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Through the Bible with Les Feldick
LESSON 1 * PART 4 * BOOK 52
Hebrews 11:9–23 - Part 2
We’re just simply studying the Word and comparing Scripture with Scripture.
All right, Genesis chapter 23 and let’s start at verse 3. Genesis 23:3-7
"And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying, (now remember it’s still the land of Canaan) 4. 5. And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him, 6. Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury the dead. 7. And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth." Now verse 8.
Genesis 23:8-9
Genesis 23:16-18
"And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham (now watch this, underline it, pass it on to anybody that will listen) and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant. Genesis 23:19
"And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: The same is Hebron in the land of Canaan."
All right, now Mamre, the cave of Machpelah is today’s Hebron. How many people are confused by the term Palestine? Does the Mid-West have a capital? Does the Mid-West have a flag? Does the Mid-West have a government? Does the Sahara have definitive borders? Is the Sahara a nation? The South Pacific. All right, that’s Palestine. It has never, never been a definitive area. The Sahara. The South Pacific. Palestine. Then it became the deeded land of Israel so the Jew was the true Palestinians. Well they’re not. They don’t occupy all of Palestine. A good part of Palestine as the term implies is maybe even parts of Syria. It is not a definitive government; it’s merely people living in a generalized geographical area. All right, let’s look at the second one. Jump up ten chapters and go to Genesis chapter 33. Genesis 33:18
(That is of Shechem.) 19. And he bought (now watch this all carefully) a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for an hundred pieces of money. All right now, let’s jump over to the last verses of Joshua chapter 24. Joshua 24:29
Now remember the history here. When Israel came into the land of Canaan, Moses had died and Joshua picked up the leadership. And Joshua, I think, ruled the Nation of Israel something like 26 years, if I’m not mistaken. Joshua 24:30-32
Same piece of ground. It’s still recognized as belonging to the children of Israel and in that piece of ground they buried the bones of Joseph, see? And it became the inheritance, then, of the children of Joseph. All right, so that’s the present day city in Israel of Nablus. Watch for Nablus in the News. There’s another shooting. Whatever. Because it’s a point of controversy. All right so we’ve got two of them covered. Hebron, Abraham bought it. Nablus, Jacob bought it.
Now for Jerusalem. Now David is king. II Samuel 24:18
"And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite." II Samuel 24:19-21
21. And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people." Now verse 22.
23. All these things did Araunah, as a king, give unto the king, (David). And Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God accept thee. 24. And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. 25. And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel."
All right, what spot is this threshingfloor? For the Lord the come. Jerusalem will know no peace until Christ returns. Now we’ll pick up another one of our faith people in Moses. How could they preach death, burial and resurrection back here in His earthly ministry? The Lord says in those verses, "We go up to Jerusalem. Common sense tells me they couldn’t preach Paul’s Gospel of salvation, because all of Paul’s Gospel was resting on that death, burial and resurrection. Well you can’t. Now back to Hebrews chapter 11.
Hebrews 11:23a
"By faith Moses, when he was born,…" This little fellow is something special.
Hebrews 11:23
We are now about 350 years after the call of Abraham, and the children of Israel have never had a printed book. Faith. By word of mouth.

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