Season 5 Episode 7 – Genesis 30 : Fool Me Once …!!

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Intro - 1:43

Meet Pastor Ron Again - 2:22

A’ight So Boom! - 3:02

Read Genesis 30 1-8  - 8:36

• Rachel Gets Envious - Leah Bore Children

• The desire that she has for children - understood

• Goes to Jacob instead of the LORD (the LORD controls wombs)

• Jacob’s response is anger? (Why not seek the LORD on her behalf like his dad)

• Rachel Gives her servant Bilhah to Jacob for children

• Gives is crazy, sign of the times

• Bilhah Conceives and bore a son

• Rachel Names him - Son 5 - Dan

• Bilhah conceives again and bore a son

• Rachel Name him - Son 6 - Natphtali

Read Genesis 30 9-13 - 41:20

• Leah Ceased bearing children

• Leah Took and gave her servant Zilpah

• Jacob as a wife (not said about Bilhah)

• Zilpah bore a son

• Leah Names him - Son 7 - Gad

• Zilpah bore another son

• Leah Names him - Son 8 - Asher

Read Genesis 30 14-24 - 44:30

• The Mandrake situation

• Days of Wheat Harvest

• Reuben (Leah’s First Born) found some mandrakes

• Rachel sounds like Esau - Give me some of your son’s mandrakes (stew)

• Leah sounds like Jacob - You take my husband and my son’s mandrakes

• They make a deal for the mandrakes

• Traded mandrakes for her husband (that’s crazy)

• Jacob returns and is told he was ‘hired’ for some ‘mandrakes’, he went

• God listened to Leah?? - When did she ask, was her asking for her husband asking for children?

• She Conceived and bore a son - Son 9 - Issachar

• She conceived again and bore a son -  Son 10 - Zebulun

• She also had a daughter named Dinah

• Now it is Rachel’s turn

• God remembered Rachel - remembered means what?

• God listened to her - when did she ask

• She conceived and bore a son - Son 11 - Joseph

• May the LORD add to me another son!

Read Genesis 30 25-30 - 1:05:51

• As soon as, some immediacy

• Jacob confronted Laban (confronted may be a strong word)

• Want to leave - Go home - with his wives and children

• Laban relays the all too familiar words of the Patriarchs

• The Lord has blessed me because of you

• Name your wages and I will give it

• Jacob is not having it

• Your livestock has increased abundantly 

• The LORD has blessed you wherever I worked (every step of the way)

• When shall I provide for my household (all of this is in the possession of Laban)

Read Genesis 30 31-36 - 1:14:46

• Laban still trying to bargain from a place of strength

• What shall I give you?

• Jacob is bargaining from a place of already offered effectiveness

• Growing my own wealth

• Providing for my own family

• I am doing you a favor

• Jacob presents the plan

• Will take the less desirable sheep, lamb and goats (black, speckled, striped and spotted)

• These are his wages

• Speaks of honesty - why has his honesty been questioned or because Laban is not to give him anything (the latter)

• Will answer for me later, when you look at my wages (the spotted, speckled, striped and black lambs, sheep and goats)

• Any livestock found not like that shall be counted as stolen

• There is agreement that this is a good deal

• Laban being Laban gets the upper hand, probably trying to ensure that jacob cannot go anywhere

• Removes all the striped, black, speckled and spotted livestock from his flocks

• Gives them to his sons

• Puts a 3 days journey between those and the flocks that Jacob is to tend

Read Genesis 30 37-43 - 1:23:54

• Jacob did some stuff

• Peeled sticks 

• Set the sticks in front of the flocks in the troughs

• They bred when the came to the trough, they bred in front of the sticks and

• Striped, speckled, and spotted came forth - (What!!!???)

• Jacob separated the lambs and set the faces to Laban’s black and striped flocks

• Jacob also identified the Stronger of the flock

• Lay the sticks for them to breed

• Would not do this for the feebler of the flock

• The feebler were Laban’s and the Stronger Jacob’s

• Jacob increased in wealth (increased greatly) - Sounds like Isaac

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Season 5 Episode 6 – Genesis 29 : The Old Switcheroo!!

