The Sheep

The SAME RECURRING PATTERN

occurs 4 different times throughout GENESIS and EXODUS

1

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CITIES & KINGDOMS

BUILT BY MEN

2

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PRIDE & WICKEDNESS

ENSUES

3

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JUDGEMENT & DESOLATION FROM GOD

4

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A REMNANT

is SAVED 

 

SALVATION OF ONE PARTY IMPLIES JUDGEMENT OF ANOTHER

PROVERBS 16 : 

18Pride goes before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. 19Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

PSALM 46 : GOD IS OUR REFUGE AND STRENGTH 

 6The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted. 7The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolation’s he has made in the earth

 

 

This same pattern occurs in

the last and final book of the Bible as well.

Revelation 18 :  Babylon is Fallen 

4And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues. 5For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. 6Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double to her double according to her works: in the cup which she has filled fill to her double. 7How much she has glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she said in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. 8Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judges her.

 

REvelation 19 : marriage of the lamb

  7Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife has made herself ready. 8And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. 9And he said to me, Write, Blessed are they which are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. 

 

We are all part of the most grand redemptive story

that could possibly be conceived. 

 

 

2 KINGDOMS are PERSONIFIED in this story. 

AN EARTHLY KINGDOM

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Babylon (“confusion (by mixing)”)

 

A HEAVENLY KINGDOM

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Jerusalem (“teaching of peace”)

In the 1st BOOK of GENESIS

Nimrod built the kingdom of Babylon with

A TOWER THAT REACHED TO HEAVEN

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Genesis 11 : Tower of Babel

let us build us a city and a tower,

whose top may reach to heaven;

 

In the LAST BOOK of REVELATION

 Babylon has been rebuilt and

HER SINS HAVE REACHED TO HEAVEN

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Revelation 17 : Babylon is Fallen

5For her sins have reached to heaven,

and God has remembered her iniquities. 

 

2 WOMAN ARE PERSONIFIED

THE WHORE OF BABYLON

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JUDGED

Babylon,

THE EARTHLY KINGDOM

built by the kings of earth

and the works of their hands

will be destroyed

 

THE BRIDE OF CHRIST

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REDEEMED

The New Jerusalem,

THE HEAVENLY KINGDOM

comes down from Heaven 

prepared by the King of Kings,

is adorned for the bride 

REvelation 21 : The New Jerusalem

1And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 2And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. 4And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. 

 So let’s backtrack and look deeper into this pattern established by God, which started with Noah’s Flood and notice the literary foreshadowing.  FORESHADOWING  is a literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story. Foreshadowing often appears at the beginning of a story, or a chapter, and it helps the reader develop expectations about the upcoming events.   

Genesis 6 :  The Wickedness of Man (Matthew 24:36-51; Mark 13:32-37; Luke 12:35-48)

1And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,2That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. 3And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. 4There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.  5And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 7And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repents me that I have made them.

 

 

God FLOODED the earth

 MAN and HIS WORKS DESTROYED

 by the WASHING OF WATER

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8 souls + 2 of every animal SPARED

by the WASHING OF WATER

This event foreshadowed Jesus coming to condemn and crucify sin in the flesh.  Our old man (Adam/flesh) is dead and we are alive in Christ (the New Adam/spirit).  We are Saved, Washed and Cleansed with Living Water, His Holy Spirit.  Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil. 

The descendant’s of Noah formed 70 NATIONS

Built the

TOWER OF BABEL

God confounded their languages and then

SCATTERED the NATIONS

 across the earth

 

 

God CONFOUNDED

their LANGUAGES at TOWER

 70 NATIONS SCATTERED

 across the earth

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1 SOUL REDEEMED

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ABRAM is called by God to be

His new seed and the father

of His nation through which

would bear 

fruit to God  

 God established a precedent that the works that come from the sin in our flesh produces is contrary to His Spirit and why we were created.   God JUDGEMENT by SCATTERING the nations at the TOWER OF BABEL can be understood allegorically in terms of the PROCESS OF HARVESTING WHEAT. 

At the time of the HARVEST

when his crop is fully ripe,the farmer cuts down (hew’s) his crop that he has sown in the field. 

 

The farmer would then

GATHER / GLEAN / BUNDLE

the stalks of wheat together

in what is called

a SHEAF or SHEAVES (multiple)

The bundled wheat is then taken to the 

CIRCULAR THRESHING FLOOR

where the sheaves would be 

spread across the threshing floor

and then be THRESHED.:— 

PAIRS OF OXEN

would be walked round and round

dragging behind them 

THRESHING BOARDS

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had stones or flint chips or iron spikes

inserted into the bottom side.  These teeth speed up the threshing process 

 

-or-

THRESHING SLEDGE (WAIN)

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a threshing wain which consisted of 3 or 4 wooden cylinders armed with stones of iron joined together as a sledge  

THRESHING  

can also be done individually with  

A FLAIL

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-or-

 

 

Ruth & Gideon

both threshed wheat.

BY TREADING WITH FEET

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These INSTRUMENTS for THRESHING were used to accomplish 3 things:

 

1

TEAR AWAY the

EARS OF GRAIN

from the STALKS

 

2

CUT and CRUSH

up the wheat to

LEVEL & SMOOTH

 

3

LOOSEN the 

GRAIN

from the HUSK 

STALKS TORN

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-from-

 

EARS OF GRAIN

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He who has an EAR, let him hear”

EARS OF GRAIN ARE CRUSHED & BEATEN

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-to-

SMOOTH, LEVEL, & LOOSEN   

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A WINNOWING FORK

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-would then be used-

WINNOW the THRESHED WHEAT

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Threshing floors were built in the high parts

of the city to utilize the WIND  to SEPARATE

THE CHAFF : THE EMPTY SHELL

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(The Outer Protective Coating)

 

 

-from-

 

THE LOOSENED GRAIN : 

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(Fruit with the Shell)

 

THE LIGHT CHAFF

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& short torn straw

would be BLOWN AWAY BY WIND

and fall some distance away…

(SCATTERED)

THE HEAVIER GRAIN

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 would FALL

at the winnower’s feet,

then finally taken

 into the farmers barn. 

