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Exodus Chapter 4 Deep-Dive: Burning Bush part 2, Moses Returns 02/26/2025

Exodus Chapter 4 Deep-Dive: Burning Bush part 2, Moses Returns Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. EX CH 4 MOSES IS MEETING WITH GOD AT THE BURNING BUSH, RECEIVING HIS CALLING TO LEAD ISRAEL OUT OF EGYPT ON BEHALF OF YAHWEH, HOWEVER, MOSES IS RESISTING GOD’S CALLING… 1Then Moses answered, “But behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you.’” 2The Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A staff.” 3And he said, “Throw it on the ground.” So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent, and Moses ran from it. MOSES IS NOT DOING WELL … DOUBT AND FEAR 4But the Lord said to Moses, “Put out your hand and catch it by the tail”—so he put out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand— 5“that they may believe that the Lord, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.” 6Again, the Lord said to him, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” And he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous like snow. 7Then God said, “Put your hand back inside your cloak.” So he put his hand back inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, it was restored like the rest of his flesh. 8“If they will not believe you,” God said, “or listen to the first sign, they may believe the latter sign. 9If they will not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, you shall take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground, and the water that you shall take from the Nile will become blood on the dry ground.” THERE YOU GO … THREE SIGNS, BUT MOSES CONTINUES TO RESIST. 10But Moses said to the Lord, “Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue.” 11Then the Lord said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the Lord? WHAT?!? SO, GOD IS TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR PEOPLE BEING DEAF, MUTE, BLIND OR SEEING … THINK ABOUT THAT! Biblebonesandligaments … John 10:1 As he JESUS passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. 2And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him. SO, GOD CAUSED THAT MAN TO BE BLIND FROM BIRTH SO THAT ONE DAY JESUS COULD HEAL HIM … WHAT?!? THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM … GOD CONTROLS ALL CIRCUMSTANCES. OUR NT DECODER RING GIVES US FURTHER GUIDANCE 1 Cor 7:17 Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches. 18Was anyone at the time of his call already circumcised? Let him not seek to remove the marks of circumcision. Was anyone at the time of his call uncircumcised? Let him not seek circumcision. 19For neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but keeping the commandments of God. 20Each one should remain in the condition in which he was called. 21Were you a bondservant when called? Do not be concerned about it. (But if you can gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.) 22For he who was called in the Lord as a bondservant is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a bondservant of Christ. 23You were bought with a price; do not become bondservants of men. 24So, brothers, in whatever condition each was called, there let him remain with God. BACK TO MOSES AT THE BURNING BUSH IN EX 4 12Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.” 13But he said, “Oh, my Lord, please send someone else.” 14Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses and he said, “Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Behold, he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart. 15You shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth, and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth and will teach you both what to do. 16He shall speak for you to the people, and he shall be your mouth, and you shall be as God to him. 17And take in your hand this staff, with which you shall do the signs.” WOW, GOD GETS ANGRY WITH MOSES THEN BRINGS AARON INTO THE PICTURE BUT APPARENTLY THAT WASN’T THE ORIGINAL PLAN. CONSIDER THAT AARON BECOMES HIGH PRIEST … MANY BIBLE SCHOLARS BELIEVE THAT IT WAS ORIGINALLY GOD’S PLAN FOR MOSES TO BE HIGH PRIEST/KING/PROPHET. SO, INSTEAD OF GOD SPEAKING THROUGH MOSES IT’S NOW GOD SPEAKING TO MOSES WHO THEN SPEAKS THROUGH AARON. 18Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, “Please let me go back to my brothers in Egypt to see whether they are still alive.” And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.” 19And the Lord said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all the men who were seeking your life are dead.” SO, MOSES IS TARRYING AND GOD SAYS …. GET UP AND GO!!! 20So Moses took his wife and his sons and had them ride on a donkey, and went back to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the staff of God in his hand. 21And the Lord said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles that I have put in your power. But I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go. 22Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, Israel is my firstborn son, 23and I say to you, “Let my son go that he may serve me.” If you refuse to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son.’” SO, GOD IS LAYING OUT MORE OF THE PLAN … MAKE SURE YOU DON’T TURN AROUND AND RETURN TO MIDIAN WHEN PHAROAH RESISTS YOU, SEE THE PLAN THROUGH TO THE END! GOD ALSO CALLS ISRAEL HIS FIRSTBORN SON HERE 24At a lodging place on the way the Lord met him and sought to put him to death. 25Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it and said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!” 26So he let him alone. It was then that she said, “A bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision. SO, MOSES IS HEADED BACK TO EGYPT AS YAHWEH’S PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE TO LEAD ISRAEL OUT OF SLAVERY BUT MOSES HADN’T CIRCUMCISED HIS SON … THE ONE THING HE WAS REQUIRED TO DO AS AN ISRAELITE … A DESCENDANT OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB. HIS WIFE, ZIPPORAH, HAD TO DO IT AND SHE WASN’T EVEN AN ISRAELITE … GOD WAS ANGRY WITH HIM AND SHAMED MOSES BY HAVING ZIPPORAH DO IT!! 27The Lord said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.” So he went and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him. 28And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord with which he had sent him to speak, and all the signs that he had commanded him to do. 29Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the people of Israel. 30Aaron spoke all the words that the Lord had spoken to Moses and did the signs in the sight of the people. 31And the people believed; and when they heard that the Lord had visited the people of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed their heads and worshiped. SO, MOSES TELLS AARON WHAT HAPPENED WITH GOD AND APPARENTLY AARON BELIEVED MOSES AND ENDS UP IN A LEADERSHIP ROLE WORKING WITH MOSES AND THAT WILL WRAP UP CH 4 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/35432270

Exodus Chapter 3 Deep-Dive: The Burning Bush 02/24/2025

Exodus Chapter 3 Deep-Dive: The Burning Bush Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Exodus Ch 3 The Burning Bush ANCIENT PEOPLES BELIEVED THAT GEOGRAPHIC LOCATIONS COULD, AT TIMES, BE CONNECTED TO, OR GATEWAYS TO, THE SPIRITUAL WORLD. EX: MT OLYMPUS IN GREECE IS AN ACTUAL SMALL MOUNTAIN, AND ANCIENT GREEKS COULD CLIMB IT AND SEE THAT THERE WERE NO GODS THERE, HOWEVER, THEY BELIEVED THAT THE MOUNTAIN TOUCHED THE SPIRITUAL WORLD IN SOME WAY THEY COULDN’T UNDERSTAND, BUT IT WAS STILL THE MOUNTAIN OF ZEUS AND THE OTHER GREEK GODS. ALL ANCIENT PEOPLES HAD SIMILAR BELIEFS. IN THE SAME WAY, IN THE BIBLE, GEOGRAPHIC LOCATIONS WERE SOMETIMES ASSOCIATED WITH GOD … THINK OF JACOB WRESTLING WITH GOD AT PENUEL, AFTER THAT INCIDENT JACOB CONSIDERED PENUEL TO BE A SACRED SITE. SO, IN THIS CHAPTER WE’LL REVIEW GOD APPEARING TO MOSES IN A BURNING BUSH ON MT HOREB, IN MIDIAN, THE KEY TO THAT SCENE IS THAT WHEREVER GOD APPEARS … THAT IS HIS HOLY MOUNTAIN. ALL THE EARTH IS THE LORD’S, HOWEVER, WHEREVER HE IS APPEARING … AT THAT MOMENT … IT’S THE MOUNTAIN OF GOD … GOD MOVES FROM PLACE TO PLACE AND HIS DIVINE COUNCIL MOVES WITH HIM. SO, IS MT HOREB THE SAME AS MT SINAI, FROM WHICH GOD APPEARED TO ISRAEL … Bible bones and ligaments: Ps 106: They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped a metal image. Mal 4:4 “Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules[fn] that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel. IT’S MOST LIKELY THAT HOREB REFERRED TO A GENERAL GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION IN MIDIAN/SINAI AND THAT THIS PARTICULAR MOUNTAIN WHERE THE BURNING BUSH OCCURRED IS NOT THE EXACT SAME LOCATION OF MT SINAI FROM WHICH GOD GAVE THE LAW TO ISRAEL. BIBLE SCHOLARS DIFFER IN THEIR OPINION OF WHERE EXACTLY MT SINAI WAS BUT THE WHOLE EXODUS OCCURRED IN A RATHER SMALL AREA IN THE SINAI PENINSULA THAT INCLUDED MT HOREB, MT SINAI, MT SEIR … ARE THEY ALL THE SAME MOUNTAIN? THERE’S NO WAY WE CAN KNOW, HOWEVER, THE KEY IS THAT WHEREVER GOD IS APPEARING FROM … THAT’S THE MOUNTAIN OF GOD. 1Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. REMEMBER, MIDIAN/SEIR IS WHERE GOD SAID HE WAS LOCATED BEFORE THE EXODUS OCCURRED. 2And the angel of the Lord (THIS A DEFINITE ARTICLE, SO NOT JUST A RANDOM ANGEL … THE/UNIQUE ANGEL OF THE LORD) the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. THIS IS AN ANGEL APPEARING IN THE MIDST OF A BURNING BUSH AND WHENEVER ANGELS/MESSENGERS APPEARED TO INTERACT WITH HUMAN BEINGS … THEY APPEARED IN THE FORM OF MEN … THE ANGEL IS SPEAKING FROM A “MOUTH”, HOWEVER, MOSES KNEW INSTANTLY THAT THIS WAS NO MAN. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. 3And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.” 4When the Lord YAHWEH saw that he turned aside to see, God ELOHIM called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” 5Then he said, “Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” Bible bones and ligaments: “holy ground” Josh 5:13 When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing before him with his drawn sword in his hand. And Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us, or for our adversaries?” 14And he said, “No; but I am the commander of the army of the Lord. Now I have come.” And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped and said to him, “What does my lord say to his servant?” 15And the commander of the Lord’s army said to Joshua, “Take off your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so. IT’S HOLY GROUND ONLY BECAUSE GOD IS THERE … HOW CAN SINFUL MAN STAND BEFORE A HOLY GOD? … THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM, BECAUSE, GOD IS THE MOST DANGEROUS “PERSON” IN THE UNIVERSE … HE CAN HURT YOU IN WAYS THAT YOU CAN’T IMAGINE … THINK OF THE FLOOD … BACK TO MOSES AT THE BURNING BUSH … SO WE HAVE GOD APPEARING AS AN ANGEL/MESSENGER/DIVINE-MAN AND SPEAKING AUTHORITATIVELY AS GOD … BUT … NO MAN CAN SEE GOD AND LIVE: Ex 33:20But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.” SO, HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE? JESUS IS THE ANGEL OF THE LORD WHO APPEARS AS A DIVINE MESSENGER (ANGEL = MESSENGER) IN SUPERNATURAL HUMAN FORM THROUGHOUT THE OLD TESTAMENT TO SPEAK AS GOD … AS THE 2ND PERSON OF THE TRINITY, AND ON BEHALF OF YAHWEH, THE FIRST PERSON OF THE TRINITY. SO, YAHWEH AND THIS ANGEL OF THE LORD ARE BOTH GOD … BUT DIFFERENT FROM EACH OTHER. THIS IS WHERE THE ANCIENT ISRAELITE CONCEPT OF “TWO POWERS IN HEAVEN” COMES FROM WHICH DR MICHAEL HEISER WROTE EXTENSIVELY ABOUT. 6And he (THE ANGEL OF THE LORD/JESUS) said, “I am the God ELOHIM of your father MOSES’ FATHER – CURRENT TIMES, the God ELOHIM of Abraham, the God ELOHIM of Isaac, and the God ELOHIM of Jacob.” SO THAT STATEMENT INCLUDES THE WHOLE HISTORY OF ISRAEL TO THAT POINT. And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God ELOHIM. 7Then the Lord YAHWEH said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings, 8and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 9And now, behold, the cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. SO, EGYPT IS OPPRESSING ISRAEL THROUGH SLAVERY AND NOW GOD IS GOING TO RESCUE THEM, RIGHT? KEEP IN MIND THAT IN EZEKIEL CH 20 GOD IS FURIOUS WITH ISRAEL AND HE TELLS EZEKIEL THAT BEFORE THE EXODUS, WHILE ISRAEL WAS IN EGYPT, HE TOLD ISRAEL TO GET RID OF THEIR IDOLS … 8“ ‘But they rebelled against me and would not listen to me; they did not get rid of the vile images they had set their eyes on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and spend my anger against them in Egypt. … AND THEY WERE SLAVES TO THE EGYPTIANS … WAS THAT GOD POURING OUT HIS WRATH AND SPENDING HIS ANGER ON THEM? BACK TO MOSES AT THE BURNING BUSH … 10Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.” 11But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?” 12He said, “But I will be with you, and this shall be the sign for you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.” MT HOREB, MT SINAI, MT SEIR ARE ALL IN THE GENERAL AREA … REMEMBER, THE MOUNTAIN IS HOLY ONLY BECAUSE GOD IS THERE … IF GOD LEADS MOSES & THE PEOPLE TO A DIFFERENT MOUNTAIN IT WILL BE THE SAME … YOU SHALL SERVE GOD ON THIS MOUNTAIN … THIS=THE MOUNTAIN GOD IS ON AT THAT TIME. SO, DON’T GET WRAPPED UP IN “WHICH” MOUNTAIN IT WAS, KEEP IN MIND THAT MOSES IS FAMILIAR WITH THIS AREA BECAUSE HE’S BEEN SHEPHERDING JETHRO’S FLOCK THERE FOR THE PAST 40 YEARS. REMEMBER, THAT SHEPHERDS WERE NOT HIGHLY THOUGHT OF IN THE ANCIENT WORLD, CONSIDER THAT DAVID, THE YOUNGEST SON OF JESSE WASN’T EVEN CONSIDERED WHEN SAMUEL WAS ANOINTING THE SECOND KING OF ISRAEL … DAVID WAS OUT SHEPHERDING JESSE’S FLOCK. Biblebonesandligaments: Ps 23 (The Lord is my shepherd …) Is 40:11 He will tend his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms; he will carry them in his bosom, and gently lead those that are with young. Ez CH 34 ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING CHAPTERS IN THE BIBLE THAT YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF, AGAIN, I BELIEVE JESUS IS VERY CLOSELY RELATED TO EZEKIEL IN THE OLD TESTAMENT (Bad shepherds of Israel v1-10, Yahweh the good shepherd v11-24, 31) v11“For thus says the Lord God: Behold, I, I myself will search for my sheep and will seek them out. “MY SHEEP – GOD IS PRESENTING HIMSELF AS A SHEPHERD … WHAT DOES GOD DO FOR A LIVING? HOW DOES HE IDENTIFY HIMSELF? … HE’S A SHEPHERD. BACK TO EZ 34:12As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his sheep that have been scattered, so will I seek out my sheep, and I will rescue them from all places where they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness. 13And I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land. And I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the ravines, and in all the inhabited places of the country. 14I will feed them with good pasture, and on the mountain heights of Israel shall be their grazing land. There they shall lie down in good grazing land, and on rich pasture they shall feed on the mountains of Israel. 15I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I myself will make them lie down, declares the Lord God. 16I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice. NOW COMPARE EZ CH 34 TO JOHN CH 10 (Jesus the good shepherd v1-30) AMAZING! BACK TO MOSES AT THE BURNING BUSH EX 3: WHERE MOSES IS BEGINNING TO RESIST GOD … 13Then Moses said to God, “If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?” 14God said to Moses, “I am who I am.” OR, HE WHO CAUSES THINGS TO BE … LET’S TAKE A QUICK LOOK AT THIS NAME … THIS COMMENTARY IS BY FATHER STEPHEN DE YOUNG AN ORTHODOX PRIEST AND PHD IN BIBLICAL LANGUAGES AND STUDUES WHO DOES THE EXCELLENT PODCAST “THE WHOLE COUNSEL OF GOD” (the LORD) God has multiple names & titles … most ancient cultures had multiple names for their gods. IN THIS CASE, WITH MOSES, A GOOD TRANSLATION IS “He who causes things to be,” 3rd person singular verb, used as a noun although a verb in form. “Yahweh” is used throughout Genesis, however, when God is speaking with Moses at the burning bush he says your forefathers knew me as God, however, they did not yet know me as “He who causes things to be” … “then they will know that I am Yahweh – He who creates and sustains all things.” The names of God DO NOT define God, they simply define what He’s doing at the time that name is used. Ex: Ezekiel, the dry bones, then they will know I am the one who calls your dead from the tombs and causes them to live. BACK TO MOSES AT THE BURNING BUSH: EX 3:14 And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘I am has sent me to you.’” 15God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations. 16Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have observed you and what has been done to you in Egypt, 17and I promise that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, a land flowing with milk and honey.”’ 18And they will listen to your voice, and you and the elders of Israel shall go to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us; and now, please let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.’ 19But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless compelled by a mighty hand. 20So I will stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all the wonders that I will do in it; after that he will let you go. 21And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians; and when you go, you shall not go empty, 22but each woman shall ask of her neighbor, and any woman who lives in her house, for silver and gold jewelry, and for clothing. You shall put them on your sons and on your daughters. So you shall plunder the Egyptians.” SO, GOD LAYS OUT THE WHOLE GAME PLAN FOR MOSES … AND THAT WILL FINISH EX CH 3 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/35412600

Exodus Chapter 2 Deep-Dive: The Birth of Moses 02/24/2025

Exodus Chapter 2 Deep-Dive: The Birth of Moses Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. EXODUS CH 2 Ex 2:1Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman, 2and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child HEALTHY, she hid him for three months. 3But when she could hide him no longer REMEMBER, IT’S OPEN SEASON ON MALE HEBREW BABIES, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. THINK NOAH’S ARK Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. 4His sister MIRIAM stood at a distance to see what would happen to him. · Heb 11:23 By faith Moses’ parents hid him for three months after he was born, because they saw he was no ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king’s edict · Interesting that Moses here does not name his father (Amram Ex 6:20). · Observe the beauty of Providence: just when Pharaoh’s cruelty rose to this height, the deliverer was born. Note the cruelty that surrounded Jesus’ birth when Herod ordered the slaughter of the boys 2 yrs old and younger in Bethlehem after he had been visited by the magi. · Among the reeds, supposedly so that it would not float away so she could return and nurse the child after dark. Also, she might have thought that Pharoah’s da Ex 2:5Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female slave to get it. 6She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This is one of the Hebrew babies,” she said. MOSES WAS CIRCUMCISED 7Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?” PHAROAH’S DAUGHTER COULD NOT NURSE HIM BECAUSE SHE HADN’T RECENTLY GIVEN BIRTH SO MIRIAM BROUGHT A WETNURSE WHO HAPPENED TO BE MOSES’ MOTHER 8“Yes, go,” she PHAROAH’S DAUGHTER answered. So the girl went and got the baby’s mother. 9Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” So the woman took the baby and nursed him. 10When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, “I drew him out of the water.” THIS IS WORDPLAY THE EGYPTIAN WORD FOR CHILD IS MOSES AND IT ALSO SOUNDS SIMILAR TO THE HEBREW WORD FOR DREW OUT OF THE WATER. · Barnes’ notes; o Egyptian princesses held a very high and almost independent position under the ancient and middle empire, with a separate household and numerous officials. This was especially the case with the daughters of the first sovereigns of the 18th Dynasty. o Many facts concur in indicating that the residence of the daughter of Pharaoh and of the family of Moses, was at Zoan, on the Tanitic branch of the Nile, near the sea, where crocodiles are never found, and which was probably the western boundary of the district occupied by the Israelites. The field of Zoan was always associated by the Hebrews with the marvels which preceded the Exodus. See Psalm 78:43. o To wash - It is not customary at present for women of rank to bathe in the river, but it was a common practice in ancient Egypt. The habits of the princess, and her character, were most likely well known to the mother of Moses. · And he became her son — The tradition of the Jews is, that Pharaoh’s daughter had no child of her own, and that she was the only child of her father, so that when he was adopted for her son, it was possible that he might be Pharoah, however, he definitely had the best education in world and Egyptian culture … God is preparing Moses to serve him. o Moses, by having his education at Pharoah’s court, is prepared to be a leader, a prince and/or king and, in a sense, he does become the first ruler of Israel, Deut 33:4 …the law that Moses gave us, the possession of the assembly of Jacob. 5He was king over Jeshurun (UPRIGHT ONE-ISRAEL) when the leaders of the people assembled, along with the tribes of Israel NIV. o Acts 7:22 Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action … ready to be God’s ambassador to Pharoah’s court, and to write the first 5 books of the Bible supposedly while the nation was parked by God in the wilderness. o She called his name Moses, either from the Hebrew word משׁה, masha, to draw out, or from two Egyptian words, “Mo uses” which means child in Egyptian, of the same import … a play on the two words which sound slightly similar, but, Moses was an Egyptian name. Ex 2:11One day, after Moses had grown up (40 YEARS OLD), he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. 12Looking this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. SO, MOSES WAS AWARE OF HIS HERITAGE AND HIS BIOLOGICAL FAMILY AS WE LEARN LATER THAT HE KNOWS WHO HIS OLDER SIBLINGS ARE; MIRIAM AND AARON. MOSES APPEARS TO HAVE HAD ANGER MANAGEMENT ISSUES, AND NOW, AS PHAROAH’S GRANDSON, HE KILLS AN EGYPTIAN IN ORDER TO DEFEND A HEBREW, SO HE DEMONSTRATES THE VERY ISSUE PHAROAH WAS CONCERNED ABOUT … THE HEBREWS TURNING AGAINST THE EGYPTIANS Ex 2:13The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?” 14The man said, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “What I did must have become known.” 15When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well. Acts 7:25 Moses thought that his own people would realize that God was using him to rescue them, but they did not. Midian (250-300 miles from Egypt – across the Arabian peninsula & into Asia / Arabia The people of Midian were relatives of the Israelites – which may explain why Moses (born of Hebrew parents) fled from the well-watered lands of the Nile Delta to the semi-arid coastal lowlands of Midian and remained there for many years. The Midianites were descended from Midian, the fourth son of Abraham and his second wife Keturah, born in c.1819BC (see Genesis 25:1-6). During Abraham’s lifetime, Midian and his five brothers were sent "to the east" (Genesis 25:6), and settled in territory to the east and south of the Dead Sea. It was Midianite traders-slavers who took Joseph to Egypt as a slave in c.1679 BC, and sold him to Potiphar, the captain of Pharaoh’s guard (see Genesis 37:36). By the time Moses fled from Egypt in c.1508BC, the people of Midian occupied both the coastal strip of the Sinai Peninsula and parts of the Arabian Peninsula on the opposite side of the Gulf of Aqaba. Moses married Zipporah, the daughter of Jethro (or Reuel), a priest of Midian, and lived here for fifty years before God appeared to him in the flames of a burning bush (see Exodus 3:1-10). After Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt in c.1447 BC, they headed across the Sinai Peninsula to Midian, where they were welcomed by Moses’ father-in-law and their distant relatives, the people of Midian (see Exodus 18:1-12). Here, God again appeared to Moses on Mt Sinai and gave the ‘Ten Commandments’ and other laws for the people to follow (see Exodus 20:1-21). In later times, the Bible records that relationships between the Israelites and Midianites were not so cordial. When Moses and the Israelites arrived in the Plains of Moab in c.1407 BC after forty years in the Negev Desert, Midianite women were amongst those accused of leading the Israelites into sexual immorality and idolatry (see Numbers 25:6-17). As a result, all the towns of Midian were destroyed, and only the young girls were spared (see Numbers 31:1-18). Later still, during the time of the Judges, Midianite raiding parties devastated Israel for seven years until Gideon roundly defeated the Midianites near the spring of Harod in c.1200BC (see Judges 6:1-6 & 7:1-25). BACK TO MOSES FLEEING AND NOW SITTING BY A WELL … SO, God guided Moses to Midian, because the Midianites were of the seed of Abraham, and retained the worship of the true God; so that he might have not only a safe, but a comfortable settlement among them; and through this country he was afterward to lead Israel as they journeyed to Canaan, the land promised to Abraham. 16Now the priest of Midian (SPIRITUAL LEADER OF MIDIAN – NOMADIC PEOPLES) had seven daughters, and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock. 17The shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and saved them, and watered their flock. 18When they came home to their father Reuel (JETHRO = TITLE “PRIEST”), he said, “How is it that you have come home so soon today?” 19They said, “An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds and even drew water for us and watered the flock.” 20He said to his daughters, “Then where is he? Why have you left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.” 21And Moses was content to dwell with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter Zipporah. 22She gave birth to a son, and he called his name Gershom, for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.” 23 During those many days (MOSES IS IN MIDIAN FOR THE SECOND 40 YEARS OF HIS LIFE) the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. 24And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 25God saw the people of Israel—and God knew. GOD INTERACTING WITH HIS CREATION. SO, WHERE WAS GOD WHILE ISRAEL WAS IN EGYPT? Duet 33:1 This is the blessing that Moses the man of God pronounced on the Israelites before his death. 2He said: “The Lord came from Sinai and dawned over them from Seir; he shone forth from Mount Paran. He came with myriads of holy ones (ANGELS) from the south, from his mountain slopes. HE PRESENTS HIMSELF AS BEING IN EDOM, OR, COMING FROM EDOM (ESAU – SINAI, SEIR & PARAN) WHICH INCLUDED WHERE THE MIDIANITES WERE LOCATED. SO, WHEN MOSES RETURNS TO EGYPT, AT GOD’S DIRECTION, HE BRINGS THE PEOPLE BACK TO THE AREA WHERE HE HAS BEEN LIVING FOR THE PAST 40 YEARS … HE KNOWS IT WELL … GOD HAS BEEN PREPARING HIM, NOT JUST DURING HIS TIME BEING TRAINED IN EGYPT, BUT ALSO THROUGH THE 40 YEARS HE’S SPENT WITH THE PRIEST OF MIDIAN, JETHRO-RUEL, A GODLY MAN. END EXODUS CH 2 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/35410265

