Genesis 47
- Joseph's brothers told Pharaoh that they were shepherds, and Pharaoh told them to settle in the best land.
- Jacob was 130 when he entered Egypt and died at age 147.
- Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
- Why would a Jew bless an Egyptian?
- Joseph provided his family with food.
- Does this mean that Joseph's family didn't have to sell their livestock, land, or persons into Pharaoh's slavery?
- All the people's money in Egypt and Canaan was gone because they had used it on food, so Joseph tells the people to sell their livestock to him for food.
- The people finally sell their land and themselves to Pharaoh in order to save themselves from starvation.
- Pharaoh now owned all the people and their land, except for that of the priests, who were given a certain amount of food each day.
- Joseph said that after the famine ended the people would give 1/5 of their crop to Pharaoh and keep the rest for themselves.
- Why is Pharaoh's tithe twice that of God's tithe?
- The people were fruitful and had multiplied "greatly" when Jacob died.
- Jacob had Joseph promise to bury him in the land of his fathers, not in Egypt, and Joseph made this promise to his father.
Job 13
- Why does Job now want to argue his case with God when several chapters back he said who can speak before God?
- What have his friends said to him that is a lie?
- Job asks how they will stack up when God judges them.
- v.15 has 2 interpretations, one is profound, the other seems to add to Job's hopelessness. The verse that is used says, 'Though He slay me, I will hope in Him". The footnote says it can also mean, "He will slay me, I have no hope" Why the huge difference in meaning in this translation?
- Job asks for 2 things: that God would withdraw His hand from Job and that Job would not dread God.
- Job wants to speak with God.
- Job wants God to tell him his sins and wrong doings.
- What does Job mean when he says that God "makes him inherits the sins of his youth? Doesn't this null and void Job being perfect and righteous before God?
Luke 1:1 -38
- Luke writes this book to Theophilus to give an orderly account of what he has been taught.
- Who is Theophilus?
- Zechariah was chosen by lot to enter the temple and burn incense.
- Zechariah and Elizabeth, his wife, were righteous before God.
- Zechariah saw Gabriel, the angel, and asked "How shall I know this?" (referring to Elizabeth bearing him a son in her old age). Gabriel struck Zechariah mute for his unbelief.
- The angel said that John shall not drink wine and will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from birth.
- John would go before "him" in the power of Elijah, which the people were waiting to happen to fulfil the OT prophecies.
- Elizabeth became pregnant.
- Gabriel went to Mary and told her that she would bear a son, the Son of God.
- Mary asked, "How will this be since I am a virgin?". Gabriel answered this question and Mary said to let it be as you have said.
- Mary's question did not challenge God's power as much ask a practical question whose answer would again show God's power in all things.
- Mary and Elizabeth were related, so John the baptist and Jesus were distant relatives too. (Though John would be 15 months older than Jesus)
1 Corinthians 1
- Paul gives thanks for them and the workings of God in them.
- Paul addresses the divisions in their midst; some people are choosing different leaders, like Paul or Peter to put their hope in.
- Paul rebukes them for this and says it was not by "his" power he did anything among them but by the power of God.
- Christ is not divided and neither should the Corinthians be divided.
- The cross is foolish to the unsaved and the uncalled, but is wisdom to the elect.
- Jews demand sign and Greeks seek wisdom. Paul here points out that God chose the foolish and the weak to shame those who think this way.
- Even the Corinthians themselves are nothing special, but God chose them to shame the wise of that area.
- Humans have nothing to boast in before God (look at Job)
- Paul reminds them that " you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption"
- The Corinthians have been chosen by God
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