44 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 2 - Part 4 - Book 4 - Names of Deity, Most High

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com LESSON 2 * PART 4 * BOOK 4 Genesis 14-16 I call Genesis 15 "Israel's Deed." Genesis 15:7 We take the promises of God by faith, but, being human, we say, "God, prove it." So, understandably, here is Abram with all these promises. God says, "I'm giving you the land." Abram asks, "How do I know? Genesis 15:8 Few people realize what God does next. - To prove to Abram that God meant what He said. Now God answers Abram and says: Genesis 15:9 Genesis 15:10,11 So God put Abram to sleep and took care of the situation. Genesis 15:12,13a Abram was out of it! God is telling something before it happens. God is already telling him that at some point in time, generations of Abram's seed would be in Egypt. God can raise up a nation to punish Israel, then turn around and reveal His wrath to that nation for misusing the Jew. God used him to take Israel out of the land which He had been promising to them for years and years by His prophets. So what did God do? I can't explain it, but God is Sovereign; He makes no mistakes! Genesis 15:14-16a Why, they spoiled Egypt. It was all in God's sovereign plan. Genesis 15:16b Down a way is Egypt and the Nile River. Up to the Sea of Galilee, the Jordan Valley and the Dead Sea, is the land of Canaan. Remember that Abram came down from Haran in Syria into the Land of Canaan. It is hard for us to comprehend the patience of God. Did God do it? Yes! Israel got softhearted. We know their god as Baal. It is absolutely unbelievable that Israel, this Covenant people, with all the miracle working of God as a fabric of their lifestyle, would come to this place. This is exactly what God knew would happen if they spared the Canaanites. Jeremiah 44:16,17a "As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken unto thee. Jeremiah 44:17b Jeremiah 44:18,19 Jeremiah goes on and almost bewails the fact, that Israel could sink to such a low spiritual condition that they would burn incense and pour out drink offerings to this female goddess. Then God, in justice, could tell Joshua to not spare one. Genesis 15:17 It is The Lord. By doing so, He is fulfilling the ancient ceremony of transferring title deed. When Israel tonight says the land has been deeded to them, this is what they come back to. You cannot refute the Word of God. This is God's Title Deed to the Middle East for the Nation of Israel. Genesis 15:18a "In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given..." Look what God has deeded to Abraham. Genesis 15:18b-21 "...I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites," And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites." I think there was another river a little bit east. Do you see how much of the Middle East God deeded to Abraham? It has all been deeded. God never goes back on His word. Watch the Middle East. Israel is going to have to stand her ground. The fact remains that it is promised, it is deeded to the Nation of Israel. Look again at our map of the land promised to Israel on page 59. Let's go into Chapter 16. Genesis 16:1 "NOW Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar." Genesis 16:2 "And Sarai said unto Abram, `Behold now, the Lord (Jehovah) hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her.' And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai." God! God has not said one word about having a child by way of a slave girl. Genesis 16:3 "And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife." Ten years ago God promised that Abram and Sarai would have a child, by which the Nation of Israel would come on the scene. Genesis 16:4 Genesis 16:5,6 Genesis 16:7 It is God the Son; Jehovah in the Old Testament, Christ in the New Testament. When you see the term `angel of the LORD,' or `angel of God,' it is God the Son, the Redeemer. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible