The Strand Study Bible

GENESIS 22:12

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GENESIS 22:23

12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest 1 G O D [ TR INI TY ] , seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me. 13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abra- ham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son. 14 And Abraham called the name of that place 2 JE HOV AH- JIREH: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD 3 IT shall be seen. P 15 And the ANGEL OF THE LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, 16 And said, 4 By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son : The promise of CHRIST’S death, burial, and

17 5 That in 6 BLESSING I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy 7 SEED 8 as the stars of the heaven, and 9 as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and 10 thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; PP 18 And in thy 7 SEED shall all the nations of the earth be 6 BLESSED ; because thou hast obeyed my voice. PP 19 So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer- sheba. Word of Nahor’s family comes to Abraham 20 And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, 11 Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor; 21 Huz his firstborn, and 12 Buz his broth- er, and Kemuel the father of Aram, 22 And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel. 23 And Bethuel begat 13 Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.

1. Isa 48:14 2. meaning, “the LORD will see” 3. or, “Christ’s redemptive work”- Fulfilled - Mt 27:45-46,50 & Mk 15:33-34,37 & Lk 23:44-46 & Jn 19:28,30 (Redemption) 4. Heb 6:13,19 5. Quoted in the NT - Heb 6:14 6. Fulfilled - Mt 27:50-28:6 & Mk 15:37-16:6 & Lk 23:46-24:6 & Jn 19:30-20:9 (Death, burial, and resurrection) (See - Gal 3:6-9) 7. Fulfilled - Lk 2:7,11 (Christ’s First Coming) (See - Gal 3:16) 8. Gen 15:5 & 26:4 9. Gen 13:16 & 32:12 10. Gen 24:60 11. Gen 11:29 & 24:15 12. Job 32:2 13. Gen 24:15

resurrection; of HIS First Coming (Fulfilled - Mt 27:50-28:6 - AD 32 & Lk 2:7,11 - 1 BC)

22:12 To “fear” God is to give God the last say in your life (Deut 17:18-19, Job 28:28, Prov 13:13 and Hag 1:12). 22:16 God warned us not to swear by His name (Deut 5:11, Mt 5:33-37, Eccl 5:1-6 and I Sam 14:24-39-45), citing the fact that only He can keep His word ( By myself have I sworn – Heb 6:13,18 ). Oaths taken in the name of the Lord were greatly discouraged, and perjury was strongly condemned (Exo 20:7). 22:17 Up until 400 years ago, those who refused to believe the Bible laughed at such verses as Genesis 22:17. They mocked the very idea that the stars in the sky could be as innumerable as the sands upon the seashore. Until the invention of the telescope in Holland by Hans Lippershey (1608) and Galileo’s improved design (1610) only around 2,500 stars could be seen with the naked eye. Then, after the invention of the telescope, instead of just being able to see a few thousand stars, people were able to see millions of stars. Then came Hale’s telescope on Mt Palomar, near San Diego, California in 1949, named after astronomer George Ellery Hale, with its 500 tons of glass and steel and its 200-inch optical eye unblinking into the vastness of space. Now, instead of just being able to see millions of stars, people were able to see billions upon countless billions of stars. Then, due to the discovery of radio astronomy in 1931 by K.G. Jansky, the radio telescope, which makes use of radio waves as a means of studying the universe, has placed Palomar’s figures much too low. Assembled in 1954 at Jodrell Bank, England, the first radio telescope (76m) detected, not billions upon countless billions of stars, but trillions upon countless trillions of stars. It is estimated that within our very own Milky Way galaxy there are more than 100 billion stars; that our galaxy is about 10,000 light years thick and 100,000 light years in diameter. David D. Riegle in Creation or Evolution? notes: Someone has estimated that if our solar system were no larger than the diameter of a drinking glass, our galaxy would be the size of the whole North-American continent. 1 And that’s just our own Milky Way galaxy… Add that to the one septillion (a billion-billion) number of galaxies outside our own with at least 100 billion stars in each of them and one comes up with a staggering figure of innumerable stars. NOTE - We can now see distant galaxies at 10-12 billion light-years away. At this point in our history and technology we can see no further. Thus, we are surrounded by a horizon that we cannot look beyond –a horizon set by the distance that light can travel over the age of the universe. According to Brent Tulley, an elite astronomer out of Hawaii: The horizon describes the visible universe – a region some 28 billion light-years in diameter. And there is every reason to think that the universe extends a long way beyond the part of the universe we can see. In fact, a variety of observations suggest that our visible patch may be a small fraction – maybe an infinitely small fraction – of the whole universe. 2 Thanks to modern science it has now been estimated by elite astronomers that there are as many stars in the heavens as there are grains of s and upon our seashores.

1 Riegle, David D. Creation or Evolution? , Grand Rapids, MI, Zondervan, 1962. Print. 2 Tully, Brent. “ How Big is the Universe .” Nova Online. Nov 2000. PBS. 14 Jan 2008 .