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#161/Genesis 26

GOD BLESSED ISAAC

ISAAC WENT FORWARD & BECAME A VERY GREAT MAN

BY APOSTLE JANICE L. WILLIAMS

WEEKLY BIBLE STUDY FOR WEDNESDAY,

JULY 13TH-20TH-27th to WEDNESDAY AUGUST 3RD, 2016

Genesis 26 KJV
1/ And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
2/ And the Lord appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
3/ Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;
4/ And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
5/ Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
6/ And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
7/ And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.

ISAAC, LIKE HIS FATHER ABRAHAM, DECEIVED ABIMELECH ABOUT HIS WIFE {See WBS #155/GENESIS 20 *GOD KNOWS ABRAHAM, SARAH, & ABIMELECH & GOD KNOWS YOU!}

ISAAC, ALSO LIKE HIS FATHER ABRAHAM, WOULD HAVE KNOWN THE ESTABLISHED EGYPTIAN LAWS OF THE LANDS THEY OCCUPIED CONCERNING ADULTRY. THEY BOTH, IN A SLY MANNER OF SURVIVAL, TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THEM. THE MINDSET OF THE MEN DWELLING IN THE AREAS DOMINATED BY EGYPTIAN TRENDS AT THAT TIME, AND ALL THE WAY UP TO THE TIME OF KING DAVID AND BATHSHEBA {2 Samuel 11:1-27}, SEEMS TO BE THAT THEY WERE MORE CONCERNED ABOUT NOT COMMITTING ADULTERY, THAN HAVING A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN'S HUSBAND KILLED SO THEY COULD MARRY HER!

^ABOVE CLIPART FROM BIBLE HISTORY ONLINE^ 

REVIEW WBS #146 "GENESIS 12 - THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT" & SEE THE 42 COMMANDMENTS OF ANCIENT EGYPT/42 Laws of Maat Under Kemet Law

8/ And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.

9/ And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife; and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.
10/ And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.
11/ And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
12/ Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.
13/ And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:
14/ For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
15/ For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
16/ And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.
17/ And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

18/ And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.

Map below from Bible History Online

19/ And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.

20/ And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.
21/ And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.

22/ And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the Lord hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.
23/ And he went up from thence to Beersheba. 24/ And the Lord appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.

25/ And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a well.
26/ Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.
27/ And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?
28/ And they said, We saw certainly that the Lord was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;
29/ That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the Lord.
30/ And he {Isaac} made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.

CAN YOU SEE THE EXAMPLE OF THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS THAT ISAAC DEMONSTRATED?

Matthew 5:44 KJV
44/ But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

31/ And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

32/ And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.

33/ And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day.

ABRAHAM WAS BLESSED FIRST TO KNOW THE ONE TRUE GOD.
BY GOD, THE BLESSING OF ABRAHAM WAS TRANSFERRED TO HIS SON ISAAC.

HEBREW NAME OF GOD

El {meaning GOD}, is the first element in the Divine Title El Olam used in the Hebrew text of Genesis 21:33. This scripture shows us Abraham interacting with Jesus the everlasting, eternal God called by the Hebrew name, El Olam, in the Old Testament.

JOHN 3:16 NIV

16/ For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17/ For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18/ Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.

Jesus Opens Understanding of the Scriptures to His Followers
Luke 24:44-49
44/ Then He {JESUS} said to them, “These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me.” 45/ And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures. 46/ Then He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, 47/ and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in

His name

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to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 48/ And you are witnesses of these things.

REVIEW WEEKLY BIBLE STUDY #129 "THE EVERLASTING FATHER"

Exodus 6:3 states, 3/ “I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty (El Shaddai), but by my name ‘the LORD’ (Yahweh) I was not known to them.”

THE NAMES OF GOD IN THE OLD TESTAMENT TEACH US ABOUT HIS CHARACTER. THEY ALL POINT TO THE NATURE OF JESUS