Coming Up! - 0:00

Intro - 1:54

Meet Sheryl - 2:18

A’ight So Boom! - 4:22

Read Genesis 29 1-3 - 7:57

• Jacob’s Journey - The land of the people of the East (East again)

• A well is seen - flocks watered out of this well

• Three flocks of sheep already there

• Large stone on the mouth of the well

• When all the flocks arrived

• Shepherds (plural) would roll away the stone

• Water the sheep

• Put the stone back when done

Read Genesis 29 4-8 - 11:56

• Jacob starts a conversation

• Where you from? - Haran

• Do you know Laban? - Yes

• How is he doing? - Well 

• Rachel mentioned - She is coming with the sheep

• Is Jacob mansplaining?

• Tells them what they should be doing with the sheep

• We learn that Jacob has some agricultural skills

Read Genesis 2 9-14 - 23:05

• Rachel steps on the scene - Walkout music?

• While still speaking with them (suddenness)

• Told she was with her father’s sheep

• She was a shepherdess

•  Jacob greets Rachel - weird?

• Kisses her

• Weeps

• Tells her who he is (guess it makes sense after this)

• Rachel’s response similar to Rebekah’s response

• Rant to Tell Laban

• Laban’s response is similar to his meeting of Abraham’s servant.

• Ran to meet him

• Invited him in

• Make a declaration - Surely you are a relative (Adam?) - identify Theft y’all?

• Stayed with him a month

Read Genesis 29 15-20 - 32:57

• A month has passed and Laban asks about wages - making it sound like he is not trying to take advantage of him

• Laban has two daughters we are introduced to them

• Contrast of the daughters just like the sons

• Leah described as having weak eyes

• Rachel described as beautiful in form and appearance

• Jacob loves Rachel, there is that word again, and will work 7 years for her

• Laban says this is better than anyone else in this area

• Stay with me

• Jacob served 7 years

• They seemed like a few days, because he had love for her (this is different)

Read Genesis 29 21-25 - 50:12

• Then - Seven years has passed

• Give me my wife

• We should be married

• I worked as we agreed on

• Laban puts together the marriage ceremony

• All the people of the place

• Made a feast

• But - Something is going on here that is not of the expectation

• Laban brought Leah to Jacob (not Rachel as agreed upon)

• Laban gave Zilpah to Leah for a servant

• Jacob does not know until the next morning

• What is this you have done to me?

• Did I not serve you Rachel?

• Whey then have you deceived me?

• Jacob got a taste of what he delivered to Esau (Hairy)

Read Genesis 29 26-30 - 55:20

• Laban is like - ‘It’s not me it’s you.

• This is how we do things, do not know how you all do things

• Laban uses the ‘Firstborn’ word

• Laban gives an alternative

• Complete another week (7 years)

• You can then marry Rachel

• Jacob completed another 7 years

• Another marriage festival(?)

• Laban gave his daughter Rachel  to Jacob

• Jacob gave his female servant to Rachel - Bilhah

• Jacob went into Rachel

• He loved Rachel more than  Leah

• Repeats the 7 years (Rachel given on the promise or after the completion)

Read Genesis 29 31-35 - 59:48

• The LORD ‘saw’ that Leah was hated - Actually treated her badly or that He just knows or both

