And he (Jacob) said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.. We must not go where vain curiosity would lead us, else will he have to say to us, as he did to Jacob, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name?. Gen 27:19-20. And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor. and whose are these before thee? He has liberty in speech, freedom of utterance, he is not in bonds, he is as a hind let loose., Ah, now the patriarch comes to his beloved Joseph, and here the old man lingers long, longer than upon any other of his sons: Joseph . And he said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham. And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days. And the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. Ezekiel Commentary on Genesis 2. Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. You shall make a window for the ark, and you shall finish it to a cubit from above; and set the door of the ark in its side. Gen 22:9. The Lord God did not ask the serpent anything, for he knew that he was a liar, but he at once pronounced sentence upon him: . Well, even that was better than planning, and not praying at all; so there is something commendable in his action, though not without considerable qualification. And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck: And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob. i. Peter, in 2 Peter 3:1-7, relates the future judgment to the judgment of the flood saying, unbelievers willfully forget the world that then existed perished being flooded with water. It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there. Now let us read what the Lord says, through the prophet Isaiah, concerning this covenant. Gen 27:16-19. And he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. Gen 12:1. He was guilty of unkindness to his wife and of blasphemy against his maker, in seeking to escape from confessing the sin which he had committed. Now was his faith tried indeed, he had no child, he was himself old, and his wife also was old, yet the Lords promise was, So shall thy seed be as the stars of heaven. When did the dominion depart from Judah till the Lord Jesus came as the Seat One? These men were verily guilty for selling their brother, yet God was verily wise in permitting him to be sold. What Every Christian Should Know about the Protestant Reformation. Genesis 6:4. The Jews superstitiously believe that we have lost the sound of the name of Jehovah, that the name is unpronounceable now altogether. There was always a trial for Abrahams faith, but even his trials were blessed, for God blessed Abraham in all things.. Note those four words, and it was so. Whatever God ordains always comes. And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not. Not, Cursed art thou, as the Lord said to the serpent; but, Cursed is the ground for thy sake.. Does it look to you like a curse? So the Lord bore his servant through this great trial, and blessed him more than he had ever blessed him before. He who gives most light is the truest ruler, and the man who aspires to leadership in the Church of God, if he knows what he is at, aspires to be the servant of all by laying himself out for the good of all, even as our Saviour said to his disciples, Whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. The sun and moon are the servants of all mankind, and therefore do they rule by day and by night. Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.. This largest and most complete menagerie that was ever gathered together was not collected by human skill; divine power alone could have accomplished such a task as that. Does the Bible Condemn Using Tarot Cards? When I see the blood, I will pass over you. The blood was not to be sprinkled inside the house where the Israelites might be comforted by a sight of it, but outside the house, where only God could see it. My chief business is to honour the God whom I am, and whom I serve; and if the taking of this spoil would dishonour him, I will not take even so much as a thread or a shoe-latchet.. Look till your heart melts with pity for the many who are going the downward road, and who will eternally ruin themselves unless almighty grace prevent! Happy fowls, and happy cattle, and happy beasts of the earth to be connected with Noah, and go to come under a covenant of preservation and we, though only worthy to be typified by these creatures which God had preserved in the ark, are thrice happy to be in the same covenant with him who is our Noah, our rest, our sweet savour unto God. Remember how the favored three, on the Mount of Transfiguration, feared as they entered into the cloud; yet it was there that they were to see their Master in his glory. This seems hardly a blessing yet it was true of Issachar. The average size of a land animal is smaller than a sheep. Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams, Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals. Make yourself: This means this was Noahs project. And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more. Jacob must have bitterly regretted, that night, that he had ever wronged Esau. The needful test had been applied, and Abrahams faith had endured the trial. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Gen 22:15-16. Everything that is on the earth shall die: We can only wonder what Noah felt when he heard this remarkable announcement from God. I win not pronounce a benediction in the which thou shalt not share: In blessing I will bless thee,, Because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself.. Exodus Text Courtesy of BibleSupport.com. a. No; she might be a little too forward, and a forward woman was not a fit spouse for the good and meditative Isaac. That Book of Proverbs is placed not far from the Song of Solomon, which treats of high spiritual communion, as if to teach us that the next-door neighbour to the wisdom that cometh from above which walks with God, is that prudence which God gives to his servants for their dealings with men. And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token for a covenant between me and the earth. And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Of the birds after their kind, of animals after their kind, and of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive. Is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall: The Hebrew puts it, Joseph is a son of fruits, even a son of fruits by a well; whose daughters run over the wall., Gen 49:22. God is not unfeeling in the face of human sin and rebellion. WE shall this morning leave all discussion as to the creation of the world to those learned divines who have paid their special attention to that subject, and to those geologists who know, or at any rate think they know, a very great deal about it. Gen 32:7-8. So a man may have great opportunities, and yet lose them. Gen 15:9-11. Lots petition is only like an ounce of prayer. Chapter 6 begins with the context that accentuates his faithfulness. And God saw that it was good. Gen 1:29-30. In this case, it certainly was Jacobs duty to make some reparation to his brother, whether Esau accepted it or not. Note that blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience on our websites and the services we are able to offer. It might do some men great good if they would not persistently shut their eyes to the doom of the wicked. He now resolved to have a night of prayer, that he might win deliverance: Jacob was left alone;, We know who that Divine Man was, the God who afterwards actually became man, of whom it might even then be said that His delights were with the sons of men.. Gen 14:17. The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way. Chapter 8:15-10:32 Noah and his descendants, Chapter 9 Institution of authority and Noah's fall, Chapter 10 The table of nations: Descendants of Japheth, Shem and Ham, c. Chapter 11:1-26The building of the tower of Babel, II. It has been judged by some that Jacob, in sending such a message to Esau, acted unworthily and unbelievingly; but I think we are not called upon to censure the servants of God in points wherein they are not condemned in Scripture. his failure involved all his descendants, for he was the federal head of the human race, and by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men. Happily, there is another federal Head, and therefore we read, For if through the offense of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.. Abraham, is not Gods promise sufficient for thee? Before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain. Brethren, let us be of good heart and of good courage in all matters, for doubtless the angel of God will go before us. And get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. Numbers Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. He should seek counsel of God, and observe that he did so. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. They had cast off their allegiance to God; they had set up on their own account; they thought they knew better than God, and they imagined they were going to be gods themselves. Gen 8:2. Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb: the blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren. I think that I know some who are; they could do a great deal, but they see that rest is good, and the land is pleasant, so they idle away their days. Let us rather learn a lesson from them. Then he will certainly remember men made in his own image He will remember you, though you think yourself the most worthless one on the face of the earth: God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark.. How often we throw the blame of our sin on the devil, who certainly has enough to bear without the added guilt of our iniquity! This is very respectful language, and rather obsequious, too; but when a man knows that he has done wrong to another, he ought to be prepared to humble himself to the injured individual; and, though it happened long ago, yet Jacob really had injured his brother Esau, and it was but right that, in meeting him again, he should put himself into a humble position before him. Gen 7:9. Deuteronomy Gen 18:23-25. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it. c. Take for yourself of all food that is eaten, and you shall gather it to yourself: God also commanded Noah to take all the food he could. Gen 9:16. And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is Gods host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? God will also use Noah to save a remnant of each animal so the earth could be populated with people and animals after the flood. And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Gen 45:11-13. Love may not be always logical, but it is sweetly consoling, as it must have been in this case. Issachars was a poor case; he was so idle, so fond of rest, that he was willing to become a servant unto tribute. Genesis 6. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. There was a considerable number of them altogether, more than enough, I expect most of you would think if you had them; but Jacob did not speak of them disparagingly, but he described them as the children which God hath graciously given thy servant.. He clothes him with the robes and the jewels of primogeniture, and then he strips him: . This mysterious personage, the highest type of our Lord Jesus Christ, blessed Abraham; and without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better. He blessed him,. He spoke like a prophet of God when he was really speaking to his son in the anguish of his spirit, and in his prophetic utterance we find the sum end substance of the gospel: My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. He is the great Provider, and he provides the offering, not only for us, but for himself, for the sacrifice was necessary to God as well as to man. v. In 1876 a distinguished British statesman and author, Viscount James Bryce, climbed Ararat and reported finding a four-foot long piece of hand-tooled timber at an altitude of more than 13,000 