 

 

The grain could then be 

FURTHER CLEANSED by SIEVING. 

A sieve, or sifter, is a device for separating

unwanted material from wanted elements

UNWANTED

MATERIAL

WANTED

ELEMENTS

THE THRESHING PROCESS

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is used to describe

SANCTIFICATION 

which is the process

of being made

HOLY or

 

 

 

 

Sanctify [h6942]

קָדַשׁ qâdash

occurs 172x in 153v

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• a primitive root;  to consecrate, prepare, hallowed
  
• be holy, be true, be sanctified, be separate
• to be clean (ceremonially or morally), purified

 

 

It is used to for distinguishing what God considers…

 – EMPTY WORTHLESS VANITY  –

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• FLESH
• LIES, DECEIT
• DARKNESS
• PRIDE THAT LIFTS UP
• WICKED
• UNRIGHTEOUS
• UNHOLY
• UNCLEAN
• ROUGH
• SCARLET WOOL
• BITTER

 

+ PROFITABLE FRUIT  +

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• SPIRIT
• TRUTH
• LIGHT
• HUMILITY THAT BRINGS LOW
• JUSTIFIED
• RIGHTEOUS
• HOLY
• CLEAN
• SMOOTH
• WHITE LINEN   
• SWEET 

1 Corinthians 14 :  

33For God is not the author of confusion,

but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

70NATIONS SCATTERED

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by God,

across the world at Babel

 because of DISOBEDIENCE

 

1SOUL REDEEMED

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by God, Abraham,

because of OBEDIENCE

to bear Him Fruit

God chose Abraham out of Babylon and then tempted him by telling him to offer up Isaac as a burnt offering in MOUNT MORIAH, which was a common pagan practice that came out of Babylon. When God saw that Abraham acted upon God’s request, God knew that he feared Him, and did not withhold His only son from Him.  Abraham then offered up a substitute offering of a ram in Isaac’s place.. 

Genesis 22 : The Offering of Isaac (John 3:16-21; Romans 5:6-11)

1And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said to him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. 2And he said, Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and get you into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.  

 

MOUNT MORIAH is the place where David would purchase THE THRESHING FLOOR  from Ornan the Jebusite and establish JERUSALEM.   It was upon the Threshing floor that his son,  Solomon, who was the wisest on earth, built the Temple made with hands, which took 7 years to make. 

Before constructing and

LAYING THE FOUNDATION OF A BUILDING,

the area must be

SMOOTHED & LEVEL…THRESHED

 

 

 

Solomon’s Temple made with hands was ultimately destroyed because of Solomon’s disobedience and leading Israel to follow other gods

 

Israel was SCATTERED into the nations that were SCATTERED at the TOWER because they followed after vanity, just like at the TOWER of BABEL. 

Before constructing and

LAYING THE FOUNDATION OF A BUILDING,

the area must be

SMOOTHED & LEVEL…THRESHED

 

This is why John the Baptist, the one who Malachi & Isaiah prophesied would “PREPARE THE WAY”, was sent before Jesus to “PREPARE PEOPLE’S HEARTS”  and to make their “PATHS STRAIGHT, LEVEL, or SMOOTH” through repentance and faith…

 

 

 

 

Because this was where Jesus

was going to re-build His Temple, in the HEART.

Jesus, the true son of David,

who was a man after God’s own heart,

rebuilt the temple, not made with hands in 3 days. 

Luke 3 : The Mission of John the Baptist (Isaiah 40:1-5; Matthew 3:1-12; Mark 1:1-8; John 1:19-28) 

 2Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came to John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness. 3And he came into all the country about  Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins; 4As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare you the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. 5Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth; 6And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.

 

 

When taking a LIE DETECTOR TEST

they tie a band around your HEART.

 IF YOUR TELLING A  LIE

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the needle makes crooked paths

 

 

  IF YOUR TELLING THE TRUTH

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the needle drawing a straight line 

Joshua 23: Joshua’s Charge to Leaders 

6Be you therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that you turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left; 7That you come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves to them: 8But hold to the LORD your God, as you have done to this day. 9For the LORD has driven out from before you great nations and strong: but as for you, no man has been able to stand before you to this day.  

Matthew 3 :  The Mission of John the Baptist (Isaiah 40:1-5; Mark 1:1-8; Luke 3:1-20; John 1:19-28)

  8Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance: 9And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say to you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham. 10And now also the ax is laid to the root of the trees: therefore every tree which brings not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 11I indeed baptize you with water to repentance. but he that comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear. he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire. 12Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. 

 

 

 His HAND is the FAN

The  CHAFF will burned in FIRE

 

The FRUIT will be taken into BARN   

So GOD establishes His COVENANT with ABRAHAM. 

Being circumcised equated to you signing a contract and agreeing to obey the things written in the contract.   

 

God in turn would bless his seed and give them the land of Canaan as an everlasting possession, but not before they would be afflicted in Egypt for 400 years. 

CIRCUMCISION required a knife to remove the reproach of the flesh

 

-foreshadowing-

Jesus CIRCUMCISING our hearts

with His Holy Spirit

 

THE PROMISE

LAND OF 

CANAAN

-foreshadowing-

 THE PROMISE 

OF 

ETERNAL LIFE

Genesis 15 : God’s Covenant with Abram 

13And he said to Abram, Know of a surety that your seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not their’s, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them 400 years; 14And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. 15And you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age. 16But in the fourth generation they shall come here again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. 