Exodus Chapter 1 Deep-Dive: The Israelites Opressed 02/24/2025

Exodus Chapter 1 Deep-Dive: The Israelites Opressed Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Exodus (Greek: Exodus-going out, Hebrew: Names/first word in the book) This is the start of the main story … the nation of Israel and its relationship with (striving / wrestling with) God. It occurs during the collapse of the Bronze Age of world-wide civilization 12-15th century BC). Hammurabi is emperor in Babylon and he’s the high water mark; smelting Bronze with Copper from Cyprus and Tin from Afghanistan, with world-wide trade routes that eventually collapse and there is a huge regression into the Iron Age … an apocalypse. Joshua – 2 Kings is set in a post-apocalyptic world. Egypt is the only civilization that survives but just barely … So, the Mycenaean-Greek empire, the Hittite empire, Hammurabi’s Babylonian empire, all collapse due to a major change in the climate & drought/famine throughout the Mediterranean, the Fertile Crescent and into the Middle East. The ability to grow and store crops is the key to the growth of civilization … food security for large numbers of people, the very thing we see Joseph doing in Egypt during the major world-wide famine that God is causing. Gen 41:25Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dreams of Pharaoh are one; God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do. v32 And the doubling of Pharaoh’s dream means that the thing is fixed by God, and God will shortly bring it about. v56So when the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt. 57Moreover, all the earth came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth. This world-wide famine leads to mass-migrations and subsequently war … invading people who need your food. It’s during this time that the Mycenaeans (Greece/Crete/Cyprus) try to invade Egypt, are repulsed and then settle near Egypt in the Levant/Canaan, these are the Philistines (sea peoples). For those of us who have become steeped in Western civilization’s human wisdom and don’t believe that God causes painful things like war, famine, hurricanes, tornadoes and other disasters, consider Is 45:6 that people may know, from the rising of the sun (the east) and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the Lord, and there is no other. 7I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the Lord, who does all these things. Or, east to west, light to dark, prosperity to disaster … I am the Lord who does all these things. So, from Joseph to the Exodus God is causing massive change in the world … it’s during that time that Israel grows from Jacob’s small tribe of 70 people planted in Egypt into a nation of @ 600,000 men, probably nearly 2 million people. Also, there are many Egyptians and peoples of other nationalities who have become Israelites through marriage during that period of growth. God arranged for Joseph to marry an Egyptian and so do the rest of the people, remember, Joseph’s two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh – two tribes of Israel, are also sons of Asenath, the daughter of the priest of On. So the nation grows into a genetically diverse group interwoven with the seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob over the nearly 400 years from Joseph/Jacob to the Exodus. Also, since the world-wide civilization is in collapse/chaos due to food insecurity we would not expect to find a lot of records about all of this outside the bible and Egyptians would not have recorded the events because Yahweh pounded them into submission and the Egyptians were notorious propagandists … who wants to remember that?! Ex 1:1These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household: 2Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 3Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 4Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. 5All the descendants of Jacob were seventy persons; Joseph was already in Egypt. 6Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died, 7but the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful; they multiplied greatly, increased in numbers and became so numerous that the land was filled with them. 8Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt. 9“Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become far too numerous for us. 10Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country.” REMEMBER, WORLD CIVILIZATION IS COLLAPSING AT THIS POINT AND EGYPT IS BEING THREATENED BY THE SEA PEOPLES AND OTHERS, THEY’RE FIGHTING A LOT OF BATTLES AND PHAROAH IS CONCERNED THAT THE ISRAELITES MIGHT HELP EGYPT’S ENEMIES. 11So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. THE PYRAMIDS HAD ALREADY BEEN AROUND FOR HUNDREDS OR THOUSANDS OF YEARS AT THAT POINT AND “BUILDING” CITIES IN EGYPT OFTEN MEANT “REBUILDING” THEM/FRESHENING THEM UP AND RENAMING THEM FOR THE NEW PHAROAH. ALSO, PEOPLE WHO ARE BEING OPPRESSED DON’T HAVE LOTS OF BABIES, HOWEVER … v12But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites 13and worked them ruthlessly. 14They made their lives bitter with harsh labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their harsh labor the Egyptians worked them ruthlessly. SO, PHAROAH DOUBLES DOWN IN OPPRESSING THEM … LET’S STOP FOR A MINUTE AND CONSIDER A FEW THINGS: · Israel fell into idolatry while in Egypt, they became part of the Egyptian culture, and ended up as slaves. EZEKIEL … THE POINT IN THE OT WHERE GOD IS THE MOST ANGRY WITH ISRAEL … Ez 20:4“Will you judge them? Will you judge them, son of man EZEKIEL? Then confront them with the detestable practices of their ancestors 5and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: On the day I chose Israel, I swore with uplifted hand to the descendants of Jacob and revealed myself to them in Egypt. With uplifted hand I said to them, “I am the Lord your God.” 6On that day I swore to them that I would bring them out of Egypt into a land I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands. 7And I said to them, “Each of you, get rid of the vile images you have set your eyes on, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.” 8“ ‘But they rebelled against me and would not listen to me; they did not get rid of the vile images they had set their eyes on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and spend my anger against them in Egypt. 9But for the sake of my name, I brought them out of Egypt. I did it to keep my name from being profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they lived and in whose sight I had revealed myself to the Israelites. 10Therefore I led them out of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness. SO, GOD WAS ALREADY ANGY WITH THE ISRAELITES BEFORE HE LED THEM OUT OF EGYPT … THEY WERE IDOLATORS!! ALSO, CONSIDER WHAT RAHAB THE PROSTITUTE, IN JERICHO, SAID TO THE HEBREW SPIES WHEN ISRAEL WAS ENTERING THE PROMISED LAND: Josh 2:8Before the men lay down, she came up to them on the roof 9and said to the men, “I know that the Lord has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you. 10For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you devoted to destruction. 11And as soon as we heard it, our hearts melted, and there was no spirit left in any man because of you, for the Lord your God, he is God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath. FOR THE SAKE OF MY NAME I BROUGHT THEM OUT OF EGYPT. MUCH OF THE EXODUS WILL END UP AS A TOTAL DISASTER BECAUSE OF ISRAEL’S STIFF NECKED REBELLION AND GOD WILL USE ISRAEL TO DEMONSTRATE TO THE REST OF HUMANITY THAT THE “FEAR OF THE LORD” IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM. WHEN YOU CONSIDER THAT MAN IS EVIL AT HEART AND A REBEL TOWARDS HIS CREATOR THEN GOD IS THE ONLY VICTIM IN SCRIPTURE, AND, GOD IS THE MOST DANGEROUS PERSON IN THE UNIVERSE … FEAR THE LORD! · AS WE CONSIDER THE EVILS OF SLAVERY LET’S PUT ON OUR NT DECODER GLASSES AND CONSIDER WHAT PAUL SAID: Col 3:22 Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything; and do it, not only when their eye is on you and to curry their favor, but with sincerity of heart and reverence for the Lord. 23Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, 24since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving … seek your approval from GOD in all things. GOD IS IN CONTOL OF EVERYONE’S CIRCUMSTANCES … OUR CONCERN SHOULD BE TO RESPOND IN A GODLY MANNER IN THE MIDST OF OUR CIRCUMSTANCES. · This Pharaoh who knew not Joseph was from God, sent to prepare God’s people for being “birthed” out of Egypt. Rom 9:17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.” 18So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills. God needed to break Israel’s ties with Egypt – Egypt needed to become an uncomfortable place to be. Did God work the same way with the early church? Acts 8:1 On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria. 2Godly men buried Stephen and mourned deeply for him. 3But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison. 4Those who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went. DOES GOD CONTINUE TO WORK THAT WAY? Rev 2:10 JESUS SPEAKING TO THE CHURCH IN SMYRNA Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life … THINK OF JOB. · Ps 22:24For he has not despised or scorned the suffering of the afflicted one; he has not hidden his face from him but has listened to his cry for help. GOD IS AWARE OF THE SUFFERING OF THE AFFLICTED · Ps 119: 67Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I obey your word. 71It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn your decrees. 75I know, Lord, that your laws are righteous, and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me. GOD USES AFFLICTION TO DISCIPLINE AND TRAIN US. BACK TO EXODUS CH1:15 The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah, 16“When you are helping the Hebrew women during childbirth on the delivery stool, if you see that the baby is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live.” 17The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live. THIS PASSAGE ALSO REFERS TO THE EGYPTIAN PRACTICE OF DETERMINING THE SEX OF THE CHILD BEFORE ITS BORN (50% CHANCE OF BEING CORRECT!) THEN REQUIRING THE MIDWIVES TO CAUSE AN ABORTION OF THE CHILD IS A BOY … GIRLS/WOMEN COULD BE MARRIED BY EGYPTIANS WHO PRACTICE POLYGAMY THEN EVENTUALLY WHEN ALL THE BOYS/MEN DIED OUT THERE WOULD BE NO MORE ISRAEL YET EGYPTIAN POPULATION WOULD CONTINUE TO INCREASE. · Ps 105 is a recap of Abraham to Jacob to becoming Israel and growing into a nation in Egypt 24The Lord made his people very fruitful; he made them too numerous for their foes, 25whose hearts he turned to hate his people, to conspire against his servants. GOD caused the Egyptians to hate the Hebrews … HE was totally in control of their situation. · Interesting commentary on this by Calvin: Why two midwives only are mentioned by name, when it is probable that, in so great a population, there were many? Two replies may be given; either that the tyrant Pharoah addressed himself to these two, who might spread the fear of his power amongst the others; or, that, desiring to proceed with secret malice, he made a trial of the firmness of these two, and if he had obtained their acquiescence, he hoped to have easily succeeded with the others; for shame forbade him from issuing an open and general command, and he feared open rebellion by the Hebrews. BACK TO EX 1:18Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?” 19The midwives answered Pharaoh, “Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive.” 20So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous. 21And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own. WE AGAIN SEE GOD INTERACTING DIRECTLY WITH HIS CREATION … HE WAS KIND TO THE MIDWIVES BECAUSE THEY DID THE RIGHT THING AND PROTECTED THE INNOCENT EVEN IF WHAT THEY WERE SAYING WASN’T TRUE, BUT WHAT THEY SAID MOST LIKELY WAS TRUE IN MOST CASES BECAUSE OF THE INCREASING POPULATION GOD HAD CAUSED. · Are we always rewarded by God for doing the right thing? Rev22:12 “Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay each one for what he has done. BACK TO EX 1:22And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive. · Pharaoh is becoming desperate and is now willing to make this heinous act public policy. Things are heating up for him. About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/35408310

Genesis Chapter 50 Deep-Dive: Jacob's Burial, The Death of Jospeh 11/09/2024

Genesis Chapter 50 Deep-Dive: Jacob's Burial, The Death of Jospeh Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Gen 50 1Then Joseph fell on his father’s face and wept over him and kissed him. 2And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel. 3Forty days were required for it, for that is how many are required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days. JOSEPH HAS CONTINUED TO DO A GOOD JOB FOR PHAROAH AND ALTHOUGH HE “BOUGHT” THE PEOPLE OF EGYPT ON BEHALF OF PHAROAH THEY CONTINUED TO RESPECT HIM. 4And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, 5‘My father made me swear, saying, “I am about to die: in my tomb that I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me.” Now therefore, let me please go up and bury my father. Then I will return.’” JOSEPH DOESN’T USE HIS DIRECT CONNECTION TO PHAROAH, INSTEAD HE IS POLITICALLY SAVY AND WORKS THROUGH THE “HOUSEHOLD OF PHARHOAH” AND HE GAINS THEIR SUPPORT. 6And Pharaoh answered, “Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear.” 7So Joseph went up to bury his father. With him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his PHAROAH’S household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, 8as well as all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s household. Only their children, their flocks, and their herds were left in the land of Goshen. 9And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company. THE DEATH AND BURIEL OF JACOB IS A VERY-BIG-DEAL BECAUSE OF JOSEPH 10When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and grievous lamentation, and he made a mourning for his father seven days. 11When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning on the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians.” Therefore the place was named Abel-mizraim; it is beyond the Jordan. SO, THE OTHER NATIONS IN THE AREA, WHO WERE ALSO BUYING GRAIN FROM JOSEPH BECAUSE THE 7 YEAR FAMINE WAS THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE EARTH, BECAME AWARE OF JOSEPH’S FATHER AND BROTHERS 12Thus his JACOB’S sons did for him as he had commanded them, 13for his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place. 14After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father. God’s Good Purposes 15When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us and pay us back for all the evil that we did to him.” GUILT AND SHAME IS A WONDERFUL THING BECAUSE IT CONSTANTLY REMINDS US OF WHO WE ARE AT HEART AND CAN BRING US TO REPENTENCE. 16So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father gave this command before he died: 17‘Say to Joseph, “Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you.”’ And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him. 18His brothers also came and fell down before him and said, “Behold, we are your servants.” 19But Joseph said to them, “Do not fear, for am I in the place of God? REMEMBER JACOB RESPONDING TO RACHEL WHEN SHE DEMANDED JACOB GIVE HER CHILDREN … AM I IN THE PLACE OF GOD?!? 20As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today. 21So do not fear; I will provide for you and your little ones.” Thus he comforted them and spoke kindly to them. HE NEVER DISMISSED THEIR ACTIONS “YOU MEANT IT FOR EVIL BUT GOD MEANT IT FOR GOOD, SO, HIS FORGIVING HIS BROTHERS DOESN’T EXCUSE THEIR EVIL ACTIONS, INSTEAD, IT BRINGS GLORY TO GOD. Rom 8:28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. The Death of Joseph 22So Joseph remained in Egypt, he and his father’s house. Joseph lived 110 years. 23And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation. The children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were counted as Joseph’s own. 24And Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.” 25Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.” 26So Joseph died, being 110 years old. They embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. SO, EVEN AT THE END OF HIS LIFE, HAVING SERVED PHAROAH FOR MOST OF HIS ADULT LIFE, JOSEPH IDENTIFIED WITH JACOB/ISRAEL, THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB. AND THAT WILL WRAP UP THE BOOK OF GENESIS, THE PREAMBLE, OR INTRODUCTION TO THE TORAH AND THE WHOLE BIBLE. About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. 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Genesis Chapter 49 Deep-Dive: Israel Blesses His Sons 11/09/2024

Genesis Chapter 49 Deep-Dive: Israel Blesses His Sons Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Gen 49 Jacob Blesses His Sons … and prophesies about them: (NOTE the prophetic product of Jacob in this chapter is one of the most AMAZING prophetic passages in scripture! Keep in mind that when Jacob travelled to Egypt just 17 years earlier his whole family, including descendants, was only 70 people (Gen 46:27.) 1Then Jacob called for his sons and said: “Gather around so I can tell you what will happen to you in days to come. 2“Assemble and listen, sons of Jacob; listen to your father Israel. NOTE THAT EACH OF THESE SONS / TRIBES RECEIVED AN INHERITANCE – no matter who their mother was or what they had done … NONE WERE CUT OFF !! NOTE: Commentary notes mostly from Joseph Benson, a Methodist minister, five volumes, 1811-18, Biblehub.com/commentaries 3“Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, the first sign of my strength, excelling in honor, excelling in power. 4Turbulent as the waters, you will no longer excel, for you went up onto your father’s bed, onto my couch and defiled it. (by having sex with Bilhah, Rachel’s maid and the mother of his half-brothers, Dan and Naphtili) Leah’s 1st son, Jacob’s 1st, meaning “behold a son”, “it is because the Lord has seen my misery. Surely my husband will love me now.” Gen 29:31 Nothing great or excellent is recorded of the tribe of Reuben throughout the Bible. No judge, prophet, prince, nor any person of renown, only Dathan and Abiram, who were noted for their rebellion against Moses & God (Korah’s rebellion, Num 16:1-2). This tribe, not aiming to excel, chose a settlement on the eastern side of the Jordan River. Jacob here charges Reuben with the sin for which he was disgraced. It was forty years ago that he had been guilty of this sin; yet now it’s still remembered against him. It left an indelible mark of infamy upon his family; a wound not to be healed without a scar. 5“Simeon and Levi are brothers—their swords are weapons of violence. 6Let me not enter their council, let me not join their assembly, for they have killed men in their anger and hamstrung oxen as they pleased. 7Cursed be their anger, so fierce, and their fury, so cruel! I will scatter them in Jacob and disperse them in Israel. Jacob curses them because they killed the men of Shechem after requiring them to be circumcised because of the rape and abduction of their sister, Dinah ... similar to requiring someone to be baptized then drowning them in the baptismal. Jacob curses them for their violence. Gen 34 Simeon is Leah’s 2nd son & Jacob’s 2nd, meaning “one who hears, heard”, “Because the Lord heard that I am not loved, he gave me this one too.” Gen 29:33, Levi is Leah’s 3rd son & Jacob’s 3rd, meaning “attached”, “Now at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Gen 29:34 Simeon is the weakest of all the tribes at the close of Israel’s 40 year sojourn in the wilderness Numbers 26:14; the tribe is omitted in the blessing of Moses in Deuteronomy 33, and obtains no distinct territory, but only a part of that of Judah – the southwest corner, Joshua 19:1-9; and it subsequently sends out two colonies, which are separated from the parent stock, and from one another 1 Chr 4:24-43. Levi was the tribe of the priests – the tribe dedicated to serving Jehovah directly. By the direction of God they were scattered throughout the land in order to exercise a positive Godly influence. Levi received 48 towns having no connected territory, but occupying certain cities and their suburbs which were assigned to his descendants in the various provinces of the land. This prediction of being scattered was therefore, fulfilled to the letter in the history of these brothers. BUT WHY WAS THE TRIBE OF LEVI CHOSEN BY GOD FOR THE PRIESTHOOD, CONSIDERING THAT LEVI PARTICIPATED WITH SIMEON IN MURDERING THE TOWN OF SHECHEM? CONSIDER THIS FROM THE EXODUS, AFTER MOSES WAS SENT DOWN MT SINAI BY GOD, AFTER RECEIVING THE 10 COMMANDMENTS, BECAUSE THE PEOPLE WERE HAVING A DEBAUCH AND WORSHIPPING THE GOLDEN CALF WHICH AARON HAD MADE: Ex 32: 25And when Moses saw that the people had broken loose (for Aaron had let them break loose, to the derision of their enemies), 26then Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, “Who is on the Lord’s side? Come to me.” And all the sons of Levi gathered around him. THIS WAS MOSES AND AARON’S TRIBE … 27And he MOSES said to them, “Thus says the Lord God of Israel, ‘Put your sword on your side each of you, and go to and fro from gate to gate throughout the camp, and each of you kill his brother and his companion and his neighbor.’” 28And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. And that day about three thousand men of the people fell. 29And Moses said, “Today you have been ordained for the service of the Lord, each one at the cost of his son and of his brother, so that he might bestow a blessing upon you this day.” WHAT?!? SO, BECAUSE THE LEVITES RESPONDED TO “WHO IS ON THE LORD’S SIDE?” BY SLAUGHTERING THEIR REBELIOUS SONS AND BROTHERS, GOD REWARDED THEM WITH THE PRIESTHOOD … WOW … WE DON’T REALLY THINK ABOUT THINGS THAT WAY ANYMORE, DO WE? HOW MUCH GOD VALUES RIGHTEOUSNESS AND ABHORS REBELLION, WELL, CONSIDER WHAT JESUS SAID: Lk 14:25Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them, 26“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. AND, AT THE END OF EX CH 32 GOD WRAPS UP THE GOLDEN CALF INCIDENT WITH THIS … AFTER MOSES HAS BEEN INTERCEDING WITH GOD FOR THE NATION’S RESTORATION: v33 But the Lord said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me, I will blot out of my book. 34But now go, lead the people to the place about which I have spoken to you; behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them.” 35Then the Lord sent a plague on the people, because they made the calf, the one that Aaron made. GOD DOES PAINFUL THINGS TO HIS OWN PEOPLE IN HIS WRATH! BACK TO GEN 49 AND JACOB’S PROPHECY ABOUT EACH OF HIS SONS: 8“Judah, your brothers will praise you; your hand will be on the neck of your enemies; your father’s sons will bow down to you. 9You are a lion’s cub, Judah; you return from the prey, my son. Like a lion he crouches and lies down, like a lioness—who dares to rouse him? 10The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he to whom it belongs shall come and the obedience of the nations shall be his. 11He will tether his donkey to a vine, his colt to the choicest branch; he will wash his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes. 12His eyes will be darker than wine, his teeth whiter than milk. Leah’s 4th son & Jacob’s 4th, meaning “praise”, “This time I will praise the Lord. Gen 29:35. Leah’s 4th son, Jacob’s 4th. David and Jesus, the Messiah, come from the tribe of Judah. Third in line – he replaces his first three brothers, who were rejected because of their actions … ?? Judah is the one who receives the same blessing that Jacob sought when he bought it from Esau for a bowl of red stew … the blessing of the firstborn. Judah was a nasty guy, it was he who suggested the brothers sell Joseph into slavery, in Gen 38 we learn that God put two of Judah’s sons to death because they were wicked … an indication of the type of household Judah had, and then Judah inadvertently sleeps with his daughter in law when she is disguised and he thinks she’s a prostitute. However, later in Genesis, when the sons went down to Egypt to buy food it’s Judah who steps up and takes the lead (Gen 43-44) to protect Benjamin as the brothers return to Egypt to buy food. The tribe of Judah led the van through the wilderness … they were the lead tribe as the nation would proceed, Numbers 10:14, and, in the conquest of Canaan, by the appointment of God, they were the lead tribe in the fight against the Canaanites, after the death of Joshua, Jdg 1:1-2. They had the first lot assigned them in the division of the country, and a lot that was very extensive and fertile. Othniel, the first judge, was of this tribe; and Caleb, who was the second spy with Joshua, who supported Yahweh after the 12 tribes spied out the land of Canaan then enticed the people to turn back to Egypt. Israel’s second king, David, was of Judah. In short, in every age, this tribe was more honored than any of the others. Thy hand shall be on the neck of thine enemies — An expression which signified victory over their enemies, and was remarkably fulfilled in David, Psalm 18:40. Judah received the 13“Zebulun will live by the seashore and become a haven for ships; his border will extend toward Sidon. Jacob goes out of order, Zebulon was his 10th son and Leah’s 6th, his name means “honor”, “God has presented me with a precious gift. This time my husband will treat me with honor, because I have borne him six sons.” Gen 30:19 Mt 4:13 And leaving Nazareth, Jesus came and lived at Capernaum on the lake, the sea of Galilee, in the bounds of Zebulon and Naphtali. 14“Issachar is a rawboned donkey lying down among the sheep pens. 15When he sees how good is his resting place and how pleasant is his land, he will bend his shoulder to the burden and submit to forced labor. Jacob goes out of order here, Issachar was his 9th son, but Leah’s 5th, meaning “reward”, “God has rewarded me for giving my servant (Zilpah) to my husband.” Gen 30:17 Gen 30:14 during wheat harvest, Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrake plants, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.” 15But she said to her, “Wasn’t it enough that you took away my husband? Will you take my son’s mandrakes too?” “Very well,” Rachel said, “he can sleep with you tonight in return for your son’s mandrakes.” 16So when Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him. “You must sleep with me,” she said. “I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he slept with her that night. 17God listened to Leah, and she became pregnant and bore Jacob a fifth son ALL OF LEAH’S SONS (6) HAVE NOW BEEN LISTED. 16“Dan will provide justice for his people as one of the tribes of Israel. 17Dan will be a snake by the roadside, a viper along the path that bites the horse’s heels so that its rider tumbles backward. 18“I look for your deliverance, Lord. Back to proper order, Dan is Jacob’s 5th son, but Bilhah’s (Rachel’s maid) 1st, meaning “he has vindicated – a judge”, Rachel became jealous of her sister. So she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I’ll die!” “God has vindicated me; he has listened to my plea and given me a son.” Gen 30:1-4 This is the first son listed of the concubines Bilhah (Rachel’s) and Zilpah (Leah’s), yet, he’s considered equal to his brothers as Bilhah and Zilpah are also considered full wives of Jacob. Samson came from Dan and “judged” his people for 20 years. Judges 13-15. Not every tribe produced a Judge. Jacob’s prophecy leads us to expect something very dishonorable in the history of Dan … they were the tribe that set up a molten image in the promised-land and by their example and perseverance in this iniquity they infected all the tribes of Israel. This idolatry began soon after the days of Joshua and continued till the day of the captivity of the land (Jdg 18:30 There the Danites set up for themselves the idol, and Jonathan son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests for the tribe of Dan until the time of the captivity of the land. 31They continued to use the idol Micah had made, all the time the house of God was in Shiloh.) Note that Dan is not listed as one of the tribes of Israel in Rev 7 Back to Jacob’s predictions in Gen 49:19“Gad will be attacked by a band of raiders, but he will attack them at their heels. Gad is Jacob’s 7th son, but Zilpah’s 1st, Leah’s maid. Again, the four sons of Jacob’s concubines are listed as equals of their brothers. His name means “good fortune”, “what good fortune!” Gen 30:9 While Gad means good fortune, Jacob connects it with the Hebrew root gâdad, “to gather in troops.” So, “A troop” or “group of plunderers will attack him, but he will attack their heel.” The tribe settled east of the Jordan and was exposed to sudden incursions of plunderers, but, though ever unready, they eventually gather their forces and repel them, and follow up with avenging energy upon the attackers’ rear. Attacks from the Moabites and Ammonites on Gad were eventually subdued in Saul and David’s time when the Moabites and Ammonites were wholly subdued. 20“Asher’s food will be rich; he will provide delicacies fit for a king. Zilpah’s 2nd son, Leah’s maid, and Jacob’s 8th, meaning “happy”, “How happy I am! The women will call me happy.” Gen 30:12 Their territory, extending along the coast from Mount Carmel to Lebanon, was very productive. Zebulun, the trading tribe, could reach the sea only through their possessions. 21“Naphtali is a doe set free that bears beautiful fawns (or, he utters beautiful words). Bilhah’s 2nd son, Rachel’s maid, and Jacob’s 6th son), meaning “my struggle”, “I have had a great struggle with my sister, and I have won.” Gen 30:7 Deut 33:23About Naphtali he (Moses) said: “Naphtali is abounding with the favor of the Lord and is full of his blessing; he will inherit southward to the lake.” Mt 4:13 And leaving Nazareth, Jesus came and lived at Capernaum on the lake, the sea of Galilee, in the bounds of Zebulon and Naphtali. The meaning of the prophecy seems to be that the tribe of Naphtali would be located in a territory so fertile and peaceable, that, feeding on the richest pasture, he would spread out, like a deer, branching antlers. THE FOUR SONS OF THE TWO CONCUBINES/HANDMAIDS ZILPAH & BILHAH HAVE BEEN LISTED Back to Jacob in Gen 49:22“Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine near a spring, whose branches climb over a wall. 23With bitterness archers attacked him; they shot at him with hostility. 24But his bow remained steady, his strong arms stayed limber, because of the hand of the Mighty One of Jacob, because of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel, 25because of your father’s God, who helps you, because of the Almighty, who blesses you with blessings of the skies above, blessings of the deep springs below, blessings of the breast and womb. 26Your father’s blessings are greater than the blessings of the ancient mountains, than the bounty of the age-old hills. Let all these rest on the head of Joseph, on the brow of the prince among his brothers. REMEMBER, THE TRIBE OF JOSEPH IS RARELY LISTED ALONE, IT’S REPLACED BY HIS SONS EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH … JOSEPH’S DOUBLE PORTION Rachel’s 1st, and Jacob’s 11th son meaning “may he add”, “God has taken away my disgrace.” Gen 30:22Then God remembered Rachel; he listened to her and enabled her to conceive. 23She became pregnant and gave birth to a son and said, “God has taken away my disgrace.” 24She named him Joseph, and said, “May the Lord add to me another son.” 27“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he devours the prey, in the evening he divides the plunder.” Rachel’s 2nd son, and Jacob’s 12th son Gen 35:18 Rachel, who died during labor, named him Ben-Oni, which means “son of my trouble,” but Jacob renamed him Benjamin, which means “son of my right hand.” In Judges 19-20, an incident occurred in Benjamin’s territory where a travelling Levite and his concubine were treated in a manner similar to what happened in Sodom and Gomorrah when the angels came to rescue Lot. Consequently, all Israel confronted the Benjaminites and asked them to surrender the men who assaulted the Levite and his concubine. However, the Benjaminites refused and there was war between Israel and Benjamin that resulted in the death of tens of thousands of Israelites and Benjaminites to the point where the tribe of Benjamin was nearly destroyed. Israel’s first king, Saul, was a Benjamite as was the Apostle Paul (Saul) in the NT. JACOB HAS NOW CONCLUDED THIS AMAZING PIECE OF PROPHECY!! Gen 49:28All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them, giving each the blessing appropriate to him. 29Then he (Jacob) gave them these instructions: “I am about to be gathered to my people. CLEAR BELIEF IN AN AFTERLIFE Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 30the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in Canaan, which Abraham bought along with the field as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite. 31There Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried, there Isaac and his wife Rebekah were buried, and there I buried Leah. 32The field and the cave in it were bought from the Hittites.” 33When Jacob had finished giving instructions to his sons, he drew his feet up into the bed, breathed his last and was gathered to his people. A FEW NOTES IN LIGHT OF THIS LIST: The promises to Abraham are for individuals AND the collective group/seed … singular and plural. Ishmael and Esau THE FIRSTBORN SONS WHO WERE SET ASIDE BY GOD receive an inheritance AND PROSPERITY but not the line of the promise ISRAEL BECAME A NATION AROUND THE 10th – 13TH century BC, and for less than 100 years there was a united kingdom of Judah & Ephraim COMBINED, less than 200 yrs later the northern kingdom (Ephraim) is taken captive by Assyria, and barely 300 yrs later from the founding, Judah is taken captive by the Babylonians … ALL AT THE HAND OF GOD BECAUSE OF DISOBEDIENCE AND REBELLION! Ephraim, the Northern Kingdom, is tied to the fullness of the gentiles bc of the Assyrian deportation. The Assyrians also brought other peoples to the Northern kingdom/Samaria, to replace the Northern Israelites they had taken into exile … these “replacement” people were never considered true Israelites by the people of Judah … these became the “Samaritans”. Within 3 generations those Israelites taken to Assyria were assimilated by the other cultures … scattered by God like seed into the world … then the harvest OF THAT SEED is the church which grew primarily among the gentiles. Consider this as you read Rom Ch 11 JUDAH has been hardened until the fullness of the gentiles then all Israel will be saved … BECAUSE ISRAEL WAS THE SEED OF THE GENTILE CHURCH PRIMARILY THROUGH THE ASSYRIAN CAPTIVITY/EXILE. ALSO, CONSIDER THIS AMAZING VERSE AS PAUL PROCEEDS ON HIS MISSIONARY JOURNIES: Acts 18 PAUL IN CORINTH 9And the Lord said to Paul one night in a vision, “Do not be afraid, but go on speaking and do not be silent, 10for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many in this city who are my people.” SO, GOD HAD MANY PEOPLE IN CORINTH WHO WERE ALREADY HIS PEOPLE AS PAUL WAS BEGINNING TO PREACH THE GOSPEL THERE … And that will wrap up Gen 49 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all... /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/33860952

