The morning Manna
will be provided at 6am. Thanks.
Studying Mission in
the SSnet.org series Lesson 4, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your
heart.
The Topic today
is: “Mission as Abraham pleading and hosting Christ for Morning Manna of the
Sabbath School Lesson Mission”.
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 pages 37.
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.
Why do you not
click on this now?
https://www.adultbiblestudyguide.org/pdf.php?file=2023:4Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ423_03.pdf
---Today is Abraham and his VIP visitors in
Genesis 18. Below is a short background of the built-up to this date in Abraham’s
life. ---The first principle is to take the right
date for the Exodus as calculation: not 1445 BCE as Horn-Wood-Thiele-Douglas-Schwantes
et al presented it or is still presenting but 1450 BCE as Shea and Van Wyk is
doing. Sorry. ---The second principle is not to doubt
calculations of chronology in the Bible as approximations as Preterists love to
do. That is a false perception of the accuracy of ancients to calculate their
own chronologies. ---The false perception is not in the text
but in the mind of the beholder in modern times. ---The years are 2165-2153 BCE for Amraphel
or Hammurabi I. The law-Hammurabi was in 1790 BCE. He was a second one. ---Notice the geographical condition of the
climate and surroudings of the Dead Sea in these years in Genesis 13:10: ‚And
Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of the Jordan, that it was
well watered everywhere, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the
garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as you go unto Zoar‛. ---Egypt and the Dead Sea were countries to
desired to live. Like the Garden of Eden. ---Five kings retired here in this ‘Beverly
Hills‛ of Abraham and Lot’s time. ---Lot’s wife was very happy there in the “debt-valley
of the rich”. ---Image and show was the name of the game. ---Fame was connected to how many diamonds
and gold the camels outside the house had on their saddles and travel gear. ---But Lot’s wife was drawn in by these
shiny flickering objects. ---Genesis 14:3 says that the Dead Sea was
the area: “valley of Siddim—the same is the Salt
Sea”. ---These kings from the East with Hammurabi
I or Amraphel as the key player, colonized the area for 12 years. ---Maybe a punishment for Abraham’s lie to
Pharaoh Neterkhet of the 2nd Dynasty of Egypt. ---The one who suffered also a drought and
talked about it in his 18th year of his reign in the Famine Stela as
seven years of severe drought. ---The inhabitants rebelled in the 13th
year: ‚and in the thirteenth year they rebelled‛. ---It was the year 2152 BCE. According to
strict biblical chronology [calculating the Exodus as 1450 BCE and Solomon’s
fourth year as 970 BCE. ---In 2151 BCE which is the 14th year.
“And in the fourteenth year came
Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, and smote. They attacked all the
surrounding neigbors of Sodom and Gemorrah valley and then came to the valley
itself as well”. ---These kings of the cities set their
battle against the Imperialists, and they set the battle in array against them
in the valley of Siddim. ---This beautiful “Garden of Eden” [not
really, just idiom for beauty] valley of Siddim had one problem: slime pits. A
good apple with little bad spots. “Now the valley of Siddim was full of slime
pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and they
that remained fled to the mountain.” ---Ismael was circumcised when Abraham was
99 years old in 2141 BCE (Genesis 17:25). ---At that time Ismael was 13 years old so
Ismael was born when Abraham was 86 years old in 2154 BCE (Genesis 16:17).‛
(Van Wyk article online at academia.edu 2017: 118). ---The error with taking God’s promises in
his own hands, Abraham made in the year 2155 BCE so Ishmael was born in 2154
BCE. ---The rebellion was in 2152 BCE and in 2151
BCE Lot was grabbed as well. “And they
took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and
departed“ (Genesis14:12). ---As punishment for Abraham’s lie and
Egypt, colonization of Siddim Valley came. As punishment for Ishmael incident,
Lot was captivated and taken away. ---Abraham had to wage a war to get Lot back
again. God forgives the sinner for his sins, but he consequences of our sins He
does not remove. ---I wonder if the latest SDA Commentary
