ISAAC The Overlooked Patriarch (1) By David Dann
ISAAC: The Overlooked Patriarch Isaac is one of the major patriarchs of the Old Testament.
ISAAC: The Overlooked Patriarch Hebrews 11:8-10 8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. 9 By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; 10 for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
ISAAC: The Overlooked Patriarch Genesis 22:18 18 "In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice."
ISAAC: The Overlooked Patriarch Genesis 26:4 4 "And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven; I will give to your descendants all these lands; and in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed..."
ISAAC: The Overlooked Patriarch Isaac is one of the major patriarchs of the Old Testament.
ISAAC: The Overlooked Patriarch Isaac is one of the major patriarchs of the Old Testament. Isaac is often overlooked.
ISAAC: The Overlooked Patriarch Genesis 35:28 28 Now the days of Isaac were one hundred and eighty years.
ISAAC: The Overlooked Patriarch Matthew 8:11-12 11 "And I say to you that many will come from east and west, and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. 12 "But the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
ISAAC: The Overlooked Patriarch Luke 13:28-29 28 "There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and yourselves thrust out. 29 "They will come from the east and the west, from the north and the south, and sit down in the kingdom of God."
ISAAC: The Overlooked Patriarch Isaac is one of the major patriarchs of the Old Testament. Isaac is often overlooked.
ISAAC: The Overlooked Patriarch Isaac is one of the major patriarchs of the Old Testament. Isaac is often overlooked. Isaac’s record is preserved in Scripture for our benefit.
ISAAC: The Overlooked Patriarch Romans 15:4 4 For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.
ISAAC: The Overlooked Patriarch Isaac is one of the major patriarchs of the Old Testament. Isaac is often overlooked. Isaac’s record is preserved in Scripture for our benefit.
ISAAC: Son Of Promise
ISAAC: Son Of Promise Genesis 15:5 5 Then He brought him outside and said, "Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them." And He said to him, "So shall your descendants be."
ISAAC: Son Of Promise Genesis 17:19 19 Then God said: "No, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his descendants after him."
ISAAC: Son Of Promise Genesis 17:17 17 Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, "Shall a child be born to a man who is one hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?"
ISAAC: Son Of Promise Genesis 18:12 12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"
ISAAC: Son Of Promise Genesis 21:5-6 5 Now Abraham was one hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. 6 And Sarah said, "God has made me laugh, and all who hear will laugh with me."
ISAAC: Son Of Promise Genesis 21:3-4 3 And Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him -- whom Sarah bore to him -- Isaac. 4 Then Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.
ISAAC: Symbolic Sacrifice
ISAAC: Symbolic Sacrifice Genesis 22:2 2 Then He said, "Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you."
ISAAC: Symbolic Sacrifice Genesis 22:7-8 7 But Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, "My father!" And he said, "Here I am, my son." Then he said, "Look, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?" 8 And Abraham said, "My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering." So the two of them went together.
ISAAC: Symbolic Sacrifice Genesis 22:9 9 Then they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order; and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, upon the wood.
ISAAC: Symbolic Sacrifice John 1:29 29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!"
ISAAC: Symbolic Sacrifice Philippians 2:8 8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.
ISAAC: Satisfied Husband
ISAAC: Satisfied Husband Genesis 24:3-4 3 "…and I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell; 4 "but you shall go to my country and to my family, and take a wife for my son Isaac."
ISAAC: Satisfied Husband Genesis 24:48 48 "And I bowed my head and worshiped the LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the way of truth to take the daughter of my master's brother for his son."
ISAAC: Satisfied Husband Genesis 24:66-67 66 And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done. 67 Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent; and he took Rebekah and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
ISAAC: Satisfied Husband Genesis 25:20 20 Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah as wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian.
ISAAC: Steady Father
ISAAC: Steady Father Genesis 25:24 24 So when her days were fulfilled for her to give birth, indeed there were twins in her womb.
ISAAC: Steady Father Genesis 25:25-26 25 And the first came out red. He was like a hairy garment all over; so they called his name Esau. 26 Afterward his brother came out, and his hand took hold of Esau's heel; so his name was called Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.
ISAAC: Steady Father Genesis 25:27-28 27 So the boys grew. And Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field; but Jacob was a mild man, dwelling in tents. 28 And Isaac loved Esau because he ate of his game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
ISAAC: Sojourner In Canaan
ISAAC: Sojourner In Canaan Genesis 26:1 1 There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, in Gerar.
ISAAC: Sojourner In Canaan Genesis 26:2-3 2 Then the LORD appeared to him and said: "Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land of which I shall tell you. 3 "Dwell in this land, and I will be with you and bless you; for to you and your descendants I give all these lands, and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham your father."
ISAAC: Sojourner In Canaan Genesis 26:4 4 "And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven; I will give to your descendants all these lands; and in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed…"
ISAAC: Sojourner In Canaan Genesis 26:12-14 12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year a hundredfold; and the LORD blessed him. 13 The man began to prosper, and continued prospering until he became very prosperous; 14 for he had possessions of flocks and possessions of herds and a great number of servants. So the Philistines envied him.
ISAAC: Sojourner In Canaan Genesis 26:16 16 And Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we."
ISAAC: Sojourner In Canaan Genesis 26:28-29 28 But they said, "We have certainly seen that the LORD is with you. So we said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, between you and us; and let us make a covenant with you, 29 'that you will do us no harm, since we have not touched you, and since we have done nothing to you but good and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed of the LORD.'"
ISAAC: Supplier Of Prophetic Blessings
ISAAC: Supplier Of Prophetic Blessings Genesis 27:1 1 Now it came to pass, when Isaac was old and his eyes were so dim that he could not see, that he called Esau his older son and said to him, "My son." And he answered him, "Here I am."
ISAAC: Supplier Of Prophetic Blessings Genesis 27:18-19 18 So he went to his father and said, "My father.' And he said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?" 19 Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn; I have done just as you told me; please arise, sit and eat of my game, that your soul may bless me."
ISAAC: Supplier Of Prophetic Blessings Genesis 27:33 33 Then Isaac trembled exceedingly, and said, "Who? Where is the one who hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it before you came, and I have blessed him -- and indeed he shall be blessed."
ISAAC: Supplier Of Prophetic Blessings Genesis 25:23 23 And the LORD said to her: "Two nations are in your womb, Two peoples shall be separated from your body; One people shall be stronger than the other, And the older shall serve the younger."
ISAAC: Supplier Of Prophetic Blessings Genesis 27:37 37 Then Isaac answered and said to Esau, "Indeed I have made him your master, and all his brethren I have given to him as servants; with grain and wine I have sustained him. What shall I do now for you, my son?"
ISAAC: The Overlooked Patriarch Son Of Promise. Symbolic Sacrifice. Satisfied Husband. Steady Father. Sojourner In Canaan. Supplier Of Prophetic Blessings.
ISAAC: The Overlooked Patriarch Matthew 8:11-12 11 "And I say to you that many will come from east and west, and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. 12 "But the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
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