Genesis Chapter 48 Deep-Dive: Israel blesses Manasseh and Ephraim 10/15/2024

Genesis Chapter 48 Deep-Dive: Israel blesses Manasseh and Ephraim Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Gen 48 Jacob Blesses Ephraim and Manasseh REMEMBER, GENESIS IS THE PROLOGUE/INTRODUCTION TO TORAH, THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF AT LEAST THE OLD TESTAMENT, WE WILL SEE AMAZING THINGS IN CH 48-50 THAT WILL PLAY OUT MUCH LATER IN ISRAEL’S HISTORY. Gen 48:1After this, Joseph was told, “Behold, your father is ill.” So he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. 2And it was told to Jacob, “Your son Joseph has come to you.” Then Israel summoned his strength and sat up in bed. 3And Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me, 4and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples and will give this land to your offspring after you for an everlasting possession.’ LET’S TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT THIS TIME IN JACOB’S LIFE AFTER HE RECONCILED WITH ESAU: Gen 34, Dinah & the Shechemites – a true low point in Jacob’s life. His daughter, Dinah, was abducted and raped by Shechem who then wanted to marry her. Jacob’s sons agree to that as long as all the Shechemites were circumcised. While the Shechemites were recovering Levi and Simeon (Dinah’s brothers by Jacob’s wife, Leah; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun & Dinah) killed the men of Shechem and looted their city. Gen 35:1Then God said to Jacob, “Go up to Bethel (LUZ) and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.” 2So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes. 3Then come, let us go up to Bethel, where I will build an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone.” 4So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had and the rings in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the oak at Shechem. 5Then they set out, and the terror of God fell on the towns all around them so that no one pursued them. 6Jacob and all the people with him came to Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan. 7There he built an altar, and he called the place El Bethel (meaning The God of the House Of God), because it was there that God revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother. 8Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak outside Bethel. So it was named Allon Bakuth. 9After Jacob returned from Paddan Aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him. 10God said to him, “Your name is Jacob, but you will no longer be called Jacob; your name will be Israel.” So he named him Israel. 11And God said to him, “I am God Almighty; be fruitful and increase in number. A nation and a community of nations will come from you, and kings will be among your descendants. 12The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I also give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.” 13Then God went up from him at the place where he had talked with him. 14Jacob set up a stone pillar at the place where God had talked with him, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it. 15Jacob called the place where God had talked with him Bethel (meaning House of God). Gen 35:16-22 Rachel dies, Benjamin is born (Jacob’s last son), Isaac dies and Reuben, Jacob’s oldest son, sleeps with his step-mother, Bilhah, Rachel’s maid and Jacob’s concubine. Gen 36 Esau’s (Edom’s) descendants. Gen 37 Joseph’s dreams & sold into slavery… BACK TO JACOB SPEAKING WITH JOSEPH Gen 48:5And now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are. SO, JOSEPH IS NOW CONSIDERED THE OLDEST AND THE HEIR TO JACOB … RECEIVING A DOUBLE PORTION, THIS WAS A VERY BIG HONOR FOR JOSEPH – HE TRULY WAS JACOB’S FAVORITE CHILD AND BLESSED BY GOD IN A VERY SPECIAL, BUT SOMEWHAT PAINFUL, WAY. Manasseh (means forgetfulness) and Ephraim (means fruitfulness) are replacing Jacob’s first two sons; Reuben violated his father’s bed, and Simeon led the murder of the Shechemites with Levi when their sister, Dinah, was kidnapped. BACK TO JACOB SPEAKING WITH JOSEPH Gen 48: 6And the children that you fathered after them shall be yours. They shall be called by the name of their brothers in their inheritance. SO, ANY OTHER CHILDREN JOSEPH WAS TO PRODUCE WOULD BE CONSIDERED PART OF EPHRAIM AND/OR MANASSEH 7As for me, when I came from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).” 8When Israel saw Joseph’s sons, he said, “Who are these?” 9Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me here.” And he said, “Bring them to me, please, that I may bless them.” 10Now the eyes of Israel were dim with age, so that he could not see. (JUST LIKE WHEN JACOB DECEIVED HIS FATHER, ISAAC … LOL!) So Joseph brought them near him, and he kissed them and embraced them. 11And Israel said to Joseph, “I never expected to see your face; and behold, God has let me see your offspring also.” 12Then Joseph removed them from his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth. 13And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand, and brought them near him. 14And Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on the head of Ephraim, who was the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, crossing his hands (for Manasseh was the firstborn). 15And he blessed Joseph and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day, 16 the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the boys; and in them let my name be carried on, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.” SO, JACOB MENTIONS GOD THREE TIMES: “The God (ELOHIM) before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God (ELOHIM) who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day, 16 the angel (mal'āḵ) who has redeemed me from all evil, THE ANGEL? THE ANGEL OF THE LORD … THE PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE, OR MESSENGER, OF GOD WHO APPEARED IN HUMAN FORM AND SPOKE AUTHORITATIVELY … JESUS? 17When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him, and he took his father’s hand to move it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head. 18And Joseph said to his father, “Not this way, my father; since this one is the firstborn, put your right hand on his head.” 19But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great. Nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations.” 20So he blessed them that day, saying, “By you Israel will pronounce blessings, saying, ‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh.’” THE BOYS WERE MOST LIKELY 15-18 YEARS OLD AT THAT TIME, THEY WERE BORN BEFORE ISRAEL CAME TO EGYPT. Thus he put Ephraim before Manasseh. GOD SHAKING THINGS UP AGAIN … THE YOUNGER GREATER THAN THE OLDER This blessing began to be fulfilled from the time of the Judges (after Israel had taken possession of the promised land, Canaan), when the tribe of Ephraim increased in size and power. It took the lead of the northern tribes and became the head of the ten tribes, and its name acquired equal importance with the name Israel, whereas under Moses, Manasseh had numbered 20,000 more than Ephraim (Numbers 26:34 and Numbers 26:37). Joshua, the successor of Moses, was of the tribe of Ephraim, as Kaleb his companion was of Judah. Ephraim came to designate the northern kingdom of the ten tribes, as Judah denoted the southern kingdom containing the remaining tribes; and each name was occasionally used to denote all Israel. … BACK TO JACOB SPEAKING … Gen 48:21Then Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you again to the land of your fathers. 22Moreover, I have given to you rather than to your brothers one mountain slope that I took from the hand of the Amorites with my sword and with my bow.” The Hebrew word used here for “mountain slope or ridge of land” is the same as Shechem. Where Abraham first settled when he came to Canaan (Gen 12:6), where Jacob first settled “arriving safely” after parting from Esau (Gen 33:18) and where Jacob’s daughter, Dinah, was abducted and Simeon and Levi took vengeance on the Shechemites for their sister. From there God moved him to Bethel (Gen 35) to make a fresh start (Gen 34), however, Jacob was speaking as a prophet in this instance since Shechem became the first capital of the Kingdom of Israel. According to Joshua 21:20-21 it was located in the tribal territorial allotment of the tribe of Ephraim. In the New Testament Shechem is the scene where Jesus meets the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well, Jn 4:5 So He came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph; 6and Jacob’s well was there. V22: “I am about to die, but God will be with you and take you back to the land of your fathers.” Jacob prophesies that THE NATION – Hebrew is plural, God will be with YOU and will take YOU back to the land of your fathers (plural: Abraham, Isaac & Jacob). Josh 24:32 And Joseph’s bones, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the tract of land that Jacob bought for a hundred pieces of silver from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem. This became the inheritance of Joseph’s descendants. About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/33468257

Genesis Chapter 47 Deep-Dive: Joseph, Pharoah, and the Famine 10/15/2024

Genesis Chapter 47 Deep-Dive: Joseph, Pharoah, and the Famine Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Gen 47 Jacob’s Family Settles in Goshen 1So Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, “My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all that they possess, have come from the land of Canaan. They are now in the land of Goshen.” 2And from among his brothers he took five men and presented them to Pharaoh. 3Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?” And they said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, as our fathers were.” 4They said to Pharaoh, “We have come to sojourn in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. GOD CONTINUES THE FAMINE EVEN AFTER JACOB AND HIS TRIBE ARRIVE IN EGYPT … And now, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.” 5Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you. 6The land of Egypt is before you. Settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land. Let them settle in the land of Goshen, and if you know any able men among them, put them in charge of my livestock.” JOSEPH IS STILL SUBSERVIENT TO PHAROAH BUT IS STILL HIGHLY VALUED BY PHAROAH 7Then Joseph brought in Jacob his father and stood him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. JACOB HAS MANY, MANY FAULTS BUT HE’S STILL “THE MAN”, HIGHLY FAVORED BY GOD AND IN A POSITION TO BLESS PHAROAH 8And Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many are the days of the years of your life?” 9And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, EVIL; NASTY AND PAINFUL … Is 45:7 I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity (KJV prepare evil); I am the Lord, who does all these things. BACK TO JACOB SPEAKING WITH PHAROAH … and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning.” 10And Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from the presence of Pharaoh. 11Then Joseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. 12And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household with food, according to the number of their dependents. Joseph and the Famine 13Now there was no food in all the land, for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished by reason of the famine. 14And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, in exchange for the grain that they bought. And Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house. 15And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? For our money is gone.” 16And Joseph answered, “Give your livestock, and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock, if your money is gone.” 17So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food in exchange for the horses, the flocks, the herds, and the donkeys. He supplied them with food in exchange for all their livestock that year. 18And when that year was ended, they came to him the following year and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord that our money is all spent. The herds of livestock are my lord’s. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our land. 19Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh. And give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.” 20So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for all the Egyptians sold their fields, because the famine was severe on them. The land became Pharaoh’s. 21As for the people, he made servants of them from one end of Egypt to the other. 22Only the land of the priests he did not buy, for the priests had a fixed allowance from Pharaoh and lived on the allowance that Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their land. 23Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have this day bought you and your land for Pharaoh. Now here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land. 24And at the harvests you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four fifths shall be your own, as seed for the field and as food for yourselves and your households, and as food for your little ones.” 25And they said, “You have saved our lives; may it please my lord, we will be servants to Pharaoh.” 26So Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt, and it stands to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; the land of the priests alone did not become Pharaoh’s. 27Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen. And they gained possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied greatly. 28And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were 147 years. (Abraham was 175 yrs old when he died Gen25:8, Isaac was 180 years old when he died Gen 35:28) SO, JOSEPH ENSLAVES THE EGYPTIANS ON BEHALF OF PHAROAH WHILE JACOB’S TRIBE BECOMES EVEN MORE PROSPEROUS AND FRUITFUL … AN INTERESTING SETUP TO WHAT WILL COME LATER 29And when the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh REMEMBER ABRAHAM AND ELIEZAR WHEN ABRAHAM WAS SEEKING A WIFE FOR ISAAC and promise to deal kindly and truly with me. Do not bury me in Egypt, 30but let me lie with my fathers. Carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burying place.” He answered, “I will do as you have said.” 31And he said, “Swear to me”; and he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself upon the head of his bed. AND WORSHIPPED Heb 11:21By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph’s sons, and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff. … INTERESTING THAT THIS IS THE ONLY MENTION OF JACOB IN HEBREWS CH 11 THE GREAT “FAITH” CHAPTER. BIBLE BONES AND LIGAMENTS, LET’S LOOK AT TWO OTHER INCIDENTS OF WORSHIP IN THE OT Job1:13One day when Job’s sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother’s house, 14a messenger came to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby, 15and the Sabeans attacked and made off with them. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!” 16While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, “The fire of God fell from the heavens and burned up the sheep and the servants, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!” 17While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three raiding parties and swept down on your camels and made off with them. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!” 18While he was still speaking, yet another messenger came and said, “Your sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother’s house, 19when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on them and they are dead, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!” 20At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worship 21and said: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised.” Because of David’s sin with Bathsheba and by killing her husband, Uriah the Hittite, God had cursed David saying that the sword would never depart from his household. 2 Sam 12:10 Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’ 11“This is what the Lord says: ‘Out of your own household I am going to bring calamity on you. Later King David’s son, Adonijah, attempted a political coup, to take control of the kingdom at the end of David’s life, while the kingdom was promised to Solomon. However, God brought David success and Solomon did become king; 1 Ki 1:47 …Also, the royal officials have come to congratulate our lord King David, saying, ‘May your God make Solomon’s name more famous than yours and his throne greater than yours!’ And DAVID the king bowed in worship on his bed 48and said, ‘Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who has allowed my eyes to see a successor on my throne today.’ ” About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/33468217

Genesis Chapter 46 Deep-Dive: Joseph Brings His Family to Egypt 09/23/2024

Genesis Chapter 46 Deep-Dive: Joseph Brings His Family to Egypt Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Gen 46 Joseph Brings His Family to Egypt 1So Israel took his journey with all that he had and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. SO BEFORE HEADING TO EGYPT JACOB MAKES A PILGRIMAGE TO THE PLACE WHERE IT ALL BEGAN, ABRAHAM AND ISAAC’S HOME BASE, BEERSHEBA, AND CLOSE TO WHERE HE FIRST HAD THE VISION OF THE HEAVENLY LADDER/ZIGGURAT 2And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, “Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here I am.” 3Then he said, “I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you into a great nation. 4 I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again, and Joseph’s hand shall close your eyes.” GOD RECONNECTING WITH JACOB AND PROMISING, AGAIN, TO BE WITH HIM UNTIL THE END 5Then Jacob set out from Beersheba. The sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent to carry him. 6They also took their livestock and their goods, which they had gained in the land of Canaan THEY ARE WEALTHY, and came into Egypt, Jacob and all his offspring with him, 7his sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters. All his offspring he brought with him into Egypt. 8 Now these are the names of the descendants of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons. Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, 9and the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. 10The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman. 11The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 12The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan); and the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. 13The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Yob, and Shimron. 14The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel. 15These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, together with his daughter Dinah; altogether his sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three. 16The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli. 17The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, with Serah their sister. And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel. 18These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and these she bore to Jacob—sixteen persons. 19The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin. 20And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera the priest of On, bore to him. 21And the sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard. 22These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob—fourteen persons in all. 23The son of Dan: Hushim. 24The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem. 25These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob—seven persons in all. 26All the persons belonging to Jacob who came into Egypt, who were his own descendants, not including Jacob’s sons’ wives, were sixty-six persons in all. 27And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two. All the persons of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were seventy. THESE SEVENTY ARE THE SEED THAT GOD PLANTED IN EGYPT THAT GREW INTO THE NATION OF ISRAEL Jacob and Joseph Reunited 28He JACOB had sent Judah NOW THE LEADER ahead of him to Joseph to show the way before him in Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen. 29Then Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen. He presented himself to him and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while. 30Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive.” 31Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “I will go up and tell Pharaoh and will say to him, ‘My brothers and my father’s household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me. 32And the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.’ 33When Pharaoh calls you and says, ‘What is your occupation?’ 34you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,’ in order that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.” BECAUSE THEY ARE STINKY AND HAIRY About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/33174817

Genesis Chapter 45 Deep-Dive: Joseph Reveals Himself to His Brothers 09/23/2024

Genesis Chapter 45 Deep-Dive: Joseph Reveals Himself to His Brothers Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Gen 45 Joseph Provides for His Brothers and Family AFTER JUDAH HAS OFFERED TO TAKE THE PLACE OF BENJAMIN AND BE PLACED IN SLAVERY IN EGYPT … 1Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him. He cried, “Make everyone go out from me.” So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers. 2And he wept aloud, so that the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard it. JOSEPH IS DISTRAUGHT AND CRYING LOUDLY 3And Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?” But his brothers could not answer him, for they were dismayed at his presence. GUILT AND SHAME WORK THEIR WONDERFUL SUPERNATURAL POWER FROM GOD AND THEY FINALLY REPENT AND CONFESS THEIR SIN … BEFORE GOD CAN HEAL US WE NEED TO REPENT AND TURN TO HIM! 4So Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.” And they came near. And he said, “I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt. 5And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life. 6For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are yet five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest. 7And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors. 8So it was not you who sent me here, but God. AND IN ORDER FOR THIS PLAN TO WORK GOD HAD TO CAUSE THIS WORLDWIDE MASSIVE FAMINE … GOD CONTROLS ALL CIRCUMSTANCES, ALSO, JOSEPH NEVER SAYS “HEY, WHAT YOU DID, IT’S OK”, HE SAYS, NO LONGER BE DISTRESSED OR ANGY WITH YOURSELVES BECAUSE GOD HAD A PURPOSE TO USE YOUR BAD BEHAVIOR AND I HAVE FORGIVEN YOU … BACK TO JOSEPH SPEAKING He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt. 9Hurry and go up to my father and say to him, ‘Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not tarry. 10You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children’s children, and your flocks, your herds, and all that you have. 11There I will provide for you, for there are yet five years of famine to come, so that you and your household, and all that you have, do not come to poverty.’ 12And now your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see, that it is my mouth that speaks to you. I REALLY AM JOSEPH 13You must tell my father of all my honor in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. Hurry and bring my father down here.” 14Then he fell upon his brother Benjamin’s neck and wept, and Benjamin wept upon his neck. BENJAMIN IS JOSEPH’S FOCUS 15And he JOSEPH kissed all his brothers and wept upon them. After that his brothers talked with him. CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT THAT CONVERSATION WAS LIKE? 16When the report was heard in Pharaoh’s house, “Joseph’s brothers have come,” it pleased Pharaoh and his servants. PHAROAH IS STILL A SUPPORTER OF JOSEPH … JOSEPH MUST STILL BE DOING AN EXTRAORDINARY JOB! 17And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Say to your brothers, ‘Do this: load your beasts and go back to the land of Canaan, 18and take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the land.’ 19And you, Joseph, are commanded PHAROAH IS STILL PHAROAH to say, ‘Do this: take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and bring your father, and come. 20Have no concern for your goods, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.’” 21The sons of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the command of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for the journey. 22To each and all of them he gave a change of clothes, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels of silver and five changes of clothes. 23To his father he sent as follows: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, bread, and provision for his father on the journey. 24Then he sent his brothers away, and as they departed, he said to them, “Do not quarrel on the way.” THAT IS HILARIOUS!! JOSEPH STILL KNOWS HIS BROTHERS WELL! 25So they went up out of Egypt and came to the land of Canaan to their father Jacob. 26And they told him, “Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” And his heart became numb, for he did not believe them. GOD SUPRISES JACOB WITH JOY! 27But when they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of their father Jacob revived. 28And Israel said, “It is enough; Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.” THE STUFF DIDN’T MATTER TO JACOB, HIS FOCUS WAS ON JOSEPH’S APPARENT RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD. ABEL’S BLOOD CALLS OUT FOR VENGEANCE, BUT CHRIST’S BLOOD CALLS OUT FOR FORGIVENESS, JOSEPH KNOWS GOD INTIMATELY AND HAS FORGIVEN HIS BROTHERS NOW THAT HE KNOWS THAT BENJAMIN IS SAFE, AND HE DID IT WITHOUT THEM ASKING FOR IT About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/33174067

Genesis Chapter 44 Deep-Dive: Judah Intercedes for Benjamin 09/23/2024

Genesis Chapter 44 Deep-Dive: Judah Intercedes for Benjamin Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Gen 44 Joseph Tests His Brothers 1Then he JOSEPH commanded the steward of his house, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in the mouth of his sack, 2and put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, with his money for the grain.” And he did as Joseph told him. 3As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away with their donkeys. 4They had gone only a short distance from the city. Now Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men, and when you overtake them, say to them, ‘Why have you repaid evil for good? 5Is it not from this that my lord drinks, and by this that he practices divination? SOME TYPE OF SPIRITUAL ACTIVITY THAT JOSEPH DOES WITH THE CUP, REMEMBER, THIS IS LONG BEFORE THE LAW You have done evil in doing this.’” 6When he overtook them, he spoke to them these words. 7They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing! 8Behold, the money that we found in the mouths of our sacks we brought back to you from the land of Canaan. How then could we steal silver or gold from your lord’s house? 9Whichever of your servants is found with it shall die, and we also will be my lord’s servants.” SOUNDS LIKE JACOB ARGUING WITH LABAN AFTER RACHEL HAD STOLEN LABAN’S HOUSEHOLD GODS. 10He JOSEPH’S STEWARD TAKES IT DOWN A NOTCH said, “Let it be as you say: he who is found with it shall be my servant, and the rest of you shall be innocent.” 11Then each man quickly lowered his sack to the ground, and each man opened his sack. 12And he searched, beginning with the eldest and ending with the youngest. And the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack. 13Then they tore their clothes, and every man loaded his donkey, and they returned to the city. JOSEPH, AND GOD, IS TESTING THE BROTHERS FURTHER … HAVE THEY REALLY CHANGED? 14When Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, he was still there. They fell before him to the ground. 15Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Do you not know that a man like me can indeed practice divination?” A COMMON BELIEF IN THE ANCIENT WORLD 16And Judah said, JUDAH, NOT REUBEN OR LEVI … HIS OLDER BROTHERS, JUDAH HAS TAKEN LEADERSHIP AND RESPONSIBILITY FOR BENJAMIN “What shall we say to my lord? What shall we speak? Or how can we clear ourselves? God has found out the guilt of your servants; YES!! … THAT’S THE WHOLE ISSUE HERE … PAYBACK FOR SELLING JOSEPH INTO SLAVERY, AN ACT THAT STILL HAUNTS ALL OF THEM AFTER 20+ YEARS, BACK TO GENESIS … behold, we are my lord’s servants, both we and he also in whose hand the cup has been found.” 17But he JOSEPH said, “Far be it from me that I should do so! Only the man in whose hand the cup was found shall be my servant. But as for you, go up in peace to your father.” 18Then Judah went up to him and said, “Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s ears, and let not your anger burn against your servant, for you are like Pharaoh himself. 19My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’ 20And we said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a young brother, the child of his old age. His brother is dead, SPEAKING OF JOSEPH WHOM THEY ALL BELIEVE MUST BE DEAD BY NOW and he BENJAMIN alone is left of his mother’s RACHEL’S children, and his father loves him.’ 21Then you said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’ 22We said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’ 23Then you said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall not see my face again.’ 24“When we went back to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. 25And when our father said, ‘Go again, buy us a little food,’ 26we said, ‘We cannot go down. If our youngest brother goes with us, then we will go down. For we cannot see the man’s face unless our youngest brother is with us.’ 27Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons. 28One left me, and I said, “Surely he has been torn to pieces,” and I have never seen him since. 29If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs in evil to Sheol.’ 30“Now therefore, as soon as I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us, then, as his life is bound up in the boy’s life, 31as soon as he sees that the boy is not with us, he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol. 32For your servant became a pledge of safety for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before my father all my life.’ 33Now therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a servant to my lord, and let the boy go back with his brothers. 34For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I fear to see the evil that would find my father.” IT LOOKS LIKE JUDAH HAS FINALLY COME TO REPENTENCE AND A CHANGED HEART, HE OFFERS TO TAKE BENJAMIN’S PLACE … JUST AS JESUS DID FOR US. About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/33173532

