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63) 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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64) ABRAHAM


Chapter 22


- God wants to put Abraham to the test!


- So he asks Abraham to offer 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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65) 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 choose 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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66) 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 trouble to 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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67) JOSEPH


- God is with Joseph!


- We can add that 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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68) 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 and speaks to Pharaoh about him!

- The second will die!


- But he forgets Joseph!


- Does it remind you of 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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69) 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 the 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 the 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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70) 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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71) 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 tell 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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72) 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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73) 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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74) JOSEPH

- All the family of Jacob goes to Egypt!


- There were a total of 70!


*- Joseph organized everything and presented his family to the pharaoh!

- Of course, he was used to organizing everything!


- He was in charge of Egypt thanks to God!


- He was the second most important character in Egypt!

 

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75) Chapter 47


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 for 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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76) Chapter 48


JOSEPH


- Before dying, Jacob tells 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!

 

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77) Chapter 49


JOSEPH


- Then Jacob blesses his sons!


- Reuben the firstborn will not excel because he has gone up to Jacob’s bed!


- Simeon and Levi are instruments of violence and slaughter weapons!


- Because of their anger they kill people!


- Their anger is cursed!


- Judah is a lion cub and the scepter will not depart from him until the coming of Shiloh!


- Thus we are told about the coming of Jesus!


- Zebulun will reside by the seashore!


- Issachar is a strong-boned donkey and will be submit to forced labor!


- Dan will judge his people!


- He will also be a serpent!


- Gad will fight back the marauder bands!


- Asher’s bread will be abundant and he will provide food for a king!


- Naphtali is a slender doe and speaks with elegance!


- God is with Joseph and Jacob gives him special blessings!


- Benjamin will keep on tearing like a wolf!


- Then Jacob asks to be buried in Canaan with his wife Sarah and Isaac and his wife Rebekah and Leah!


- Finally Jacob dies!


- Thus Jacob behaves as a prophet!


- Jacob’s first three sons are bad ones!


- They can’t control themselves!

 

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78) Chapter 50


JOSEPH


- Joseph has his father embalmed!


- Then he asks Pharaoh for permission to go to Canaan to bury his father!


- So Jacob’s sons bury him in Canaan!


- After that, they all return to Egypt!


- But Joseph’s brothers are afraid of Joseph because of what they did to him when they were younger!


- So they tell Joseph that Jacob gave a command before his death to pardon the transgression of his brothers!


- But Joseph tells them not to be afraid!


- And he lived 110 years!


- Then Joseph is embalmed and put in a coffin in Egypt!

 

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79) Exodus 16


1) ISRAEL MURMURS AGAINST MOSES AND AARON AND GOD


- People murmur about food!


- They would have preferred to die in Egypt!


- Then God provides quail and manna!


- But as usual they don’t follow God’s instructions, they disobey!


- And they eat manna for 40 years!

 

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80) Exodus 17


2) ISRAEL MURMURS AGAINST MOSES AND GOD


- They complain about the lack of water at Horeb!


- So God makes water come from a rock!


- The Israelites must also fight the Amalekites!


- And Moses tells Joshua to choose men and fight the amalekites!

 

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81) Exodus 32


3) ISRAEL MURMURS AGAINST MOSES AND GOD


- Moses stays 40 days and 40 nights on Mount Sinai!


- Israel asks Aaron to make a god to worship!


- So he makes them a golden calf!

 

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82) ISRAEL GETS INTO BIG TROUBLES


- As a consequence God tells Moses he wants to EXTERMINATE them and MAKE a great nation of Moses!


- But Moses calms God down !


- And Joshua hears the noise of the people because of their shouting and he tells Moses about a sound of battle in the camp!


- When Moses arrives at the camp , his anger begins to blaze and he burns the golden calf!


- Then Moses asks who is on God’s side!


- And all the Levites gather around him!

- And according to God’s will, Moses tells the Levites to kill the Israelites and they kill 3,000!


- Then Moses goes back to Mount Sinai and asks God to pardon Israel’s sin!


- If not, he wants God to wipe him out from the book he has written!


- But God tells him he will punish those who have sinned against him!


- Thus Moses has to put his good relationship to God in the balance to save the Israelites but they can’t escape punishment!


- What a CHARACTER!


- What a difference with the Israelites!