FROM JACOB CAME

THE 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL  

 by way of his 2 wives and their 2 handmaids

WIVES

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RACHEL

LEAH

 

 

HANDMAIDS

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BILHAH (Rachel’s)

ZILPAH (Leah’s

LEAH had the 1st 4 tribes of Israel :

 

1

REUBEN

2

SIMEON

3

LEVI 

4

JUDAH

RACHEL became envious of LEAH

because she was able to conceive and give Jacob children and she couldn’t. 

So she gave Jacob her handmaid BILHAH to conceive who had : 

5

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DAN

 

6

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NAPHTALI

LEAH then gave Jacob her handmaid

  ZILPAH to conceive who had 

7

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GAD

 

8

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ASHER

LEAH then had

9

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ISAACHAR

 

10

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ZEBULON

RACHEL 

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finally had

11

JOSEPH

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(“God has ADDED”) (+) 

 

 

 

The Sheep,

and her offspring

12

BENJAMIN

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(“son of the right hand”) 

 

 

Rachel [H7354]

רָחֵל Râchêl raw-khale’; 

occurs 47 in 44

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• Rachel = “ewe” a female lamb
• daughter of Laban, wife of Jacob, and mother of Joseph and Benjamin

 

 

the same

as H7353; 

[H7353] רָחֵל râchêl, raw-kale’;

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• from an unused root meaning to journey;
• a ewe [the females being the predominant element of a flock]
• (as a good traveller):—ewe, sheep. 

Genesis 29 : Jacob Meets Rachel

1Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east. 2And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, see, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was on the well’s mouth. 3And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well’s mouth in his place. 4And Jacob said to them, My brothers, from where be you? And they said, Of Haran are we. 5And he said to them, Know you Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him. 6And he said to them, Is he well? And they said, He is well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter comes with the sheep. 7And he said, See, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together: water you the sheep, and go and feed them.8And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well’s mouth; then we water the sheep. 9And while he yet spoke with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep; for she kept them 

WHOM JACOB (ISRAEL) “LOVED THE MOST” 

Of his wives

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RACHEL  

 

Of his sons 

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JOSEPH  

This is where the SHEEP 

and the SHEPHERD narrative begins.  

Matthew 9 :   Sheep & the Harvest

Rachel and Leah the 2 wives of Jacob

 were the ones that built the house of Israel 

THE SHEEP came from RACHEL

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 THE SHEPHERD  came from LEAH

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RUTH 4 : BOAZ REDEEMS RUTH

11And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do you worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:  

JUDAH and JOSEPH

 received the LONGEST BLESSINGS from Jacob.

GENESIS 49 : JACOB’S PROPHECY of joseph

 

22Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall: 23The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: 24But his bow stayed in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:) 25Even by the God of your father, who shall help you; and by the Almighty, who shall bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb: 26The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brothers.

 

GENESIS 49 : JACOB’S PROPHECY OF Judah

 

8Judah, you are he whom your brothers shall praise: your hand shall be in the neck of your enemies; your father’s children shall bow down before you. 9Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, you are gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? 10The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and to him shall the gathering of the people be. 11Binding his foal to the vine, and his ass’s colt to the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: 12His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk

THE SCEPTER is a MARK OF AUTHORITY.    

Joseph is prophecied to bare the fruit that comes from following and obeying the shepherd who bares the Scepter.

 

The Scepter is the Law which is what Jesus our Shepherd, who was from the Tribe of Judah fulfilled and unto him shall everyone be gathered.  

Hebrews 1 : The Supremacy of the Son (Colossians 1:15-23)  

8But to the Son he said, Your throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of your kingdom. 9You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows. 10And, You, Lord, in the beginning have laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of your hands: 11They shall perish; but you remain; and they all shall wax old as does a garment;  

Joseph’s brothers envied him and they threw him

into an empty pit and was sold into in Egypt. 

While in Egypt, Joseph gave birth to 2 sons 

MANASSAH

 

EPHRAIM

 5And now your two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine. 

אֶפְרַיִם ʼEphrayim

“I shall be doubly fruitful”  

1ST PORTION

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(of the womb)
 Multiplying into a nation while in Egypt after God told them “to be fruitful and multiply.”

 

2ND PORTION

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(of actions & thoughts)  

 the fruit of the Spirit

given to us by Christ’s Holy Spirit

RACHEL

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BENJAMIN

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(“son of the right hand”)

The Sheep,

and her offspring

JOSEPH

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(“God has ADDED”)

+ 

Ephraim          ::       Manassah 

Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, & Ephraim, were all 2ND BORN but received the 1ST BORN BLESSING.   

-foreshadowing-

This foreshadows the 2ND BORN Jesus, born of spirit, receiving the 1ST BORN BLESSING over Adam, born of flesh.  

Joseph received the 1ST BORN BIRTHRIGHT even though he was 2ND TO LAST BORN of the 12 tribes.  This was because after Rachel died, Reuben who was Jacob’s actual 1st born son slept with Bilhah, Rachel’s Handmaid and defiled Jacob’s bed. Because of this,  Reuben lost his1st Born Birth Right and it was  given to Joseph, the 1st born of Rachel 

1 CHRONICLES 5 :  DESCENDANTS OF REUBEN

1Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but for as much as he defiled his father’s bed, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright. 2For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph’s:)  

BIRTHRIGHT PROMISE

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 Joseph 

Ephraim          ::       Manassah 

 

SCEPTER PROMISE

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Judah

David         ::          Jesus

 

 

Ephraim, who received the 1st born blessing 

was prophesied to be the fullness of the nations,

those belonging to God. 

