Genesis Series Lesson #071 October 20, 2004 Dean Bible Ministries - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Genesis Series Lesson #071 October 20, 2004 Dean Bible Ministries www.deanbibleministries.org Dr. Robert L. Dean, Jr.

Time Line of the Patriarchs Temple 2166 BC Dedication Abram born 966 BC 1876 BC Jacob enters Egypt 480 430 2066 BC 1446 BC Isaac born Exodus 1,000 BC

Gen. 11:27 Now these are the records [ toledot ] of Terah: Terah became the father of Avram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran became the father of Lot. . . . Avram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Avram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah. Sarai was barren; she had no child. ? = Terah = ? Avram Haran = Sarai = ? = Milcah Iscah Lot Nahor

8 BIBLICAL COVENANTS GENTILE COVENANTS F F EDENIC ADAMIC NOAHIC L A Gen. Gen. Gen. O L 1:27–28 3:14–19 9:1–7 O L D JEWISH COVENANTS (UnconditionalPermanent) ABRAHAMIC New Davidic Real Gen. 12:1–3 Jer. 31 2 Sam. 7 Estate Deut. 30 “land, seed, blessing”

The Land Seed Blessing Abrahamic Covenant New Davidic Land Covenant Covenant Deut. 30 “Blessing” “Seed” Jer. 31 2 Sam. 7:14ff

Genesis 12:4 So Abram departed as the LORD had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

Genesis 12:5 Then Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they departed to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan.

• What was the Bible’s intention in describing Abram’s journey as it does: Shechem, Bethel, Negev? • Why was the land divided into three regions: North down to Shechem, second from Shechem to Bethel, third south of Bethel? • Why did Abram build altars here?

Genesis 12:6 Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, as far as the terebinth tree of Moreh. And the Canaanites were then in the land.

Genesis 12:7 Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

Shechem Bethel Hebron Beersheba

Genesis 12:8 And he moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; there he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.

Genesis 12:9 Abram journeyed on, continuing toward the Negev.