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FIRST THE NATURAL, THEN THE SPIRITUAL (1 Cor
15:46)
10-14-12
(Gen 15:1-3) After these things the word of the LORD
[Heb: Jehovah] came unto Abram [Heb: high father] in
a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield [Heb:
protector; defense], and thy exceeding great reward. And Abram
said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and
the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus? And Abram said,
Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house
is mine heir.
(Gen 15:4-6) And, behold, the word of the LORD
came unto him [who is that “word of the LORD”? Jehovah, Jesus Christ
(John 1:14), an angel?], saying, This shall not be thine heir;
but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine
heir. And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven,
and tell [Heb: count] the stars [Heb: rolling,
blazing; a star as round or shining], if thou be able to number them:
and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. And he believed
in the LORD; and he [the LORD] counted [Heb: reckoned,
regarded] it to him for righteousness.
(Gen 15:7-10) And he said unto him, I am the LORD
that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees [an ancient region in
southern Babylon (Iraq)], to give thee this land to inherit it.
And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? And he
said unto him, Take me [consecrated animals of] an heifer of
three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram
of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. And
he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid
each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.
(Gen 15:11-16) And when the fowls came down
[unconsecrated animals; a type of demons, unclean spirits, fallen angels]
upon the carcases, Abram drove them away. And when the sun was going
down, a deep sleep [10x in the Bible] fell upon
Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a
stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they
shall afflict them four hundred years [the latter is a rounded
figure of 430 years]; And also that nation [Egypt], whom
they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out
with great substance [“with an high hand” Exo 14:8]. And thou
shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good
old age [175 years old: Gen 25:7]. But in the fourth
generation [i.e., of Moses: 1 Chr 6:1-3] they shall come hither
again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full
[referring to the sins of the Canaanites who were to be destroyed].
1.
(Mat 8:12) But the [faithless] children of the kingdom
shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and
gnashing of teeth.
2.
(Mat 22:13) Then said the king to the servants, Bind him [who had
not on a wedding garment] hand and foot, and take him away, and cast
him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
3.
(Mat 25:30) And cast ye the unprofitable servant [who had
not multiplied his Lord’s silver (salvation)] into outer darkness:
there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
(Gen 15:17-21) And it came to pass, that, when
the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a
burning lamp [Heb: flame: torch] that passed between those
pieces. In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram,
saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt
unto the great river, the river Euphrates: The Kenites, and the Kenizzites,
and the Kadmonites, nd the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the
Rephaims [Heb: giants], And the Amorites, and the Canaanites,
and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
(Gen 16:1-5) Now Sarai [Heb: a head person
(of any rank or class)] Abram's wife [the first of seven
barren women in Scripture] bare him no children: and she had
an handmaid, an Egyptian [Egypt is symbolic of the land
of the unsaved associated with Sodom in Rev 11:8], whose name was
Hagar. And Sarai said unto Abram [who was then aged 85, and
she 75], Behold now, the LORD 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. 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. And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when
she [Hagar] saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised
in her eyes. And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee
[i.e., the wrong done to me is your fault]: I have given my
maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised
in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.
1.
(Rev 11:8) And their dead bodies [of the two witnesses] shall
lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom
and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
2.
(Gen 3:17) And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast
hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree
[of the knowledge of good and evil], of which I commanded thee, saying,
Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground [a symbol of
his wife] for thy sake; in sorrow [Heb: labor or pain:
toil] shalt thou eat of it [as you ate her words, bringing to
continual constant remembrance the sin of disobedience to God] all
the days of thy life;
3.
(Gen 3:13) And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that
thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled [Heb;
seduced: deceived] me [its his fault], and I did eat.
(Gen 16:6,7) But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold,
thy maid is in thy hand [Heb: power] [i.e., under your
control]; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt
hardly [hard] with her, she fled from her face. And the
angel of the LORD [a Christophanie – a temporary visible appearance
of Christ] found her [seeking refuge] by a fountain of
water [the Holy Spirit] in the wilderness [Heb: desert],
by the fountain in the way to Shur [“Shur, that is over against
Egypt” 1 Sam 15:7] [Hagar was returning back to Egypt, back to her natural
life].
(Gen 16:8-12) And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid,
whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee
from the face of my mistress Sarai. And the angel of the LORD said unto
her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her
hands [i.e., return to the one who has authority over you (a type of
God), and humble yourself under her (His) hands]. And the angel of the
LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly
[Muslims have an approximate 2 billion current population], that it
shall not be numbered for multitude. And the angel of the LORD said unto
her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call
his name Ishmael [Heb: God will hear]; because the LORD
hath heard thy affliction. And he will be a wild man;
his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against
him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren [“and
he will live to the east and on the borders of all his kinsmen” Amplif.].
1.
Nelson’s Illustrated Bible Dictionary: Mohammed claimed
Ishmael as his ancestor, as do most Arabs.
(Gen 16:13-16) And she called the name of the LORD
that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also
here looked after him that seeth me? Wherefore the well was called
Beerlahairoi [Heb: The well of the Living One who sees me];
behold, it is between Kadesh [Heb: sanctuary] and Bered
[Heb: hail] [i.e., hard word (judgmental)]. And Hagar bare Abram a
son: and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael. And
Abram was fourscore and six years old [86 and Sarai was 76],
when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.
1.
Commentary: Abraham was 100 and Sarah 90 when she bare the
promised son Isaac to Abraham. Please note that there were name
changes indicating a change of character from Sarai
(Heb: a head person) and Abram (Heb: high father) into Sarah
(Heb: a female noble: lady, princess, queen) and Abraham (Heb: father
of a multitude). These name changes occurred prior to the birth of
Isaac, the promised son.
Amen
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