 intro didn't come up because I moved it, but hope you all are doing well. I am excited. I hope you all are as well. Let me make sure I have my last sip of coffee. This is why the intro comes in. The little matter of fact, I'm gonna push anyway. You know why I have the red intro come in? Because once it comes in, it tells me, Cory, get ready, get your last sip of coffee in, and then you're ready to go. But it didn't come in, so I can't get my last sip of coffee. So now I gotta go ahead and push the button and make it come in while I get my last sip of coffee. Next to the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. Next to the Bible. Then next to my family. Can't beat coffee. Can't beat it. Can't beat it. Hope you all are doing well. Hope you all doing wonderful. Welcome to the world's greatest, and I mean in the history of YouTube them, the greatest Bible study ever. Why? Because of you all, obviously, naturally, and because of the style of the Bible study. Now, remember the rules. There are no Baptists allowed. I don't care which kind of Baptists. Southern Baptists, National Baptists, Primitive Baptists, whatever. There are no Episcopalians. There are no Presbyterians. There are no Lutherans. There are no Calvinists. No dispensationalists. No Arminians. No Provisionists. No Trinitarians. No Unitarians. No One Dispens... None of those at all. Just people who love the Lord, who love the Bible. And so we're gonna go there. We're gonna leave our preconceived notions at the door as much as we possibly can and jump into it. Now, remember as we go guys, a couple things. We are not going to have disputes and fights and so forth. None of the competitive banter back and forth in the chats as you may want to on other videos, but on this one, no. Now, better admit that you can't speak, obviously, but limit your questions and your comments to what we're covering. Remember, we can't go forward to Exodus. We can't go to Malachi. We can't go to any other books in the Bible. We don't matter fact, we have not even heard of Jesus yet. So we can't bring it up. All we can go over and cover is what we have earned. That's it. We can't cover anything else. That way, it helps us to stay on what the text is saying. That being stated, remember what we have learned thus far. Remember the things that we know to be the truth thus far. We have seen two covenants, two. We're gonna focus a lot on this second covenant today. As a matter of fact, we're gonna focus a lot on the second covenant for the rest of our lives, but for the sake of this covenant, we're gonna see something happening. We're gonna see more and more of God, how he works and interacts and what he aims to do. But let's remember some of the things that we've already discovered. We've seen God. Remember what we discovered to be the truth? Some of the truths, the bedrock that we can write down, take it to the bank, that these things don't change. In Genesis 1, Genesis 2, Genesis 3, up to this point. Okay. Now, that being the case, let's go ahead and jump right back into where we left off. Let me click on this, which is Genesis. Let me move my coffee out of the way. I would hate to spill it. Genesis 17. Let's put it on the screen. Let's make sure I have this popular the correct way. There we go. Cool. So in Genesis 17, by the way, if you do have any questions, make sure that you put a cue or a big question or however you normally do it, but make sure it is pertinent to what we're covering right now. Okay. Matter of fact, are there any questions regarding what we've covered before? I should have said that initially, but are there any questions regarding what we've stated before? Now, as I said before, though, as you notice, the pace, the speed is picking up. We're going to go a lot faster today than we did on the last session. And then next week, we're going to cover a whole lot. We're going to cover. As a matter of fact, next week will probably be the last time. The last, the last time that we are in Genesis. Now, we'll always go back to Genesis. So as we go into excess and as we go into job, we'll start kind of getting an idea of how we're going to study going forward. And we'll use excess. We'll look back at Genesis because these are foundational truths. What exodus will not do? It will not contradict or here's a word, vitiate. It will not surpass. It will not eliminate. It will not nullify what we've learned in Genesis. It's not that the further we go, the more that we need to forget about what was already covered. Okay. Yeah, Jeff, we can cover Job is in play since Job is a complimentary book. Remember the, uh, where's it at? Where's my timeline? Remember the timeline since Joe was a complimentary book, uh, it necessarily means that it's taken place. We're going to assume that it's just taking place basically at the same time of Genesis. We don't know that to be the fact. It could be that Joe was written slightly a little bit after Genesis. It could be that it was written before Genesis or even the time of things have taken place at the time. So we don't, we don't know. So yes, but I can't see Joe really, really coming into play just yet. Although if you see something that you think might be beneficial that may add to the conversation today, then by all means, Darrell, I could, I would, but I can't. Here's why, because if I do, we'll be here a lot longer. And so, uh, what I'm going to do though, what I'm going to do is cover that again. I'm going to have to cover that again. I see, which is no problem. Uh, I don't have a problem sitting there open the Bible and doing an actual study on just that again. So, uh, and that was for you, Ms. Lisa. Oh, let's see. One. Yeah. Obviously, Jeff, obviously, I knew what you meant, Jeff, if it's in context. Okay. So now let's go ahead and jump into it. We're now in Genesis 17. Think about this. This is, this is the sixth session and we're just now in Genesis 17. And obviously, the reason is to kind of, it's hard pulling everybody together on the same page. Matter of fact, it's impossible to pull everybody together on the same page, but hopefully you all can see what we're trying to do so that we as best we possibly can be on the same page. And wait a minute, we haven't earned that yet. We don't know that yet. And so, think about what we have read so far, but also you can start thinking about what we have not covered, what words or what things, what doctrines I might want to naturally put in what we've covered, but we haven't covered it. So I can't, but it doesn't matter because if what we've covered is the truth, then we don't need anything extra to make it be more of a truth. Are you with me? So let's jump into it. Now, when Abram was 99 years old, wow, Abram is old. Have you ever met a 99-year-old person? I have. Now, I don't know what 99-year-olds look like then. I imagine probably better than 99-year-olds today, but it's not like the 99-year-old looked like he was 20. Even though today more and more people are living longer. So, but 99-year-old, Abram, and look what happens. This is important. What does it say? The Lord appeared to Abraham. And look at what word is here. I'll just say it the way that most folks will say the word Yahweh. So Yahweh, or Yoh-oh, how have you been pronouncing this name, Tetric Amateur? The Lord appeared to Abraham or Abram. Are you with me? You cannot take this any other way other than the fact that it says the Lord Yahweh, that's who appeared to Abram. And we know he is God because look what he says. I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless. Well, this is the third person that we've heard this allusion to or being spoken of, walking with God. Obviously, Enoch. Secondly, Noah. And now, Abram. So he says walk with me, walk before me and be blameless. Does that mean be perfect? No. Does that, when we say blameless, it does not, it does not mean nor has it ever meant to be perfect or without sin. As a matter of fact, we're going to see in just a little bit in between now and the time that the Son is born, we're going to see Abram mess up. Matter of fact, we're going to see a little bit of doubt creep in. Here what he says, I will establish my covenant between me and you and I will multiply you exceedingly. Now, Abram has had, has had contact with the Lord before. And so God showing up appearing to him is not, is not anything new. Now, obviously, it's, it's important. It's amazing to him, but it's nothing new. So Abram fell on his face and God talked with him, saying, as for me, behold, my covenant is with you and you will be the father of a multitude of nations. Important. What he just said, no longer shall your name be called Abram, but you, but your name shall be called Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude or many nations. For some reason, the Jews did not, they knew this, but they didn't know it. They didn't retain it. They didn't regard it because this necessarily means, this necessarily means, if you're going to be the father of many nations, how many nations is Abram going to birth? He's only going to birth one through this one, through the, through his seed. And you might be able to even see a distinction between seed or descendants and nations. So he says, no longer shall your name be Abram, but Abraham, because you'll be the father of many nations, which is what the word Abraham means. This word, Abraham, our father, and then I'm is plural for nations. And so I will make you verse six, exceedingly fruitful. I will make nations of you and kings will come forth from you. I will establish, I will, I'm sorry, I will, I'm sorry, I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you. Now this word for descendants is the word for Yerah, which is, I'm sorry, Zerah, which is a seed or descendant after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant. The Hebrew word is along, which is forever everlasting covenant to be God to you and your descendants after you. Make sure you pay attention to that. God comes before him and tells him, I'm making this covenant. I'm establishing this covenant between me and you and to your descendants. And it will be an everlasting covenant forever. This covenant is never going away. Remember that guys, that's important. This covenant is never going away. So he says to be, to be God to you and to your descendants after you, which is going to be important because that's going to come a point in time when it looks like his descendants don't regard him as God. They know he's God, but they don't treat him as God. Anyway, I will, I will give to you and your descendants after you the land of your soul journeyings, all the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God. Now, the descendants that he's speaking of notice a difference. He's not speaking of descent of nations. He's speaking of his descendants. It's a different word. Are you with me? There's a different word from descendants and nations. And look what he says about his descendants. These are like, these are his physical lineage that he's speaking of. And he says, I will give to you in verse eight to your descendants after you, the land of your soul journeyings. Now how would Abraham take this? He takes this literally the land of your soul journeyings, all the land of Canaan as an everlasting possession. So the reason why this is important, because we're going to get to later where we're going to start looking at this and thinking that God didn't mean what he said, that God didn't literally mean his descendants and didn't literally mean this land and did not literally mean forever. So we're going to disregard three things to make this mean not what he's saying right here. And we know he means this literally because he puts them there initially, literally. And he plans to give them more, but he also knows that they plan, though they're not saying it, they plan to mess up and he's going to discipline them and bring them back. We'll get to that later. But remember, this is what it says. So how would you take this? You would have no choice but to take this literally. By the way, who's saying this again? Keep in mind, who's saying all this? Moses is the one that's saying this. God is telling Moses this, obviously, because God, I mean, because Moses was not there. So Moses is saying, God is telling us to Moses. Moses is the one that's giving an account of this. Oh, by the way, who is he saying it to? He's saying it to these Jews. Now let's put a pause on this for a second, because we remember when we look at the who, what, when, where, and why, when we look at who's writing and who he's writing to, he's writing it to these Jews. Where are these Jews when Moses is giving this account to them? They are in the land or heading, I'm sorry, not in the land, but they're going to the land that God has promised. So how would they also take this? Sometimes we might think, well, how would someone in 2023 take this? No, it's how does the writer, well actually, it's how does God intend you to take it? How does the writer who's writing it or the one that's speaking intend for you to receive it? And then those who he's speaking directly to or writing directly to, how would they receive it? So if it's, if he's not giving them a riddle, in other words, if you see it this way and they saw it that way, the likelihood, the likelihood is that how they saw it is how it is. Because again, God does not think highly of our intellect. He's not trying to fool us. It's only us, specifically today, who regards our intellect, our understanding as something supreme. And it's not. It's not. How many of you all have ever walked around with your glasses on top of your head looking for them? Or you've walked out the room, couldn't remember why you left in the first place. It had to go back, retrace your steps to try to hopefully figure out why, why was I going where I was going in the first place? We're not that right. We really are not. Which makes us a smart Christian because we realize I'm not that smart. That's what makes you really a smart Christian because then you have to lean on his word. So let's go back to what he says. This is going to be an everlasting possession, this land, and I will be their God. You can say I am, but I will. I will be their God. God said further than Abraham, now as for you, you matter of fact, wait a second, hold on, I got to do something. I don't know why they do this the first time. There it is. Sorry. You don't know what I just did. I had to move my notes over so I can actually see where I'm going because I cannot read every last passage that we're going through. So some parts we're going to skip over. Okay. Just to give you a little heads up. Matter of fact, let me put this over here. That way it's even better. Okay, cool. Now, verse nine, God said further to Abraham, now as for you, you shall keep my covenant. You shall keep my covenant. You and your descendants after you throughout their generations. This is my covenant which you shall keep between me and you and your descendants after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised. So what's going to be the sign of this covenant? The circumcision is not a sign of when we get to it, the old covenant, the mosaic covenant. No, the sign of the covenant is the Abrahamic covenant. I mean, the circumcision is a sign of the Abrahamic covenant. He says, this is my covenant with you. You shall keep between me and your descendants forever after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised. And you shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. And there shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you. And every male among you, his eight days old shall be circumcised throughout your generations. A servant who is born in the house or who is brought or bought with money from a foreigner who is not of your descendants, a servant who is born in your house or who is bought with your money shall surely be circumcised. Thus shall my covenant be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. Ladies, this doesn't matter to you, but fellas, wow, this hurts. Your eight days old doesn't matter. You're no biggie. You don't even know what's happening. But Abraham is not a kid. He's not a spring chicken. This is going to hurt. But an uncircumcised male, verse 14, who is not circumcising the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant. Here's a good question. Jeff says, what is the significance of the eight day? Is it because at least one day will be attributed to the Lord? No. Actually, we come to find out that medically, I know it has to do with vitamin E and some other stuff, medically, a child is best able to have this procedure done on the eighth day. They don't know this. There's no way they could know this. But God does. I mean, it's His creation. So for that reason, it's on the eighth day. At least physically, the Bible does not tell us. I see what you're saying. BJ says the number eight means new beginnings. The Bible doesn't say, though, the Bible doesn't give any sort of numerical benefit for it other than the fact that medically, we know now, we didn't know then, but now we know that it is health wise, it's more beneficial. Is this covenant unilateral? This is a, well, let's put it back on the screen. Let's go to the screen where are my covenants at. Oops, wrong one, wrong one. There it is. There it is. Types of covenant. One person unilateral is one person is responsible for the terms of the covenant and conditions bilateral. Both parties are responsible for maintaining the covenant. So in this case, this is a unilateral covenant. Now, it doesn't mean that because it's unilateral doesn't mean that God won't have you do things inside this covenant, though it's unilateral. No, bilateral means both of you have to work in this covenant, such as a marriage. Is circumcision in this context metaphorical? No, no, they're talking about cutting the, look what he says in verse 14, but an uncircumcised middle is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. That's not, that's not metaphorical. That's, that's physical. And then we're going to see Abram having to get circumcised. And then we're going to see later on when Moses doesn't do it for his son, his wife does it. Yeah. So no, this is, this is absolutely a physical one. It's a good question. Why is this assigned to people go around? I don't know that they went around looking for it. I don't know that to be the case. But again, it's not like they had, you know, underwear and boxes and stuff like that or whatever. So at some point in time, you will see somebody's nakedness, which wasn't a big deal. Now, if a man seeing a woman's nakedness advice versus that was a big deal, but me and another man's nakedness and for them to check, that wasn't, that wasn't unheard of. It's not a big deal. It's kind of like some of you guys might get this. If you're playing sports football or basketball, you go into the shower room, you got a shower. It's not a big deal. No one's thinking anything. It's just, it's just commonplace or whatever. And so even back then, it's not too big of a deal. I guess if someone wanted to see, they would, they would see. So anyway, all right. So let's go back to it. Verse, let's go to verse 15. Then God said to Abram, as for Sarai, your wife, you shall call her Sarai. You should not call her Sarai, but Sarai shall be her name, which means princess. Sar is prince. Sarai, Sarai is princess. Pretty cool. You're calling her princess. Amen. Amen. Thank you for the super chat, silly child. I appreciate that. I will bless her. Look what he says, I will bless her and indeed I will give you a son by her. Then I will bless her and she shall be a mother of nations. We never talk about her being a mother of nations. We talk about Abraham being a father of many nations, but we never talk about Sarai or Sarah being a mother of many nations. Take that, especially you ladies, take that, put a circle around it, wrap it up. We will come back to Sarah later. It's going to be a while. Okay. It is going to be a while. It's going to be a, I can promise you this, it won't be this month when we come back to this, but circle that, put it somewhere, and then we will, we will deal with that later on. He says, then I, then I will bless her and she shall be a mother of nations. Kings of kings of people will come from her, then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, huh, laughed. Okay. And said in his heart, will a child be born to a man 100 years old? And will Sarah, who is 90 years old, bear a child? And Abraham said to God, Oh, that Ishmael might live before you. So, so Abraham was like, no, let Ishmael live. This is, yeah, Ishmael is the one. God is saying, what did I just say? No, Sarah is going to be the one, not Ishmael, not through Hagar. I just said, through her by Sarah, she will be the mother. What does Abraham, Mr. Faithful, because of his faith, righteous was imputed to him, that guy, his faith, no God, no God, no, you're wrong, God, because maybe apparently God, you don't understand biology. It's too old, far too, where's my cursor at? Uh oh, where's my cursor at? Stuff ain't working right. Uh oh, hold on. We got a problem. Now all of a sudden, my cursor wants to, but I can fix that. I can fix that. My cursor is at my mouse is acting up. So I'm gonna plug it in and see if that does anything. Why is it, okay, okay, hold on guys. All of a sudden this, this mouse, there it is. How did I do that? Some kind of way. I turned it off. All right, there we go. There we go. Sorry about that. Sorry about that. They just stopped all of a sudden. All right. Yeah, turn it off and turn it back on. It was off. I don't know how it got off. I don't know how, and the button in the back is small and hard to move, but doggone demons. Anyway, so back to it verse, would we leave off verse 18, no verse 19 now, but God said, no, but Sarah, your wife will bear you a son and you shall call his name Isaac. And I, and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him. Remember that guys, that's important also. So he's establishing his covenant with Abraham and then he's also establishing it with Isaac and you're gonna also see again with the next son and he's gonna reiterate that him stating this covenant and specifically naming Abraham and then later with his son, Isaac, I mean, Isaac, which hadn't been named yet and then Jacob, which we don't know about yet. I'm just, I haven't earned it yet, but you all know the story. That is important. Okay. And I'm telling you that it's important. So as we go forward, you remember that him saying what he's saying about his descendants and who this covenant is with, because he's going to make some statements because of the hardheadedness of his people. Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter because you guys are acting this way. I'm going to remember my covenant with him, him and him in spite of you. So that's why I'm highlighting this because it is going to come up. You said Sarai is a mockery in Hebrew. Let's go back and look it up then. I don't think so, but no, it's not. No. Sarai is my prince. So Sarai is princess. So instead of, so now and really what the word does, it kind of gives her a little bit of honor versus Sarai. It's really honoring whoever her prince is. But in this case, it's giving her the honor. So good question though. Verse 20, as for Ishmael, I have heard you, behold, I will bless him. You've heard what? Well, the hearing that we're not privy to must have something to do with the fact that that's still his son. Just because he was born out from Hagar, didn't mean that he didn't love his son. That's his, that's his son. Matter of fact, at that point in time, that's his only son. So he says, I have heard, I've heard you, behold, I will bless him and I will make him fruitful and multiply him, which is what he, what he already told to Hagar before. He shall become the father of 12 princess, interestingly enough, of 12 princess and I will make him a great nation. But my covenant, I will establish with Isaac whom Sarah will bear. Now, interestingly enough, his name Isaac means he lasts whom Sarah will bear. When he finished talking to him, God went up from Abram. So now, again, who left Abram? God. So when someone, when someone says, does God or did God ever appear to man previously? Well, here he is. The Lord appeared before Abram. And we know it's God because his eye got almighty. And then verse 22 says, then God went up from Abram verse 23. Then Abram took Ishmael his son and all the servants who were born in his house and all who were brought, bought with his money, every male among them of Abraham's household and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the very same day, as God had said. Now, Abram, Abraham was 99 years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his fortune. So again, clearly this is not metaphorical. This is physical and 99 years old. Ouch. Wow. And they didn't have anesthesia that we know of. Abraham, listen, take this circumcision. I know it hurts, but walk it off, rub, rub some dirt on it and walk it off. No, don't rub dirt on it. Abraham, but walk it off. Do whatever you got to do. Go take you a real, real, real cold bath. But yeah, it's going to hurt. It's going to hurt, buddy. Anyway, verse 25. And Ishmael his son was 13 years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. In that same day, Abraham was circumcised and Ishmael his son, all the men of his household who were born in the house or bought with money for from a foreigner were circumcised with him. Chapter 18. Now we're going to start covering this promise that he made. Now the Lord appeared to him again. The Lord appeared to him again. Okay. So when someone says what caused Abraham to do these things, was it, was it, now time out for a second, time out for a second, because I think sometimes we forget. We'll have this discussion about how people are being led by God in the New Testament versus in the Old Testament and what would cause them to do so. And then it makes you wonder, why would these people go back and forth, back and forth? One day they're, they're walking with God, they look good, they love the Lord, they're strong in him. The next day they were over there. How was that? Well, the same way it was with Abraham or Abraham. Some days Abraham loves the Lord, knows the Lord, is on fire for the Lord, he's fallen Lord, whatever the Lord says, but then other days need not trusting the Lord and trusting himself, coming up with his own schemes and devices. What have you? Well, because every day God didn't appear to him. Having God appear to you and speak to you, that matters. If God could appear to me every day, I would never sin. If he could, if he could show up and speak to me like that, man, what kind of life? Now, obviously his spirit is in me, but his spirit is in me, wrapped in this rotten flesh. But do not discount the fact that God is appearing to him and why is God, why is God appearing to him? Why couldn't God just tell him, this is what I want you to do? You're going to do it and then leave him? Well, no, because one, we're going to find out that God didn't really trust us. God didn't really trust, he didn't trust me, he didn't trust you. And I don't know that he, how much he trusted Abraham, because we're going to see he's going to test Abraham. But