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Last week we discussed Genesis 3:15 as being a "Typology to Jesus". We should begin to start connecting dots from the Old Testament to the new. We can look at 1 Corinthians 15:12-23 as a connection to Genesis 3:15
Genesis 3:15New International Version (NIV)
15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring[a] and hers;
he will crush[b] your head, and you will strike his heel.”
1 Corinthians 15:12-23New International Version (NIV)
The Resurrection of the Dead12 But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. 14 And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. 15 More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead. But he did not raise him if in fact the dead are not raised. 16 For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. 17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. 18 Then those also who have fallen asleepin Christ are lost. 19 If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.
20 But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21 For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the deadcomes also through a man. 22 For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.23 But each in turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him.
~In Adam there was Condemnation and Death~In Christ there is Justification and Eternal Life
ANCESTRAL HISTORY
Refer to Power Point slide, Terah's Family Tree #1
Terah is the father of Abram and the Grandfather of Lot. In Genesis 6, we are told that Noah was Righteous and walked with God. It is worthy of note that we are not told this about Terah. The line of the Israelites goes through Terah. While the Israelites are called "God's Chosen People", there is no special reason that he picked them---he had to pick somebody and they were it.
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Abram received a call from God to move out of Ur of the Caldeans as the city was full of idolaters. We see this call in Genesis 12:1-7
Genesis 12:1-7New International Version (NIV)
The Call of Abram12 The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.2 “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you;
I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.[a]3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”[b]4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran. 5 He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.6 Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. 7 The Lord appeared to Abramand said, “To your offspring[c] I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to theLord, who had appeared to him.
It is worthy of note that God promised Abram that others would be blessed though him.
( See the Theological Point from last week:
Theological Point
The Primeval History provides a significant theological backdrop for understanding the blessings and promises that dominate the ancestral history.
-It asserts a divine concern for the whole of creation in general and humanity in particular.
-The Universalism of the primeval history is the subtext of the ancestral history which focuses on one family as the agent for blessing all families.)
It is worthy of note that the family that was cursed through Adam are blessed through Abram. this is the first actualization of the redemptive process that ends with the resurrection of Christ.
See Power Point Slide Abram & Sarai
Even though Abram was in a foreign land and used deceit w/Pharaoh regarding Saria being his sister, he was blessed by God.
In Genesis 13 & 14, Lot begins being a bit of a PITB to Abram. Lot was with Abram due to Abram's disobedience of Gods command given in 12:1
12 The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.
God's intent was for Abram to leave family (his people) behind. Go lets us exercise our free will in matters such as these, but he does not protect us from the consequences of such disobedience.
In Chapter 13, we see:
13 So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him. 2 Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.
3 From the Negev he went from place to place until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier 4 and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the Lord.
5 Now Lot, who was moving about with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.6 But the land could not support them while they stayed together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together. 7 And quarreling arose between Abram’s herders and Lot’s. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time.
8 So Abram said to Lot, “Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herders and mine, for we are close relatives. 9 Is not the whole land before you? Let’s part company. If you go to the left, I’ll go to the right; if you go to the right, I’ll go to the left.”
10 Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan toward Zoar was well watered, like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lorddestroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.) 11 So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company: 12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom. 13 Now the people of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the Lord.
In Genesis 14, we see Lot getting captured, causing Abram to have to raise an army and go to his rescue. He was successful and in the process defeated a great king, so even in having to fight to rescue his relative, Abram was blessed by God.
Of greatest import was the blessing Abram received from King Melchizedek, King of Salem (which means Peace) . He was known as the King of Righteousness. Its is significant that he is both the King of Peace: and the "King of Righteousness.
18 Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High, 19 and he blessed Abram, saying,
“Blessed be Abram by God Most High,
Creator of heaven and earth.
20 And praise be to God Most High,
who delivered your enemies into your hand.”
Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.
