Hey, guys! I’m a little late tonight (sorry) but that’s ok, I at least have this before sunrise tomorrow morning. This passage is found in page 14 of my NKJV Bible, page 18 of my NASB Bible, and page 31 of my VOICE and Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copies.
In my post about Genesis 17, I explained the grandchildren of Abraham through Ishmael and what most of them have believed after they began to live there. I had also written about this in brief in 2012 when I was doing Bible notes for the first time ever, but that was actually on the Bible I was using at the time, writing the information down on sticky notes. Oh, something I forgot to mention in the previous post: Midian somehow becomes an enemy of Israel for a long time because of their jealousy when God later replaces the Canaanites with Israel’s people — spoiler alert: Jacob is Israel (see Genesis 32:28) — Jesus is the Man Who wrestled with him, after Isaac had died — he doesn’t appear anywhere after Genesis 28:9. Weird, huh? But anyway, continuing from where I left off in that post about how dangerous radical Islam is (remember, many people hate the crap in the Middle East they’re being fed with, and in the Indonesia-Malaysia area) but thank God that Jacob and Esau were probably present in Abraham’s final days (they were only 15 when he died, just as my brother and I were 15 and 21 when our dad passed away, for Isaac was 60 when they were born, seeing that Abraham had turned 100 as Sarah was pregnant with him) — but everyone eventually becomes at odds with each other, but to give you a happy ending to Genesis (we’re about halfway there by now), Joseph forgave his brothers of their reprehensible deed of selling him into slavery and tricking their parents into believing he was dead. So the tribes didn’t fight for a long time. And tribes in those days were always clawing for territory and making enough wars with one another so that people would think, “God must really regret fashioning them.” But as arrogant as the U.K. was 800-some years ago, they brought a lot of intellectual things into many parts of the world. Hopefully, colonization is a thing of the past by now, for I pray to God that ethnic cleansing is gone for good. Isaac’s not-so-hairy son, Jacob, though (he had the 13 children, that is, his 12 sons who would later lead Israel in tribal status and his daughter, Dinah), he didn’t want to fight anyone, did he? But I don’t think they got favoritism from Abraham, for this is not found anywhere in this book when he lived. Don’t you remember that Genesis 15:6 is quoted several times in the New Testament because Abraham is the founding father of the Christian faith? Also, sorry for the really long run-on sentence structure in the beginning of this paragraph 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣😄😅😆 I should also learn more from Abraham in this life, too, including how he had brought his promise to maturity by giving Isaac to God without hurting him. But my next post will be about Isaac…
Any prayer requests? You can leave one in my e-mail: ron.outland4727@gmail.com! I didn’t tell anyone but a job coach that was present with me during my shift at Fry’s today (though I’m sure others heard, yet I don’t care if they listened or not; they didn’t need to) of the reality of delaying my student loan payments again 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊 but Abraham’s life is a large bedrock for what Christ Jesus believes, for Abraham was faithful to God as He was to him. Indeed, Jesus is even greater than Abraham, for He was the Uncreated One, and still is. I’ll see you in the next part of Genesis!
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