anyway, back to it. He says, Now the Lord appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, which he was sitting at the 10 of the door in the heat of the day, when he lifted up his eyes and looked behold, three men. So God shows up, the Lord shows up, and we're going to find out that he shows up as one of these men. Think about that. He shows up as a man with two other men. When he looked, when he lifted up his eyes and looked behold, three men were standing opposite him. And when he saw them, he ran from the 10th door to meet them and bowed to them, dim steps of earth and said, my Lord, what does that tell you? If he runs and sees them and goes and runs and bows down and says, my Lord, well, if he recognizes the Lord as this man, what does that mean? Then when he's been showing up, he's been showing up in all likelihood as a man. No, I hadn't heard about that, Tony. I hadn't heard about that. So continuing, he says, he ran and bowed himself at their feet. And he said, my Lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please do not pass your servant by it. Well, why are you asking that, Abram? I keep showing up. Why are you questioning wonder if I've found favor in your sight? I'm making a covenant with you. So clearly you have. Please let a little water be brought and wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree. And I will bring you a piece of bread that you may refresh yourself after that you may go on. Since you have visited your servant and they said so, so do as you have said. So Abram hurried into the into the tent to Sarah and said, quickly prepare three measures of fine flour needed and make and make bread cakes. Abram also ran to the herd and took tender and tender and choice calf and gave to the servants and he hurried to prepare. He took curds and milk and the calf. Now remember, this milk is not almond milk. This is not soy milk. This is not oat milk. This is not any of this little transmemt that you guys are drinking. This is actual, real, honest to goodness, wholesome, godly, heavenly cow milk. Remember that. I just had to throw that in there. Anyway, and he placed before them and he was standing by them under the tree as they ate. Then they said to him, where is Sarah, your wife? And he said there in the tent, he said, he said, I will surely return to you at this time next year. And behold, Sarah, your wife, your wife will have a son. And Sarah was listening at the door, which was behind him. Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in age. Sarah was past child, childbearing. Sarah laughed herself, saying, after I have become old, shall I have pleasure? My Lord being old also. Now this statement, shall I have pleasure? It's simply we old and we don't do certain activities we don't do anymore. So shall I get pleasure from my Lord anymore? This is what she's saying. And the Lord said to Abraham, Abraham, why did Sarah laugh, saying, shall I indeed bear a child when I am old? Look what God says. Is anything too difficult for the Lord? Is anything too difficult for the Lord? At the appointed time, I will return to you at this time next year and Sarah will have a son. Now, look what Sarah says. Sarah denied it, however, saying I did not laugh for she was afraid. And he said, no, but you did. Sarah, I didn't laugh. Yes, you did. Matter of fact, not only Sarah did you laugh, now you're lying to me. I didn't laugh. No, it wasn't me. It's kind of like when you were a little you lied to your parents or you did something and they heard you and you're like, no, it wasn't me. No, no, no, I didn't eat the cookies and crumbs all over your face. That's Sarah. Then the men run and listen to this part. Then the men rose up from there and looked down towards Sodom and Abraham was walking with them to send them off. The Lord said, shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation and in him all the nations of the earth will be blessed for I have chosen him so that he may command his children and his household after him that they keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice so that the Lord may bring upon Abraham what he has spoken about. And the Lord said the outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah is indeed great and their sin is exceedingly great. And I want you to pay attention to what he's saying. What's happening? I will go down now and see if they have done entirely according to its outcry, which has come to me. And if not, I will know. Now, obviously, this is God he knows, but now he wants to become fully familiar with. He wants to give witness to it himself. There's a reason why. And so we say to know to me that he didn't know he knew, but now to be intimately acquainted. Look what he says verse 22. Then the men turned away from there and went towards Sodom while Abraham was standing before the Lord. So who goes to Sodom and Gomorrah? Think about this question. Who is going according to this passage and what we read earlier, who is going to Sodom and Gomorrah? Spider monkey says the men. Correct. More specifically, which men? How many men are going to Sodom and Gomorrah? Well, remember, according to the beginning of the chapter, there were three men that appeared. One stays, two are going. One stays, two are going. One plus two is three. What we saw at the beginning when Abram saw these three men. One stays, that's the Lord and the other two go. So people are going to say or want to wonder who this person is. This is a man before Abraham who is called God, who is called the Lord, who is also called the angel of the Lord. Now this is the first time that we see the word angel be you someone of someone other than the angel of the Lord. But these other angels are with me. Now let's go back to 22. The men turned away from there and went towards Sodom in verse 23. Abraham came near and said, will you indeed sweep away the righteousness with the wicked? Think about this. God is a God who does not change. What did Abraham just ask him? Are you going to sweep away the righteous with the wicked? Are you going to harm or hurt or punish or do anything to the righteous just so you can get at the wicked? I hope something begins to start moving in your head. There's different wheels in your head and I want to start to see if I can get some of them to move. We won't answer this question yet but this is a forward thinking wheel that should be moving in your head because what Abraham, by the way, do you all know the implication of what Abraham is saying? Now we've covered this a little earlier before but look what he's saying now. Should you, will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked? This exactly does the same thing with Noah as well. Here's my question, guys. Let me put a time out on this. Let me put a time out on this. Yes, I'm violating the rules. I'm violating the rules. We haven't earned it yet because I haven't gotten it yet but I want you to be, because I want y'all to think that God, notice God is not going to change how he does things. Different methods may be employed but how he wants to do things, who he is, how he is, it's not going to change. Why am I saying that? There's going to come a point in time where God is going to do some things to this planet, do some things to this world and what you're going to notice is God does not harm the righteous just to punish the wicked. You're going to see that. Notice what's being, because what's happening is we're getting to see how God shows up. There's a reason why I've told, or this is titled, provisions and appearance. God's provision and God's appearance. God's provision and God's appearance. God's provisions and God's appearance. You are going to see this all the way through. I can promise you, you won't see the way he's operating in Genesis. You're not going to see it change. Different methodology might be employed but how he's doing it, that's not going to change. That's why Genesis is so important. You are seeing the foundation of God. You are seeing what he's doing. Okay, now time back in. We're going back to it. All right, so now Moses, now Abraham is talking to God. Suppose verse 24, there are 50 righteous within the city. You will indeed sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the 50. Far be it from you, verse 25, and such a thing, to slay the righteous, to slay the righteous with the wicked so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. They are not. The righteous and the wicked are never treated alike. Does that mean, though, that the righteous can't suffer on the earth? The righteous person gets a broken leg, loses his job, maybe dies, whatever. Life happens even to the righteous. But in terms of God's punishment and judgment, two different things because there's two different types of people. So the Lord said, if I find inside of them 50 righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place on their account. And so he keeps going down and keeps going out. It's like something bit me. I don't know what that was. I'm having issues. Something just bit me. I don't know what that was. Maybe it's just getting old. My skin is wanting to leave me. Verse 29, he spoke to me yet again and said, suppose 40, suppose 30, verse 30. Then he said, verse 32, Oh, may the Lord not be angry. And shall I speak only this one? Suppose 10 are found. Verse 33, as soon as he had finished speaking, run down this litany, will you stop at Abraham? Will you stop at Abraham? Stop it. Then the Lord departed and Abraham returned to his place. Now let's go to Genesis 19. I'm going to skip around a little bit on this. I'm going to try to cover some of the main points, but just so we can run through this. Now, two angels came to side them in the matter of fact, it's going to be hard to, I'm going to have the remotes of 19 because I want y'all to see something that we don't catch on this. Now the two angels came to side them in the evening as Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed down to his face to the ground. He said, now behold my lords, please turn aside into your servant's house and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you may rise early and go in your way. They said, however, no, but we shall spend the night in the square. Yet he urged them strongly. So they turned aside to him and entered his house and he prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread. And they ate before they lay down the men of the city, the men of Sodom, the men of America, the men of the United States of America, the men of the UK, the men of Canada, the men of Russia, the men of Australia, these human beings, these men, the men of Sodom surrounded the house, both young and old, old perverts and young perverts, all the people from, I'm sorry, both young and old, all the people from every quarter. And they called Lot and said, where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out that we may have relations with. Wow. This really is crazy when you think about it, though. I'll come back to that question. But Lot went out to them at the doorway and shut the door behind him and said, please, brothers, don't act quickly. Now behold, look what he says. Kind of interesting. I have two daughters who have not had relations with men. Please let me bring them out to you. And do to them whatever you'd like. Not only do only do nothing to these men in as much as they have come under the shelter of my roof. Like, oh, can you imagine his daughters? Who's he talking about? Well, only got two daughters. So who's he talking about? I just imagine, look on his daughter's face. But they said, stand aside. Furthermore, they said, this one came in as an alien and already is acting like a judge. You know how they do. You Christians, you act like you're better than us. You Christians, you always think that you're so much better than us. That's how you are. You just holier than them. Holier than them. Okay. Now we will treat you worse than them. So fine, Lot, whatever we're going to do with them, we're going to do worse to you. Now Lot is like, well, oh, so they pressed hard against Lot and came near to break the door. But the men, that is the angels, reached out their hands and brought Lot into the house with them and shut the door. They struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great. So they wearied themselves trying to find the door. So they're blind and these guys are blind still trying to get in. These guys are really, really, they are wickedly desperate. They were blind. Okay, still, we're still going to do it. First 12. Then the two men said to Lot, whom else? Now, now pay attention to who's there. Then the two men said to Lot, whom else do you have here? A son-in-law and your sons and your daughters and whomever you have in the city, bring them out to the place. For we are about to destroy the place before their outcry has become so great before the Lord that the Lord has sent us to destroy it. Remember they were just with the Lord. God makes the statement. Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law who were to marry his daughters. Wait a minute. Lot, you got some sons-in-laws who were going to marry who? Your two daughters. Think about this for a second. Who were going to marry his daughters and said, get out of this place for the Lord will destroy the city, but he appeared to his sons-in-laws to be just a son. His sons-in-laws didn't take him serious. And I can understand why. I'm going to be honest with you. You just tried to give my soon-to-be wife to these guys. You just tried to give my sweetheart, my girlfriend, my baby, my boo, my honey, my sweetie pie to these guys. Yeah, Lot, I'm not, I'm looking at you kind of, kind of suspect now Lot. Verse 15, when morning dawn, the angels urged Lot saying, take up your wife and your two daughters. That's all he asked two daughters. These two daughters were, were proposed to be married to these two men. And of course they would call them son-in-laws, even though that they actually haven't consummated the marriage just yet. Okay. That's kind of a their tradition. So if you are engaged at this time, even though you're engaged, even you're not married, you're still considered husband and wife, though it hasn't happened. So the father's going to treat them like sons-in-laws and vice versa. So that's interesting to note. Take up your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city. But he hesitated. So the men seized his hands. So Lot is dilly-dallying. And so what happens? The two men seized them. The two men with two hands, each two, each one grabbing them. I got a hand for each one of you. Seized his hand and the hands of his wife and the hands of his two daughters for they, for the compassion of the Lord was upon him. And they brought him out and put him outside the city. When they had brought them outside, he said, escape for your life. And they said, we're going to take you here. Lot says, no, I'd rather go over here. It's closer and so forth. What did they find? Fine. So look what he says verse now, let's see verse 20. No, let's let's go down to verse, verse 23. The sun had, yeah, verse 23. The sun had risen over the earth when Lot came to Zor. Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah, brimstone and fire, and from the Lord out of heaven. And he overthrew those cities and all the valley and all the inhabitants of the cities and what grew on the ground. But his wife from behind him looked back and she became a pillar of salt. I guess she thought she was missing out on something, just wanted to see something, whatever. What you saw was the last thing you saw, ma'am. Missy. Verse 27. Now Abraham arose early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before the Lord and looked down towards Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the valley. And he saw, and behold, smoke of the land, a senate like smoke of a furnace. Thus it came about when God destroyed the cities of the valley that God remembered Abraham. Remember that, that God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow and when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived. Now I won't, I'm not going to go, yeah, yeah, well, yeah, yes I will, yes I will. I was thinking of not covering this, but I'll go ahead and cover this. Verse 30. The best soap operas in the world, the best stories in the world are in the Bible. Case in point. Lot went up from Zohar, Zohar, stayed in the mountains and his two daughters with him, for he was afraid to stay in Zohar. And he, well, why'd you go there in the first place? The angels told you to go over here, you want to go over there, and now you're afraid. You're a big chicken, you're unfaithful chicken, as a matter of fact. What he says though, for he was afraid to stay in Zohar and he stayed in the cave, he and his two daughters. Then the firstborn said to the younger, our father is old, there is not a man on earth to come into us after the manner of the earth. Silly little girl. God didn't destroy the whole world, just, just, just anyway. But maybe being around this kind of perverted wickedness, maybe that's kind of the environment that grew up in. But anyway, our father's old, in reverse 32, come, let us make our father drink wine and let us lie with him that he may preserve our family through our father. And I don't know if they're trying to be noble and preserve the family line. No bueno, not a good one. So they made their father drink wine that night and the firstborn went in and lay with her father and he did not know when she laid down or when she arose. That must have been some strong drink. On the following, because he didn't know anything. On the following day, the firstborn said to the younger, behold, I lay last night. Now it's your turn. I did. I was with daddy last night. Tonight is your turn. Yeah, Wayne Marsh. Ew, ew, ew. As I said, ew, yeah. 35. But he said the Bible. So they made their father drink wine that night also in the younger rows and lay with him and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose. Thus both the daughters of lot were with child by their father. Firstborn bore son and called his name. Look at it. His name was Moab. He's the father of the Moabites to this day. As for the younger, she also bore son and called his name Ben Ami. He is the father of Ammon to this day. Remember, speaking of or speaking to these Jews who are getting ready to go into the land. Oh, those are the Moabites. Oh, that's where the Ammonites came from. Okay, cool. Good to know, Moses. Thank you for telling us. So we're going to see these names show up again. Obviously Moab and Ammon or the Moabites and Ammonites. We're going to see them show up again, but just to give an idea of clarification where they came from, how they came to be. But notice there's not a real big, steep punishment pronounced on them, is it, because of this? Well, we also need to remember. We also need to remember when I won't say that the confusing part is, and the Bible doesn't give enough allusion to it. Was that really a sin? I would think so. It's 2023. I would, I would certainly think so. That's a problem. And we have Noah being bothered because his son was looking at his neck and it's now apparently Noah's son was making fun of his neckiness. They're trying to preserve this line. This issue of incest and so forth had not been declared a law just yet. So take it as you will. But still, even, even 4,000 years ago, yeah, I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. So anyway, now let's go to chapter 20. Wait a minute. Yeah, chapter 20. Now Abram, Abraham journeyed from there toward the land of Negev, which is the south. I don't feel I can hear that lawnmower. My son-in-law's brother has decided to cut the lawn right now. He is literally right outside this one. I should go out there and make him sit down and watch his Bible study. Anyway, and he settled between Condition Sher, Vinny Sojourn in Girard. Abraham said of Sarah, his wife, she's my sister. So Abimelech King of Girard sent and took Sarah. Now, this is the second time that Abraham has done this. The second time that Abraham has done this with this lie. The first time he worked out pretty good, got some rewards. But still, it shows that he is afraid. Why? So Abimelech King of Girard sent and took Sarah because apparently even still at this age, yeah, everything don't function like it used to, the engine don't run like it used to, but the outside of the car still looks good. She still looks how pretty is she? But God came to be like, he took it, take Sarah. God comes to be like that night in verse three in the dream. He says, behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken to touch her. You're dead. Lay one hand on her. I'm going to kill you. Now, Abimelech had not come near her and he said, Lord, will you slay a nation even though blameless? I didn't do anything. I didn't, I didn't know anything. Did he not hide himself? Did he himself not say to me that she is my sister? And she herself said he is my brother in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hand. I have done, I have not done this. And look what God says. Then God said to him, yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart, you have not done this. And I also kept you. I kept you from sinning. So God stopped stuff from working. God, God stopped stuff from working so he couldn't lay with her if he wanted to. And also I kept you from singing against me. Therefore I did not let her let you touch her. Now therefore restore the man's wife for he is a prophet and he will pray for you and you will live. Really? When have we seen this before that now Abraham is a prophet? Okay. Abraham is a prophet and he will pray for you and you will live. But do not, but if you do not restore her, you know that you shall surely die and all that who are yours. So Abimelech arose early in the morning and called his servants and told all these things in their hearing and the men were greatly frightened. Then Abimelech called Abraham and said, it's why, what have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not to be done. And Abimelech said to Abraham, what have you encountered that you have done this thing? Abraham said, because I thought that surely that there is no fear of God in this place and that they will kill me because of my wife. Besides, she actually is my sister. Now when he says she's actually my sister, it's not the mother of his mother and father's union. She's his sister out of his father's household. Are you with me? So not in the, me and her were born in the same household. We grew up, watched each other, bae. We had birthday parties and so forth. And no, not that kind of sister, but a sister of my own household, my father's household. Are you with me? And it came about verse 13 that when God caused me to wonder for my father's house that I said that this is the kindness which you will show me everywhere we go, say of me, he is my brother. Abimelech. And that's what they had planned this. They had planned this out and everywhere they go, that's my sister. So even though God is with him and God is blessing him, he's not acting like it. He's not acting like it. So Abimelech said, behold verse 15, behold, my land is before you settle wherever you please, Sarah. He said, behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is your vindication before all who are with you and before all men who are cleared. Abraham prayed to God and God healed Abimelech. And look what it says. And his wife and his mates, so they bore children for the Lord, pay attention guys for the Lord had closed fast all the wounds of the household of Abimelech because of Sarah Abraham's wife. Remember that. Remember that. God tells Abraham this time next year, Sarah, your old smoking hot wife, she's still a smoking hot wife and older she wants to be. She must be because everybody's still going Google for her is going to have a son. It's going to have a baby. Then she laughs. Abraham laughs, Sarah laughs. They just chuckling. The first LOLs happen. You're laughing. Why'd you laugh? I didn't laugh. Yes, you did. I heard you. So since you laugh and he laugh, everybody wants to laugh and chuckle and giggle and grin and smirk and all that. Let's name your son. He laughs. He let's call him. He chuckles. He giggles. How about that? So when everyone sees him, they'll remember what you did to my face because I promise you I was going to do something. I'll get the I ask you guys questions to say. Two things happens before the baby's born. First of all, what did God say? What did God say? God says to him, is there anything too difficult for God? Is there anything impossible for God to do? What's the answer? No. What would Abraham have said if God would answer? No, nothing. But then you're laughing at my face. You're laughing and saying that I can't do this. So what does God do? One, because of the perverseness of this city, Sodom and Gomorrah, I'm going to destroy them. I'm going to rain fire down so that you can see my mighty power. And in between that time also, something else I'm going to do, since you like, since you all have concocted this little scheme about this, say you, my sister, and this and that or whatever. Okay, fine. I protected you before. I'll protect you again. And how am I going to do it? I'm going to make it ailment so that they can't touch you. And also I'm going to close up their wounds. They can't get. So what does God do? Close up their wounds because I'm getting ready to show you that I can close a warm up and I can open a warm up also close up their wounds and then also open up her wound. And they're going to open up their wounds again after you bless after you pray for them. We'll get to this issue of praying for people later on. Matter of fact, next week, we're going to see this again, this and we're going to harken back this as well to the folks that may have done you wrong or disobeyed and so forth. So we're going to do that again. All right, let's fix that. Going to verse 21, chapter 21. Here we have it, chapter 21. I'm going to let you guys read through it on your own. But I want to take notice that, you know, wait a second, wait a second, wait a second, wait a second, wait a second. I'm sorry. I may have to cover some of this. Let me just look at this. You know the story. Abraham and Sarah have this wife. I mean, have this wife, have this baby. The baby's born. Abraham circumcises him on the eighth day. I'm just moving through this. God has made laughter for me. This is verse six. Sarah said God has made laughter from me. So everyone who hears will laugh, which is the reason why his name being called Isaac. And she said, who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have born to him a son in his old age. It's important. The child grew. Now there's this issue, this strife between Hagar and Ishmael and Sarah and Isaac. They're looking at each other funny. Sarah's probably like, now I got a child and Hagar's like, yeah, but I got the first one. I got the first one. And so Sarah wants Hagar and her son gone. I want them gone. But you started this. God tells him, get rid of the son. Move him out. He's got to go. Now, do I want to cover this? No, I won't cover this. Let's go to chapter 22. But also, by the way, there's another covenant that the two make as well. So again, you guys make sure you read 21. We can't read it all because we'll be here forever. There are some decent nuggets to take out of that. But for the sake of what we're doing, we're going to just drop down to chapter 22. So in chapter 22, verse one, now it came about after these things that God tested Abraham. Well, why are you going to test Abraham? I thought that Abraham was your guy and that his faith was a count of him righteousness. Doesn't mean that Abraham had all faith. Thank you, monologued. Doesn't mean that Abraham had all faith. That's not what that means at all. Because Abraham, like everyone else, just wanes and moves and so forth. And so what God wants to do, he wants to test him, but also prove before the world and to make an example. So what does it say? God tested him and said to him, Abraham. And he said, here I am. He said, take your own son, your only son. Wait a second. Your only son. I've got another son, but this is who God is talking about. Take your only son whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains. Interesting. Kill him. So Abraham rose early in the morning and sat on his donkey and took two of his young men with him and Isaac his son. Now, I won't spend a lot of time with this. You all know the story, but can I ask you guys a question? How old do you think Isaac was at this time? Well, let's read a little bit and see if we can glean something. He leaves the men verse five. Abraham said to the young men, stay here with the donkeys and I and the lad will go over there and we will worship and return. We will worship and return. Now that might shed a little bit of understanding into what Jacob was Jacob and what Abraham was thinking. He says that we will worship and we will return. Now, does that mean that that's what he actually thought? Because Abraham wasn't known for being the most truthful. Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac's son and he took his hand and the fire in the night. So the two men walked on together. Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, my father, hey, daddy, I got a question. I'm just, I'm just thinking out loud. He said, here I am my son. And he said, behold, the fire in the wood but where's the lamb for the burnt offering? Abraham said, God will provide for himself the lamb for the burnt offering my son. So the two of them walked together, walked them together. Then they came to the place of which God had told them and Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood and bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar on top of the wood. Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife and to slay his son. But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, Abraham, Abraham, and he said, here I am. He said, do not stretch out your hand against the lad and do nothing to him. For now I know that you fear God since you have not withheld your son, your only son from me. And that obviously some forward projecting this in terms of his only son. Then Abraham raised his eyes and looked and behold him, a ram caught in the thicket. And so obviously we know the story that he's provided. Now the question is this and I want to see if you guys have been attending to the rules of the study question. I asked, how old was or how do you think that Isaac was? I see 17. I see grown. I see, let's see, how do you say, how do you guys say something? Not sure. He was grown 12 in his 20s, 13 adult, six, Scott, the Christian lens says no idea. That is a correct answer. That is a correct answer, guys. We don't know. We don't know. There's no way to know. There is no way to know. There are some that were supposed that he's young. And the word that's used there can relate to a young adult, but it also was the same word that's used to relate to a young boy as well. So it could be a young boy, a young man. We guys, we just don't know. He was old enough to talk. Yeah, Dutch. And he was old enough to know what happens with the offering, but a kid, a five year old could have known that as well. A six year old could have learned that as well. We just don't know. Why is that important? Well, because you might hear a sermon where someone says that he was a grown man. He could have overpowered him and so forth in his faith and this and that or whatever. We don't know that I get adding license to the story. But you want to avoid adding something to the story that you don't know because if you do, if you add to the story here, how easy would it be to add to the story there and add to it there and add to their next and we know we got all this, all this stuff in our doctrine that's not there. We're just making it up. Like Jeff said, we haven't earned it. As a matter of fact, we are never going to earn it. We'll never know how old when you get to heaven, ask God, but right now we don't know how old he is. It was just his son, his boy, his only boy, his only son. He could have been five. He could have been 25. He could have been 15. We just don't know. Could he have overpowered Abraham? We don't know. Abraham was at least old enough to walk, old enough to carry the wood, so we, there's no way to know. So any guess would be, could be correct, but the best answers we just don't know. We simply do not know. Now, he tests Abraham. Why? Just to make an example to show. Now let me go back and answer this question before I get too far ahead of myself. I want to answer these questions. If Sarah being barren at first was because she laughed and the name was given by the Lord and so a non-Hebrew wouldn't be able to conceive with her. No, no. God is going to show God, God wants to do something amazing. You're going to keep seeing God doing things one out of order, but two kind of in a difficult fashion, at least as far as we're concerned. To us, that's difficult. This old lady, this old man is old lady. Yeah, she's smoking. Had his old lady, but she's old. She's a, she's a, she's, she's, she's miss, she's miss her, the Caldean. She's miss world. She's miss America. She's all that, but she's old. And then Abram, he's old. He's real old too. God wants to show something. God wants to show something. And so, I don't think naming him Isaac was the big deal, but just showing that now naming him was kind of an affront to them. Like, listen, you made fun. Now you know I can do anything. That's a similar question. What's up with the constant bareness? Like currently we are where we are and beyond. I don't know why the constant bareness again to show that God is the one that's providing. So question. Some translations say tempted instead of test. Well, let's go and look and see what the word actually is. This word for tempted or this word for test. Go back to the screen and go back to verse one. Where is it? Verse one. Nusa is the word to test to try to tend to the same word. Nusa, Nusa, noose. I remember that word noose. Anyway, let's go back to, I don't want to stay in all of 22. Let's go to 23 now. Matter of fact, let's type it in. I want to focus on something. After this is done. Oh, by the way, by the way, some ones also want to say, they want to also say, well, the reason why, or did he tell Sarah? We don't know if he told Sarah or not. So we can't even make that an issue. We don't know if he told Sarah or not. Well, he didn't tell Sarah because Sarah, well, that's my baby. I'm not going to let you do that. That might be true. Again, don't know. Okay, it's a good question. If this is mirroring Christ, then could he have been 33 years old? Well, 30 would be his, will be the date that that a Jewish man is actually kind of a mature man. But no, I wouldn't say that because it's not a true picture of Christ. There's some illusion to it because remember, Christ died. Christ died. Matter of fact, Christ would have been, if anything been more of the picture would have been that lamb would have been the lamb caught to pay for the life of the boy. So now, because you see certain things that mean that everything is a picture of Christ are with me. Everything is a picture of everything is not a picture of Christ. Some things are, some things are not. All right. Now, I want to point this out briefly. Genesis 23 verse 1. Now, Sarah lived 127 years. These were the years of the life of Sarah. Sarah died in Kyriath Abba, that is in Hebron, in the land of Canaan. And Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep and to weep for her. Now, a couple of things went into mourn for Sarah and to weep for her. Is that two different things or the same thing? It's the same thing. Remember how sometimes they'll write something, the same thing, two different ways so that you can get the picture. Okay. But now I want to point something out. I'm sorry. Let me, hold on. Let me ask this question as well. Can you touch on Genesis 21 a little more? It seems a little more confusing to me because we have not been told about God's omnipotence yet. So how could we know that He knows all? Well, that's a good question. How do I answer this? I would say this, that we have seen Him from the beginning, one, Him speaking of... Now, He didn't, again, the word omnipotent or omnipresent or omniscient never shows up in the Bible. Those words specifically. But do we see Him knowing? Well, again, all the things that man has done, God always knows. He knows about the evil and the wickedness on the land. He knows that Abel was killed by Cain. Yeah, we know that. I keep getting confused. We know what Adam, he knows what Adam, he did. Now, he shows up. Now, did he have to show up before them to know that they did those things? No, but it's kind of Him confronting them and then being intimately involved. Oh, by the way, when He comes down, He got Himself, the Lord didn't actually go to Sodom or the angels do, but He stays with Abraham. So, I don't think that you have to prove the word exists to prove that the word is in operations. Are you with me? Now, I want to point out something about this issue about Sarah. And then we'll go to chapter 24. Sarah is the only woman in the Bible whose death date is given. She's the only one who at the age of her death, the age of her death is given. It's not given of Eve. It's not given of Rebecca, Rachel, any. It's not given of Mary. It's not given of any other woman in the Bible except for, except for Sarah. Well, why is that? The only reason why I can come to is that He promises to bless her and He blesses her because you get this baby who you love. I imagine there's no doubt that she loves and then you die soon afterwards. You get this baby and die soon afterwards. That's not all that great of a, okay, I don't get to enjoy it. And so I would, maybe this is what's happening. Maybe this is the reason why I'm going to bless you and allow you to enjoy the blessing. I can't say a whole lot more after that because the Bible doesn't say so. I'm kind of giving some sort of illusion, but the point is, though, even still, though, she's the only one whose date of death is, or age at death is given. All right, with me. Now, we're going to do some real, real, real, real fast moving, chapter 24. We're going to kind of scan through. We're going to kind of paraphrase, but this is, matter of fact, I'll let you read this on your own. But here we see Isaac getting a bride. Abraham sends his servant to go before and find a bride for Isaac. The servant goes and prays before the Lord to make sure that the woman that he gets is the one that he needs to have. Coming to find out, it's Rebecca, who is also a kinsman of Isaac and Jacob. I'll let you guys read that for the sake of all this, but I want to drop down to chapter 25. Abraham, I'm sorry, Isaac has his bride. Isaac now has a family, but then if we go to chapter 25, we're going to see some sad news. We're going to get some sad news, guys. Sad news is at verse 25, verse one. Abraham takes another wife, obviously, well, if you didn't know, I should say obviously, takes another wife, name, whose name is Katera, and she bears him some more sons, some more kids. So Isaac is not the only one born. Ishmael is not the only one born. He has his other kids that are born. But let's drop down. Let's drop down to verse seven. These are all the years of Abraham's life that he lived 175 years. So 75 years after the birth, 75 years after that's fine, Alpha, you can reject that belief. But now you'll have to determine Alpha says, I reject that belief. Inside the Bible clearly explains God is all knowing, but verses such as 1821 confused me. I'm a little younger in the face. So I'm confused easily. I get that. You'll find if you, if it's not established with you yet that God is all knowing, then at least know that he's all, that he knows some stuff. He is God. He created everything. Is there anything too difficult for God, which also would include knowing these things. So, and the Bible tells us earlier, I got to go back and find the passage where there's nothing, there's nothing hidden from God. So we'll come back to this later. Okay. We'll address this later. As a matter of fact, I think we might address it on next week. So if you are confused, or if you're not in agreement, if it hadn't been spelled out completely, which is fine, by the way, Alpha X, if it's, if it's hadn't been spelled out just yet, but if it's true, then we'll find it to be true. Okay. So let's say, I don't see that God is all knowing just yet. That's fine. If we think he's all knowing, then at some point in time, we're going to find out that he absolutely is. So we don't have to kind of squabble over it. We'll, we'll figure it out. And if we never see a passage that states that he is all knowing, well, then he's not all knowing, but we are going to find this out to be the case. Are you with