BIBLE MYSTERIES REVEALED - SECTION TWELVE
By Yurell Green
BIBLE MYSTERIES REVEALED - SECTION TWELVE
The flood of Noah, eight people spared. The two different floods
that destroyed the earth. The first and second earth ages. God
Himself Gives Israel To The Jews!
God,By Yurell Green
BIBLE MYSTERIES REVEALED - SECTION TWELVE
The flood of Noah, eight people spared. The two different floods
that destroyed the earth. The first and second earth ages. God
Himself Gives Israel To The Jews!
The earth,
Noah the flood,
Noah and the flood,
Noah flood,
Noah's flood,
Flood of Noah,
When was Noah flood,
Sons of Jacob,
Jacob,
Who are the jews,
Where do the jews come from,
The twelve tribes,
Names twelve tribes,
Name of the twelve tribes,
Israel,
Jews,
When did God give Israel to the Jews,
God gives Israel to the jews,
Did God appear to Abraham,
When did God appear to Abraham,
Eden,
Garden,
Garden of Eden,
The Garden of Eden,
Sin,
Temptation,
Serpent,
Adan sinned,
Eve sinned,
The serpent,
God,
Did Satan tempt Eve,
Why did Satan tempt Eve,
The tree of life,
The tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
Replenish the earth,
Gap theroy,
What is the Gap theroy,
Creation,
Genesis,
Fallen angels,
Satan,
Man,
Prayer,
War in heaven,
Lucifer,
Pre-adamic,
Pre-adamic civilization,
Fallen angels,
Dream dictionary,
The things I say, I do not say that you should believe me, but that you will
search the scriptures. That God might reveal to you, even greater mysteries.
search the scriptures. That God might reveal to you, even greater mysteries.
SECTION TWELVE
GOD SPARED EIGHT PEOPLE OUT OF NOAH'S FLOOD THAT DESTROYED THE THIRD EARTH AGE
Even though God was grieved that He had made man, He spared eight people: Noah who lived in those days and who God regarded as a righteous man, blameless among the people. A man He had walked with and who had found favor in His eyes. In addition to Noah, God also spared Noah's wife, his three sons: Shem; Ham; and Japheth and the three wives of the three sons. God tells Noah that He was going to destroy the earth with a flood. "I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark, you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you."
When God decided to destroy the earth, He told Noah to build an ark 450-feet long, 75-feet wide and 45-feet high, with a roof 18 inches down from the top that extends all the way around the ark and to put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. When the ark was finished, God told Noah to bring two of every kind of unclean animal into the ark and seven of every clean animal.
It took Noah and his three sons and the angels I beileve God sent to Noah based on the book of Enoch, 120 years to complete the ark and when the ark was completed, God told Noah to take his family and enter the ark. And when Noah and his family and all the animals were in the Ark, God Himself shut the door to the ark. Then after seven days, God caused the fountains of earth to give up their water and for 40 days and 40 nights God caused it to rain. And after 40 days and 40 nights, everything that had life on the earth drowned, except for the eight people God spared; Noah, his wife, his three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth and their wives. After 40 days and 40 nights, God caused the rain to stop.
THE TWO DIFFERENT WAYS GOD DRIED UP THE FIRST AND SECOND WORLDWIDE FLOODS
The First Earth Age Flood
In the First Earth Age flood, God simply commanded the water to dry up and immediately the waters fled away. Psalms 104:7-8 "At Your rebuke they fled; at the voice of Your thunder, they hastened away. They went up over the mountains; they went down into the valleys to the place which You founded for them."
The Third Earth Age - The Flood Of Noah
After Noah had been in the ark for 150 days, God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water subsided. The fountains of the deep and windows of heaven stopped, and the water receded continually from the earth. At the end of 150 days, the water decreased, and the ark rested on the mountains of Ararat and at the end of 371 days, the earth was dried up and Noah and his family left the ark.
In Noah's Flood, God caused a wind to dry up the flood. Psalms 104:9 "You have set a boundary that they may not pass over, that they may not return to cover the earth." NKJV This was also God's promise to never again destroy the earth with a flood.
