Redemptive Themes in mid-Genesis

[EarlyActs]

There are several redemptive or evangelistic themes that get lost or lack attention when pursuing the unity of the Bible.

1, the tower or mountain of Bab-El was to gain access to insure this life was pleasant. Its physical form was likely a staircase. The effort to do this was totally disrupted by God on the level of communication. But in the account Jacob wrestling with God, we learn that angels were ascending and descending on a ladder or stairway, meaning, God would help him in ways other than his wrestling for that help. In John's narrative, when Philip was recognized at some distance and marveled how Jesus could do this, Jesus replied that it was nothing, really, compared to the helpful angels that would ascend and descend on the Son of Man.

2, One of the ways paganism developed after the major events of the Cataclysm and Bab-El, was to alter the meaning of the stars 'to make this life better or pleasant.' They started to be read for human destiny, and sometimes this was in the collective sense for a nation. But originally they meant to show the arrival of a star (a nativity), in the house/sector of Israel, a king of the world (Jupiter), and once again a bridge or stairs provided by God to men. This is important when Abraham is told to go out and read the stars. He was to see this, that is, to calculate that at a future time this would take place. So Jesus, again in John, says Abraham saw His day and was excited. The Gospel was 'preached to the nations' Gal 3 in Abraham's time. 8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, proclaimed the gospel to Abraham ahead of time,[p

3, In its mid-Genesis language, the Gospel was that the Seed would bless all the nations. This was already known as the Seed from Gen 3, after evil invaded, but now the path of arrival is more specific--through Abraham etc. This line 'in your Seed, all the nations of the world will be blessed' is very frequent in the NT.

4, The Isaac sacrifice event spoke to the nations around it--that child sacrifice was no use. And the event pictured resurrection. On a trip to Moldova 2 decades ago, about 1500 miles from Israel but on the way toward Europe, I learned of a goblet inscribed "Isaac" found in Moldova and dated in the patriarchal period. Word had got around about the unusual event.

 

[Josheb]

There are several redemptive or evangelistic themes that get lost or lack attention when pursuing the unity of the Bible.

1, the tower or mountain of Bab-El was to gain access to insure this life was pleasant. Its physical form was likely a staircase. The effort to do this was totally disrupted by God on the level of communication. But in the account Jacob wrestling with God, we learn that angels were ascending and descending on a ladder or stairway, meaning, God would help him in ways other than his wrestling for that help. In John's narrative, when Philip was recognized at some distance and marveled how Jesus could do this, Jesus replied that it was nothing, really, compared to the helpful angels that would ascend and descend on the Son of Man.

2, One of the ways paganism developed after the major events of the Cataclysm and Bab-El, was to alter the meaning of the stars 'to make this life better or pleasant.' They started to be read for human destiny, and sometimes this was in the collective sense for a nation. But originally they meant to show the arrival of a star (a nativity), in the house/sector of Israel, a king of the world (Jupiter), and once again a bridge or stairs provided by God to men. This is important when Abraham is told to go out and read the stars. He was to see this, that is, to calculate that at a future time this would take place. So Jesus, again in John, says Abraham saw His day and was excited. The Gospel was 'preached to the nations' Gal 3 in Abraham's time. 8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, proclaimed the gospel to Abraham ahead of time,[p

3, In its mid-Genesis language, the Gospel was that the Seed would bless all the nations. This was already known as the Seed from Gen 3, after evil invaded, but now the path of arrival is more specific--through Abraham etc. This line 'in your Seed, all the nations of the world will be blessed' is very frequent in the NT.

4, The Isaac sacrifice event spoke to the nations around it--that child sacrifice was no use. And the event pictured resurrection. On a trip to Moldova 2 decades ago, about 1500 miles from Israel but on the way toward Europe, I learned of a goblet inscribed "Isaac" found in Moldova and dated in the patriarchal period. Word had got around about the unusual event.

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Note the Galatians 3 text explicitly states the promises were made to both Abraham and his seed (Jesus). The promises were made to Abraham and Jesus. This reconciles with Abraham's vision in which the symbols for God (the smoking oven and flaming torch) walked the fealty path in of a suzerain covenant where Abraham would have otherwise normally walked. The vision's imagery indicating God walked in fealty to God, pledging His own life for disobedience. Note also Isaac is the son of promise and we, like Isaac, are also sons (and daughters ) of promise.

John 1:12-13
But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in his name, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

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