 

Jacob’s blessing for Ephraim was implying that

the nations disinherited by God that were scattered

at the Tower of Babel and that left off building the city,

would eventually come together again to try and finish what Nimrod had started. 

Once the fullness of the nations plan is complete, Ephraim at that time,

would be scattered among the nations. 

 

Revelation 18 :  Babylon is Fallen 

4And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues. 5For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. 

Matthew 25 :  The Sheep and the Goats

Moses led them to Mount Sinai (Horeb)where God thundered down

THE LAW and 10 COMMANDMENTS,

to Israel as well as the aliens that had left and joined with them,  

as well instruction to Moses on setting  up a TABERNACLE in the Wilderness

 

 

 

EXODUS 19 : ISRAEL AT MOUNT SINAI

The Law was given to the Israelite’s so they could distinguish between the gods of the nations and the God who redeemed them of Egypt whom they were called to serve.   To separate themselves from the customs of the nations so they could serve the God of Israel and bare Him fruit.   All the things stipulated in the Law that you were not to do, were the things that they were doing in Babylon, Sodom, and Egypt.  

 LEVITICUS 20: KEEP ALL MY DECREES

22Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all mine ordinances, and do them; that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, vomit you not out. 23And ye shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. 24But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey: I am Jehovah your God, who hath separated you from the peoples. 25Ye shall therefore make a distinction between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by bird, or by anything wherewith the ground teemeth, which I have separated from you as unclean. 26And ye shall be holy unto me: for I, Jehovah, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that ye should be mine. 

1 TIMOTHY :  

9Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for murderers, 10For fornicators, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for enslavers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;  

 

 

MAN (Adam) was given

DOMINION and AUTHORITY

in earth by God.

_____________

 

Because of repeated

transgressions

THE LAW was ADDED +

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-so that-

The offences may increase

& establishes a day

when the DEBT – is due

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THE LAW now establishes

DOMINION & AUTHORITY

OVER Man while he lives

______________________

 

Laws are put in place

for the well being of others and yourself,

to keep peace and justice,

and to establish order. 

(ie. for our own good). 

 

Just as the term 

“NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW”

is used in our legal system,

the same applies for God’s Law

which means you are “UNDER IT”

Exodus 16 : 

4Then said the LORD to Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.

Out of bounds

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DISOBEDIENCE

to the covenant

led to Curses

In Bounds

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OBEDIENCE

to the covenant

led to Blessings 

The Law serves to warn what will happen due to disobedience and reward those who are obedient.  This is why we are to fear the Lord.

PSALM 119 : 

49Remember the word to your servant, on which you have caused me to hope.  50This is my comfort in my affliction: for your word has quickened me. 51The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from your law.  I remembered your judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself. 53Horror has taken hold on me because of the wicked that forsake your law.  54Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage. 55I have remembered your name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept your law. 56This I had, because I kept your precepts.

PSALM 19

7The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. 8The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. 9The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. 10More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. 11Moreover by them is your servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward. 13Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression. 14Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.   

 GOD’S LAW & COVENANT

with Israel is ESTABLISHED

in the 1st 5 books of the Old Testament.

 

 

EVERYTHING in the bible is written IN REFERENCE

to the stipulations in these 5 books 

The next 17 books of the Old Testament are essentially historical books based on how well Israel followed the instructions given in these 5 books. 

 

The last 17 books of the Old Testament are books written by the PROPHETS warning Israel of they curses that will be enacted from these 5 books if they continue to disobey the covenant that had been established.  

THE LAW

in the 1st 5 books  

is the outline of the biblical puzzle.

It set’s the borders on how

all the other pieces should 

fit within it’s frame.  

 

 

 

 

THE LAW 

establishes 2 things…

THE LAW of  SIN and DEATH 

[EVIL]

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THE LAW is Spiritual but we are carnal,

sold under THE LAW of  SIN and DEATH ,

because we have all sinned

and fallen short of His RIGHTEOUSNESS .

 

SIN is an Archers term for

“MISSING THE MARK”. 

 

THE LAW of  RIGHTEOUSNESS and TRUTH

[GOOD]

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If there was no mark or target, 

there would be no way of distinguishing if their arrow landed in the correct place. 

 

The LAW establishes the mark

which we are to aim, which is

RIGHTEOUSNESS and TRUTH.

 Sin does not exist without the Law. The Law is not sin, but it gives life to it, by defining what sin is.  Sin is defined as transgression of the Law.    

 just as a state or federal law

defines what is illegal. 

ROMANS 7 : GOD’S LAW IS HOLY

7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. No, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, You shall not covet. 8But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, worked in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. 9For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 10And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be to death. 11For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. 12Why the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. 

STRUGGLING WITH SIN

13Was then that which is good made death to me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. 14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. 16If then I do that which I would not, I consent to the law that it is good. 17Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me. 18For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwells no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. 19For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. 20Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me. 21I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. 22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: 23But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 25I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.  

ROMANS 4:15

Because the Law Works Wrath: for where No Law is, there is no transgression.

A law does not take effect until broken.   When it is transgressed, it works wrath and debt.  The covenant made with Israel did not make them Righteous, it made them in debt to do the whole Law.

 If you are convicted of a felony by transgressing a man made law, you are in debt to repay society by serving time in prison, therefore a slave and in bondage to it.  

THE LAW of SIN and DEATH  works DEBT, BONDAGE,

and ultimately WRATH & JUDGEMENT based off the CURSES it enacts

 

Every sin committed is like borrowing money that you have no way of paying back.

