Tag Archive | "Genesis"
Devotional,OTJ
I think this devo is pretty insightful. It’s from one of my seminary professors: The last chapter of genesis includes a section that is both pathetic and glorious (Gen. 50:15–21). Everything that is sad and flawed in this family resurfaces when Jacob dies. Joseph’s brothers fear that their illustrious sibling may have suppressed vengeful resentment [...]
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Another great day of reading today. I’ve loved the story of Judah and Tamar,but with this reading I began to wonder how much pain Tamar must ahve gone through. First, to loose a husband in his youth, when you had so many expectations for the future together. And to have been childless through the marriage [...]
Devotional,OTJ
After twenty years, Jacob is returning to his homeland. he has no idea what has transpired, and assumes that Esau has been seething in anger all of this time. Without contact, he has nothing to go on except his last conversation over 20 years before, one in which Esau threatens to kill Jacob 27:42ff: Rebekah [...]
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When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!” 2 Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?” 3 Then she said, [...]
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There are just some passages that surprise me in the scriptures. I think that if I were to create stories about founding fathers, I’d use Washington’s “I cannot tell a lie” long before Jacob’s deception of his father. But what we have read in the past few days gives us the back story. First, when Rebekah asks God [...]
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Yesterday I made the comment that I really enjoyed reading Genesis 24 because it was a chapter where the family of Abraham being… functional. And yes - having read the rest of the Israelite story, Genesis 24 is remarkable because of what follows. Someone made the comment on my facebook wall “IT really does get [...]
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John Milton’s Paradise Lost Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs, and nature gave a second groan; Sky loured, and muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original … The Bible as a Four Part Symphony “The Bible may be described as a four-part symphony, moving from creation [...]