Genesis one

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ABRAHAM

Chapter 18

- Abraham saw 3 men and he met them and invited them to eat something!

- So he told his wife to prepare bread!

- And he asked one of his attendant for preparing a young bull!

- Finally, one of them told him that next year Sarah was to have a son!

- And Sarah began to laugh to herself because she was too old!

- God said to Abraham he was going to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah!

- Then Abraham had a discussion with God!

- And God told him he was not going to destroy the two cities if he was to find 50 or 45 or 40 or 30 or 20 or 10 righteous men he would not destroy the two cities!

- Think about the men who could have such a discussion with God!

- Not many indeed!

- God really considered Abraham as a faithful servant!

 

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ABRAHAM

Chapter 17

- When Abraham was 99, God appeared to him and told him he would become a great nation!

- And God changed his name from Abram to Abraham!

- And he told him again that they would get the land of Canaan!

- And he established a covenant with him: every male had to get circumcised!

- The one nit being circumcised had to die!

- And he changed the name of Abraham’s wife from Sarai to Sarah!

- And she was to have a child!

- But Abraham began to laugh and to say in his heart: “Will a man 100 years old have a child born to him, and will Sarah, a woman 90 years old, give birth?”

- Thus Abraham and all the men belonging to him were circumcised!

What is it about Genesis 1 that you don't understand? Copying and pasting excerpts from the book of Genesis is irrelevant. Most of us own Bibles.

 

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- Definition of irrelevant: not connected with or relevant to!

- A chapter of the Bible is one thing!

- Taking the most important in a chapter about a character is connected to this character!

- Looking for the information is the basis of the study!

- If you only take the whole chapter, the information you are looking for is diluted!

- To understand a biblical character, reading is not sufficient, you need to engrave it!

- Reading for reading leads nowhere!

- Reading to understand and analyze is meaningful!

- It's the same about Acts and the personality checkup!

- To get personality traits you need to get the exact extract and only think about it!

 

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- To show you, here is the conclusion of the personality checkup of Paul:

Personality checkup

- The results of the personality checkup shows how Jesus was right in choosing Paul!

- It seems to be that Paul was the best man to work for Jesus and go for the people of the nations!

- He is so resolute, so proactive and altruistic!

- So he chose a Jew because it was the only possibility at the time!

- And he chose a Pharisee because he would have a good knowledge of the Law!

- And he did not look for a disciple!

- But for a man who was sincere yet walking in the wrong way!

- For many people, it seems strange!

- But once again there is a difference when you try to see with God’s eyes rather than man’s eyes!

- And as men, we are limited and it is difficult to rise to a higher level!

- That’s why we need to read and study and exchange and think about the Bible!

 

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ABRAHAM

Chapter 20

- Once again Abraham doesn’t say that Sarah is his wife but just his sister!

- He tries to survive!

- We remember what did David!

- And many others were or are ready to kill for a woman!

- So king Abimelech sends for Sarah and takes her!

- But God warns him!

- And he tells Abimelech to send Sarah back if he doesn’t want to die!

- Thus Abraham does his part to survive and so does God!

- So as Abraham, we have to do our part if we want God to do his part!

- There is no other way!

 

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ABRAHAM

Chapter 21

- Sarah became pregnant at the appointed time God had promised him!

- Apparently Abraham and Sarah waited 25 years for the fulfillment of God’s promise!

- But above all they were old!

- So 25 years means a lot more than only 25 years!

- But it is difficult for men to wait!

- Think about the time the Israelites had to wait to get the promised land!

- Think about the time men have to wait for God’s world to come!

- Abraham showed respect for God’s gift!

- But the Israelites didn’t!

- What about us?





- Are we ready to wait for it?

 

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ABRAHAM

Chapter 21

- And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, just as God had commanded him.

- Here we have a faithful servant of God!

- He does just as God commands him!

- That is a big difference with the Israelites!

- That is a big difference with those who go to the restaurant and choose the menu!

- Here there is no choice!

- Or better said only one choice: God’s one!

 

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ABRAHAM

Chapter 22

- God wants to put Abraham to the test!

- So he asks Abraham for offering his son as a sacrifice!