feet (4,300 meters). That is, in the days before the sons of God took the daughters of men for wives, in such a general manner as before declared, or before the declension and apostasy became so universal; even in the times of Jared, as the Arabic writers . Gen 8:1. Gen 8:22. We will now turn to another passage where we shall have another instance of a difficult case, where another person put his case before the Lord, and sought guidance and found it. And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in. a. It is only God who can look upon any one days work, and say of it, as a whole, and in every part, that it is good. As for us, our best things need sprinkling with the blood of Christ, which we need not only on the lintels and side posts of our house, but even on the altar and the mercy-seat at which we worship God. Sin came into the human race by the eye; and that is the way that Christ comes in, by the eye of faith, the spiritual eye. This was true Oriental policy, and crafty Jacob always had more than enough of something and planning even when it was not done with wisdom; but, in this case, I think it was a wise arrangement, for which he is to be commended. If Abrahams seed was to be like the stars of heaven for multitude, there must be time for the increase to come. And it is a burnt offering, not only a sin-offering but an offering of a sweet savour unto himself. And there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. And you shall take for yourself of all food that is eaten, and you shall gather it to yourself; and it shall be food for you and for them.. Our Lord overcame his enemies even in the thicket of this world; and all power is given unto him now that he has gone up again into his glory. Then the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die. 1 Samuel Nahum Now, in his weakness, he will prevail. Gen 49:1-2. Gen 49:8. This man and his family were the only exception to the general apostasy; God always reserves some, in the worst of times, for himself; there is a remnant, according to the election of grace; it was but a small one, and that now appeared; and this was owing to the grace of God, and his . And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. He is the true center, and we gather unto him. Gen 32:14-16. Now the patriarch changes his tone, for he has come to that tribe which would take the birthright, out of which the Christ would come: Judah . A certain structure of Genesis can be seen in the fact that eleven times the Hebrew word "toledoth" (generations, histories) is mentioned as conclusion - or introduction - of a report. David said, It is good for me that I have been afflicted, and many another saint can say that he never was floated until the floods were out, but then he left the worldliness with which he had been satisfied before, and he began to rise to a higher level than he had previously attained. Light be. Light was. God had but to speak the word, and the great wonder was accomplished. Chapter 25:19-34 Isaac's son's Esau and Jacob: Election of grace (Romans 9:6-14), c. Chapter 26:1-33 Isaac and the country of the Philistines: Failure and blessing, 3. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. Everybody was drowned save these great fathers of the new age, and all must begin from this stock. Spurgeon once said of the commentary, "It contains so great a variety of information that if a man had no other exposition he would find himself at no great loss if he possessed and used it diligently." Commentary on Genesis 1. Of fowls also of the air by sevens the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. Gen 32:30. He received what he sought for his necessity, but not what he merely asked out of curiosity. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Gen 49:18. An Arab said to Mahomet, I let my camel run loose, and trusted it to Providence, but Mahomet replied, You should have tied it up first, and then trusted it to Providence; and Jacob was very much of that mind and a very sensible mind it was, not at all inconsistent with the very best of faith. And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother into the land of Seir, the country of Edom. He mentions the adversaries to show how great would be the victories of the race that should come and dispossess them. He was dreading it more than he need have done, for God never meant the trouble he feared to come upon him at all. The Lord knoweth them that are his, and they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up or, shut up my jewels, as he was about to do in the case. Chapter 25:19: These are the generations of Isaac, 9. It is evident that, as soon as he felt that he must fall, he grasped the other Man with a kind of death-grip, and would not let him go. And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. Gen 8:21. It must have been a great comfort to the old man to have all his twelve sons with him. It is by passing through death that we come out into the realm of perfectness. And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father, and told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. Gen 22:11. Naphtali was a tribe notable for those that could speak freely, helped of God with a holy freedom in bearing testimony to his truth. Gen 32:27. The serpent does not dare to state a lie, but he suggests one: Has God refused you all the fruit of these many trees that grow in the garden?. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him. Let it not be so with us; but let us both feed well and yield well. No tempest of wrath was to break out of it upon him. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites. Jonah Blow it east, or blow it west, the wind comes from God; and whether the waters increase or are assuaged, it is Gods doing. And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place. Our subject is the value of divine guidance, and we shall, therefore, read two passages of Scripture illustrating the truth which we hope to enforce. It was usually the way, in Gods commands to Abraham, to make him sail under sealed orders. The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: but his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hand were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:). Further on in his history he received a still larger blessing when he returned from his victory over the kings. A little of the spirit of doubt had crept into Eves mind, so she answered, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. Click to enable/disable _gid - Google Analytics Cookie. All they had gained by their sin was a discovery of their nakedness. It is very proper, when we have offended other people, and especially if we feel that we have done them wrong, as Jacob had done to Esau, that we should use the humblest terms concerning ourselves, and the best terms we can about those whom we have offended. How faithfully God fulfils his covenant with the earth! Abraham had endured the supreme test of his faith, and had, in full intent, offered up his son Isaac at the command of God, his hand being withheld from the actual sacrifice only by an angelic voice. This is almost a full year later, and in the second month of his six hundred and first year Noah left the ark. Jesus Christ our great King-Priest, still meets us, and brings us bread and wine. Gen 7:12-13. Gen 45:6. Gen 9:17. At the same time, there does seem to be a clashing between Abrahams question, What wilt thou give me? and the declaration of God, I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. There is a great descent from the language of the Lord to that of the most stable believer, and when you and I are even at our best, I have no doubt that, if all could be recorded that we think and say, some of our fellow-believers would feel that the best of men are but men at the best, and that Gods language is after a nobler fashion than ours will ever be, till we have seen his face in glory. Genesis 6, Henry's Complete Commentary on the Bible, One of over 125 Bible commentaries freely available, this commentary, filling six volumes, provides an exhaustive look at every verse in the Bible. The two "conversations" of the Lord appear to be addressed within the Godhead. And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, And the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: This holy man was careful of the purity of his family; he knew what an ill-effect a Canaanitish wife might have upon his son, and also upon his offspring. The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD. Unstable as water, thou shall not excel; because thou wentest up to thy fathers bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch. And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen. Verse Genesis 6:3. Romans And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee. Genesis iii. In 1936 a young British archaeologist named Hardwicke Knight hiked across Ararat and discovered interlocking hand-tooled timbers at a height of 14,000 feet (4,600 meters). As the Holy Ghost repeats the words we have here, you and I may often tell out the story of our salvation, and dwell upon the minute particulars of it, for every item of it is full of instruction. And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. The Lord will have it from his own lips that he has offended; he summons no other witness. Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns. So, if you lift up your eyes, and look the right, ay, you will see the great sacrifice close by you held fast for you, even as this ram was caught to die instead of Isaac. 2 Corinthians Oh, trust ye in him, for his promise will stand fast for ever! Otherwise you will be prompted again when opening a new browser window or new a tab. He was lame, and probably remained lame for life. May the Lord, who has blessed us, make us a blessing to others! It becomes evident from two passages in the New Testament that the term "law" or "law of Moses" includes Genesis: 1 Corinthians 14:34 can only refer to the divine order in Genesis 2:18 ff; Genesis 3:16, since the law of Sinai lacks an explicit command for women to be subject, and in Galatians 4:21 ff Paul talks of the story of Ishmael and Isaac (Genesis 16; Genesis 21).In both cases he speaks of the law. The marginal reading is Two hosts, or, camps. The angels of the Lord were encamping round about the man who feared him, though shore had been much in his character and conduct which the Lord could not approve. And Adam called his wifes name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. The Spurgeon Library | Scriptures | Genesis Genesis Christ the Conqueror of Satan September 6, 2019 Christ the Conqueror of Satan "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel." Genesis iii. And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, , What a wonderful expression that is! Another case may seem to be precisely like it: yet the mouth of the former suppliant is shut, and in his heart he does not feel that he can pray as he did before. And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. Gen 49:10. He speaks, and it is done. It falls to the lot of few fathers to have twelve sons, and to fewer still to have all twelve of them gathered about his dying bed. In 1918 one of the atheistic scientists (an Englishman) admitted on his deathbed the whole story was true. The ark was certainly big enough to do the job. Thus, you see, Abraham began his separated life with a blessing from the Lord his God. These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our website and application for you in order to enhance your experience. Give Jehovah his due. I have often admired that widow of Sarepta. Remember how earnestly David prayed about the sins of his youth, and his later transgressions too; and Jacob, in deep humility, must have most vividly remembered his sin against his brother. Yet so it was. And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth. And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

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