Here again, God's Word spans great distances of time in just a few verses in Psalms 104:7-9. Inverse 7-9, God describes how He dried up the First Earth Age flood and in verse 9, He describes how He set the boundaries of the oceans in Noah's Flood.
THE JEWISH PEOPLE - WHO ARE THEY, AND WHERE DID THEY COME FROM?
Abraham was the first Jew and the father of all Jews. Why did God choose Abraham to be the father of the Jewish nation?
1. Abraham was of the pure seed of Adam uninfected by the seed of the Nephilim, the descendants of the fallen angels who took the daughters of man as wives and had children called Nephilim, half fallen angel-and-half human.
2. Abraham had found favor with God. Thirty-five hundred years ago, Abraham then called Abram lived in Ur, a city of the Chaldees on the Euphrates River, which lies in the northern part of the country of Iraq located below Syria. In Ur, Abram lived with his wife Sarah, then called Sarai, his father Terah, two brothers: Nahor and Haranm; his nephew, Lot and many other family members.
THE GODHEAD WHO APPEARED TO ABRAHAM
When Abram was 75 years old, God came to him and told him to leave his father's house and go to a land that He would show him. In Genesis 12:2-3, God told Abram that He would make him a great nation and bless him and make his name great, and that he would be a blessing. He also told Abram that He would bless all who blessed him and that he would curse all who cursed him. In addition to these promises, God also told Abram that all the families of the earth would be blessed through him. The blessing God was referring to was Himself: When He would come to earth as the God Man Jesus Christ through the seed of Abraham and lay down His life for our sins.
Matthew 1:17 "There were 14 generations in all from Abraham to David. Fourteen generations from David to the exile of the Jews to Babylon where they were captive for 70 years. There were also fourteen generations from the exile of Babylon to the birth of Christ." NIV
Although Abram believed God would do all that He said, he did not leave his father's house immediately but instead, continued to live in Ur for several more years. Finally taking his wife, Sarai, his father, Terah, his nephew Lot and many others, he moved to Haran and lived there for several years until the death of his father, Terah. Terah was 205 years old when he died in Haran.
After the death of his father, Abram took his wife, his nephew Lot, and others who were with him about seventy in all and journeyed down to Canaan, which is today a part of the Nation of Israel, and the land that God had promised him. Finding the land occupied by Canaanites and refusing to fight them for the land, Abram disobeyed God and together with those with him traveled on down to Egypt.
In Egypt, Abram's wife, Sarai, was given an Egyptian slave named Hagar, who some years later was to bear Abram's first son, who would be called Ishmael, a name given to his mother Hagar by God Jesus who appeared to her as The Angel of the Lord.
After leaving Egypt, Abram, his wife Sarai, and all those with him went back to Canaan where Abram entered into a treaty with the Canaanites, so that they could all live in the land together in peace.
In Canaan, God visited Abram again and changed his name from Abram to Abraham. After changing his name, God made a covenant with Abraham to establish the Nation of Israel that would come out of Abraham's seed, but not through Ishmael, but through Isaac, the son of Sarai, that he would father at the age of one hundred years old.
GOD GIVES THE LAND OF ISRAEL TO THE JEWS
Some years later, God again came to Abraham in Genesis 17:2-8 "And again God promised Abraham that he would become the father of many nations, and kings would come out of him. Before God left Abraham, He said, 'I will give to your seed all of the land of the Canaanites as an everlasting possession, and I will be Your God and the God of your seed. The God of Israel.' "
In Genesis 15:18-21 "God repeats His promise to Abraham 'To your descendants, I give this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates, the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and the Jebusites.' " NIV
At the same time that God made the covenant with Abraham to give him the land of Israel, he also changed Abraham wife's name from Sarai, to Sarah. Genesis 17:15-22 "As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah. I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her."
"Hearing this, Abraham fell face down and laughing to himself saying, 'Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?' After this, Abraham said to God, 'If only Ishmael might live under your blessing!' " NIV
Ishmael was Abraham's first son, born to him by Hagar, the Egyptian servant of his wife Sarah. Not believing she could have a child in her old age, Sarah some years earlier had given her servant Hagar to Abraham that she would bear Abraham a son and the son would become her son, which was the custom in those days.
