These made war

“And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations; That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar. All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea. Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled. And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim, And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness. And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar. And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim; With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings with five. And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way. And they took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.”

Lot looked down on the Plains of Sodom and chose them because they looked so nice. Before long he was living in Sodom but when there was war he was caught up in the war and was taken prisoner. We have to take great care as we go through our lives that we don’t get caught up with things that will take us captive so that we won’t be able to serve the Lord as we should. There are many people who say that this episode can’t be true because, thousands of years later, they don’t believe that this kind of raid could have taken place. However, these are eye witness accounts and there is no contrary, empirical evidence to back up the conjecture of these people.

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All the land which thou seest

“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: For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee. Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.”

Abraham gave Lot the choice of where to go but he trusted in the Lord. These days there are many people in the church whose major gift seems to be self promotion and they are the ones who seem to do best in the ways of the world. However, Abraham, as the senior member of the clan had every right to follow the ways of self promotion and take the best land for himself. In this case, Abraham took the eternal perspective and trusted the Lord to keep His promises and look after Abraham’s interests. Abraham was “looking for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God” (Heb 11: 10). Lot looked at the city of Sodom and chose the immediate way to prosperity. Abraham had to save Lot from the fruit of this choice and then God saved Lot from the fruit of this choice. Later Lot’s two sons (who were also his grandsons) were the enemies of Abraham’s descendants and interfered with the inevitable progress of God’s plan of redemption. There is always a temptation to follow the pathway of self promotion and things will seem to work out much more efficiently but if we look at the promise the Lord made to Abraham (He would give Abraham all the land in every direction and He did.) the we can see that self promotions doesn’t have the same eternal benefits as trusting the Lord. At least half of the world’s population know about Abraham for his own deeds, by the grace of God, but the only reason we know anything about Lot is because he was involved with Abraham. This section also gives us good instruction concerning the Word of God. If we want to take full advantage of all God’s promises we have to know what they are and the only way we can know that is by reading the entire Bible. (This could easily take a year or two.)

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All the plain of Jordan

“And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, 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. Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other. Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom. But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.”

We hear how important it is to have a dominant mind and to be in control of your own destiny. In fact, the people who seem to do best in the church today are those who are best at self promotion. In this case, Abraham was not interested in self promotion and he did not display a dominant mind. He was the senior member of this clan but he gave Lot the choice. Lot was seduced by the riches of Sodom and Gomorrah and went in that direction. This reminds us of Psalm 1: 1, “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.” At first Lot walked towards the ungodly in Sodom and Gomorrah and then he went a lived in Sodom so he was standing with those sinners and then he sat down at the gate that is in the seat of the scornful. After he did all these things he was caught up in Sodom and was almost destroyed when these towns were destroyed. He was only saved by God’s gracious intervention. On the other hand, we see from Abraham’s life that he delight was in the law of the Lord and he was fruitful and prospered. To this day we only hear of Lot as part of Abraham’s story but Abraham is a hero to about half of the world’s population. In his lifetime he was willing to trust God and he made the right choice.

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There was strife

“And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together. And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land. 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? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left”

The Lord blessed Abraham greatly because He promised to bless him and he did what the Lord had told him to do. However, there was strife because both Abraham and Lot were very rich. This is the first time that we read about strife in the Bible. The strife occurred because both men were very rich and there wasn’t enough room for them both in the Land. There is an interesting lesson that we can learn from this. We live in the day of mega-churches where there is great wealth but this can lead to strife because there isn’t enough room for all the egos. When the first large group of people decided to get together and show that they were greater than God, at the tower of Babel, God confused their languages and forced them to spread out into smaller groups. God said that He would not give His glory to another (Isaiah 42: 8; 48: 11). When we get too big then we think that we can take God’s glory for ourselves and we can only expect strife. The last time the word strife occurs in the bible is in James 3: 16 where we read that strife leads to confusion and every evil work. However, Abraham, with God’s spiritual wisdom, decided to deal with the strife and he parted company with Lot. As a result of this Abraham met with God and, in the end, God gave Abraham everything that he was willing to forgo in order to deal with the strife.

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Abram called on the name of the LORD

“And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold. And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai; Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.”

Earlier we read that the Lord appeared to Abram but now Abram called on the name of the LORD. He obeyed the Lord and set out on the journey that the Lord told him to take. However, he didn’t trust in the Lord when he was afraid and got into trouble. Finally Abraham acknowledged that he needed the Lord in every situation and he called on the name of the Lord. That is, Abraham opened his heart to the Lord and brought his troubles before the Lord and then opened his hear to hear what the Lord had to say to him. There are times in our lives when we have to rest from our struggles and just listen to the Lord, open our hearts to Him and rely on His wisdom.

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Into the south

“And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.”

