Matt 1:2-17 The Genealogy of Jesus CLICK ON TITLE FOR AUDIO This lesson is about the additions to and the subtractions from the Genealogy of Jesus. ADDITONS Although Jesus was a Jew and the line of men from Abraham to Joseph were all Jews, there are five Gentile women that were...
Matt 1:1 The Generation of Jesus CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO When Matthew opened his gospel, he introduced Jesus as the son of David and the son of Abraham. God made covenants with both Abraham and David that will ultimately be fulfilled in Jesus Christ. That’s why Mathew shows Jesus’ line through these...
Genesis 50 The Burial of Jacob CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Embalming and Mourning (1-3) Joseph commanded the physicians to embalm Jacob to preserve his body for the trip to and burial in Canaan. Egyptians embalmed corpses to preserve them. They removed the brain through the nostrils, the entrails through...
Jacob gave his children specific instructions to bury him in the family buringplace, the cave in the field of Machpelah, which Abraham purchased when Sarah died (Gen 23). Afterwards, the Bible says that he “yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people,” (v. 33). The gathering unto his...
Genesis 49:22-27i CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Joseph and Benjamin are the last two tribes about whom Jacob prophesies. Joseph’s prophecy typifies the life of a Christian and the ministry of Jesus Christ. Benjamin’s prophecy concerns the fierceness of his descendants. Joseph (22-26) Joseph as a...
Genesis 49:13-21 Jacob’s Prophecies, Part 2 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO The prophecies concerning these sons of Jacob reveal more about the pre-millennial layout of the Bible and the course that God takes in dealing with the Jews than it does about the specific details of the individual tribes. Although we...
03-11-2 Genesis 49:1-9 Jacob’s Prophecies CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Before Jacob died, he prophesied about what would happen to his sons long after his death. Some of the prophecies run all the way up to the second coming of Christ. Here are the prophecies for the first four sons: ...
Genesis 48 The Adoption and Blessing of Ephraim and Manasseh CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Joseph comes to visit 48:1-2 Shortly before Jacob died, Joseph came to see him and brought his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, with him. He had gotten the word, “Behold, thy father is sick.” And...
Genesis 47:27-31 The Jews Multiplied Exceedingly CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Israel had to move from Canaan to Egypt to get away from the famine. They ended up residing in Goshen, the area where they remained for approximately 200 years before leaving to return to Canaan at the Exodus. During this...
Genesis 47:13-26 Governmental Control in a Financial Collapse CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO In this lesson, we are skipping the last part of Genesis 46 and the first part of Genesis 47. However, there are some notable things in those verses that we will deal with before we see how the...