"God responds to Abraham's question concerning Ishmael, 'Your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him. And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation. But My covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year.' When he had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him." NIV
In the previous paragraph where God speaks to Abraham, it was actually God Jesus, who spoke to Abraham face-to-face as The Angel of the Lord. One year later just as God Jesus had promised, Sarah the wife of Abraham gave him a son and Abraham called his name Isaac as the Lord had instructed. When Isaac grew into manhood, he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel, son of Milcah, who was the wife of Abraham's brother, Nahor. NIV
When Isaac was 60 years old, Rebekah bore Isaac two sons, Esau and Jacob. God chose to follow the Jewish line through Jacob. Jacob had three wives. The names of the three wives are Leah, and Rachel who were sisters, and Zilpha the maidservant of Rachel. In the years that followed, the three wives of Jacob bore him twelve sons. These twelve sons born to the three wives of Jacob would become the twelve tribes of Israel. Some years later, Joseph, one of the sons of Jacob while in Egypt would have two sons by his Egyptian wife Asenath. The first son Joseph named Manasseh and the second son he called Ephraim. Before Jacob died in Egypt, he adopted the two sons of Joseph and together, the two sons of Joseph became the thirteenth tribe of Israel called Manasseh.
THE TWELVE SONS OF JACOB AND THE MOTHERS OF THE TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL
SON _MOTHER _ MEANING OF THE NAMES
1.....Ruben............Leah....................................................See a Son
2.....Simeon............................Leah....................................................Hearing
3.....Levi..............................Leah....................................................Joined
4.....Judah...............................Leah....................................................Now I will Praise
5.....Dan....................................Bilhah. The maidservant of Rachel....................... God hath judged me
6.....Naphatali........................Bilhah. The maidservant of Rachel........................My wrestling
7.....Gad...............................Bilhah. The maidservant of Rachel..........................Also a prophet
8.....Asher.............Bilhah. The maidservant of Rachel.............................Happy
9.....Issachar.........................Leah................................................ ...He will bring a reward
10...Zebulun..........Leah....................................................Habitation
11...Joseph..............................Rachel........................................................................Let him add
12...Benjamin........Rachel.........................................................................Son of the right hand
Of Jacob's three wives, Jacob loved Rachel the most and of his twelve sons, Joseph, the son of Rachel was his favorite. Because of his love for Joseph over the other brothers, in time, all of the other sons of Jacob, except Benjamin, Jacob's youngest son, grew to hate Joseph. After Rachel died giving birth to Benjamin, Rachel's second son and Jacob's twelfth son, the other ten brothers found a way to fake his death and sell Joseph, then a teenager, to a band of traders going down to Egypt, believing they would never see him again. After the brothers sold Joseph, the brothers told their father Jacob that Joseph had been killed and carried off by wild animals and that they could not find his body, but could only find his coat of many colors covered with blood.
In Egypt, God was with Joseph and he was sold to a man named Potiphar, an officer of the Pharaoh, who put Joseph over his household. Now in his 20's, Joseph had grown into a strong, handsome man. Over time, Potiphar's wife continually tried to seduce Joseph into making love to her, but Joseph always refused, never forgetting his God. Frustrated, Potiphar's wife finally went to her husband and accused Joseph of trying to rape her. Not wanting to kill Joseph because Joseph had become like a son to him, Potiphar had Joseph placed into prison.
In prison, God continued to smile down on Joseph, and bless him, eventually causing him to be in charge of the prison. After Joseph had been in prison for seven years, the Pharaoh of Egypt had two dreams that he did not understand or know the meaning of. Hearing that Joseph could interpret dreams, the Pharaoh brought Joseph before him under penalty of death if he could not interpret the dreams after hearing the dreams. Joseph through the power of the Holy Spirit told the Pharaoh the meaning of the two dreams. Joseph told the Pharaoh that the two dreams were a forewarning of things to come in the next 14 years. The first seven years Joseph said would be seven years of plenty, but after the seven years of plenty, there would be seven years of famine.
