GENESIS
CHAPTER 15
OBSERVATION
STAGE
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
The observation
stage is to teach an individual to focus on the text at hand which, by and
large, has all the information necessary to understand what it is saying
without going on unnecessary tangents elsewhere.
Remember that
something elsewhere may be true, but in the text at hand it may not be in
view.
I)
[Gen 15:1-3]:
A)
BY THE GRACE OF THE LORD, ABRAM HAD:
WON
THE BATTLE AGAINST CHEDALAOMER AND HIS ALLIES,
RESCUED
HIS NEPHEW LOT FROM CAPTIVITY,
RECEIVED
THE BLESSING AND REVELATION OF KING / PRIEST MELCHIZADEK AN INCARNATE
APPEARANCE OF THE LORD,
GIVEN
A TENTH OF ALL HE HAD TO MELCHIZADEK AND
TAKEN
AN OATH TO THE LORD TO REFUSE ANY SPOILS OF WAR FROM THE KING OF SODOM;
WHEREUPON
THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO ABRAM IN A VISION SAYING, 'DO NOT FEAR,
ABRAM, I AM A SHIELD TO YOU MAKING VERY GREAT YOUR REWARD'
B)
IN SPITE OF THE LORD'S PERSISTENT ASSURANCE, SUPERNATURAL ENABLEMENT AND
PROTECTION, ABRAM CONTINUED TO LACK FAITH IN THE PROMISES OF THE LORD
II)
Gen 15:4-9]:
A)
ELIEZER WOULD NOT BE ABRAM'S HEIR, A PHYSICAL DESCENDANT WOULD BE. JUST
AS THE NIGHT SKY HAD COUNTLESS NUMBERS OF STARS IN IT, SO SHALL ABRAM'S
PHYSICAL DESCENDANTS BE IMPLYING A RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO ETERNAL LIFE FOR
ABRAM THROUGH HIS SEED (SINGULAR)
B)
THE LORD HAD ALREADY PROMISED TO MAKE ABRAM A GREAT NAME & A GREAT
NATION, WITH MANY NATIONS, I.E., INNUMERABLE DESCENDANTS WHEREIN ALL THE
FAMILIES OF THE WORLD WILL BE BLESSED THROUGH HIS SEED IMPLYING ONE
THROUGH WHOM WOULD BE PROVIDED ETERNAL LIFE
*** EXCERPT FROM GEN 12
AND 3 ***
IN
THE PROMISED LAND, THE LORD WILL MAKE ABRAM A GREAT NATION (LONGEVITY
AND MANY DESCENDANTS), MAKE ABRAM’S NAME GREAT THROUGHOUT THE EARTH
FOR ALL HISTORY, AND IN ABRAM WILL ALL MANKIND THROUGHOUT HISTORY BE
BLESSED WITH THE OPPORTUNITY FOR ETERNAL LIFE VIA A MESSIAH SAVIOR
DESCENDANT
GENESIS
CHAPTER 3 DECLARES GOD'S PLAN FOR THE ETERNAL RECONCILIATION OF MAN TO
GOD AND THE RESTORATION OF MANKIND'S SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE EARTH THROUGH
AN INDIVIDUAL DESCENDANT OF EVE WHICH CHAPTER 12 IMPLIES WILL BE
FULFILLED THROUGH THE LORD'S MAKING ABRAM A GREAT NATION AND A GREAT
NAME AND IN ABRAM THROUGH HIS SEED WILL BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ETERNAL
LIFE AND BLESSING FOR ALL MANKIND THROUGHOUT THE AGES AND ETERNITY
[Gen
3:14 NKJV]:
FOR
DECEIVING EVE AND CAUSING HER AND ADAM TO SIN, THE LORD GOD CURSED THE
SERPENT WHO WAS POSSESSED BY SATAN, GOD'S ADVERSARY, MORE THAN ANY OTHER
CREATURE, RELEGATING SERPENTS NOW TO CRAWL ON THEIR BELLIES, EATING DUST
AS A SIGN OF JUDGMENT UPON SATAN'S REBELLION
[Gen
3:15]:
TWO
SPIRITUAL (NOT BIOLOGICAL) SEEDS ARE IN VIEW:
1)
THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO FOLLOW SATAN IN SPIRITUAL REBELLION ARE DECLARED
SEED OF SATAN - ANGELS AND HUMANS ALIKE. THEY ARE FURTHER DECLARED BY
GOD TO BE AT ENMITY WITH THE WOMAN, EVE, AND HER SEED:
2)
A SEED, WHICH BIOLOGICALLY COMES FROM THE MALE, IN ORDER TO BE THE SEED
OF THE WOMAN, HAD TO BE PRODUCED INTO A FEMALE PHYSICAL DESCENDANT OF
