3. Genesis 12-50: The Patriarchs
Overview of time period, key events, key figures:
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob
Other key characters – their wives, Lot, Melchizedek
Origin of Ammon, Moab, Edom
Game
Deep dive into the sons of Jacob
Take a look at the birth stories
Take a look at the story of Joseph
Take a look at the focus scriptures

4. Abraham, God’s friend

5. Abraham Called a friend of God (James 2:23)
Contemporary of Job & Melchizedek
“And he believed the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness” (Gen 15:6)
References to him in the New Testament
Significant portion of Hebrews 11
Gospels, Romans, Galatians, more

6. Abraham

7. Call of Abram God’s call (Gen 12:1-3) Abram obeys
Travels through Canaan
Famine causes him to go to Egypt
Claims Sarai as his sister
Picks up Hagar?

8. Abraham and Lot (Gen 13)

9. Abram rescues Lot (Gen 14)

10. Abram rescues Lot (Gen 14)
Abram recognizes authority of Melchizedek
Melchizedek is a type of Christ (Heb 7)
Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, he remains a priest perpetually (Heb 7:3)
Abram takes nothing from the king of Sodom

11. Melchizedek blesses Abram

12. God’s covenant with Abram

13. God’s covenant with Abram
God’s covenant with Abram (Gen 15)
God’s promise to him
Abram’s descendants will be as many as the stars of heaven
Hagar & Ishmael (Gen 16)
Making things happen ourselves instead of trusting God
God’s reaffirmation of covenant with Abram (Gen 17)
13 years after birth of Ishmael
Institution of circumcision
God changes Abram’s name to Abraham
God changes Sarai’s name to Sarah
Promise that son will come through Sarah

14. The destruction of Sodom & Gomorrah (Gen 18-19)

15. The destruction of Sodom & Gomorrah (Gen 18-19)
Abraham’s intercession
Wickedness of people of Sodom
Lot rescued
Origin of Moabites & Ammonites

16. Abraham (Gen 20-21) Abraham in Gerar (Gen 20) Birth of Isaac (Gen 21)
Denies Sarah is his wife again
God’s protection and blessing on us even in our foolishness
Birth of Isaac (Gen 21)
Child of promise
Ishmael and Hagar sent away

17. Offering of Isaac (Gen 22)

18. Offering of Isaac (Gen 22)
3 days journey
Was Isaac 33 years old?
Complete surrender to God, even that which God promised us
“God will provide for Himself the burnt offering” (Gen 22:8)
Heb 11:17-19 – Abraham “considered that God is able to raise men even from the dead; from which he also received him back as a type.”
Mount Moriah

19. Offering of Isaac (Gen 22)

20. Abraham (Gen 23-25) Sarah dies (Gen 23)
Purchase of the cave of Machpelah
Legal document
Servant obtains wife for Isaac (Gen 24)
“Do not take my son back there”
Laban & Rebekah
Abraham dies (Gen 25)
Isaac & Ishmael bury him in the cave of Machpelah

21. Isaac (Gen 25-26)

22. Isaac (Gen 25-26) Rebekah is barren (Gen 25)
Isaac prays for her and she becomes pregnant with Esau and Jacob
Contrast with Sarah, Rachel, Leah
God’s blessing of Abraham passed on to Isaac (Gen 26:3-5)
Isaac denies Rebekah is his wife (Gen 26:7-11)
Isaac the peacemaker

23. Esau and Jacob (Gen 25, 27)

24. Esau and Jacob (Gen 25, 27) Jacob & Esau born
Esau is Isaac’s favorite
Jacob is Rebekah’s favorite
Esau sells his birthright for a bowl of stew
“Esau despised his birthright” (Gen 25:34)
Valuing the temporary over the eternal
Jacob steals Esau’s blessing (Heb 11:20)
Isaac dies 20+ years later (Gen 35:28-29)
He and Rebekah are buried in the cave of Machpelah

25. Jacob (Gen 28-36)

26. Jacob (Gen 28-36) Jacob flees to Haran
Esau threatening to kill him
Jacob’s dream
Ladder to heaven
Jesus is that ladder (John 1:51)
God’s promise to Abraham and Isaac passed on to Jacob
The deceiver meets his match – Jacob & Laban
Jacob & Rachel… & Leah, 14 years of service (Gen 29)
6 more years of service for Laban
Laban keeps changing his wages
Jacob becomes rich
11 sons & 1 daughter born during 13 year span

27. Jacob (Gen 28-36)

28. Jacob (Gen 28-36) Travel back to Canaan Massacre at Shechem (Gen 34)
Jacob flees from Laban
Jacob meets Esau
He wrestles with God and gets a new name – Israel
He reconciles with Esau
Massacre at Shechem (Gen 34)
Renewal of covenant to Jacob (Gen 35)
Rachel dies giving birth to Benjamin (Gen 35)
Esau is Edom

29. Ammon, Moab and Edom

31. So what’s the deal with Leah?

32. Jacob’s 12 sons by wife

33. Overview of the story of Joseph (Gen 37-50)
Brothers are jealous of Joseph
Joseph sold as a slave in Egypt
Joseph prospers in Potiphar’s house
Joseph prospers in prison
Joseph interprets Pharaoh’s dream and promoted to prime minister
Joseph’s interaction with his brothers
Joseph reconciled with brothers and father
Israel moves to Goshen in Egypt

34. Joseph as a type of Jesus

35. Reuben Oldest brother Slept with Bilhah, his father’s wife (Gen 35:22)
Longed for his father’s approval (Gen 37:21-22, 29; 42:22, 37)

36. Simeon He was the one Joseph locked up (Gen 42:24)
He and Levi massacred the men of Shechem (Gen 34)

37. Judah
Gen 37: Then Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our own flesh." And his brothers listened to him.
His story in Gen 38
Contrast with Joseph’s purity in Gen 39

38. Judah His brothers listened to him (Gen 37:27)
His father trusted him (Gen 43:3-10)
He was the leader of his brothers (Gen 46:12,28; 1 Chron 5:1-2)
He plead with Joseph for his brothers’ lives (Gen 44:16-34)
He offered his life for his brother’s life (Gen 44:33)
The Messiah would come through him

39. Benjamin “Son of my right hand”
He left his father in order that his brothers might have life

40. Jacob
His old name associated with the flesh, new name associated with walking in the Spirit
Jacob holds on to Benjamin
When Jacob releases Benjamin, the fullness of God is released in his life
When we release the things we hold on to so tightly, God’s does more than we can think or imagine