Believing Joseph, the Pharaoh made Joseph commander over all of Egypt, second only to the Pharaoh. During the following seven years, the land brought forth great harvests, just as Joseph predicted it would, but after the seven years of plenty had ended, there were seven years of famine, again just as Joseph had foretold. To make sure that there would be enough food to last through the seven years of famine, Joseph had huge storehouses built in the land of Egypt to store the food during the seven years of plenty so there would be enough to eat during the seven years of famine. When the famine came, it not only covered the land of Egypt but all the lands surrounding Egypt, including Canaan the land Joseph's father, Jacob, and his eleven brothers dwelt in.
GOD FORETOLD - THE JEWS WOULD BE IN EGYPT FOR 430 YEARS AND SLAVES FOR 400 OF THOSE YEARS
During the seven years of famine predicted by God through Joseph, Jacob, Joseph's father and his eleven brothers and their families were still living in Canaan. Unaware that Joseph was alive, but hearing there was food in Egypt that could be purchased, Jacob sent all of his sons, except for Benjamin to Egypt to buy food so that their families would not starve to death during the famine.The first time ten of the eleven brothers of Joseph's traveled from Canaan to Egypt to buy food, Joseph knowing who they were did not reveal himself; but on their second visit, all eleven brothers came to Egypt to purchase food as Joseph had commanded them. During this visit, Joseph was not able to contain his emotions any longer, and he broke down and told his brothers who he was. After revealing himself as their brother, Joseph sent his brothers, except for Benjamin back to Canaan to get their father Jacob, and their families and all who were with them. Hearing his son Joseph was alive, Jacob gathering all that he owned and together with his sons and their families and those with him, they traveled back down to Egypt, where their descendants lived for the next 430 years. This was so that the prophecy given by God to Abraham might be fulfilled; Genesis 15:13 "And He said unto Abram, ''Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall be afflicted by them four hundred years.' " KJV
NOTE: In the preceding paragraph, the Bible tells us that the Jews would be in the land that was not theirs and be afflicted for 400 years. They were actually in the land of Egypt for 430 years. What you must remember is that when they entered into the land of Egypt, they entered in as free men for the first 30 years. It was not until the end of the first 30 years and there arose a different Pharaoh, an Assyrian Pharaoh, who did not know Joseph but seeing the Jews were becoming too strong, enslaved them and for the next 400 years, fulfilling the prophecy spoken of in Genesis 15:13. In Isaiah: 52:4 Isaiah confirms this: "My people went down at first into Egypt to dwell there, then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause." NKJV
IMPORTANT The Hyksos from Syria, occupied the delta region of Egypt and ruled Egypt from Syria from about (1674 - 1567 B.C.). [Tore Kjeilen, Encyclopaedia of the Orient] I believe it was shortly after Joseph ended his position as second in command to the Pharaoh that the Syrians replaced the Egyptian Pharaoh with an Assyrian Pharaoh.
It is believed that Moses led the Jews out of Egypt around 1,250 B.C.
1250 + 430 = 1680 B.C. If Joseph was sold into slavery prior to 1680 and the Hyksos began their occupation of Egypt sometime around 1674, the timeline would fit perfectly and verify Isaiah 52:4
1250 + 430 = 1680 B.C.
The minimum year B.C. that Joseph had to enter Egypt as a slave. I believe the
actual year Joseph was sold into slavery was prior to 1687 B.C ..... See: below
The number of years the Jews lived in Egypt was 30 years as free men, 400 years as slaves.
The approximate year Moses led the Jews out of Egypt.
Several important facts to remember in our calculations are: Joseph was sold into slavery when he was seventeen and the Bible tells us he was 30 when he went to work for the Pharaoh. By the time Joseph's father Jacob, his brothers along with their families moved down to Egypt, the first seven years of plenty was over and Egypt was well into the seven years of famine.
30 - 17 = 13 + 1674 = 1687 B.C.
The approximate year Joseph was sold into slavery.
Approximate year the Hyksos took over Egypt and installed a Syrian Pharaoh.
Years Joseph was a slave in Egypt until he became second in command to Pharaoh.
Age of Joseph when he was sold into slavery by his ten brothers to the Midianites.
The age of Joseph when he became the second in command to the Egyptian Pharaoh.