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The Debt from Sin continues to Pile up.  Every Transgression of the Law Adds to the Wrath being piled up and ultimately a due date for when the debt is due to be paid… where the curses enacted in the LAW ultimately devour the earth

 Just as the US is over 20 Trillion dollars in debt, with no possible way to repay it, and each day that debt continues to grow…out debt has doubled just within the past 10 years.

 

In the 1ST BOOK of the Bible (GENESIS)

Nimrod built the kingdom of Babylon with

a tower that reached to Heaven

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let us build us a city and a tower,

whose top may reach to heaven;

 

In the LAST BOOK of the Bible (REVELATION)

 Babylon has been rebuilt and

her sins have reached to heaven.

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5For her sins have reached to heaven,

and God has remembered her iniquities. 

When stationed in the wilderness after the Exodus out of Egypt, 

ALL OF RACHEL’S DESCENDANTS were stationed together in the WEST,

and were known as THE CAMP OF EPHRAIM.

 

 

 

They were closest to the Holy of Holy’s that contained

the Ark of the Covenant which contained the 10 commandments.

 

 

-foreshadowing-

 

 

PSALM 80:  HEAR US, SHEPHERD OF ISRAEL

1Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you that lead Joseph like a flock; you that dwell between the cherubim, shine forth.  2Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up your strength, and come and save us. 3Turn us again, O God, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved. 

EPHRAIM: 

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 JOSHUA was from Ephraim

who led Israel

into Promised Land

BENJAMIN: 

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 The apostle PAUL

 was from Benjamin

who established

the first churches

MANASSAH:   

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GIDEON was from Manassah,

who was chosen by God

to defeat the Midianites 

While in wilderness, God chose 1 from each tribe to go spy out Canaan, the land promised to them by God as an inheritance.  Moses instructed the spies to report whether the land was good or bad and to bring of back the fruit of the land.  They returned after 40 days of searching they said the fruit of the land is good and it flows with milk and honey, but, those who dwell in the land have cities that are walled and the sons of Anak who are giants and stronger than us dwell there so there is no way we can possess the land.  They feared the inhabitants of the land more than they feared God.

ONLY 2 SPIES of the 12

DID NOT BRING BACK A NEGATIVE REPORT

and DID NOT FEAR the inhabitants of Canaan

JOSHUA

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From the Tribe of EPHRAIM

 

CALEB

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From the Tribe of JUDAH

 

 

 

 THESE ARE THE ONLY 2 PEOPLE

THAT LEFT DURING THE EXODUS

AND ACTUALLY MADE IT TO THE PROMISED LAND

after God made them wander in the wilderness

for 40 years due to disobedience!!! 

601,730

left during the Exodus

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and all of them died

in the Wilderness except

JOSHUA from EPHRAIM

& CALEB from JUDAH

+ the sons and daughters

that were born to those who died 

during that 40 year period

 

 

 

 

-foreshadowing-

 

THE SHEEP  (Ephraim)

and the THE SHEPHERD (Judah)

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Numbers 32 :  

6And Moses said to the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brothers go to war, and shall you sit here? 7And why discourage you the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has given them? 8Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea to see the land. 9For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them. 10And the LORD’s anger was kindled the same time, and he swore, saying, 11Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me: 12Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD. 13And the LORD’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed. 14And, behold, you are risen up in your fathers’ stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel. 15For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you shall destroy all this people.

 

 

It was only the children of this generation, 

that was to enter the Promised Land under Joshua. 

JOSHUA, who led Israel in the Promised Land, used a sword (knife) to circumcise all those who were born in the wilderness at hill of foreskins in Gilgal (Circle) before reaching the Promised Land.

 

 

-foreshadowing-

JESUS, leading Israel into the new promised land by circumcising  our hearts with his Holy Spirit before we reach the new promised land of eternal life. 

 

Just before they finally entered the Promised Land of Canaan,  we see God adding a new covenant at Moab, to that which was given to the generation before at Horeb/Sinai.

So this covenant was given not only to that generation, but to all generation that came after them. 

Deuteronomy 32 : THe song of Moses

44And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun. 45And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel: 46And he said to them, Set your hearts to all the words which I testify among you this day, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law. 47For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over Jordan to possess it.

 The ONLY thing

that is NOT VAIN

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 is to

 OBSERVE and DO ALL THINGS

STIPULATED in THE LAW

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The Covenant at Moab was an EXPANSION OF THE BLESSING & CURSES

given at Horeb (Leviticus 26), pending obedience or disobedience to the Law. 

@ HOREB / Mount SINAI

Contained in the books:

Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers

 

 

+

@ MOAB

  Contained in:

Deuteronomy (2nd Covenant)

Deuteronomy 28 : The Blessings of Obedience (Leviticus 25:18-22; Deuteronomy 4:1-14; Deuteronomy 11:1-7)

1And it shall come to pass, if you shall listen diligently to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that the LORD your God will set you on high above all nations of the earth: 2And all these blessings shall come on you, and overtake you, if you shall listen to the voice of the LORD your God.

3Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.

4Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your cows, and the flocks of your sheep.

5Blessed shall be your basket and your store.

6Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.

7The LORD shall cause your enemies that rise up against you to be smitten before your face: they shall come out against you one way, and flee before you seven ways. 8The LORD shall command the blessing on you in your storehouses, and in all that you set your hand to; and he shall bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you. 9The LORD shall establish you an holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and walk in his ways. 10And all people of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of you. 11And the LORD shall make you plenteous in goods, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you. 12The LORD shall open to you his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain to your land in his season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and you shall lend to many nations, and you shall not borrow. 13And the LORD shall make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall be above only, and you shall not be beneath; if that you listen to the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day, to observe and to do them: 14And you shall not go aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

THE CURSES FOR DISOBEDIENCE (Leviticus 20:1-9; Leviticus 26:14-39; 1 Samuel 15:1-9; 1 Kings 13:11-34) 

45Moreover all these curses shall come on you, and shall pursue you, and overtake you, till you be destroyed; because you listened not to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you: 46And they shall be on you for a sign and for a wonder, and on your seed for ever.