• This causes the LORD to move

• He opened Leah’s womb

• He did not open Rachel’s womb

• Leah conceived and bore …

• Son 1 Reuben - The LORD has looked upon my affliction

• Now my husband will love me

• Son 2 Simeon - The LORD has heard that I am hated

• Son 3 Levi - This time my husband will be attached to me - 3 sons

• Son 4 Judah - This time I will praise the LORD

• Then she ceased bearing

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Season 5 Episode 5 – Genesis 28 : Chutes and Ladders!!Coming Up! - 0:00Intro - 1:52Meet Pastor Ron Again - 2:16A’ight So Boom! - 2:39Read Genesis 28 1-5 - 7:26Rebekah’s Plan WorkedIsaac Called Jacob?!Called him and blessed him, intended to and knew it was himYou must not take a wife from CanaanTold him where to go, who to look for and what to doGod Almighty (El Shaddai) Bless YouMake you a Company of PeoplesBlessing of Abraham (Take possession of the land)Isaac obeyed his fatherThis is not, however, a competing version of the blessing already granted (27:27–29); rather it expresses the patriarchal blessing in its historic terms (vv. 3–4; e.g., 16:10; 17:2, 6, 20; 22:17; 26:4, 24; 35:11; 48:4). K. A. Mathews, Genesis 11:27–50:26, vol. 1B, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005), 439.To Isaac’s credit, the blessing he gives to his son is the blessing of Abraham. Victor P. Hamilton, The Book of Genesis, Chapters 18–50, The New International Commentary on the Old Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1995), 235.Read Genesis 28 6-9 - 44:29Esau Saw/Learned some thingsDid not want Jacob to do what he had doneThe Canaanite women did not please his parentsIn particular is fatherTried to rectify the situationStill not quite rightAt least in the family - but the rejected side of the familyRead Genesis 28 10-15 - 51:02Jacob has a Journey Ahead of Him (Beersheba to Haran)Looks like hundreds of milesHis travels take him to sundownJacob reaches ‘the place’ - identified with the definite article by the narratorESV notes the stone is ‘under his head’, this may also be ‘at his head’He has a dreamThis Dream is Crazy, In this Dream …Jacob sees a ladder(Behold) Reached from Earth to Heaven (Abode of God or stars)(Behold) Angels Ascending and Descending on it(Behold) The LORD stood above the ladder and spoke to Jacob (this means the Abode of God?Introduces himself - You will know who is speaking to youGives the Promise of Abraham to Jacob and his offspringThen gets personalI am with you wherever you goI will keep you wherever you goI will bring you back to this land (the land that I promised)If I said it will come to passRead Genesis 28 16-22 - 1:04:47Jacob wakes up with some RevelationsSurely (without a doubt) the LORD is in this place (align with His Omnipresence), I was unawareHow awesome is this place (think of all he saw and heard)Considers this the house of God and the gate of heavenBethel signified to Jacob the assurance of God’s superintendence and imminence. K. A. Mathews, Genesis 11:27–50:26, vol. 1B, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005), 453.Setup a marker where he sleptThe significance of the pillar (stone with oil on it) - sanctified it for the location?Named the place where he sleptCalled it Betel (House of God)Narrator identifies the previous name as Luz A vow, is not the normal responseThe usual response is a question (Abraham) or obedienceDoes this tell us anything about Jacob?Contents of the vowIf (does not sound confident)God keeps me (be with me, keep me, bring me back in peace)Then (this is conditional)The LORD shall be my GodThe stone shall be God’s house (?)Will give a tenth of all you give meMusic from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/avbe/night-in-kyotoLicense code: WDUZARYUHWMKKMU3

Season 5 Episode 4 – Genesis 27:  Stolen Blessings!!

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Intro - 1:50

Meet Pastor Ron - 2:46

A’ight So Boom! - 4:27

Read Genesis 27 1-4 - 10:17

•  Some time has passed since we last saw Isaac

• When Isaac was Old

• His eyes dim (blind)

• Called his favorite son Esau (loved him for his food)

• Here I Am - same words that Isaac said to Abraham on Gen 22

• Told Esau what he wanted to do - Bless Him

• Ready to appoint his successor

• I am old (announcement)

• I do not know how many days I have left (immediacy)

• Bring me a meal of the food that I love

• Bless you before I die

Read Genesis 27 5-13 - 26:02

• Rebekah Ear Hustling - Just Like Sarah

• Explains to Jacob what she heard

• She knows more than all the people in this passage

• Begins a plan with her knowledge

• You will take it to him

• Isaac will bless ‘my’ son

• Jacob’s response - ‘Hold On Now’

• Dad is not stupid (compensates for lack of sight with other senses)

• Consequences if I am out

• Mom takes all the responsibility

• Let your curse be on me (any outcome or just if Isaac curse him)

• Go do what I told you

Read Genesis 27 14-17 - 1:05:53

• Let;s Do This!