The Lord remained in control of Abraham’s circumstances even though Abraham made some mistakes. The same is true of everyone who believes in the Lord today. What really matters is that we believe in the Lord at some stage and make a total commitment to obeying His commandments. Even though we are not able to live up to His standards we are relying on His grace. The most important thing is to trust Him for He will always keep His Word and He will always maintain His commitments. In Israel, then Canaan, the south is barren while the north is fertile. Egypt is also fertile because it is situated on a river that, most years, is fed by rain far to the south. Abraham went into the barren lands but the Lord was still with Him. There was famine at times and, at other times, Abraham live in marginal country but always walked according to the Lord’s plan and the Lord didn’t ever leave Him throughout the course of His life. We know that Abraham had to wait for twenty five years for the Lord to finally satisfy Abraham’s and Sarah’s deepest longings but the Lord did and, in the end, all that God promised came to pass and nothing was left undone. Today, the promise is for everlasting life and that is as sure as the promises that God made to Abraham. Another promise is that He will come again and even though many esteemed theologians tell us that this won’t happen, it will. He is coming back so the important thing is to make sure that you are believing on the Lord Jesus Christ when He does come back so you won’t be left behind.

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The Lord plagued Pharoah

“And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair. The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house. And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels. And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram’s wife. 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? Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife:now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way. And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.”

Even though Abraham schemed he could have been in a lot of trouble. The Egyptians thought that Pharaoh was a god and no one should cause gods trouble. However, the Lord was protecting Abraham even though he tried to work things out in his own way. Pharaoh and his household experienced a plague and they understood that they should not fight against God. God protected Abraham in spite of his actions rather than because of them. The same is true today. God loves each one of us in spite of who we are rather than because of who we are. This fact should always keep us humble before our God. After all we are called to have a servant heart and not a dominant mind.

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He said unto his wife

“And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon: Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive. Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.”

This is one of those parts of the Bible which gives us confidence that we are reading historical facts rather than the fanciful stories of some unknown person writing at an unknown date. Abraham is the greatest hero of the book of Genesis and here we see him scheming to protect himself rather than trusting God. He had left his father’s home and become a nomad. He moved forward, by God’s grace, even though he didn’t know the destination. After this the Lord appeared to him and he survived through a famine. However, suddenly he felt that he had to scheme and lie to protect himself. He knew that his wife was a beautiful woman and was afraid that the Egyptians would kill him so that they could take his wife. However, we read, later, that “he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.” (Gen 15: 6) Every person who believes in the Lord will find that from time to time they get their focus away from the Lord and try to protect themselves. However, we are relying on the Lord and His goodness rather than on our own goodness. As long as we rely on the Lord we will be secure because His goodness lasts forever and He will never let us go. Abraham believed God and, in spite of his failure in hope, God was faithful. We serve the same God and He is still faithful today. “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.” (Prov 3: 5-7) Never the less, “If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.” (2 Tim 2: 13)

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The famine was grievous in the land

“And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south. And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.”

This section gives us an interesting sequence of events. Firstly, God called Abraham, secondly Abraham obeyed God and set out on the journey that God told Him to take, thirdly the Lord appeared to Abraham and then, lastly, there was a famine in the land. There are many people today who try to tell us that famines, or hard times, come because we have sinned. This is quite wrong, the Lord doesn’t just bring us hard times because we have sinned. In John 9: 3 we read the Lord’s response to the disciples question about the man born blind: “Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.” In Deuteronomy 8: 2, 3, 16 the Lord told Israel that they had spent forty years in the wilderness “to humble thee and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thous wouldest keep his commandments, or no... to do thee good at thy latter end.” In Hebrews 12: 6 we read, “whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth,” This passage goes on to say that the Lord is treating us like sons when we are experiencing famine or hardship. Famine times are never easy but they are designed to come to an end and they are designed by God so that God will do good to us in the end. If you are going through a time of famine in your life take heart, it is probably because God wants you know that He loves you as a child and He wants you to succeed and be better for the experience. God never gives us trials with the aim of causing us to fail but to succeed. If we fail in the trial, it is because we have chosen to fail rather than to trust God.

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The Lord appeared unto Abram

“And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land. And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him. And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.”

Abraham (Abram) already knew the Lord when he set out from his home. Otherwise, why did he go at all? However, Abraham followed the directions he was given and then the Lord appeared to him again. There are many books and courses today that teach us how to interact with the Lord or to have an encounter with the Lord but the Bible gives us the best way. Just do what He tells you to do and then He will come to you. You don’t have to go to special courses, or so special training, you don’t have to follow the right techniques or draw the right kind of pictures, you just have to do what He says. It is not about me deciding to have an encounter with the Lord, it is about me believing what He says, doing what He tells me to do and then He will come to me without any effort on my part at all. This is the only effective technique that will last for a lifetime. The Lord is God, He has already reached out to find us and save, He will keep us and He will come to us whenever we do what He says. Joshua was given the correct technique of having a regular encounter with the Lord, “This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest. (Joshua 1: 8, 9). After all the Lord said, “For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. (Deut 30: 11-14) The amazing thing about the gospel message is that God has done everything and we don’t have to do anything at all. Even the youngest, simplest child can believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved as soundly and eternally as the most educated Biblical scholar in the world.

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Abram departed

“So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.”

