's that
Speaker 1: whole thing, you know, swearing by the I just wanted
Speaker 1: to kind of go over that because you might read
Speaker 1: that and be like, what what is that? That's that's
Speaker 1: not something that we do. But yeah, obviously there's different
Speaker 1: things in different cultures that they do compared to us,
Speaker 1: that that's going to be different. But yeah, I just
Speaker 1: want to go over that. So he obviously didn't want
Speaker 1: that Canaanite bloodline. Man, that's really important there. And as
Speaker 1: we go through the Bible, you're going to notice that
Speaker 1: there's certain things that you're going to pick up that
Speaker 1: that you wouldn't pick up going to a normal church.
Speaker 1: That's why I think this is so important because a
Speaker 1: lot of these churches are not teaching about giants, about
Speaker 1: the Raphi aim, about the nepheline, about fallen angels having
Speaker 1: sex with women and creating boring giants, the heroes of old,
Speaker 1: the men of renown, and they're not teaching that type
Speaker 1: of stuff. They're teaching the Sethite Canaanite theory, where you
Speaker 1: know these people mingled and had giants. So how did
Speaker 1: that happen? Well, fallen angels had sex with women, had
Speaker 1: the DNA. Uh you know, the DNA get mixed up there.
Speaker 1: And I think that we need Jesus to come through
Speaker 1: the line of Isaac right through David, King David. So
Speaker 1: we need this DNA to stay pure, just like Uh,
Speaker 1: Noah's DNA was pure, it was perfect in his generations.
Speaker 1: The DNA was clear of raphaem nepheline blood line. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a lot. That's why the blood is is so
Speaker 1: important throughout this Old Testament. And and I you know,
Speaker 1: stuffy you pick up on when you know certain things
Speaker 1: about the Bible. That's so important. But you shall go
Speaker 1: to the country to my family and take a wife
Speaker 1: from my son Isaac. And Thists the servant said to him,
Speaker 1: perhaps this woman will not be willing to follow me
Speaker 1: to this land. Must I take your son back to
Speaker 1: the land from which I came, which you came. But
Speaker 1: Abraham said to him, beware that you do not take
Speaker 1: my son back there. The Lord God of Heaven, who
Speaker 1: took me from my father's house, from the land of
Speaker 1: my family, and who spoke to me and swore to me,
Speaker 1: saying to your descendants, I give this land. He will
Speaker 1: send his angel before you, and you shall take a
Speaker 1: wife from my son from there. If the woman is
Speaker 1: not willing to follow you, then you will be released
Speaker 1: from this oath. And not only do not take my
Speaker 1: son back there. So the servant put his hand under
Speaker 1: the thigh of Abraham, his master, and swore to him
Speaker 1: concerning this matter. Then the servant took ten of his
Speaker 1: master's camels and departed, for all his master's goods were
Speaker 1: in his land. And he arose and went to Mesopotamia,
Speaker 1: the city of Nahar. Okay, so going back to Abraham's
Speaker 1: old stomping grounds, going back to his old tribe. So
Speaker 1: understand that. And he's taking ten camels with him. Remember that.
Speaker 1: Remember that part right there, because I think it's a
Speaker 1: really interesting And he made his camels kneel down outside
Speaker 1: the city by a well of water at evening time,
Speaker 1: the time when the woman go out to draw water.
Speaker 1: Then said, oh, Lord God, my master of Abraham, please
Speaker 1: give me success this day and show kindness to my
Speaker 1: master Abraham. Behold here I stand by the well of water,
Speaker 1: and the daughters of the men of the city are
Speaker 1: coming out to draw water. Okay, so listen. He gets
Speaker 1: to the land he made a covenant or like a
Speaker 1: promise to Abraham, put his hand under his thigh, and
Speaker 1: now he's here to deliver. What does he do? Soon
Speaker 1: as he gets there, he drops down and prays to God,
Speaker 1: and the Lord God, give me success this day and
Speaker 1: show kindness to my master Abraham. Behold, I stand by
Speaker 1: the well of water, and the daughters of the men
Speaker 1: of the city are now coming out to draw water.
Speaker 1: So soon as he gets there, he drops down and
Speaker 1: he prays, you know, like please, he's relying on God.
Speaker 1: What you're supposed to do, like pray always. Now let
Speaker 1: it be there as the young woman to whom I say,
Speaker 1: please let down your picture that I may drink, And
Speaker 1: she says drink, and I will also give your camels
Speaker 1: a drink. Okay. So so he sees this young woman,
Speaker 1: he says, please let down your picture that I may drink.
Speaker 1: She says drink, and I will also give you your
Speaker 1: camel's a drink. Let her be the one you have
Speaker 1: a pointed for your servant, Isaac. And by this I
Speaker 1: will let that you have shown kindness to my master.
Speaker 1: So so he asked for a drink, which is in
Speaker 1: the in the Hebrew actually means like a sip. And
Speaker 1: she gives him as much as he wants to drink,
Speaker 1: and also says that I will give your camels a drink.
Speaker 1: And camels they could, they could drink like twenty gallons
Speaker 1: of water. So this is no small task. So this woman,
Speaker 1: beautifully hospitality servant, she's she's being I'm going to servant saying, oh,
Speaker 1: you want a little drink, you want to sip? No, no, no, no, here,
Speaker 1: here's here's a here's some gallons of water, you know.