• Jacob goes to get the Goats (went, took, brought)

• Rebekah prepares the meal

• Preparing for anything

• Let’s take his clothes (best clothes in the house)

• Let’s make Jacob hairy with goat fur (hands and neck) 

• The Puppet Master - abusing the knowledge she has

Read Genesis 27 18-25 - 1:11:09

• Jacob brings the food

• Isaac starts with the questions - Who are you?

• Jacob’s 1st lie - I am Esau

• Jacob’s 2nd lie - I did as you told me

• Isaac’s second questions - How did you get it so quickly

• Jacob’s 3rd lie - The LORD your God granted me success

• Isaac’s first test - I want to feel you

• The goat fur comes in handy

• Isaac notes the voice but overlooks it

• Isaac asks again who are you

• Jacob lies again - I Am

• Isaac eats and drinks 

• Proceeds to bless Jacob

Genesis 27 26-29 - 1:20:35

• One last Test - The Smell Test

• The smell of Esau leads into the blessing

• The smell of a field (smelled like outside?)

• The LORD has blessed

• The formal blessing

• Abundance - Dew of Heaven, fatness of the earth, plenty of grain and wine

• Stature/Honor - Peoples serve you, mother’s sons bow down to you

• National Implications - Blessings and Curses, you get what you give

Read Genesis 27 30-33 - 1:31:05

• The Immediacy

• Isaac was too late to catch Jacob and stop Jacob

• Jacob had scarcely left the room (can you imagine them crossing paths and Jacob seeing Isaac with the food, knowing what he had done, sinister)

• Esau did what was expected

• He is Esau

• He caught the game

• He cooked the food

• Isaac Visibly upset

• All the lies

• Whose food

• Who was it

• Who was blessed

• “Yes and he shall be blessed”

• A finality about it

• Can’t change it

Read Genesis 27 34-40 - 1:37:35

• Esau’s reaction to the news of the blessing

• Exceedingly great and bitter cry

• Bless me, even me also - the same level of blessing as Jacob?

• Jacob can’t - He blessed the brother already

• Does not use Jacob’s name

• Nothing else to give - blessed with all the land and all the honor

• Esau blames Jacob - twice

• Jacob’s name fits him

• Tricked him twice (birthright and blessing)

• The Blessing covers all that he could positively bless his son with

• We get the meaning of the blessing

• Blessed with all that, what else is there

• Esau asks for any blessing

• Jacob manufactures an anti-blessing

• Away from the fatness of the earth shall your dwelling be

• Away from the dew of heaven on high

• You will have to fight for all you will have

• You shall serve your brother

• (the positive?) when you grow restless you shall break his yoke from your neck

Read Genesis 27 40-46 - 1:48:20

• Esau’s anger is kindled

• Mom to the rescue - she has the knowledge and hears everything

• Smoothes it over with Isaac

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Season 5 Episode 3 – Genesis 26: Deja Vu!

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Intro - 1:54

Meet Nere!! - 2:22

A’ight So Boom! - 4:03

Read Genesis 26 1-5 - 9:46

• Another famine in the land (Previous one of note was during Abraham’s life)

• Familiar face and Familiar Place

• Gerar

• King Abimelech

• King of the Philistines

• The LORD told Isaac not to go to Egypt

• Dwell in the land that I shall tell you

• Blessing like his father?

• Sojourn in this land (Gerar)

• I will be with you

• I will bless you

• I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father

• I will multiply your offspring

• I will give your offspring all these lands

• In your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed

• Because Abraham obeyed my voice

• Because Abraham kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws

Read Genesis 26 6-11 - 25:23

• Isaac settled in Gerar as the LORD said - Listened so a blessing

• Here we go again - My wife is my sister

• Men of the place asked, not the king

• Thinking the men of the place would kill him

• Rebekah was attractive in appearance

• They are found out

• After they had been there a long time (did anyone take Rebekah - nope)

• King Abimelech saw them through a window

• Isaac is laughing (fondling) Rebekah - Brothers and Sisters do not do this

• Abimelech called Isaac out

• Isaac called to task - Why call her your sister

• Isaac tells Abimelech why - Die because of her

• What is this you have done to us? - but nothing happened, because no one abducted her

• One of the people might lay with Rebekah (none did to this point)

• Would have brought guilt on us, back to Abraham and Abimelech

• Abimelech warned all the people, whoever touches this man or his wife will die

Read Genesis 26 12-16 - 40:54

• Isaac Worked the Land

• Sower and Reaped

• 100 fold in the same year (both show the blessing of the LORD)

• The LORD blessed him

• He became rich

• He gained more and more until he became very wealthy

• He had flocks, hears and many servants

• The Philistines were being grimey

• Filled the wells with earth

• Wells that Abraham dug

• Abimelech tells him to leave - you are much mightier than we (Treaty Done?)

