NOW THE LORD The Fourth Dispensation: Promise. For Abraham, and his descendants it is evident that the Abrahamic Covenant ( See Scofield) - (Genesis 15:18) made a great change. They became distinctively the heirs of promise. That covenant is wholly gracious and unconditional. The descendants of Abr... [ Continue Reading ]
AND For analysis and summary of the Abrahamic Covenant, (_ See Scofield) - (Genesis 15:18). _... [ Continue Reading ]
APPEARED The theophanies. (Genesis 17:1); (Genesis 12:7); (Revelation 1:10).... [ Continue Reading ]
BETH-EL One of the sacred places of Canaan, meaning, house of God (Genesis 28:1); (_ See Scofield) - (Genesis 35:7). _ It is characteristic of all apostasy that Jeroboam chose this sacred place in which to erect an idol (1 Kings 12:28); (1 Kings 12:32). (compare (1 Kings 13:1) and of divine jud... [ Continue Reading ]
FAMINE A famine was often a disciplinary testing of God's people in the land. (Cf) (Genesis 26:1); (Genesis 42:5); (Ruth 1:1); (2 Samuel 24:13); (Psalms 105:16). The resort to Egypt (the world) is typical of the tendency to substitute for lost spiritual power the fleshly resources of the world, in... [ Continue Reading ]