Partial Notes Patriarchs I Gen 12-22

Partial Notes Patriarchs I Gen 12-22

•Patriarchs Part I
Genesis 12-26

•______(Blood of the Covenant)

•Leaders of the People of God

–______

–______

–______

–Joseph

•From Ur to Haran to ______

•Abram starts at Ur

–People of Ur were ______…Terah and his family may have been driven out for refusing to worship Ur’s gods (Judith 5:6-8)

–Terah, Abram’s father takes his family to Haran

•God calls Abram to leave his father’s house in Haran and go to the land He will show him

•______, Abram’s nephew goes with him

•The Promised Land

•The ______land, Canaan = the land ______that connects Egypt to Mesopotamia

–Everyone wants this land

•Approximately 50mi X 150mi (About the size of New Jersey)

•The Land flowing with ______and ______

•95% of the Story takes place on this stage

•They left Haran (Abram, Sarai, and Lot [Abram’s Nephew])

•They passed through Shechem, there were ______in the land

•The Lord said to Abram “to your ______I will give this land”

•So Abram built an ______there to the Lord who appeared to him (12:7)

•Like ______, who tried to take a position of authority which didn’t belong to him, ______, Ham’s son, takes possession of land that belongs to Shem.

•Abram is a descendent of ______

•God is giving the land to its rightful inhabitants.

•Promises & Covenants

•The 3 Promises to Abram

–______

–Great ______

–Worldwide ______

•These promises are elevated to ______later in chapters 15, 17, & 22

•These promises are a ______for the rest of the Story!

•The fulfillment of the three covenants:

•God Restores His F______Via Covenants

•Covenant – from the Latin Covenire meaning to come together or to agree.

•To Egypt & Back Again

•There was a famine in the land so Abram and ______went to Egypt

•Abram was scared that the Egyptians would kill him if they knew Sarai was his wife so he said she was his ______.

•The ______took Sarai into his palace (12:15)…and gave Abram many gifts for his “sister”

•but the Lord didn’t like that idea so He struck the Pharaoh’s house with ______.

•The Pharaoh was very upset and sent Abram and his wife Sarai away. They head back up to Negeb on “the way of Shur”

•God can mysteriously bring ______out of his creatures’ ______(CCC311).

•Gen 13

•Abram went up to Negeb and then to Bethel with Sarai and Lot…Abram and Lot were very rich now.

•He went to the place where he had built the altar to the Lord and ______the ______of the Lord

•“the land could not support them if they stayed ______; their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together”(13:6).

•The ______of Abram & Lot argue over land distribution. not support them both so they decided to part peacefully…

•Abram shows______in his leadership and allows Lot to pick the land he wants 13:8-9

•Lot chose to go ______to ______and Abram stayed in the land of Caanan (13:12)

•Lot is ______in battle

•Abram comes to his ______

•They stop at ______(which will become Jerusalem)

•A Mysterious ______-______

•“Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine, and being a priest of God Most High, he blessed Abram with these words: Blessed be Abram by God Most High, the creator of heaven and earth; And blessed be God Most High, who delivered your foes into your hand." Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything” (Gen 14:18-20).

•Melchizedek =My ______is ______(Gen 14:18-20; Heb 7:2-28)

•“the king-priest Melchizedek - a figure of ______…

•Remember Typology

•Melchizedek’s priesthood is a ______priesthood passed on from his ______(Noah). He is not a ______priest.

•Christ’s priesthood comes from His Father. It is not limited by ______of ______& ______.

•Is it possible?

•Gen 11:10-26 Shem lives 500 yrs after Arpachshad

•Ten generations from Shem to Abram

•Lets add up the years

•35+30+34+30+32+30+29+70+75(Abram was 75 when he tithes to Melchizedek)

•=365

•Shem was ______when Arpachshad was born 300+365 = 665(Shem would have been 665 when he blesses Abram)

•500-365 = 135 Shem(Melchizedek) has ______years left to live after he meets ______(he actually out lives Abram by 35 years)

•The Christian tradition considers ______, "priest of God Most High," as a prefiguration of the______of ______, the unique "high priest after the order of Melchizedek"” (CCC 58, 1544)

•Gen 15 Covenant

•God enters a covenant with Abram (Gen 15)

–Calls Abram to ______

–Abram doesn’t ______the answer yet - "O Lord GOD, what good will your gifts be, if I keep on being childless and have as my heir the steward of my house, Eliezer?" 15:2

–"No, that one shall not be your heir; your own issue shall be your heir." He took him outside and said: "Look up at the sky and count the ______, if you can. Just so," he added, "shall your descendants be."

