The Wilderness and More – Notice Jacob’s experience was a foreshadowing of Jesus. Jacob was out in the wilderness, as was Jesus. Jacob was tested, as was Jesus. Jacob prevailed, as did Jesus.
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Isaac and Rebekah
He took a remnant of Abraham’s lineage and established His bloodline for Jesus. It wasn’t Ishmael, it wasn’t Esau, it was Isaac and then Jacob.
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Abraham sans Isaac and Rebekah
We see a horizontal component in Abraham’s name. No longer is he just vertically exalted but, by the name God gave him, Abraham is horizontally exalted. When you put the vertical and horizontal components together, we get a cross.
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Abraham, Where Jesus Is Plainly Seen
God’s Word is so amazing and so tightly woven together. If we pull a verse or two out of context, the verses seem strange, but when we leave them within the whole Word of God they are perfect and beautiful.
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Come and Dine
Soon the Lamb will take His bride
To be ever at His side,
All the host of heaven will assembled be;
Oh, ’twill be a glorious sight,
All the saints in spotless white;
And with Jesus they will feast eternally
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The Blood Of Jesus In The Pitch
Because Noah walked with God and had faith in God, the ark is a type of Christ Jesus; it is a refuge from God’s coming judgement. We believers, too, are promised that our Lord will be a refuge from God’s judgement.
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Adam to Abraham
With Enoch, God draws back the curtain a bit and we discover that there’s SOMEPLACE else for us beyond dust.
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Genealogy of Adam
Notice that the Bible doesn’t say that Seth was made in the image of God, as we might expect. Rather, Seth was made in the image of Adam. This point is critical which is probably why it’s phrased as “own likeness; own image.”
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From Eve To Mary
There’s something special about God’s promise that echoed down through the generations of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Issac, Jacob, David, and finally, by an angel, to this young virgin, Mary.