47Because you served not the LORD your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things; 48Therefore shall you serve your enemies which the LORD shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck, until he have destroyed you.

49The LORD shall bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies; a nation whose tongue you shall not understand; 50A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young: 51And he shall eat the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your land, until you be destroyed: which also shall not leave you either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of your cows, or flocks of your sheep, until he have destroyed you. 52And he shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fenced walls come down, wherein you trusted, throughout all your land: and he shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which the LORD your God has given you. 53And you shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, which the LORD your God has given you, in the siege, and in the narrow place, with which your enemies shall distress you: 54So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave: 55So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he has nothing left him in the siege, and in the narrow place, with which your enemies shall distress you in all your gates. 56The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, 57And toward her young one that comes out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and narrow place, with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.

58If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD; 

59Then the LORD will make your plagues wonderful, and the plagues of your seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance. 60Moreover he will bring on you all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they shall stick to you. 61Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring on you, until you be destroyed. 

62And you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God. 

63And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nothing; and you shall be plucked from off the land where you go to possess it. 

64And the LORD shall scatter^[h6237]you among all people, from the one end of the earth even to the other; and there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known, even wood and stone. 

65And among these nations shall you find no ease, neither shall the sole of your foot have rest: but the LORD shall give you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:

 66And your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall fear day and night, and shall have none assurance of your life:

67In the morning you shall say, Would God it were even! and at even you shall say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of your heart with which you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see. 68And the LORD shall bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spoke to you, You shall see it no more again: and there you shall be sold to your enemies for slaves and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you. 

THE CHOICE OF LIFE OR DEATH

15See, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil; 16In that I command you this day to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that you may live and multiply: and the LORD your God shall bless you in the land where you go to possess it. 17But if your heart turn away, so that you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; 18I denounce to you this day, that you shall surely perish, and that you shall not prolong your days on the land, where you pass over Jordan to go to possess it. 19I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both you and your seed may live: 20That you may love the LORD your God, and that you may obey his voice, and that you may hold to him: for he is your life, and the length of your days: that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

 

 

Moses

set before them

THE LAW of  SIN

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[DEATH & EVIL]

Curses

 

THE LAW of  RIGHTEOUSNESS and TRUTH

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[LIFE & GOOD]

Blessings 

John 5  :  28Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, 29And shall come forth; they that have done good, to the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, to the resurrection of damnation.

CURSES FOR DISOBEDIENCE

ON MOUNT EBAL

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The sons of their handmaids stood on

Mount Ebal to curse (w/ exception of Reuben)

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• Reuben
• Gad
• Asher
• Zebulun
• Dan
• Naphtali. 

 

BLESSINGS FOR OBEDIENCE 

ON MOUNT GERIZEM

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The sons of Jacob’s Wives, Rachel and Leah, stood on Mount Gerizem to bless.

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• Simeon
• Levi
• Judah
• Issachar
• Joseph (meaning Ephraim & Manassah)
• Benjamin

When they finally arrived in the promised land, each tribe had land allotted to them.  

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Joshua 18 :  The Tabernacle at Shiloh

1And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh^[h7886], and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.

  THE REMAINER DIVIDED

8And the men arose, and went away: and Joshua charged them that went to describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and describe it, and come again to me, that I may here cast lots for you before the LORD in Shiloh^[h7886]. 9And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came again to Joshua to the host at Shiloh. 10And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh^[h7886]before the LORD: and there Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to their divisions.

  Israel eventually decided to have a king over them 

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SAUL

DAVID

SOLOMON  

After Solomon sat on the throne and had built the temple… 

 He led Israel to follow other gods.

1 KINGS 11 :  God’s Anger against Solomon

1 KINGS 11 : JEROBOAM’S REBELLION

The Northern Kingdom did nothing different than what Solomon did under his rule.  After 19 different kings and 200 years of idolatry, Israel was exiled into Assyria.   In 721 BC God had Assyria conquer Sumeria and take the Northern Kingdom captive to Assyria.   Here we see the prophecy and curse coming to pass where God said He would scatter them among the nations for disobedience. 

Jeremiah 13 :  Captivity Threatened

24Therefore will I scatter ^[h6327] them as the stubble that passes away by the wind of the wilderness. 25This is your lot, the portion of your measures from me, said the LORD; because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood. 26Therefore will I discover your skirts on your face, that your shame may appear. 27I have seen your adulteries, and your neighings, the lewdness of your prostitution, and your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! will you not be made clean? when shall it once be?

Jeremiah 18 : The Potter and the Clay 

13Therefore thus said the LORD; Ask you now among the heathen, who has heard such things: the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing. 14Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which comes from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken? 15Because my people has forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up; 16To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passes thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head. 17I will scatter ^[h6327]them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

Now we see this scripture in Deuteronomy beginning to unfold, as the covenant curses begin to be enacted. 

The people of Israel no longer remain a people and begin assimilating into the nations.   

God pleads for them to turn from their sin…

INVITATION TO REPENTANCE (Isaiah 57:14-21; Hosea 14:1-3; Zechariah 1:1-6)

11And the LORD said to me, The backsliding Israel has justified herself more than treacherous Judah. 12Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, you backsliding Israel, said the LORD; and I will not cause my anger to fall on you: for I am merciful, said the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever. 13Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against the LORD your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice, said the LORD. 14Turn, O backsliding children, said the LORD; for I am married to you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

15And I will give you pastors according to my heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.16And it shall come to pass, when you be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, said the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more. 17At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart. 18In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance to your fathers.