Speaker 1: And also he she says that she is going to
Speaker 1: serve his camels hospitality servant. But this is a test.
Speaker 1: This is a test right here by Abraham's servant. And
Speaker 1: it happened before he had finished speaking, that behold Rebecca,
Speaker 1: who was born of Bethel, son of Milac, the wife
Speaker 1: of Nahor, Abraham's brother, came out with the picture on
Speaker 1: her shoulder. Now the young woman was very beautiful, to behold,
Speaker 1: a virgin. No man had known her. And she went
Speaker 1: down to the well, filled her pitcher and came up,
Speaker 1: and the servant ran to meet her and said, please,
Speaker 1: let me have a little water from your pitcher. Excuse me,
Speaker 1: A little water in Hebrew means a sip of water,
Speaker 1: like I said, so she said, drink, my lord. Then
Speaker 1: she quickly let her pitcher down to her hand and
Speaker 1: gave him a drink. And she when she had finished
Speaker 1: giving him a drink, she said, I will also draw
Speaker 1: the water for your camels until they have finished drinking.
Speaker 1: Think about this, This is no small task. Twenty gallons
Speaker 1: of water. She's going to the well. She's getting all
Speaker 1: this this water for her his camels as well. He
Speaker 1: knows that this is a catch right here. A beautiful woman.
Speaker 1: It says she was a no one has known her,
Speaker 1: so she's a virgin, and she is beautiful, just like
Speaker 1: Sarah was beautiful. Isaac is going to be with this
Speaker 1: beautiful girl as well. And this is the one right here,
Speaker 1: Rebecca so beautiful. Then she quickly emptied her pitcher into
Speaker 1: the trough and ran back to the well to draw
Speaker 1: water and drew for all his camels. This is a
Speaker 1: special moment right here. She's working, right, She's like, all right,
Speaker 1: I got this, and it's almost like you know something
Speaker 1: is going to happen, you know, And it's really awesome
Speaker 1: what happens here? And the man wondered at her, remained
Speaker 1: silent as to know whether the Lord had made his
Speaker 1: journey prosperous or not. So it was when the camels
Speaker 1: had finished drinking that the man took a golden nose
Speaker 1: ring weighing half a shekel, and two bracelets for her
Speaker 1: wrists weighing ten shekels of gold, and said, whose daughter
Speaker 1: are you? Tell me? Please? Is their room in your
Speaker 1: father's house for us to lodge? She said to him,
Speaker 1: I am the daughter of Bethel, Meloch's son, whom she
Speaker 1: bore to Nohrror. Moreover, she said to him, we have
Speaker 1: both straw and feed enough to room to lodge. So
Speaker 1: they're giving straw food to the camels, they're giving water
Speaker 1: to the camels. The hospitality is great here, just like
Speaker 1: and he knows that something's going on. So then the
Speaker 1: man bowed down to his head and worshiped the Lord,
Speaker 1: basically just saying, thank you God, you know, praise God,
Speaker 1: you know you made my journey not a waste of time.
Speaker 1: I'm going to go back to my master, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get Isaac. This beautiful woman, Rebecca, And what a blessing.
Speaker 1: And he's also says here that he said, blessed be
Speaker 1: the Lord God of my master Abraham, for he has
Speaker 1: not forsaken his mercy and his truth toward my master.
Speaker 1: As for me being on my way, the Lord led
Speaker 1: me me to the house of my master's brethren. So
Speaker 1: the young woman ran and told her mother's household these things. Now,
Speaker 1: Rebecca had a brother whose name was Lebon, and Lebon
Speaker 1: ran out to the man by the well. So it
Speaker 1: came to pass, when he saw the nose ring and
Speaker 1: the bracelets on his sister's wrists, that he had heard
Speaker 1: the words of his sister Rebecca, saying, thus the man
Speaker 1: spoke to me that he went to the man, and
Speaker 1: there he stood by the campbell's at the well. So
Speaker 1: you'll hear some more stuff about Lebon later. He's kind
Speaker 1: of a little sisty character. Leban is his name. You're
Speaker 1: gonna he's kind of a shisty character. You'll see. Basically,
Speaker 1: he sees the gold and all this, he runs out
Speaker 1: there to talk to the guy, like, hey, I want
Speaker 1: to get involved in this too, And he said, come in, Oh, blessed,
Speaker 1: So Lebon said to it, and he said, come in oh,
Speaker 1: blessed of the Lord, Why do you stand outside? For
Speaker 1: I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.
Speaker 1: Then the man came to the house, and he unloaded
Speaker 1: the camels, and provided straw and feed for the animals,
Speaker 1: and water to wash his feet and the feet of
Speaker 1: the men who were with him. Food was set before
Speaker 1: him to eat, but he said, I will not eat
Speaker 1: until I have told about my errand and he said,
Speaker 1: speak on. And so he said, I am Abraham's servant.
Speaker 1: The Lord has blessed my master greatly, and he has
Speaker 1: become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver
Speaker 1: and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys.
