GENESIS
CHAPTER 12
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
OBSERVATION
STAGE
The purpose of
the observation stage is to maintain focus on the text at hand within the
normative rules of language, context and logic 
which limits the observer to the content offered by the book of Genesis.
This will serve to avoid going on unnecessary tangents elsewhere; and more
importantly, it will provide the framework for a proper and objective
comparison with passages located elsewhere in Scripture.
Remember that
something elsewhere may be true, but in the text at hand it may not be in
view.
I)
[Gen 11:27-12:1]:
A)
(Gen 11:27-12:1) THE LORD GOD REPEATEDLY APPEARED AND SPOKE TO ABRAM
FROM THE TIME HE WAS IN UR THROUGH WHEN HE WAS IN HARAN. HE GRACIOUSLY
KEPT ON SAYING TO ABRAM TO GO FROM UR, HIS RELATIVES AND HIS FATHER'S
HOUSEHOLD TO A LAND THE LORD WILL SHOW HIM IMPLYING PROSPERITY AND
OWNERSHIP OF THAT LAND
1)
[Compare Gen 12:6-7]:
2)
[Compare Acts 7:2]:
3)
[Compare Gen 12:5]:
4)
[Compare Gen 15:7]:
II)
[Gen 12:2-3]:
A)
THE LORD PROMISED: (1) TO MAKE ABRAM A GREAT NATION IN THE PROMISED LAND
WHICH IMPLIES RULERSHIP AND MANY DESCENDANTS FOREVER VIA A
MESSIAH-SAVIOR, THE SEED OF ABRAM; (2) TO BLESS ABRAM IN THE PROMISED
LAND WHICH IMPLIES TEMPORAL AND SPIRITUAL PROSPERITY AND LONGEVITY UNTO
ETERNAL LIFE; (3) TO MAKE ABRAM'S NAME GREAT IN THE PROMISED LAND, WHICH
IMPLIES ENABLING ABRAM TO BE FAITHFUL IN DOING GREAT AND GODLY THINGS AS
PART OF GOD'S PLAN FOR MAN'S ETERNAL RECONCILIATION WITH HIM AND
RESTORATION OF THE LOSS OF MANKIND'S SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE EARTH THROUGH
A DESCENDANT OF ABRAM (4) WHEREBY THE LORD DECLARED THAT ABRAM IN THE
PROMISED LAND WOULD BE A TEMPORAL AND ETERNAL BLESSING TO THE WORLD AS
PART OF GOD'S PLAN FOR MAN'S ETERNAL RECONCILIATION WITH HIM AND
RESTORATION OF THE LOSS OF MANKIND'S SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE EARTH THROUGH
A DESCENDANT OF ABRAM
1)
THE LORD WILL MAKE ABRAM A GREAT NATION IN THE PROMISED LAND WHICH
IMPLIES RULERSHIP AND MANY DESCENDANTS FOREVER VIA A MESSIAH-SAVIOR, THE
SEED OF ABRAM
2)
THE LORD WILL BLESS ABRAM IN THE PROMISED LAND WHICH IMPLIES TEMPORAL
AND SPIRITUAL PROSPERITY AND LONGEVITY UNTO ETERNAL LIFE;
3)
THE LORD WILL MAKE ABRAM'S NAME GREAT IN THE PROMISED LAND, WHICH
IMPLIES ENABLING ABRAM TO BE FAITHFUL IN DOING GREAT AND GODLY THINGS AS
PART OF GOD'S PLAN FOR MAN'S ETERNAL RECONCILIATION WITH HIM AND
RESTORATION OF THE LOSS OF MANKIND'S SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE EARTH THROUGH
A DESCENDANT OF ABRAM
4)
THE LORD DECLARED THAT ABRAM IN THE PROMISED LAND WOULD BE A TEMPORAL
AND ETERNAL BLESSING TO THE WORLD AS PART OF GOD'S PLAN FOR MAN'S
ETERNAL RECONCILIATION WITH HIM AND RESTORATION OF THE LOSS OF MANKIND'S
SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE EARTH THROUGH A DESCENDANT OF ABRAM
a)
[Compare Gen 12:3]:
B)
GENESIS CHAPTER 3 DECLARES GOD'S PLAN FOR THE ETERNAL RECONCILIATION OF