19But I said, How shall I put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, You shall call me, My father; and shall not turn away from me. 20Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, said the LORD. 21A voice was heard on the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God. 22Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come to you; for you are the LORD our God.

Hosea 1 : Hosea’s Wife and Children

Hosea 5 : God’s Judgment on Israel and Judah

HOSEA 9 : HOSEA ANNOUNCES ISRAEL’S PUNISHMENT

Hosea 13 :  Ephraim’s Glory Vanishes

God divorced the Northern Kingdom because they hardened their hearts and rejected God’s Law in pursuing other Gods.  They are truly, no longer His people.     In all of this we see that which was spoken over 1100 years earlier concerning Ephraim, by Jacob himself. 

 

Gen 48 : Jacob Blesses Ephraim & Manasseh  19And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.

Jeremiah 30 :  Restoration of Israel and Judah

7Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it. 8For it shall come to pass in that day, said the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him: 9But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them. 10Therefore fear you not, O my servant Jacob, said the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, see, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid. 11For I am with you, said the LORD, to save you: though I make a full end of all nations where I have scattered ^[h6327] you, yet I will not make a full end of you: but I will correct you in measure, and will not leave you altogether unpunished. 12For thus said the LORD, Your bruise is incurable, and your wound is grievous. 13There is none to plead your cause, that you may be bound up: you have no healing medicines. 14All your lovers have forgotten you; they seek you not; for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of your iniquity; because your sins were increased. 15Why cry you for your affliction? your sorrow is incurable for the multitude of your iniquity: because your sins were increased, I have done these things to you. 16Therefore all they that devour you shall be devoured;  and all your adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil you shall be a spoil, and all that prey on you will I give for a prey. 17For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds, said the LORD; because they called you an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeks after.

Jeremiah 50 : Hope for Israel and Judah

 Ezekial 34 : The Good Shepherd (Psalm 23:1-6; John 10:1-21)

Micah 2  : The Remnant of Israel

12I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of you; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the middle of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men. 13The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.

 Ezekial 37 : One Nation with One King

15The word of the LORD came again to me, saying, 16Moreover, you son of man, take you one stick, and write on it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and for all the house of Israel his companions: 17And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in your hand. 18And when the children of your people shall speak to you, saying, Will you not show us what you mean by these?19Say to them, Thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand. 20And the sticks where on you write shall be in your hand before their eyes

21And say to them, Thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, where they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: 22And I will make them one nation in the land on the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.

23Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God. 24And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them. 25And they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelled; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever. 26Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the middle of them for ever more. 27My tabernacle also shall be with them: yes, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 28And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the middle of them for ever more

God said he would rescue the sheep He scattered.  

Wouldn’t this break his own law?

His own law forbids re-marrying to person whom you divorced. 

THE GREAT MYSTERY OF THE GOSPEL

 

GOD CANNOT SIN

 

How can God search for his lost sheep and re-marry them after He has already divorced her and she is defiled, when it states in His own Law that it is a sin to do so?  

 MattheW 2 : Herod Slaughters Infants (Jeremiah 31:1-30)

16Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men. 17Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying,  18In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

Joseph, Rachel’s Son, whose son was Ephraim, and became Israel and who God considered His 1st born.

Joseph, Mary’s Wife, whose son was Jesus, the true firstborn of God, who came to save the Lost Sheep, Ephraim.

Matthew 10 : Instructions to Disciples(Mark 6:7-13; Luke 9:1-6)

This was a great mystery to all the priests and rabbis.  They wondered how He was going to redeem the Northern Kingdom of Israel.   They wondered how can He remarry the very one He divorced and declared to have given herself over to prostitution.    God can not break the very righteous laws that define his own Righteousness.    Breaking the law of God is Sin, the law defines sin according to God’s own words.     

Joel 3 : The Lord Judges the Nations 

13Put you in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. 14Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision^[h2742]: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision^[h2742].

15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.  

The CAMP OF EPHRAIM

was depicted as an OX.

 

We are the oxen that God 

uses through his Holy Spirit to

 SEPARATE the grain [fruit] from the chaff,

& to SMOOTH OUT the rough

Luke 13 :  Jesus Heals a Woman on the Sabbath

10And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. 11And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself. 12And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said to her, Woman, you are loosed from your infirmity. 13And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God. 14And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said to the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.15The Lord then answered him, and said, You hypocrite, does not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering? 16And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound, see, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day? 17And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.

Luke 14 : Jesus Heals a Man with Dropsy

1And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him. 2And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy. 3And Jesus answering spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? 4And they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go; 5And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day? 6And they could not answer him again to these things.

Just as we are the clay

that is molded by the

hands of potter

as it spins in a circle.

He called His disciples out of Galilee

which means “circuit” or circle

 

Romans 8 : God Works In All Things (Ephesians 1:3-14)

28And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. 29For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.  

His work is to form us

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into the image of His son

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He works to carve His image into us

-through- 

His Holy Spirit

[h7926]שְׁכֶם shek-em 

SHECHEM the Hebrew word for “SHOULDER”

is also the name of the city in Canaan

 

• It is where God 1st appeared to Abraham, after being called out of Babylon, and where Abram built the 1st altar to God 
•  God renamed Jacob to “Israel” here. 

 

It was also:  

• An inheritance for EPHRAIM and MANASSAH . 
• Where JOSEPH and JOSHUA were buried 
• Where JOSHUA made a covenant with Israel that they would put away strange gods and wrote Moses Law and took a great stone and set it here under this oak    

When we begin to understand the completeness of our JUSTIFICATION, we can rest and rejoice in the ongoing tribulation, discipline, chastening (correction), refinement of our SANCTIFICATION (process of being made Holy).   Just as following the Law does not make you justified,  but is an expression of the fact that you have been reconciled to Him.

