Journal Through the Bible: Week 8 Tuesday

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Genesis chapter 24

I love reading this chapter! It contains such a poignant illustration of God's sovereignty coexisting with man's (or in this case, woman's) responsibility. See if you can find it yourself. I'll tell you below the main post where I noticed it.

Does God make any promises in this chapter?

• God does not speak, but He does work throughout this chapter to fulfill the promise He made to Abraham by arranging the marriage of Isaac to Rebekah.

Are there any references to Jesus?

• verse 60 - Jesus is the seed that possesses the gate of all who hate His people.

Are there any references to End Time or Eternal events?

• Rebekah's descendants, those thousands of millions, have yet to possess the gate (or have victory over) their enemies but it will happen.

Does God issue any commands in this chapter?

• We can infer that God issued a command to Rebekah to be Isaac's wife since His angel went before Abraham's servant to Mesopotamia so that Rebekah would be the first pretty young lady to come out the city gate to draw water.

(I see God's sovereignty and man's responsibility illustrated throughout this whole story but especially in verses 7, 8, 14, 40, 41 and 58. Abraham states that God will send His angel to Mesopotamia ostensibly to prepare the woman that God wanted to be Isaac's wife. This is the sovereignty portion. But Abraham tells his servant that if the woman will not come the servant is released from his obligation. This is man's responsibility. In other words, God's sovereign will was for a certain woman to be Isaac's wife, but the woman had the responsibility to follow that will.)