Tuesday, October 24, 2017

THE HOLLY BIBLE : 1- GENESIS


Genesis is the beginning of the Book of Bereshit, which is the beginning of everything. Whatever history or events or prophecies we must start from Genesis, the beginning of the world, the beginning of human history, the family, civilization and salvation. For example, to understand the slavery and the sonship of God we begin to understand them from Genesis. 
We begin to understand it from composition, to understand marriage and divorce and the relationship of God to his bride we begin to understand also from Genesis to understand also any ritual such as prayer and priesthood we begin to understand from Genesis. It is the story of God's purpose and plan for his creation. It proclaims the person and nature of God (the Creator, the Savior, the Deity, the Redeemer), the value and dignity of human beings (created in the image of God, the Savior, and those who serve God in the world). Then the tragedy of sin and its consequences (fall, separation from God, judgment), then the promise of salvation and confirmation (covenant, forgiveness, Messiah promised).




The name of the Genesis came from the Septuagint of Genesis and meant formative beginnings.




1. The time in which Genesis was written is the fifteenth century BC, that is, three and five hundred years ago, we must understand how much time has passed, how many environmental concepts have changed, how much local culture has emerged and disappeared, science has not yet emerged, In other words or another meaning. To understand it, we must return to our thinking as we read it not in the measure of freedom in the 21st century, but we must measure it by its primitive and environmental measure.




2. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and then the tribes lived this tribal life, and the tribes were just tribes. And the life of the tribes that are looking for water is one of the most important virtues where generosity with the guest who does not have water or food. This is what we saw in the vineyard of Abraham and Lot with their guests.




3. The tribe is a group of families descended from one father living in solidarity to protect its members, so if separated from one tribe had to resort to another tribe protect him, and each tribe is characterized by the name of the great father (this is seen in the tribes, say the tribe of Judah).




(Genesis 12:15) The Danes were strangers to Israel (Genesis 19:15) and Caleb entered into the tribe of Judah (Numbers 12:32 + 6:14). Jude (1: 18: 2 + counting 6:13).




This is what happened with the tribe of Simeon, which was melted in the tribe of Judah (Joshua 19: 1-9). And Moses does not mention the tribe of Simeon in his blessing to the tribes (Deuteronomy 33). Judah.




6. Each tribe has its limits, but there are permanent conflicts over water sources from the wells. Lot's shepherds fought with the shepherds of Abraham, and Obaid's slaves seized a well dug by the servants of Abraham. Isaac faced the same problem (Genesis 7: 13 + 21: 25-26: 19-22).




7. The tribe was protecting its guest and this is a great honor which is the honor of hospitality. So Lot was about to give his daughters to the people of Sodom to save his hosts. The cities of refuge became an expression of a spiritual and symbolic meaning to this concept. The cities of Malaga for the Jews were a way to reduce the taking of relics.




8. When a clan lives in a place that may give up the original name of the tribe and call itself a name derived from the place where it lived, we hear about the tribe of the Chaldeans (Judges 17: 5).




9. The tent, which is the basis of residence in the tribes, continued to express the places of residence even after they had houses and cities in which they lived, and this procession continued until they portrayed death as disassembling the tents of the tent (Exodus 21: 4 + Ash 12:38 + 2 Ko 5: 1). Peace was described by the tight tent (Ash 20:33). And the multiplicity of offspring was likened to the breadth of the tent (Ash 2:54).




10. Note that it was widespread in the Old Testament polygamy, which began with "Lamk" of the descendants of Cain. The children of Seth have committed themselves to the principle of one wife as is evident from the story of Noah had both Noah and his children one wife. Then spread the doctrine of polygamy (Jacob, for example). The husband had to take a secret only for the birth at first and then evolved and became otherwise. Confidentiality does not have the same status and wife's rights. The man had to enter his neighbor if his wife was sterile this was an environmental tradition and does not scold the conscience of the human on this matter because it is a starch and come back to him, this is what Sarah did not consider strange to the habits of society at this time all this to increase the offspring. The offspring were the most important thing for them so that the man had a place and prestige (Psalm 127: 3-5). Therefore, the Jews did not understand the meaning of virginity, so the blessing of the Lord to man meant increasing the offspring. The Talmud defines the number of wives as four for the average man and eighteen for the king. So Suleiman was an anomaly. But polygamy was the source of family turmoil, as happened with Abraham and Jacob.




11. Because of polygamy, there could have been sisters other than sisters (ie they had the same father but different mothers). The brother was able to marry his sister sister and also married Ibrahim Sara. As Tamar asked Amnon to ask her to marry their father David. This is what we understand that sometimes the relationship of kinship was attributed to the mother and not to the father, but this was rare. But the general figure is the proportions of the person to his father and not to his mother. But we note the interest of the Bible in the proportion of each king of Judah to his mother as to his father.




12. There is a Hebrew obligation that a family member devours another member of the same family and protects, defends and avenges him. This is known to all tribes. However, when the Hebrews take their own situation, the Savior is the nearest person to the injured individual or in captivity. If the Israeli is forced to sell himself as a slave to pay off debt, it is the duty of the Redeemer or Savior to hasten the eviction of his family and repay his debt. Thus, his debt would be repaid if he had to sell his house or land so that the house or the land would not fall into foreign hands. Boaz was the Savior or Redeemer for Ruth and Naomi when the savior abandoned his closest role for them. Perhaps that is why the travel writer forgot to name the First Redeemer.
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