Together we work and labor to EDIFY each other, which is “the act of building up” and promoting growth, by serving others and not ourselves.   Each stone is bound together (bundled/united) through the Holy Spirit, and we endeavour to keep the unity in the bond of Peace by walking with all lowliness, meekness, long suffering, forbearing one another in love. 

 

We are built up as a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.   

 

 

The temple and sacrificial system established in the Law foreshadowed what Christ would do for us on the cross.  The Law states there is no remission of sin without the shedding of blood.  The law had a shadow of good things to come but it was not the very image.

Exodus 27 :  The Oil for the Lamps (Leviticus 24:1-4)

20And you shall command the children of Israel, that they bring you pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always. 21In the tabernacle of the congregation without the veil, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever to their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.

Olive oil does not need processing

but

you need the right kind of wick and lamp.

People have used olive oil with cotton or linen wicks to cleanse the air around them and to keep flames burning for light for thousand of years. Olive oil is 99% pure fuel; it does not produce smoke or soot and does not burn if spilled. Burning olive oil will smolder and put itself out or at least give you time to put it out. My understanding is that it is because olive oil has low volatility due to its high flash point (it won’t burn until it reaches 550°F), which is also why you need a much thicker wick than for a regular candle or kerosene lamp.

 

The key to burning olive oil is to keep the wick saturated at all times. The thickness of the oil affects the capillary action so soaking the wick in oil before lighting it works best. Use wicks with a large weave or even tightly twisted strips of cotton cloth. You can also make a wick from a cotton swab. Dip the swab into the oil and then twist the oiled end off of the swab stick and shape it into a teardrop. Float the “teardrop” onto the oil and light. Use low-grade olive oil. It will burn just as well as any high-grade olive oil, but will be cheaper. A little will go along way because it burns quite slowly. 

Matthew 25 :  The Parable of the Ten Virgins

1Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened to ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. 2And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. 3They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: 4But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. 5While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. 6And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom comes; go you out to meet him. 7Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. 8And the foolish said to the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. 9But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go you rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.10And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. 11Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.12But he answered and said, Truly I say to you, I know you not. 13Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man comes.

THE CORRECT LAMP

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(the light)

 

 

 

 

 

THE WORD

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THE CORRECT LINEN WICK

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(which holds the flame & fire)

 

 

 

 

A PURE HEART

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(which contains the word)

OLIVE OIL

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(which fuels the wick to keep burning)

 

 

 

 

THE HOLY SPIRIT

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The fuel that cleanses and purifies 

and allows us to continue producing 

the resulting fruit that comes

from abiding in the Vine of Christ, the Word.

 

Olive Oil is the Fruit of the Olive Tree. 

Luke 24 :   Jesus Explains the Prophecies

25Then he said to them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: 26Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? 27And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. 28And they drew near to the village, where they went: and he made as though he would have gone further.29But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them. 30And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and broke, and gave to them.31And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.32And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures? 33And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them, 34Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon. 35And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.

JESUS APPEARS TO HIS DISCIPLES (John 20:19-23; 1 John 1:1-4)

36And as they thus spoke, Jesus himself stood in the middle of them, and said to them, Peace be to you.37But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. 38And he said to them, Why are you troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? 39Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit has not flesh and bones, as you see me have. 40And when he had thus spoken, he showed them his hands and his feet. 41And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said to them, Have you here any meat? 42And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb. 43And he took it, and did eat before them.

JESUS OPENS THE MEANING OF THE SCRIPTURES

44And he said to them, These are the words which I spoke to you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. 45Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, 46And said to them, Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: 47And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 48And you are witnesses of these things. 49And, behold, I send the promise of my Father on you: but tarry you in the city of Jerusalem, until you be endued with power from on high.

THE ASCENSION (Mark 16:19-20; Acts 1:6-11)

50And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. 51And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven. 52And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy: 53And were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.

His WORD 

---

 is the

 BREAD of Life.

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The BREAKING OF BREAD represented

giving His disciples UNDERSTANDING of the scriptures.

Bread represented Jesus flesh because Jesus was the WORD made flesh

and his body was broken for us on the cross.  

Exodus 25 : TABLE OF BREAD

²³ Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: 2 cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. ²⁴ And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about.  ²⁵ And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about. ²⁶ And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof. ²⁷ Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table. ²⁸ And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them. ²⁹ And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of pure gold shalt thou make them. ³⁰ And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.

Matthew 4 : The Temptation of Jesus (Mark 1:12-13; Luke 4:1-13)

1Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. 2And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungered. 3And when the tempter came to him, he said, If you be the Son of God, command that these stones be ma de bread. 4But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.

“A Miller” is a person who operates a MILL,

which is a machine that grinds

the harvested wheat grain,

into flour,

which is used to make bread.

“Milling” is the process of separating and classifying aggregate material.  My last name is “Miller” which I got from my grandfather in the picture.  Gideon was threshing wheat when He was called by God. 

 

HOW GRAIN IS TURNED INTO BREAD

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GRAIN

is ground into 

FLOUR

FLOUR is then mixed with OLIVE OIL

to make

 DOUGH

Hebrews 4 :  A Sabbath-Rest for God’s People (Genesis 2:1-3; Exodus 16:22-36)

1Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. 2For to us was the gospel preached, as well as to them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.

DOUGH is then placed in oven  

to make

BREAD

  

LEAVENED BREAD (w/Yeast)

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Symbolizes HYPOCRISY

Puffed up with Pride. 

Talking the talk but not walking the walk.

 

 

 

UNLEAVENED BREAD

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Symbolizes SINCERITY

and abiding in Truth.

Walking the Walk of Faith