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Old 11-23-2010, 09:51 PM
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Re: Good ol' Songs.

That is an old timer.
It was written by the late (and great) Bishop G.T. Haywood.
The YouTube version above left out a couple of verses.

The song is based on Genesis chapter 24 where Abraham (type of God the Father) sends his servant (Eleazar/helper a title found in John 14:16 and type of the Holy Spirit) into a far country to find a bride for his son Isaac (type of Jesus the Son of God). Bishop Haywood makes use of the fact that the prospective bride passed a "water test" which he sees as a type or picture of water baptism in Jesus' name. Also he uses Eleazar as a type of a minister who proposes marriage on behalf of his master. Other pictures found there are that the prospective bride was to be of his kin (not a stranger/sinner), was to be a virgin (pure as in 2 Corinthians 11:2), had to to accept the proposal without having seen the groom (having not seen, we love in 1 Peter 1:8), had to choose willingly, received gifts --nose ring, bracelets etc-- which, if we don't believe in jewelry we have to spiritualize.
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