World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1905-03-09
Question No. 81:
OR JACOB AND ESAu.
Conf insed from las, week.


"And he (God) said unto Abram
know Of q surety that thy seed
shall be n stranger in u land that is |
not theirs, and shall serve them
and they shall aillict them 400
years: And also that nations,
whom they shalt serve. will ] Judge:
and attcrwsrd shull they come out
with great substance. And thou
shalt go 10 thy fathers [ Terah and
others see Josh. 242-l) in peace
thou shalt be buried in a good old
age. BIT in the fourth generation
they shall come hither TO land Of
CANAAN again" (Gcn. l5:l3-l6)
Now N the above. Goa shows that
the children Of Jacob, or Israel
would be in bondage IN Egypt, and
yet Isaac the fathcrof Jacob was
not yet born. In the 10th ch. Sarai
wants TO aid the Lord in the fulfil.
ment OF the promise that he had
made, (Gon. 1872 l5.lG; 1867 but
she learned with sorrow that her
aid was not needed: for in due time
Isaac tho promised heir, was born.
"And Abraham was an hundred
years old when his son Isaac was
born unto him" fGep, 2l:5.) Al.
tor this Abraham Is faith was soteI =
tried. God had promised that ia
Isaac his (Abrahnm's) seed (the
one seed Gal. 3: lG.) should be
called, (Gen. 2l:l2, aud then told
him TO otfor him fora burnt offer.
ing. (Gen. %. LA Abraham
undoubtedly had faith to believe
that God who had led him thron
ont The land ct Canaan, and had
gwen unto him Isanc, was able
TO raise up isaac from the dead
and give him the seed that should
be called in him. The 23rd. eli
records the death Of Sarah Abra.
hams wife al The age OF III years
and her bur,el in the cave Mach,
Pe.lah. The 9th. CHI. finds Abra.
ham sending back to his brothers
honse after = wife for his son Isaac
and the return ftbc servant with
Rebccca; who is taken by Is aac
into his mothers tent and she be,
come his wife. Now the next thing
We will motto here is tho futilment
OF Gen. Is Is. ''And thou shalt
80 to Thy fathers in pesre; thou shall,
be baried in good old ugc (Gcn. ~.
A ,-i0 readst And these are The DAYS of
no ycuts OF Ablalams life which he
4 lived, an linndred three store sa.l fifteen
i years And Abraham gave up HE ghost.
llte> and died in good old age. an old
man. inll of Years. ana was gathered to
his people. And his cons Isaac an3
!. ls;lmael buried him in The cave Of Mach
IN lahs' etc In lhis same chap,cr ta5 !
4 recorded the birth Of lsaac's two sons
Jacob AMI Esa,l. HE Two nations we
mentioned IN our first communication on
THIS snhjec', "a u. a5:aO-eG., Now
we viii ,cavc Abraham and Sarah his
wife ~ sleei, In the cave Of Macbpelah
and notice Isaac md Rtbecca. Send nv
\ iarnb 10 Rebcces's bother l.aban after
his vile. Aud right hc,e il may be a
Coed thing for us 10 let Our mind run
bAck . Abralams wife. aud Nahor's
vile each Ut these lEen married their re-.
la'lves, For proof read Gen. li:oG- 20.
su'is Ihen remember That Rhecrn
lsaac's wife and The mol.pr of Jacob
Il ani Esan was taken fiom the same
family Gen ATTN. oh And now We
are going 70 see where jacob the behaved.
/ from 9,l3 is sent 10 take him a wife.
AND Isaac called Jacob. and bl,ssc,
him. ant charged him.s and said un,o
him, Thou shalt mol take d wifeof ,ho
daughters Of Canaan. irbe canaaui,es
We're defendants Of Nnsh~ son Ham ],
Ariseso TO Padanaram. to Tie housc 4,
betbucl thy motker's father; aca IN, \.
thee wife from lhenoc al The daughters
q Labsn. thy mothers bru,her.s tt;en
aS:ls. deccndanls Of No.h.s son Shems
We read, "Now,he sons Of Jacob N,
twelve; The sons Of Lean; Rc,hen
Jacobs frs,born, aud Simeon, MA levi.
and Judah, and Issacl,,r and zebulnm
! TIE sons Of Rachel; Josepl, aud Benia.
min And tbs sons Of lsilhah. Racbcl..
ilS4d maid Dan, and Nsph,aa;sAna III