The Lord told Abraham (Abram) to get up and go and he got up and went. He didn’t forget his responsibilities and took his family, including his nephew Lot, with him. He was seventy five years old at that time and had no guarantees other than God’s promise. They headed south towards Canaan because that is where the Lord told them to go. Each of us should ask ourselves what we would do in those circumstances. The experts tell us that no one can achieve anything today unless they have a defined goal. We are meant to write our goal down and make sure that we keep it in mind every day or we will lose our way and we will never get anywhere. It is interesting to note that Ahab was killed by a man who shot his last arrow in the air without aiming at anything (1 Kings 22: 34). In the book of James we are told that we should not make our plans too precisely but we are told to say “if the Lord’s will ...” (James 4: 13-16). Abraham was not this kind of man, rather he was a man who did the Lord’s will and left the outcome to the Lord. We must keep our eyes on the the long term, eternal goal rather than the short term goal that may lead to personal gratification tomorrow but death in eternity.

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A good way to be blessed

“And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.”

The Lord commanded Abraham (Abram) and he did what the Lord told him to do. In this case there was no end point and no specific goal. The Lord just told him to go and he would learn more about the destination along the way. However, the Lord made Abraham a promise that followed directly from his complete obedience. The Lord is neither random nor arbitrary and always works towards a plan but His ways are higher than our ways (Isaiah 55: 9). We can’t always understand what the Lord has planned but we can always be sure that the plan will be good for us in the end (Deuteronomy 8: 16). However, Abraham was promised that his descendants would be a great nation, today there are about 14 million Jews in the world and among them they have won 129 Nobel prizes and there have been 7 world chess champions taking up approximately 55% of the time since its inception in 1886. On top of this more than 10 million Jews have murdered over the last two thousand years. They are a great nation and have made a great contribution to the world. Their greatest contribution, however, is the fact that the Lord Jesus Christ was a Jew of the tribe of Judah and every single family on the earth has been blessed through His life, death and resurrection. It is a sobering reminder to us, however, that we should bless the Jews for if we bless them they will be blessed but if we curse them we will be cursed. The British Empire was great because they didn’t persecute the Jews but when they betrayed the Jews before the second World War they began the process that led to the loss of their great Empire. There is an old middle eastern saying, after Saturday comes Sunday. Every Christian should do everything to protect the Jews because they stand between us and our own destruction.

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Get up and go

“Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:”

From time to time we come across people in the Bible who listen to what God tells them and then do it. Abel offered an acceptable sacrifice and God accepted it, he is the first of the faith heroes in Hebrews 11: 4. Noah heard the Lord’s command and built an ark even though he didn’t even know what rain was, let alone a flood. He is the third of the faith heroes from Hebrews 11: 7 and now we come to Abraham the fourth of the faith heroes and the most significant in the Old Testament. The Lord told Abraham to get up and go away from everyone and everything that he knew. He didn’t tell Abraham the destination and didn’t give him a time limit. Without Abraham there would be no Saviour. We would all be stuck in the, failure certain, cycle of salvation by works. Thank God for Abraham (and for the Lord Jesus Christ).

The main fact that is common to all the heroes of faith is the fact that they had an understanding of the majesty and power of Almighty God. The main fact about many Christians today is that they think God is just a little bit bigger than they are, in fact, some even think that He is just waiting around to get instructions from us and He isn’t much more than our servant. If we want to see the church return to days when it grew and changed the face of the earth we all need to be like Isaiah of old and see “also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.” (Isaiah 6: 1) God hasn’t changed, He is still the same God Who gave post menopausal, ninety year old Sarah a son. He is still the same God Who delivered enslaved Israel from Egypt. He is still the same God Who brought the Jews back from Babylon after seventy years. He is still the same God Who brought the modern state of Israel into existence after Hitler tried to destroy all the Jews on earth. Modern Israel is, actually, Hitler’s legacy. He is, most important of all, the same God Who defeated Satan at Calvary, gave us the “whosoever believeth salvation and rose again from the grave to ensure that that this salvation is everlasting. Isn’t it time we submitted before the True God of all creation and just enjoyed His majesty and His love rather than trying to confine Him to some box that we have devised in our sinful minds?

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Abraham in Haran

“Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot. And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah. But Sarai was barren; she had no child. And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there. And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.”

This is just a short document that the Lord preserved so that we can move from the story of redemption through the Flood to the time when God chose to focus on one group after the world had been polluted by sin again. Sin has a way of debasing a nation so God decided to take one pure man and move His plan of Salvation forward with a group of believers who would not become polluted by sin. Terah was one of those, very important, people who kept the faith and allowed the line to move forward Shem was old and remained in his place until he died so Terah filled in the gap to let us know how Abram happened to be where he was when God called him to set out and he set out. Abram (Abraham) is the most important person in the book of Genesis but there is not a passage entitled, “these are the generation of Abraham.” If he was so important and there was any other explanation than the colophon explanation then we would expect to have a list of his generations. Abraham was a man who “believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.” (Genesis 15: 6) He was a man of action and was too involved in believing the Lord and setting out on the journey that others were left to recount the story of his life. This is one, very good, reason to accept the truth of Genesis for is, as many say, it was fiction then the writers would make sure to have a section attributed to the major character.

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