Things in the Bible not really in the Bible …and a few surprises

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Joseph enjoyed high status as second in power under Pharaoh the rest of his life.

Genesis 50:22-25  

Genesis 47:18-19  –    Genesis 15: 7 & 13-14  –  Genesis 50:4-6  –  Genesis 48:21

Fact of the Day  

No!  Joseph lived long enough to see the third generation of his descendants. And, remember, God had told Abraham they would be freed from their slavery in the fourth generation.  What happened?

JOSEPH WAS AGE 57 WHEN HIS FATHER, Jacob/Israel DIED.  But Joseph could not speak to Pharaoh directly.  He spoke to someone in Pharaoh’s household and asked them to ask Pharaoh to let him go back to Canaan to bury his father, with a promise to return. 

WHEN FATHER JACOB/ISRAEL DIED. He told Joseph, “I am about to die, but God will be with you and take you back to the land of your fathers.”

WHEN JOSEPH DIED he told his brothers “God will surely come to your aid and then you must carry my bones up from this place.”

Both Joseph and his father were embalmed, so Joseph still was treated as a prince, perhaps still living in his fine estate, but apparently a minor prince with little or no power by the time of his death.

Here is some external research I did:

(ALL DATES BELOW BASED ON WIKIPEDIA’S LIST OF PHARAOHS.  Which Pharaoh ruled during Jossephj’s lifetime are my own calculations)

1. IBIAU was reigning when Joseph arrived at age 17
2. AI reigned 24 years, including the 14 plenty and famine years (Joseph age 21-45)
3. INI reigned 2 years  (Joseph age 46-48)
4. SEWADJTU reigned 3 years (Joseph age 48-51)
5. INED reigned 3 years (Joseph age 52-55)
6. HORI reigned 5 years ( Joseph age 55-60)

After Hori died, there were 14 years of Pharaoh’s that archaeologists have not even found the names of.

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Things in the Bible not really in the Bible …and a few surprises

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They were howww olddd?

Genesis 5:3-31  –  Genesis 11:10-26 and 12:4  –  Genesis 21:4  –  Genesis 35:28  –  Genesis 47:7

Fact of the Day  

• Noah was 56 years old when Adam died.
• Abraham was 58 years old when Noah died
• Jacob/Israel and Esau were 15 years old when Abraham died
• Jacob/Israel took his family to live in Egypt 10 years after Isaac died.

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Things in the Bible not really in the Bible …and a few surprises

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Abraham and Sarah moved 12 times covering over 1000 miles chasing his illustive dream.

Genesis 11:26 – 25:10

Fact of the Day  

1. Ur to Haran = 600 miles.
2. Haran to Shechem = 450 miles
3. Shechem to Bethel = 20 miles
4. Bethel to Negev = 100 miles
5. Negev to Egypt = 250 miles
6. Egypt to Negev = 250 miles
7. Negev to Bethel = 20 miles
8. Bethel to Hebron = 20 miles
9. Hebron to Gerar = 50 miles
10. Gerar to Negev = 20 miles
11. Negev to Beersheba = 25 miles
12. Beersheba to Hebron = 50 miles

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God asked Abraham to sacrifice his son to him BECAUSE he wanted to check on Abraham’s faith and find out how strong it was.

Genesis 22:12

Genesis 12:4  –   Genesos 21:5  –   Isaiah 3:24c

Fact of the Day  

No!  God knows everything!  Test also means to exercise, put pressure on – such as lifting weights to build muscle.  He wanted to help Abraham’s amazing faith grow even stronger.  How do I know?

Where God says, “Now I know,” the word now is not in the original Hebrew. Now is not necessary any more than it would be necessary to say, “Now I know why I gave you that name,” or  “Now I know we ate dinner together yesterday.”  These things you already know, so “now” is not necessary.

In Genesis 22:12, the sentence begins with the Hebrew term KI , which literally means “burning, branding” and is translated “know”.   The word is translated in Isaiah 3:24 as branding.

What God was basically saying was, “I knew all along your faith burns deep in your heart!   Now you know it!”   It was a way of saying with great pride for someone else, “Atta boy!”      

And in the process,  Abraham’s  amazing faith  grew  even  stronger.

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Things in the Bible not really in the Bible …and a few surprises

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During the early cenuries of mankind, they lived often to be 800 or 900 years of age.  