- Remember that God told Abraham that Isaac would become a great nation!

- So Abraham does exactly as God tells him!

- And Abraham takes the knife to kill his son!

- But God’s angel stops him!

- What a faith!

- An unbelievable act of faith!

- That’s what we can call a faithful servant of God!

- Whenever you think of faithfulness, think of this incredible act of faith!

- You can read this chapter of Genesis as much as you want!

- Whenever you feel bad, think of it or read it!

- That’s pure faithfulness!

- That’s why the Bible is worth reading and studying carefully and daily without limits!

- To be told about such incredible faithful servants of God!

 

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- Abraham has a son Isaac who has two sons Esau and Jacob!

- Jacob finds favor in the eyes of God!

- He gets twelve sons and a daughter called Dinah!

- She is raped and then offered a marriage!

- Jacob’s sons accept the marriage but the men must get circumcised!

- When the men are still in pain, Jacob’s sons kill all of them because of Dinah!

- And they take all the possessions of the men!

- Thus Jacob’s sons behave badly and with violence!

- But God Protects Jacob and his family!

- Not a good start for the Israelites!

- Once again the Bible tells us about God and a faithful servant!

- Here it is Abraham!

- Then God will chose Joseph, Jacob’s son to keep Jacob’s family going!

- And Jacob’s family will go to Egypt!

- And they will become slaves!

- But God will free them from the hands of the Egyptians!

 

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JOSEPH

- In Genesis 37, we are told about Joseph being 17 years old!

- Jacob has a preference for him and he clearly shows his preference for him!

- Thus Jacob is a bad example!

- If parents want to bring troubles in their families, they just have to show preferences!

- That’s really a bad start!

- And we know what happened later!

- Now thanks to the Bible we have many good and bad examples!

- Good examples to follow and bad examples to keep away!

- As a consequence, Joseph’s brothers begin to hate him!

- And they can’t speak peaceably to him!

- And Joseph has dreams showing that he will prevail over his brothers!

- So things get worse and worse!

- Finally his brothers sell him!

- And he finds himself as a slave in Egypt!

- He is sold to Potiphar, a court official of Pharaoh and the chief of the guard!

 

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JOSEPH

- God is with Joseph!

- We can add Joseph is with God!

- Joseph is a faithful servant of God!

- He is put over the house of his master!

- He becomes his personal attendant!

- Joseph is responsible for everything!

- At the same time, Joseph grows to be well-built and handsome!

- And Potiphar’s wife wants to have sex with him!

- But Joseph wants to stay faithful to his master and to God so he refuses!

- And Potiphar’s wife accuses him of trying to rape him!

- So Potiphar takes him to prison!

- But God keeps being with Joseph!

- And the chief officer of the prison puts him in charge of all the prisoners!

 

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JOSEPH

- Pharaoh sends two of his officers to prison!

- Then both have a dream!

- And Joseph tells them the interpretation!

- Then he asks the first to remember him ans speaks to Pharaoh about him!

- The second will die!

- But he forgets Joseph!

- Does it remind you something?

- And Joseph stays in prison!

- He must be patient!

- It is a way for God to test human beings!

- And usually they aren’t patient!

- And it is easy for them to forget God!

- And it is easy to understand why they usually don't understand him!

 

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JOSEPH

- After two years, Pharaoh has a dream!

- It is about seven fat cows and seven thin ones!

- And the seven thin ones eat the seven fat ones!

- Then Pharaoh has a second dream with seven full ears of grain and seven thin ones!

- And the seven thin ones swallow up the seven full ones!

- And pharaoh becomes agitated and wants the interpretation of his dreams!

- But no one can interpret them!

- And his officer finally remembers Joseph and tells Pharaoh about him!

- So pharaoh sends for Joseph who tells the interpretation of the dreams!

- And Joseph tells Pharaoh about seven years of abundance and seven years of famine!

- So Joseph tells Pharaoh to put a man in charge over the land of Egypt to collect all the food during the abundance and store it and safeguard it and save the people!

- So Pharaoh puts Joseph in charge!

- He will be second only after Pharaoh!

- Joseph was 30 years old!

- And Joseph had two sons Manasseh and Ephraim!

