Title: “Make Room For The Camels”
Text: Genesis 24:10
“The history of what will happen in the future, is hidden in the book of Genesis”
Ecclesiastes 1:9-10 – “The thing that has been, is that which shall be. There is nothing new under the son.”
Ecclesiastes 3:15 – “If you want to know what will happen in the future, you will have to go back to the past.”
Genesis vs Revelation
Genesis -The book of the beginning.
Revelation - The Apocalypse “The book of the ending”
Genesis - The 1st 2 chapters, no sin.
Revelation - The last 2 chapters, no sin
Genesis - 1st 2 chapters, no pain, disease or death Revelation -Last 2 chapters, no pain, disease or death.
In Genesis, we see the plan of redemption hidden within the stories of this book.
I am going to take three chapters, and attempt to prove just that. (22,23,24)
In chapter 22, there are 2 main characters; Abraham & Isaac. (The crucifixion)
In chapter 23, we see Sarah (How natural Israel had to be removed for the Gentiles to be grafted in).
In chapter 24, Abraham, Isaac, and Eliazar. (Abraham = father, Isaac = son, Eliazar = A type of the Holy Spirit)
(READ TEXT)
Everything that God will do in the future is recorded in the past. (Ecclesiastes 1:9)
Genesis 22:2 – “Take your only son Isaac”
John 3:18 – Jesus is the only begotten Son of God.
Genesis 22:2 – “Take him to the land of Mariah to a mountain that I will show you.
2 Chronicles 3:1 – Solomon’s temple was built upon Mt. Mariah. So, Abraham went to Jerusalem.
Genesis 22:2 – “On one of the mountains”
Jesus was led to Calvary, which is Latin for Golgotha, a hill or mountain.
Genesis 22:3 – There are two unknown men that go with them.
Mark 15:27 – On Calvary, there are two unknown men. One dying in sin, one dying from sin, and the man in the middle dying for sin.
The clave the wood and laid it upon Isaac.
They laid Jesus on a cross, made of wood, on a mountain, in Jerusalem.
Genesis 22:3 – “Offer him for an offering”
Isaiah 53 – “Christ was made a sin offering for you and I”
The Parallel – Everything you see in Genesis chapter 22 is a picture of Calvary.
Genesis 22:4 – Abraham lifted up his eyes on the third day.
Matthew 17:23 – Christ arose on the third day.
Abraham said, “Stay here while the lad and I go yonder to worship, but we shall return”
Jesus said, “They’re going to put me in a grave, but on the third day I will arise”
Isaac said to his father, “Where is the lamb?”
Abraham said, “God himself shall provide a lamb”
(But a ram showed up. Not a lamb, but a ram. There is a difference)
The Bible says, that while Abraham was coming to Mariah that he saw the place afar off.
Place = heb. Hamakomb. Afar off = heb. Merahok.
If we were driving, and I said that I saw something afar off, you would assume that in the distance I saw something.
It does not necessarily mean that in the original.
In fact, “Hamakomb”, in the Hebrew, is a name for God.
Why?
Because, God is the place, and God is everyplace, and there is no place where God is not.
Therefore, He is at all places all of the time.
He’s omnipresent. He’s up and down, in and out, left and right, back and forth, top and bottom. He’s as high as you want to go. (Low, deep, wide).
God said to Moses in Exodus 32, “Come up with me in the mountain. There is a place by me in the cleft of the rock”.
The next verse says, “He saw it afar off”
Afar off = heb. Mera hok = to see in the distance or to perceive something about the future.
Abraham is called a prophet. These men saw revelations, although they didn’t understand it all.
Abraham never told Isaac that he was going to offer a lamb.
He walked up that mountain without a lamb on his back, in the basket, or on a donkey.
When Isaac asked, “Where is the lamb?” Abraham said, “God will provide a lamb”
But a lamb didn’t show up, a ram did.
Abraham said, “God will provide for himself a lamb”
What was he saying? What was he seeing?
When he got to the top of Mt Mariah, when he was about to lay his son on the altar, Abraham went out in the Spirit, and he saw a lamb.
He saw a lamb saw a lamb coming up to the top of Mt Mariah, lain on the altar.
“Abraham rejoiced to see my day, and he saw it”
I don’t know exactly what he saw. I believe he saw more than a mountain covered with shrubbery. He saw more than white stones and a rocky hillside. He saw more than a sun that had risen in the east that was about to set in the west.
