Yet, if you do feel that it is right to make such plans as Jacob made, take care that you do what Jacob also did. Then the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die. Oftentimes, our highest obedience must be a solitary one; friends cannot help us in such emergencies, and it is better for them and better for us that they should not be with us. And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it. The old serpents head is bruised with a fatal bruising, while the wounded heel of our Saviour is the joy and delight of our hearts. Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. I would that those who fear God were less careful about the adornments of their persons. Philemon "And God saw the light that it was good.". The two "conversations" of the Lord appear to be addressed within the Godhead. And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: That is, a prince of God. As a prince hast thou power with God. Genesis 32:28. And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there. May the Lord, who has blessed us, make us a blessing to others! Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. He was an outstanding example of righteousness (Ezekiel 14:14), a preacher of righteousness (2 Peter 2:5), and Noah condemned the world by offering salvation in the ark that the whole world rejected (Hebrews 11:7). And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties. Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. To be great, you must be little. And God opened her eyes. Genesis xxi. In the six hundred and first year: Genesis 7:11-13 says that Noah entered the ark on the seventeenth day of the second month of the six hundredth year of his life. Chapter 2:4: These are the histories of the heavens and the earth. The highly developed hieroglyphic writing existed already in Egypt, as its origins can be traced back to 3000 BC.The Sumerian pictograms and the Assyrian-Babylonian cuneiform also date back that far. When the land was divided by lot, the lot was disposed by God to the complete fulfillment of Jacobs prophecy. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be.. Gen 32:30. Whilst they have some of the greatest divines in modern history, they have here one of the best of men one of the patriarchs whose eyes were dim so that he could not see. He cannot even stand up any longer in the great wrestling match; what can he do? So Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked out, but he did not go out till God commanded him to do so. There are some proud people who, when they know that they have done wrong, yet will not own it, and it is very hard to end a quarrel when one will not yield, and the other feels that he will not either. Oh, how foolish are they who harbour it in their own bosoms, for it will bring destruction to them if they keep it there! And you shall take for yourself of all food that is eaten, and you shall gather it to yourself; and it shall be food for you and for them.. He was, therefore, particularly careful here. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it. This was the very glory of Abrahams faith; it was so simple, so childlike. If you do not want that we track your visit to our site you can disable tracking in your browser here: We also use different external services like Google Webfonts, Google Maps, and external Video providers. He writes for the warning of believers now, and these things are examples unto us that we may avoid the blots and flaws in good men, and may thereby ourselves become more what we should be. And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it. Why is all this recorded in the Bible? John Oh, how often have we been lifted up above the earth by the very force that threatened to drench and drown us! The Song opens thus:. We cannot expect our supplications to speed with God unless we put them upon the footing of free grace by acknowledging that we have no merit of our own which we can plead before him. Issachars was a poor case; he was so idle, so fond of rest, that he was willing to become a servant unto tribute. God knows when to send angels to his servants; and when they come, it is often as the forerunners of a trial which is to follow them. You lose a great deal of time by being in a hurry. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. The mention of seven days, and the resting in between seems to look like it. Notice that the angel says, Now I know that thou fearest God. I do not think that the gracious use of godly fear has ever been sufficiently estimated by the most of us; here, the stress is not laid upon the faith, but upon the filial fear of Abraham. And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. Gen 33:1-2. Gen 32:28. He pleads with them, he who was far greater than theya prince among peasants,now prays to them; and is it not wonderful that the Lord Jesus, our infinitely-greater Brother, at times pleads with us, even as he said to the woman at the well, Give me to drink? Common sense would have said, Spare them, for you will want every one of them. But grace said, Slay them, for they belong to God. The Lord will preserve his own. Did Noah live a perfect life? Deuteronomy God makes much of salvation, oh, that we also did! Perhaps you have some of these unclean birds coming down upon your sacrifice just now. John Gill's Exposition of the Bible is in the public domain and may be freely used and distributed. I believe that, often, the worst thing that can happen to Christian men is really the best thing, for, while nature would cry out, The clouds are to be dreaded, grace can reply, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head. And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. The report was forwarded to the Czar, who was soon overthrown and the photos and the report perished. Gen 33:5. She should not have been beguiled by the serpent. Gen 32:2. Malachi If you would hear the voice of a divine promise, go to the atoning blood of Jesus. You will not surely die: Satan effectively laid the groundwork. And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter. And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. 4. Gen 24:15. So they went both of them together. Twice we are told this, for this incident is a type of the Father going with the Son and the Son going with the Father up to the great sacrifice on Calvary. 2 John Song of Solomon No; she might be a little too forward, and a forward woman was not a fit spouse for the good and meditative Isaac. b. If you want the Lord to confide in you, and to trust you with his secrets, you must see that he is able to say of you what he said of Abraham, he will command his children and his household after him.. She was to offer him to drink, and draw water for his camels; she would thus not be afraid of work, she would be courteous, and she would be kind, and all these meeting in one might show him, and by this test he might very wisely discover, that she was a fitting woman for Isaac, and might become his spouse. Here the old man paused, and refreshed himself by saying, . What is described is not really a boat, but a well-ventilated barge meant only to float and not to sail anywhere. Zechariah An elderly Armenian man in America said that as a boy, he visited the ark with his father and three atheistic scientists in 1856. Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. I am afraid there are not many men of Abrahams sort in the world even now; but, wherever there is such a man, with whom God is familiar, he will be sure to be one who orders his household aright. Gen 9:17. 3 John God always speaks comfortable words to those who bring an acceptable sacrifice. Look till the tears are in your eyes as you thank God that you are rescued from so terrible a doom! We may recount and rehearse the story of our rescue from universal destruction, and we need not be afraid or ashamed of repeating it. Beyond the Bible, there is rich historical evidence for the reality of Noahs Ark. Gen 22:13. Gen 49:9. We must never judge anything before it is complete. And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: For, among Orientals, it is such a common custom to offer and receive presents, that, if they are not accepted, it is regarded as an affront. He had not reached the highest point of faith, though he had gone in the right direction a great deal further than many Christians. And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up. b. I will destroy them with the earth: Some wonder if this is too harsh a judgment, or if this shows God to be cruel or a monster. But the first one saw that the sun was going down, so he turned to seek his friend, that he might say to him, Friend so-and-so, I was wrong in being angry today. Half-way between their two houses, they met, and each of them said, I was just coming to say that I was wrong. There is no need of any arbitrator when each of the disputants is willing to say, I was wrong, and the trouble is soon over when that point is reached. And Adam called his wifes name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. I like to see this glorious independence of the believing man. "If I wished to find a man's most familiar friend it would surely be one with whom he daily walked Habakkuk My spirit shall not always strive It is only by the influence of the Spirit of God that the carnal mind can be subdued and destroyed; but those who wilfully resist and grieve that Spirit must be ultimately left to the hardness and blindness of their own hearts, if they do not repent and turn to God. Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil. We shall read three short portions of Scripture, all illustrative of the great truth that God has sometimes given grace to his people to overcome himself, the Almighty has condescended to be vanquished by man.