THE WOMAN SUPERNATURALLY AND SPIRITUALLY BY GOD TO RESULT IN AN
INDIVIDUAL MALE DESCENDANT TO REPRESENT THE HUMAN RACE - A
MESSIAH-SAVIOR - IN THE BATTLE WITH SATAN AND HIS SEED TO PROVIDE
ETERNAL RECONCILIATION FOR HUMANITY WITH GOD AND REGAIN SOVEREIGNTY OF
THE HUMAN RACE OVER THE WORLD
THE
SEED OF THE WOMAN PORTRAYS AN INDIVIDUAL OF SUPERNATURAL BIRTH VIA A
SPIRITUALLY PROVIDED SEED WHO WILL REPRESENT ALL OF HUMANITY IN BATTLE
WITH SATAN AND HIS SEED TO REGAIN THE LOST SOVEREIGNTY OF THE HUMAN RACE
OVER THE WORLD AND PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR EVERY INDIVIDUAL HUMAN
BEING TO BE ETERNALLY RECONCILED WITH GOD RELATIVE TO SIN. THIS
MESSIAH-SAVIOR WILL BRUISE SATAN'S HEAD = DELIVER A MORTAL BLOW TO
DESTROY HIM, AND SATAN WILL BRUISE HIS HEEL - A NON-MORTAL BLOW
****** END OF EXCERPT
*****
C)
ABRAM BEGAN BELIEVING, IN THE TIME FRAME OF GENESIS 15:4-6, IN GOD'S
PROMISE OF INNUMERABLE DESCENDANTS THROUGH HIS SEED SUPERNATURALLY
PROVIDED BY GOD AND RELATIVE TO THE LORD'S PROMISE OF INHERITING THE
LAND AT WHICH TIME GOD ACCOUNTED IT TO ABRAM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO
ETERNAL LIFE AND CONFIRMED HIS ENTIRE COVENANT WITH ABRAM UNILATERALLY
D)
HAVING BELIEVED IN THE LORD UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS AND ETERNAL LIFE, ABRAM
WAS STILL NOT EVIDENCING TOTAL TRUST IN THE LORD. HE ASKED THE LORD HOW
HE COULD KNOW = BELIEVE THAT HE WOULD ACTUALLY POSSESS THE LAND WHICH IS
CONNECTED WITH THE LORD'S PROMISE OF INNUMERABLE DESCENDANTS AND ETERNAL
LIFE
1)
[Compare Jer 34:18-20]:
III)
[Gen 15:10-21]:
A)
ABRAM IN REALITY - NOT IN A VISION OR DREAM - GATHERED, PREPARED FOR
SACRIFICIAL COVENANT RITUAL AND DROVE BIRDS OF PREY AWAY FROM ANIMALS
SELECTED BY THE LORD FOR THAT PURPOSE
B)
AN ACTUAL CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT, (NOT A FIGURATIVE ONE), PORTRAYS ABRAM
PREPARING ANIMALS FOR SACRIFICIAL COVENANT RITUAL, DRIVING AWAY BIRDS OF
PREY FROM THE CARCASSES, AND WHILE FALLING ASLEEP WHILE THE SUN WAS
STILL GOING DOWN, HAVING A DREADFUL FEAR ACCOMPANIED BY AN INTERNAL
GREAT DARKNESS FALL UPON HIS MIND SERVING THE PURPOSE OF THE LORD TO GET
ABRAM TO GROW IN HIS FAITH
C)
ABRAM'S DESCENDANTS WILL BE SLAVES IN A FOREIGN LAND FOR FOUR HUNDRED
YEARS! AFTER WHICH THEY WILL BE FREED WITH GREAT POSSESSIONS INTO THE
PROMISED LAND AND WILL BE THE ARM OF GOD'S JUSTICE TO ADDRESS THE
INIQUITY OF THE AMORITES. FINALLY, ABRAM HIMSELF WILL LIVE TO A GOOD OLD
AGE
D)
AFTER SUFFICIENT TIME HAD ELAPSED THE SUN WENT DOWN AND ABRAM BEHELD THE
LORD'S PROVISION OF A SMOKING POT AND FLAMING TORCH MOVING BETWEEN THE
CARCASES OF THE SACRIFICED ANIMALS REPRESENTING THE OMNISCIENCE, ETERNAL
POWER, ILLUMINATING CHARACTER AND WRATH OF THE LORD AS THE LORD HIMSELF
UNILATERALLY CONFIRMED HIS COVENANT WITH ABRAM
E)
ABRAM WAS AWAKE AND A REAL TIME WITNESS TO THE LORD'S UNILATERAL
CONFIRMATION OF HIS COVENANT PROMISES TO ABRAM AND HIS SEED WHICH
INCLUDING GIVING TO THEM THE LAND FROM THE RIVER OF EGYPT TO THE GREAT
RIVER EUPHRATES CURRENTLY OCCUPIED BY TEN PEOPLES SPECIFICALLY LISTED
AND EVIDENTLY TO BE REMOVED
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