The Bible does not tell us how long Joseph maintained his position as second in command under the Egyptian Pharaoh, only that he held the position when his father Jacob and the rest of the Jews entered into the land of Egypt as free men. Based on the approximate time the Hyksos ceased power over Egypt, Joseph could not have been in power the entire 30 years the Jews were in Egypt as free men. In addition, not knowing how long Joseph retained his authority in Egypt, we do not know how long the new Hyksos Pharaoh was in power before he enslaved the Jews. All we do know is that the Jews were free men in Egypt for the first 30 years after entering the land, regardless of who was in power as Pharaoh.
THE JEWS WERE ENSLAVED IN EGYPT 400 YEARS TO THE VERY DAY
Four hundred and thirty years later to the very day, Moses fulfilled this prophecy. Exodus 12:41 "And it came to pass at the end of the 430 years, even to the same day it came to pass, Moses led all the host of the Jews of the LORD out of the land of Egypt."
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Even though God was grieved that He had made man, He spared eight people: Noah who lived in those days and who God regarded as a righteous man, blameless among the people. A man He had walked with and who had found favor in His eyes. In addition to Noah, God also spared Noah's wife, his three sons: Shem; Ham; and Japheth and the three wives of the three sons. God tells Noah that He was going to destroy the earth with a flood. "I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark, you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you."
When God decided to destroy the earth, He told Noah to build an ark 450-feet long, 75-feet wide and 45-feet high, with a roof 18 inches down from the top that extends all the way around the ark and to put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. When the ark was finished, God told Noah to bring two of every kind of unclean animal into the ark and seven of every clean animal.
It took Noah and his three sons and the angels I beileve God sent to Noah based on the book of Enoch, 120 years to complete the ark and when the ark was completed, God told Noah to take his family and enter the ark. And when Noah and his family and all the animals were in the Ark, God Himself shut the door to the ark. Then after seven days, God caused the fountains of earth to give up their water and for 40 days and 40 nights God caused it to rain. And after 40 days and 40 nights, everything that had life on the earth drowned, except for the eight people God spared; Noah, his wife, his three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth and their wives. After 40 days and 40 nights, God caused the rain to stop.
THE TWO DIFFERENT WAYS GOD DRIED UP THE FIRST AND SECOND WORLDWIDE FLOODS
The First Earth Age Flood
In the First Earth Age flood, God simply commanded the water to dry up and immediately the waters fled away. Psalms 104:7-8 "At Your rebuke they fled; at the voice of Your thunder, they hastened away. They went up over the mountains; they went down into the valleys to the place which You founded for them."
The Third Earth Age - The Flood Of Noah
After Noah had been in the ark for 150 days, God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water subsided. The fountains of the deep and windows of heaven stopped, and the water receded continually from the earth. At the end of 150 days, the water decreased, and the ark rested on the mountains of Ararat and at the end of 371 days, the earth was dried up and Noah and his family left the ark.
In Noah's Flood, God caused a wind to dry up the flood. Psalms 104:9 "You have set a boundary that they may not pass over, that they may not return to cover the earth." NKJV This was also God's promise to never again destroy the earth with a flood.
Here again, God's Word spans great distances of time in just a few verses in Psalms 104:7-9. Inverse 7-9, God describes how He dried up the First Earth Age flood and in verse 9, He describes how He set the boundaries of the oceans in Noah's Flood.
THE JEWISH PEOPLE - WHO ARE THEY, AND WHERE DID THEY COME FROM?
Abraham was the first Jew and the father of all Jews. Why did God choose Abraham to be the father of the Jewish nation?
1. Abraham was of the pure seed of Adam uninfected by the seed of the Nephilim, the descendants of the fallen angels who took the daughters of man as wives and had children called Nephilim, half fallen angel-and-half human.
2. Abraham had found favor with God. Thirty-five hundred years ago, Abraham then called Abram lived in Ur, a city of the Chaldees on the Euphrates River, which lies in the northern part of the country of Iraq located below Syria. In Ur, Abram lived with his wife Sarah, then called Sarai, his father Terah, two brothers: Nahor and Haranm; his nephew, Lot and many other family members.