This "prefigures" Christ, the "Prince of Peace" and "Prince of Righteousness"
Other mentions of Melchizedek that are significant:
Psalm 110:1-4
1 The Lord says to my lord:[a]
“Sit at my right hand
until I make your enemies
a footstool for your feet.”
2 The Lord will extend your mighty scepter from Zion, saying,
“Rule in the midst of your enemies!”
3 Your troops will be willing
on your day of battle.
Arrayed in holy splendor,
your young men will come to you
like dew from the morning’s womb.[b]
4 The Lord has sworn
and will not change his mind:
“You are a priest forever,
in the order of Melchizedek.”
Hebrews 7:1-3New International Version (NIV)
Melchizedek the Priest
7 This Melchizedek was king of Salem and priest of God Most High. He met Abraham returning from the defeat of the kings and blessed him, 2 and Abraham gave him a tenth of everything. First, the name Melchizedek means “king of righteousness”; then also, “king of Salem” means “king of peace.” 3 Without father or mother, without genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, resembling the Son of God, he remains a priest forever.
Two significant things are occurring here. First, Scripture shows Melchizedek is a Priest of the highest order, even higher than the Levitical Priests, and this is because even Abraham (Abram) tithed to him. Second, he prefigures Christ in that he is "without father or mother...without beginning of days or end of life, resembling the Son of God." this prefigures Christ in the Old Testament. In Genesis, we see the beginning of the redemptive process coupled with descriptions of who will bring that redemption.
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In chapter 15, the Lord appears to Abram & tells him he will have many descendants & uncountable blessings. God promises a son, even though Abram and Sarai are very old. Abram's belief in the Lord's promise credits his righteousness to him.
Genesis 15 New International Version (NIV)
The Lord’s Covenant With Abram
15 After this, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision:
“Do not be afraid, Abram.
I am your shield,[a]
your very great reward.[b]”
2 But Abram said, “Sovereign Lord, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit[c] my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?” 3 And Abram said, “You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir.”
4 Then the word of the Lord came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but a son who is your own flesh and blood will be your heir.” 5 He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring[d]be.”
6 Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness.
The Lord also prophesies slavery in Egypt and subsequent arrival in the Promised Land.
12 As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him. 13 Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there. 14 But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions. 15 You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age. 16 In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”
In Chapter 16, we see the "Human enforcement of God's initiative". This is when humans attempt to perform the tasks God has set for Himself to perform. In this case its when Sarai, disbelieving that she will bear the son promised to Abram by God, but believes the promise that a son will be born. She tells Abram that the only way to get such a son would be if he slept with her servant, Hagar. Hagar conceives and, while pregnant, begins to have contempt for Sarai. Sarai, becoming jealous, mistreats Hagar who flees into the desert where an Angel of the Lord appears to her and tells her to go back to Sarai and submit to her. He tells her she will have a son named Ishmael, and he too will be the Father of a Nation. Ishmael is known as the Father of all Arabs, and the enmity between Sarai and Hagar lives on today. This is the consequence of Sarai's attempt at "human enforcement of God's initiative.
"12 As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him. 13 Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there. 14 But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions. 15 You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age. 16 In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”12 As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him. 13 Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there. 14 But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions. 15 You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age. 16 In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”
In Chapter 17, we see God's Covenant with Abram and the sign thereof.
Genesis 17 New International Version (NIV)
The Covenant of Circumcision
3 Abram fell facedown, and God said to him, 4 “As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations. 5 No longer will you be called Abram[b]; your name will be Abraham,[c]for I have made you a father of many nations. 6 I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you. 7 I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your Godand the God of your descendants after you. 8 The whole land of Canaan, where you now reside as a foreigner, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God.”
Abram (now Abraham, which means Father of Nations) is instructed that as a sign of agreement to this Covenant, his people will be circumcised.
9 Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come. 10 This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised. 11 You are to undergo circumcision, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and you. 12 For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, including those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner—those who are not your offspring. 13 Whether born in your household or bought with your money, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh is to be an everlasting covenant. 14 Any uncircumcised male, who has not been circumcised in the flesh, will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.”