Genesis Chapter 43 Deep-Dive: Joseph and His Brothers Meet Again 09/23/2024

Genesis Chapter 43 Deep-Dive: Joseph and His Brothers Meet Again Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Gen 43 Joseph’s Brothers Return to Egypt 1Now the famine was severe in the land. REMEMBER, GOD IS CAUSING THE FAMINE 2And when they had eaten the grain that they had brought from Egypt, EATING IT WITHOUT SEEMINGLY WORRYING ABOUT SIMEON WHO IS STILL IMPRISONED IN EGYPT BY JOSEPH their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a little food.” REMEMBER, THEY ARE WEALTHY BUT MONEY DOESN’T DO ANY GOOD IN A FAMINE IF THERE’S NO FOOD TO BUY 3But Judah said to him, JUDAH ARGUING WITH ISRAEL WHICH PROPHETICALLY IS THE WAY THE NATION PROCEEDED AFTER SOLOMON AND THE NATION SPLITS … BACK TO JUDAH SPEAKING TO HIS FATHER, ISRAEL “The man solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.’ 4If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food. 5But if you will not send him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’” 6Israel said, “Why did you treat me so badly as to tell the man that you had another brother?” 7They replied, “The man questioned us carefully about ourselves and our kindred, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ What we told him was in answer to these questions. Could we in any way know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down’?” 8And Judah said to Israel his father, “Send the boy with me, and we will arise and go, that we may live and not die, both we and you and also our little ones. 9I will be a pledge of his safety. From my hand you shall require him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever. 10If we had not delayed, we would now have returned twice.” SO, THE ONE WHO SOLD JOSEPH INTO SLAVERY, JUDAH, IS NOW PLEDGING HIS PROTECTION OVER JOSEPH’S YOUNGER BROTHER … IS HE CHANGED? REMEMBER, GOD HAS ALREADY DIRECTLY KILLED TWO OF JUDAH’S SONS 11Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: take some of the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry a present down to the man, a little balm and a little honey, gum, myrrh, pistachio nuts, and almonds. JUST LIKE JACOB DID WITH ESAU BY GIVING HIM GIFTS IN ORDER TO GAIN FAVOR 12Take double the money with you. REMEMBER, JACOB IS WEALTHY Carry back with you the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight. DOES JACOB ACTUALLY BELIEVE IN “PERHAPS” AS OPPOSED TO GOD CONTROLLING ALL CIRCUMSTANCES 13Take also your brother BENJAMIN, and arise, go again to the man. 14May God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, and may he send back your other brother SIMEON and Benjamin. And as for me, if I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.” JACOB SUBMITS TO HIS CIRCUMSTANCES WITH A PRAYER TO GOD, REMEMBER, ACCORDING TO WHAT WE READ IN GENESIS IT’S BEEN AT LEAST 20+ YEARS SINCE JOSEPH DISAPPEARED APPARENTLY HAVING BEEN KILLED BY A WILD ANIMAL AND RACHEL DIED IN CHILDBIRTH AND JACOB HAS HAD NO OTHER MESSAGE FROM GOD, AND NOW IT LOOKS LIKE THINGS MAY GET WORSE 15So the men took this present, and they took double the money with them, and Benjamin. They arose and went down to Egypt and stood before Joseph. 16When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, “Bring the men into the house, and slaughter an animal and make ready, for the men are to dine with me at noon.” 17The man did as Joseph told him and brought the men to Joseph’s house. 18And the men were afraid because they were brought to Joseph’s house, and they said, “It is because of the money, which was replaced in our sacks the first time, that we are brought in, so that he may assault us and fall upon us to make us servants and seize our donkeys.” 19So they went up to the steward of Joseph’s house and spoke with him at the door of the house, 20and said, “Oh, my lord, we came down the first time to buy food. 21And when we came to the lodging place we opened our sacks, and there was each man’s money in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. So we have brought it again with us, 22and we have brought other money down with us to buy food. We do not know who put our money in our sacks.” 23He THE STEWARD replied, “Peace to you, do not be afraid. Your God and the God of your father has put treasure in your sacks for you. I received your money.” SO, IT LOOKS LIKE JOSEPH HAS BEEN SHARING HIS FAITH WITH HIS STEWARD Then he brought Simeon out to them. 24And when the man had brought the men into Joseph’s house and given them water, and they had washed their feet, and when he had given their donkeys fodder, 25they prepared the present for Joseph’s coming at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there. 26When Joseph came home, they brought into the house to him the present that they had with them and bowed down to him to the ground. 27And he inquired about their welfare and said, “Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he still alive?” 28They said, “Your servant our father is well; he is still alive.” And they bowed their heads and prostrated themselves. SUBMITTING TO JOSEPH JUST AS JOSEPH HAD DREAMED 29And he lifted up his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother’s son, and said, “Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me? God be gracious to you, my son!” REMEMBER, BENJAMIN IS A GROWN MAN AT LEAST 20+ YEARS OLD 30Then Joseph hurried out, for his compassion grew warm for his brother, and he sought a place to weep. And he entered his chamber and wept there. JOSEPH IS EXPRESSING EMOTION THAT WE HAVEN’T SEEN FROM HIM BEFORE, THIS SCENE IS A VERYBIGDEAL FOR HIM! 31Then he washed his face and came out. And controlling himself he said, “Serve the food.” 32They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, because the Egyptians could not eat with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians. REMEMBER, HEBREW AT THIS POINT REFERS TO FOREIGNERS WHO DON’T BATHE OR KEEP THEIR HAIR TRIMMED … EGYPTIANS WERE FASTIDIOUS 33And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright and the youngest according to his youth. SO, THE 11 BROTHERS WERE SEATED BY ORDER OF BIRTH!?! And the men looked at one another in amazement. 34Portions were taken to them from Joseph’s table, but Benjamin’s portion was five times as much as any of theirs. And they drank and were merry with him. SO, JOSEPH IS SHOWING CLEAR FAVOR TO BENJAMIN … HE KNOWS WHAT HIS DAD, JACOB, IS LIKE AND THAT HE’S PROBABLY FAVORING BENJAMIN IN A WAY THAT IS IRKSOME TO THE BROTHERS, SO, HE WANTS TO SEE IF THE BROTHERS WHO SOLD HIM INTO SLAVERY HAVE CHANGED, HOW ARE THEY REACTING TO THIS FAVOR BEING SHOWN TO BENJAMIN? About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. 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Genesis Chapter 42 Deep-Dive: Joseph's Brothers Go Down to Egypt 09/23/2024

Genesis Chapter 42 Deep-Dive: Joseph's Brothers Go Down to Egypt Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Gen 42 Joseph’s Brothers Go to Egypt BEFORE WE GET INTO THIS CHAPTER REMEMBER THAT IT’S BEEN AT LEAST 20 YEARS SINCE BENJAMIN WAS BORN, RACHEL DIED AND JOSPEH WAS SOLD INTO SLAVERY … REMEMBER CH 38, JUDAH AND TAMAR, WHICH OCCURS IMMEDIATELY AFTER JOSEPH WAS SOLD INTO SLAVERY … THAT CHAPTER ALONE WOULD HAVE TAKEN 15-20 YEARS. 1When Jacob learned that there was grain for sale in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?” 2And he said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain for sale in Egypt. Go down and buy grain for us there, that we may live and not die.” 3So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain in Egypt. 4But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers, for he feared that harm might happen to him. 5Thus the sons of Israel came to buy among the others who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan. 6Now Joseph was governor over the land. He was the one who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph’s brothers came and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground. 7Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, I WONDER IF JOSEPH WAS EXPECTING THIS CONSIDERING THAT THE FAMINE WAS WORLDWIDE, SEVERE, AND CANAAN WAS ONLY ABOUT 240 MILES FROM EGYPT … but he JOSEPH treated them like strangers and spoke roughly to them. “Where do you come from?” he said. They said, “From the land of Canaan, to buy food.” 8And Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him. 9And Joseph remembered the dreams that he had dreamed of them. And he said to them, “You are spies; you have come to see the nakedness of the land.” 10They said to him, “No, my lord, your servants have come to buy food. 11We are all sons of one man. We are honest men. Your servants have never been spies.” 12He said to them, “No, it is the nakedness of the land that you have come to see.” 13And they said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan, and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more.” 14But Joseph said to them, “It is as I said to you. You are spies. 15By this you shall be tested: by the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go from this place unless your youngest brother comes here. 16Send one of you, and let him bring your brother, while you remain confined, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you. Or else, by the life of Pharaoh, surely you are spies.” 17And he put them all together in custody for three days. WHY DID JOSEPH DO THIS? … OUT OF SPITE? NO, HE’S CONCERNED ABOUT HIS YOUNGER BROTHER, BENJAMIN! THE LAST TIME HE SAW THIS GROUP OF 10 MEN THEY VIOLENTLY SOLD HIM INTO SLAVERY, HE’S WONDERING IF THEY’VE DONE THE SAME THING WITH BENJAMIN. 18On the third day Joseph said to them, “Do this and you will live, for I fear God: 19if you are honest men, let one of your brothers remain confined where you are in custody, and let the rest go and carry grain for the famine of your households, 20and bring your youngest brother to me. So your words will be verified, and you shall not die.” And they did so. 21Then they said to one another, “In truth we are guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us and we did not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.” 22And Reuben answered them, “Did I not tell you not to sin against the boy? But you did not listen. So now there comes a reckoning for his blood.” 23They did not know that Joseph understood them, for there was an interpreter between them. 24Then he turned away from them and wept. And he returned to them and spoke to them. And he took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes. WHY SIMEON? WELL, THE OLDEST, REUBEN, HAD TRIED TO SAVE JOSEPH FROM THE BROTHERS AND IT APPEARS THAT HE WASN’T PRESENT WHEN JOSEPH WAS HANDED OVER TO THE MIDIANITES. ALSO, SIMEON WAS THE SECOND BORN AND A VIOLENT MAN WHO KILLED THE SHECHEMITES, ALONG WITH LEVI, WHEN DINAH HAD BEEN VIOLATED … JOSEPH WAS WELL AWARE OF THAT EVENT. 25And Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, and to replace every man’s money in his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. This was done for them. 26Then they loaded their donkeys with their grain and departed. 27And as one of them opened his sack to give his donkey fodder at the lodging place, he saw his money in the mouth of his sack. 28He said to his brothers, “My money has been put back; here it is in the mouth of my sack!” At this their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, “What is this that God has done to us?” 29When they came to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them, saying, 30“The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us and took us to be spies of the land. 31But we said to him, ‘We are honest men; we have never been spies. 32We are twelve brothers, sons of our father. One is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.’ 33Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I shall know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your households, and go your way. 34Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I shall know that you are not spies but honest men, and I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.’” 35 As they emptied their sacks, behold, every man’s bundle of money was in his sack. And when they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid. 36And Jacob their father said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and now you would take Benjamin. All this has come against me.” 37Then Reuben said to his father, “Kill my two sons if I do not bring him back to you. Put him in my hands, and I will bring him back to you.” GUILT WORKING FOR GOOD … GOD LOVES EVERYONE SO HE SHAMES EVERYONE … 38But he JACOB said, “My son BENJAMIN shall not go down with you, for his brother JOSEPH is dead, and he is the only one left OF RACHEL’S CHILDREN … YOU KNOW, MY FAVORITE WIFE! If harm should happen to him BENJAMIN on the journey that you are to make, you would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.” UGH, JACOB STILL BEING JACOB … PLAYING FAVORITES … BENJAMIN IS THE NEW FAVORITE SON. SO, FOR WELL OVER 20 YEARS GOD HAS ALLOWED JACOB TO BELIEVE THAT JOSEPH IS DEAD … AND NOW JACOB’S WHOLE FAMILY IS THREATENED WITH STARVATION DUE TO THE WORLDWIDE FAMINE THAT GOD IS CAUSING … HIS WEALTH WON’T GET HIM OUT OF THIS ONE … AND NOW JACOB’S FAVORITE SON, BENJAMIN, IS REQUIRED IN ORDER TO FEED HIS FAMILY … OH, WOE IS ME! … GOD IS TESTING JACOB AND THE BROTHERS … About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/33172592

Genesis Chapter 41 Deep-Dive: Joseph Gets Promoted in Egypt 09/23/2024

Genesis Chapter 41 Deep-Dive: Joseph Gets Promoted in Egypt Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Gen 41 Joseph Interprets Pharaoh’s Dreams 1After two whole years, JOSEPH LEFT IN LIMBO FOR TWO MORE YEARS … CONSIDER HIS PATIENCE! … Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing by the Nile, 2and behold, there came up out of the Nile seven cows, attractive and plump, and they fed in the reed grass. OUT OF THE NILE WOULD BE REFERRING TO OUT OF THE ABYSS, OR, OUT OF THE UNDERWORLD. ALTHOUGH THE NILE WAS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT IN THE LIFE OF EGYPTIANS THEY STILL THOUGHT OF IT AS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. THE ANCIENTS BELIEVED THAT LARGE BODIES OF WATER WERE CHAOTIC AND GATEWAYS TO DEATH AND THE UNDERWORLD … THE ABYSS. 3And behold, seven other cows, ugly and thin, came up out of the Nile after them, and stood by the other cows on the bank of the Nile. 4And the ugly, thin cows ate up the seven attractive, plump cows. THINK OF ZOMBIE COWS EATING HEALTHY COWS, A VERY POWERFUL IMAGE And Pharaoh awoke. 5And he fell asleep and dreamed a second time. And behold, seven ears of grain, plump and good, were growing on one stalk. 6And behold, after them sprouted seven ears, thin and blighted by the east wind. 7And the thin ears swallowed up the seven plump, full ears. ZOMBIE CORN … FRIGHTENING And Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream. 8So in the morning his spirit was troubled, GOD GOT HIS ATTENTION WITH THESE TWO VIVID ZOMBIE DREAMS and he PHAROAH sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was none who could interpret them to Pharaoh. EGYPT AT THAT TIME WAS ALREADY ONE OF THE OLDEST CIVILIZATIONS ON EARTH AND ITS MAGICIANS AND WISE MEN WERE HIGHLY RESPECTED, BUT IN THIS CASE THEY WERE BAFFLED. 9Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “I remember my offenses today. 10When Pharaoh was angry with his servants and put me and the chief baker in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, 11we dreamed on the same night, he and I, each having a dream with its own interpretation. 12A young Hebrew FOREIGNER was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. When we told him, he interpreted our dreams to us, giving an interpretation to each man according to his dream. 13And as he interpreted to us, so it came about. I was restored to my office, and the baker was hanged.” 14 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they quickly brought him out of the pit. And when he had shaved himself and changed his clothes, he came in before Pharaoh. EGYPTIANS WERE OBSESSED WITH HYGIENE AND WOULD SHAVE THEIR BODIES IN ORDER TO CONTROL VERMIN … SO JOSEPH CLEANED UP BEFORE APPEARING BEFORE PHAROAH 15And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.” 16Joseph answered Pharaoh, “It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer.” JOSPEH HAS THE CORRECT ATTITUDE TOWARD GOD AND PHAROAH, HE DOESN’T START PROTESTING HIS VICTIMHOOD IN A PUTY MANNER, HE SIMPLY GOES TO WORK, DESPITE HIS CIRCUMSTANCES, OUR NEW COVENANT DECODER GLASSES EXPLAIN THIS: Heb 11:1 we walk by faith, not by sight. 17Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Behold, in my dream I was standing on the banks of the Nile. 18Seven cows, plump and attractive, came up out of the Nile and fed in the reed grass. 19Seven other cows came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I had never seen in all the land of Egypt. 20And the thin, ugly cows ate up the first seven plump cows, 21but when they had eaten them no one would have known that they had eaten them, for they were still as ugly as at the beginning. Then I awoke. 22I also saw in my dream seven ears growing on one stalk, full and good. 23Seven ears, withered, thin, and blighted by the east wind, sprouted after them, 24and the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears. And I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me.” 25Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dreams of Pharaoh are one; God has revealed to Pharaoh what he GOD is about to do. GOD IS GOING TO DO THIS THING … THE SEVEN YEARS OF PLENTY AND THE SEVEN YEARS OF FAMINE … GOD IS DOING IT. Is 45:7I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity (KJV prepare evil);I am the Lord, who does all these things. 26The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years; the dreams are one. 27The seven lean and ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and the seven empty ears blighted by the east wind are also seven years of famine. 28It is as I told Pharaoh; God has shown to Pharaoh what he is about to do. 29There will come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt, 30but after them there will arise seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land, 31and the plenty will be unknown in the land by reason of the famine that will follow, for it will be very severe. 32And the doubling of Pharaoh’s dream means that the thing is fixed by God, and God will shortly bring it about. 33Now therefore let Pharaoh select a discerning and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt. 34Let Pharaoh proceed to appoint overseers over the land and take one-fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt during the seven plentiful years. 35And let them gather all the food of these good years that are coming and store up grain under the authority of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it. 36That food shall be a reserve for the land against the seven years of famine that are to occur in the land of Egypt, so that the land may not perish through the famine.” Joseph Rises to Power 37This proposal pleased Pharaoh and all his servants. 38And Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find a man like this, in whom is the Spirit of God?” OUR NEW COVENANT DECODER GLASSES EXPLAIN THIS: 1 Cor 2:10-16 no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. JOSEPH HAD THE HOLY SPIRIT, JUST AS ALL TRUE BELIEVERS DO. 39Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has shown you all this, there is none so discerning and wise as you are. 40You shall be over my house, and all my people shall order themselves as you command. Only as regards the throne will I be greater than you.” 41And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.” 42Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph’s hand, and clothed him in garments of fine linen and put a gold chain about his neck. 43And he made him ride in his second chariot. And they called out before him, “Bow the knee!” Thus he set him over all the land of Egypt. 44Moreover, Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, and without your consent no one shall lift up hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.” 45And Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-paneah. And he gave him in marriage Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On. So Joseph went out over the land of Egypt. 46Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt. 47During the seven plentiful years the earth produced abundantly, 48and he gathered up all the food of these seven years, which occurred in the land of Egypt, and put the food in the cities. He put in every city the food from the fields around it. 49And Joseph stored up grain in great abundance, like the sand of the sea, until he ceased to measure it, for it could not be measured. 50Before the year of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph. Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore them to him. 51Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh. “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s house.” 52The name of the second he called Ephraim, “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.” 53The seven years of plenty that occurred in the land of Egypt came to an end, 54and the seven years of famine began to come, as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. 55When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do.” 56So when the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt. 57Moreover, all the earth came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth. THE FAMINE THAT GOD WAS CAUSING! JOSEPH IS WORKING HARD TO SAVE THE WORLD IN THE MIDST OF WHAT GOD IS DOING … Results of Pharaoh’s action – it was both political/practical and spiritual. Pharaoh believed Joseph’s interpretation / testimony and took action as a result of that belief. Joseph was placed in this position by God in order to serve Pharaoh. Rom 13:1 Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. EVEN, OR ESPECIALLY, THE BAD ONES!! Is 45:7I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity (KJV prepare evil);I am the Lord, who does all these things. · Pharaoh’s action is borderline unbelievable, to take a man who was just in prison and make him 2nd in command in Egypt ?!? This HAD to be in response to God “softening” his heart. · Remember where Joseph had come from – a small tribe of nomadic people. Abraham – Isaac – Jacob/Israel. Joseph had heard the stories from great grandpa, grandpa and dad – he was a believer in the living God, but he didn’t come from a nation. He had no standing before Pharaoh. Joseph was the “seed” god planted in Egypt that grew into the nation of Israel. Hosea 11:1 1“When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. The law of Moses had not yet been given. · Joseph’s rewards indicated that he was being inducted into Egyptian high society: o a new position – vice president of Egypt, o a new Egyptian name (“Zaphenath-Paneah”) – signifying that Pharaoh now considered Joseph to be “Egyptian o an Egyptian wife. Joseph was not given a choice regarding whether to take Asenath as his wife. § God permitted Joseph to take this wife, Asenath, and through her Joseph had two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, who became two tribes in Israel – a DOUBLE portion for Joseph. § God used this marriage to strengthen Joseph’s new position as a national leader. The city of On was also known as Heliopolis, “The City of the Sun.” It was the center of worship of the sun god, Ra, and was located 10 miles northeast of modern Cairo. The high priest in On held the title of “Greatest of Seers.” When Joseph married into this family, he joined a social class befitting a national leader. Also implied in the marriage arrangement was Pharaoh’s confidence that Joseph, too, was a “seer,” or prophet, of the highest caliber. This was a good thing! § God worked through Joseph’s marriage to serve as a blessing to many saving them from starvation, and to become an important part of the history of God’s people. Remember, at this point God’s “nation” of Israel is an elderly wealthy nomad, Jacob, who has four wives, 12 sons, at least 1 daughter, and about 70 people total, all of whom are beginning to starve because of the severe world-wide famine that God is causing ... why else would they head to Egypt? … there was nowhere else to go! About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/33172312

Genesis Chapter 40 Deep-Dive: Joseph Interprets Dreams in Prison 09/23/2024

Genesis Chapter 40 Deep-Dive: Joseph Interprets Dreams in Prison Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Gen 40 Joseph Interprets Two Prisoners’ Dreams 1Some time after this, the cupbearer of the king of Egypt and his baker committed an offense against their lord the king of Egypt. 2And Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker, BOTH WERE VERY CLOSE TO THE THRONE, THE CUPBEARER PREVENTED PHAROAH FROM BEING POISONED BY TASTING PHAROAH’S DRINK AND FOOD, AND THE BAKER WAS IN CHARGE OF PROVIDING BAKED GOODS FOR PHAROAH AND HIS HOUSEHOLD … BOTH MEN WERE POWERFUL AND PHAROAH NEEDED TO BE ABLE TO TRUST THEM. 3and he PHAROAH put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison where Joseph was confined. 4The captain of the guard appointed Joseph to be with them, and he attended them. They continued for some time in custody. 5And one night they both dreamed—the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison—each his own dream, and each dream with its own interpretation. 6When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they were troubled. 7So he asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, “Why are your faces downcast today?” 8They said to him, “We have had dreams, and there is no one to interpret them.” And Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Please tell them to me.” REMEMBER, THE ANCIENTS BELIEVED THE MIND (Gk Nous) WAS A SENSORY ORGAN USED TO DETECT THE SPIRIT WORLD AND AS ONE SLEPT THE NUSE WAS SOMETIMES STILL ACTIVE AND ABLE TO PERCEIVE THAT WORLD THROUGH DREAMS. JOSEPH HIMSELF HAD AT LEAST TWO SIGNIFICANT DREAMS HIMSELF THAT HE SHARED WITH HIS FAMILY AND THAT CONTRIBUTED TO HIM BEING SOLD INTO SLAVERY, HOWEVER, JOSEPH DID HAVE A GIFT FROM GOD FOR INTERPRETING DREAMS 9So the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph and said to him, “In my dream there was a vine before me, 10and on the vine there were three branches. As soon as it budded, its blossoms shot forth, and the clusters ripened into grapes. 11Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup and placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.” 12Then Joseph said to him, “This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days. 13In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your office, and you shall place Pharaoh’s cup in his hand as formerly, when you were his cupbearer. 14Only remember me, when it is well with you, and please do me the kindness to mention me to Pharaoh, and so get me out of this house. 15For I was indeed stolen out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the pit.” 16When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, “I also had a dream: there were three cake baskets on my head, 17and in the uppermost basket there were all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating it out of the basket on my head.” 18And Joseph answered and said, “This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days. 19In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head—from you!—and hang you on a tree. And the birds will eat the flesh from you.” 20On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants and lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants. 21He restored the chief cupbearer to his position, and he placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand. 22But he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them. 23Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him. SO, GOD MAKES A CONNECTION TO THE CUPBEARER THROUGH THIS DREAM THAT JOSEPH INTERPRETS, BUT, THE CUPBEARER FORGETS JOSEPH … AT FIRST … AND JOSEPH IS STILL DOING HIS BEST DESPITE BEING STUCK IN PRISON WITH NO APPARENT HOPE OTHER THAN HIS FAITH IN HIS FATHERS’ GOD About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/33171162

