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Looking Back and Moving Forward
Bi-Vocational Pastoring.
Looking Back and Moving Forward
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The Lord is faithful to his promises.
25:1-11
The death of Abraham here is placed outside of chronological order to emphasize the ending of the Abraham story and to inform the reader to look forward.
Eschatology.
Looking forward to the future promises of God.
He will redeem the earth completely through Christ who is the see of Abraham.
7-8—not the normal formula.
100 years in Canaan.
A belief in the afterlife.
While sin may cause the body to fail, the Spirit of the Lord awakens our souls to live forever.
Billy Graham
“Some day you will read or hear that Billy Graham is dead.
Don't you believe a word of it.
I shall be more alive than I am now.
I will just have changed my address.
I will have gone into the presence of God.”
East—Eden…away from the presence of the Lord.
Now all of these nations…Ishmael included, could have acknowledged the Lord being with Abraham and Isaac and they could have submitted to their place in the Lord’s kingdom...
But we find out the bitter rivals they become to Israel and the tension that lasts for centuries…and we are reminded of the promise to Eve in the garden.
2. The Lord is concerned with the details.
25:12-18
Notice that there is no mention of heartache and infertility.
The same was true of Cain’s family.
To the world: Ishmael was blessed not Isaac…but we must not look at things like the world does.
We must see things through the Word of God.
Parallels with Cain/Abel; Ishmael/Isaac; Esau/Jacob
Looks back to these verses as fulfilled.
Genesis 17:
If the Lord is faithful is these minor details…surely he can be trusted for his much greater promises.
3. The Lord is working in ways we do not understand.
25:19-34
Understanding this story is foundational for the rest of Genesis.
Rebekah is childless.
Isaac intercedes.
One of the rare positive things about Isaac.
He intercedes…same word used for removing the plagues of Egypt.
Rebekah thinks she is going to die.
The pregnancy is so severe.
Rom9
Does she go to Isaac of another prophet?
Rom9
This section looks back to the Abraham call and parallels and looks forward to the nation of Israel forming through Jacob.
Esau essentially did not believe in he promises of God and in the importance of a savior.
Jacob while being deceitful and shrewd will be changed by the presence of the Lord.
Esau is driven by his appetites
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