Sarai's name is changed to Sarah, which means "Mother of nations".
Chapter 18 has an encounter between Abraham and three strangers, Angels of the Lord, which is significant and one of those dots to connect to the new Testament as one of them is called "The Lord". This is another pre-figuration of Christ in the Old Testament.
10 Then one of them said, “I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son.”
Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, which was behind him. 11 Abraham and Sarah were already very old, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing. 12 So Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, “After I am worn out and my lord is old, will I now have this pleasure?”
13 Then the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really have a child, now that I am old?’ 14 Is anything too hard for the Lord? I will return to you at the appointed time next year, and Sarah will have a son.”
15 Sarah was afraid, so she lied and said, “I did not laugh.”
But he said, “Yes, you did laugh.”
Sodom & Gomorrah:
We also see the events around the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, cities in the lands Lot chose to move his herds to. The Lord tells him the cities are so wicked that he will destroy them and all in them. Abraham, knowing Lot and his family are among them, begins to negotiate with the Lord to save the cities by using the possibility of certain numbers of "righteous" people to be found. Abram negotiates things down to the point where, if there are just 10 righteous people to be found, he will not destroy the cities.
In Genesis 19, the Angels go into Sodom & Gommorah. We see that Lot's fortunes have fallen since he left Abraham, even though Lot chose the greener pastures. Once again, we see the consequences of "loving the world:
1 John 2:15
King James BibleLove not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Genesis 19:3-13 describes what happens when Lot invites the Angels of The Lord into the city:
3 But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate. 4 Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house. 5 They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.”
6 Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him 7 and said, “No, my friends. Don’t do this wicked thing. 8 Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”
9 “Get out of our way,” they replied. “This fellow came here as a foreigner, and now he wants to play the judge! We’ll treat you worse than them.” They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.
10 But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door.11 Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.
12 The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,13 because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the Lord against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.”
Refer to Power Point Slide --Sons of Lot
Lot's ancestors, the Moabites and Ammonites fight the Israelites throughout the Old Testament.
ABRAHAM AND SARAH
In Chapter 20, Abraham deceives Abimalech, Abimalech discovers the deception and kicks him out, but God blesses Abraham once again with possessions.
In Chapter 21, we see The Lord deliver on his promise of a son, Isaac.
Genesis 21 New International Version (NIV)
The Birth of Isaac
21 Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised. 2 Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him. 3 Abraham gave the name Isaac[a] to the son Sarah bore him. 4 When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded him. 5 Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
6 Sarah said, “God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.” 7 And she added, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”
God always fulfills his promises. But He does it on His timetable, not ours:
Numbers 23
19 God is not human, that he should lie,
not a human being, that he should change his mind.
Does he speak and then not act?
Does he promise and not fulfill?
Sarah decides that Hagar and Ishmael need to go. Abraham is saddened, but accedes to her demands when God tells him it must be so. Abraham sends them into the desert with just a skin full of water. Hagar fears they they will die, but an Angel of The Lord appears to her and promises that Ishmael will be the father of a nation.
In Chapter 22, we see Abraham's Faith being tested when God tells him he must sacrifice his son, Isaac. He tells him to take Isaac to Mt. Moriah, a three days journey. Imagine what Abraham must have been thinking during those 3 days. When Isaac asks Abraham where the lamb for the sacrifice is, Abraham responds "God will provide a lamb." Just as Abraham is about to plunge the knife into Isaac's chest, God tells him to stop and a ram appears nearby, caught in a bush. God did indeed proved a sacrifice, and this is the first time we see a name for God: Jehova Jireh "The God who provides."
This is also another pre-figuring of Christ, as the Lamb whom God provides to take away our Sin.
Chapter 23 tells us who is buried in the cave at Machpelah:
~Abraham & Sarah
~Isaac & Rebekah
~Jacob & Leah
Know this.
See Power Point Slide Terah's Family Tree 2
ROXIE'S NOTES:
Week 6
Mankind
(See printout of Terah’s Family Tree)
-Abram took Sarai and his nephew, Lot. They headed out from Harran to the land of Canaan.