Then God changed all that.  He said eventually, the average age of  man would be reduced to 120 years.

Genesis 6:3

Genesis 5 – Genesis 10-11 – Genesis 25:7 – Genesis 35:28 – Genesis 47:28 – Genesis 50:26

Fact of the Day  

Why?  How?  Perhaps, if we had a constant cloud covering like Venus – a thick ozone layer – before the flood, UV rays would not be able to get through as easily. After the clouds were broken up for the first rain, the ozone layer would not be as strong. Whatever the reason, what God declared happened:

Noah lived to be 950.  Now, notice how the ages of people born after the flood gradually declined beginning with Noah’s son Shem who lived mostly after the flood.

• Shem lived to be 600
• Arpachshad lived to be 438
• Shelah lived to be 433
• Eber lived to be 464
• Peleg lived to be 468
• Reu lived to be 239
• Serug lived to be 230
• Nahor lived to be 207
• Terah lived to be 205
• Abraham lived to be 175
• Isaac lived to be 180
• Jacob lived to be 147
• Joseph  lived to be 110

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Things in the Bible not really in the Bible …and a few surprises

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People had always eaten both meat and vegetables.  Being a vegetarian is a modern thing.

Genesis 9:2-3

Genesis 2:16 and 19-20  –  Genesis 3:1-2  –  Genesis 9:2-3 – Genesis 11:10-20

Fact of the Day 

No!  After the flood, God told Noah that he would put the terror of humans in all animals and that they could now eat the meat of animals.  Look it up.

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It was no big deal about rain when Noah began to build his ark!

Genesis 1:5-6 – Genesis 6:17 – Genesis 7:11 & 24 – Genesis 8:2 – Genesis 9:13

Fact of the Day 

No!  It had never rained before.  The ground sent up a mist to water the plants.  In fact, God did not tell Noah about rain until it was about to rain!  All he told Noah to get him to start building the ark was that there was going to be a big flood. 

Finally, when the flood began…

• All the springs of the great deep were OPENED and burst forth
•  the floodgates of the heavens were OPENED. 
• And RAIN FELL on the earth forty days and forty nights

Then, when the earth was flooded enough…

• The springs of the deep  were CLOSED
• and the floodgates of the heavens were CLOSED
• BUT the rain STOPPED falling from the sky.

Yes, everything was closed except rain.  God made it stop, but he did not close up the possibility of future rains.

According to Genesis, earth must have had a constant cloud covering that made possible a mist to come up and water the ground. But somehow, God opened up those clouds during Noah’s flood and made rain possible.  And, for the first time, man could look up into the sky and see a RAINBOW.  

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Things in the Bible not really in the Bible …and a few surprises

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When Jesus came to earth, he emptied himself of his divinity.

Philippians 2:5-11  –  Ephesians 4:10  –  Colossians 1:9 & 16  –  Colossians 2:8-9 –  John 1:1-4 & 17  –  Luke 5:22  –  Matthew 8:23-27  –  Matthew 14:22-33  –  John 20:19 – John 1:46-50  –  Ephesians 4:10

Fact of the Day 

He was in the form of God and then emptied himself into the form of a human – divinity and all.  He was limited to a human body, but he could still do divine things.  When he healed the maimed (the crippled for all reasons including missing legs), he could make them grow back – creating them.  He could still read minds.  He could still command the winds which he made, and walk on water which he also made.   He could merge with the molecules of a wall and walk “through the wall”.  He saw people “long distance”.  Shall we go on?  And on?  And on?

Oh, and one more thing.  After his ascension, he filled the universe.  Why?  Because God is everywhere.

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Things in the Bible not really in the Bible …and a few surprises

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“I love to sing to God plucking the strings of my guitar or pounding on the strings of  my piano.

I know God loves it!”

EPHESIANS 5:20

Fact of the Day 

You did well to want to pluck strings as you sing to the Lord.  But God gave us a better instrument to play on.  It’s the one he wants.  Which one?

Well, we are to “sing and MAKE MELODY” in our hearts.  But that translation is vague.  In the original Greek of the Bible, it says, “sing and pluck on the strings of…”

“Yes, yes!  I knew I was right.  Tell me the strings of which instrument and I’ll do it.  Anything for the Lord I love.”

The Greek says “sing and pluck the strings of  YOUR HEART!”

“Does that mean I’m going to have to ditch my guitar and piano?”

 

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