on Genesis noticed this connection here? I do not have one here in the
Orient. ---After a very good military tactic Abraham
brought the captives back and were victorious over Chedorlaomer and his
coalition. As a result, many kings came to thank Abraham among them
Melchizedek. “And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine;
and he was priest of God the Most High.“ ---In the word Jerusalem is a part that may be connected to a priest who was
serving in 2151 BCE as a priest for God and he came to Abraham as well. ---He brought bread and grapejuice to
Abraham. Alcohol is out of the question. God and alcohol do not mix. Alcohol is
a symbol of sin. It’s effects are also. ---After the blessing that God helped
Abraham with good tactics, Abraham humbled himself and his own pride of
achievements and recognized God in his life by paying tithe (Genesis 14:20) “And
he gave him a tenth of all”. Do you? ---The year for the starting of
Amraphel/Hammurabi’s reign would be according to my findings in my article,
2165 BCE (IJRSSH)2017, Vol. No. 7,
Issue No. I, Jan-Mar pages 114-140 especially 133 athttp://www.ijrssh.com). ---Corrigenda are applicable to this article
published in 2017. I only discovered later that I made an error with the Flood
date. ---The diagram on page 133 should be
adjusted for the son of Shem, Arpachsad. Arpachsad was not 100 years old when
his son Salah was born, he was 35 years old. ---It is Arpachsad’s father Shem that was
100 years old. ---The other error in the diagram was the
typo that Eber’s birth was 2555 when it was in 2525 BCE. ---Shelah’s birth was in 2555 but my diagram
is wrong saying it is 2590 BCE. The last date is the birth of Arpachsad.
[Thanks to a handout at Tokchun by a Sahmyook speaker of the calculation by Old
Testament professor and later president of Sahmyook University, Sang-nae Kim]. ---Thus 2 years earlier would be the Flood
date at 2692 and not at 2690 BCE as given in the published diagram. It was a
slip of the eye error. Apology. ---From Genesis 15:12-21 Abraham became
a prophet. ---He saw a vision with future predictions
how the Israelites was to be enslaved with other nations in Egypt between
1850-1450 BCE = 400 years. ---It would happen in his own fourth
generation meaning that it is his own (one), Isaac (two), Jacob (three) and Joseph (four) (see Genesis 15:16). ---Joseph died in 1878 BCE and
in 1850 Sesostris III did not remember Joseph and his role in the court any
longer. ---The history of the burning of Sodom and
Gemorrah and the other cities was after the circumcision of Ishmael. ---Chapter 15 is a promise of from God for
the seed again but this time Abraham was in Canaan and the promise was to give
the land Canaan to him. ---Abraham was 86 years old (see the 10
years since Haran in Genesis
16:3) because when they were circumcised later Ishmael was 13 years old.
Isaac was not yet born. ---But Ishmael was born within the
colonization period by Amraphel and gang of the beautiful
Siddim Valley. ---The idea that Abraham was trying with
Ishmael to give himself the promised “seed” is thus sustainable with God
promising in 2165 BCE many seed, his lie in Egypt resulting in the colonization
of the Siddim Valley and a delay until 2154 BCE when he was taking in his own
hands [Ismael situation] the promised seed case. ---Then the capture of Lot after this with a
flexible two or three year slide to 2149 BCE for this event. ---If Amraphel is active in his third year
(starting 2165 as the first see article evidence) then 2162 minus 13 for the
year Lot was grabbed, would bring one to 2149 BCE. ---Sodom and Gemorrah was destroyed after
2149 BCE and maybe after the circumcision of Ishmael when Isaac was not yet
born. That was in Genesis 17. Does Moses want us to put chronology in this
chapter 17 before the destruction of Sodom and Gemorrah in chapter 18? ---The date for Ishmael’s circumcision was
said above to be 2141 BCE. Sodom and Gemorrah and the visitors to Abraham would
have been then after 2141 BC. ---Was Sodom and Gemorrah destroyed in 2140?
Maybe. ---Hope this background material to Genesis
18 is helpful. Abraham was hosting Christ as well, Ellen White said. Churchfather John Chrysostom said the same. ---Is your pastor preaching about the
stories of Bible? It is not stories or narratives. It is events, acts and
history. Whether God or humans. Correct?