God’s Timeline – Part 33
Jacob Travels to find a Wife
Pastor Bruce A. Shields
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SERMON INTRODUCTION (2021 A.D. = 5781 Jewish
Calendar Year)
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Creation Week
(Approximately 4000 B.C.)
o Adam, Eve, and the Fall
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Cain and Abel
o Evil Fills the World
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Noah Did All God
Commanded Him
o The Flood 2400 – 2300 B.C.)
o God’s Covenant with Noah
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Noah’s Sons and Ham’s Sin
o Nations of Noah’s Sons
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Tower of Babel
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God calls Abram (2112 B.C.)
o Abram and Lot part ways
o Rescue of Lot
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The Lord’s Covenant with
Abram for Isaac
o Hagar and Ishmael Born (2101 B.C.) Abram 86 years old
o Sarai and Isaac
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The Three Visitors
o Abraham Pleads for Sodom
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Birth of Isaac (2088 B.C. Abraham 99 years old Sarah 90-Hagar and
Ishmael sent away)
o The Lord tests Abraham (2070-2068 B.C. Isaac 18-20 years old)
o Sarah Dies 127 years old (2051 B.C. Abraham is 136)
o A Wife for Isaac (2048 B.C. Isaac was 40 when he married Rebekah)
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Jacob and Esau are born (2028 B.C. Isaac was 60 Abraham 159)
o Abraham dies at 175 (2012 B.C. Isaac was 82)
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Isaac receives the
Birthright and his father’s blessing
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Esau marries two Hittites
at 40 (1988 B.C.)
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SCRIPTURE READING
Genesis 26:34-35
“When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith daughter
of Beeri the Hittite, and also Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite. 35 They
were a source of grief to Isaac and Rebekah.”
I.
THE CANAANITES AND HITTITES CAUSED GRIEF
a. Why Esau should not have
married Hittites
i.
Everyone
knew at this time that the Hittites were from the line of Heth
ii.
Heth
was the son of Canaan (Canaanites)
iii.
Canaan
was the son of Ham
b. Why was it bad to marry a
son of Ham?
i.
Because
the promise of the Lord to Abraham was to bring about the Savior through his
line, but that line HAD to be the lineage of Shem!
ii.
The
lineage of Shem (Ham’s brother) was to bring about Christ’s coming, and ONLY
that lineage!
1. Genesis 9:25 “…blessed be the Lord God
of Shem and Canaan shall be his servant.”
2. David would later defeat
them and they would become the servants of Israel
3. In Genesis 9:25-26 we read that Canaan
(Canaanites & Hittites) were cursed because of Ham and his behavior with
Noah after they left the Arc.
4. So, there were two reasons
you were not to marry a Canaanite, first, they were cursed by God, and second,
Christ the Savior would come through the lineage of Shem ONLY!
c. This was NOT a secret
i.
Everyone
would have known that God told Isaac NOT to marry a Canaanite
ii.
Everyone
would have known that Canaanites were cursed by God
iii.
Everyone
knew the promise of God given to Abraham was to be fruitful and build a nation
that would bring about Christ’s coming through the lineage of Shem
iv.
Therefore,
the intentional marriage of someone outside the lineage of Shem was a
purposeful act at breaking the lineage of the coming of Christ. In other words,
disobedience.
v.
And
this is why Genesis 26:34-35 say that Esau’s marriage to the two Hittite (Canaanite)
women were a source of grief to Isaac and Rebekah
II.
JACOB HAD BOTH THE BIRTHRIGHT AND HIS FATHERS BLESSING
a. Because of this, Esau held
a grudge
i.
Genesis 27:41 tells
us that Esau was waiting for his father Isaac to die and then he would kill his
brother Jacob
ii.
Someone
had overheard this (he probably spoke of it often) and told Rebekah
iii.
So,
she decided to send Jacob away hoping Esau would forget his anger (Genesis 27:44)
b.
Rebekah gets Isaac to send Jacob away for her
i.
In
Genesis 27:46 we read Rebekah tells Isaac
that she is “disgusted” with living because of the Hittite women
1. As of now, only Esau has
married, and it’s to two Hittites
2. Therefore, any children he
may have would not be of the lineage of Shem
3. So there is no hope in the
promise of God that was given to Abraham of being fulfilled
ii.
Rebekah
says to Isaac, “If Jacob too takes a Hittite wife, my life will not be worth
living.”
c.
The seriousness of the matter at hand
i.
The
statement is true for all of us!
ii.
If
the lineage of Shem was broken here, there would be no Christ!
iii.
Without
Christ, life itself is not worth living
III.
ISAAC SENDS JACOB TO FIND A WIFE
a. Remember, the warning from
Abraham
i.
Genesis 24:3 “Do not let Isaac marry a Canaanite”
ii.
Ham
(Noah’s son) was cursed by God (Genesis 9:25-26)
1. Canaan was Ham’s son
(Canaanites)
2. Heth was Canaan’s son
(Hittites)
3. Psalm 105:23; 78:51; 1
Chronicles 4:40
refer to Egypt as the land of Ham
b. Isaac remembers what his
father Abraham said
i.
In
Genesis 28 Isaac called Jacob and
“commanded him”, “do not marry a Canaanite woman. Go to your mother’s father
Bethuel (Jacob’s Grandfather) and take a daughter of Laban (Jacob’s uncle)
c. Isaac then passes the
promise of God to Abraham, then to Isaac on to Jacob
i.
The
promise was first given to Abraham
ii.
Then
passed on to Isaac
iii.
Now
Isaac passes it on to Jacob
iv.
Genesis 28:3-4 “May God Almighty bless you
and make you fruitful and increase in numbers until you become a community of
peoples. May He give you and your descendants the ‘blessing given to Abraham’”.
CONCLUSION –
So, the plan of God to
bring Christ the savior to us through the lineage of Shem is continuing through
Jacob! Jacob leaves to find a good wife,
and fulfill his calling.
However, we read in Genesis 28:6-9
“Now Esau learned that
Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him to Paddan Aram to take a wife from
there, and that when he blessed him he commanded him, “Do not marry a Canaanite
woman,” 7 and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to
Paddan Aram. 8 Esau then realized how displeasing the Canaanite women were to
his father Isaac; 9 so he went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of
Nebaioth and daughter of Ishmael son of Abraham, in addition to the wives he
already had.”
Esau was a little slow at
putting things together apparently. He now realized that Canaanite women were
very displeasing to his parents Isaac and Rebekah.
So, he went to his uncle
Ishmael and married Ishmael’s daughter Mahalath.
The problem here, as we
all know, Ishmael and his descendants were no closer to acceptance by God than
the daughters of Canaan.
Ishmael was rejected by
the Holy Spirit and had been thrust out of the family of Abraham.
This portrays the believer who doesn’t understand the true path of Faith and Trust (beyond simply
believing) and tries to build his case on a “work of the flesh” will fail.
Without the Holy Spirit’s
guidance, we always resort back to the flesh.
Esau taking the daughter
of Ishmael would no more please his parents Isaac and Rebekah than if he had
married a third Canaanite woman.
Next week we will learn about Jacob’s Dream at Bethel during his travel
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