We apologize for no videos these past days. God has healed and filled so many in the workplace, hospitals and churches where we are at it’s almost impossible to report. We have kept a journal and still even that is getting behind. Please pray that we can somehow stay on top of this huge wave of His glorious awakening for humanity.
Abraham
Abraham was an Iraqi. He migrated to Syria. God called him to Israel. At least that is how it would look on today's map. God called Abraham to raise up a nation that would glorify Jehovah. He might have done it in Iraq or in Syria, but He didn't. God planted Jews in Israel. Abraham would roll over in his grave if he knew all the hatred and warmongering among his grandchildren.
Genesis 12:1 - "...the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, ...unto a land that I will shew thee."
A Great Nation
Abraham and Sarai were in their seventies and still childless when God promised that Abraham would become a great nation. Four centuries later, over a million of his descendants marched out of bondage in Egypt and made their way to the very land God promised Abraham. Within another 120 years, Kings David and Solomon would preside over one of the most glorious kingdoms in the history of man.
Genesis 12:2 - "And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing."
Name Changes
God changed Abram ("Exalted Father") to Abraham ("Father of Many Nations"). He changed Sarai ("Princess") to Sarah ("Princess of All"). God changed Jacob ("Supplanter") to Israel ("Prince with God"). God caused the names of the twelve tribes to be engraved in precious stones on the high priest's garment. Simon ("Reed") became Peter ("Rock"). Saul ("Prayed For") became Paul ("Humble"). In Heaven, God will give His saints a new name written in a White Stone. There the wicked will be forgotten because THEIR NAMES will be BLOTTED OUT.
Genesis 12:2 - "I will bless thee, and make thy name great."
Abraham's Blessing
Over 4,000 years ago, God called Abram from Ur of the Chaldees (now in southern Iraq). For forsaking both homeland and family roots, God promised to make a great nation in which He would demonstrate divine blessing. The blessing traced through Isaac and Jacob (Israel). Today, everyone who harms Israel (including the United States) will be cursed for it. If you want God's blessing, bless Israel.
Genesis 12:3 - " I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed."
Another OMBS BibleStudy
God Spoils The Godless Ambitions Of Men
One of the most deceptive "religious" practices today is "positive affirmation." It revolves around this concept, "If the mind of man can conceive it and believe it, it can achieve it." There is no God in the midst of such thinking. That is humanistic at its core. It is spiritualistic, mind-over-matter arrogance. God will someday come down and destroy everything built on that premise.
Genesis 11:5,9 - "The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. ...and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth."
Confusion Of Tongues
One of the greatest ironies of all God's dealings with man is the contrast between the Tower of Babel and the day of Pentecost. At Babel, God confused their tongues and scattered the people so they could not continue to work together. But on the day of Pentecost, God caused 120 believers to speak in unknown tongues to empower and unify them. What is confusion to man is crystal clear to God.
Genesis 11:9 - "Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth."
Arphaxad
Born two years after Noah's flood, Arphaxad was the father of Ura and Kesed who founded the ancient city of Ur of the Chaldees (according to an ancient extra-biblical source found among the Dead Sea Scrolls). In 1927, Britisharchaeologist Leonard Woolley discovered the ancient ruins of Ur between Basra and Nasiriyah, Iraq, near Kuwait. Abraham came from there. Discoveries included vast riches of Sumerian artifacts and ruins from the days of Belshazzar and Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.
Genesis 11:10 - "Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood."
TerahAbraham's father took his family from Ur of the Chaldees to Haran, Assyria (modern Turkey) - a prosperous community at that time at the crossroads between Damascus, Nineveh and Carchemish. People there worshipped the moon god Sin. God told Abraham to get out of there. Good advice.
Genesis 11:31 - "And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, ...and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there."
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