Harran: After fleeing from home because of his brother’s anger and threats after Jacob deceived their father and stole the blessing, Jacob finally arrived in Harran the town of his uncle Laban. When Jacob arrives at the well he finds 3 herds of sheep with their shepherds waiting for additional shepherds to come and help roll away the stone. When Jacob’s cousin Rachel comes with her father’s sheep Jacob musters up amazing strengthen and moves the stone himself. After revealing who he is...

Jacob’s Promise God Blessed Jacob: Even as Jacob was running from fear of his brother, and the shame of deceiving his father, under the pretext of finding a wife, God came to him in a dream and gave him some wonderful assurances and promises of His love and care for him. While Jacob was still a sinner God first loved him. God first sought out Jacob. God does that for you and me as well. Jacob’s response: Jacob was awed by the dream and right away knew it was from God. Out of appreciation...

God’s four fold promises: God made four specific promises personally to Abraham, and to Isaac, and to Jacob. God spoke to each one of them and to each of them He promised they would be multiplied, that He would be with them and bless them, that all the world would be blessed through them, and that they would inherit the land. Many today question those promises. They try to say that those promises apply to other people. They try to spiritualize those promises. The land: In this week’s...

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Genesis 27 – 28 Jacob's Dream Sermon by Messianic Rabbi Jeff Zaremsky Find more sermons and articles at shalomadventure.com

When Isaac was between 60 and 80 years of age there was a famine in the land and he brought his family to Gerer, which was under the leadership of Abimelech (Avi-melech), king of the Philistines. We saw in a previous sermon regarding Abraham and Abimelech that the name/title Avimelech means “my father is king.” This very well could be the same Avimelech that Abraham met with and lied to. Since Abraham lived 175 years it is possible that Avimelech was much younger than Abraham when they...

Isaac Blessed Because of a drought Isaac moves to Gerer, an area ruled by Abimelech (Avi-melech), king of the Philistines. Isaac’s father, Abraham, had also lived in this area during a drought. At that time Abraham lied about his Sarah, saying she is his sister, instead of saying that she is his wife. Avimelech innocently takes Sarah as wife, but is restrained by God from having relations with her. This incident took place within the year that God Himself came in the flesh and prophesied to...

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Abraham’s Family, How Yeshua Kept from Sinning Even as a Youth The Bible clearly tells us that Yeshua was tempted in all ways as we are, yet He did not sin. How did He do it? Did He have something available to Him that we don’t have available to us? If that was the case than He would not have been tempted in all ways as we are, so that can’t be the answer. Yet He did what no one has done, but which all are called to do. So how did He do it? Finding the answer to that question is the vital...

Mourning Sarah After the death of Sarah Abraham mourned for her. We don’t know how long they had been married, but they had been together for over 60 years since we were first introduced to them in chapter 11 of the book of Genesis. Seeing as how they were half sister and brother, they knew each other since Sarah’s birth. Thus Abraham was grieving for his sister of 127 years and his wife of over 60 years at the same time. Genesis 23:2 is the first verse in the Bible that specifically...

In Genesis chapter 20 we read about Abraham lying to Avimelech regarding Sarah. Then in chapter 21 Avimelech comes back to Abraham, this time with the commander of his army to call Abraham out for his sin and to get an assurance from Abraham that he will not do it again. After Abraham is humbled and promises not to do it again, Abraham uses this opportunity to call out a wrong that he feels Avimelech has done to him. Then the two of them go about making peace together through a covenant...

After 25 years of waiting for the son of promise to be born God finally fulfilled His oath to Abraham and Isaac was miraculously born to Sarah. Some thirteen to twenty years later when Isaac was at least in his teen years, God called Abraham to sacrifice his only son, the son he loved. How could God ask such a thing? Wouldn’t that have been murder? How was Abraham’s descendants going to be as many as the sands of the sea or the stars of heaven if he killed the one through whom those...

