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The Revelation of Jesus Christ
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| come... Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy Joshua Judges Ruth 1Samuel 2Samuel 1Kings 2Kings 1Chronicles 2Chronicles Ezra Nehemiah Esther Job Psalms Proverbs Ecclesiasties Song of Songs Isaiah Jeremiah Lamentations Ezekiel Daniel Hosea Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah Micah Nahum Habakkuk Zephaniah Haggai Zechariah Malachi Matthew Mark Luke John Acts Romans 1Corinthians 2Corinthians Galatians Ephesians Philippians Colossians 1Thessalonians 2Thessalonians 1Timothy 2Timothy Titus Hebrews James 1Peter 2Peter 1John 2John 3John Jude Revelation Notes This study based on the last thirty three chapters of Genesis contains many stories of men on the move - coming and going - from Canaan to Paddan Aram and back; from Canaan to Egypt and back. The central characters are Jacob and his son Joseph and the central story is the founding of the twelve tribes fo Israel. But the most significant verses for us today are the two which elude to the coming king, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ - chapter 35 verse 11 predicts that descendants of Jacob would be kings, and chapter 49 verse 10 predicts that the Messiah would be a descendant of Judah, Jacob's son. Jacob hurriedly left his family in Canaan and went to his mother's old home in Paddan Aram. Here eleven of his twelve sons were born, all within a polygamous household in an atmosphere of intense rivalry and manipulation. Despite tensions between him and his father-in-law Laban, with God' help they came to a peaceful reconciliation. Returning to Canaan where his hostile brother Esau was waiting for him, he committed himself totally into God's hands. And God helped him to reconcile with Esau, who was coming out to him with four hundred men. God urged Jacob to be fruitful and multiply, promising that kings would come 'out of his loins'. On the way to Bethlehem Rachel died giving birth to his twelfth son Benjamin. Joseph, Rachel's firstborn, had dreams of greatness which made him unpopular within his family. When Jacob sent him one day to check how his brothers were doing with the flocks, they attacked him and sold him to traders on their way to Egypt. By an amazing web of circumstances, Joseph, after many years in prison, was brought before Pharaoh to interpret his dream. Joseph warned him of seven years of famine which would come after seven years of abundance. Pharaoh made him lord of all Egypt, so that when the famine began and his brothers came to buy grain, they bowed down to him. Remembering his dreams as a boy, he accused them of coming to spy out the land of Egypt. He insisted that they brought their youngest brother Benjamin, and meanwhile kept Simeon as a hostage. They felt that all these problems had come to them because they were guilty of selling Joseph as a slave. When they came back to Egypt for more grain, Joseph at last revealed his identity. He told them to fetch his father and all his household from Canaan as quickly as possible so that he could ensure that they survived the famine years. And so his father and brothers, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they had, moved to the land of Goshen in Egypt. Before Jacob died he adopted Joseph's first two sons as his own, because he had lost Rachel after she had given birth to just Joseph and Benjamin. On his deathbed, Jacob spoke of his sons, saying of Simeon and Levi that they were both men of violence. In anger they had killed Shechem and his whole clan. He never wished to participate in their plans. He blessed Judah, promising that the ruler's sceptre and staff would not leave him nor his descendants, until the Messiah, the King, would come. This would be the King that all nations would honor. And so Jacob predicted that Judah was to be the privileged one through whom Jesus was to be born. (And after Jacob died, Joseph rushed from Egypt to Canaan to bury his father at the burial place that Jacob had prepared.) History was in the making as these patriarchs of old, together with wives and families, lived out their lives. Through treachery, murder and famine, through repentance, forgiveness and revival, the story weaves its way towards the birth of Jesus Christ on this earth, and through to his sacrifice on behalf of everyone who has ever lived and onward to his glorious second coming anticipated and celebrated in the Book of Revelation. |
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| Gen.28.21 So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: Gen.29.6 And he said unto them, Is he well? And they said, He is well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep. Gen.30.11 And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad. |
Gen.30.16 And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night. Gen.30.33 So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me. Gen.31.44 Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee. |
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| Gen.32.6 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him. Gen.32.8 And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape. |
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Deliver me, I pray thee |
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| Gen.32.11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children. | Gen.33.14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir. |  |
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Dinah his daughter |
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| Gen.34.5 And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they were come. |  |
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I am God Almighty |
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| Gen.35.11 And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; Gen.35.16 And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour. |
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Behold, this dreamer cometh |
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| Gen.37.10 And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth? |
Gen.37.13 And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here am I. Gen.37.19 And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh. Gen.37.20 Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams. Gen.37.23 And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stripped Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that was on him; Gen.37.27 Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brethren were content. |
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He turned unto her by the way |
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| Gen.38.16 And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she was his daughter in law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me? |  |
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There come seven years |
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| Gen.41.29 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: Gen.41.35 And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities. |
Gen.41.54 And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. |  |
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Joseph saw his brethren |
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| Gen.42.7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food. Gen.42.9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come. |
Gen.42.10 And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come. |  |
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| Gen.42.12 And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come. Gen.42.15 Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither. Gen.42.21 And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us. |
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How shall I go up to my father? |
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| Gen.44.23 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more. Gen.44.30 Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life; |
Gen.44.31 It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave. Gen.44.34 For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father. |
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I am Joseph your brother |
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| Gen.45.4 And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. Gen.45.9 Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not: Gen.45.11 And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty. |
Gen.45.16 And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants. Gen.45.18 And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land. Gen.45.19 Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come. |
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Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee |
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| Gen.46.31 And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house, I will go up, and show Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my father's house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me; Gen.46.33 And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation? Gen.47.1 Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen. |
Gen.47.4 They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen. Gen.47.5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee: |
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And it shall come to pass |
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| Gen.47.24 And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones. |  |
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Behold, thy son Joseph cometh |
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| Gen.48.2 And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed. Gen.48.7 And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Bethlehem. |
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The sceptre shall not depart from Judah |
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| Gen.49.6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall. Gen.49.10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen.50.5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again. |
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