Genesis Chapter 39 Deep-Dive: Joseph and Potiphar's Wife 09/23/2024

Genesis Chapter 39 Deep-Dive: Joseph and Potiphar's Wife Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Gen 39 Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife 1Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, had bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there. 2The Lord was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, and he was in the house of his Egyptian master. 3His master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord caused all that he did to succeed in his hands. 4So Joseph found favor in his sight and attended him, and he made him overseer of his house and put him in charge of all that he had. 5From the time that he made him overseer in his house and over all that he had, the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake; the blessing of the Lord was on all that he had, in house and field. 6So he left all that he had in Joseph’s charge, and because of him he had no concern about anything but the food he ate. Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance. 7And after a time his master’s wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, “Lie with me.” SLAVES WERE USED FOR SEX IN THE ANCIENT WORLD, SHE’S GIVING HIM AN ORDER AND JOSEPH IS TRYING TO REASON WITH HER INSTEAD OF JUST DIRECTLY REFUSING … HE’S IN A DIFFICULT SITUATION BECAUSE SHE HAS ALL THE POWER8But he refused and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my charge. 9He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?” 10And as she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not listen to her, to lie beside her or to be with her. 11But one day, when he went into the house to do his work and none of the men of the house was there in the house, 12she caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me.” But he left his garment in her hand and fled and got out of the house. 13And as soon as she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and had fled out of the house, 14she called to the men of her household and said to them, “See, he has brought among us a Hebrew FOREIGNER, HEBREWS WERE NOT YET A NATION, JUST A SMALL LOCAL TRIBE to laugh at us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice. 15And as soon as he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried out, he left his garment beside me and fled and got out of the house.” 16Then she laid up his garment by her until his master came home, 17and she told him the same story, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought among us, came in to me to laugh at me. LAUGH, MOCK, PLAY, MAKE SPORT OF, TO JEST, TOY WITH … THE SAME WORD IS USED AT THE GOLDEN CALF INCIDENT WHEN THE PEOPLE GOT UP TO “PLAY” BY HAVING A DEBAUCH 18But as soon as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment beside me and fled out of the house.” 19As soon as his master heard the words that his wife spoke to him, “This is the way your servant treated me,” his anger was kindled. 20And Joseph’s master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined, and he was there in prison. POTIPHER COULD HAVE HAD JOSEPH KILLED, PRISON WAS A MERCY FOR HIM, ALTHOUGH ANCIENT PRISONS WERE FILTHY AND YOU WERE THERE AS LONG AS THE KING OR YOUR MASTER WANTS YOU TO BE THERE … HOPELESS. 21But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him steadfast love and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison. 22And the keeper of the prison put Joseph in charge of all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever was done there, he was the one who did it. 23The keeper of the prison paid no attention to anything that was in Joseph’s charge, because the Lord was with him. And whatever he did, the Lord made it succeed. PROSPERITY IS ALWAYS RELATIVE, BUT TRUE PROSPERITY IS TO BE CONTENT NO MATTER WHAT YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES AND TO LIVE A GODLY LIFE SEEKING TO DO GOOD TO ALL. XXXXXX Gen 39 Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife 1Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, had bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there. 2The Lord was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, and he was in the house of his Egyptian master. 3His master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord caused all that he did to succeed in his hands. 4So Joseph found favor in his sight and attended him, and he made him overseer of his house and put him in charge of all that he had. 5From the time that he made him overseer in his house and over all that he had, the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake; the blessing of the Lord was on all that he had, in house and field. 6So he left all that he had in Joseph’s charge, and because of him he had no concern about anything but the food he ate. Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance. 7And after a time his master’s wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, “Lie with me.” SLAVES WERE USED FOR SEX IN THE ANCIENT WORLD, SHE’S GIVING HIM AN ORDER AND JOSEPH IS TRYING TO REASON WITH HER INSTEAD OF JUST DIRECTLY REFUSING … HE’S IN A DIFFICULT SITUATION BECAUSE SHE HAS ALL THE POWER8But he refused and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my charge. 9He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?” 10And as she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not listen to her, to lie beside her or to be with her. 11But one day, when he went into the house to do his work and none of the men of the house was there in the house, 12she caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me.” But he left his garment in her hand and fled and got out of the house. 13And as soon as she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and had fled out of the house, 14she called to the men of her household and said to them, “See, he has brought among us a Hebrew FOREIGNER, HEBREWS WERE NOT YET A NATION, JUST A SMALL LOCAL TRIBE to laugh at us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice. 15And as soon as he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried out, he left his garment beside me and fled and got out of the house.” 16Then she laid up his garment by her until his master came home, 17and she told him the same story, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought among us, came in to me to laugh at me. LAUGH, MOCK, PLAY, MAKE SPORT OF, TO JEST, TOY WITH … THE SAME WORD IS USED AT THE GOLDEN CALF INCIDENT WHEN THE PEOPLE GOT UP TO “PLAY” BY HAVING A DEBAUCH 18But as soon as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment beside me and fled out of the house.” 19As soon as his master heard the words that his wife spoke to him, “This is the way your servant treated me,” his anger was kindled. 20And Joseph’s master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined, and he was there in prison. POTIPHER COULD HAVE HAD JOSEPH KILLED, PRISON WAS A MERCY FOR HIM, ALTHOUGH ANCIENT PRISONS WERE FILTHY AND YOU WERE THERE AS LONG AS THE KING OR YOUR MASTER WANTS YOU TO BE THERE … HOPELESS. 21But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him steadfast love and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison. 22And the keeper of the prison put Joseph in charge of all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever was done there, he was the one who did it. 23The keeper of the prison paid no attention to anything that was in Joseph’s charge, because the Lord was with him. And whatever he did, the Lord made it succeed. PROSPERITY IS ALWAYS RELATIVE, BUT TRUE PROSPERITY IS TO BE CONTENT NO MATTER WHAT YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES AND TO LIVE A GODLY LIFE SEEKING TO DO GOOD TO ALL. About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/33170897

Genesis Chapter 38 Deep-Dive: Judah and Tamar 09/22/2024

Genesis Chapter 38 Deep-Dive: Judah and Tamar Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Gen 38 Judah and Tamar THIS WILL BE A 10-20 YEAR PARALLEL NARRATIVE THAT TAKES PLACE IN JUDAH’S LIFE … THE 4th SON OF JACOB, THE ONE WHO SUGGESTED THE BROTHERS SELL JOSEPH INTO SLAVERY … UGH … AND THE ONE WHO WILL INHERIT THE BLESSING 1It happened at that time that Judah went down from his brothers and turned aside to a certain Adullamite MOST LIKELY SIMPLY THE NAME OF A LOCAL TOWN, whose name was Hirah. SO, JUDAH LEAVES JACOB’S HOUSEHOLD AND LIVES WITH HIS PAL, HIRAH, 2There Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. He took her and went in to her THAT MEANS HE MARRIED HER … AND BY MARRYING A CANAANITE HE’S MORE LIKE ESAU THAN JACOB, 3and she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Er. 4She conceived again and bore a son, and she called his name Onan. 5Yet again she bore a son, and she called his name Shelah. Judah was in Chezib when she bore him. REMEMBER, AT THAT TIME YOU WERE CONSIDERED TO BE AN ADULT AND ELIGIBLE TO BE MARRIED ONCE YOU ENTERED PUBERTY AND WERE CAPABLE OF HAVING SEX, 12-14 YRS OLD. 6And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. 7But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord put him to death. ALL IS NOT WELL IN JUDAH’S HOUSEHOLD … REMEMBER, GENESIS IS THE PROLOGUE TO TORAH, THIS IS ANOTHER CAUTIONARY TALE ABOUT THE PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH MARRYING CANAANITES 8Then Judah said to Onan HIS SECOND SON, “Go in to your brother’s wife and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.” THIS PRACTICE WAS CALLED LEVIRATE MARRIAGE – THIS WAS A VERYBIGDEAL IN THE ANCIENT WORLD AND IS FOUNDATIONAL TO UNDERSTANDING MUCH OF TORAH, LET’S TAKE A MINUTE AND DIG MORE DEEPLY INTO THIS: WIKIPEDIA HAS A SURPRISINGLY GOOD DEFINITION: Levirate marriage is a type of marriage in which the brother of a deceased man is obliged to marry his brother's widow. Levirate marriage has been practiced by societies with a strong clan structure in which marriage outside the clan is forbidden. Levirate marriage served as protection for the widow and her children, ensuring that they have a male provider and protector. Levirate marriage can be a positive in a society where women must rely on men to provide for them, especially in societies where women are under the authority of, dependent on, in servitude to or regarded as possessions of their husbands, and to ensure the survival of the clan. The practice of levirate marriage is strongly associated with patriarchal societies. The practice was extremely important in ancient times (e.g., Ancient Near East), and remains so today in parts of the world. Having children enables the inheritance of land, which offers security and status. SO, JUDAH’S HEIR WILL BE ER’s FIRSTBORN SON, BUT NOW ER IS DEAD AND HE HAD NO CHILDREN ... THIS TIES IN WITH THE QUESTION THE SADDUCEES PUT TO JESUS (MT 22:23-46) ABOUT A WOMAN WHO WAS MARRIED TO 7 BROTHERS IN SUCCESSION AFTER EACH ONE DIED. LEVIRATE MARRIAGE WAS STANDARD PRACTICE AT THAT TIME AND ALSO BECOMES PART OF THE LAW OF MOSES OVER 400 YEARS LATER DURING THE EXODUS …. SO, THIS PRACTICE WAS PART OF THE CULTURE AND A BASIC MINDSET OF THE ANCIENTS. SO, WHEN JUDAH SAID TO HIS SECOND SON, ONAN; “Go in to your brother’s wife and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.” … ONAN WAS THINKING; “IF I GIVE HER A SON I WON’T GET THE INHERITANCE, SOUNDS A LOT LIKE GRANDPA JACOB, AND GREAT-GRANDPA LABAN, ANOTHER SCAMMER, ALL ABOUT PERSONAL GAIN. BACK TO GEN 38:9 But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his. So whenever he went in to his brother’s wife he would waste the semen on the ground, so as not to give offspring to his brother. 10And what he did was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death also. IT WASN’T THE ACT OF SPILLING HIS SEED ON THE GROUND THAT WAS EVIL IT WAS ONAN SCAMMING TAMAR BY LETTING HER AND THE REST OF THE FAMILY THINK HE WAS DOING HIS DUTY … WHEN IN REALITY HE WAS JUST GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS OF THE SEX ACT. AGAIN, ALL IS NOT RIGHT IN JUDAH’S HOUSEHOLD, HE’S PRODUCED TWO SONS WHOM THE LORD PUT TO DEATH BECAUSE THEY WERE WICKED. 11Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house, till Shelah my son grows up”—for he feared that he would die, like his brothers. So Tamar went and remained in her father’s house. SO, NOW JUDAH IS CONCERNED ABOUT LOSING HIS THIRD SON AND IS AVOIDING HIS RESPONSIBILITY TO HAVE HIS THIRD SON, SHELAH, PERFORM THIS DUTY. AGAIN, REMEMBER … THIS IS IMPORTANT … THE INHERITANCE IS ALWAYS PASSED THROUGH THE FIRSTBORN, OR, THE ONE “DESIGNATED” AS THE FIRSTBORN (GOD DESIGNATE ISAAC AS ABRAHAM’S HEIR, NOT ISHMAEL, AND, HE CHOSE JACOB TO BE ISAAC’S HEIR, NOT ESAU). A YOUNGER BROTHER PARTICIPATED IN THE INHERITANCE BY HAVING A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE HEIR. READ ROM 8&9 WITH THIS IN MIND … WHO IS ABRAHAM’S TRUE HEIR? … JESUS THE CHRIST / MESSIAH. WE PARTICIPATE IN THE PROMISE(S) BY HAVING A RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS. Gal 3:26 for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. 27For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise … COHEIRS WITH JESUS Rom 8:16 …the Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, THE POWER OF THE “HEIR” IN THE ANCIENT WORLD ALSO TIES IN WITH THE PARABLE OF THE WICKED TENANTS (MT 21) WHEN THE OWNER SAID: 37Finally he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ 38But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.’ BACK TO GEN 38:12 In the course of time the wife of Judah, Shua’s daughter, died. When Judah was comforted, he went up to Timnah to his sheepshearers, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite. 13And when Tamar JUDAH’S DAUGHTER-IN-LAW was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,” 14she took off her widow’s garments and covered herself with a veil, wrapping herself up, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. For she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she had not been given to him in marriage. 15When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face. 16He turned to her at the roadside and said, “Come, let me come in to you,” for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?” 17He answered, “I will send you a young goat from the flock.” And she said, “If you give me a pledge, until you send it—” 18He said, “What pledge shall I give you?” She replied, “Your signet and your cord and your staff that is in your hand.” So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she conceived by him. 19Then she arose and went away, and taking off her veil she put on the garments of her widowhood. 20When Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite to take back the pledge from the woman’s hand, he did not find her. 21And he asked the men of the place, “Where is the cult prostitute who was at Enaim at the roadside?” And they said, “No cult prostitute has been here.” 22So he returned to Judah and said, “I have not found her. Also, the men of the place said, ‘No cult prostitute has been here.’” 23And Judah replied, “Let her keep the things as her own, or we shall be laughed at. You see, I sent this young goat, and you did not find her.” 24About three months later Judah was told, “Tamar your daughter-in-law has been immoral. Moreover, she is pregnant by immorality.” And Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burned.” BURNING TO DEATH FOR IMMORALITY WAS A PAGAN PRACTICE, REMEMBER WHAT A GREAT MORAL BEACON JUDAH IS !! 25As she was being brought out, she sent word to her father-in-law, “By the man to whom these belong, I am pregnant.” And she said, “Please identify whose these are, the signet and the cord and the staff.” 26Then Judah identified them and said, “She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not know her again. SO, LIKE DAVID AFTER SLEEPING WITH BATHSHEBA AND BEING CONFRONTED BY THE PROPHET NATHAN, JUDAH SPEAKS UP AND CONFESSES HIS SIN … THERE MAY BE HOPE FOR HIM YET! 27When the time of her labor came, there were twins in her womb. 28And when she was in labor, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, “This one came out first.” PEREZ 29But as he PEREZ drew back his hand, behold, his brother ZERAH came out. And she said, “What a breach you have made for yourself!” Therefore his name was called Perez BREACH/BREAKTHROUGH. 30Afterward his brother PEREZ came out with the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah. DAWN/RISING. A LITTLE CONFUSING, SO, BEFORE EITHER IS BORN AN ARM COMES OUT AND A SCARLET THREAD IS PLACED AROUND IT … THEN THE ARM IS PULLED BACK INTO THE WOMB – THAT’S PEREZ. THEN THE OTHER BROTHER IS BORN, ZERAH, AND HE’S CONSIDERED THE FIRSTBORN … EXCEPT … GOD CHOOSES TO PASS THE LINE THROUGH PEREZ, THE ONE WHO STUCK HIS ARM OUT … SO, WHO WAS TRULY BORN FIRST? IT DOESN’T MATTER BECAUSE GOD CHOSE TO PASS THE LINE / PROMISE THROUGH PEREZ … THE ONE WHO STUCK OUT HIS ARM AND HAD THE SCARLET THREAD. SO, THIS ONE CHAPTER IN JUDAH’S STORY IS A PARALLEL TO JACOB AND JOSEPH’S STORY ARC. IT HELPS US UNDERSTAND HOW GOD WORKS TO ACCOMPLISH HIS WILL IN THE MIDST OF SOME VERY NASTY, NASTY HUMAN ACTIVITY … IN THIS CASE JUDAH ENDS UP FATHERING THE LINE OF MESSIAH INCESTUALLY WITH HIS DAUGHTER-N-LAW, TAMAR, WHO IS ALSO NAMED IN JESUS LINEAGE IN MT 1:3. About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/33158862

Genesis Chapter 37 Deep-Dive: Joseph's Dreams, Joseph is Sold Into Slavery 09/18/2024

Genesis Chapter 37 Deep-Dive: Joseph's Dreams, Joseph is Sold Into Slavery Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. GEN 37 1Jacob lived in the land of his father’s sojournings, in the land of Canaan. THE PROMISED LAND 2These are the generations of Jacob STORY OF JACOB. THE NARRATIVE NOW TURNS TO JOSEPH, RACHEL’S FIRST SON, AND JACOB’S FAVORITE … Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah (DAN & NAPHTALI) and Zilpah (GAD & ASHER), his father’s wives . And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father. JOSEPH WAS A TATLE-TALE 3Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors. 4But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him. THE CORROSIVE NATURE OF FAVORITISM IN A FAMILY 5Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they hated him even more. 6He said to them, “Hear this dream that I have dreamed: 7Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and stood upright. And behold, your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.” 8His brothers said to him, “Are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to rule over us?” So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words. 9Then he dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers and said, “Behold, I have dreamed another dream. Behold, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.” 10But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the ground before you?” 11And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in mind. (LK 2:19 But Mary treasured up all these things WHAT THE SHEPHERDS TOLD HER, pondering them in her heart … V51 And he JESUS went down with them MARY & JOSEPH and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them. And his mother treasured up all these things in her heart.) SO, JOSEPH IS A TATLE-TALE AND DAD’S FAVORITE, AND AS THE FAVORITE HE FEELS LIKE HE CAN SAY ANYTHING, SO HE SHARES HIS DREAMS WITH THE FAMILY … BACK TO GEN 37 12Now his brothers went to pasture their father’s flock near Shechem. 13And Israel said to Joseph, “Are not your brothers pasturing the flock at Shechem? Come, I will send you to them.” And he said to him, “Here I am.” 14So he said to him, “Go now, see if it is well with your brothers and with the flock, and bring me word.” So he sent him from the Valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem. 15And a man found him wandering in the fields. And the man asked him, “What are you seeking?” 16“I am seeking my brothers,” he said. “Tell me, please, where they are pasturing the flock.” 17And the man said, “They have gone away, for I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’” So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan. 18They saw him from afar, and before he came near to them they conspired against him to kill him. CAIN & ABEL!! 19They said to one another, “Here comes this dreamer. 20Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. Then we will say that a fierce animal has devoured him, and we will see what will become of his dreams.” 21But when Reuben heard it, he rescued him out of their hands, saying, “Let us not take his life.” 22And Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood; throw him into this pit here in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him”—that he might rescue him out of their hand to restore him to his father. 23So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe, the robe of many colors that he wore. 24And they took him and threw him into a pit. The pit was empty; there was no water in it. 25Then they sat down to eat. WITH THEIR BROTHER CALLING TO THEM FROM THE PIT! … And looking up they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing gum, balm, and myrrh, on their way to carry it down to Egypt. 26Then Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? 27Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And his brothers listened to him. 28Then Midianite traders passed by. And they drew Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver THE PRICE OF A SLAVE, They THE ISHMAELITES took Joseph to Egypt. 29When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not in the pit, he tore his clothes 30and returned to his brothers and said, “The boy is gone, and I, where shall I go?” WHAT AM I GOING TO DO ?!? 31Then they took Joseph’s robe and slaughtered a goat and dipped the robe in the blood. 32And they sent the robe of many colors and brought it to their father and said, “This we have found; please identify whether it is your son’s robe or not.” 33And he identified it and said, “It is my son’s robe. A fierce animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn to pieces.” 34Then Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days. 35All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, “No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” Thus his father wept for him. IT’S VERY INTERESTING THAT GOD HAD JUST KILLED RACHEL IN CHILDBIRTH, JACOB’S BELOVED FAVORITE WIFE … REMEMBER, GOD KILLS EVERYONE … AND THEN GOD ALLOWS JACOB TO BELIEVE THAT HIS FAVORITE SON, JOSEPH, HAS BEEN KILLED BY WILD ANIMALS … GOD IS CLEARLY TESTING JACOB. IT’S ALSO INTERESTING THAT JACOB WASN’T SURPRISED BY THIS … IT WAS POSSIBLE TO BE KILLED BY A WILD ANIMAL AT THAT TIME IN CANAAN! NOW BEFORE WE START JUDGING THE BROTHERS LET’S STOP AND CONSIDER HOW THE ANCIENTS AND TORAH VIEWED THIS SORT OF THING … AN INDIVIDUAL IS THE PRODUCT OF HIS FAMILY AND INFLUENCES AND NOT JUST A LONE DECISION MAKER IN A VACUM … THE SINS OF THE FATHER … JACOB WAS A SCAMMER FROM A FAMILY OF SCAMMERS … LABAN AND REBEKAH. POLYGAMY PRODUCES A TOXIC ENVIRONMENT … CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO LIVE IN THAT HOUSEHOLD? … ADD TO THAT DAD FLEEING FROM GRANDPA LABAN AFTER WORKING FOR HIM FOR 20 YEARS, THE STORIES ABOUT UNCLE ESAU AND DAD’S FEAR OF HIM, JACOB’S INACTIVITY WHEN DINAH WAS RAPED, SIMEON AND LEVI USING CIRCUMCISION TO KILL THE MEN OF SHECHEM AS RETRIBUTION FOR DINAH’S RAPE, THE REST OF THE BROTHERS LOOTING AND ENSLAVING THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN OF SHECHEM, REUBEN SLEEPING WITH HIS FATHER’S WIFE, BILHAH, AND NOW JACOB’S FAVORITISM FOR JOSEPH … SIN IS THE SYMPTOM OF A DISEASE AND NOT JUST CHOOSING “B” INSTEAD OF “A” SO YOU’RE GUILTY. IN JACOB’S FAMILY IT’S NOT LEVELS OF “BADNESS” AMONG THE BROTHERS IT’S WHAT JACOB’S LIFESTYLE PRODUCED … UGH. PAUL SAID THE LAW WAS GIVEN BECAUSE OF TRANSGRESSIONS … LIKE THESE … TO TRY TO MAKE THINGS RIGHT AGAIN AND PUT THEM BACK IN ORDER. JACOB BECOMES ISRAEL AND WRESTLES WITH GOD … IT’S ALL PART OF GOD’S PROCESS. SO, WHEN YOU THINK OF JACOB BECOMING ISRAEL (WRESTLES WITH GOD) AND HIS 12 SONS BECOMING THE 12 TRIBES … IT’S A NASTY, NASTY BUSINESS THAT GOD WORKS TO PUT RIGHT. BACK TO GEN 37:36Meanwhile the Midianites had sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard. POTIPHER WAS A COMMON NAME IN EGYPT AND THERE’S NO GOOD WAY TO DETERMINE WHO WAS PHAROAH AT THAT TIME. SO, JACOB LOSES HIS FAVORITE WIFE AND SON TO DEATH, THE BROTHERS HAVE THE GUILT OF JOSEPH ON THEIR MINDS AND THE FAVORITE SON, JOSEPH, WHO HAS BEEN HAVING DREAMS ABOUT HIS GREATNESS … IS SOLD INTO SLAVERY IN EGYPT … GOD HUMBLES EVERYONE … About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/33114347

Genesis Chapter 36 Deep-Dive: Esau’s Descendants 09/18/2024

Genesis Chapter 36 Deep-Dive: Esau’s Descendants Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. GEN 36 Esau’s Descendants 1These are the generations of Esau (that is, Edom). 2Esau took his wives from the Canaanites: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite, 3and Basemath, Ishmael’s daughter, the sister of Nebaioth. 4And Adah bore to Esau, Eliphaz; Basemath bore Reuel; 5and Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan. 6Then Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, his livestock, all his beasts, and all his property that he had acquired in the land of Canaan. He went into a land away from his brother Jacob. 7For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together. The land of their sojournings could not support them because of their livestock. 8So Esau settled in the hill country of Seir. (Esau is Edom.) SO, ESAU IS LIKE HIS GRANDFATHER, ABRAHAM … HE PUTS JACOB BEFORE HIMSELF AND TAKES HIS HOUSEHOLD AND MOVES FURTHER SOUTH TO THE HILL COUNTRY OF SEIR … PERHAPS RECOGNIZING THAT JACOB REALLY DOES HAVE THE BLESSING THAT HE SOLD … HE’S MORE RIGHTEOUS THAN JACOB! ALSO, MOSES WILL GIVE HIM A WHOLE CHAPTER IN GENESIS TO RECAP HIS LINEAGE … SO MUCH FOR JACOB HAVE I LOVED, ESAU I HAVE HATED ! 9These are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir. I WON’T READ ALL OF THESE NAMES, LET’S SKIP TO V 12 10These are the names of Esau’s sons: Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Basemath the wife of Esau. 11The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz. 12(Timna was a concubine of Eliphaz, Esau’s son; she bore Amalek to Eliphaz. THE AMALEKITES WILL EVENTUALLY BECOME ARCH-ENEMIES OF GOD) LET’S SKIP TO V19 These are the sons of Adah, Esau’s wife. 13These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These are the sons of Basemath, Esau’s wife. 14These are the sons of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon, Esau’s wife: she bore to Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. 15These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau. The sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: the chiefs Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz, 16Korah, Gatam, and Amalek; these are the chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Adah. 17These are the sons of Reuel, Esau’s son: the chiefs Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah; these are the chiefs of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Basemath, Esau’s wife. 18These are the sons of Oholibamah, Esau’s wife: the chiefs Jeush, Jalam, and Korah; these are the chiefs born of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau’s wife. 19These are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these are their chiefs. GENESIS NOW LISTS THE DESCENDANTS OF SEIR, THE HORITE, WHO WERE IN THE LAND WHEN ESAU SHOWED UP AND THEY INTERMARRIED WITH ESAU’S DESCENDANTS WHICH IS WHY ESAU’S NATION IS ALSO CALLED EDOM AND AS BEING FROM MT SEIR. LET’S SKIP TO V 31 20 These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, 21Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan; these are the chiefs of the Horites, the sons of Seir in the land of Edom. 22The sons of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan’s sister was Timna. 23These are the sons of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam. 24These are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah; he is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he pastured the donkeys of Zibeon his father. 25These are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah. 26These are the sons of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran. 27These are the sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan. 28These are the sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran. 29These are the chiefs of the Horites: the chiefs Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, 30Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan; these are the chiefs of the Horites, chief by chief in the land of Seir. 31 These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the Israelites. BEFORE THEY ENTERED THE PROMISED LAND, CANAAN LET’S SKIP TO V 38 32Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom, the name of his city being Dinhabah. 33Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his place. 34Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place. 35Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, reigned in his place, the name of his city being Avith. 36Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place. 37Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth on the Euphrates reigned in his place. 38Shaul died, and Baal-hanan (NOTE, BA-AL, THERE WAS A GOD NAMED BAAL, BUT IT COULD ALSO MEAN LORD OR MASTER, AND IT CAN ALSO REFER TO MULTIPLE GODS AS IN “THEY WENT AFTER THE BAALS) LET’S SKIP TO THE END OF THE CHAPTER IN V43 the son of Achbor reigned in his place. 39Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his place, the name of his city being Pau; his wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, daughter of Mezahab. 40These are the names of the chiefs of Esau, according to their clans and their dwelling places, by their names: the chiefs Timna, Alvah, Jetheth, 41Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon, 42Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar, 43Magdiel, and Iram; these are the chiefs of Edom (that is, Esau, the father of Edom), according to their dwelling places in the land of their possession. REMEMBER, ESAU, OR EDOM, IS THE NATION MOST CLOSELY RELATED TO ISRAEL AND ALTHOUGH THE NATIONS WILL BECOME ENEMIES LATER AT THE BEGINNING THEY PROVIDED SHELTER TO MOSES WHEN HE FLED PHAROAH, AND WILL BE PROTECTED BY GOD WHEN ISRAEL FINALLY ENTERS THE LAND AT THE END OF THEIR 40 YEAR EXILE BY GOD. ON THE OTHER HAND, THE AMALEKITES ARE ALSO DESCENDED FROM ESAU AND THEY WILL BECOME GOD’S PERSONAL ARCH-ENEMIES BECAUSE THEY ATTACKED ISRAEL LITERALLY WITHIN A FEW WEEKS AFTER ISRAEL PASSED THROUGH THE RED SEA DURING THE EXODUS. About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. 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Genesis Chapter 35 Deep-Dive: Jacob Returns to Bethel, The Deaths of Rachel and Isaac 09/15/2024

