Daily Bible Portion (Friday)
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"GENERATIONS"
(Weekly Reading>>Genesis 25:19-28:9, 1 Samuel 20:18-42, Romans 9:6-16, Hebrews 11:20; 12:14-17)
Yeshua is the bread of life. He is the manna in the wilderness and is the bread from heaven that, when we reach for Him, causes us to enter into His rest, to reside in Him and walk in His ways.
Jacob Receives the Firstborn Blessing
(Genesis 27:19-29)
Jacob came before his father Isaac disguised as Esau to receive his brother’s blessing. In Isaac’s old age he could not see (reference to lack of discernment versus Moses who had good eyesight at one hundred and twenty years of age) but still had good hearing, as he heard it was Jacob’s voice and not Esau’s. Isaac was suspicious and asked Esau to come closer. If this were really Esau his hairy body would bring him confirmation. Isaac touched Jacob and felt his hands, confirming for himself that they were Esau’s. With this he asked for the game so he could pass on the blessing to Esau. Jacob brought forth the two goats representing atonement and the two Houses of Israel. Together Isaac and Jacob ate this proper sacrificial meal offering along with the bread and wine thus the blessing and covenant was sealed forever.
Note: Again we look at the fact that when confirming a Covenant before Yahweh, wild game is never used for the offering thus Esau’s offering was defiled. The Covenant Isaac was passing on to Jacob could only be sealed with a clean blood offering from the flock along with bread and wine, which Jacob brought with him. Rebekah understood Yahweh’s protocol and prepared the correct offering.
Leviticus 1:2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: “When any one of you brings an offering to Yahweh, you shall bring your offering of the livestock - of the herd and of the flock.”
Isaac and Esau did not regard this Kingly protocol as important. Both were fixed on wild game, and no bread or wine was brought. They chose personal preferences over Yahweh’s principles, which showed great disrespect for His instructions (Genesis 4:3-4; Malachi 1).
Isaac had one more test for his son before passing on the family blessing and birthright. He had Jacob come closer to him. With a kiss he was able to smell Esau through the clothing Jacob wore. This was Isaac’s final confirmation that he was addressing Esau, and with that he blessed Jacob saying,
With this impartation, Isaac departed from his father. Esau entered shortly after and presented his father with stew made from the hunted game his father had requested. Isaac realized he had been deceived, not just by Jacob but by his own doing. Through this he saw that Esau had not walked in Yahweh’s ways whereas Jacob had. He would not retract the birthright blessing he had given to Jacob even when Esau begged with him to do so.
Esau wept bitterly. He did not take responsibility for his own actions and blamed Jacob for his own faults. All Isaac could pray over him was,
Jacob Flees
(Genesis 27:41-28:5)
Vowing to kill Jacob after the death of their father, Esau’s words of vengeance were overheard by his mother. Rebekah stepped forward to warn Jacob, saying,
Rebekah had one more strategy to work out: How was she going to send Jacob away with Isaac’s blessings? She reminded Isaac that the only women in the area where they lived were Canaanites and she feared that Jacob would marry one of them. Isaac called Jacob and blessed him saying,
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"GENERATIONS"
(Weekly Reading>>Genesis 25:19-28:9, 1 Samuel 20:18-42, Romans 9:6-16, Hebrews 11:20; 12:14-17)
Yeshua is the bread of life. He is the manna in the wilderness and is the bread from heaven that, when we reach for Him, causes us to enter into His rest, to reside in Him and walk in His ways.
Jacob Receives the Firstborn Blessing
(Genesis 27:19-29)
Jacob came before his father Isaac disguised as Esau to receive his brother’s blessing. In Isaac’s old age he could not see (reference to lack of discernment versus Moses who had good eyesight at one hundred and twenty years of age) but still had good hearing, as he heard it was Jacob’s voice and not Esau’s. Isaac was suspicious and asked Esau to come closer. If this were really Esau his hairy body would bring him confirmation. Isaac touched Jacob and felt his hands, confirming for himself that they were Esau’s. With this he asked for the game so he could pass on the blessing to Esau. Jacob brought forth the two goats representing atonement and the two Houses of Israel. Together Isaac and Jacob ate this proper sacrificial meal offering along with the bread and wine thus the blessing and covenant was sealed forever.
