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For I know the plans I have for you,declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jer 29:11 |
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Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Monday, May 30, 2022
Today's Passage : Today's Passage :The Story of Abraham [1] Bible Verse:Genesis 11:26-32 (ESV) "Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot. Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his kindred, in Ur of the Chaldeans. And Abram and Nahor took 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 Iscah. Now Sarai was barren; she had no child. Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there. The days of Terah were 205 years, and Terah died in Haran." Message:
Today we begin the story of Abraham, arguably the most important religious figure in human history, from a secular perspective; for Abraham is revered as the foundational figure of the world’s two great religions, Christianity and Islam. A majority of the world’s population agrees on one remarkable fact: some 3500 to 4000 years ago, God began His personal relationship with humanity by singling out a nomad named Abram, who had wandered westwards from the great Sumerian empire.
The events occur close to the dawn of civilization, when there were only a few very small areas, centered on rivers, which had begun to show strong attributes of civilized society: Egypt (Nile), Mesopotamia (Tigris-Euphrates), China (Yellow R.) and India (Indus R.). Ur of the Chaldeans was the southernmost city of what was likely still the Sumerian Empire, although nobody is sure precisely when Abram lived; the accounts of this section of Genesis are unique and there is practically no other written history of Canaan at that time.
The Sumerians had an archaic form of writing, but it was not used to write books; the only written history of the time is the occasional brief account of a great ruler. Thus, the history of Abraham was passed from generation to generation orally. His importance is demonstrated by the great detail preserved in the oral history, such as the names of minor kings which would be unknown except for Genesis.
Genesis is, and will always be, full of mystery. Nobody even knows how the length of lives were calculated, although Terah almost certainly did not live for 205 years in the modern sense. Calendars were primitive; a reliable calendar was not invented in the West until Rome adopted the Julian Calendar in 45 B.C. A Sumerian year was possibly equal to four or five of our months.
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Terah moved from Ur, in what would today be southwestern Iraq, with Abram and his wife Sarai, who had no children, and Lot, the son of his dead son Haran. They were headed for Canaan, which most people will recognize as the ancient name for Israel and the surrounding lands, but they stopped instead in Haran, a town north of Canaan in Turkey or Syria. (Haran is also the name of Terah's dead son, but there is no connection.)
Terah’s reasons for leaving Ur and stopping in Haran are not known. One could imagine a motivation similar to American pioneers traveling to Oklahoma or Oregon; there were fewer people and cheaper land. It was their land of opportunity, away from the hidebound society of Sumer.
But while the personal reasons for the journey are not known, the meaning of the journey is clear. Abraham’s departure from Ur represents the unbroken quest of man to find Christ, a process that will take thousands of years; and one which continues among us, even today, as we wait for Christ’s return.
Meditation : Prayer : Now, to God the Father, who first loved us, and made us accepted in the Beloved; to God the Son, who loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood; to God the Holy Ghost, who sheds the love of God abroad in our hearts, be all love and all glory in time and to all eternity............Amen |
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