Speaker 1: And Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my master,
Speaker 1: whom she was old, and to him he was given,
Speaker 1: has given all that he has. Now my master made
Speaker 1: me swear, saying, you shall not take a wife. You
Speaker 1: shall not take a wife for my son from the
Speaker 1: daughters of Canaanites, in whose land I dwell. But you
Speaker 1: shall go to my father's house and to my family
Speaker 1: and take a wife from my son. And I said
Speaker 1: to my master, perhaps the woman will not follow me.
Speaker 1: But he's said to me the Lord before whom I walk,
Speaker 1: I will send his angel with you and prosper your way.
Speaker 1: And you shall take a wife for my son, for
Speaker 1: my family who my father's house. You will clear from
Speaker 1: the oath when you arrive among my family, for if
Speaker 1: they will not give her to you, then you will
Speaker 1: be released from my oath. And this day I came
Speaker 1: to the well and said, Lord, O, Lord, God of
Speaker 1: my master Abraham, you will now prosper in a way
Speaker 1: which I go. Behold, I stand at the well of water.
Speaker 1: And it came to pass that when the Virgin comes
Speaker 1: to the draw water, I say to her, please give
Speaker 1: me a drink of a little drink of water. Picture drink.
Speaker 1: And she said to me drink, and I will draw
Speaker 1: from the camels. Also I let the woman whom the
Speaker 1: Lord appointed for my master's son. But before I had
Speaker 1: finished speaking by heart, there was Rebecca coming out from
Speaker 1: her picture on her shoulder, and she went down to
Speaker 1: the well and drew water. And I said to her,
Speaker 1: please let me drink. And she made haste and let
Speaker 1: her picture down from her shoulder and said, drink, and
Speaker 1: I will give your camels drink. Also. So I drank,
Speaker 1: and she gave the camels a drink. Also. Then I
Speaker 1: asked her whose daughter are you, and she said, the
Speaker 1: daughter of Bethel, no horse son, whom Miloche bore to him.
Speaker 1: So I put the nose ring on her nose, and
Speaker 1: the bracelets on her wrist. And I bowed my head
Speaker 1: and worshiped the Lord, and blessed the Lord of my
Speaker 1: master Abraham, who had led me in the way of
Speaker 1: truth to take the daughter of my master's brother from
Speaker 1: his son. Now, if you will deal kindly and truly
Speaker 1: with my master, tell me, and if not, tell me
Speaker 1: that I may turn to the right hand or to
Speaker 1: the left. Then Lebon and Bethel answered and said, the
Speaker 1: thing comes from the Lord. The thing comes from the Lord.
Speaker 1: We cannot speak to you either bad or good. Here
Speaker 1: is Rebecca, before you take her and go and let
Speaker 1: her be your master's son's wife. As the Lord has
Speaker 1: spoken so very interesting stuff. Here we have Rebecca, a
Speaker 1: beautiful woman, virgin, gonna go with him. You know. So
Speaker 1: this this promise is gonna be fulfilled, and they're gonna
Speaker 1: have children, and you're gonna see the everything in the
Speaker 1: scenario being built right here, and everything that happens. We're
Speaker 1: going to continue through the Bible, and you're gonna see.
Speaker 1: But and it came to pass when Abraham's servant heard
Speaker 1: their words, that he had worshiped the Lord, bowing himself
Speaker 1: to the earth. Then the servant brought out jewelry of silver,
Speaker 1: jewelry of gold, and clothing and gave them to Rebecca
Speaker 1: he was. He also gave precious things to her brother
Speaker 1: and to her mother. And he and the men who
Speaker 1: were with him ate and drank and stayed all night.
Speaker 1: And they arose in the morning, and he said, send
Speaker 1: me away to my master. But her brother and her
Speaker 1: mother said, let the young woman stay here with us
Speaker 1: a few days, and less ten that she may go. So,
Speaker 1: you know, the mother is like, hey, you're about to
Speaker 1: take my daughter. Let me spend you know, let me
Speaker 1: spend some time with her before she goes. Looks like
Speaker 1: ten days. She probably knew that back then. It's not
Speaker 1: like where you have a car where you're gonna drive
Speaker 1: to your mama's house and drive to your grandma's house
Speaker 1: and drive across country and it's no problem. This is different.
Speaker 1: She probably knew that she wouldn't see her daughter for
Speaker 1: a long time. You know, this is actually a four
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty mile trip that he took from Hebron
Speaker 1: to Mesopotamia. This is no easy task. This is a
Speaker 1: far trip. This takes a long time. This is they
Speaker 1: are far away. So this woman is like, hey, sure
Speaker 1: she knows the journey. I'm sure that she's worried about
Speaker 1: her daughter, and she knows she she wants to spend
Speaker 1: some time with her, you know, before she goes. And
Speaker 1: he said to them, do not hinder me, since the
Speaker 1: Lord has prospered my way. Send me away that I
Speaker 1: may go to my master. And so they said, we
Speaker 1: will call the young woman and ask her personally. And
Speaker 1: they called Rebecca and said will you go with this man?
Speaker 1: And she said I will go. So they went away, Rebecca,
Speaker 1: their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant and his men.
