I find it interesting that Esau claims he was duped out of his birthright. He was the one who agreed to sell it for a bowl of soup in the first place (although it wasn’t his to sell). It seems like God’s decision to reverse tradition and grant the firstborn rights to Jacob and NOT […]

Today we begin Genesis Chapter 27 For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James Version, click here. This chapter is a perfect reflection of how worry and doubt control the decisions of human beings even in those areas where God has already reassured and pronounced a final decision. In this case, we […]

Abimelekh said to Isaac, “You must go away from us, because you have become much more powerful than we are.”-Genesis 26:17 Isaac and his tribe settle in the land of Gerar and decide to produce an extra source of food supply by planting crops.  The Lord supernaturally blesses these efforts with the result being a […]

Then the Lord appeared to him and said: “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land of which I shall tell you. -Genesis 26:2 Let’s take a close look at the phrase “and the Lord appeared unto him“.   This is interesting.   How exactly did the Lord appear to him?   Was it in […]

Today we begin Genesis Chapter 26. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James Bible, click here. When reading Genesis chapter 26, I imagine the first word that pops into our minds is “Dejavu” as we witness an exact repeat of what happened with Abraham a couple of chapters earlier. Although we […]