NOTE: There are always people who will give all their treasure, teeth, tonsils and toenails to find a discrepancy and fault in God's scripture so that needs to be addressed first. (Gen 11:26) Terah was 70 years old when Abram was born. (Gen. 12:4) Abram was 75 when he left Haran, SO 70 + 75 = 145. Thus Terah was 145 years old when Abram left Haran. (Gen. 11:32) Terah lived 205 years, 205 - 145 = 60 so Terah lived 60 years after Abram left Haran. BUT (Acts [...]
(Gen. 12:18-19) "What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? Why saidst thou, she is my sister? so I might have her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way." It was one of the few times God and Satan would ever smile at the same time! (Gen. 12:20) Pharaoh turned and gave his subdued, still in shock servants some special orders. None of them thought it odd that Pharaoh [...]
(Gen. 16:7-16 esp. V.7 keyword: fountain: Hebrew word 'ayin: defined: the eye of the landscape) Pregnant Hagar headed south to Egypt but she traveled alone in what would later be named the Negev Desert. Coming north from Egypt she had been with Abram's clan, they knew the way and they knew the watering places in this desert land. Her water bags were empty, she was ready to throw their useless extra weight away and Hagar was dying from thirst when she staggered numbly to the top of a dune [...]
If you wish; see Part 18, 20 paragraphs up from the end to see Abram's timeline. Shaveh was a good place to leave. The bloated, darkened corpses of the multitudes of thousands lay sprawled where grotesque rigor mortis had left them strewn across the valley where they had fallen before the bloody blades of other men's fear and fury. Their stiffened hands still grasped their own bloody swords or axes, sometimes broken bows or knives and their shields. Some had arrows protruding from them; all were slashed, battered and [...]
Situation Notes: The Pilgrims landed in America in 1620 and it has been 394 years to now, 11-11-14. Look at the progress and population growth Americans have experienced in 394 years. (Gen. 11:10-26 key: every even numbered scripture gives a number of years, add them together plus Abram's age, 99 years, and the total = 391 years) (Gen. 17:1) Abram was 99 years old and 391 years had passed since the flood. Imagine the possibility of the progress and population growth these Biblical people could have made in the [...]
I cannot even imagine what Abraham (his new, God given name) must have thought after the Lord God Almighty went up from him (Gen. 17:23) but he got busy that very same day to accomplish what God had told him to do! I suppose when Abraham gathered the males of his clan and told them his intentions a voice, maybe even a chorus of voices, surely shouted; "YOU'RE GOING TO CUT WHAT OFF??? I am sure pupils contracted, eyes squinted, foreheads wrinkled and goose bumps raced! While he was [...]
We do not know what happened to Lot other than he fathered the babies of his 2 daughters which grew up to found the nations of Moab and Ammon who would turn out to be Israel's enemies. The Bible is also silent as to what happened to Lot's daughters. (Gen. 20:1) We do know Abraham journeyed from Hebron toward the south country and dwelled between Kadesh (sanctuary, a place in the desert, a wilderness) and Shur (a desert east of Egypt) and sojourned (to turn aside, shrink in fear, [...]
Review: Read (Gen. 17:1-20 esp. V.7, 13 and 19 keyword: everlasting: defined: #1) eternal, always, perpetual and #2 something concealed, to veil) (V.8) #1) is the whole land of Canaan (Gen. 15:18) from the river of Egypt (Nile) to the river Euphrates is given (Gen. 18:19 Isaac- Israel) to Abraham's seed. #2 is not revealed. (Ex. 19:5, Deut. 14:5 & 26:18) God was establishing a peculiar race of people (Hebrews) (1Cor. 3:8) and the unveiling would be revealed when Jesus came. (Gen. 22:7-11) "My father?" "What, my son?" "We've [...]
(Gen. 17:7, 13 & 19 keyword: everlasting) The key to understanding covenant is in the definition of the word everlasting because it means 2 entities, a physical Israel and a spiritual Church. God said; "And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed in their generations for an everlasting (defined as: #1 eternal, always, perpetual- the land pointed out for a coming nation and #2 concealed, to veil- something that would be unveiled in the future as part of the everlasting covenant God gave Abraham) [...]
(Matt. 26:56) The disciples had fled when Jesus was killed. (John 20:19) They had scattered then met at some secret place and were now hiding for fear of the Jews. As men will they were worried about themselves first. They had been associated with Someone who said He was King of the Jews, that was rebellion and they were afraid they were hunted men. After much whispered discussion they got around to the subject that hung over them like a dark, crushing, smothering cloud; "Jesus is dead!" "We placed [...]