Wednesday 08/23/17
Message – Deadly Deceit
Series: Thru the Bible – Genesis 37-38
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Deadly Deceit
Chapter 37
- Joseph at 17 tended sheep with his brothers.
- Favoritism continues in this bloodline
- There’s something more to it than Joseph being the son of his old age because that was also true of Benjamin.
- Benjamin was a constant reminder of his loss of Rachel.
- I think he saw something in Joseph… his free spirit, his love, his dreaming that created or evoked a deeper connection with God.
- Joseph may have had a connection with his little brother Benjamin which may have softened him. Perhaps even retelling the “God” stories he’d heard in his youth.
- He had dreams.
- He lacked discernment by sharing them.
- His father retained the information in his heart (like Mary did concerning the prophetic words over Jesus)
- These were prophetic dreams… God had appointed Joseph for the deliverance of his brothers.
- Sheaves represented the provision God would supply through him.
- Stars, sun & moon… Authority and ruling.
- His brothers disliking of Joseph was growing into deadly hatred.
- A prophet is not without honor except in his own household…etc.
- Being a prophet in the old testament was a deadly occupation. While God protected His prophets, many of them in the end were murdered by those they were sent to save by their word.
- Jacob also lacks discernment concerning the intensity of hatred his older sons had for Joseph… he was disconnected.
- This disconnection and favoritism poisoned the hearts and dispositions of the older boys.
- We influence every life around us.
- Reuben felt responsible.
- He sought to protect Joseph from the deadly intentions of his brothers.
- Was despondent at Joseph’s loss, probably not entirely certain at first that the other brothers had not carried out their deadly intentions.
- Judah had a sense of justice and was practical… “what profit is there in his death… Besides he is our kin.”
- Sold to non-covenant family members.
- Egypt is closely tied to Israel through the scriptures.
- More lies… and Jacob weeps. His heart experiences Rachel’s lots am over again through the death of their son.
- Jacob’s heart begins to be tied to Benjamin.
Chapter 38
- Judah marries outside the family.
- His sons are evil.
- God kills them.
- Er is wicked
- It means bad in a moral and ethical sense and is used to describe, along with good, the entire spectrum of good and evil; hence, it depicts evil in an absolute, negative sense, as when it describes the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
- The Lord is the final arbiter of whether something was good or evil; if something was evil in the eyes of the Lord, there is no further court of appeals (Deu 9:18; 1Ki 14:22).
- Onan would not raise up a child for his brother.
- Why was this evil?
- This is not an issue of “the kinsman redeemer”. Men could refuse this under the law without fear of death. Besides the law was not yet.
- God counts the heritage of His people holy, therefore the seed was holy.
- This is where catholics get the notion that contraception is wrong.
- What is His purpose in the earth at this time? Establishing a bloodline & nation.
- What did this sin… sin against? God’s purposes.
- Furthermore… This is Judah! The bloodline of the Messiah Himself and Onan, through base Envy chose to hinder its propagation.
- Judah his third son is too young… but is promised to her.
- Offspring was valued.
- Tamar wanted this.
- Judah does not watch over his word to perform it.
- Tamar takes matters into her own hands.
- Though Judah clearly sees prostitution as evil, he has no problem seeking one.
- It is possible the “crime”was not so much the prostitution itself as the idea that it appeared to them as a cult prostitute.
- Hiram, Judah’s Adullamite friend went to pay her and asked about her by the word… quedeshah Which means one consecrated to the worship of Ashtoreth, in which chastity is sacrificed.
- It is possible the “crime”was not so much the prostitution itself as the idea that it appeared to them as a cult prostitute.
- Judah is quick to demand judgment.
- He is also quick to recognize and admit her righteousness as greater than his own.
- Of the two sons Judah has, the actual first born is one through whom the Messiah comes.
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