-You never hear in the bible that Terah was a righteous man or that he walked with God.
-Israelites are God’s chosen people not because of their righteousness but because God basically had to choose someone.
-Terah moved from Ur of Chaldeans, a polytheistic culture where they believed in many gods.
Read Genesis 12: 1-7 The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. 2 “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” 4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy- five years old when he set out from Harran. 5 He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there. 6 Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. 7 The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring[c] I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
Abram and Sarai
Two Mules for step-“sister” Sarai (Genesis 20:12)
-If you married your sister/step-sister, you had a higher standard and she had more rights.
“Lot” of unnecessary issues (chapters 12-14)
-God told Abram to leave his relatives in verse 1 and Abram didn’t obey.
-Lot and Abram argue over livestock and grazing. They split paths and Lot goes East where the land is better. Lot gets captured by an army along with his family and all his possessions. Abram has to raise an army to rescue Lot. Abram is blessed by even rescuing Lot. The King of Salem, King Melchizedek, blesses Abram for being an honorable man. King Melchizedek prefigures Christ in
Psalm 110 and Hebrews chapter 7. His name means King of Righteousness and Salem means Peace. Thus, King Melchizedek means King of Peace.
Abram believed the Lord (Genesis 15)
-He believed God for a son
-It was credited to him for righteousness
-He received a prophecy of slavery in Egypt and Promised Land.
-God told him some of his descendants would end up in slavery and some in the Promised Land.
Human enforcement of God’s initiative (Genesis 16)
-Sarai is barren so she tells Abram to sleep with her maid servant, Hagar. Hagar starts to not like Sarai so then Sarai starts to mistreat Hagar. Sarai starts to blame Abram and asks him to make Hagar leave. She does.
-The Angel of the Lord tells Hagar to go back to Sarai and submit to her. God tells her that her son will be called Ishmael and he will be a hostile man. Ismael is the ancestor of all the Arabs.
God’s covenant sign with Abram (Genesis 17)
-God basically says, “Trust me. You’ll have a son.” The covenant was for him to be circumcised. Abram was 99 years old when he got circumcised.
-God changes his name to Abraham, “Father of many nations”.
-Sarai will be called Sarah, “Mother of many nations.”
“Pre-incarnate Christ” (Genesis 18)
-Abraham was visited by three angels. One angel is called, “Lord”.
-Sarah heard this angel say that she was going to have a baby.
Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19)
-God tells Abraham about plans to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah.
-Lot happens to be living in that city with his family.
Read Genesis 19: 3-14
-Angels, in the form of men, come in to protect Lot but he doesn’t realize they are angels at that time.
-They tell Lot to take his wife and two daughters and leave at once. His wife looks back and turns into a pillar of salt.
-Remember: When Lot first arrived there, he had a lot of possessions but he ended up leaving with nothing.
Sons of Lot
(See printout of Sons of Lot)
Abraham and Sarah
Abraham deceives Abimelek (Genesis 20)
-He tells King Abimelek that Sarah is his sister
-Abimelek kicks them out but blesses Abraham with more possessions.
Birth of Isaac (Genesis 21)
-God did what he promised and Sarah has Isaac at on old age.
-Sarah tells Abraham to kick out Hagar and Ishmael. Abraham sends them out into the desert with nothing but water.
-Abraham’s faith and obedience to God is tested when He tells him to sacrifice his son, Isaac. At the last minute, God provides a ram in a bush.
-The near sacrifice of Isaac took place at Mount Moriah.
-“Jehovah Jireh” means God provides.
-Genesis 22: 15-18 15 The angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time 16 and said, “I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, 17 I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, 18 and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me.”
-1 Peter 1: 3-9 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, 5 who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7 These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. 8 Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, 9 for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
Cave at Machpelah (Genesis 23)
-The following people are buried there:
-Abraham and Sarah
-Isaac and Rebekah
-Jacob and Leah
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