Read Genesis 26:17-22 - 47:18

• Isaac settled in the Valley or Gerar (where is this in relation to Gerar)

• Isaac redug the wells of his father - Gave them the names his father gave them

• Dug some wells in the valley that were contested

• Esek - They contended with him

• Sitnah - They quarreled over it

• Dug the third well and no quarrel or fuss over it - called in Rehoboth

• For now the LORD has made room for us

• We shall be fruitful in the land

Read Genesis 26 23-25 - 55:42

• From the Valley of Gerar they go to Beersheba

• The LORD appeared to Isaac the night they moved

• Reminder of Who He (The LORD is)

• Told him to Fear Not

• Told him I am with you

• I will bless you

• I will multiply your offspring

• For Abraham sake

• Isaac builds and altar

• Isaac called upon the name of the LORD

• Pitched his tent there

• Dug a well

Read Genesis 26 26-33 - 57:12

• Abimelech meets Isaac - takes Ahuzzath and Phicol

• Isaac has questions, you hate me and sent me away from you

• They ‘plainly’ see that the LORD has been with you

• We want to make a pact between us

• Between You and Us

• Make a covenant with you

• You will do us no harm for in return to how we have not touched you, we sent you away in peace

• You are now blessed of the LORD (like they had something to do with the blessing?)

• Isaac showed hospitality - Made them a feast

• In the morning they exchanged oaths (the covenant)

• Note the reversal - Isaac sent them on their way

• Isaac’s servants dug another well and found water

• Isaac called it Shiba

• The city is Beersheba to this day (or that day)

Read Genesis 26 34-35 - 1:10:07

• Esau causing problems for everyone

• Took a wife - Judith a Hittite woman

• Took another wife - Basemath a Hittite woman

• They made life bitter for Isaac and rebekah

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Season 5 Episode 2 – Genesis 25 : On to the Next One!

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Intro - 4:26

Meet Kayla Again - 4:57

A’ight So Boom! - 6:08

Read Genesis 25 1-6 - 14:26

• Abraham Got Himself another Wifey

• Her name was Keturah

• She bore him children, 5 in total

• We only get the children of 2 of his children from Keturah

• Makes a point of noting all that Abraham had was given to Isaac

• These are concubine-wives (Keturah and Hagar)

• Their sons were given gifts

• They were sent away from Isaac to the East

Read Genesis 25 7-11 - 22:34

• Abraham dies at 175 as one blessed by God (live to a good old age Gen 15:15)

• Breathed his last

• Died in a good old age (Gen15:15)

• An old man full of years

• He was gathered to his people - realm of the dead

• Isaac and Ishmael buried him

• Cave of Machpelah

• Field of Ephron, son of Zohar, the Hittite

• Facing Mamre (Another field Abraham brought)

• Buried with Sarah his wife

• God blessed Isaac, lived at Beer-lahai-roi

• Not a man, but God blessed him

• Conferring the blessing from Abraham to Isaac

Read Genesis 25 12-18 - 35:56

• Generations of Ishmael

• Recaps who he is (Abraham’s son via hagar) -makes a point of him not being the chosen son

• Ishmael had a good number of sons - 12 sons

• They have villages, they have camps,  they have tribes

• Ishmael lived 137 years

• Where they lived (his sons?)

