David Journal

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  • Abrahams posterity

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    I always think of Abraham as the father of two sons each of whom had enough posterity to form a nation. It’s too ready to forget the six sons he had with Keturah who he matured after the death of Sarah. Even if none of those six sons had as much posterity as Ishmael or…

  • Abraham and sacrifice

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    When the Lord commanded Abraham to do something which he found reprehensible and whichWould seem to keepsake the fulfilling of the covenant that God had made with him, Abraham code to believe that God had a purpose in His request and faithfully went to complete the task he was commanded to do. I wonder if…

  • Abraham part 2

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    Because of the animosity between Sarah and Hagar I think we often lose sight of the fact that Abraham loved both of his sons.

  • Abraham part 1

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    Thirteen years after the birth of Ishmael the Lord gave Abraham his new name and promised him a child by Sarah to carry the covenant. That was when the practice of circumcision was introduced. I think we forget that Abraham pled for Ishmael to be blessed. He didn’tplay favorites with his sons.it was the Lord…

  • Abram part 3

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    I don’t know why I had never realized before that Abraham was told before he ever had children that his seed would serve in captivity for 400 years and that the fourth generation (which turns out to be Moses’ generation) would come out of bondage. It sounds like Hagar was a servant that Sarah got…

  • Abram part 2

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    The happenings when Abraham lived in the plains near Sodom and Gomorrahwe’d significant. He chose to give Lot his choice of space when their servants quarreled. When Lot was captured, Abraham took military action to rescue him. That was when Melchizedek cane down to Abraham and glablessed him and administered covenants of righteousness to him.…

  • Abram part 1

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    It may well be that we have more written about Abraham then about any other historical figure besides Christ.i have no expectation of finishing my study of him quickly. The Old Testament coverage of Abraham had him traveling around receiving promises from the Lord and being righteous but it didn’t indicate the decision he made…

  • Abraham 3

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    This explanation if there being hierarchy and organization even among eternal entities is important as it describes how we can have no beginning and no end and yet be less advanced than God. Without that understanding we fall into one of two traps: either we feel equal with God our we feel foreign from God.…

  • Abraham 2

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    Abraham’s attempts to convince his family to follow after righteousness were at last partly successful because his father and his nephew both followed him when he left the land if Ur although his father abandoned him and began worshipping idols again once he found a place where he could raise flocks. This indicates that Abraham…

  • Abraham 1

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    I get the impression that Abraham first learned about the priesthood by studying history. In other words, there was still still enough secular knowledge concerning the origin and history of men that an interested person could come to know the fundamentals – at least enough to sell out the priesthood. With Melchizedek still alive there…