- And people would come from everywhere to buy food from Joseph!

 

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JOSEPH

- Jacob sends ten of his sons except Benjamin to Egypt to get some food!

- He doesn’t want to lose him like Joseph!

- In Egypt they meet Joseph because he is the man in charge of selling grain!

- He recognizes them but they don’t!

- And he remembers his dreams about his brothers and he understands everything!

- He accuses them of being spies!

- So they tell him they were 12 brothers, one is no more and the youngest is with their father!

- Then to check what they say, he let them go but one of them must stay in egypt and they must come back with their youngest brother!

- And they remember what they did to their brother Joseph and He hears them!

- Then he goes away and weeps and comes back!

- And he asks his servants to put the money back to his brothers’ bags!

- Later his brothers realize that their money was in their bags and they are afraid of being accused of theft!

- When they come back to Jacob they tell him everything!

- But he tells them he will never let Benjamin go!

- Thus Joseph understands that everything happened because of God’s will!

- Thus he was sent to Egypt to be able to save his own family!

- But he wants to test his brothers to see if they have changed!

- Of course, he had to survive in a foreign country!

- He got into trouble without having done anything wrong!

- But God was with him and Joseph became the second most important man in Egypt!

- Does it remind you of Daniel!

- And Joseph got a lot of experience!

 

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JOSEPH

- Because of the famine, Jacob must send his sons to Egypt again to buy some food!

- But Judah tells his father they must go with Benjamin!

- Otherwise they will get into trouble!

- Judah offers his life as a guarantee for his safety!

- Jacob tells them to take double the money with them and also the money that was returned to them!

- When Joseph sees Benjamin, he invites all his brothers to a meal with him!

- But when Joseph’s brothers are told to go to Joseph’s house, they think it is because of the money that was returned in their bags and they are afraid of dying!

- But they are told not to be afraid!

- And they also told about the meal!

- Then Joseph asks them more questions!

- When Joseph sees Benjamin again, he wants to cry so he goes to another room!

- Then he washes his eyes and eats with them!

- And Benjamin receives more food!

- And Joseph’s brothers are amazed!

- Because they don’t know what’s on!

- But Joseph knows!

 

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JOSEPH

- He tells his man to put the food and the money in his brother’s bags!

- He also tells him to put his silver cup in Benjamin’s bag!

- His brothers leave in the morning!

- Then he asks his man to chase after his brothers and Joseph’s silver cup is found in Benjamin’s bag!

- Benjamin must become Joseph’s slave!

- The other brothers can leave!

- They say that their father is going to die if Benjamin doesn’t come back!

- Judah wants to stay instead of Benjamin as a guarantee for him!

- Thus Joseph puts his brothers to the test!

 

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JOSEPH

- But Joseph can’t control himself any longer!

- He begins to weep loudly!

- And he tells his brothers the truth!

- And that what happened was according to God’s will!

- And he tells them to go back to their father and tell him about Joseph!

- But their father doesn’t believe them!

- Only when he sees all the gifts from Joseph!

- Then he wants to go to Egypt and see him before his death!

 

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JOSEPH

- All the family of Jacob goes to Egypt!

- All the people were in total 70!

- Joseph organized everything and presented his family to pharaoh!

- Of course, he was used to organizing everything!

- He was in charged of Egypt thanks to God!

- He was the second most important character in Egypt!

 

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JOSEPH

- He introduces his family to Pharaoh!

- And Pharaoh lets them settle in the land of Goshen with their livestock!

- Joseph sells grain against money!

- When people don’t have any more money, they give their livestock!

- Then Joseph buys the land and the people of Egypt for Pharaoh in exchange of grain!

- So they become slaves of Pharaoh!

- Finally Jacob dies when he is 147!

- As we can see, Joseph does a great job for Pharaoh!

- He reveals a precious man to him!

- God made a good choice with him!

 

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JOSEPH

- Before dying, Jacob tells to Joseph that Joseph’s two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh will share Jacob’s inheritance like his sons!

- Before dying, Jacob blesses Joseph’s sons!

- But Jacob keeps putting Ephraim the younger before Manasseh the firstborn!

- He does it against Joseph’s will!

- Interesting to see what is going to happen!