Note: Again we look at the fact that when confirming a Covenant before Yahweh, wild game is never used for the offering thus Esau’s offering was defiled. The Covenant Isaac was passing on to Jacob could only be sealed with a clean blood offering from the flock along with bread and wine, which Jacob brought with him. Rebekah understood Yahweh’s protocol and prepared the correct offering.
Leviticus 1:2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: “When any one of you brings an offering to Yahweh, you shall bring your offering of the livestock - of the herd and of the flock.”
Isaac and Esau did not regard this Kingly protocol as important. Both were fixed on wild game, and no bread or wine was brought. They chose personal preferences over Yahweh’s principles, which showed great disrespect for His instructions (Genesis 4:3-4; Malachi 1).
Isaac had one more test for his son before passing on the family blessing and birthright. He had Jacob come closer to him. With a kiss he was able to smell Esau through the clothing Jacob wore. This was Isaac’s final confirmation that he was addressing Esau, and with that he blessed Jacob saying,
“Surely, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed. Therefore may God/Elohim give you of the dew of heaven, Of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and wine. Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be master over your brethren, and let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, and blessed be those who bless you!” (Genesis 27:27-29)
With this impartation, Isaac departed from his father. Esau entered shortly after and presented his father with stew made from the hunted game his father had requested. Isaac realized he had been deceived, not just by Jacob but by his own doing. Through this he saw that Esau had not walked in Yahweh’s ways whereas Jacob had. He would not retract the birthright blessing he had given to Jacob even when Esau begged with him to do so.
Esau wept bitterly. He did not take responsibility for his own actions and blamed Jacob for his own faults. All Isaac could pray over him was,
“Behold, your dwelling shall be of the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above. By your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother; and it shall come to pass, when you become restless, that you shall break his yoke from your neck” (Genesis 27:39-40).
Hebrews 12:14-17 “Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord: looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled; lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food[lust of flesh] sold his birthright[priesthood status]. For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing[royal priesthood], he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.”
Hebrews 3:7-13 "Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness. There your fathers put Me to the test, though they saw My works for forty years. Therefore I was provoked by this generation[His Voice/Words/Jesus], and I said, ‘They always go astray in their heart[Psalms 40:8], and they have not known My ways.’ As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest.’” Take care, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil heart of unbelief[disobedience] that FALLS away from the living God. But encourage one another day by day—as long as it is called “Today”—so that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin[lawlessness 1 John 3:4]."
1 Corinthians 10:1-12 "For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers and sisters, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea. They all were immersed [baptized] by Moses in the cloud and in the sea. And all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink—for they were drinking from a spiritual rock that followed them, and the Rock was Messiah. Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down[killed] in the desert. Now these things happened as examples for us, so we wouldn’t crave evil things[lawlessness/sin], just as they did. Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.” And let’s not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day 23,000 fell. And let’s not test the Lord, as some of them did—and were destroyed by serpents. And let’s not grumble, as some of them did—and were destroyed by the destroying angel. Now these things happened to them as an example, and it was written down as a warning to US—on whom the ends of the ages have come. Therefore let the one who thinks that he stands watch out that he doesn’t FALL.
2 Peter 3:15-17 ".......our beloved brother Paul also has written to you according to the wisdom given to him as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable pervert, as also they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction). Therefore, beloved, knowing beforehand, beware lest being led away with the error of the lawless, you FALL from your own steadfastness.
Jacob Flees
(Genesis 27:41-28:5)
Vowing to kill Jacob after the death of their father, Esau’s words of vengeance were overheard by his mother. Rebekah stepped forward to warn Jacob, saying,
“Now therefore, my son, obey my voice: arise, flee to my brother Laban in Haran. And stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury turns away, until your brother’s anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him; then I will send and bring you from there. Why should I be bereaved also of you both in one day?”
Rebekah had one more strategy to work out: How was she going to send Jacob away with Isaac’s blessings? She reminded Isaac that the only women in the area where they lived were Canaanites and she feared that Jacob would marry one of them. Isaac called Jacob and blessed him saying,
“You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan. Arise, go to Padan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father; and take yourself a wife from there of the daughters of Laban your mother’s brother. May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may be an assembly of peoples; and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and your descendants with you, that you may inherit the land in which you are a stranger, which Yahweh gave to Abraham”(Genesis 28:1-4).
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