The morning
Manna will be provided at 6am. Thanks. Studying
Genesis in the SSnet.org series Lesson 8, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to
your heart. The Topic today
is: "Sarah's death and other related Sarah matters". 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 101 and for the laymen edition or Standard Edition, on page 67. 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. ---Dr. Doukhan
[a Christian French Jew] outlined the role of Sarah in the Bible very well. ---Only a few
lines are preserved like the fact of her old age; her laughter; the purchase of
her burial place; Abraham's next wife; Rebekkah's birth ---Phonologically,
Heth is related to a nation of HIttites [Hit-]. That means, they are not
residents of Canaan but squatters or migrants from somewhere else. ---If God is
planning to give their properties to Abraham then it is becasue they are just
usus fructus of the land, not in "Hittite land". ---Hittites
were a culture, language, religion, nation but we do not have tablets from them
this early in 2146ff. ---Isaac would
take Rebekkah at the age of 40 (Gen 25:20) in 2091 BC. ---The Second
Great Famine after the Flood is going to be 2040-2031 BC. ---Isaac would
be asked to go to Egypt and dwell there. ---The Promise
will be reiterated with Isaac then.