Genesis Chapter 35 Deep-Dive: Jacob Returns to Bethel, The Deaths of Rachel and Isaac Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. GEN 35 1God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.” THAT’S WHERE JACOB WAS SUPPOSED TO GO WHEN HE FIRST LEFT LABAN … BETHEL, WHERE JACOB SPENT HIS FIRST NIGHT AFTER LEAVING ISAAC AND REBEKAH, WHERE HE SAW THE LADDER / STEPS / ZIGGURAT OF GOD AND MADE THE COMMITMENT TO TITHE TO THAT GOD 2So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you and purify yourselves and change your garments. A CLEANSING 3Then let us arise and go up to Bethel, so that I may make there an altar to the God who answers me PRESENT TENSE in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone.” 4So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had, and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob hid them under the terebinth tree that was near Shechem. TEREBINTHS ARE MENTIONED ELSEWHERE IN SCRIPTURE, THEY’RE A SHRUB TYPE OF TREE THAT GIVES GOOD SHADE BUT THERE IS MOST LIKELY NOTHING SPECIAL ABOUT THIS BEING A TEREBINTH. 5And as they journeyed, a terror from God fell upon the cities that were around them, so that they did not pursue the sons of Jacob. JACOB WAS CORRECT ABOUT THAT CONCERN BUT GOD INTERVENES … SIMILAR TO THE WAY HE WILL WHEN HE BRINGS THE NATION OF ISRAEL OUT OF EGYPT IN THE EXODUS. 6And Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him, 7and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel GOD OF BETHEL, because there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother JACOB’S FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH GOD WHEN HE HAD THE DREAM OF THE ZIGGURAT / PYRAMID / MOUNTAIN OF GOD. 8And Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel. So he called its name Allon-bacuth. OAK OF WEEPING. IT’S UNCLEAR HOW REBEKAH’S NURSE ENDED UP IN JACOB’S HOUSEHOLD … AT THIS POINT HE’S NOT THAT FAR FROM ISAAC’S HOUSEHOLD, HE MAY HAVE TRAVELLED TO SEE ISAAC AND BROUGHT HER BACK WITH HIM. 9God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram WHERE LABAN WAS, and blessed him. 10And God said to him, “Your name is Jacob; no longer shall your name be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name.” So he called his name Israel. GOD IS REINFORCING THE NAME HE GAVE JACOB WHEN JACOB WRESTLED WITH GOD AFTER LEAVING LABAN 11And God said to him, “I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body. 12The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your offspring after you.” 13Then God went up from him in the place where he had spoken with him. SO, GOD APPEARED IN HUMAN FORM AGAIN … THE ANGEL OF THE LORD / JESUS 14And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he had spoken with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it and poured oil on it. 15So Jacob called the name of the place where God had spoken with him Bethel. HOUSE OF GOD … JACOB LEARNING TO TRUST GOD AFTER HE’S MADE A MESS OF THINGS FOR HIS WHOLE LIFE … REBEKAH’S SIDE OF THE FAMILY STIRRING THINGS UP AND RUNNING SCAMS, STARTING WITH HER! The Deaths of Rachel and Isaac 16Then they journeyed from Bethel. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel JACOB’S BELOVED FAVORITE WIFE went into labor, and she had hard labor. 17And when her labor was at its hardest, the midwife said to her, “Do not fear, for you have another son.” 18And as her soul was departing (for she was dying), she called his name Ben-oni; (SON OF MY STRUGGLE) but his father called him Benjamin. (SON OF MY RIGHT HAND) 19So Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem), 20and Jacob set up a pillar over her tomb. It is the pillar of Rachel’s tomb, which is there to this day. 21Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder. 22While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine. And Israel heard of it. BUT APPARENTLY DID NOTHING ABOUT IT AND REUBEN CONTINUED TO LIVE IN JACOB’S HOUSEHOLD. SO, REUEBEN WAS JACOB’S FIRSTBORN AND LOST THE BLESSING BECAUSE OF THIS. SIMEON AND LEVI WERE NEXT IN LINE BUT THEY LOST THE BLESSING BECAUSE THEY MURDERED THE MEN OF SHECHEM … WHO WAS NEXT IN LINE? … JUDAH, JACOB’S 4TH SON, WHO DID RECEIVE THE BLESSING Now the sons of Jacob were twelve. 23The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. 24The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. 25The sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s servant: Dan and Naphtali. 26The sons of Zilpah, Leah’s servant: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram. LABAN’S COUNTRY 27And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned. 28Now the days of Isaac were 180 years. 29And Isaac breathed his last, and he died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him. RECONCILED AT THE END, JUST AS ISAAC AND ISHMAEL BURIED ABRAHAM. About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/33064547

Genesis Chapter 34 Deep-Dive: Dinah and the Shechemites 09/15/2024

Genesis Chapter 34 Deep-Dive: Dinah and the Shechemites Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. GEN 34 1Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the women of the land. 2And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he seized her and lay with her and humiliated her. 3And his soul was drawn to Dinah the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her. 4So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, “Get me this girl for my wife.” 5Now Jacob heard that he had defiled his daughter Dinah. But his sons were with his livestock in the field, so Jacob held his peace until they came. JACOB’S DAUGHTER IS RAPED AND IS STILL WITH THE RAPIST AND HE DOES NOTHING … 6And Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him. 7The sons of Jacob had come in from the field as soon as they heard of it, and the men were indignant and very angry, because he had done an outrageous thing in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter, for such a thing must not be done. 8But Hamor spoke with them, THE BROTHERS INCLUDED saying, “The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him to be his wife. 9Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves. 10You shall dwell with us, and the land shall be open to you. Dwell and trade in it, and get property in it.” 11Shechem also said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you say to me I will give. 12Ask me for as great a bride-price and gift as you will, and I will give whatever you say to me. Only give me the young woman to be my wife.” THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT JACOB & HIS SONS ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE DOING … INTERMARRYING WITH THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND 13The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully, because he had defiled their sister Dinah. 14They said to them, “We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a disgrace to us. 15Only on this condition will we agree with you—that you will become as we are by every male among you being circumcised. 16Then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to ourselves, and we will dwell with you and become one people. 17But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter, and we will be gone.” A NEW TESTAMENT VERSION OF THIS WOULD BE … ALL OF YOU MUST BECOME CHRISTIANS IF WE’RE GOING TO ALLOW SHECHEM TO MARRY DINAH. 18Their words pleased Hamor and Hamor’s son Shechem. 19And the young man did not delay to do the thing CIRCUMCISION, because he delighted in Jacob’s daughter. Now he was the most honored of all his father’s house. RAPE IS A HORRIBLE THING HOWEVER, SHECHEM WAS AT LEAST WILLING TO DO THE RIGHT THING AND MAKE DINAH HIS WIFE. IN THE ANCIENT WORLD DINAH WAS RUINED BECAUSE SHE WAS NO LONGER A VIRGIN AND NOT ELIGIBLE FOR AN HONORABLE MARRIAGE … SHE WAS RUINED. EVEN ACCORDING TO MOSAIC LAW, WHICH CAME MUCH LATER, THE RAPIST WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WOMAN HE RAPED FOR LIFE. 20So Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city, saying, 21“These men are at peace with us; let them dwell in the land and trade in it, for behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters as wives, and let us give them our daughters. 22Only on this condition will the men agree to dwell with us to become one people—when every male among us is circumcised as they are circumcised. 23Will not their livestock, their property and all their beasts be ours? Only let us agree with them, and they will dwell with us.” 24And all who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city. CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT PUBLIC SPEECH? … LET’S ALL GET CIRCUMCISED SO WE CAN EVENTUALLY PLUNDER THESE HEBREWS OR AT LEAST HAVE THEM INTEGRATE INTO OUR COMMUNITY. 25On the third day, when they were sore, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, took their swords and came against the city while it felt secure and killed all the males. 26They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house and went away. BACK TO “ALL OF YOU MUST BECOME CHRISTIANS” … THE MEN OF THE TOWN AGREE TO BECOME CHRISTIANS THEN SIMEON AND LEVI DROWNED EACH OF THEM AS THEY WERE BEING BAPTIZED. UGH!! THIS IS ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE … TO USE THE VERY SIGN OF THE COVENANT, CIRCUMCISION, TO COMMIT MURDER … AND THIS IS THE TYPE OF HOUSEHOLD JACOB IS LEADING … EVEN THE REST OF THE BROTHER JOINED IN … 27The sons of Jacob came upon the slain and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister. LIKE USING A NUCLEAR BOMP TO KILL A SINGLE RAPIST 28They took their flocks and their herds, their donkeys, and whatever was in the city and in the field. 29All their wealth, all their little ones and their wives, all that was in the houses, they captured and plundered. CONSIDER JACOB’S HOUSEHOLD: RIVAL WIVES WHO ARE SISTERS, SEX SLAVE CONCUBINES (BILHAH AND ZILPAH DIDN’T HAVE A CHOICE IN BECOMING WIVES), JACOB SHOWING FAVORITISM FOR RACHEL & JOSEPH, IDOLATRY (REMEMBER THAT RACHEL STOLE HER FATHER’S IDOLS), 11 SONS FROM FOUR DIFFERENT FACTIONS / MOTHERS FIGHTING WITH EACH OTHER, JACOB COWERING BEHIND HIS FAMILY AS HE APPROACHES ESAU, JACOB DOES NOTHING WHEN HIS DAUGHTER IS RAPED … THIS IS THE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH JACOB’S SONS GREW UP … THIS WAS A NASTY, TROUBLED HUMAN FAMILY AND WHEN YOU CONSIDER THAT JACOB HAS SEEN THE LORD AND HAD SUPERNATURAL VISIONS FOR OVER 20 YEARS … ?!? WOW 30Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me stink to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. My numbers are few, and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my household.” 31But they said, “Should he treat our sister like a prostitute?” THAT IS NOT AN EXCUSE TO KILL A WHOLE CITY ! About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/33064417

Genesis Chapter 33 Deep-Dive: Jacob Meets Esau 09/15/2024

Genesis Chapter 33 Deep-Dive: Jacob Meets Esau Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. GEN 33:1 And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. REMEMBER, THIS IS A HUGE SLOW MOVING CARAVAN THAT JACOB IS LEADING … ESAU WOULD HAVE HEARD THAT JACOB IS COMING TO HE HEADS NORTH FROM MT SEIR TO MEET JACOB. So he, JACOB, divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two female servants. 2And he put the servants (BILHAH AND ZILPAH) with their children in front, then Leah with her children, and Rachel and Joseph last of all. UGH, IMMEDIATELY AFTER WRESTLING WITH GOD HE HIDES BEHIND HIS WIVES AND CHILDREN AND EVEN PUBLICLY DISPLAYS WHO HE CONSIDERS TO BE THE MOST IMPORTANT … RACHEL AND JOSEPH. 3He himself went on before them SO JACOB FINALLY PASSES BY THEM, bowing himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. 4 But Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept. SO, ESAU DISMOUNTS FROM HIS CAMEL AND RAN TO MEET JACOB FACE TO FACE … THINK JACOB MIGHT HAVE BEEN STARTLED BY THAT? GUILT DRAINS OUR FAITH … THEN THEY BOTH WEPT … WHAT AN INCREDIBLE SCENE. THINK ABOUT THIS SCENE COMPARED TO CAIN AND ABEL … GOD IS AT WORK. 5And when Esau lifted up his eyes THINK OF ESAU NOT BEING ABLE TO TAKE HIS EYS OFF JACOB UNTIL THEY RECONCILED … and saw the women and children, he said, “Who are these with you?” Jacob said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.” 6Then the servants drew near, they and their children, and bowed down. 7Leah likewise and her children drew near and bowed down. And last Joseph and Rachel drew near, and they bowed down. 8Esau said, “What do you mean by all this company that I met?” Jacob answered, “To find favor in the sight of my lord.” 9But Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; keep what you have for yourself.” ESAU ISN’T INTERESTED IN MORE WEALTH AND HE CALLS JACOB MY BROTHER! 10Jacob said, “No, please, if I have found favor in your sight, then accept my present from my hand. For I have seen your face, which is like seeing the face of God, and you have accepted me. GUILT AT WORK … 11Please accept my blessing that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.” Thus he urged him, and he took it. SO, ESAU EVENTUALLY ACCEPTS JACOB’S GIFTS 12Then Esau said, “Let us journey on our way, and I will go ahead of you.” 13But Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are frail, and that the nursing flocks and herds are a care to me. If they are driven hard for one day, all the flocks will die. 14Let my lord pass on ahead of his servant, and I will lead on slowly, at the pace of the livestock that are ahead of me and at the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir.” SEIR – WHERE ESAU / EDOM ARE BASED 15So Esau said, “Let me leave with you some of the people who are with me.” But he said, “What need is there? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.” 16So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir. 17But Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built himself a house and made booths for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth. SO JACOB STOPS WELL BEFORE HE GETS TO ESAU’S HOME BASE AT MT SEIR. 18And Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, on his way from Paddan-aram, WHERE ABRAHAM WAS FROM AND WHERE LABAN WAS BASED – THIS HAS BEEN A LONG JOURNEY and he camped before the city SHECHEM. 19And from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, he bought for a hundred pieces of money the piece of land on which he had pitched his tent. 20There he erected an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel. GOD, THE GOD OF ISRAEL. WELL, WHAT’S THE PROBLEM WITH THIS? BACK WHEN JACOB WAS STILL WITH LABAN, IN CH 31, THIS IS WHAT GOD SAID … Gen 31:3Then the Lord said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.” BUT, SUCCOTH IS NOT THE LAND OF HIS FATHERS AND KINDRED … IT’S TOO FAR NORTH … JACOB DIDN’T FINISH THE JOURNEY. About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/33060762

Genesis Chapter 32 Deep-Dive: Jacob Wrestles with God 09/15/2024

Genesis Chapter 32 Deep-Dive: Jacob Wrestles with God Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. GEN 32 1Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. 2And when Jacob saw them he said, “This is God’s camp!” So he called the name of that place Mahanaim. ENCAMPMENT OF GOD’S ARMY … THIS IS A REMINDER TO JACOB THAT THE BIRTHRIGHT IS TIED TO THE LAND. 3And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother in the land of Seir, the country of Edom, 4instructing them, “Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: Thus says your servant Jacob, ‘I have sojourned with Laban and stayed until now. 5I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, in order that I may find favor in your sight.’” JACOB’S JOURNEY HOME IS GOING TO REQUIRE HIM TO BE MATURE AND HUMBLE. HE’S HEADING HOME AFTER 20 YEARS TO MEET HIS TWIN BROTHER WHOM HE WRONGED IN A PRETTY SPECTACULAR WAY … GUILT IS A VERY, VERY POWERFUL THING. 6And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau, and he is coming to meet you, and there are four hundred men with him.” THAT’S MORE MEN THAN ABRAHAM HAD WHEN HE RESCUED LOT … GOD HAS BLESSED AND PROSPERED ESAU 7Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed. GUILT IS A BEAUTIFUL THING … GOD USES IT TO HUMBLE US AND BRING US TO REPENTANCE … GOD HUMBLES EVERYONE. He JACOB divided the people who were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two camps, 8thinking, “If Esau comes to the one camp and attacks it, then the camp that is left will escape.” 9And Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Lord who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your kindred, that I may do you good,’ 10I am not worthy of the least of all the deeds of steadfast love and all the faithfulness that you have shown to your servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps. 11Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, that he may come and attack me, the mothers with the children. 12But you said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.’” JACOB FINALLY TURNS TO THE LORD IN HIS FEAR 13So he stayed there that night, and from what he had with him he took a present for his brother Esau, 14two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, 15thirty milking camels and their calves, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys. 16These he handed over to his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass on ahead of me and put a space between drove and drove.” 17He instructed the first, “When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, ‘To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And whose are these ahead of you?’ 18then you shall say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a present sent to my lord Esau. And moreover, he is behind us.’” 19He likewise instructed the second and the third and all who followed the droves, “You shall say the same thing to Esau when you find him, 20and you shall say, ‘Moreover, your servant Jacob is behind us.’” For he thought, “I may appease him with the present that goes ahead of me, and afterward I shall see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.” 21So the present passed on ahead of him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp. V 20 I will appease him.—The Heb. literally is, he said I will cover his face with the offering that goeth before my face, and afterwards I will see his face; peradventure he will lift up my face. The covering of the face of the offended person, so that he could no longer see the offence, became the usual legal word for making an atonement MAKING THINGS RIGHT 22The same night he JACOB arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23He took them and sent them across the stream, and everything else that he had. 24And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. 25When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched his hip socket, and Jacob’s hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. THIS IS AN ANGEL OR SUPERNATURAL BEING WRESTLING WITH JACOB. BIBLE BONES AND LIGAMENTS … HERE’S WHAT HOSEA 12:3 SAYS ABOUT THIS SCENE In the womb he JACOB took his brother ESAU by the heel, and in his manhood he strove with God. 4He strove with the angel (GOD) and prevailed; he JACOB wept and sought his GOD’S favor. He met God at Bethel, and there God spoke with us — US, THE NATION ISRAEL 5the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord is his memorial name (THE ANGEL IS THE LORD): 6“So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God.” SO, THIS ANGEL WHO COULD HAVE SQUASHED JACOB LIKE A BUG PHYSICALLY WRESTLED WITH JACOB AND EVEN ALLOWED JACOB TO HOLD HIS OWN UNTIL GOD HUMBLED HIM BY DAMAGING HIS HIP SOCKET. 26Then he THE ANGEL / MESSENGER / JESUS said, “Let me go, for the day has broken.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.” APPARENTLY JACOB WAS CLINGING TO THE ANGEL 27And he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.” 28Then he said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.” JACOB MEANS GRASPER OR CONNIVER, ISRAEL MEANS “STRUGGLES WITH GOD” JACOB STRUGGLED TO RECEIVE GOD’S BLESSING. VERY INTERESTING THAT ISLAM MEANS SUBMISSION TO GOD BUT ISRAEL STRUGGLES WITH GOD AND THAT WILL BECOME VERY APPARENT AS WE WORK THROUGH THE REST OF THE TORAH. ALSO, PAUL SAID THAT THE CHURCH, OR GENTILE BELIEVERS, IS/ARE GRAFTED INTO ISRAEL AT LEAST IN THE SENSE THAT THE CHURCH WILL CONTINUE THAT STRUGGLE. THE PSALMS TEACH THAT IT’S OK TO BE ANGRY WITH GOD … WHAT KID OF FATHER DEMANDS BLIND SUBMISSION FROM HIS SON? JACOB IS CALLED A RIGHTEOUS MAN BECAUSE AT HIS CORE HE DESIRES GOD’S BLESSING BACK TO GEN 32:29Then Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” But he said, “Why is it that you ask my name?” DON’T YOU KNOW WHO I AM? REMEMBER, THE NAME YAHWEH WAS FIRST REVEALED TO MOSES AT THE BURNING BUSH … OVER 400 YEARS IN THE FUTURE FROM THIS SCENE And there he YAHWEH / JESUS blessed him JACOB. 30So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.” AGAIN, THIS IS THE PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF YAHWEH IN HUMAN FORM … JESUS … GOD IN HUMAN FORM, SPEAKING IN THE FIRST PERSON AS IF HE WERE YAHWEH, BUT, NO ONE CAN SEE YAHWEH AND LIVE, BUT, JACOB SAYS HE SAW GOD FACE TO FACE AND LIVED … THE TWO POWERS IN HEAVEN CONCEPT THAT ANCIENT JEWISH SCHOLARS STUGGLED WITH AND DR MICHAEL HEISER TAUGHT … A PRECURSOR TO THE TRINITY … REMEMBER, JESUS SAID THAT MOSES WROTE ABOUT HIM. ELLICOTT’S COMMENTARY ON THIS SCENE FROM IS INTERESTING: The angel’s asking of permission to depart was the acknowledgment of defeat. The struggle must end at daybreak, because Jacob must now go to do his duty; and the wrestling had been for the purpose of giving him JACOB courage, and enabling him to meet danger and difficulty in the power of faith. Except thou bless me.—The vanquished must yield the spoil to the victor; and Jacob, who had gradually become aware that the being who was wrestling with him was something more than man, asks of him, as his ransom, a blessing. BACK TO GEN 32:31The sun rose upon him JACOB as he passed Penuel, limping because of his hip. 32Therefore to this day the people of Israel do not eat the sinew of the thigh that is on the hip socket, because he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip on the sinew of the thigh. SO, JACOB’S LIMP BECAME A PERSONAL PAINFUL REMINDER OF THAT ENCOUNTER WITH GOD. LET’S PUT ON OUR NEW COVENANT / NEW TESTAMENT DECODER GLASSES AND TAKE A LOOK AT SOMETHING SIMILAR TO THIS THAT EXPLAINS IT FURTHER … 2 Cor 12:2 PAUL WRITING TO THE CORINTHIANS I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows. 3And I know that this man was caught up into paradise—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows— 4and he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter. 5On behalf of this man I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except of my weaknesses— 6though if I should wish to boast, I would not be a fool, for I would be speaking the truth; but I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me. 7So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. 8Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. 9But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong. GOD IS DANGEROUS AND DOESN’T SHRINK FROM GIVING PAINFUL PHYSICAL REMINDERS THAT HELP TO KEEP US HUMBLE AND RELIANT ON HIM. REMEMBER, BECAUSE GOD LOVES US HE SHAMES EVERYONE TO BRING THEM TO HUMILITY AND REPENTENCE. BACK TO JACOB IN GEN 32:31The sun rose upon him JACOB as he passed Penuel, limping because of his hip. 32Therefore to this day the people of Israel do not eat the sinew of the thigh that is on the hip socket, because he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip on the sinew of the thigh. About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. 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Genesis Chapter 31 Deep-Dive: Jacob Flees From Laban 09/15/2024