me? So, so don't, don't, don't be bothered too much or nor should anyone else be bothered with you because I don't quite see it. Matter of fact, matter of fact, it's a good thing if you don't quite see it. Again, we're going to earn it. And if we haven't earned it just yet, well, then maybe there's no reason to earn it then. Maybe there's no reason to save it. But if we earn it now or we will earn it, amen. Are y'all understand what I'm saying? So that part is cool. That part is fine. Okay. Now, look what he says though, 75 years after the birth of his child. So you mean tell me Abraham lives another 75 years, but early, but the first 75, so 100 years of his life, it was understood that he could not have kids, but you're going to live. So you 75, you're going to live another hundred years. Why are they barren? Why are they, why, why stuff ain't working? I mean, that's most of his life still, still left to come. I don't, I don't know human anatomy that well in the first few centuries of the planet. So I don't know. So I don't know. All right. Now, but these are the years, 175 years, Abraham breathed his last and died in a ripe old age, which by the way, in his, in God's speaking him in his covenant making, he says, he says that you will die at a ripe old age. That's the first part of what he says. The second part is that your people are going to be sold, germs in the land and be prisoners in that land. That's yet to come as well, but die in a ripe old age and satisfy with life. Look at verse nine. We're not going to make too much out of it, but I think it's just interesting. Look at verse nine. Then his sons, Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of McPela in the field of Ephraim. Not to make a huge deal out of, but just interesting that Ishmael has been sent away. He's a grown man now. He comes back for his daddy's funeral, which might speak to the relationship with his, with his father that he still may have loved him at least, at least enough to honor him, at least enough to honor him. Yes, Patrick, that's true. That part's true. I'm just reading, reading this question on the side. Now I want to go to verse 21. Isaac, after getting his wife, who he does, prays to the Lord on behalf of his wife because she was barren. Kind of like what Dutch was asking earlier, this is this theme, people being barren. Rebecca was barren. God, he prays to the Lord, answered him, the Lord answered him and Rebecca, his wife, conceived. But here it is. The children struggled together within her and she said, if it is so, why then am I in this way? So she went and inquired of the Lord and the Lord said to her, two nations are in your womb and two peoples will be separated from your body. And one people shall be stronger than the other. And the older shall serve the younger. So now she's been told, she's being told what's going on. I feel this comes to something happening here. I don't know that this is the way it's supposed to be. When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, I'm sorry, behold, there were twins in her womb. Now the first came out, came forth red all over like a hairy garment. And they named him Esau. I didn't mean that he was hairy all over, but he came out red like a hairy garment. Afterward, his brother came forth with his hand holding Esau's heel and his name was called Jacob. And Isaac was 60 years old when she gave birth to them. Now it's not clear that he came out holding the baby's heel. That would be pretty difficult. That's a strong grip. So I don't think that he came out, they came out, you know, like, like a relay, hold each other's hands or holding his feet. I don't think that was the case. That'd be you ladies that have given birth, you'll know that that'd be pretty difficult. But it'd be better for the baby to come out sideways. So I'm just, it gives impression afterwards that this baby is grabbing on to his brother's foot. And then internally, there was this movement, this constant butchering back and forth. And so that seems to be more in line. Are you with me? And then it talks about the boys, how they, how they were and so forth. I'll let you guys read that. Esau was kind of a man's man, hunter, gatherer. He was, you know, tough guy. Meanwhile, Jacob, Jacob was the, you know, you know where we get oat milk from? And almond milk and soy milk from this guy, Jacob. We get it from him. We get it from this Tinder hearted fellow right here. Yeah. Yeah, you're right. He realized we'll destroy the kind of, they, they, well, they destroy the context of everything. So not just this passage, but yeah. And you're right. You're right. He's a mama's boy. He's a mama's boy without question. And so there was this issue again, you all need to read 25 and 26. This issue with this, with this battle and this drive between the two and him giving away his birthright, that is Esau selling or giving away his birthright because he's hungry. I do want to jump into 26 and go to verse 23 though. Let's do it. I don't have to type it. I'm just scroll down. Now, the reason why I'm going here is because I want to show you something else that even though Jacob is not the nicest of people, the person with the most integrity, the most trustworthy person, what does it say about us? God's going to use this person. And look what happens with this person in verse 23 of chapter 26. Then he went up from there to bear sheba. And what happens? The Lord that we know as God, Yahweh appeared to him in the same night and said, I am the God of your father Abraham. So we know this is clearly God. I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not fear for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham. So for Abraham's sake, I will bless you. So we see where he has appeared to Isaac, his father, and he's appeared to Abraham. This is what God does, because God is going to continue to remember his promise. Not because Jacob is so great, no, and not even because Isaac is so great, but because of his father Abraham, who has the son Isaac, who has the son Jacob, and he's doing something. It's God who gives or determines how things are going to be. Not us. Not us. He says, for the sake of my servant Abraham, so he built an altar there and called upon the name of the Lord and pitched his tents there, and their Isaac's servants dug a well. Now he goes on later and he makes a covenant with a bimlek. Then a bimlek came to him from Gerar with his advisors, Ahuselah and Pukol, the commander of his army. Isaac said to them, why have you come to me since you hate me and have sent me away from you? They said, we see plainly that the Lord has been with you. So we said, let us now be an oath between us, even between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you. Now I won't belabor this point too much, but when you see, and people have seen this, when they see that you are with God, what do people want? We have got this backwards, people. We see that people are doing well in the world and want what they have. People should see that we are doing well with God and want what we have. We have this pattern here. Same way it was with Abraham, the same way it was with Jacob. I mean Isaac, the same way it is with Jacob. When they see you being blessed by God, because you're following God, even though you're not perfect, but if they see God's blessing upon you, they will want the same thing. There's no need to want what the world has, the world should want what you have. But we get it twisted, we get it all mixed up, and we see the little shiny things they had and think that's great, and it's not. So who are you going to serve? Who are you going to follow? Either after the world or after God? Thankfully though, at least for Jacob's part, that God had a plan for him more so than Jacob had a plan for God. Jacob was not a godly person in that regard really at all. But thankfully though, and they want to make a covenant, we see how awesome we see what's happening here and we want to be a part of it. So now look, go to verse 27, chapter 27 verse 1. Now it came about when Isaac was old and his eyes were too dim that he called his older son Esau and said, my son, and he said, and here I am, Isaac said, behold, now I am old and I do not know the day of my death. Now then, please take your gear, your quiver. Anyway, go get some food for your old man. Go get me some food. I'm about to die. Come on back so I can bless you. Rebecca, his mother is listening. So truth be told, it's not just Jacob who was a trickster. He gets it from his mama. She's a little cunning too. Rebecca's a little bit cunning too. So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game to bring home, Rebecca said to her son, Jacob, behold, I heard your father speak to you, your brother Esau saying, bring me some game and prepare a savory dish for me that I may eat. Now verse eight, now therefore my son, listen to me as I command you now go to the flock and bring me two choice young goats from there that I may prepare them as a savory dish. Thank God mama can cook. Mama can cook. And so there we go. And thank you so much. Then you should bring it to your father that he may eat so that he may bless you before his death. Jacob answers his mother, Rebecca, behold, Esau, my brother is a hairy man and I am smooth. It's funny because behold, mama, Esau is a man's man. He's tough and he's got hair on him, but me, I'm smooth. I'm smooth. In other words, I'm soft. He wasn't talking about his bald head. You know, your head, I don't want you all to get, don't think that. No, I'm not talking about a smooth bald head, you know, because a smooth bald head, that's what a man would wear. That's what a man would wear, a smooth bald head. Please talk about the rest of it. No hair on his arms, not even on his face or not on his chest. He just, no, Cameron, Jake was not a bald man. Esau was bald. Just hear your honest face. That's all. That's all. That's all. I'm kidding. I'd like to think that both were bald. I'd like to think that both were bald, but I haven't earned that. So I can't say that yet. I can't say that. Perhaps my father will feel me and see that I and then I will be as a deceiver in his sight and I will bring upon myself a curse and not a blessing, which makes you wonder the Bible doesn't tell us at least to this point that this blessing that will go to Jacob, the only account that we have thus far is that it was Rebecca who knows this. I think we're going to find out later though that Jacob does know that Isaac does know this, but so far we have not earned this, but let's go back to it. But his mother said to him, your curse, your curse be on me, my son, only obey my voice and go get them for me. So he went and got them and brought them to his mother and his mother made a savory food for his father. Then Jacob, the Rebecca took the best garments of Esau, her older son, which were with her to the house and put them on Jacob, her younger son, and she put the skins of the young goats on his hands and the smooth parts of his neck. See, see, wasn't his head. She also gave the savory food on the bread, which she had made to her son Jacob. Then he came to his father and said, my father, and he said, here I am. Now, we'll stop at that point in this verse, not for the Bible study, but there. So you all know the story. Blessings. It feels on Jacob. And okay, you feel hairy. All right. Well, so he gives his blessing. Obviously, his brother is upset because of that. And because, because Rebecca knows this, she tells them to leave. You need to leave because your brother is going to kill you. So let's drop to chapter 28 verse 10. Jacob has left the building or left the flock. Now we're skipping over a lot because we cannot read all of this and cover all of this. So this is where you have to, if you have not read, you got to go back and do some reading. Okay. I'll tell you where you all need to have read, need to read up to for next week because we're going to do a lot of moving around on next week. Verse 10 of chapter 28, then Jacob departed from bear sheba and went toward Heron. And he came to a certain place and spent the night there because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of the place and put it under his head and laid down in that place. He had a dream. This is important, guys. He had a dream, not like MLK, better dream. And behold, a ladder was set on the earth with its top reaching to heaven. And behold, the angels of God were descending and ascending and ascending on it. And behold, the Lord said above it and said, I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of the land, I mean, the land on which you lie. I will give it to you and to your descendants. Your descendants will also be like the dust of the earth and you will be spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. And in you, all your descendants shall, all the families of the earth be blessed. Notice what he just said. Did you hear that? Guys, I want to pause for a second. I want to pause for a second. Time out. There's a reason why I need to pause because by the time that we get to this passage again, we may not remember this. So I just want to kind of make this relevant and then we'll jump back into the study and we'll be through it in a few more minutes. What is Jacob speaking of? I'll tell you what Jacob is speaking of. Jacob is speaking of, where is it at? Okay, hold on. Matter of fact, wait a second. Wait one second. Where am I at? Wait. Hold on. I just, if I could quit moving and stuff. Where's my, okay, here it is. Let's go to, now I want to, I want to show you guys something. Look at this dream that Jacob is having. Jacob verse 12, he had a dream and behold, a ladder was set on the earth. In it his top was reaching the heaven and behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it and behold the Lord said above and said, I am the Lord your God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. Speaking of this land which they will possess. And he says your descendants will also be like the dust of the earth and you will spread out to the east and to the west and so forth. Now look what he says and in you and in your descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed. So in and through you shall all the families of the earth be blessed. Where do we see this again? Well, I have to go and show you where you're going to see this again because it's important. Let's go to John verse, let's start in verse 50. This is Jesus speaking now. He says, because Jesus answering says to him, because I said to you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? Now he's speaking to his disciples or he's speaking to his soon to be disciples. And look what he says, you will see greater things than this. What you think you've been seeing or you're seeing now, you will see greater things than this. And what does Jesus refer to? And he said to him, truly truly I say to you, you will see the heavens open and the angels of God ascending and ascending on the Son of Man. Let's go back. Let's go back to where he says, behold, the Lord stood above it and said, I am the, I am the, I'm sorry. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and ascending on it. They didn't say the Son of Man yet, just yet. And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham, the God of Isaac. And he's speaking about this land and he says that in you, all the descendants of all the people of the earth will be blessed. But then over here in John, he says, truly truly I say to you, you will see the heavens open and the angels of God ascending and ascending on the Son of Man. Why, why do you add the Son of Man there? Well, because he's, because what's invoked in John, in John, in Genesis is God, the Father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, Isaac, the God that's giving you this land. And then instead of that in, in John, Jesus supplants that and puts his name there or says the Son of Man. Why is that important? Because who's saying this in Genesis? The very same person is saying it in John. The two places where we see this issue of this dream about Jacob's ladder and these angels going up and going down and how these other people are going to be blessed, not just, remember, in Genesis 12, he tells him, I'm sorry, Genesis three, he tells him that in you, through you, all the families of the earth shall be blessed. He reiterates this again here in Genesis to, to Isaac and to Jacob. And then Jesus brings this very same thing up regarding everyone being blessed through who? Through the Son of Man, through Jesus. So this is a forward thinking prophecy. This is why I say this prophecy with Abraham, this, this Abrahamic prophecy, I mean this covenant with Abraham is important through it, because it is, everything unfolds. Everything unfolds because of this. Jesus is the fulfillment of what God is saying in Genesis three and what he, what this dream is in Genesis that Jacob is having. Jesus is the fulfillment and the very same person that's speaking to him in Genesis three, the very same person that's speaking in Genesis 20, what was it, 27? is the very same person that's speaking again in John one. Now, I want to make that clear because by the time that we get to John, we might forget this. Now when we get there, we'll, we'll remember this, but I want you all to see this. I want you all to see the benefit of this, that this God who is deeply and richly involved in their lives, remember this provision and his appearances are thick all throughout Genesis as he's meeting and speaking to his people and as he is providing for them. Are you with me? So I want to, I want to make that clear before we move on. Amen. Now I want to go to Genesis 29. Well, you know what? I don't think I want to go through 29 one for a sake of time. So I will say guys go and read this. This is where we see Jacob meeting his wife, Rachel. Y'all know the story how Jacob comes in contact with another trickster, Uncle Laban, and he wants to marry this woman, Rachel, but his father, I mean her father is a little trickster too and tricks him into marrying Leah first after working seven years and then after seven more years, he finally gets Rachel and then they end up moving on and he gets to keep both of them. Plus he also gets, let's go to that benefit, let's go to that verse. He not only has Rachel, he has Leah and he also has these mates. Yeah, the serious bait and switch, but it is amazing how God uses these things. So go to verse 31. He says, now the Lord saw that Leah was unloved. Not good for her. She was unloved and he opened her womb because Rachel was the one, but he opens Leah's womb first and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. There it is again, Dutch, this, this barrenness that's shown out. Leah conceived and bore a son and named him Ruben. So the very first child that we're going to find out to be this, the children of Israel is going to be, I'm sorry. Origen, Origen's link, he said he was a simp. I guess he was. He loved, he loved the woman. Leah conceived and bore a son named Ruben. Ruben was the first one because the Lord has seen my affliction. Surely now my husband will love me. Then she conceived again and bore another son and because the Lord has heard that I am unloved, he has therefore given me this son. She named him Simeon. She conceived again and bore a son and said, now this time my husband will become attached to me because I have borne him three sons. Therefore he named his son, I mean, his name was Levi. You're going to find out though, those first three sons, nope, nope, and nope. This lineage that the Savior is going to come from, it didn't come from these first three. We're going to find the story later, but it's just interesting about that. Hi Wanda, how are you? Let's go back. Verse 35. And she conceived again and bore his son and this time, well, this time I will praise the Lord. Therefore she named him Judah, then she stopped bearing. Isn't that interesting? The last one, the first three, not so much. The last one, Judah. How cool is that? This time I will praise the Lord. Did you notice the switch in her view? So instead of the sons being something for him to behold, this last one, you know what? I will praise the Lord. Even if he doesn't, I will, I will praise the Lord. Isn't that amazing? Now who's the lineage coming through Judah? Pretty cool. The sons of Jacob. Now Rachel, when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she became Joseph her sister and she said to Jacob, give me children or else I die. Then Jacob's anger burned against Rachel. What am I going to do? I can't do anything. And so we see, we won't read all this, but these the lineage of the kids that are birthed through her, through her mates. And then she finally does have a son and what's his name? His name is Jacob. Not Jacob, Joseph. All right. Now let's go to verse. Don't want to read these. I'm not going to read all these. I'm not going to read all these because I want to go to verse two. Yes, I do. Yes, I do. There's one I do want to read. There is one verse I do want to cover. Sorry, guys. Then God remembered Rachel in verse 22, and God gave heat to her and opened her womb. So she conceived and bore a son and said, God has taken away my reproach. She named him Joseph saying, May the Lord give me another son. Huh? Well, the Lord does. We're going to find out who this other son is later, but she does give another son named Joseph. So now chapter 31, we're in 30. Let's go to 31. And we're getting close to the end, but I've got to spend time on this upcoming chapter. So Jacob leaves away from, he runs away from Laban, takes Rachel, takes Leah, takes the maids, which I don't think Laban is really tripping off of that. Rachel does something though. Rachel takes Laban's idols and Laban is furious. Catches up with them. He doesn't find the idols because Rachel is sitting on top of them on her horse and says that it's my time of the month so forth. And so Laban doesn't touch her. And so because of that now, funny, Jacob decides to hold that against him. Jacob knows she took him and says, why are you holding this like I, like I send against you? Well, you did, but he didn't find out. So he pretends that Jacob, I mean that Laban is wrong. And so they come to this agreement, this blessing, this little covenant. Now I want to go to an important chapter. I can't let you guys read that on your own, but let's go to 32. Remember what Jacob has also done. Jacob has also took his brother's birthright. That's why I want to go to 32 and we're going to end here. Now, Jacob, chapter 31, 1, on his way, the angels of God met him. Jacob said, when he saw them, this is God's camp. So he named that place, my honey, then Jacob sent messengers before him and his brothers. Now, by the way, it's really kind of the same word. When people are talking about these messengers and angels, these messengers of God aren't the same as the messenger of God, the, but it is the God, I mean the messenger of the angel of God, but he's not speaking of them just yet. He's speaking of just regular angels, regular messengers. And then in verse three, Jacob has messengers as well, but they're not called angels just because we want to distinguish between actual angels and messengers. But it's literally the same Hebrew word. So then back to it, he says, then Jacob sent messengers before him to his brother Esau in the land of Sia, the country of Eden. And he also, he also commanded them saying, thus you should say to my Lord, Esau, thus says your servant, Jacob, I have so germ with leg, lay them and stayed until now. I have oxen and dunks and flocks and male and female servants. And I have sent to tell my Lord that I may find favor in your sight. The messenger returned to Jacob saying, we came to your brother Esau and furthermore, he is coming to meet you. Uh-oh. And 400 men are with him. Uh-oh. Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed and he divided the people who are with him. Look what he does. And the flocks and the herds and the camels into two companies. For he said, if Esau comes to one company and attacks it, then the company which is left will escape. So he might kill some of y'all, but he won't kill all of you. Jacob said, oh God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, oh Lord who said to me, return to your country and to your relatives and I will prosper you. By the way, does it seem like Jacob is really trusting God? No, he's not. He's not. He's not the most trustworthy of God. He's not the most faithful, clearly. He says, I am unworthy of all the loving kindness and all the faithfulness which you have shown to your servant. For with my staff only I cross this Jordan and now I have become two companies. Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him that he will come and attack me and the mothers with the children. For you said, I will surely prosper you. Remember God what you said. You said God. You said God. I didn't say it. All this God, I've listened. It ain't my fault. You said God. You said you will surely prosper me and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which is too great to be numbered. That's what you said, God. Okay, fine. So he spent the night there and then he selected from him, from what he had with him a present for his brother. Just in case, God, just in case, let me get a present for my brother so he don't kill me. Jacob was such a faithful man. Jacob is such a faithful man. Then he selected from what he had with him a present for his brother, Esau, 200 female goats, 20 male goats, 200 ewes and 20 rams, 30 milking camels and their colts. That's right. And their colts and their colts. Amen. Take that cowboy fans, not cowboys, colts, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys and 10 male donkeys. He delivered them into the hands of his servant. Everyone drove by himself and said his servants pass on before me and put a space between, between drove. He commanded the one in front saying, when my brother Esau meets you and ask you saying, to whom do you belong and where are you going? And to whom do these animals in front of you belong? Then you shall say, these belong to your servant Jacob. It is a present to my Lord Esau. And behold, he also is behind us. So he's preparing this thing. He's trying to man listen. I just, I hope my plan works. I hope my plan works. West drop down. Now he's there by himself. He stays back. Verse 22. Now he rolls that same night and took his two wives and his two maids and his 11 children and crossed the Ford of Jabbaq. He took them and sent them across the stream and he sent across whatever he had. Then Jacob was left alone and a man, a man, a man wrestled with him until daybreak. When he saw that is, Jacob saw that he had not prevailed against him. I'm sorry, the angel, the man, I should say the angel, the man saw that when he wrestled that he did not prevail against him. He, that is the man, touched the socket of his thigh so that the socket of Jacob's thigh was dislocated while he wrestled with him. Now my question is, why did you do that in the very beginning? Why did you do that? And I see, I see Neelan, who is a Jacksonville Jaguar fan, is blasting. He said, the cults know Neelan, read your bio. It's cults, cults. There are no Jaguars in the bio, but cults are. Back to the, back to the story. Then he