• Dwelt from Havilah to Shur

• East of Egypt

• Toward assyria

• Settled in the Face of all his brothers? - against everyone (Gen 16:12)

Read Genesis 25 19-26 - 45:58

• The Generations of Isaac

• Isaac married Rebekah at 40

• Prayed to the LORD because she was barren

• The LORD answers

• Rebekah has some craziness with her pregnancy - prays and is answered

• Two Nations are in your womb

• Two Peoples will be separated from your body

•  One shall be stronger than the other

• The Older shall serve the Younger

• Time to Give Birth

• There were twins

• The first child birthed was red and hairy -  called him Esau (Edom)

• The second child birthed was holding Esau’s heel - called him Jacob

• Isaac was 60 years old when they were born

Read Genesis 25 27-34 - 1:01:06

• They grew up - The differences

• Esau a skillful hunter, a man of the field

• Jacob a quiet man, dwelling in tents

• Parents differed in their love

• Isaac Loved Esau - food

• Rebekah Loved Jacob

• Jacob was cooking stew

• Esau came in form the field

• Asked for some red stew, was exhausted 

• Jacob, sell me your birthright now (stew for birthright)

• Esau did it (exaggerating?)

• Esau swore his birthright to Jacob

• Jacob gave him some bread

• Bread and lentil stew

• Thus Esau despised his birthright

Season 5 Episode 1 – Genesis 24 - My Girl, My Girl, My Girl!! 

Coming Up

Intro

Lillian Is Back!

Read Genesis 24 1-4 - 4:04

• Abraham Current Situation

• Abraham is now thinking about a wife for his son

• Wants him to swear about a wife for his son

Read Genesis 24 5-9 - 12:24

• Servants Questions

• Abaraham’s Response

• Releases the servant from his oath if a woman does not want to return with him

• Reiterates not to take his son back there - why?

• The servant places his hand under Abraham’s thigh and swears

Read Genesis 24 10-14 - 20:25

• The servant prepares for the trip - Is this the bride price?

• Arose and went to Nahor (a town in Haran from Genesis 11?)

• Servant said a prayer (petition?)

• The ask of the servant - This is how I want it to go.

Read Genesis 24 15-21 - 31:14

• The immediacy of the answered prayer (before the prayer was finished)

• Rebekah comes on the scene

• Description of Rebekah

• Events are set in motion

• Servant watched her intently (couldn’t believe his eyes?)

Read Genesis 24 22-28 - 39:15

• He obviously took some gold from his master’s house

• Servant has questions

• The Servant thanked for LORD

• She told her mother’s household

Read Genesis 24 29-33 - 42:35

• We meet Laban

• Laban saw the man at the spring

• Laban was very gracious

• The servant has something to say

Read Genesis 24 34-44 - 47:49

• Abraham Situation - Again - Calls us back to Gen 12 and His leaving from Egypt and Gerar

• Why I am here - Tells what Abraham told him

• What if she doesn’t follow me

• His Prayer to the LORD

Read Genesis 24 45-51 - 51:08

• Recaps the Event at the Spring and Well

• Asks if Laban is going to honor Abraham’s request

• Laban and Bethuel answer

Read Genesis 24 52-54 - 55:04

• The Servant Worships the LORD

• The Servant has other stuff to give Rebekah

• Gave Rebekah’s Brother and Mother Costly Ornaments (Royal gifts) - Identified Abraham as royalty

• The servant and those with him ate and drank and spent the night

• Was ready to go in the morning (Send me on my way)

Read Genesis 24 55-61 - 58:19

• Brother and Mother said Hold Up

• Don’t Delay me - Was going to wait the 10 days

• Asked Rebekah and she agreed to leave now

• Rebekah blessed by her Brother and Mother

• They left, the women rode the camels and followed the Servant

Read Genesis 24 62-67 - 1:07:21

• Isaac returns from Beer-lahai-roi

• Sees the camels coming while meditating in the field

• Rebekah asks about Isaac

• Servant told Isaac all that he did

• Isaac and Rebekah were married

• Isaac loved her (feeling and action?)

• Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death

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• Welcome Back

• Has Genesis 1-23 Come up since we ended Season 4

• What are we covering in our 4th season?

• Genesis Chapters 24 to 36

• Based on Season 1, 3 and 4  what are you looking forward to in these chapters?

• What do we know about Isaac and Jacob?

• What’s the best way for people to interact with us?

• Any suggestions for people following along with us this season?

