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(1) Walk Thru The Word for Today:   Gen 49: 28—33

(Jacob Looks Forward To Being Resurrected In Jerusalem)  

28All these are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them as he blessed them, blessing each with the blessing suitable to him. 29Then he commanded them and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 30in the cave that is in the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place. 31There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah— 32the field and the cave that is in it were bought from the Hittites.” 33When Jacob finished commanding his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed and breathed his last and was gathered to his people.

(2) Walk Thru The Word for Today:  Gen. Gen. 50: 1- 6 (ESV)

(Jacob Is Embalmed Over 40 Days with Great Detail & Joseph Gets Permission To Bury Jacob In Canaan)    

 1Then Joseph fell on his father’s face and wept over him and kissed him. 2And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel. 3Forty days were required for it, for that is how many are required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.

4And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, 5‘My father made me swear, saying, “I am about to die: in my tomb that I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me.” Now therefore, let me please go up and bury my father. Then I will return.’” 6And Pharaoh answered, “Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear.”

(3) Walk Thru The Word for Today:  Gen. 50: 7-10 (ESV)

(Jew & Gentile Travel To Jerusalem, The Site Of Patriarchal Resurrection) 

7So Joseph went up to bury his father. With him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, 8as well as all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s household. Only their children, their flocks, and their herds were left in the land of Goshen. 9And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company. 10When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and grievous lamentation, and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

(4) Walk Thru The Word for Today:  Gen. 48: 1518 (ESV)

(Jacob Blesses Ephraim, The Younger Over Manassaeh, The Older

7So Joseph went up to bury his father. With him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, 8as well as all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s household. Only their children, their flocks, and their herds were left in the land of Goshen. 9And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company. 10When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and grievous lamentation, and he made a mourning for his father seven days. 11When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning on the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians.” Therefore the place was named Abel-mizraim; it is beyond the Jordan. 12Thus his sons did for him as he had commanded them, 13for his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place.

(5) (Yellow – Not In Your Notes)

The New Testament explains Gods principles

The Old Testament shows us the processes of how those principles work in our lives!

 (6) Message map: Series: #13 Bouncing Back From Betrayal!

Gen. 4849 Prophecy Proclaims Israels tribal History As well as our Predestined Success!” 

(7) Gen 49: 29 & 33 (Like Jacob, we will be gathered to Gods people)   

Gen. 49: 29 Jacob 29… commanded them and said …, “I am to be gathered to my people. The phrase “to be ‘gathered’ to my people is designated for all those who “Upon death we will be assembled with those who are to be resurrected to salvation.

33When Jacob finished commanding his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed and breathed his last and was gathered to his people.

(8) Luke 16: 19-31 (The Resurrected Are Gathered TO Abraham’s Bosom & Hades!)     

Abraham’s bosom in Luke 16: 19-31 is a place where all the dead abide until the judgment.

Hebrew scholars considered Abraham’s side/bosom a place of rest, comfort and joy, like heaven.

But the term bosom literally means each of the following:

  1. “side” (as besides or next to — in an affectionate, well-meaning way)
  2. the fold or pocket of a garment that is formed as a hollow by folding up the loose fitting forepart.
  3. a bay
  4. a gulf

Jesus described the place to where the dead are transported is divided into two sections:

In Luke 16 Jesus explained that justice and retribution will be served to all in the judgment after death.

For some, justice means they’ve received the mercy and grace of God through the sacrifice of Christ, and so they are justified by faith.

For others justice means they will receive the Rom 6: 23 payment for sin, which is death.   23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

(9) Luke 16: 19-31  (Some Are Resurrected To Comfort — Others To Torment)    

Luke 16: 19-31. 49: 29 Jacob 29… commanded them and said …, “I am to be gathered to my people. The phrase “to be ‘gathered’ to my people is designated for all those who are to be resurrected to salvation. In Genesis it is said of …

which means … “Upon death we will be assembled with those who are to be resurrected to salvation.

19 “Now there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, joyously living in splendor every day. 20 “And a poor man named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores, 22 and longing to be fed with the crumbs which were falling from the rich man’s table; besides, even the dogs were coming and licking his sores. 22 “Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom; and the rich man also died and was buried. 23 “In Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and * saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his bosom. 24 “And he cried out and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.’ 25 “But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony. 26 ‘And besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you will not be able, and that none may cross over from there to us.’ 27 “And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, that you send him to my father’s house—28 for I have five brothers—in order that he may warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’ 29 “But Abraham * said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’ 30 “But he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent!’ 31 “But he said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.’ ”

Luke 16: 19-31 The Account of Lazarus & The Rich Man reveals to us the following:

FB Meyer says, Notice that memory plays a conspicuous part in the sorrow of Gehenna; that Christ gives no hope of changing the soul’s habitation; and that we have in the Scripture a more certain agent of spiritual renewal than would be provided by even the apparition of the dead.

