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. People who disagree with the so-called historic Church aren't ep ipso messed up. Don't be such a bigot. _

- Genesis 38:1-2 ● Gen 38:1a . . About that time Joseph was 17 when he arrived in Egypt (Gen 37:2) and 30 when he became prime minister (Gen 41:46). When he went to work for Pharaoh; a 14-year period began, consisting of two divisions-- seven years of plenty, and seven years of famine. After 9...

. _ Switching To The New Covenant _ ● Matt 5:18 . .Verily, I say unto you: Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Christ's statement reveals that the Jews can't just walk away from the covenant that their ancestors agreed...

. The covenant that Moses' people agreed upon with God as per Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy contains an extensive sacrificial system. The most important ritual is Yom Kippur's annual procedure, a.k.a. the great day of atonement. One of Yom Kippur's purposes is to remind the...

- Genesis 37:29-36 ● Gen 37:29-30 . .When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not in the pit, he rent his clothes. Returning to his brothers, he said: The boy is gone! Now, what am I to do? Precisely where, and why, Reuben wasn't present when his brothers sold Joseph isn't...

- Genesis 37:25b-28 ● Gen 37:25b . . Looking up, they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, their camels bearing gum, balm, and ladanum to be taken to Egypt. In our day, the Ishmaelites would be driving diesel trucks loaded with flat screen TVs, 501 Levi jeans, Nike sports apparel...

. Another thing different in the new covenant (very different) is the nature of its high priesthood. NOTE: A biblical high priesthood doesn't consist of a guild of priests, i.e. it's an office held by only one man at a time; typically to his death. The new covenant's high priesthood is...

- Genesis 37:21-25a ● Gen 37:21-22 . . But when Reuben heard it, he tried to save him from them. He said: Let us not take his life. And Reuben went on: Shed no blood! Cast him into that pit out in the wilderness, but do not touch him yourselves-- intending to save him from them and restore him...

- The covenant that Moses' people agreed upon with God as per Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy contains an extensive sacrificial system. The most important ritual is Yom Kippur's annual procedure, a.k.a. the great day of atonement. One of Yom Kippur's purposes is to remind the...

- Genesis 37:18-20 ● Gen 37:18a . .They saw him from afar, Just how far isn't said; though it was probably the youngest among Joseph's brothers who saw and recognized him first. A few of the men were getting up in years at this time and were well past young adulthood. Optical science is...

- Another thing different in the new covenant is the nature of its high priesthood. NOTE: A biblical high priesthood doesn't consist of a guild of priests, i.e. it's an office held by only one man at a time; typically to his death. The new covenant's high priesthood is patterned after a man in...

- ● Jer 31:31-34 . . Behold, the days are coming, declares The Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant...

- Genesis 37:5-17 ● Gen 37:5-8 . . Once Joseph had a dream which he told to his brothers; and they hated him even more. . . . He said to them: Hear this dream which I have dreamed. There we were binding sheaves in the field, when suddenly my sheaf stood up and remained upright; then your...

- Genesis 37:1-4 ● Gen 37:1-2a . . Now Jacob was settled in the land where his father had sojourned, the land of Canaan. This, then, is the line of Jacob: Genesis doesn't list a big genealogy right here like the one for Esau in chapter 36, but rather, it's going to "follow" the line of Jacob...

- Genesis 36:1-12 Chapter 36 is mostly a genealogy, so I'm only going to do just a few of its forty-three verses. ● Gen 36:1 . .This is the line of Esau-- that is, Edom. Edom is from the Hebrew word 'Edom (ed-ome') which is the color red; and was the tag hung on him back in Gen 25:30. ● Gen...

- Genesis 35:22b-29 ● Gen 35:22b-26 . . Now the sons of Jacob were twelve in number. The sons of Leah: Reuben-- Jacob's first-born --Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maid: Dan and Naphtali. And the sons of Zilpah...

- Genesis 35:21-22a ● Gen 35:21 . . Israel journeyed on, and pitched his tent beyond Migdal-eder. Although Israel is Jacob's spiritual name, it's also the name of his whole household (e.g. Gen 34:7) so that when Genesis says "Israel journeyed" it means everybody associated with Jacob was on...

- Genesis 35:16b-20 ● Gen 35:16b . . Rachel was in childbirth, and she had hard labor. Rachel was no longer a spring chicken. Rueben, Jacob's firstborn, is now old enough to fool around with grown women. It's probably been in the neighborhood of 40+ years since Rachel's first meeting with...

- Genesis 35:13-16a ● Gen 35:13-14 . . God parted from him at the spot where He had spoken to him; and Jacob set up a pillar at the site where He had spoken to him, a pillar of stone, and he offered a libation on it and poured oil upon it. The pillar that Jacob erected on this same site back...

- Genesis 35:6-12 ● Gen 35:6-7 . .Thus Jacob came to Luz-- that is, Bethel --in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him. There he built an altar and named the site El-bethel, for it was there that God had revealed Himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother. Bethel...