THE GODHEAD WHO APPEARED TO ABRAHAM
When Abram was 75 years old, God came to him and told him to leave his father's house and go to a land that He would show him. In Genesis 12:2-3, God told Abram that He would make him a great nation and bless him and make his name great, and that he would be a blessing. He also told Abram that He would bless all who blessed him and that he would curse all who cursed him. In addition to these promises, God also told Abram that all the families of the earth would be blessed through him. The blessing God was referring to was Himself: When He would come to earth as the God Man Jesus Christ through the seed of Abraham and lay down His life for our sins.
Matthew 1:17 "There were 14 generations in all from Abraham to David. Fourteen generations from David to the exile of the Jews to Babylon where they were captive for 70 years. There were also fourteen generations from the exile of Babylon to the birth of Christ." NIV
Although Abram believed God would do all that He said, he did not leave his father's house immediately but instead, continued to live in Ur for several more years. Finally taking his wife, Sarai, his father, Terah, his nephew Lot and many others, he moved to Haran and lived there for several years until the death of his father, Terah. Terah was 205 years old when he died in Haran.
After the death of his father, Abram took his wife, his nephew Lot, and others who were with him about seventy in all and journeyed down to Canaan, which is today a part of the Nation of Israel, and the land that God had promised him. Finding the land occupied by Canaanites and refusing to fight them for the land, Abram disobeyed God and together with those with him traveled on down to Egypt.
In Egypt, Abram's wife, Sarai, was given an Egyptian slave named Hagar, who some years later was to bear Abram's first son, who would be called Ishmael, a name given to his mother Hagar by God Jesus who appeared to her as The Angel of the Lord.
After leaving Egypt, Abram, his wife Sarai, and all those with him went back to Canaan where Abram entered into a treaty with the Canaanites, so that they could all live in the land together in peace.
In Canaan, God visited Abram again and changed his name from Abram to Abraham. After changing his name, God made a covenant with Abraham to establish the Nation of Israel that would come out of Abraham's seed, but not through Ishmael, but through Isaac, the son of Sarai, that he would father at the age of one hundred years old.
GOD GIVES THE LAND OF ISRAEL TO THE JEWS
Some years later, God again came to Abraham in Genesis 17:2-8 "And again God promised Abraham that he would become the father of many nations, and kings would come out of him. Before God left Abraham, He said, 'I will give to your seed all of the land of the Canaanites as an everlasting possession, and I will be Your God and the God of your seed. The God of Israel.' "
In Genesis 15:18-21 "God repeats His promise to Abraham 'To your descendants, I give this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates, the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and the Jebusites.' " NIV
At the same time that God made the covenant with Abraham to give him the land of Israel, he also changed Abraham wife's name from Sarai, to Sarah. Genesis 17:15-22 "As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah. I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her."
"Hearing this, Abraham fell face down and laughing to himself saying, 'Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?' After this, Abraham said to God, 'If only Ishmael might live under your blessing!' " NIV
Ishmael was Abraham's first son, born to him by Hagar, the Egyptian servant of his wife Sarah. Not believing she could have a child in her old age, Sarah some years earlier had given her servant Hagar to Abraham that she would bear Abraham a son and the son would become her son, which was the custom in those days.
"God responds to Abraham's question concerning Ishmael, 'Your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him. And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation. But My covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year.' When he had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him." NIV
In the previous paragraph where God speaks to Abraham, it was actually God Jesus, who spoke to Abraham face-to-face as The Angel of the Lord. One year later just as God Jesus had promised, Sarah the wife of Abraham gave him a son and Abraham called his name Isaac as the Lord had instructed. When Isaac grew into manhood, he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel, son of Milcah, who was the wife of Abraham's brother, Nahor. NIV
When Isaac was 60 years old, Rebekah bore Isaac two sons, Esau and Jacob. God chose to follow the Jewish line through Jacob. Jacob had three wives. The names of the three wives are Leah, and Rachel who were sisters, and Zilpha the maidservant of Rachel. In the years that followed, the three wives of Jacob bore him twelve sons. These twelve sons born to the three wives of Jacob would become the twelve tribes of Israel. Some years later, Joseph, one of the sons of Jacob while in Egypt would have two sons by his Egyptian wife Asenath. The first son Joseph named Manasseh and the second son he called Ephraim. Before Jacob died in Egypt, he adopted the two sons of Joseph and together, the two sons of Joseph became the thirteenth tribe of Israel called Manasseh.