Genesis Chapter 31 Deep-Dive: Jacob Flees From Laban Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. GEN 31 1Now Jacob heard that the sons of Laban were saying, “Jacob has taken all that was our father’s, and from what was our father’s he has gained all this wealth.” 2And Jacob saw that Laban did not regard him with favor as before. THERE IS CLEAR ANIMOSITY BETWEEN THEM 3Then the Lord said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.” GOD INTERACTING WITH HIS CREATION TO ACCOMPLISH HIS PURPOSE … TIME TO HEAD HOME, JACOB … BUT THAT ALSO HAD CONSEQUENCES, EVEN THOUGH IT’S BEEN YEARS AND YEARS, ESAU IS THERE. 4So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah into the field where his flock was 5and said to them, “I see that your father does not regard me with favor as he did before. But the God of my father has been with me. 6You know that I have served your father with all my strength, 7yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times. But God did not permit him to harm me. 8If he said, ‘The spotted shall be your wages,’ then all the flock bore spotted; and if he said, ‘The striped shall be your wages,’ then all the flock bore striped. 9Thus God has taken away the livestock of your father and given them to me. 10In the breeding season of the flock I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream that the goats that mated with the flock were striped, spotted, and mottled. 11Then the angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am!’ 12And he said, ‘Lift up your eyes and see, all the goats that mate with the flock are striped, spotted, and mottled, for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you. WAS THIS WHERE JACOB GOT THE IDEA THAT HE PROPOSED TO LABAN WHEN LABAN TOLD HIM TO NAME HIS WAGES? 13I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now arise, go out from this land and return to the land of your kindred.’” SO, DID THIS ALL REALLY HAPPEN? 14Then Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, “Is there any portion or inheritance left to us in our father’s house? 15Are we not regarded by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and he has indeed devoured our money. SOLD THEM TO JACOB FOR JACOB’S 14 YEARS OF LABOR 16All the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do.” LEAH AND RACHEL SHOWING THEIR TRUE COLORS … IT ALL BELONGS TO US AND OUR CHILDREN, HOWEVER, IT’S ALSO LABAN GETTING HIS COMEUPPANCE. THERE ARE NO CLEAR GOOD GUYS & BAD GUYS HERE … IT’S A BUNCH OF HUMANS ACTING LIKE A HUMAN FAMILY AND IT’S NOT PRETTY, BUT GOD IS WORKING OUT HIS PLAN … 17So Jacob arose and set his sons and his wives on camels. 18He drove away all his livestock, all his property that he had gained, the livestock in his possession that he had acquired in Paddan-aram, MESOPOTAMIA, WHERE ABRAHAM WAS FROM to go to the land of Canaan to his father Isaac. A LONG JOURNEY FOR JACOB’S PROSPEROUS HOUSEHOLD. 19Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father’s household gods. THEY WERE MOST LIKELY MADE FROM PRECIOUS METALS AND CONSIDERED VALUABLE, OR PERHAPS RACHEL HOPED TO PREVENT HER FATHER FROM CONSULTING THEM (DIVINATION) TO DETERMINE WHICH WAY THEY HAD GONE BUT THIS IS BASICALLY A DAUGHTER STEALING FROM HER FATHER … MORE OF RACHEL’S TRUE COLORS. 20And Jacob tricked Laban the Aramean, by not telling him that he intended to flee. 21He fled with all that he had and arose and crossed the Euphrates, and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead. 22When it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled, 23he took his kinsmen with him and pursued him for seven days and followed close after him into the hill country of Gilead. 24But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream by night and said to him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.” 25And Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban with his kinsmen pitched tents in the hill country of Gilead. 26And Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have tricked me and driven away my daughters like captives of the sword? ALTERNATING VERSIONS OF REALITY FOR LABAN AND JACOB … 27Why did you flee secretly and trick me, and did not tell me, so that I might have sent you away with mirth and songs, with tambourine and lyre? 28And why did you not permit me to kiss my sons and my daughters farewell? Now you have done foolishly. 29It is in my power to do you harm. But the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’ 30And now you have gone away because you longed greatly for your father’s house, but why did you steal my gods?” 31Jacob answered and said to Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force. 32Anyone with whom you find your gods shall not live. In the presence of our kinsmen point out what I have that is yours, and take it.” Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them. 33So Laban went into Jacob’s tent and into Leah’s tent and into the tent of the two female servants, but he did not find them. And he went out of Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s. 34Now Rachel had taken the household gods and put them in the camel’s saddle and sat on them. Laban felt all about the tent, but did not find them. 35And she said to her father, “Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for the way of women is upon me.” So he searched but did not find the household gods. RACHEL CLAIMED TO BE HAVING HER MENSTRAL CYCLE TO PREVENT HER FATHER FROM DISCOVERING THE IDOLS 36Then Jacob became angry and berated Laban. Jacob said to Laban, “What is my offense? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me? 37For you have felt through all my goods; what have you found of all your household goods? Set it here before my kinsmen and your kinsmen, that they may decide between us two. 38These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten the rams of your flocks. 39What was torn by wild beasts I did not bring to you. I bore the loss of it myself. From my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. 40There I was: by day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes. 41These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times. 42If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my affliction and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night.” JACOB EXPRESSING HIS FRUSTRATION … A BIG ARGUMENT, BUT, LABAN HAD ALREADY BEEN WARNED BY GOD THAT JACOB WAS HIS GUY … 43Then Laban answered and said to Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day for these my daughters or for their children whom they have borne? 44Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I. And let it be a witness between you and me.” LABAN RELENTS … JACOB WINS THE ARGUMENT 45So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar. 46And Jacob said to his kinsmen, “Gather stones.” And they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there by the heap. 47Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha WITNESS PILE IN ARAMAIC, but Jacob called it Galeed WITNESS PILE IN HEBREW 48Laban said, “This heap is a witness between you and me today.” Therefore he named it Galeed, 49and Mizpah WATCHTOWER, for he said, “The Lord watch between you and me, when we are out of one another’s sight. 50If you oppress my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no one is with us, see, God is witness between you and me.” 51Then Laban said to Jacob, “See this heap and the pillar, which I have set between you and me. 52This heap is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, to do harm. 53The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac, 54and Jacob offered a sacrifice in the hill country and called his kinsmen to eat bread. They ate bread and spent the night in the hill country. 55 Early in the morning Laban arose and kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and blessed them. Then Laban departed and returned home. SO, THE TWO CON-MEN SEPARATE IN A LESS THAN AMICABLE MANNER … FAMILY STUFF, AGAIN, NO GOOD GUYS OR BAD GUYS JUST A HUMAN FAMILY ACTING LIKE FALLEN HUMANS. About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/33060632

Genesis Chapter 30 Deep-Dive: Jacob's household and flock increases. 09/15/2024

Genesis Chapter 30 Deep-Dive: Jacob's household and flock increases. Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. GEN 30 1When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister. THINK ABOUT THAT TURN-ABOUT, FOR MOST OF HER LIFE RACHEL WAS PROBABLY THE ONE WHO WAS ENVIED BY LEAH – ESPECIALLY IN THE MARRIAGE, NOW, GOD HAS TURNED IT AROUND … KEEP IN MIND THAT BECAUSE GOD IS LOVE … HE SHAMES EVERYONE … MAKING OUR WEAKNESSES CRYSTAL CLEAR TO US TO PROVIDE A WAY FOR US TO REPENT AND FIND TRUE HUMILITY. She RACHEL said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!” 2Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?” YUP 3Then she said, “Here is my servant Bilhah; go in to her, so that she may give birth on my behalf, that even I may have children through her.” HOW DID THAT WORK OUT FOR GRANDPA ABRAHAM … HAGAR AND ISHMAEL?? RACHEL IS LOOKING FOR A WAY TO GET AROUND GOD INSTEAD OF REPENTING IN HUMILITY 4 So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her. 5And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son. 6Then Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice and given me a son.” Therefore she called his name Dan. NOTHING GOOD EVER CAME OUT OF DAN, IT’S THE TRIBE LEFT OUT IN THE LISTING OF THE TRIBES IN REVELATION. 7Rachel’s servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son. 8Then Rachel said, “With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister and have prevailed.” MORE FINE FAMILY DYNAMICS IN JACOB’S HOUSEHOLD So she called his name Naphtali. ANOTHER OF THE FAR NORTHERN TRIBES THAT FELL INTO IDOLATRY. 9When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took her servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife. 10Then Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son. 11And Leah said, “Good fortune has come!” so she called his name Gad. 12Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son. 13And Leah said, “Happy am I! For women have called me happy.” So she called his name Asher. INSTEAD OF REPENTENCE, HUMILITY AND CAMARADERIE JACOB NOW HAS A STRANGE BREEDING RIVALRY TAKING PLACE IN HIS HOUSEHOLD 14In the days of wheat harvest Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field and brought them to his mother Leah. ANCIENTS BELIEVED THEY WERE APHRODISIACS OR SEXUAL STIMULANTS Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.” 15But she said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes also?” Rachel said, “Then he may lie with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.” REMEMBER JACOB AND HIS STEW WHEN ESAU RETURNED FROM THE FIELD HUNGRY? 16When Jacob came from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come in to me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” SO, JACOB IS BEING BOUGHT AND SOLD FOR BREEDING RIGHTS BY HIS WIVES … UGH, CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT IT WAS LIKE IN THAT HOUSEHOLD? So he JACOB lay with her that night. 17And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son. 18Leah said, “God has given me my wages because I gave my servant to my husband.” So she called his name Issachar. 19And Leah conceived again, and she bore Jacob a sixth son. 20Then Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good endowment; now my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons.” So she called his name Zebulun. 21Afterward she bore a daughter and called her name Dinah. 22Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb. 23She conceived and bore a son and said, “God has taken away my reproach.” 24And she called his name Joseph, saying, “May the Lord add to me another son!” 25As soon as Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own home and country. 26Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, that I may go, for you know the service that I have given you.” SO, IT’S BEEN 20-25 YEARS SINCE JACOB LEFT HOME, A TRIP THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ONLY A FEW MONTHS … HE HAS A LARGE FAMILY & SOME PROSPERITY … TIME TO HEAD HOME. 27But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your sight, I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you. THINK OF ABIMELECH AND HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH BOTH ABRAHAM AND ISAAC … GOD HAS BLESSED US BECAUSE OF YOU (BOTH), IT’S THE SAME NOW WITH JACOB … LABAN HAS SOME TYPE OF RELATIONSHIP WITH YAHWEH (WHATEVER DIVINATION WAS) AND HE REALIZES HOW IMPORTANT JACOB IS. 28Name your wages, and I will give it.” 29Jacob said to him, “You yourself know how I have served you, and how your livestock has fared with me. 30For you had little before I came, and it has increased abundantly, and the Lord has blessed you wherever I turned. But now when shall I provide for my own household also?” 31He said, “What shall I give you?” Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this for me, I will again pasture your flock and keep it: 32let me pass through all your flock today, removing from it every speckled and spotted sheep and every black lamb, and the spotted and speckled among the goats, and they shall be my wages. 33So my honesty will answer for me later, when you come to look into my wages with you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and black among the lambs, if found with me, shall be counted stolen.” 34Laban said, “Good! Let it be as you have said.” 35But that day Laban removed the male goats that were striped and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white on it, and every lamb that was black, and put them in the charge of his sons. 36And he set a distance of three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob pastured the rest of Laban’s flock. SO, IMMEDIATELY, LABAN TRIES TO RIP OFF JACOB … TAKING ALL THE GOATS THAT WOULD END UP AS JACOBS AND SENDING THEM AWAY WITH HIS SONS. 37Then Jacob took fresh sticks of poplar and almond and plane trees, and peeled white streaks in them, exposing the white of the sticks. 38He set the sticks that he had peeled in front of the flocks in the troughs, that is, the watering places, where the flocks came to drink. And since they bred when they came to drink, 39the flocks bred in front of the sticks and so the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted. 40And Jacob separated the lambs and set the faces of the flocks toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban. He put his own droves apart and did not put them with Laban’s flock. 41Whenever the stronger of the flock were breeding, Jacob would lay the sticks in the troughs before the eyes of the flock, that they might breed among the sticks, 42but for the feebler of the flock he would not lay them there. So the feebler would be Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s. 43Thus the man increased greatly and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys. IT’S NOT REALLY CLEAR EXACTLY WHAT JACOB WAS DOING WITH THE STICKS AND WHAT EFFECT IT HAD FROM A SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVE OTHER THAN JACOB WAS SEPARATING THE STRONG FROM THE WEAK IN THE FLOCK. REMEMBER THAT THIS IS AN ANCIENT TEXT WRITTEN SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 500-1500 BC, AND JACOB WAS MOST LIKELY USING MODERN ANIMAL HUSBANDRY IDEAS FROM THAT TIME, HOWEVER, JACOB CONTINUED TO WORK FOR LABAN AND GOD CONTINUED TO PROSPER HIM, AND MOST LIKELY JACOB FELT LIKE HE WAS GETTING ONE OVER ON LABAN … UGH About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. 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Genesis Chapter 29 Deep-Dive: Rachel and Leah 09/11/2024

Genesis Chapter 29 Deep-Dive: Rachel and Leah Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. GEN 29 1Then Jacob went on his journey and came to the land of the people of the east. 2As he looked, he saw a well in the field, and behold, three flocks of sheep lying beside it, for out of that well the flocks were watered. The stone on the well’s mouth was large, 3and when all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep, and put the stone back in its place over the mouth of the well. 4Jacob said to them, “My brothers, where do you come from?” They said, “We are from Haran.” 5He said to them, “Do you know Laban (REBEKAH’S BROTHER, JACOB’S UNCLE) the son of Nahor?” They said, “We know him.” 6He said to them, “Is it well with him?” They said, “It is well; and see, Rachel his daughter is coming with the sheep!” 7He said, “Behold, it is still high day; it is not time for the livestock to be gathered together. Water the sheep and go, pasture them.” 8But they said, “We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together and the stone is rolled from the mouth of the well; then we water the sheep.” 9While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess. 10Now as soon as Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, Jacob came near and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother. 11Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud. VERY STRANGE BEHAVIOR IN THE ANCIENT WORLD … THE TEXT IS TRYING TO COMMUNICATE THAT THIS WAS LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT ALTHOUGH THAT IDEA WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY STRANGE TO THE ANCIENTS. 12And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s kinsman, and that he was Rebekah’s son, and she ran and told her father. 13As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet him and embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things, 14and Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh!” And he stayed with him a month. LABAN RICHLY WELCOMES JACOB JUST AS NAHOR WELCOMED ABRAHAM’S SERVANT, ELIEZER, WHEN HE SOUGHT REBEKAH TO BE ISAAC’S WIFE. 15Then Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my kinsman, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?” JACOB IS A GOOD GUEST AND HELPING OUT AROUND THE RANCH 16Now Laban had two daughters. The name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. 17Leah’s eyes were weak NOT THAT GOOD LOOKING, but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance. 18Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.” 19Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to any other man; stay with me.” 20So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her. THAT SHORT TWO MONTH TRIP TO ESCAPE ESAU TURNED INTO 7 YEARS BECAUSE OF JACOB’S LOVE FOR RACHEL. THE FAMILY STRUCTURE IN THE ANCIENT WORLD WAS VERY DIFFERENT, IT WAS AN AGRARIAN NOMADIC LIFESTYLE AND THERE WAS A LOT OF WORK TO BE DONE … RACHEL WAS A SHEPHERDESS, WHO WAS GOING TO DO THAT WORK IF SHE WAS GONE? … IF JACOB WAS GOING TO TAKE HER FROM LABAN’S HOUSEHOLD HE WAS GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE COMPENSATION TO LABAN – THAT’S WHAT A “BRIDE PRICE” WAS. 21Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife that I may go in to her, for my time is completed.” IN THE ANCIENT WORLD A MARRIAGE CEREMONY INVOLVED THE ACTUAL CONSUMATION OF THE MARRIAGE … THE BRIDAL CHAMBER. 22So Laban gathered together all the people of the place and made a feast. 23But in the evening he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and he went in to her. 24(Laban gave his female servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her servant.) 25And in the morning, behold, it was Leah! And Jacob said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?” NO TAKE-BACKS ONCE THE MARRIAGE WAS CONSUMATED … THE SAME AS NO TAKE-BACKS ONCE ISAAC GAVE THE BLESSING TO JACOB … WHAT AN IRONIC & WONDERFUL TURN-ABOUT GOD PULLED ON JACOB … JUST LIKE JACOB PULLED ON ISAAC … GOD SHAMES EVERYONE … CAN’T YOU JUST PICTURE GOD BELLY-LAUGHING AS JACOB EMERGED FROM THE TENT. 26 Laban said, “It is not so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn. 27Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also in return for serving me another seven years.” 28Jacob did so, and completed her week. Then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife. 29(Laban gave his female servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.) 30So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served Laban for another seven years. IN THE ANCIENT WORLD, AND IN THE TORAH, DECEPTION WAS OK AS LONG AS IT WAS USED TO ESTABLISH JUSTICE OR RESTORE THE CORRECT ORDER OF THINGS, ESPECIALLY IF IT INVOLVED THE POOR, OR WEAK, OR SOMEONE WHO HAD NO POWER, IN THIS CASE IT WAS PROPER TO MARRY LEAH OFF FIRST … BUT LABAN EXPLAINED; “YOU, JACOB, DIDN’T FIND HER ATTRACTIVE SO I HAD TO TRICK YOU INTO MARRYING HER” … THIS IS VERY DIFFERENT THAN MODERN SENSIBILITY ABOUT “RIGHT & WRONG”, BUT THIS IS HOW THE TORAH WORKS. SO, IS LABAN REBEKAH’S BROTHER, OR WHAT? … LIKE SISTER, LIKE BROTHER, REBEKAH ARRANGED THAT WHOLE THING WITH JACOB PRETENDING TO BE ESAU IN ORDER TO GET THE BLESSING, NOW HER BROTHER TURNED IT AROUND ON JACOB … PAYBACK … IT RAN IN THE FAMILY! ONE OF THE FIRST PRACTICAL JOKES THAT GOD PULLS IN THE BIBLE … HILARIOUS Jacob’s Children 31When the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. SO, GOD STEPS IN TO RIGHT AWAY TO MAKE THINGS RIGHT. LEAH HAD NO POWER, NO SAY IN THE MATTER, SHE’S MARRIED TO A MAN WHO HATES HER AND HER RIVAL IS HER SISTER, RACHEL. IN THE ANCIENT WORLD, AND IN TORAH, THE GREATEST BLESSING GOD CAN GIVE TO A WOMAN IS TO GIVE HER SONS WHO PROVIDE HER WITH STANDING AND SECURITY … ESPECIALLY IF SHE HAS THE FIRSTBORN SON. LEAH MAY HAVE BEEN “HATED” BUT JACOB FULFILLED HIS MARITAL RESPONSIBILITY TO HER AND CONTINUED TO HAVE SEX WITH HER. 32And Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben, for she said, “Because the Lord has looked upon my affliction; for now my husband will love me.” 33She conceived again and bore a son, and said, “Because the Lord has heard that I am hated, he has given me this son also.” And she called his name Simeon. 34Again she conceived and bore a son, and said, “Now this time my husband will be attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore his name was called Levi. 35And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, “This time I will praise the Lord.” Therefore she called his name Judah. Then she ceased bearing. NOTE, THE PRIESTHOOD AND THE DAVIDIC DYNASTY OF ISRAEL WERE FROM LEAH … ALTHOUGH SHE’S NOT MENTIONED MUCH IN THE REST OF SCRIPTURE, SHE WAS A VERYBIGDEAL IN THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL. 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Genesis Chapter 28 Deep-Dive: Jacob's Ladder 09/11/2024

Genesis Chapter 28 Deep-Dive: Jacob's Ladder Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Gen 28 1Then Isaac (SEEMINGLY IN RESPONSE TO REBEKAH’S DIRECTION THAT SHE DOESN’T WANT ANYMORE HITTITE OR CANAANITE WIVES FOR ESAU OR JACOB IN HER LIFE) called Jacob and blessed him and directed him, “You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women. 2Arise, go to Paddan-aram to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father, and take as your wife from there one of the daughters of Laban your mother’s brother. 3God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples. 4May he give the blessing of Abraham to you and to your offspring with you, that you may take possession of the land of your sojournings that God gave to Abraham!” 5Thus Isaac sent Jacob away. And he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban, the son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother. VERY INTERESTING THAT ISAAC DID NOT DISCIPLINE JACOB FOR DECEIVING HIM, HE ACTUALLY REPEATS AND REINFORCES ABRAHAM’S PROMISE AND BLESSING ON JACOB … ISAAC ALSO RESPONDS TO REBEKAH’S REQUEST ABOUT A WIFE FOR JACOB. REMEMBER, ESAU AND JACOB ARE TWINS BUT AT THIS POINT ESAU ALREADY HAS TWO WIVES … JACOB NEEDS TO MARRY AND HE NEEDS TO MARRY SOMEONE FROM ABRAHAM’S FAMILY SO THAT SHE WILL BE A WORSHIPPER OF YAHWEH. 6Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he directed him, “You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” 7and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and gone to Paddan-aram. 8So when Esau saw that the Canaanite women did not please Isaac his father, 9Esau went to Ishmael and took as his wife, besides the wives he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth. DID HE THINK THIS WOULD BE BETTER THAN THE CANAANITE WIVES? ISHMAEL IS OF THE SEED OF ABRAHAM, SO HE’S MARRYING SECOND COUSINS BUT HE’S STILL NOT REALLY GETTING IT… 10Jacob left Beersheba and went toward Haran. THIS IS GOING TO BE A LONG TRIP … THE SAME TRIP ELIEZER MADE WHEN HE GOT REBEKAH TO BE ISAAC’S WIFE, AT LEAST A WEEK EACH WAY BUT IN THIS CASE IT’S NOT A CARAVAN, IT’S JUST JACOB MOST LIKELY ON FOOT. 11And he came to a certain place and stayed there that night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place to sleep. 12And he dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it! THE GREEK WORD USED BY THE SEPTUAGINT TRANSLATORS HERE MEANS SOMETHING WITH STEPS, HOWEVER, THE HEBREW WORD MEANS “TERRACED THING” … LIKE A ZIGGURAT, WHAT THE TOWER OF BABEL WAS … JACOB SAW THE ACTUAL MOUNTAIN WHERE YAHWEH HAS HIS THRONE … WITH THE ANGELS TRAVERSING UP AND DOWN THE STEPS. SIMILAR STRUCTURES EXISTED THROUGHOUT ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS AROUND THE GLOBE, THEY’RE ARTIFICIAL MOUNTAINS WHERE THE ANCIENTS PLACED TEMPLES … THEY BELIEVED THE GODS LIVED ON MOUNTAINS … THESE ZIGGURATS WERE THE GATE OF HEAVEN … THIS IS WHAT JACOB IS SEEING; THE MOUNTAIN / THRONE / TEMPLE OF YAHWEH, THE GOD OF ABRAHAM AND ISAAC. OK, SO, BIBLE BONES AND LIGAMENTS, WHERE ELSE IS THIS SCENE REFERENCED IN SCRIPTURE … JESUS SPOKE ABOUT JACOB’S VISION WHEN HE WAS SPEAKING TO NATHANIEL IN JOHN 1:51And he said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.” AND LATER WHEN SPEAKING TO THE PHARISEES IN JOHN 2:19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” 20The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?” 21But he was speaking about the temple of his body. THAT JESUS WOULD EITHER BE THE MAN-SHAPED GOD (YAHWEH) AT THE TOP OF THE ZIGGURAT-TEMPLE, OR THAT JESUS WOULD BE THE ZIGGURAT-TEMPLE HIMSELF … CLEARLY A REFERENCE THAT JESUS (THE SON OF MAN, THE ANGEL OF THE LORD) WAS DIRECTLY / PERSONALLY ASSOCIATED WITH YAHWEH IN A WAY THAT WAS DIFFERENT THAN ANYONE ELSE … CLAIMING DIVINITY … THE DIVINE-HUMAN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF YAHWEH. BACK TO JACOB IN GEN 28: 13And behold, the Lord stood above it THIS IS YAHWEH APPEARING IN HUMAN FORM … THE MESSENGER / SPOKESMAN OF THE LORD WHO SPEAKS IN THE FIRST PERSON … JESUS … AND SINCE IT’S A VISION OF THE ACTUAL MOUNTAIN OF GOD THIS IS MOST LIKELY A TEMPLE / THRONE-ROOM SCENE SIMILAR TO WHAT ISAIAH AND DANIEL EXPERIENCED … IT DEFINITELY MADE AN IMPRESSION ON JACOB … THIS IS A VERYBIGDEAL 13And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, “I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. ABRAHAM AND ISAAC BOTH HAD VISIONS SIMILAR TO THIS, NOW THE LORD IS CONFIRMING THE BLESSING THAT ISAAC GAVE TO JACOB EVEN IN THE MIDST OF DECEPTION … BACK TO YAHWEH SPEAKING FROM HIS MOUNTAIN … The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring. 14Your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed. 15Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.” 16Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.” 17And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.” FEAR … AN APPROPRIATE RESPONSE TO A VISION OF GOD. AGAIN, THIS IS GOD CHOOSING TO IDENTIFY HIMSELF WITH A PERSON WHICH WAS UNHEARD OF IN THE ANCIENT WORLD BEFORE NOAH, ABRAHAM AND ISAAC … MOST GODS WERE ASSOCIATED WITH AREAS, CITIES, KINGS, OR POWERS LIKE THUNDER OR STORMS, IN THIS CASE IT’S THE CREATOR GOD MAKING PROMISES TO A SINGLE NOMADIC HERDSMAN WHO’S WANDERING AROUND CANAAN, THE PROMISE APPLIES TO THE WHOLE EARTH IMPLYING THAT HE’S THE CREATOR, GOD OF THE WHOLE EARTH, AND IN THIS CASE THE PROMISE IS NOT CONDITIONAL ON JACOB’S OBEDIENCE … GOD IS NOW ON THE THIRD GENERATION OF HIS PLAN, ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND NOW JACOB … YAHWEH IS GOING TO MAKE THAT PLAN HAPPEN … THIS IS THE FIRST PLACE IN GENESIS WHERE GOD COMMUNICATES THROUGH A DREAM. IN THE ANCIENT WORLD THE MIND (gk NOUS) WAS CONSIDERED A SENSORY ORGAN (NOSE FOR SMELLING) WITH WHICH AN INDIVIDUAL COULD PERCEIVE THE SPIRITUAL WORLD BUT IT HAD TO BE PURIFIED THROUGH GOOD DEEDS, OR MEDITATION OR SOME SIMILAR “SPIRITUAL” TECHNIQUE. EX, JESUS … BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD. THINK; “THE EYES OF THE HEART” THINK OF ELISHA AND GEHAZI SURROUNDED BY ENEMIES WHEN ELISHA PRAYS THAT GEHAZI’S “EYES WOULD BE OPENED” AND GEHAZI SEES THE FIERY ANGEL ARMIES OF GOD SURROUNDING AN PROTECTING THEM … THEN THINK THAT ELISHA SAW THAT SPIRITUAL / SUPERNATURAL WORLD ALL THE TIME. ANCIENTS BELIEVED THAT SOMETIMES WHEN YOU SLEPT YOUR MIND-NOUS REMAINED ACTIVE AND WOULD PERCEIVE THE SPIRITUAL/SUPERNATURAL WORLD AND GIVE YOU INSIGHT. IN THIS CASE IT’S JACOB INTERPRETING HIS OWN DREAM … BACK TO GEN 28 18So early in the morning Jacob took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up for a pillar and poured oil on the top of it. 19He called the name of that place Bethel HOUSE OR TEMPLE OF GOD, but the name of the city was Luz at the first. 20Then Jacob made a vow, HIS RESPONSE TO THE VISION saying, “If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear, 21so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, then the Lord shall be my God, 22and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God’s house. LET’S LOOK MORE DEEPLY AT THIS STONE PILLAR THAT JACOB SET UP. THE ANCIENTS IDENTIFIED SPECIAL PLACES WITH PILLARS, ALTARS, STANDING STONES, ETC … JACOB IS IDENTIFYING THAT GOD’S THRONE / MOUNTAIN WAS LOCATED THERE. IN THE ANCIENT WORLD FOR A PERSON WOULD “REMEMBER” AN EVENT LIKE THIS BY RETURNING TO THE LOCATION WHERE IT OCCURRED … IT’S MORE THAN JUST FONDLY REMEMBERING THE EVENT OR LOCATION … FOR JACOB TO “REMEMBER” THIS LATER IN LIFE IT WOULD INVOLVE HIM RETURNING TO THIS LOCATION AND ANOINTING THIS STONE PILLAR AGAIN WITH OIL TO PARTICIPATE IN THE EVENT AGAIN. EX; YAHWEH INSTITUTED THE PASSOVER AS A MEMORIAL AND WHEN THE ISRAELITES CELEBRATED THE PASSOVER THEY LITERALLY “RE-LIVED IT" THE DIALOGUE INVOLVED IN THE CELEBRATION CALLED FOR EACH SUCCEEDING GENERATION TO STATE; “WHEN WE WERE BROUGHT OUT OF EGYPT AND PASSED THROUGH THE RED SEA…” IT’S THE SAME THING IN THE NT WHEN JESUS SAYS DO THIS IN MEMORY OF ME, OR, “DO THIS AS “MY REMEMBRANCE” … THE EUCHARIST OR WAFER AND WINE RECONNECTS US TO JESUS IN A SPIRITUAL WAY BEYOND SIMPLY “REMEMBERING” WHAT JESUS DID FOR US … IT’S A PARTICIPATION IN THE SACRIFICE CHRIST MADE FOR US … TO MAKE IT REAL AGAIN. BACK TO JACOB SPEAKING IN GEN 28:22 and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God’s house. And of all that you give me I will give a full tenth to you.” REMEMBER ABRAHAM ALSO TITHED A TENTH TO MELCHIZEDEK ... THINK JACOB KNEW THAT STORY ABOUT “GRANDPA ABRAHAM” ? THIS IS JACOB’S RESPONSE TO THE DREAM … HIS COMMITMENT TO TITHE AND CONSIDER BETHEL TO BE THE HOUSE OF GOD. THIS WAS JACOB’S FIRST VISION FROM GOD. About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/33011382