Speaker 1: And they blessed Rebecca and said to her, old sister,
Speaker 1: may you become the mother of thousands of ten thousands,
Speaker 1: and may your descendants possessed the gates of those who
Speaker 1: hate them. Then Rebecca her maids arose, and they rode
Speaker 1: on their camels and followed the man. So the servant
Speaker 1: took Rebecca and departed. Now Isaac came from the way
Speaker 1: of Bear Liroi, and he dwelt in the south. And
Speaker 1: Isaac went out to the mediate in the field in
Speaker 1: the evening, and he lifted his eyes and looked, and
Speaker 1: there the camels were coming. Yes, So he's like, all right,
Speaker 1: the ten camels are coming. I'm waiting for my bride.
Speaker 1: I'm waiting for my bride, my beautiful bride that comes
Speaker 1: by faith. And the Lord provided once again. The Lord
Speaker 1: provided once again, and you know he provided this beautiful woman.
Speaker 1: Rebecca lifted her eyes and when she saw Isaac, she
Speaker 1: dismounted from her camel. You can imagine this beautiful scene.
Speaker 1: Or she's on the camel. She's looking up and she
Speaker 1: sees Isaac and she's like, whoa, he's hot too. I
Speaker 1: don't know what she said, but she's probably like, all right,
Speaker 1: I want to hook up with this guy. But whatever.
Speaker 1: But you know, she knows they're gonna get married. But
Speaker 1: you see this beautiful scene and he sees the beauty
Speaker 1: of Rebecca and he's probably like, all right, man, this
Speaker 1: is gonna be awesome and amazing. And the Lord provided
Speaker 1: me with this beautiful wife, you know. And she seems
Speaker 1: like she's also feeling the same way, says for she
Speaker 1: had said to the servant, who is this man walking
Speaker 1: in the field to meetas the servant said, it is
Speaker 1: my master. So she took a veil and covered herself.
Speaker 1: It's probably a tradition to cover herself. And she's probably like, okay,
Speaker 1: you know, she's getting ready for this beautiful moment. And
Speaker 1: this servant told Isaac all the things that he had done,
Speaker 1: traveled four hundred and fifty miles. This woman as well,
Speaker 1: traveled four hundred and fifty miles with them coming back
Speaker 1: with these you know, probably this is probably a long trip.
Speaker 1: She's probably like just mount. She's dismounting her camel, looking
Speaker 1: at Isaac, like, who's this man? This is the man.
Speaker 1: This is when you're Genna, marry Rebecca. She covered herself
Speaker 1: and she's ready to do this, you know, so very
Speaker 1: powerful stuff here, yeah, very powerful man. And faith cometh
Speaker 1: by hearing the word of God. This is how you
Speaker 1: build faith hearing the word of God. This is why
Speaker 1: I read the Bible directly from the Bible and then
Speaker 1: try to let you guys know. And this is a
Speaker 1: beautiful scene here. And then Isaac brought her into his
Speaker 1: mother's Okay, it says, and the servant told Isaac all
Speaker 1: the things that he had done. So the servant Abimelech
Speaker 1: is telling him, hey, I traveled four hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: miles I you know, I prayed when I got there,
Speaker 1: and this beautiful woman came and I asked for a
Speaker 1: little drink. She gave me as much water as I wanted.
Speaker 1: She ended up feeding giving water to all the camels.
Speaker 1: And her hospitality was beautiful. She is a servant. She
Speaker 1: did this not even knowing who I am. Just a
Speaker 1: nice woman with the beautiful heart, you know, and and
Speaker 1: and just took care of me, the hospitality, and then
Speaker 1: she took me to you know, just told her everything
Speaker 1: that had happened, you know. And I'm sure Isaac was like, okay, well,
Speaker 1: hey she's beautiful, she's got hospitality, she has a beautiful heart.
Speaker 1: And then Isaac brought her into this mother Sarah's tent,
Speaker 1: and he took Rebecca and he became and she became
Speaker 1: his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted
Speaker 1: by his mother's death. So now Isaac obviously was still
Speaker 1: mourning for his mother's death. Abraham said, hey, I need
Speaker 1: you to go and get this wife. He goes out
Speaker 1: there and gets it. Everything happens, And do they go
Speaker 1: and get together and go to a church and and
Speaker 1: have a pastor marry them or a priest to marry them.
Speaker 1: That is that the way this marriage went down. No,
Speaker 1: it doesn't. The marriage becomes a fish when he took
Speaker 1: Rebecca into that tent and he loved her, or he
Speaker 1: made love to her, and that's that's what that that's
Speaker 1: what that is. So marriage is not about It's not
Speaker 1: biblical for you to take a man and wife and
Speaker 1: go get a marriage certificate. That's not what marriage is about.
Speaker 1: Marriage is when you go and you become one with somebody,
Speaker 1: when you make love to them, and that's kind of
Speaker 1: what you see here. But going and making a covenant
Speaker 1: with God and getting married in a church or getting
Speaker 1: married and getting marriage certificate, that's not biblical, but it
Speaker 1: is something we do. We make a covenant with God
Speaker 1: till death to his part. I think it is beautiful
Speaker 1: and I think it's important. But just to know biblically,
Speaker 1: it's not about that they go into the tent and
Speaker 1: he took Rebecca. He took her, which means he made
Speaker 1: love to her and she became his wife. And so
Speaker 1: it's all about when you go. You know, people think
Speaker 1: that sex is so let me just go have sex
Speaker 1: with this person, this person, this person. But biblically it's
Speaker 1: about going. When you do that, you are now married.
