His Glory

Genesis, part 2

p 19

Abraham said to his most trusted servant, 
Swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and earth, 
you will go to my homeland to get a bride for Isaac. 

The LORD God of heaven 
will send His angel before you -  Genesis 24

When the servant arrived  
he made his camels kneel down outside the city 
by a well of water at evening and prayed, 
Please let me see her today. 
The young lady who gives me a drink 
and waters my camels, 
let her be the one you have designed for Isaac.

Before he finished speaking Rebekah came 
and he asked her for a drink. 
She gave him a drink 
and he watched in awe as she watered his 10 camels. 

He told her who he was 
and gave a gold ring and two gold bracelets

p 20

He bowed and worshipped, 
Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham,
who has not forsaken my master
of His faithfulness and His truth.

The LORD led me to the house of my master's brothers.

He told them all about Abraham
and His miracle child Isaac
and the Lord’s blessings on them.

He told them of his errand
and promise to get a bride for Isaac.

They asked Rebekah and she agreed,
all of them seeing it was from the Lord.

He gave the family many treasures
and departed the next morning with Rebekah and her nurse
for the long journey back to Canaan.

p 21

Isaac came from the way of the well 
of the Living One seeing me

And Isaac went out to meditate
in the field in the evening:
and he looked up and saw the camels coming.

Rebekah looked up,
and when she saw Isaac, she fell off the camel.

And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent,
and took Rebekah, and she became his wife;
and he loved her:
and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

(Blessed be God the Father of our Lord Jesus,
the Father of mercies, the God of all comfort,
Who comforts us in all our troubles.)
2 Corinthians 1:3, 4

 p 22

God tells is what will be.

Isaac prayed to the LORD for his wife
because she was barren and Rebekah conceived.
And the children struggled within her
and she said, Why am I like this?

And she went to ask the LORD.

The LORD said, Two nations are in your womb;
one people will be stronger than the other,
and the older will serve the younger.
Genesis 25:23

The boys grew and Esau was a skillful hunter,
a man of the field
and Jacob was a complete, perfect man,
dwelling in tents.

(Jesus gives us His perfect life
as a gift when we believe)

p 23

Esau came from the field and was faint.
He said to Jacob, Feed me some of that red soup.

Jacob said, Sell me your birthright today.

(Our birthright of being created in His image is,
'He that overcomes will sit with Me on My throne.')
Revelation 3:21

And Esau said, Look, I am almost dead.
Then what good this birthright to me?
Jacob said, Swear to me; and he swore to him
and sold his birthright.

Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil soup
which he ate and got up and went his way. 
Genesis 25:34

(‘He that overcomes will inherit all things
and I will be his God and he will be My Son.’ 
Revelation 21:7

p 24

When Isaac sent Jacob away
because Esau planned to kill him,
Jacob stopped one night at sunset. 

He dreamed, seeing a stairway
set up on the earth leading into heaven
with angels of God ascending and descending on it.

The Lord stood above it and said,
The land where you are,
I will give to you and your descendants.

They will spread out over the whole earth
and in them all the families of the earth will be blessed.
Genesis 28:14

I Am with you 
and will guard you where you go
and will not leave you.

When Jacob woke up he said,
How awesome is this place.
The Lord is here and I didn’t know.
Surely this is the house of God,
the gate of heaven.

p 25

One night a man wrestled with Jacob until daybreak.
When He saw that He didn’t prevail against him,
He touched the hollow of his thigh, disjointing it.

Jacob said, I won't let You go unless You bless me.
He said, your name will no longer be called Jacob (cheater),
but Israel (prince): for as a prince you have power with God
and with men and have prevailed.

Then Jacob called the name of the place Peniel,
for I have seen God face to face,
and my life is preserved.
Genesis 32

('I give to them eternal life.
They will never perish,
neither will anyone pluck them out of My hand.')
John 10:28

p 26

God reconciles

When Esau arrived with his 400 men,
he ran to Jacob and embraced him,
and they wept.

He saw the women and children and asked,
Whose are these?
Jacob said, These are the children God has graciously given me.

Esau asked, what are all these flocks and herds you sent?
Jacob said, to find grace in your sight,
because God has dealt graciously with me,
and because I have all.
Genesis 33

‘He that overcomes will inherit all things
and I will be His God and he will be my son/daughter.’
Revelation 21:7

p27

God protects

Jacob bought land and camped at Shalem.
His daughter, Dinah, went out to visit the maidens there.
A prince of the land saw her and raped her.
The prince wanted to marry her, but her 2 brothers plotted
and killed all the men of the city, and looted it.

Jacob said, You have brought big trouble on me.
The people of this country will gather and kill us all.

God said to Jacob, Go to Bethel, and dwell there:
make an altar to God who appeared to you.

As they traveled,
the terror of God was on the  surrounding cities
and they didn’t chase after Jacob and his sons.
Genesis 34, 35

p 28

When Jacob's son, Joseph, was 17,
His father loved him, favored him,
and made him a beautiful coat.

