Genesis

Chapter 36 & 37

How Christ was born?

• Isa 7:14

• 14 Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.

When

• Dan 9:24

• 24 "Seventy weeks are determined • For your people and for your holy city,• To finish the transgression,• To make an end of sins,• To make reconciliation for iniquity,• To bring in everlasting righteousness,• To seal up vision and prophecy,• And to anoint the Most Holy. • NKJV

• Mic 5:2

• "But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,• Though you are little among the thousands of

Judah,• Yet out of you shall come forth to Me • The One to be Ruler in Israel,• Whose goings forth are from of old,• From everlasting." • NKJV

• Eder = "a flock• Migdal (mig-dawl'); a tower

• Luke 2:8-12• Now there were in the same country shepherds living out

in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And behold, an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid. 10 Then the angel said to them,"Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. 11 For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. 12 And this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a manger."

• Mic 4:8• 8 And you, O tower of the flock,• The stronghold of the daughter of Zion,• To you shall it come,• Even the former dominion shall come,• The kingdom of the daughter of

Jerusalem."• NKJV

Justin Martyr speaks of our Lord's birth as having taken place "in a certain cave very close to the village," which cave he goes on to say had been specially pointed out by Isaiah as "a sign." The passage from Isaiah to which he refers is 33:13-19, in the Sept. version of which occurs the following: "He shall dwell on high; His place of defense shall be in a lofty cave of the strong rock"

• (from McClintock and Strong Encyclopedia, Electronic Database. Copyright (c) 2000 by Biblesoft)

• EDAR• Jerome (who calls it turris Ader) says it lay 1000

paces from Bethlehem (Onomast. s.v. Bethlehem), and intimates that it contained a prophetic anticipation (compare Targum of Pseudo-Jon. in loc.) of the birth of the Messiah on the same spot (Luke 2:7,8).

• (from McClintock and Strong Encyclopedia, Electronic Database. Copyright (c) 2000 by Biblesoft)

• Luke 2:8• " There was near Bethlehem, on the road to Jerusalem, a tower

known as Migdal Eder , or "the watch-tower of the flock." Here was the station where shepherds watched the flocks destined for sacrifice in the temple. Animals straying from Jerusalem on any side, as far as from Jerusalem to Migdal Eder , were offered in sacrifice. It was a settled conviction among the Jews that the Messiah was to be born in Bethlehem, and equally that he was to be revealed from Migdal Eder . The beautiful significance of the revelation of the infant Christ to shepherds watching the flocks destined for sacrifice needs no comment.

• (from Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament, Electronic Database. Copyright (c) 1997 by Biblesoft)

• Edom (or, fully, 'Edowm) —• Edom = "red"• 1) Edom • 2) an Edomite, Idumean, descendants of Esau • 3) the land of Edom, Idumea, a land south and

southeast of Palestine

• (from The Online Bible Thayer's Greek Lexicon and Brown Driver & Briggs Hebrew Lexicon, Copyright © 1993, Woodside Bible Fellowship, Ontario, Canada. Licensed from the Institute for Creation Research.)

• Amos 1:11• 11 Thus says the LORD:• "For three transgressions of Edom, and for four,• I will not turn away its punishment,• Because he pursued his brother with the sword,• And cast off all pity; His anger tore perpetually,• And he kept his wrath forever.

Passage Through Edom Refused

• Num 20:14-18• Now Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of

Edom."Thus says your brother Israel: 'You know all the hardship that has befallen us, 15 how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers. 16 When we cried out to the LORD, He heard our voice and sent the Angel and brought us up out of Egypt; now here we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your border. 17 Please let us pass through your country. We will not pass through fields or vineyards, nor will we drink water from wells; we will go along the King's Highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left until we have passed through your territory.'"

• 18 Then Edom said to him, "You shall not pass through my land, lest I come out against you with the sword."

• 2 Chron 28:17• 17 For again the Edomites had come, attacked Judah,

and carried away captives.

• Ps 137:7• 7 Remember, O LORD, against the sons of Edom• The day of Jerusalem,• Who said, "Raze it, raze it,• To its very foundation!"