Abraham and Sarah held a party celebrating that their miraculously born child, Isaac, was weaned. I am sure 90 year old Sarah was very thankful that day had finally arrived. Hagar, Sarah’s maid, and Ismael, the son she bore to Abraham, were at the party. Ismael was probably around 16 years of age at this point. During the party Ishmael showed his jealousy by mocking Isaac. It is understandable that Ismael would be jealous after years of being the only child, the inheritor of all of...

At the age of 90, after being promised by God a child for at least the previous 25 years, Sarah gave birth to a son. It was a miraculous occurrence like no other mentioned prior to God creating Adam from dust, and Eve from a rib. Sarah was beyond child bearing age. Thus for her to give birth to a child was nothing short of miraculous. Impossible? Is anything too hard for God? Some question whether or not God could perform miraculous births. What do you think – did God miraculously bring...

Abraham and Abimelech, Abraham Lies Again For reasons not revealed, after being given the promise that in a year’s time Sarah will have a son, and after sodom & gommorah were destroyed, Abraham moved his caravan south near Gaza. Abimelech was king in that area. Like Abraham did twenty years before, he lied (or half truthed) about Sarah being his sister. Abimelech took 90 year old Sarah as a wife. This was a precarious situation because it was during this time that Sarah needed to be...

A Lot of life The Bible gives us quite a bit of information about Abraham’s nephew Lot. We almost have to wonder why he is mentioned as often as he was. In this video we will review the entire historical record of this man, and the choices he made. His life started off with such promise, and the record ends as a widower living in a cave with two of his daughters, who basically rape him. Mirroring As we look at Lot’s life we will see the opportunities he was given, being associated with...

As in the days of Noah and as in the Days of Lot so Shall it be at the Coming of the Son of Man. History repeating itself The Bible clearly gives us examples of what has happened in the past that will be repeated in the last days. We can know we are in the last days because the situation is similar to the examples given. Two of the examples given are “as in the days of Noah,” and “as in the days of Lot… So shall it be at the coming of the Son of Man.” As we look at what happened in...

Remember Lot’s wife Lot’s wife While we are never told her name, she has been known for 3,500 year or so, to the time of Abraham. The Bible even encourages us to remember her. She is known as “Lot’s wife” and other than the recommendation to remember her, she is only mentioned in three verses, all in just one chapter of the Bible. Remember Unfortunately what she is remembered for is not flattering. We are encouraged to remember her as a warning for us not to make the same mistake that...

The Bible prophesied over 2,500 years ago that the final war for this world would start with Islamist attacks. We are seeing the fulfillment of that prophecy right now. We have seen the rise in attacks coming from Islamists, such as the brutal, inhuman, barbaric, satanic attack of Hamas against Israeli citizens on Simchat Torah, Oct 7, 2023, and the rise of ISIS in 2014 against everyone they came in contact with, and even before that in 2001 with the attack on civilians when they flew planes...

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Many people are familiar with God’s judgment upon sodom and gomorrah – fire, brimstone, etc. But have we ever paused to consider all the ways God was merciful to sodom and gomorrah? Merciful? Fire & brimstone merciful? Well there is more to the historical account than just that. God was actually very, very good to sodom. There are several instances specifically mentioned in the Bible of God’s mercy and His love demonstrated to the people of sodom giving them several opportunities to...

Abraham Prayed To the Lord In chapter 18 of Genesis Abraham very humbly, yet with persistency, talks God down to sparing Sodom if there are at least ten righteous people in it. Why did Abraham stop at ten? What was God’s original number that He would have spared the city for if Abraham had not interceded? While Abraham was very humble in his attitude in speaking with God, yet his requests are very bold. What type of picture of God could cause someone to be totally humble before God as...

Sermon by Messianic Rabbi Jeff Zaremsky Three men In Genesis 18 Abraham had a very interesting encounter with three very interesting men. Who were these “men?” Before we even contemplate that question we should look at why they came to Abraham and what they do. Abraham’s Hospitality As soon as Abraham noticed these three men he ran over to them, bowed himself, and invited them to stop and rest themselves, and to allow him to prepare them a meal. They agreed and Abraham ran again to...