BGMCTV The City Gate Messianic Bible study. Parasha 03 Lekh L’kha (Get yourself out)

The City Gate Messianic Bible study. Parasha 03 Lekh L’kha (Get yourself out)
Main concept: Sevenfold blessing

SYNOPSIS: YEHOVAH speaks to Avram, commanding him, “Go from your land, from your birthplace and from your father’s house, to the land which I will show you.” There, YEHOVAH gives Avram the Sevenfold eternal blessing. Avram and his wife, Sarai, accompanied by his nephew Lot, journey to the land of Canaan, where Avram builds an altar. A famine forces the first Hebrew to depart for Egypt, where beautiful Sarai is taken to Pharaoh’s palace; A dream prevents the Egyptian king from touching her, and convinces him to return her to Avram and to compensate the brother-revealed-as-husband with gold, silver and cattle. Back in the land of Canaan, Lot separates from Avram and settles in the evil city of Sodom, where he falls captive. Avram sets out with a small band to rescue his nephew, defeats the kings, and is blessed by Malki-Tzedek king of Shalem brought out bread and wine. He was cohen of El `Elyon [(God Most High). Still childless ten years after their arrival in the Land, Sarai gives her maidservant Hagar to Avram. Hagar conceives, becomes insolent toward her mistress, and then flees when Sarai treats her harshly; an angel convinces her to return, and tells her that her son will father a populous nation. Ishmael is born in Avram’s eighty-sixth year. YEHOVAH changes Avram’s name to Avraham (“father of nations”), and Sarai’s to Sarah (“princess”), and promises that a son will be born to them; from this child, whom they should call Isaac (“will laugh”). Avraham is commanded to circumcise himself and his descendants as a “sign of the covenant between Me and you.”

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