Aquila, Could You Read This?

[Mr. Smith]

Since you don't want to cater to the lowest denominator, don't want bumper sticker theology, and believe we should study, I know this'll be nothing for you.

Thanks.





Background to the Seventy-Weeks
...................... To understand Daniel’s 70 Weeks, we need to understand God’s unique relationship with the people and land of Israel.
...................... The relationship is 4000 years old and dates back to the time of.. Abraham about 2100 B.C... Abraham lived in the city of Ur ..located in present day Iraq. In Ur, Abraham and his family set out for Canaan, present day Israel... On the way, In the city of Haran, God appeared to Abraham and told him,
1Now the Lord had said to Abram: “Get out of your country,.. From your family.. And from your father’s house, To a land that I will show you....... 2I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. 3I will bless those who bless you,.. And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” Genesis 12:1-3 (NKJV)
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.. When Abraham arrived in the land at Mt. Moriah, present day Jerusalem. God promised Abraham,..
..“To your descendents I will give this land” Genesis 12:7. (NKJV)
...................... In Canaan (Israel), some time after the birth his son Isaac, in a test of faith, God instructed Abraham to take Isaac to the top of Mt. Moriah and offer him as a sacrifice... At the top of Moriah, as Abraham was about offer Isaac as a sacrifice, the Angel of the Lord intervenes and prevents the sacrifice from taking place. God again declares to Abraham.
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.................... 17“blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. 18“In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.” Genesis 22:17-18 (NKJV)
...................... God established a covenant relationship with Abraham and his descendants. ..This “Abrahamic Covenant”.. would later, be passed to Isaac and his son, Jacob... Before Abraham died about 20 miles to the south of Jerusalem in the city of Hebron, Abraham purchased a burial site, the cave of Machpellah, from the Hittites. To this very day lies the bodies of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob along with their wives, Sarah, Rebecca and Leah... Apart from Jerusalem, this site known as the “Tomb of the Patriarch’s”.. is the most hotly contested site between Jews and Palestinians.
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...... Before being buried in the cave of Machpelah, Jacob would move his ..family to Egypt to escape the famine of the land of Canaan... Joseph, Jacob’s 2nd youngest son, became the most powerful man in Egypt next to pharaoh. ..
...................... Jealous of Jacob’s love for Joseph, his brothers sold him as a slave to Ishmaelites who took him to Egypt... In Egypt, Joseph rose from slave to prime minister by the time he was thirty... Later, Joseph welcomed his brothers and family into the Egypt where they were preserved. The descendents of Joseph and his 11 brothers’ would be known as the tribes of Israel.
...................... Jacob’s.. descendents would grow from the 70 who moved to Egypt ..to over 1 million in the next 400 years. After Jacob died his body was taken to Hebron and buried with his father Isaac and grandfather Abraham.
...................... After 400 years, his descendents were no longer welcomed... Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, viewed the tribes of Israel as a hostile threat to Egyptian survival... Egypt began a systematic plan to destroy the tribes of Israel. By killing the male children, Egypt would assimilate Israel. Jacob’s descendents cried out to the God of Abraham. ..Moses, a Hebrew of the tribe of Levi, raised in Pharaoh’s house, was called by God to lead Israel out of Egypt into the land promised to Abraham, 600 years earlier.
...................... At the hand of Moses God sent plagues on Egypt to free Israel. Finally after the 10th plague, the death of the “first born” in Egypt . Death “Passed over” those who put the blood of a lamb on their door posts whether Egyptian or Israelite. Egypt’s Pharaoh agreed to release the tribes of Jacob. Into the wildness of Sinai, Moses lead the descendents of.. Jacob back to the land of promise where Jacob was buried, through the Sinai desert.