Speaker 1: So how many people are you married to biblically? Me? Man,
Speaker 1: I before I got saved and everything, you know, before
Speaker 1: I had my wife. Ah man uh yeah, very interesting man.
Speaker 1: That that that that's that's what it's about there. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna go to uh, we're gonna go to Genesis
Speaker 1: twenty five and just continue reading here. So Abraham took
Speaker 1: a wife. Her name is Katura, and she bore him
Speaker 1: zim zim Ran joke Shan Medan medidion ishbak and Shua
Speaker 1: joke shock butt Shiba d Dan. The sons of d
Speaker 1: Dan were Assyrium, Lysium, uh Lumium, and the sons of
Speaker 1: Midian were a Farr, fr haynok abhivian a Lota, and
Speaker 1: those were the children of Katara. So Abraham remarries and
Speaker 1: took another wife, Katara, and bore more children. Remember that
Speaker 1: his descendants would be many. Wow. So he actually has Katara,
Speaker 1: a new wife, and they bore all these children. Some
Speaker 1: of these children are actually going to be Saudi Arabia,
Speaker 1: and different nations are through these children, and I think
Speaker 1: that it's very important. A lot of people don't continue
Speaker 1: reading through the Book of Genesis, or maybe they only
Speaker 1: know about these stories that pastors go over, but look
Speaker 1: at all this right here. As you go through the Bible,
Speaker 1: you find out that Abraham remarried, got with this lady,
Speaker 1: and other nations came through them, and Abraham gave all
Speaker 1: that he had to Isaac. But Abraham gave gifts to
Speaker 1: the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had. One thing
Speaker 1: that people they miss interpret concubines is being horrors, but
Speaker 1: really it's not. It's like wives, you know, like like
Speaker 1: they'd be like second wives. You might have a main
Speaker 1: wife like he had Sarah, and then Hagar would be
Speaker 1: like a concubine, which is like your second wife, you know.
Speaker 1: But they're not like horrors. That's what people think, Well,
Speaker 1: I got a thousand horrors. No, they're like a thousand wives.
Speaker 1: Uh huh is what it means. Which Abraham had, and
Speaker 1: while he was still living, he sent them eastward, away
Speaker 1: from Isaac and his son to the country of the East.
Speaker 1: So let's read this real quick. Abraham's death and burial.
Speaker 1: So we have Abraham's death and burial being recorded here.
Speaker 1: So this is the sum of the years of Abraham's life,
Speaker 1: which he had lived one hundred and twenty five years.
Speaker 1: Then Abraham breathed his last and died in a good
Speaker 1: old age, an old man full of years, and was
Speaker 1: gathered to his people, and his sons Isaac and Ishmael
Speaker 1: buried him in the cave of Malak, which is before memory,
Speaker 1: in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohara that
Speaker 1: hits height, the field which Abraham purchased from the sons
Speaker 1: of Heath, that Abraham was buried, and Sarah his wife.
Speaker 1: And it came to pass after the death of Abraham
Speaker 1: that God blessed his son Isaac, and Isaac dwelt in
Speaker 1: in beer lehigh Roy. So let's see if what notes
Speaker 1: I have for Genesis twenty five. Yeah, so I didn't
Speaker 1: know I was going to make it to Genesis twenty five.
Speaker 1: I know it's we're about an hour fifty minutes in,
Speaker 1: but there is some stuff I wanted to go over.
Speaker 1: So so Katara had jakashan Sheiba and didan that's Saudi Arabia,
Speaker 1: thedan if are ishar hanak Abadai, and alada are the Bedoians.
Speaker 1: Word are the Badoians from I have to look that up.
Speaker 1: Badeau and nomadic arab of the desert is what Badoians mean,
Speaker 1: meaning Badoian. They're desert dwellers. That's what that means. So
Speaker 1: the Badoian are nomadic people who traditionally lived in the
Speaker 1: deserts of North Africa and the Middle East. The term
Speaker 1: Bidoyan comes from the Arabic word Badoi, which means desert dweller.
Speaker 1: The Bible trays the early Israelites as nomads. Some scholars
Speaker 1: believe that the Israelites were once in Badoian, which were
Speaker 1: some ways of Badoian cultures reflected in the Bible. So
Speaker 1: understand that. So we have that. Yeah, so I just
Speaker 1: like to kind of go over the descendants. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: we have that, and you know, we're we got probably
Speaker 1: another nine minutes or so, so we'll kind of continue
Speaker 1: going through this couple of genealogies before we end the
Speaker 1: family of Ishmael and Isaac. Now, this is the genealogy
Speaker 1: of Ishmael, Abraham's son in whom Hagar, the Egyptian Sarah's
Speaker 1: maid servant bore to Abraham. And these were the names
Speaker 1: of the sons of Ishmael by their names according to
Speaker 1: the generations. The firstborn Navajath, then Kadar, Abdil Mibsam, Mishima, Dumah, Massa, Haydar,
Speaker 1: tama Jatur, napish Cadath. These were the sons of Ishmael
Speaker 1: that were in the names, but they're towns of their settlements.