Genesis 22:14 – Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah Jireh.
Yawe Yare’ – “He shall make it come to pass”
I believe that we do not give the writers and prophets enough credit for understanding that there was more to the types and shadows.
Brazen Serpent – The Passover blood on the doorposts
If you’re going to read Genesis chapter 22, you are going to read about Calvary!
CHAPTER 23
We see a strange verse in verse 1.
Abraham comes to one place, and Sarah to another.
(Tell about the Jewish tradition concerning this story)
How strange it is, that Sarah dies AFTER Isaac is placed on the altar.
Sarah is the Matriarch of Israel.
Sarah birthed Isaac. Isaac birthed Israel.
Sarah is the momma of a nation, so to speak.
The birth of Isaac from Sarah’s womb was a supernatural birth.
The birth of Jesus from Mary’s womb was a supernatural birth.
“Sarah ceased to be after the manner of women”
Sarah dies. Why?
She dies, because she has to die.
(Talk about a momma’s boy)
You can’t make a nation, while you’re living with momma!
God said in Deuteronomy, “I will raise up a people that are not”
One day a nation will provoke you to jealousy.
In Romans – That nation is a Gentile church.
Acts 10 is where it all began.
In Genesis 23, we see shifting.
The attention is no longer on Sarah having a baby.
The attention is no longer on Isaac having a son.
The attention is focused on how does this nation that does not exist get birthed?
YOU HAVE GOT TO HAVE A BRIDE!
Sarah has to be removed, so that Eliazar can find Isaac (the son) a bride.
Not a Jewish woman, but a Gentile bride.
When Jesus dies, the people who should have known the truth did not accept Him.
Hb It was the common people, the simple people, the Galileans that accepted Him.
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Godb says, “I am going to raise up a Gentile bride”
But I can’t raise up a Gentile bride while Sarah is still in the picture.
So, Sarah is removed.
(Romans 11) The branches of the Olive tree. Some of them are removed, so the Gentile branches can be grafted into the vine.
CHAPTER 24
Abraham is old and stricken in years.
He has a son by the name of Isaac.
He has a servant who has been with him from the beginning, by the name of Eliazar.
Abraham = Father, Isaac = Son, Eliazar = A picture of the Holy Spirit.
Eliazar
Hebrew – El = God, Iazar = Helper GOD IS MY HELPER
The Holy Ghost is called the helper, gr. = parakletos, “The one who goes along side to help”.
Notice, he’s always with Abraham.
Now, Abraham says to Eliazar, (READ VERSES 1-2)
Where am I going to get her?
READ VERSE 3
Mesopotamia (Iraq) = Pure Gentile country.
Eliazar goes down to the country. He takes 10 camels loaded with gifts. (Gold, silver) (Dowry)
(READ TEXT)(1 CORINTHIANS 15)
“If I can find me a church somewhere that’ll take my camels”
Paul wrote, “You come behind with no gifts, waiting for the coming of the Lord”
Gifts – gr. Charismata. The same word is used to describe the gifts of the Spirit.
Eliazar comes down to the well.
It’s evening time, and its time to water the sheep.
(PREACH)
In chapter 24, they are on their way.
In that culture, they were already legally married.
How many know, that she never saw Isaac.
How many know, that you’ve never seen Jesus.
Eliazar sat there, and talked about how great he was.
Jesus said, the Holy Ghost will not speak of himself, but he will speak of me.
I’ve never seen Him yet, but something tells me He’s kind (compassionate, healer, savior)
The closer they get, the more excited she gets.
Genesis 24:62 – All of a sudden they find Isaac at the well, Lahairoi (The well of living water)
Jesus said, “Out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water”
Isaac is hanging out at the Holy Ghost well.
If you want to know where Jesus is …
He’s not hanging out at a church just because they have a steeple, bible, etc.
Isaac went out to meditate in the field.
(Anytime you see a field, it alludes to the harvest. Jesus is concerned about the harvest)
(They consummate the marriage in Sarah’s tent)
NOTE: This sermon is based upon, and inspired by a sermon preached by Dr. E.L. Terry. Dr. Terry is certainly one of the greatest preachers of our generation. Much of this sermon is his original research.