MAN TO GOD AND THE RESTORATION OF MANKIND'S SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE EARTH
THROUGH AN INDIVIDUAL DESCENDANT OF EVE WHICH CHAPTER 12 IMPLIES WILL BE
FULFILLED THROUGH THE LORD'S MAKING ABRAM A GREAT NATION AND A GREAT
NAME AND IN ABRAM THROUGH HIS SEED WILL BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ETERNAL
LIFE AND BLESSING FOR ALL MANKIND THROUGHOUT THE AGES AND ETERNITY
*** EXCERPT FROM GENESIS
CHAPTER 3 ***
[Gen
3:14 NKJV]:
FOR
DECEIVING EVE AND CAUSING HER AND ADAM TO SIN, THE LORD GOD CURSED THE
SERPENT WHO WAS POSSESSED BY SATAN, GOD'S ADVERSARY, MORE THAN ANY OTHER
CREATURE, RELEGATING SERPENTS NOW TO CRAWL ON THEIR BELLIES, EATING DUST
AS A SIGN OF JUDGMENT UPON SATAN'S REBELLION
1)
[Compare Gen 1:26 NIV]:
2)
[Compare Gen 1:25, 31NIV]:
3)
[Compare Ez 28:1-19]:
4)
[Compare Isa 14:12-15]:
5)
[Compare Job 1:6 NIV]:
[Gen
3:15]:
TWO
SPIRITUAL (NOT BIOLOGICAL) SEEDS ARE IN VIEW:
1)
THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO FOLLOW SATAN IN SPIRITUAL REBELLION ARE DECLARED
SEED OF SATAN - ANGELS AND HUMANS ALIKE. THEY ARE FURTHER DECLARED BY
GOD TO BE AT ENMITY WITH THE WOMAN, EVE, AND HER SEED:
2)
A SEED, WHICH BIOLOGICALLY COMES FROM THE MALE, IN ORDER TO BE THE SEED
OF THE WOMAN, HAD TO BE PRODUCED INTO A FEMALE PHYSICAL DESCENDANT OF
THE WOMAN SUPERNATURALLY AND SPIRITUALLY BY GOD TO RESULT IN AN
INDIVIDUAL MALE DESCENDANT TO REPRESENT THE HUMAN RACE - A
MESSIAH-SAVIOR - IN THE BATTLE WITH SATAN AND HIS SEED TO PROVIDE
ETERNAL RECONCILIATION FOR HUMANITY WITH GOD AND REGAIN SOVEREIGNTY OF
THE HUMAN RACE OVER THE WORLD
THE
SEED OF THE WOMAN PORTRAYS AN INDIVIDUAL OF SUPERNATURAL BIRTH VIA A
SPIRITUALLY PROVIDED SEED WHO WILL REPRESENT ALL OF HUMANITY IN BATTLE
WITH SATAN AND HIS SEED TO REGAIN THE LOST SOVEREIGNTY OF THE HUMAN RACE
OVER THE WORLD AND PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR EVERY INDIVIDUAL HUMAN
BEING TO BE ETERNALLY RECONCILED WITH GOD RELATIVE TO SIN. THIS
MESSIAH-SAVIOR WILL BRUISE SATAN'S HEAD = DELIVER A MORTAL BLOW TO
DESTROY HIM, AND SATAN WILL BRUISE HIS HEEL - A NON-MORTAL BLOW
****** END OF EXCERPTS
FROM GEN 3 *****
III)
[Gen 12:3]:
A)
GOD PROMISES TO BLESS THOSE THAT BLESS ABRAM AND CURSE THOSE THAT CURSE
HIM AND PROMISES THAT IN ABRAM ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE WORLD WILL BE
BLESSED WITH TEMPORAL AND SPIRITUAL BENEFITS THROUGH THE LORD'S
SUPERNATURAL ENABLEMENT OF MAKING ABRAM A GREAT NATION AND A GREAT NAME,
IMPLYING GOD'S SOVEREIGN PROTECTION AND ENABLEMENT OF THE LORD'S
PROMISES BEING FULFILLED THROUGH ABRAM
IV)
[Gen 12:4]:
A)
ABRAM WENT FORTH ONCE MORE FOR THE LAND ALBEIT NOT IN TOTAL CONFORMITY
WITH WHAT THE LORD HAD REPEATEDLY SAID TO HIM TO DO
B)
ABRAM DEMONSTRATED INCREDIBLE FAITH IN THE LORD TO LEAVE BEHIND HIS
PROSPEROUS SETTLED LIFE IN A PAGAN SOCIETY - WHERE THE LORD WAS A
STRANGER - TO JOURNEY TO A LAND ABOUT WHICH ABRAM WAS TOLD NOTHING BUT