Joseph dreamed dreams that showed he would rule over the family
and told them the dreams.

His brothers hated him and plotted to kill him,
but sold him to a caravan of traders going to Egypt.
Then they killed a baby goat,
put the blood on Joseph’s beautiful coat,
and took it to show their father.

Jacob said, Surely an evil beast has devoured him.
He tore his clothes and mourned many days
and refused to be comforted.

(Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth;
for the Lord has comforted His people
and will have mercy on His afflicted.)
Psalm 49:13

p 29

In Egypt Joseph was bought by Pharaoh’s chief executioner.

The LORD was with Joseph
and prospered everything he did,
so the man made him overseer of his whole his estate.

 

One day, the master’s wife said to Joseph,
Come, lie with me.

Joseph said, Your husband has trusted me
with everything he has except you.
How could I do this great wickedness against God?

He continually refused her until she became angry
and falsely accused him.
So the chief executioner threw him in prison.

But the Lord was with Joseph
and gave him favor before the keeper of the prison
who put him over everything in the prison. 
Genesis 38

p 30

Through God’s continued presence and blessing,
Joseph accurately interpreted dreams of the Pharaoh’s 2 top officials
and 2 years later was taken before Pharaoh to interpret a dream for him after which Pharoah made Joseph prime minister over all Egypt.

(Promotion doesn’t come from the east, or the west.
But God is the judge:
He puts down one, and He sets up another.)
Psalm 75:6, 7

God had shown through Joseph that a famine was coming,
so he stored grain from all over the land
and Egypt had plenty when the famine hit.

All the world had to come to them for grain
and ‘saved many people alive.’ 

(a foreshadowing of the Lord Jesus)

'I have not come to judge the world
but to save it.) John 12:14

p 31

When Jacob saw there was grain in Egypt,
he sent 10 of Joseph’s brothers to get food.

They bowed before Joseph as he had dreamed.
He recognized them but they didn’t recognize him.

He accused them of being spies
and said they wouldn’t be sold any more grain
unless they proved they weren’t spies
by bringing their youngest brother with them next time.

When they left,
he’d had their money put back in their sacks,
which frightened them.
Genesis 42-44

(Fear not, only believe. It will be well with you.)
 Luke 8:50
(The Lord is working all things together for good.)
 Romans 8:28

p 32

When they returned for more grain Joseph tested them 
and then revealed himself to them.
He said, Come near me.
I am Joseph your brother,
whom you sold into Egypt.

Don’t be angry with yourselves that you sold me here:
for God sent me before you to preserve life.
There will be 5 more years of famine.

God sent me ahead to preserve your future generations,
and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
So, it wasn’t you that sent me here, but God.
Genesis 45:4-8

(‘they will be priests of God and of Christ,
and will reign with Him 1,000 years.’) Revelation 20:6

p 33

Joseph said to his brothers,
Tell my father of all my glory in Egypt,
hurry and bring my father here.

When the brothers returned with the food and this news,
God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said,
Jacob, I am God, the God of your fathers:
Don’t fear to go down into Egypt;
for there I will make you into a great nation.

I will go down with you into Egypt;
and I will surely bring you back here again.

When Joseph heard his family was coming
he readied his chariot, and went to meet Israel his father
and presented himself to him;
and he fell on his neck and wept a long time.

p 34

Years later, when Jacob was nearing death
and gave his last words to his sons, he said to Joseph,
God, before whom my fathers walked,
the God Who fed me all my life long to this day,

The Angel Who redeemed me from all evil,
bless your sons and let them grow into a multitude
in the midst of the earth.
Genesis 45-50

Jacob’s sons are the ones whose names are forever written
on the gates of the eternal holy city;
and through his son Judah,
comes the promised Savior of all.

(Many, O Lord my God, are Your wonderful works
that You have done,
and Your thoughts toward us
are more than can be numbered.)
Psalm 40:5

p 35

(It was always His thought to shower
‘the riches of His glory on vessels of mercy
that He prepared for glory.’)
 Romans 9:23

Those who refuse His astounding gift for a lifetime 
have chosen ‘to be punished with eternal destruction, 
forever separated from the Lord
and His glorious power.’ 2 Thessalonians 1:9

‘Christ in you the hope of Glory.’ 
Colossians 1:27

‘Blessed be your glorious name
which is exalted above all blessing and praise’
Nehemiah 9:5

p 36

'God that made the world and all things in it,
seeing He is Lord of heaven and earth,
doesn't dwell in temples made with hands;

and isn't worshipped with men's hands,
as though He needed anything,
since He gives to all 
life,
and breath, and all things;

And made of one blood all nations of men,
and set their times and boundaries of their nations
so they would seek the Lord, and find him,
though He isn't far from any of us:

For in Him we live, and move, and have our being.'

Acts 17:24-28

p 37

‘Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given.
And the government will be on His shoulder:
and His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor,
The mighty God, The everlasting Father,
The Prince of Peace.’
Isaiah 9:6

 

He is given to us, the real gift of Christmas.