40 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 1 - Part 4 - Book 4 - Abraham, Lot, and Melchizedek

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LESSON 1 * PART 4 * BOOK 4
ABRAHAM, LOT AND MELCHIZEDEK
Genesis 12-14
Genesis Chapter 12. Genesis 12:4
"So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him (remember that Lot was his nephew): and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran."
So Abram, Sarai, Lot and all their flocks came down into Canaan, presently known as the Promised Land, or the Land of Israel.
Genesis 12:5,6
So Beth-el is what Abram called the House of God.
Genesis 12:8,9
"...and there he builded an altar unto the Lord, and called upon the name of the Lord." A famine is in the Land of Canaan and Abram went down into Egypt. Egypt was a picture of the world, so God had implicitly instructed them to stay in the Land of Promise and not to go down into Egypt. But, Abram's faith probably weakened a little bit, and famine came in. Down in Egypt. In verse 11, we see this great man of faith, Abram, fail miserably.
Genesis 12:11-13
Genesis 12:14-17
In the Old Testament days God dealt more directly than He does today. In his book, he draws this analogy of God constantly dealing in an intrinsic way with the Old Testament characters. God doesn't have to talk to us audibly. God doesn't have to appear to us in the miraculous. Sir Robert Anderson makes a point of the fact that in this Age of Grace it is as if God is silent, compared to His dealing in the Old Testament, .
What if all of a sudden God would just appear as He did back in the Old Testament? Genesis 12:18,19
"And Pharaoh called Abram and said, `What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife (God told him, but Abram had not)? Abram was deported. Well, God had told the man to stay in the Land of Promise and He would bless him. I want you to remember who is with Abram besides Sarai: the young man, Lot. Genesis 13:1
"AND Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south."
Abraham's household goes from Beersheba up north and back, sojourning up and down that land of Canaan.
Genesis 13:2
My closing comment of three or four chapters ago was that Israel is the earthly people with earthly promises; the Church a heavenly people with heavenly promises. Now if God sees fit, that's fine. Abram was one. God rewarded him. Genesis 13:3,4
Abram, weak in faith, ends up down in the world. So Abram comes back to Beth-el and gets straightened out, getting right with The Lord.
Genesis 13:5,6
"And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. Genesis 13:8,9
"And Abram said unto Lot, `Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee? Now the monkey's on Lot's back. Abram says, "It's up to you." Lot had been to Egypt, and had seen all the things of a material Egypt.
"...that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar."
Genesis 13:11,12
Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan (amongst these ungodly, immoral Canaanites), and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent (what's the nest word?) toward Sodom."
Lot pitched his tent toward Sodom. In Sodom. Genesis 13:14,15
"And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, `Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:'" We want to remember that down the center of the land of Canaan are mountains. Again, if only our world leaders would believe the Word of God. The land of Israel belongs to the Jew. Now God again promises:
Genesis 13:16-18
In Chapter 14 word comes to Abram that some kings from the north and the east have come down, defeated the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah, and have taken all the people captive. Genesis 14:14
Genesis 14:15,16
Genesis 14:17,18
Jerusalem! How God has everything in mind!

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