Speaker 1: Twelve princes according to their nation. So Ishmael has twelve princes. Wow,
Speaker 1: I think that's fascinating. Just like the Angel of the Lord,
Speaker 1: just like God promised Abraham, and just like he promised,
Speaker 1: Ishmael was going to have descendants that are going to
Speaker 1: be great. He has twelve princes that came from him,
Speaker 1: and these became according to their nations. These were the
Speaker 1: years in the life of Ishmael one hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: seven years. And he breathed his last and died. He
Speaker 1: was gathered to his people. They dwelt from the have
Speaker 1: A Llah, thus is sure, which is east of Egypt,
Speaker 1: as they go towards Syria. He died in the presence
Speaker 1: of all his brethren, so it records his death here,
Speaker 1: so and it also records his genealogy here. So it
Speaker 1: is important. God loves all people, right, he loves all people,
Speaker 1: and he's going over Ishmael's people. And I think that's
Speaker 1: super interesting that his genealogy is there, the twelve princes,
Speaker 1: the different nations that came from, the different nations that
Speaker 1: came through him many, you know, just like the sands
Speaker 1: of the seas, nations came through him. It's like God
Speaker 1: had promised. This is the genealogy of Isaac, Abraham's son
Speaker 1: Abraham Begat. Isaac. Isaac was forty years old when he
Speaker 1: took Rebecca his wife, that virgin, that beautiful woman we
Speaker 1: talked about, the daughter of Bethel the Syrian, of Puddin around,
Speaker 1: the sister of Labam the Syrian. Now, Isaac pleaded with
Speaker 1: the Lord for his wife because she was barren, and
Speaker 1: the Lord granted his plea. So she also had problems conceiving.
Speaker 1: What is going on here with this problem conceiving? Well,
Speaker 1: what does this build? This makes it so that Isaac
Speaker 1: praise to God for his wife to be barren for
Speaker 1: him to open the wound. Abraham was praying to God
Speaker 1: for Sarah to have a child. This is what's happening here.
Speaker 1: Isaac pleaded with the Lord for his wife. This builds faith,
Speaker 1: This builds relationship between Isaac and the Lord. Same thing
Speaker 1: with Abraham. This makes it so that you're not depending
Speaker 1: on man or depending on yourself, or depending on your wife.
Speaker 1: You're depending on the Lord. You're praying. So if your
Speaker 1: wife cannot conceive or have children, what should you be doing?
Speaker 1: Pleading with the Lord for you to have children. Have
Speaker 1: faith that you're going to be able to have children.
Speaker 1: Me and my wife before we had our first daughter, Ariel,
Speaker 1: we you know, we were praying because it was taking
Speaker 1: a long time to conceive. I started having children late
Speaker 1: in life because I was in the military. I got
Speaker 1: deployed and I was serving, you know, in the army,
Speaker 1: So that that kind of being in that lifestyle, you know, leaving,
Speaker 1: being gone and doing all that, it's it's a lot
Speaker 1: difficult to have children. Also, I needed time to mature
Speaker 1: because I was partying and doing all this crazy stuff
Speaker 1: you know before, you know, I wasn't saved yet, So
Speaker 1: I think God wanted time for me to mature. Once
Speaker 1: I joined the military, I went through, you know, all
Speaker 1: this stuff I had to go through through the army,
Speaker 1: and I had children late in life, so we chose
Speaker 1: to have children late. My wife is six years younger
Speaker 1: than me, so she was accusing the child bearing age,
Speaker 1: but I was getting up there in age, and we
Speaker 1: had children late in life. So we prayed and prayed
Speaker 1: and prayed, and we put oil on us and prayed,
Speaker 1: and we did everything that we could, having my pastor
Speaker 1: pray and we prayed, we prayed, and we finally had Ariel.
Speaker 1: So what you gotta do is you got to plead
Speaker 1: with the Lord. Okay, you gotta plead, you gotta pray,
Speaker 1: and this is what happens here. And the Lord granted
Speaker 1: his plea, and Rebecca, his wife, conceived, but the children
Speaker 1: struggled together within her, and she said, all is well,
Speaker 1: why I am like this? So she went to inquire
Speaker 1: to the Lord, and the Lord said to her, two
Speaker 1: nations are in your womb. Two people shall be separated
Speaker 1: from your body. One people shall be stronger than the other.
Speaker 1: The older shall serve the younger. So when her days
Speaker 1: were fulfilled to give her birth, indeed there were twins
Speaker 1: in her wound, and first came out red. He was
Speaker 1: like a hairy garment all over, so that they called
Speaker 1: him Esau. Afterward, his brother came out and his hand
Speaker 1: took hold of Esau's heel, and his name was called Jacob.