Chapter 37

• Heb 11:9-10

• 9 By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; 10 for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

JOSEPH

• Seventeen years old when sold into Egypt (Jacob being 108, and Isaac living 12 years afterward), 30 when made governor (Gen 30:23-24 Gen 37:2 Gen 41:46), 39 before Jacob came into Egypt; so born 1906 BC He is called" son of Jacob's old age,"

Joseph the Son and the Slave

• His life carried a living symbolic portrait of the person of the Messiah, His features, redeeming work, and glories.

• Phil 2:5-8• Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, 6

who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, 7 but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.

• NKJV

• John 3:16-17• 16 For God so loved the world that He

gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

• John 15:13• 13 Greater love has no one than this, than

to lay down one's life for his friends.• NKJV

The Colored tunic • St. Augustine and the scholar Origen; • The colored tunic is the Church, attached to the Lord Christ, as His

tunic. In His transfiguration, “His clothes became as white as the light” (Matthew 17: 2), as a reference to the Church, acquired by the Lord for Himself, and where He dwelt, being the Sun of righteousness who illuminate it.

• That tunic was refereed to by the apostle Paul, saying of himself, “Then last of all, he was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time” (1 Corinthians 15: 7).

• That border of garment was touched by the woman with the flow of blood (namely, the nations defiled by pagan worship), to get healed of her ailment. As to being colored, the apostle says: “Now there

are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord” (1 Crinthians 12: 4, 5).

• Matt 27:17-18

• 17 Therefore, when they had gathered together, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?" 18 For he knew that they had handed Him over because of envy.

• NKJV

• Father Caesarius, Bishop of Arles: • [Jacob sent his son to proclaim his worry for their safety;

and God the Father sent His Only-begotten Son, to visit mankind, who were weak with sin, a lost flock.

• As Joseph sought his brothers, he wandered in the wilderness; and the Lord Christ, as He sought mankind,

He wandered in the world ... • Joseph sought his brothers in Shechem, that means

(shoulder); as the sinners gave their backs to the Righteous, and put their shoulders backwards].

• Father Bemon: • [Joseph, their brother, was incapable of decreasing

sharpness of envy of his eleven brothers, who sought his death, although he did them no harm. It is obvious that

• envy is one of the worst of sins, and most difficult to cure; it flares up by the same medications that can combat other sins ...

• What can you do to somebody who increases in transgression, the more your mercy and humility get. He gets envious, not out of greed for some bribe he could have, or some favor he could gain, but because of the success and happiness of others].

• Father Caeserius says: • {Joseph found his brothers in ‘Dothan’, meaning (rebellion); as

those who wished to kill their brother, were truly in a great rebellion...., When they saw Joseph, they discussed his death; like what the Jews did to the true Joseph, the Lord Christ, as they all had one decision: to crucify Him.... Joseph’s brothers stripped him of his colored tunic; and the Jews stripped Jesus of his clothes before crucifying Him..... Joseph, stripped of his tunic, he was

• cast into a pit; and Christ, whose body was mutilated, descended into Hades....

• Joseph was pulled up and lifted out of the pit, and sold to the Ishmaelites (namely to the Gentiles); and Christ, coming back from Hades, was bought by the Gentiles for the price of faith]. So Joseph

• was a symbol of the Lord Christ: conspired against, cast into a pit, stripped of his tunic, and sold to the Gentiles

• Song 1:7

• Tell me, O you whom I love,

• Where you feed your flock,

• Where you make it rest at noon.

• John 11:49-54

• 49 And one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all, 50 nor do you consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation should perish." 51 Now this he did not say on his own authority; but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, 52 and not for that nation only, but also that He would gather together in one the children of God who were scattered abroad.

• 53 Then, from that day on, they plotted to put Him to death.

• Gen 42:20-21

• 21 Then they said to one another,"We are truly guilty concerning our brother, for we saw the anguish of his soul when he pleaded with us, and we would not hear; therefore this distress has come upon us."

• NKJV