•**What does Abram see?

–Test of Faith

•Notice the ______of ______…the ______had not set yet. – “As the sun was about to set, a trance fell upon Abram, and a deep, terrifying darkness enveloped him” 15:12

•“When the sun had set and it was dark, there appeared a smoking brazier and a flaming torch, which passed between those pieces” 15:17.

•“Abram put his ______ in the LORD, who credited it to him as an act of righteousness” 15:6.

•Keys words which will repeat later in the next major covenant made at Mt. Sinai

–______

–______

–______

•*Remember these when God establishes a covenant with Israel through Moses.

•Walk of ______

•Covenant ritual = Cut animal in half, stand in the midst of the pieces, in the ______of the sacrifice & read/proclaim the terms of the covenant, & swear oath.

–In essence you are saying, “if I do not uphold my end of this ______let what happened to this ______happen to ______!” (see Jer 34:18-20)

•We still retain some of this…think about a ______

•Good News & Bad News

•So God enters a covenant with Abram and promises Abram’s descendents the ______ of Canaan but only after ______years of ______

•God will work through ______to free the Israelites from slavery & lead them to the promised land.

•Gen 16

•After waiting ten years ______comes up with a ______to the problem of having no descendents.

–______( an Egyptian slave descendent from Ham)

–There is a parallel between ______taking the ______and giving it to Adam and ______giving ______to Abram.

–Ishmael will be the father of the Arab nations

•This is the root of Muslim’s conception of God as “______”

•Contrast with Jewish & Christian view of God as “______”

•Covenant Gen 17

•God establishes another covenant with Abram when he is 99 (Ishmael is 13)

•God promises to make Abram’s ______ great – ______ will descend from him

•Sign of the covenant is ______. A sign of taking off the flesh of sin and being set apart, through a permanent sign, as a member of God’s covenant family.

•Circumcision prefigures ______– in baptism we have our old self – attached to sin – removed & we receive an______seal which sets us apart as member of God’s family. See Col 2:11-12

•Word of an Heir

•God changes Abram’s name to ______

–Abram = Exalted father

–Abraham = Father of many ______

•In order to be the father of many nations you must have ______.

•At ______Abraham was told that his ______year old wife (Sarah = Princess or Queen) would conceive and have a son…….HA…HA..HA..HA!!!!

•They both ______so God decided to name their son laughter….______= Laughter.

•Isaac will carry on the covenant family not Ishmael

•Gen 22 - The hardest test yet

•Take your son, your ______-______son Isaac, whom you love,…and offer him there as a burnt offering…22:2

•WHAT! (this is the expected response)

•Abraham doesn’t hesitate to have ______(he may have even expected a ______. He tells his servants that they will come back. 22:5…see also Heb 11:17-19)

•A ______sacrifice – A Type of Christ

•Jewish tradition maintains that Isaac was at least ______maybe even in his twenties.

“In your descendants ______the ______of the earth shall find blessing” (Gen 22:17)

•“God will provide Himself the ______ for a burnt offering my son” (Gen 22:8)

•In Gen 22 God provides a ______not a ______.

•From this point on, lets keep looking for the ______

•Behold the Lamb

•“he was ______for our offenses, ______for our sins, Upon him was the chastisement that makes us ______, by his ______we were ______…Like a ______ led to the slaughter or a sheep before the shearers, he was silent and opened not his mouth” (Is 53:5,7).

•“Behold the ______ of God, who takes away the sin of the world” (John 1:29)

•“among the elders(priests) I saw a ______standing, as though it had been slain…”(Rev 5:6).