Genesis Chapter 27 Deep-Dive: Isaac Blesses Jacob 07/10/2024

Genesis Chapter 27 Deep-Dive: Isaac Blesses Jacob Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Gen 27 Isaac Blesses Jacob 1When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called Esau his older son and said to him, “My son”; and he answered, “Here I am.” 2He said, “Behold, I am old; I do not know the day of my death. 3Now then, take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me, 4and prepare for me delicious food, such as I love, and bring it to me so that I may eat, that my soul may bless you before I die.” THAT MY SOUL (NEPHESH) MAY BLESS YOU … REFERING TO THE SOUL IN THE THIRD PERSON. THE MODERN GREEK CONCEPT OF THE SOUL AS THE SEAT OF CONSCIOUSNESS, OR BODY AND SOUL COMBINED, WAS NOT INTRODUCED TO THE ISRAELITES UNTIL THE BABYLONIAN EXILE. THE ORIGINAL HEBREW OF THE TORAH SAYS WE ARE ANIMATED BODIES, THE “SOUL” IS TIED TO, OR PART OF, THE BODY. STRONG’S DEFINITION AND USAGE: living being, life, self, person, desire, appetite, emotion, and passion. FOR ANCIENT PEOPLE THE SEAT OF CONSCIOUSNESS WAS NOT THE BRAIN, IT WAS THE HEART … THE CENTER OR CORE OF THE BODY. THERE IS NO HEBREW WORD FOR “MIND”. JESUS ADDED THAT IN GREEK & ARAMAIC. ALL LIFE IS DIRECTLY CONNECTED TO GOD, IF THE BREATH OF GOD IS REMOVED THE ANIMAL RETURNS TO DUST, THE SOUL IS THE CONNECTION TO GOD THAT GIVES LIFE TO OUR BODIES. PHYSICAL DEATH IS THE SEPARATION OF THE SOUL FROM THE BODY, SPIRITUAL DEATH IS THE SEPARATION OF THE SOUL FROM GOD. CHRIST CONNECTS HUMANITY TO GOD THROUGH HIS PERSON. BACK TO ISAAC SPEAKING TO ESAU … THAT MY SOUL/CONNECTION TO GOD MAY PASS ON TO YOU THE BLESSINGS & PROMISES OF GOD THAT WERE GIVEN TO ABRAHAM AND ME. THIS IS WHY ISAAC IS SPEAKING ABOUT HIS “SOUL” IN THE THIRD PERSON … THIS IS A RITUAL ACT THAT WILL CHANGE THE RECIPIENT. ONCE JACOB’S SOUL RECEIVED THE BLESSING IT WAS DONE, IT COULD NOT BE TAKEN BACK. NOTE, THERE ARE NO GOOD OR BAD GUYS IN THIS STORY … 5Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to his son Esau. So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game and bring it, 6Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “I heard your father speak to your brother Esau, 7‘Bring me game and prepare for me delicious food, that I may eat it and bless you before the Lord before I die.’ 8Now therefore, my son, obey my voice as I command you. 9Go to the flock and bring me two good young goats, so that I may prepare from them delicious food for your father, such as he loves. 10And you shall bring it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.” 11But Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man. 12Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall seem to be mocking him and bring a curse upon myself and not a blessing.” JACOB GETS IT, THIS IS PURE AND DANGEROUS DECEPTION 13His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, bring them to me.” JACOB BEING A MOMMA’S BOY OBEYS HER 14So he went and took them and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared delicious food, such as his father loved. 15Then Rebekah took the best garments of Esau her older son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son. 16And the skins of the young goats she put on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck. 17And she put the delicious food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob. THIS IS CLEARLY PLANNED BY REBEKAH 18So he went in to his father and said, “My father.” And he said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?” 19Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me; now sit up and eat of my game, that your soul may bless me.” 20But Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?” He answered, “Because the Lord your God granted me success.” UGH, JACOB USING THE NAME OF YAHWEH TO DECEIVE HIS FATHER 21Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not.” ISAAC IS SUSPICIOUS THAT THIS IS JACOB TRYING TO PULL SOMETHING 22So Jacob went near to Isaac his father, who felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.” 23And he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau’s hands. So he blessed him. 24He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He answered, “I am.” STRAIGHT OUT LIE 25Then he said, “Bring it near to me, that I may eat of my son’s game and bless you.” So he brought it near to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank. 26Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come near and kiss me, my son.” 27So he came near and kissed him. And Isaac smelled the smell of his garments and blessed him and said, “See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field that the Lord has blessed! 28May God give you of the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth and plenty of grain and wine. 29Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, and blessed be everyone who blesses you!” REMEMBER THAT ISAAC IS AN OLD MAN AND IF HIS VISION IS FAILING SO ARE HIS OTHER SENSES. ON THE OTHER HAND IT ALMOST SEEMS LIKE ISAAC’S CONNECTION TO ESAU IS BECAUSE ESAU IS AN OUTDOORSMAN AND IS ABLE TO MIX UP A GREAT BATCH OF HOT WINGS, SO WHEN JACOB POSING AS ESAU BRINGS IN THE MEAL ISAAC IS READY TO START EATING AND REALLY DOESN’T GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THINGS. CLEARLY GOD IS WORKING HIS PURPOSE WHILE ISAAC, REBEKAH, ESAU AND JACOB ARE STUMBLING THROUGH THIS FARCICAL MORALITY PLAY AS FLAWED HUMAN BEINGS … WITH THEIR OWN INTERCONNECTED MOTIVATIONS. ISAAC IS NOT REALLY PAYING ATTENTION, REBEKAH IS DECEIVING HER HUSBAND AND LEADING HER YOUNGER SON TO COMMIT AN ACT DESERVING OF DEATH IN THE ANCIENT WORLD IN ORDER TO PROMOTE JACOB, JACOB WAS TRULY A DUPED GRASPER WHO DREAMED UP THAT WHOLE SELL ME YOUR BIRTHRIGHT DEAL FOR A BOWL OF STEW AND IS NOW WILLING TO DO WHAT MOM WANTS BECAUSE HE THINKS HE MIGHT BE ABLE TO PULL IT OFF, AND ESAU WAS RULED BY HIS BELLY AND DESPISED GOD’S SPECIAL BLESSING THAT STARTED WITH GRANDPA ABRAHAM. JACOB ENDS UP WITH THE BLESSING BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT GOD WANTED … WHAT HE ORIGINALLY REVEALED TO REBEKAH … BUT THAT BLESSING WILL ULTIMATELY END UP BEING A VERY PAINFUL THING FOR JACOB COMPARED TO WHAT IT WAS FOR ABRAHAM AND ISAAC … JACOB GETS THE “HAPPILY EVER AFTER” BUT WHAT A RIDE GOD PUTS HIM THROUGH GETTING THERE ! 30 As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, when Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting. 31He also prepared delicious food and brought it to his father. And he said to his father, “Let my father arise and eat of his son’s game, that you may bless me.” 32His father Isaac said to him, “Who are you?” He answered, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.” 33Then Isaac trembled very violently and said, “Who was it then that hunted game and brought it to me, and I ate it all before you came, and I have blessed him? Yes, and he shall be blessed.” 34As soon as Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, O my father!” 35But he said, “Your brother came deceitfully, and he has taken away your blessing.” 36Esau said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me these two times. He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing.” Then he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?” 37Isaac answered and said to Esau, “Behold, I have made him lord over you, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants, and with grain and wine I have sustained him. What then can I do for you, my son?” 38Esau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father.” And Esau lifted up his voice and wept. ESAU CLEARLY VALUED THESE THINGS EVEN THOUGH HE TREATED THEM CONTEMPTUOUSLY … YOUNG AND STUPID AND DID SOME BAD THINGS BUT IT DOESN’T MEAN HE DIDN’T HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. 39Then Isaac his father answered and said to him: “Behold, away from the fatness of the earth shall your dwelling be, and away from the dew of heaven on high. 40By your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother; but when you grow restless you shall break his yoke from your neck.” THIS IS ISAAC SPEAKING AS A PROPHET BECAUSE THESE THINGS DIDN’T HAPPEN TO ESAU PERSONALLY, BUT THEY DID TO HIS DESCENDANTS. 41Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, ESAU IS AT LEAST PARTIALLY UPSET BECAUSE JACOB HAD MADE A FOOL OF THEIR FATHER, ISAAC and Esau said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.” 42But the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah. So she sent and called Jacob her younger son and said to him, “Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you. 43Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban my brother in Haran 44and stay with him a while, until your brother’s fury turns away— 45until your brother’s anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send and bring you from there. Why should I be bereft of you both in one day?” REBEKAH BELIEVES THIS WHOLE THING WILL BLOW OVER IN A WHILE … 46Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I loathe my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women like these, one of the women of the land, what good will my life be to me?” SEND JACOB BACK TO WHERE I (REBEKAH) CAME FROM SO HE CAN FIND A GODLY WIFE … About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. 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Genesis Chapter 26 Deep-Dive: God's Promise to Isaac, Isaac and Abimelech 07/10/2024

Genesis Chapter 26 Deep-Dive: God's Promise to Isaac, Isaac and Abimelech Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Gen 26 God’s Promise to Isaac 1Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar to Abimelech king of the Philistines GEN 21 THE SAME ABIMELECH WHO HAD A TREATY WITH ABRAHAM OR ABIMELECH’S SON . 2And the Lord appeared to him REMEMBER, NO ONE CAN SEE GOD AND LIVE YET PEOPLE SAW GOD ALL THE TIME … THE ANGEL OF THE LORD … JESUS and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land of which I shall tell you. 3Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you, for to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father. 4I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, 5because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.” THERE AREN’T ANY LAWS YET! THIS IS THE PROLOGUE FOR THE EXODUS/LAWGIVING – THE TORAH. GOD’S LAW IS BUILT INTO CREATION AND IS OBVIOUS. PAUL’S NEW TESTAMENT SUPERNATURAL DECODER GLASSES EXPLAINS FURTHER: Rom 2:14For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. 15They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them. Isaac and Abimelech 6So Isaac settled in Gerar. 7When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” for he feared to say, “My wife,” thinking, “lest the men of the place should kill me because of Rebekah,” because she was attractive in appearance. 8When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac laughing with Rebekah his wife. 9So Abimelech called Isaac and said, “Behold, she is your wife. How then could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac said to him, “Because I thought, ‘Lest I die because of her.’” 10Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.” 11So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, “Whoever touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.” ISAAC HAD THE SAME WEAKNESS AS HIS FATHER, ABRAHAM. THE SON IS THE IMAGE OF HIS FATHER … About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. 12And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. IN THE MIDST OF A FAMINE! The Lord blessed him, 13and the man became rich, and gained more and more until he became very wealthy. 14He had possessions of flocks and herds and many servants, so that the Philistines envied him. 15(Now the Philistines had stopped and filled with earth all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father.) PETTY JEALOUSY AMONG HERDSMEN … ISAAC PROSPERING DURING A FAMINE, THE PHILISTINES ARE JEALOUS 16And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.” 17So Isaac departed from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there. WHERE ABRAHAM HAD LIVED 18And Isaac dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham. And he gave them the names that his father had given them. 19But when Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found there a well of spring water, 20the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” So he called the name of the well Esek CONTENTION, because they contended with him. 21Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that also, so he called its name Sitnah ENMITY. 22And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name Rehoboth, saying, “For now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.” ISAAC IS NOT RESPONDING TO HIS ENEMIES … HE’S MOVING AWAY FROM THEM TO AVOID CONFRONTATION. SIMILAR TO WHAT JESUS TAUGHT … NOTHING NEW IN THE NT ! 23From there he went up to Beersheba WELL OF THE OATH. 24And the Lord appeared to him JESUS APPEARS TO ISAAC the same night and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Fear not, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake.” ABRAHAM WAS DEAD BUT GOD SAID FOR ABRAHAM’S SAKE … NOT HIS MEMORY’S SAKE! 25So he built an altar there and called upon the name of the Lord and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac’s servants dug a well. ISAAC RESPONDED TO THE APPEARANCE OF GOD BY BUILDING AN ALTAR … WORSHIP … SACRIFICES WERE MEALS SHARED WITH GOD, IN THIS CASE IT LED TO ISAAC MAKING AN IMPRESSION ON HIS NEIGHBORS, JUST AS ABRAHAM DID 26When Abimelech went to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army, 27Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, seeing that you hate me and have sent me away from you?” 28They said, IN REPENTANCE “We see plainly that the Lord has been with you. So we said, let there be a sworn pact between us, between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you, 29that you will do us no harm, just as we have not touched you and have done to you nothing but good and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed of the Lord.” 30So he made them a feast, and they ate and drank. SACRIFICIAL FEAST BETWEEN ISAAC, HIS NEIGHBORS AND GOD 31In the morning they rose early and exchanged oaths. And Isaac sent them on their way, and they departed from him in peace. 32That same day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well that they had dug and said to him, “We have found water.” 33He called it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day. A VERY SIMILAR EVENT OCCURRED WITH ABRAHAM IN CH 21 … ISAAC IS THE IMAGE OF HIS FATHER, ABRAHAM. 34When Esau was forty years old, he took Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite to be his wife, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite, 35and they made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah. NOTE THAT ESAU IS NOT THE IMAGE OF HIS FATHER, ISAAC. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/32087092

Genesis Chapter 25 Deep-Dive: Abraham's Death, Birth of Esau and Jacob, Easu Sells Birthright 07/10/2024

Genesis Chapter 25 Deep-Dive: Abraham's Death, Birth of Esau and Jacob, Easu Sells Birthright Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Gen 25 Abraham’s Death and His Descendants ABRAHAM WAS 137 WHEN SARAH DIED. 1Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah. 2She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. 3Jokshan fathered Sheba and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim. 4The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah. 5Abraham gave all he had to Isaac. 6But to the sons of his concubines (HAGAR & KETURAH, PERHAPS OTHERS) Abraham gave gifts, and while he was still living he sent them away from his son Isaac, eastward to the east country. AWAY FROM CANAAN, THE PROMISED LAND THAT ISAAC WOULD INHERIT … BACK TOWARD THE OLD COUNTRY THAT ABRAHAM LEFT. 7These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life, 175 years. NOTE THAT NUMBERS IN THE BIBLE ARE NOTORIOUSLY DIFFICULT TO TRANSLATE BECAUSE THIS WAS BEFORE THE ARABIC NUMBER SYSTEM WHICH THE WORLD NOW USES WAS USED IN THE NEAR EAST AND EUROPE. HEBREW LETTERS REPRESENTED NUMBERS AND LARGE NUMBERS WERE DIFFICULT TO CONVEY AND CONSEQUENTLY TO TRANSLATE. ALSO, THE BIGGEST DISCREPANCIES BETWEEN ANCIENT MANUSCRIPTS AND THE AREA THE GREEK SEPTUAGINT TRANSLATORS STRUGGLED WITH THE MOST WERE NUMBERS. 8Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people. HEBREW: RESTED WITH HIS FATHERS … THE ANCIENT HEBREW BELIEF IN AN AFTERLIFE … NT COMMENTARY Lk 20:37 JESUS SPEAKING … But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. 38Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him.” BACK TO GEN 25 … 9Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, east of Mamre, 10the field that Abraham purchased from the Hittites. There Abraham was buried, with Sarah his wife. 11After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac his son. And Isaac settled at Beer-lahai-roi. REMEMBER THAT HAGAR AND ISHMAEL SETTLED IN THE AREA CLOSE TO WHERE ABRAHAM SETTLED … THERE WAS NO ENMITY BETWEEN ISAAC AND ISHMAEL. 12These are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s servant, bore to Abraham. 13These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, named in the order of their birth: Nebaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael; and Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, 14Mishma, Dumah, Massa, 15Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. 16These are the TWELVE sons of Ishmael and these are their names, by their villages and by their encampments, twelve princes according to their tribes. A PARALLEL BLESSING GIVEN TO HAGAR/ISHMAEL DIRECTLY FROM THE ANGEL OF THE LORD (JESUS) SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF YAHWEH. 17(These are the years of the life of Ishmael: 137 years. He breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.) 18They settled from Havilah to Shur, which is opposite Egypt in the direction of Assyria. He settled over against all his kinsmen. NEAR THEM, SOUTH OF CANAAN The Birth of Esau and Jacob 19These are the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham fathered Isaac, 20and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife. 21And Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife, because she was barren. And the Lord granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived. GOD INTERACTING WITH HIS CREATION, AND DESPITE THE PROMISE GIVEN REGARDING ISAAC’S SEED IT TOOK ISAAC’S INTERCESSION FOR REBEKAH TO CONCEIVE … VERY, VERY INTERESTING WHEN YOU CONSIDER PRAYER. 22The children struggled together within her, and she said, “If it is thus, why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the Lord. 23And the Lord said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the older shall serve the younger.” THIS IS ESAU (OLDER) AND JACOB (YOUNGER) THIS SCENE IS REFERENCED BY PAUL IN ROM 9 … A VERY FAMOUS NT PASSAGE THAT STILL CAUSES GREAT CONSTERNATION. BEFORE WE LOOK AT THAT PASSAGE LET’S SEE WHAT GOD HAD TO SAY ABOUT ESAU THROUGHOUT THE OT: Joel 3:19 “Egypt shall become a desolation and Edom ESAU a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the people of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. WHEN GOD PUNISHED JUDAH’S CONSTANT ONGOING SIN BY HAVING BABYLON INVADE … EDOM/ESAU TOOK ADVANTAGE OF JUDAH AND GOD WAS NOT PLEASED BY THAT Amos 1:11Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Edom ESAU, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and cast off all pity, and his anger tore perpetually, and he kept his wrath forever. Jer 49:10 But I have stripped Esau bare; I have uncovered his hiding places, and he is not able to conceal himself. His children are destroyed, and his brothers, and his neighbors; and he is no more. 11 Leave your fatherless children; I will keep them alive; and let your widows trust in me.” 12For thus says the Lord: “If those who did not deserve to drink the cup must drink it THE INNOCENTS OF JUDAH THAT WERE CAUGHT UP IN THE BABYLONIAN INVASION, will you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you must drink. ESAU TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE INVASION … THEY WILL BE PUNISHED. Obad ONE CHAPTER BOOK TOTALLY DEDICATED TO A PROPHECY AGAINST ESAU/EDOM V10 Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever. OBADIAH’S WHOLE PROPHECY IS ABOUT GOD’S RETRIBUTION ON ESAU BECAUSE OF HOW THEY TREATED JUDAH. Ez 35:1 The word of the Lord came to me: 2“Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir EDOM-ESAU’S DECENDANTS, and prophesy against it, 3and say to it, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and a waste. 4I will lay your cities waste, and you shall become a desolation, and you shall know that I am the Lord. 5Because you cherished perpetual enmity and gave over the people of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their calamity BABYLONIAN INVASION, at the time of their final punishment, 6therefore, as I live, declares the Lord God, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; because you did not hate bloodshed, therefore blood shall pursue you. 7I will make Mount Seir ESAU a waste and a desolation, and I will cut off from it all who come and go. Malachi THE LAST PROPHET OF THE OT 1: 2 “I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob 3but Esau I have hated. I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.” 4If Edom says, “We are shattered but we will rebuild the ruins,” the Lord of hosts says, “They may build, but I will tear down, and they will be called ‘the wicked country,’ and ‘the people with whom the Lord is angry forever.’” THERE WAS A REASON WHY THE LORD HATED ESAU PAUL USES THIS SITUATION TO DESCRIBE HOW GOD MANAGES THE WORLD … WHEN WE PUT ON OUR NEW TESTAMENT DECODER GLASSES WE GET A DIFFERENT LOOK AT THIS SITUATION WITH JACOB AND ESAU … Rom 9:10 And not only so, but also when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac, 11though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad—in order that God’s purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls— 12she was told, “The older will serve the younger.” (THAT’S IT … PAUL IS FINISHED DESCRIBING THE SITUATION WITH REBEKAH … THE OLDER ESAU WILL SERVE THE YOUNGER, JACOB … NOW HE’S GOING TO QUOTE MALACHI 1:2: 13As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.” BUT THAT WAS WRITTEN LONG AFTER HIS MESSAGE TO REBEKAH THAT THE OLDER WOULD SERVE THE YOUNGER, HOWEVER, THERE WAS A GOOD REASON WHY GOD HATED ESAU/EDOM AND YOU CAN SEE THOSE REASONS FROM THE REFERENCES IN THE PROPHETS THAT WE READ … PAUL IS SAYING THAT BEFORE JACOB OR ESAU DID ANYTHING GOOD OR BAD GOD HAD ALREADY DETERMINED THAT THE OLDER WOULD SERVE THE YOUNGER, HIS HATRED OF ESAU CAME LATER AFTER ESAU’S DESCENDANTS, EDOM, TREATED THEIR BROTHER NATION, ISRAEL/JUDAH, VERY BADLY. AS A MATTER OF FACT, AT THE END OF THE EXODUS WHEN EDOM REFUSED TO LET ISRAEL PASS THROUGH THEIR TERRITORY … PROBABLY BECAUSE ISRAEL HAD BEEN CIRCLING MT SEIR FOR THE 40 YEARS THEY WERE EXILED IN THE WILDERNESS, GOD TOLD ISRAEL TO LEAVE EDOM ALONE: Deut 2:1 MOSES SPEAKING “Then we turned and journeyed into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea, as the Lord told me. And for many days 40 YEARS!!! we traveled around Mount Seir. 2Then the Lord said to me, 3‘You have been traveling around this mountain country long enough. 40 YEARS!! Turn northward 4and command the people, “You are about to pass through the territory of your brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. So be very careful. 5Do not contend with them, for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession DID GOD HATE ESAU AT THAT POINT? NO, HE WAS PROTECTING THEM, THEY EARNED HIS WRATH BY THEIR ACTIONS AGAINST JUDAH MUCH LATER IN THEIR HISTORY CULMINATING IN MALACHI’S STATEMENT THAT JACOB HAVE I LOVED, ESAU I HATED … AFTER THEY HAD DONE BAD THINGS. THE POINT OF ROM 9 IS THAT GOD IS SOVEREIGN … AND … HE REWARDS/PUNISHES EVERYONE AND EVERY NATION FOR THEIR ACTIONS. SOVEREIGNTY & FREE WILL … PARALLEL TRUTHS, AN ANTINOMY, THE BIBLE CLEARLY TEACHES BOTH ALTHOUGH WE CAN’T COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND HOW THEY INTERACT WITH EACH OTHER; Rom 9:17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.” 18So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills … AND LATER IN ROM 9 V 28for the Lord will carry out his sentence upon the earth fully and without delay.” BACK TO REBEKAH IN GEN 25:22 The children struggled together within her, and she said, “If it is thus, why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the Lord. 23And the Lord said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the older shall serve the younger.” THIS OFFERS INSIGHT INTO WHY SHE PUSHED JACOB TO RECEIVE THE “BLESSING” FROM ISAAC EVEN WHEN IT INVOLVED DECEIT. 24When her days to give birth were completed, behold, there were twins in her womb. 25The first came out red, all his body like a hairy cloak, so they called his name Esau (RED). 26Afterward his brother came out with his hand holding Esau’s heel, so his name was called Jacob (GRASPER, AMBITIOUS). Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them. 27When the boys grew up, Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man (SOFT, GENTLE), dwelling in tents. 28Isaac loved Esau because he ate of his game, but Rebekah loved Jacob. Esau Sells His Birthright 29Once when Jacob was cooking stew, Esau came in from the field, and he was exhausted. 30And Esau said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am exhausted!” (Therefore his name was called Edom RED.) 31Jacob said, “Sell me your birthright now.” 32Esau said, “I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me?” 33Jacob said, “Swear to me now.” So he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob. 34Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank and rose and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright. FURTHER EXPLANATION The birthright goes to the eldest son. All sons receive a "portion" of the inheritance of their father, but the one who receives the birthright receives a double portion. He would also be the "head" of the family. IN THIS CASE IT ALSO INCLUDES THE COVENANT GOD MADE WITH ABRAHAM IN GEN 17 I have made you a father of many nations. I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you. 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 God and the God of your descendants after you. 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. This reiterates and expands on the promises God had already made to Abraham in Genesis 12, 13, and 15. In Genesis 25:11, it says that "after Abraham's death, God blessed Isaac." In the next chapter, God speaks to Isaac: Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham. I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because Abraham obeyed me and did everything I required of him, keeping my commands, my decrees and my instructions. These are the blessings that Esau was to inherit, in addition to his father's property. He was to receive the promise of fathering many nations, being a blessing to other nations, and a close relationship with God. But this he despised. So Esau despised his birthright. This clause, which concludes the episode, is a summary statement which reveals the underlying significance of Esau’s actions. “To despise” means to treat something as worthless or with contempt. Esau’s willingness to sell his birthright was evidence that he considered it to be unimportant. Why did he despise it? Heb 12:16 See that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his inheritance rights as the oldest son. Afterward, as you know, when he wanted to inherit this blessing, he was rejected. Even though he sought the blessing with tears, he could not change what he had done. Esau is implicitly contrasted with Jesus, who is mentioned at the beginning of the chapter: For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Jesus endured the hardship of the cross in order to secure blessings for all nations. Esau gave in to his momentary hunger in order to forego his blessing. Ultimately the reason he despised his birthright could be said to be that his god was his stomach. Paul has this to say about such men in Philippians 3:18For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. 19Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things. About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/32086462

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