• Final Thoughts

• Sign Off

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Coming Up! - 0:00Intro! - 1:03Meet Wanda! - 2:31A’ight So Boom! - 3:35Genesis 12–23: 15 Difficult (?) Multiple-Choice Questions - 6:301. In Genesis 12, what specific promise did God make to Abram concerning those who blessed or cursed him?A. They would be forgotten by GodB. They would share in his inheritanceC. God would bless those who bless Abram and curse those who curse him D. They would be numbered among his descendants2. When Abram entered Egypt (Gen 12), what motivated him to say Sarai was his sister?A. He feared Pharaoh would kill him for her sake B. He wanted to test Sarai’s loyaltyC. God commanded him toD. Sarai insisted on the deception3. According to Genesis 13, what reason did Abram give Lot for separating their flocks?A. Lot had quarreled with Abram’s servantsB. The land could not support both of them C. God told Abram to move southD. Lot wanted to go to Sodom4. In Genesis 14, which king is identified as the “king of Salem” and “priest of God Most High”?A. BeraB. Melchizedek C. TidalD. Amraphel5. What did Abram give to Melchizedek in Genesis 14?A. Half of the recovered goodsB. A tenth of everything C. His best servantsD. A burnt offering6. In Genesis 15, what sign did God use to confirm His covenant with Abram?A. A rainbowB. A burning torch passing between pieces of animals C. A dream of stars and sandD. The circumcision of Abram7. In Genesis 16, why did Sarai give Hagar to Abram?A. To fulfill God’s promise more quickly B. Because Hagar was her sisterC. Because Abram requested itD. Because Hagar volunteered8. What was the age of Abram when God changed his name to Abraham?A. 75B. 86C. 99 D. 1009. In Genesis 17, what was the covenant sign that every male descendant of Abraham was to bear?A. Circumcision B. A mark on the foreheadC. Sacrifice of a lambD. A burnt offering each new moon10. In Genesis 18, what question did Sarah ask to herself upon hearing she would have a son?A. “Shall I indeed bear a child, now that I am old?” B. “Has the Lord truly spoken to my husband?”C. “Why does the Lord visit us in our tent?”D. “How can this be, since I am barren?”11. When Abraham pleaded for Sodom, what was the lowest number of righteous people for which he asked the Lord to spare the city?A. 20B. 15C. 10 D. 512. What did Lot’s wife do that led to her becoming a pillar of salt?A. She laughed at God’s commandB. She looked back at Sodom C. She tried to take her possessionsD. She ran in the wrong direction13. In Genesis 20, what did Abimelech claim when God appeared to him in a dream about Sarah?A. “I have not touched her.” B. “She is my wife.”C. “I am innocent of this matter.”D. “Abraham deceived me.”14. What was the name Abraham gave to the place where God provided the ram in place of Isaac?A. BethelB. Beer-lahai-roiC. Jehovah-jireh (The Lord Will Provide) D. El-Shaddai15. According to Genesis 23, from whom did Abraham buy the cave of Machpelah for Sarah’s burial?A. LotB. AbimelechC. Ephron the Hittite D. Mamre the AmoriteAnswer Key (Quick Reference)1-C 2-A 3-B 4-B 5-B 6-B 7-A 8-C 9-A 10-A 11-C 12-B 13-A 14-C 15-CChapter SummaryChapter 12 - Keep On Pushing!! - 24:37Chapter 13 - Now, Walk It Out!! - 27:54 - Card @ 32:42 (Egypt BreadBasket)Chapter 14 - Cotton-Eyed Joe!! - 34:11Chapter 15 - How Will I Know!! - 40:43Chapter 16 - Somebody’s Watching me!! - 49:17Chapter 17 - Cut Me Mick!! - 1:00:01Chapter 18 - Three Is the Magic Number!! - 1:05:12Chapter 19 - It’s Raining Sulfur and Fire!! - 1:11:15Chapter 20 - Give Her Back!! - 1:21:01Chapter 21 - WeHadABabyItsABoy!! - 1:31:01Chapter 22 - The Akedah (Binding of Isaac)!! - 1:33:54Chapter 23 - It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye!! - 1:38:14What did we learn about Abraham? - 1:41:54What did we learn about the LORD? - 1:44:59Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/avbe/night-in-kyotoLicense code: WDUZARYUHWMKKMU3

Season 4 Episode 11 – Genesis 22: The Akedah (Binding of Isaac)!!

