SLIDE 1 Genesis Series Lesson #071 October 20, 2004
Dean Bible Ministries www.deanbibleministries.org
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1,000 BC
Temple Dedication
966 BC
480
1446 BC
Exodus
1876 BC
Jacob enters Egypt
2066 BC
Isaac born
2166 BC
Abram born
430
Time Line of the Patriarchs
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- Gen. 11:27 Now these are the records [toledot] of
Terah: Terah became the father of Avram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran became the father of Lot. . . . Avram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Avram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah. Sarai was barren; she had no child. Terah = Sarai Avram Nahor Haran ? = = ? = ? Lot Iscah = Milcah
SLIDE 4 8 BIBLICAL COVENANTS
GENTILE COVENANTS JEWISH COVENANTS (UnconditionalPermanent)
EDENIC
Gen. 1:27–28
F A L L ADAMIC
Gen. 3:14–19 F L O O D
NOAHIC
Gen. 9:1–7
ABRAHAMIC
“land, seed, blessing”
Real Estate
Davidic 2 Sam. 7 New
SLIDE 5 The Abrahamic Covenant Land Seed Blessing
Land
Davidic Covenant “Seed” 2 Sam. 7:14ff New Covenant “Blessing”
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Genesis 12:4 So Abram departed as the LORD had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
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Genesis 12:5 Then Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they departed to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan.
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- What was the Bible’s intention in
describing Abram’s journey as it does: Shechem, Bethel, Negev?
- Why was the land divided into three
regions: North down to Shechem, second from Shechem to Bethel, third south of Bethel?
- Why did Abram build altars here?
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Genesis 12:6 Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, as far as the terebinth tree of Moreh. And the Canaanites were then in the land.
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Genesis 12:7 Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
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Shechem Bethel Hebron Beersheba
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SLIDE 13 Genesis 12:8 And he moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; there he built an altar to the LORD and called
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Genesis 12:9 Abram journeyed on, continuing toward the Negev.