Speaker 1: Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them, so
Speaker 1: Isaac was old too, man when he had children, sixty
Speaker 1: years old having children. But they pleaded with the Lord,
Speaker 1: but they knew. He knew that he was going to
Speaker 1: be able to have children, but he pleaded with God,
Speaker 1: and he waited patiently for Rebecca, his love, and she
Speaker 1: bore these twins, and he literally grabbed the heel. He
Speaker 1: wanted to be the first born. He's like, get down,
Speaker 1: but no, he ended up being born Esauth, first born,
Speaker 1: and they called him Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old
Speaker 1: when she bore them. So the boys grew and Esau
Speaker 1: was a skillful hunter, a man of the field, but
Speaker 1: Jacob was a mild man, dwelling intents. And Isaac loved
Speaker 1: l because he ate of his game. But but Rebecca
Speaker 1: loved Jacob. So we have a a sibling rivalry here, right.
Speaker 1: We got Isau and uh and and and Jacob and
Speaker 1: uh because he ate of his game, but Rebecca loved
Speaker 1: Isaac loved because he ate of his game, so he
Speaker 1: would just hunt for him and they would eat together,
Speaker 1: and they would you know, dine together and dwell together.
Speaker 1: Rebecca loved Jacob right. He was a tent dweller. It
Speaker 1: seemed like he was more of a helping out around
Speaker 1: the house the inside. He didn't really like to be outdoors.
Speaker 1: Wasn't that type. But Esau was a hunter, right, so
Speaker 1: manly man right, and he was red too. I think
Speaker 1: that's really interesting. And he was Harry. That's just really interesting. Well,
Speaker 1: I think we're well, we're gonna stop here. Uh we
Speaker 1: we went over Genesis twenty five. We're halfway through, you
Speaker 1: know what, we won't stop her. We'll continue real quick
Speaker 1: and then we'll get to Genesis twenty six for next
Speaker 1: week's session. Esau sells his birthright now, Jacob cooked a
Speaker 1: stew and Esau came from the field, and he was weary.
Speaker 1: What does that word weary mean. Let's see what that
Speaker 1: says there, weary. So we're Genesis twenty five. This probably
Speaker 1: means you starving. Genesis twenty five, verse twenty nine, and
Speaker 1: Jacob sewed pottage and Esau came from the field and
Speaker 1: he was faint, right, that's what the King James says.
Speaker 1: He was faint, he was exhausted, he was weary, he
Speaker 1: was hungry, thirsty. And Esau said to Jacob, please feed
Speaker 1: me with the same bred stew, for I am weary.
Speaker 1: Therefore his name was called eat him, eat them might.
Speaker 1: Therefore his name was called eat them. But Jacob said,
Speaker 1: sell me your birthright as of this day. And Esau said, look,
Speaker 1: I am about to die, so what is this birthright
Speaker 1: to me? And Jacob said, swear to me of this day.
Speaker 1: So he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.
Speaker 1: And Jacob gave hisself bread and stew lentils, and then
Speaker 1: he ate and drank a rose and went away. Does
Speaker 1: Esau despise his birthright? So that's what we have here.
Speaker 1: We have him selling his birthright. It's a very important
Speaker 1: passage that people go over and and and uh. And
Speaker 1: Esau despised his birthright. So Jacob, he wants to that
Speaker 1: line is going to come through Jacob. Okay, uh, the
Speaker 1: line of Jesus comes through Jacob. So there's a promise
Speaker 1: there through him, you know. So we'll pick up next
Speaker 1: the week. In Genesis twenty six, I should have some
Speaker 1: very interesting stuff. Like I always say, and I really
Speaker 1: really seriously appreciate everybody that's listening. If you could, if
Speaker 1: you listen to the end of this episode, you know,
Speaker 1: comment and also if you could, please do me a
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Speaker 1: these the scriptures that were going over. I will do
Speaker 1: my best to bring the scriptures alive. I will do
Speaker 1: my best with studies and try to make it so
Speaker 1: that you guys are entertained at the same time building faith,
Speaker 1: you know, because faith come by hearing the word of God.
Speaker 1: And I think it's vastly important because right now you
Speaker 1: see how evil the world is, you know, because all
Speaker 1: these conspiracies you guys have been taught. I mean, jeez,
Speaker 1: what five hundred and something episodes that these gentlemen have
Speaker 1: gone over. And I'm sure you've listened to other shows,
Speaker 1: the Jordan Maxwell's, the all these different people teaching you
Speaker 1: all this stuff about conspiracies, and you know, my show
Speaker 1: and other people's shows. You see the evil, you see
Speaker 1: the devil, you see the one that's behind all these plans.
Speaker 1: You see that the fallen angels, You see the demons
Speaker 1: that are involved in all these plans. You see these
Speaker 1: governments that are ruled by fallen angels and demons and
Speaker 1: by Satan. You see this. You guys know this. You
Speaker 1: guys need an answer to these conspiracies. There is an answer.
Speaker 1: Jesus is the way, the truth, the life. Okay uh,
Speaker 1: there is an answer. God is the answer. That is
Speaker 1: what the answer is to to all these conspiracies that
Speaker 1: you guys have gone through. There is an answer, and
Speaker 1: there is peace and there is joy that you can
Speaker 1: find through the Lord. And I just am here to
Speaker 1: share the Gospel message with you, but I here to
Speaker 1: share the Biblical message. And we are going through the
Speaker 1: Bible Genesis to Revelation. And this show will continue all right,
Speaker 1: whether it's on cult conspiracy podcasts. I hope it just continues,
Speaker 1: you know, and you guys can continue listening through here.