THE TWELVE SONS OF JACOB AND THE MOTHERS OF THE TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL
SON _MOTHER _ MEANING OF THE NAMES
1.....Ruben............Leah....................................................See a Son
2.....Simeon............................Leah....................................................Hearing
3.....Levi..............................Leah....................................................Joined
4.....Judah...............................Leah....................................................Now I will Praise
5.....Dan....................................Bilhah. The maidservant of Rachel....................... God hath judged me
6.....Naphatali........................Bilhah. The maidservant of Rachel........................My wrestling
7.....Gad...............................Bilhah. The maidservant of Rachel..........................Also a prophet
8.....Asher.............Bilhah. The maidservant of Rachel.............................Happy
9.....Issachar.........................Leah................................................ ...He will bring a reward
10...Zebulun..........Leah....................................................Habitation
11...Joseph..............................Rachel........................................................................Let him add
12...Benjamin........Rachel.........................................................................Son of the right hand
Of Jacob's three wives, Jacob loved Rachel the most and of his twelve sons, Joseph, the son of Rachel was his favorite. Because of his love for Joseph over the other brothers, in time, all of the other sons of Jacob, except Benjamin, Jacob's youngest son, grew to hate Joseph. After Rachel died giving birth to Benjamin, Rachel's second son and Jacob's twelfth son, the other ten brothers found a way to fake his death and sell Joseph, then a teenager, to a band of traders going down to Egypt, believing they would never see him again. After the brothers sold Joseph, the brothers told their father Jacob that Joseph had been killed and carried off by wild animals and that they could not find his body, but could only find his coat of many colors covered with blood.
In Egypt, God was with Joseph and he was sold to a man named Potiphar, an officer of the Pharaoh, who put Joseph over his household. Now in his 20's, Joseph had grown into a strong, handsome man. Over time, Potiphar's wife continually tried to seduce Joseph into making love to her, but Joseph always refused, never forgetting his God. Frustrated, Potiphar's wife finally went to her husband and accused Joseph of trying to rape her. Not wanting to kill Joseph because Joseph had become like a son to him, Potiphar had Joseph placed into prison.
In prison, God continued to smile down on Joseph, and bless him, eventually causing him to be in charge of the prison. After Joseph had been in prison for seven years, the Pharaoh of Egypt had two dreams that he did not understand or know the meaning of. Hearing that Joseph could interpret dreams, the Pharaoh brought Joseph before him under penalty of death if he could not interpret the dreams after hearing the dreams. Joseph through the power of the Holy Spirit told the Pharaoh the meaning of the two dreams. Joseph told the Pharaoh that the two dreams were a forewarning of things to come in the next 14 years. The first seven years Joseph said would be seven years of plenty, but after the seven years of plenty, there would be seven years of famine.
Believing Joseph, the Pharaoh made Joseph commander over all of Egypt, second only to the Pharaoh. During the following seven years, the land brought forth great harvests, just as Joseph predicted it would, but after the seven years of plenty had ended, there were seven years of famine, again just as Joseph had foretold. To make sure that there would be enough food to last through the seven years of famine, Joseph had huge storehouses built in the land of Egypt to store the food during the seven years of plenty so there would be enough to eat during the seven years of famine. When the famine came, it not only covered the land of Egypt but all the lands surrounding Egypt, including Canaan the land Joseph's father, Jacob, and his eleven brothers dwelt in.
