🔥 GENESIS CHAPTER 25 | BASIC UNDERSTANDINGS OF SCRIPTURE FOR TRUTH (PART 22) 🔥

Mike Balloun teaches today. 10-26-24

🔥 GENESIS CHAPTER 25 | BASIC UNDERSTANDINGS OF SCRIPTURE FOR TRUTH (PART 22) 🔥
To Know Christ is to be changed into His Likeness / Contending for the Faith

VERSES: Ephesians 1:17, 4:13-16; Hebrews 12:1-2; Jude 1:3; 1st John 4:17

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Verses 1-4 Abraham weds Keturah. This is the final prophetic type or shadow of (5) future key events set forth consecutively in Genesis Chapters 21-25. Chapter 21 starts with the birth of Isaac, which is typical of the birth of Jesus, the Promised Seed. Then Chapter 22 is the ‘binding of Isaac, which types the Crucifixion of Jesus. And Chapter 23 is the death of Sarah, which types Israel’s rejection of the Messiah. With these 3 types being now fulfilled, the 4th type, seen in Chapter 24, is the servant’s search for Isaac’s Bride Rebekah, who then weds Isaac. Which, in the anti-type, is the search of the Holy Spirit for the Bride of Christ. (After the dispensation that we are currently living in, now 2000 years old, the Holy Spirit will complete His mission, and will then present the Bride to Jesus… who then, according to Scripture, will be wed in the unseen heavenly part of this Realm). After which the final type will be fulfilled; that of Abraham being wed to Keturah (her name meaning incense/fragrance or a sweet aroma unto God); which represents Israel’s restoration and her fruitfulness in the Millennial Kingdom of Jesus on the Earth (symbolized by the 6 sons she had with Abraham).

Verse 5 Though he gave gifts to his other seed, …“Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac. This points to the Father having invested all He has in His only begotten Son.

Abraham is the Holy Spirit’s great example of ‘faith’ and of sufferings after being saved, in the hope of resurrection glory. Having successfully run and finished the race; the length and course set by God, Abraham ‘gave up the ‘spirit’ (his spirit). Scripture says in Ecclesiastes 12:7, that upon death… “Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.” (The spirit being that part of the living soul with power to animate the body with the soul.) See Luke 23:46… “And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.”) Abraham’s body then died, like all men’s bodies, being under the Curse of God for Adam’s rebellion (Genesis 3:19, Romans 5:12), and his body was buried in the tomb of Machpelah. Genesis 25:8 says, “Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people” (those with a like-minded faith in God). He, himself, the soul, an eternal intelligent being “was gathered” or escorted by the Angels (Luke 16:22) to a place the Lord referred to later as “Abraham’s Bosom.” While hanging on the Cross, speaking to the thief near Him, He referred to this same place as the ‘Paradise’ of Hades. (Luke 23:43) For the soul to go there (Paradise) after the spirit goes back to God, tells of God’s favorable judgement, particularly for those who lived a life of ‘faith,’ thus the name “Abraham’s Bosom” (appropriately named since Abraham is the ‘father of faith’). Being appointed there then rightly puts one in intimate relation with the ‘father of faith.’ Paradise/Abraham’s Bosom being that specific place in Sheol/Hades wherein the Angels have gathered all the like-minded people who died since Adam. Like Noah… who “walked with God” while alive, as opposed to men who walked contrary to ‘faith’ and God, who are taken by Angels after death to another place in Hades, which is referred to by Jesus as a place of ‘torment.’ (Luke 16:23… “And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.” See also Numbers 16:32-33)

Faithful Abraham and his Old Testament and New Testament faith-filled ‘seed,’ who have passed from the living on the Earth, are today alive and alert in Hades, in the depths of the Earth, living in the Paradise Garden, waiting for their future promised reward of the First Resurrection, the return of spirit and body, and their inheritance in the Kingdom of the Promised Seed; the King of Kings. (Luke 16, Revelation 20:4-6) But all that we have not here time to visit, as that is not the subject matter of this lesson.

The life of Abraham, and his being in Covenant with God, is the foundational great story of ‘faith’ that has been told so far in Genesis. At the forefront of this faith is the coming Seed of Promise, the Son of God, the Christ/Anointed One of the Father, in the destroying of the works of satan and the salvation of man based upon God’s promise made in Genesis 3:15… “And I will put enmity....