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What it Means for Abraham to be the New Adam

John Sailhamer: The theme of Abraham and his descendants marking a new beginning in God’s plan of blessing is developed in a number of other ways as well in Genesis. Most notable is the frequent reiteration of God’s “blessing” in 1:28 (and 9:1)...

The Missionary Calling of Abraham

Post Series on Genesis 12:1-9: The Missionary Calling of Abraham (Genesis 12:1-3) The Missionary Obedience of Abraham (Genesis 12:4-6) The Missionary Witness of Abraham (Genesis 12:7-9) The Fallen (and Falling) Human Race After Adam and Eve fell into sin in Genesis 3,...

John’s Warning Concerning the World

Post Series on 1 John 2:15-27: John’s Warning Concerning the World (1 John 2:15-17) John’s Warning Concerning the Church (1 John 2:18-27) The Anointing of the Holy One (1 John 2:18-27) The reasons we sin are neither complicated nor new. John summarizes and...

Wives, Wells, and Jesus

Isaac, Jacob, and Moses all find their wives through interactions at a well. The parallels are fascinating: So that Isaac does not marry one of “the daughters of the Canaanites, (Gen. 24:3), Abraham sends out his servant to find Isaac a wife, and the servant...

The Revenge of the Hivites…that Never Happened

In Gen. 34, we read that two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, are alone capable of slaughtering an entire city of freshly-circumcised Hivite men “when they were sore” (Gen. 34:25) to avenge their sister Dinah, who had been raped by a prince of the...

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