Coming Up! 0:00

Intro! - 0:59

Meet Kayla! - 2:02

A’ight So Boom! - 4:08

Read Genesis 22 1-4 - 9:55

•  After these things happened

• Pregnancy and Birth of Isaac

• Putting out of Hagar and Ismael

• After the LORD spoke with Hagar

• God Tested Abraham

• First time this has been mentioned

• What is a test from God’s perspective

• Special note that God is the subject (source) of the test and Abraham the object. So the objective of the test is what The God desires. 

• God called for Abraham, by name

• Abraham answered as available (Here I am)

• God Tells Abraham what He wants him to do - three commands

• Take - No mistaking which son God is talking about (imperative)

• Your son

• Your only son Isaac

• Whom you love

• Go - Tells where to go (land of Moriah) (imperative)

• A Mountain that I will show you

• Offer - Tells him what to do once he gets there (imperative)

• Offer your son

• As a burnt offering (No mistaking what this offering will entail) 

• Abraham obeys (as he has always done, when called directly)

• Rose early in the morning

• Saddled his donkey

• Took two of his young men with him

• Took Isaac

• Took the wood for the burnt offering

• Then he left to the place where God told him

• Abraham travels

• Three days later

• Abraham lifted up his eyes (again)

• Saw the place he was going

Read Genesis 22 5-10 - 24:21

• Abraham states what will happen

• Young men stay with the donkey

• I and the boy (me and Isaac) will go over there

• We will worship

• We will come again to you (lying, prophecy, faith,?)

• Need the items for the offering

• Laid the wood on Isaac - the offering

• Took the fire and the Knife - the offerer

• They went together (just them)

• Isaac has some questions (he has seen this before)

• Father

• Here I am, my son

• Where is the lamb?

• Knows that something is not right - saying what we are all thinking

• Abraham answers profoundly

• God will provide for Himself the lamb

• God provides

• Provided for Himself

• A lamb for a burnt offering

• They went together - again

• Getting everything setup - this detail tho

• They reached the place that God told them 

• Abraham built the altar (what did this entail)

• Abraham laid the wood in order

• Abraham bound Isaac (Isaac seemed a willing participant)

• Abraham laid Isaac on top of the wood

• Time to do the do

• Abraham reached out his hand

• Abraham took the knife (no question about the intent)

Read Genesis 22 11-14 - 38:59

• But (adversative) the Angel of the LORD called to Abraham

• Called from Heaven

• Abraham, Abraham - really wants your attention

• Here I am (the third time)

• Change in plan from the LORD

• Don’t lay your hand on the boy

• Don’t do anything to him

• Now, I know that you (Abraham)  fear God (This was indeed a Test)

• Seeing you have not withheld your son from me

• The lamb provided

• He lifted up his eyes (again)

• Behold, a ram was behind him caught by his horns

• Abraham took the ram

• Abraham offered the ram as a burnt offering

• Abraham names the place

• The name is - The Lord will provide

• Today called “On the mount of the LORD is shall be provided

Read Genesis 22 15-19 - 57:21

• Angel of the LORD called again

• Called a second time

• Says “By myself have I sworn” - nothing higher, his own character

• Because you have done this (not withheld your son)

• I will surely bless you

• I will surely multiply you

• Your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies

• In Your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed

• All because you have obeyed my voice

• This is all before Abraham returned to the young men

• They went to Beersheba and lived at Beersheba

Read Genesis 22 20-24 - 1:09:28

• Abraham’s extended family

• Milcah has born children to Nahor (Abraham’s Brother)

• Uz his firstborn

• Buz his brother

• Kemuel the father of Aram

• Chesed

• Hazo

• Pildash

• Jidlaph

• Bethuel (fathered Rebekah)

• Nahor’s concubine bore to him (Reumah)

• Tebah

• Gaham

• Tahash

• Maacah

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