The morning
Manna will be provided at 6am. Thanks. Studying
Genesis in the SSnet.org series Lesson 9, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to
your heart. The Topic today
is: "Jacob leaves". The Opening
Hymn will be 229 "Spirit of the Living God" The Sabbath
School Quarterly, downloadable from SSnet.org in the Teacher's Edition is on
page 116 and for the laymen edition or Standard Edition, on page 77. The SSnet.org
site allows anyone, anywhere to read the lesson in their own language. Choose
your own language to see God speaking also to your heart. ---Jacob
learned a lot from suffering the deception by Laban. ---He passively
accepted all without rebellion. ---Because of
his attitude, he was able to hear the voice of God more clearly. ---God told him
to leave Laban and return to his family. ---Ellen White
added that he had to leave Laban because the sons of Laban may eye his wealth
and try to take it by violence, as she said in Patriarchs and Prophets 193. ---Her work is
indeed an inspired commentary on the Old Testament. It provides us with a
fuller picture that does not contradict the Bible at all. ---People say,
well she compiled it from sources she used. Yes, most authors with two or three
doctoral degrees, and even Albright with his 11 doctorates, used sources. ---But all
these authors have chronological errors! Albright thought the Exodus was in the
13th century BC which is contradicting 1 Kings 6:1-4! She does not. How is that
possible since she was not learned? ---Holy Spirit
inspired commentary. That is how. ---It is easy
to calculate the date of leaving Laban since Joseph was born when they left.
Joseph became 110 years old Gen 50:22. ---30 years
after the death of Joseph started the 400 years oppression until the Exodus
(see Gal 3:17-19). It is not from the death of Abraham but from Joseph. ---The Exodus
date is calculated in 1 Kings 6:1-4 from the 4th year of Solomon, which is
967/966 BC with Thiele/Horn and 970 BC with Shea/Davidson. ---970 moving
back 480 years brings us to 1450 BC for the Exodus under Thutmosis III. ---The law was
given two years later in 1448 and from this 400 years are counted thus, 1848
for the oppression to start, 30 years after Joseph's death. Thus Joseph died in
1878 BC. --Joseph was
born 110 years before this when Jacob left Laban in 1988 BC.