What I learned in Church on Sunday.

So I learned a few things in church on Sunday that i never knew. Not to say that I wasn't taught properly it was just never explained. Now I have to explain it to you so we are studying Genesis in church going through the book. This week we were on God made a covenant with Abram. I'm going to post the Scripture then show you what i learn cause I want to get it right and it make since.

8 But Abram said, "O Sovereign LORD, how can I know that I will gain possession of it?"

9 So the LORD said to him, "Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon."

10 Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half. 11 Then birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.

12 As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him. 13 Then the LORD said to him, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years. 14 But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions. 15 You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a good old age. 16 In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure."

17 When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces. 18 On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, "To your descendants I give this land, from the river [d] of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates- 19 the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, 20 Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, 21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites."

So you see there in verse 10 where he cut them and put the halves on opposite sides this would make all the blood come together. When there was a covenant made the two would walk through the blood to confirm the covenant. There in 17 when it says a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces that was God completing the covenant for Abram since he had fallen asleep. The really cool thing with God doing that is back then if one party didn't complete there end of the covenant they were killed. I never knew all these things so it was very interesting to me.

The other thing I learned was how Jewish weddings are done and the Lord's supper. So take the part of the blood from above and apply that to the Lord's supper stay with me.

17On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and asked, "Where do you want us to make preparations for you to eat the Passover?"
18He replied, "Go into the city to a certain man and tell him, 'The Teacher says: My appointed time is near. I am going to celebrate the Passover with my disciples at your house.' " 19So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them and prepared the Passover.

So they were on a mount and Christ sent them to a city where they had to walk through the valley were others were sacrificing for the passover. So they left the mount and walked through the valley. When we take the Lord's supper and it says this is the blood of the new testament which was shed for many. I got that part but, listen to this ok in the Jewish faith when a man wants to be with a girl he goes to her farther they have a glass a wine. The man leaves builds a house for her comes back for her. They walk down the aisle the aisle is the blood flow you have the bride side the groom side think about that and what happened with Abram. So then they have another glass of wine when they are married see the connection? Christ had a glass of wine with the disciples at the last supper that being the engagement wine. During the last supper Christ says he will not drink of that fruit of the vine till he drinks it anew with us in heave at THE MARRIAGE SUPPER in heaven. HELLO never got that before. Then when they were finished they went out into the mount of olives where they had come from so they walked back through the blood from all the sacrificed animals. I think I got all that right I thought it was so cool light bulbs were going off in my head like why did I never put this all together.

I just wanted to share this with all I enjoyed it very much and if you would like to hear the message you can go to this link http://www.kingsland.org/Resources/sermonseries.htm and click on the music note next to Abrahamic Covenant.

I hope you enjoy love always Toni.