(10) Gen 49: 28 – 33 (Jacob Looks Forward To Being Resurrected In Jerusalem)   

Jacob wants to be buried with his fathers in what will become Jerusalem which at that time is a field and a cave 30…Abraham bought/purchased from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place.

Thus 31… Abraham & Sarah, Isaac & Rebekah, and Jacob’s & Leah, are buried in the first piece of property in the land God granted them!  [bctt tweet=”In Communion, We honor Christ … The Good Shepherd Who Restores Our Souls (Psalm 23: 1-3) And Who Is Our Resurrection And Source of Abundant Life ” username=”LibertyCF3″]

From Jacob’s request to be buried in Jerusalem he indicates…

  1. Jacob believes in the resurrection of the dead. (John 11:25 “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,)
  2. In Gen 47:9 Jacob says “Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life,” so he knows he is a sinner, and so he has faith and is relying upon God’s mercy and grace for his salvation. (Gen 15:6 And he [Abraham] believed the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness.)
  1. Jacob’s hope is for the physical place/location of Jerusalem, in the promised
  2. Our hope is in heaven and The new Jerusalem of Rev 21:21

(NIN) Regarding this first purchase of the land-grant God bestows upon Israel we can assert …

(11) Gen 50: 2-3 (Great Preparation Was Made Over Jacobs Body for 40 Days As Christs Presented Himself To His Disciples for 40 Days) 

Jacob is prepared for burial for 40 days, as Acts 1: 3 shows Jesus presented Himself alive to them [His disciples] after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.

Hebrews 10:5-7 5Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, “Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me; 6in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure. 7Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,  as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’” 8When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), 9then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second. 10And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

In Psalm 40: 6-7 Christ says, 6In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear.    Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required. 7Then I said, “Behold, I have come; in the scroll (volume) of the book it is written of me:

Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

(12) Gen. 50: 7-13 (Jews & Gentiles Travel to Jerusalem The Site of The Patriarchal Hope of Resurrection)       

Gen. 50: 7-13 The great company of Jews & Gentiles that travel To Jerusalem to intern Jacob in Jerusalem, site of patriarchal resurrection, is provided to demonstrate … though John 4:22 explains that God brings salvation through the Jews, Jesus extends an invitation to all, including each of us here today.

The great company of Egyptians & Hebrews symbolizes that …

Thus Jesus extends this invitation to us all and says in John 14:2 “…I go to prepare a place for you.

 (13) Gen. 50: 7-13 (Jews & Gentiles Travel to Jerusalem The Site of The Patriarchal Hope of Resurrection)        

A great company commemorates Jacob’s burial In Jerusalem, as we here are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses whom we want to lead to commemorate Christ’s death. (Hebrews 12:1) Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

How can we be raised?

We are eternal spirits housed inside our temporary flesh.

Jacob is buried physically but he will be raised spiritually. (I Corinthians 15: 50,  15: 42)

I Corinthians 15: 50 says “I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.”

I Corinthians 15: 42 says, “So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable [flesh]; what is raised is [our] imperishable [spirit].”

1 Corinthians 15:44 says “it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.”

1 Corinthians 15:42 —48 says…

42So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. 43It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. 44It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 46But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. 47The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. 48As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. 49Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.

Let’s celebrate what God has done for us, as we sing Nothing But The Blood and prepare for Communion:

In Communion

We Reflect on Christ,

Whose Body Took On God’s Punishment for Our Sins.

(Hebrews 10:5-7)

Who Indeed Has Prepared A Place For Us (John 14:2)

In Communion

We honor Christ …

The Good Shepherd Who Restores Our Souls (Psalm 23: 1-3)

And Who Is Our Resurrection And Source of Abundant Life

(John 14:6 & John 10:10)

In John 11, as Jesus was about to raise Lazarus from the dead, He told Martha, “23… “Your brother will rise again.” 24Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.” 25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, 26and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?” 27She said to him, “Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world.”

1Cor. 11: 23- 26 the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, 24and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”

Let’s partake.

25In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” 26For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

Let’s Drink.   [email-download-link namefield=”YES” id=”298″]

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