Lesson #5 The Plan of Redemption (12: 1 14: 24)

1. Adam & Eve disobey God and are ashamed 2. Cain murders Able and is impudent 3. Lamech takes two wives, murders a stranger and is arrogant 4. By Genesis 6: 5, all the thoughts of all people were only evil all the time.

1. Noah and his family leave the Ark 2. Noah plants a vineyard, gets drunk and curses his son, Ham 3. By Chapter 11 we reach the Tower of Babel

Left to our own devices, humanity is incapable of resolving the issue of sin. So, God intervenes . . .

1. After the Tower of Babel, our fifth genealogical list (10: 10 11: 32) drives the action forward across 10 generations, ending with Terah and his sons: Abram, Nahor and Haran. 2. Abram (later renamed Abraham, Exalted Father) becomes the central character in our story.

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Archaeological Remains of Haran

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Reconstructed Village of Haran

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Village Courtyard

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Hospitality in the Tent

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I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you. I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you. All the families of the earth will find blessing in you (Genesis 12: 2-3).

1. Property: To your descendants I will give this land (12: 7). 2. Progeny: Look up at the sky and count the stars, if you can. Just so . . . will your descendants be (15: 5).

Redemption

From the Latin redimere = to buy back. red (or re-) = back + emere, to buy

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1. In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites went forth from the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomons reign over Israel in the month of Ziv (the second month), he began to build the house of the Lord (1 Kings 6: 1).
1. 2. Solomons reign begins c. 970 B.C., so he begins to build the Temple c. 966 B.C. That is, 480 years after the Exodus, dating the Exodus from Egypt c. 1446 B.C.

2. Working backward from the Exodus places Abram, c. 2000 B.C., the Middle Kingdom of Egypt.

The nature of the afflictions is not spelled out. Rashis inference [the greatest Rabbi of the middle ages, A.D. 1040 1105] of a genital disorder preventing intercourse is not unreasonable. In that case, one might imagine a tense exchange between Pharaoh and Sarai ending in a confession by Sarai of her status as Abrams wife. In the laconic narrative art of the Hebrew writer, this is left as a gap for us to fill in by an indeterminate compound of careful deduction and imaginative reconstruction. (The Five Books of Moses, p. 65.)

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Photography by Ana Maria Vargas

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1. The pyramids were not built by slaves, but by skilled workers. 2. The king was mummified and his most valuable possessions were placed in his pyramid with him.
1. Nearly all people were mummified in ancient Egypt.

3. The last king to be buried in a pyramid was Ahmose I (c. 1552 B.C.), founder of the 18th dynasty.

Ramesses II
The great Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt, c. 1303 1213 B.C., 19th Dynasty

Ramses II. Mummy Room, Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt.

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Scripture, which saw in advance that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, foretold the good news (gospel) to Abraham, saying, Through you shall all the nations be blessed. (Galatians 3: 8)
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Photography by Ana Maria Vargas.

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Photography by Ana Maria Vargas.

1. Why would God choose Abram to play such a pivotal role in the Plan of Redemption? 2. Why would Abram agree to the plan? 3. No sooner did Abram get to the land of Canaan than he left it for Egypt. Why did he go? 4. What role does Sarai play in these decisions? 5. The story of Melchizedek is only 3 verses long: 14: 18-20. Who is Melchizedekand why is the story here?

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