Speaker 1: But no matter what, this show will continue. I will
Speaker 1: just continue until we get to the end of revelation.
Speaker 1: I'm prophesying this and I'm saying this in Jesus' name
Speaker 1: that this show will continue. I will make sure of it,
Speaker 1: and God will make sure of it. Because this is
Speaker 1: very important for you guys. So next week we're gonna
Speaker 1: pick up in Genesis twenty six. We're gonna go over
Speaker 1: Isaac and what he went through, and I hopefully we
Speaker 1: can find some gold nuggets there that will help you
Speaker 1: through build faith and help you to you know, in
Speaker 1: your life. But what we gather from these verses that
Speaker 1: we went over is we gather the obedience, We gather faith.
Speaker 1: We gather what men should do when their wife cannot
Speaker 1: bear children. We gather that we need to pray and
Speaker 1: go to the Lord. We also gathered that that Abraham's
Speaker 1: servant he bowed down and prayed to God when he
Speaker 1: ended up showing up there when you know, to get Rebecca,
Speaker 1: he prayed. We see that Isaac pleaded with the Lord,
Speaker 1: or prayed to the Lord, or asked the Lord for
Speaker 1: him to be able to build chillsen through Rebecca. There's
Speaker 1: there's prayer there. The faith that Abraham had when when
Speaker 1: he took Isaac on that mountain, the typeology of what
Speaker 1: happens later on when God gave his only begotten son,
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ to die on the cross for us go
Speaker 1: Gothas where this was located. You know, we have typology
Speaker 1: there of what happens later in life, but we have
Speaker 1: Abraham's faith. We went over that and that way, you
Speaker 1: guys can see this stuff in motion. Faith in motion,
Speaker 1: you know, is what you see. You get faith acted out.
Speaker 1: You got to see all that which is so fast
Speaker 1: and important. But like I always do, though, I always
Speaker 1: end this in prayer. So let's do that. So Father
Speaker 1: God and the name of Jesus, we appreciate everything you
Speaker 1: do for us. Thank you so much for this glorious time.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for blessing me with this show
Speaker 1: Sunday Service and also the Josh Monday Christian Conspiracy podcast.
Speaker 1: Thank you for blessing me with that. Anybody that's listening
Speaker 1: right now that that you know is having issues with
Speaker 1: coming closer to you, having issues with sin, including myself.
Speaker 1: You know, if I have anything in my life that's
Speaker 1: preventing me from getting close to you, Lord, I pray
Speaker 1: that you you you break those chains or anything that's
Speaker 1: that's that's in any of our lives, you know that's
Speaker 1: stopping us from getting closer to you. Just remove them,
Speaker 1: remove those block walls. You know, we have so many
Speaker 1: things that tempt us, and so many things that that
Speaker 1: the devil tries to use against us to make sure
Speaker 1: that we're not getting close to you. Lord, I pray
Speaker 1: and you show the Michiak's name, that you remove those
Speaker 1: out of our life, whatever stopping us from getting closer
Speaker 1: to You, Lord, remove them, break those chains. And also
Speaker 1: I pray that this show gets sent out to as
Speaker 1: many people as possible that need it. This is not
Speaker 1: for glory for myself. This is not for glory for Jacob,
Speaker 1: Jonathan or Julia or anybody that's involved in this show.
Speaker 1: But this is for the glory of You. This is
Speaker 1: for you know, even if one person out of you know,
Speaker 1: twenty thousand people end up getting saved, then then this
Speaker 1: message is doing its job. But I just want to
Speaker 1: make sure this gets out to the people that need it,
Speaker 1: that uh that that that want to build faith. And
Speaker 1: and even if they don't want to build faith, if
Speaker 1: they just want to learn about the Bible and they're
Speaker 1: they're not they don't believe in you yet, Lord, at
Speaker 1: least this You know, faith cometh by hearing, so allow
Speaker 1: the word to to assist them. And you know, I
Speaker 1: know the importance Father God of this show. I know
Speaker 1: the importance of reading your word and going verse by verse.
Speaker 1: I think it's just vastly important. And Lord, I will
Speaker 1: do my best to study. I will do my best
Speaker 1: on my end for you to for you to speak
Speaker 1: through me as a vessel. So just assist me on that.
Speaker 1: And as I'm going, Lord, assist the people that are
Speaker 1: listening to get deeper into your word and for them
Speaker 1: to read the word, these words that I'm speaking, these verses.
Speaker 1: Have them read it for themselves. Lord, help them to
Speaker 1: do that so that they can read and you know,
Speaker 1: catch things here and there that that you'd like to
Speaker 1: give us. And these these gems and these these this
Speaker 1: gold better than gold, you know, the word of God
Speaker 1: so much better. Lord, So thank you for that. But
Speaker 1: I appreciate everything you do. Thank you and Jesus Name, Amen.
Speaker 1: So thank you guys for listening and tuning in to
Speaker 1: Sunday Service episode seven. Please share the show with as
Speaker 1: many people as you could share with, you know, share
Speaker 1: episode one and hopefully they pick it up and start
Speaker 1: listening from episode one to episode seven. Now, God, bless
Speaker 1: all of you, and thank you. I appreciate you and
Speaker 1: Jesus Name, Amen,