Sunday, November 20, 2011

Abram and Lot Separate

Genesis 13

Abram and Lot Separate
 1 So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him. 2 Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.  3 From the Negev he went from place to place until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier 4 and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the LORD.
Abraham won for king Pharaoh means that Abraham symbolically restored the first Blessing.
And Abraham got back Sara means that he symbolically restored the second blessing.
Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold. that means Abraham symbolically restored third Blessing.
He made an altar and pray for new start.

 5 Now Lot, who was moving about with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents. 6 But the land could not support them while they stayed together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together. 7 And quarreling arose between Abram’s herders and Lot’s. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time.
 8 So Abram said to Lot, “Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herders and mine, for we are close relatives. 9 Is not the whole land before you? Let’s part company. If you go to the left, I’ll go to the right; if you go to the right, I’ll go to the left.”
 10 Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan toward Zoar was well watered, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.) 11 So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company: 12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom. 13 Now the people of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD.
Abraham and Lot separate.  If you go to the left, I’ll go to the right; if you go to the right, I’ll go to the left.  Abraham loves Lot a lot, so he said Lot to decide.Lot chose Sodom where was sin city. - Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire." - Jude 6-7, KJV

 14 The LORD said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, “Look around from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west. 15 All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring[a] forever. 16 I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted. 17 Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.”
 18 So Abram went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he pitched his tents. There he built an altar to the LORD.
God encouraged Abraham. He built an altar to the Lord Hebron.
Later he bought a cemetery in Hebron for Sarah,  then later Abraham , Issac, Rebecca, Jacob, Leah got in to the cemetery.

Abraham depress since he separated with Lot. But He believed that God would change his difficulty to hope and joy.

Monday, November 7, 2011

Genesis 12 The Call of Abram

Genesis 12

The Call of Abram
 1 The LORD had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.  2 “I will make you into a great nation,
   and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
   and you will be a blessing.[a]
3 I will bless those who bless you,
   and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
   will be blessed through you.”[b]
 4 So Abram went, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran. 5 He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.

32And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.~genesis 11/32
Terah is father of Abraham, and died in Harran.

 6 Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. 7 The LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring[c] I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
 8 From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.
 9 Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.

He built an alter to the Lord means the Abraham proclaim this is God's land.
Abram in Egypt
 10 Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe. 11 As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “I know what a beautiful woman you are. 12 When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you live. 13 Say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake and my life will be spared because of you.”  14 When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was a very beautiful woman. 15 And when Pharaoh’s officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into his palace. 16 He treated Abram well for her sake, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.

Genesis 11 is the restoration for Noah's family, and the genesis 12 is restoration Adam's family.
Abraham and Sarah said they are brother and sister, just like Adam and Eve were brother and sister. Pharaoh was in the archangel position.
Pharaoh took Sarah into his palace.

 17And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.
 18And Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
 19Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.
 20And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

Pharaoh took Sarah from Abraham, and Abraham got back Sarah.  Arkangel took Eve, Adam could not bring back,he failed.

Abraham and Sarah prayed so hard, so God plagued Pharaoh and his house, not for others.
Abraham restored Sarah and all things.