said, let me go for the dawn is breaking. That is the man that's wrestling with Jacob. Let me go for the dawn is breaking. But he said that is Jacob. I will not let you go until you bless me. So apparently he knows who he's wrestling with. So he said to him, what is your name? Verse 27. And he said to him, Jacob, he said the man who's wrestling with Jacob says, but your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men have prevailed. In other words, you have lived, you blasted. Then Jacob asked him, said, please tell me your name. But he said, why is it that you ask my name? He blessed him there. So Jacob named the place Peniel, for he said, I have seen God face to face, yet my life has been preserved. This word right here, let me pull it up higher so you guys can see it. This word Peniel, it's made up of two words. The first is penny, which is face and then L God. So he has seen God's face. This man whom he has wrestled with, he has seen God's face. He's calling that place a place where he has seen God's face, wrestle with God and prevail. Seeing God's face. How could that be? Not that he seemed the full glory of God. We're going to find that out later as we get into Exodus, when we see Moses wanting to see the glory of God, knowing that he cannot be in his full presence. But here, and we've seen before, the Lord God will show up. The Lord God will show up in the form of a man we saw with Abraham. We saw with Isaac and Jacob. And now this man is wrestling with him and he's called God. This is important. The reason why this is important is because we are needing to see how God not only shows up, but also provides. He will appear for us and he will provide for us. Are you with me? I'll let you guys finish reading what was happened in chapter 33, how when Moses, when Esau meets Jacob and so forth, but for the rest of us, going forward, you need to have read up to chapter 50. Let me make sure that's correct. Yes. Matter of fact, yeah, I'm sorry, not 50. Yeah, all of 50. So read all of the rest of Genesis. We're going to cover all of this part. We may, we may matter of fact, we're going to actually go more into Exodus as well. So we'll jump into all of the rest of Genesis, a smidgen, a smidgen of Exodus, and then probably a little bit of Job as well. Okay. So I would say, just to be on the safe side, read all of the rest of Genesis and Joe, I would say, Scott, brother, all you can do is pray. I would, you know, keep seeking whatever professional help is out. I wouldn't be qualified to tell you how to do it, but all I can do, all I can tell you is all I know. And that is just pray. That is just pray, be an example. Just keep praying. God will hear, God will see the fact that you turn to him and then he will acquiesce. Now, how is going to do so? I don't know. I don't know. What is the, what is the word for wrestled in Hebrew? Let's see. The word for the word there is a Bach. It just means, it means to wrestle. I hadn't been, I hadn't been familiarized with that word, but it means, but it means just to wrestle. I don't see any other meaning behind the word. So, so what it means to wrestle. Now, does that mean a little wrestling? I think probably so. I think that probably is a little wrestling because he wasn't getting anywhere. So, thank you, Aaron. I appreciate that. So, I would take it as that. Now, what kind of wrestling, you know, put them in a headlock and buy it? No, I don't know. We don't. Now, is it possible that we mean that he means, thank you, Netha, that he means an actual physical wrestling? Is it a metaphorical wrestling? The reason why I believe it's a physical wrestling is because he touches his hip and knocks it out of soccer. Doesn't seem to be a going around, around and around and around the circle, you know, convert, conversing and, and hey, no, I think you're wrong. You know, it doesn't seem like this is a verbal jousting. This seems to be an actual physical one, which is why he touches him physically. You are baffled that some believers have a problem realizing that Jesus being God. I am, I'm not really baffled why they do so. I know there's a lot of reasons why some legitimate, some illegitimate, one, that that's what the enemy wants you to do. But two, I could understand how because some of the verbs that comes up later on that where it seems that he's speaking of God separately, I don't know only the father knows the father who sent me, those kinds of things, not realizing that he does take on a veiled form before us. He has to take on a veiled form before us to be in our presence. And so when he makes these statements, oh, I'm sorry, Neitha. Okay, hold on. Am I pronouncing correctly Neitha? Or is it, okay, I wouldn't say Canitha. Or is it Canitha? Canitha or Neitha? Which one is it? Tell me, help me with the phonics. Is it Neitha or Canitha? I'm sorry. How come your name is not Mary or Sue? Is it Mary or Sue? What's your name? You definitely don't know that song. I know Lisa knows that song. I know Lisa knows that song. Anyway, old song. Carol knows that song. Neitha or Canitha? Put a K and Neitha, if that's it, or just Neitha without the K. Let me know which one. So I can say it correctly. What was I answering? What was the question? Oh, about him being God though. Him being God, it's just hard for some folks to fathom, not for me, because if he wants to come down, take on flesh, he can come down and take on flesh. Does he come down and take on flesh? Seems to be so, because every time he does, when a man or someone who's in flesh comes down, oftentimes we keep seeing this person being called God. So I don't have a problem with it. I don't. Okay. So it's Neitha. Okay. Neitha. Okay. So I'm not kidding. Okay. All right. I got it now. I got it now. What was the other question? I saw another question that I did not mark. So for all the time that God appeared to man is in bodily form, not no, no, no, not every time. Matter of fact, we're going to see him appear in non bodily form later. Matter of fact, when Moses meets him, when Moses first meets him, he's not in bodily form. He's in fire form. We're going to see him show up as a pillar of fire. We're going to see him show up as a pillar of cloud. We're going to see this cloud, this pool of smoke, this glory also that's God. Are you with me? So he doesn't just only show up as a male in a male form. Okay. He can again, he's got however he wants to show up. Let me answer this question because I because I'm actually going to cover this later on. Matter of fact, no, bridge the gap. No, I won't, I won't cover it later on. I mean, I won't answer now. I'll cover it later on. I'll cover later on. Look forward later today. Okay. You want me to answer? Okay. You are still bothered with okay. Let me help you out then. Assume that we don't say that God knows all. Assume that we don't see that God knows all. I want you to think about this Alpha X and go back to thinking what does God know? God knows that what Adam and Eve did, he knows about the sins of the world, about how the witnesses, the wickedness of all the world was that there is nobody righteous. How does God know that? Unless he doesn't know all. He knows what he's going to do. He's given predictions of what's going to happen, what's what he's going to do. He tells came, I mean, came where he's going, what he's going to encounter. He does the same thing with Hagar and Ishmael. He keeps speaking about what he knows and what he doesn't know. He knows all the, he knows who's righteous, who's not righteous. He knows what they're going to do and what they're not going to do. Yeah, he doesn't say the word that I'm all, that I'm omniscient, I'm omnipotent. No, but we literally see it. We literally see him being just that. Tell me what he hasn't known. He's known that these women were barren. He knows that now that their wounds have been opened. Okay. He knows who's pursuing who. So just looking at the text that we've covered thus far, can we glean that he is all knowing? I think you can. Why don't we ever see female angels? Well, you mean an angel that looks like a woman? Don't know. Don't know. They have always been ascribed to to be males in their, in their appearance. Now are angels actually male or female? No, they're not. They don't have an XY chromosome or XX chromosome, but they appear to be men every time. And that we don't, we can't, we can't explain why. Yes. You know, as a matter of fact, let's take it like that because women are unique to God's creation. Hey, I like that. You, you said it better than I could say it. In what way are Genesis and Job complementary to each other? Well, two ways. One, they were written approximately the same time. So we don't know which one came first or came second. So, and we don't put Genesis in the chronological, in the, in the category of chronological books because there's a story that's being told from Genesis to Exodus and so forth. And then we have complementary books to Exodus, which is Leviticus and Deuteronomy. Then we have Joshua and so forth and judge. So we have this chronological order and there are books that compliment what's being spoken of. And so, for example, in Genesis, we see these different offerings taking place, but they're not the offerings that we see either in the law or what's happened after the cross. So like in the same way that there's a way to bring an offering to God in Job and still be in right standing, even though it's not totally explained and a person can be in right standing, even though the, the commandments of the law hadn't been fulfilled or what's required for salvation after the cross. Why is it unlikely that angels and humans can appropriate because God makes a statement in Genesis that each one after its own kind, the seed is in them after their own kind. And we are not like angels. Matter of fact, Jesus comes in the form of less than an angel. Jesus says that angels are neither given in marriage, neither are taken or given in marriage. And this whole point of being taken and given in marriage is what happens in Genesis six. They took, they took wives, they were marrying. Now, someone's going to say, well, what about the angels inside of Gomorrah? Well, the angels weren't trying to have sex with the men. The men wanted to have sex with the angels. Didn't mean that it was possible. So they are, they're just different creatures. That's all they're just, they're different creatures, they're different creations. It, I mean, think about it, any other physical animal on the planet, we couldn't procreate with it with another physical animal and they're physical. So that's why, that's why I take it. Thank you, Don, Kerry Bay. Spider monkey, anything for you. What does the last verse in Job say in the Septuagint? Uh-oh, why did it? Oh, I see why I did that. I type in, oh, Cory. Uh-oh, went too far, went too far. I'm in Psalms. Okay. So you're asking, what was the last, what does the last verse in Job, the last chapter of Job saying the Septuagint? I gotta put the Septuagint, hold on. Are you asking for the last verse in Job died in old age and full of many days? And so what does it say in the Septuagint? Uh-oh, we got us an issue. Oh, okay. No, I see, I see, I see, I see, I see. This computer just shut down for some reason. Let me pull it back up. Let's see. And it says, and it is written of him again, that to raise with whom the Lord restore. Wait a minute. Oh, okay, okay, okay. There's two versions of it in Job. You know what? Now you've given me something I gotta look at. Now you have given me something I need to look at because it's giving me, tell you what I'm gonna do. Spider monkey. Now you've given me something to do this evening to kind of mess around with. I'm gonna look at these last two examples. I just copied and pasted, so now I've got something to look at. We literally have two different examples of two different verse 17s in the Septuagint. Is that what you're asking? Is that why you asked that question? Did you know that? I'm pretty sure you did. Smart Christian you. I'll look at that. I'll look up to see why the difference because they're saying something different, Job. Okay, so no, oh, so Job lived. Job was, Job lived with his grandsons. Oh, no, it's not. No, it's not. No, it's not. No, it's not. No, it's not. No, it's not. I take that back. I take that back. Or do I take that back? Because no, it's saying the exact same thing that, oh, no, no. Okay, I see. There's a lot more to Job 16 in the Septuagint than it is in the English and a lot more to 17 in the Septuagint than it is in English. That's what's happening. There's a lot of words at it. So what I'll do is I'll go and compare. Give me some extra work to do. I'll go and compare the Septuagint and the Hebrew and then let's see what it's, why the difference and how to have to look it up. Extra work. Thank you, Don. I appreciate you. I appreciate all you guys that have also given Superchats. I appreciate that as well. I never noticed that before because a lot of times you don't really look at, a lot of times you'll look at the English and then you just look at the Hebrew and passing. You don't really always bring in the Septuagint unless you're trying to make a point. All right, ladies and gentlemen, it is time. Shaxx is Nephilim. All right, guys, I've got to run. There will be another little video that comes out later. It's an uploaded video. Guys, thank you so much. Remember, read all of up to Genesis 50 or the rest of Genesis. And if you want to go ahead and jump into Job, we'll be in Job as well next week. So we'll go through Genesis and Job, maybe a smidgen of Exodus as well. So guys, thank you so much. I look forward to seeing you again on next week.