THAT THE LORD WAS NOW THE LORD OF ABRAM IN WHOM HE TRUSTED TO DELIVER
HIM UNTO GREATNESS AND UNPARALLELED PROSPERITY
V)
[Gen 12:5]:
A)
ABRAM - STILL NOT STRICTLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH WHAT THE LORD HAD SAID,
TOOK HIS WIFE SARAI, LOT HIS BROTHER'S SON, ALL THEIR POSSESSIONS AND
PEOPLE THEY ACQUIRED IN HARAN AND LEFT FOR AND ARRIVED AT THE LAND OF
CANAAN, THE LAND THE LORD HAD PROMISED ABRAM
1)
[Compare Gen 11:31-12:1 NAS]:
B)
THE LORD'S PROMISES ARE UNILATERAL WITH AN EMPHASIS UPON THE LORD
BRINGING ABOUT ABRAM'S FAITHFULNESS AS OPPOSED TO CONDITIONS FOR ABRAM
TO MEET FOR THE LORD TO FULFILL HIS PROMISES
VI)
[Gen 12:6]:
A)
ABRAM PASSED THROUGH THE LAND OF CANAAN TO SHECHEM AS FAR AS THE
LANDMARK TEACHING TREE OF MOREH. THE CANAANITES WERE THEN IN THE LAND -
AN OBSTACLE AT THAT TIME TO ABRAM OWNING OR EVEN SETTLING ANYWHERE IN
THE LAND UNLESS HE TRUSTED IN THE LORD TO DELIVER HIM
1)
[Compare Gen 12:17-20]:
VII)
[Gen 12:7]:
A)
AS ABRAM CAME TO SHECHEM IN THE LAND OF CANAAN AS FAR AS THE LANDMARK
TREE OF MOREH, (= LITERALLY TEACHER), THE LORD APPEARED TO ABRAM AND
STATED A PROMISE TO GIVE ABRAM'S SEED, REFERRING TO AN INDIVIDUAL
PHYSICAL DESCENDANT OF THE FUTURE PROVIDED BY THE LORD SUPERNATURALLY,
THE PROMISED LAND IMPLYING AN ETERNAL POSSESSION, WHEREUPON ABRAM BUILT
AN ALTAR TO THE LORD
VIII)
[Gen 12:8]:
A)
ABRAM CONTINUES TO MOVE THROUGH THE LAND OF CANAAN FROM SHECHEM TO A
MOUNTAIN EAST OF BETHEL NOT TRUSTING IN THE LORD TO PROTECT HIM IF HE
SETTLES DOWN. THE VILLAGE OF ALI IS ON THE EAST. THIS IS WHERE HE BUILT
ANOTHER ALTAR AND THEN HE CALLED ON THE NAME OF THE LORD
IX)
[Gen 12:9]:
A)
ABRAM CONTINUES SOUTHWARD TOWARD THE NEGEV - A BARREN DESERT AREA SOUTH
OF HEBRON - STILL UNWILLING TO TRUST IN THE LORD AND PERMANENTLY SETTLE
IN CANAAN
X)
[Gen 12:10]:
A)
ABRAM MOVES OUT OF THE LAND IN THE FACE OF A SEVERE FAMINE AND INTO
EGYPT INSTEAD OF TRUSTING IN THE LORD TO DELIVER HIM
XI)
[Gen 12:11-13]:
A)
RATHER THAN RESIDING IN THE PROMISED LAND AND TRUSTING IN THE LORD TO
DELIVER HIM FROM HARM BECAUSE OF THE PROMISES OF THE LORD, ABRAM FLEES
THE FAMINE AND GOES TO EGYPT AND THEN TELLS THE EGYPTIANS THAT SARAI IS
HIS SISTER TO AVOID BEING KILLED BY SOMEONE WHO WANTS HER - AS IS THE
CUSTOM TOWARD FOREIGNERS
1)
[Compare Gen 20:11-12]:
XII)
[Gen 12:14-16]:
A)
SARAI WAS SO BEAUTIFUL THAT PHARAOH TOOK HER AND PROVIDED ABRAM WITH
GREAT WEALTH. ABRAM SHOWED NO OBJECTION OR REGRET, NOR DID ABRAM CALL
UPON THE LORD IN THIS MATTER
1)
[Compare Gen 11:35]:
XIII)
[Gen 12:17-20]:
A)
THE LORD PROTECTS ABRAM BY PLAGUING PHARAOH AND HIS HOUSEHOLD. PHARAOH
CONNECTS THE PLAGUES TO ABRAM'S DECEPTION ABOUT HIS WIFE AND PHARAOH'S
TAKING HER FOR HIMSELF. HE RETURNS SARAI AND SENDS ABRAM'S PARTY AWAY
WITH ALL THAT HE GAVE THEM IN ORDER TO BE RID OF THE POWER BEHIND THE
PLAGUES - NOTICE THAT TO CURSE ABRAM BROUGHT CURSES DOWN UPON PHARAOH AS
THE LORD HAD PROMISED
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