GOD FORETOLD - THE JEWS WOULD BE IN EGYPT FOR 430 YEARS AND SLAVES FOR 400 OF THOSE YEARS
During the seven years of famine predicted by God through Joseph, Jacob, Joseph's father and his eleven brothers and their families were still living in Canaan. Unaware that Joseph was alive, but hearing there was food in Egypt that could be purchased, Jacob sent all of his sons, except for Benjamin to Egypt to buy food so that their families would not starve to death during the famine.The first time ten of the eleven brothers of Joseph's traveled from Canaan to Egypt to buy food, Joseph knowing who they were did not reveal himself; but on their second visit, all eleven brothers came to Egypt to purchase food as Joseph had commanded them. During this visit, Joseph was not able to contain his emotions any longer, and he broke down and told his brothers who he was. After revealing himself as their brother, Joseph sent his brothers, except for Benjamin back to Canaan to get their father Jacob, and their families and all who were with them. Hearing his son Joseph was alive, Jacob gathering all that he owned and together with his sons and their families and those with him, they traveled back down to Egypt, where their descendants lived for the next 430 years. This was so that the prophecy given by God to Abraham might be fulfilled; Genesis 15:13 "And He said unto Abram, ''Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall be afflicted by them four hundred years.' " KJV
NOTE: In the preceding paragraph, the Bible tells us that the Jews would be in the land that was not theirs and be afflicted for 400 years. They were actually in the land of Egypt for 430 years. What you must remember is that when they entered into the land of Egypt, they entered in as free men for the first 30 years. It was not until the end of the first 30 years and there arose a different Pharaoh, an Assyrian Pharaoh, who did not know Joseph but seeing the Jews were becoming too strong, enslaved them and for the next 400 years, fulfilling the prophecy spoken of in Genesis 15:13. In Isaiah: 52:4 Isaiah confirms this: "My people went down at first into Egypt to dwell there, then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause." NKJV
IMPORTANT The Hyksos from Syria, occupied the delta region of Egypt and ruled Egypt from Syria from about (1674 - 1567 B.C.). [Tore Kjeilen, Encyclopaedia of the Orient] I believe it was shortly after Joseph ended his position as second in command to the Pharaoh that the Syrians replaced the Egyptian Pharaoh with an Assyrian Pharaoh.
It is believed that Moses led the Jews out of Egypt around 1,250 B.C.
1250 + 430 = 1680 B.C. If Joseph was sold into slavery prior to 1680 and the Hyksos began their occupation of Egypt sometime around 1674, the timeline would fit perfectly and verify Isaiah 52:4
1250 + 430 = 1680 B.C.
The minimum year B.C. that Joseph had to enter Egypt as a slave. I believe the
actual year Joseph was sold into slavery was prior to 1687 B.C ..... See: below
The number of years the Jews lived in Egypt was 30 years as free men, 400 years as slaves.
The approximate year Moses led the Jews out of Egypt.
Several important facts to remember in our calculations are: Joseph was sold into slavery when he was seventeen and the Bible tells us he was 30 when he went to work for the Pharaoh. By the time Joseph's father Jacob, his brothers along with their families moved down to Egypt, the first seven years of plenty was over and Egypt was well into the seven years of famine.
30 - 17 = 13 + 1674 = 1687 B.C.
The approximate year Joseph was sold into slavery.
Approximate year the Hyksos took over Egypt and installed a Syrian Pharaoh.
Years Joseph was a slave in Egypt until he became second in command to Pharaoh.
Age of Joseph when he was sold into slavery by his ten brothers to the Midianites.
The age of Joseph when he became the second in command to the Egyptian Pharaoh.
The Bible does not tell us how long Joseph maintained his position as second in command under the Egyptian Pharaoh, only that he held the position when his father Jacob and the rest of the Jews entered into the land of Egypt as free men. Based on the approximate time the Hyksos ceased power over Egypt, Joseph could not have been in power the entire 30 years the Jews were in Egypt as free men. In addition, not knowing how long Joseph retained his authority in Egypt, we do not know how long the new Hyksos Pharaoh was in power before he enslaved the Jews. All we do know is that the Jews were free men in Egypt for the first 30 years after entering the land, regardless of who was in power as Pharaoh.
THE JEWS WERE ENSLAVED IN EGYPT 400 YEARS TO THE VERY DAY
Four hundred and thirty years later to the very day, Moses fulfilled this prophecy. Exodus 12:41 "And it came to pass at the end of the 430 years, even to the same day it came to pass, Moses led all the host of the Jews of the LORD out of the land of Egypt."
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