Genesis Bible Study:
Va’ Yechi (And he lived)
The Scriptures for this week’s study:
TORAH:
Genesis 47:28-50:26
PROPHETS:
1 Kings 2:1-12;
Ezekiel 4;
Leviticus 26;
Jeremiah 3; 23; 30-31
Hosea
NEW TESTAMENT:
Luke 4:31-5:11;
Acts 7:15-16;
Romans 7-11;
Hebrews 11:21-22;
1 Peter 1:1-9; 2:11-17;
Revelation 7:1-17; 14:1-7
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Torah Commentary:
- http://yourlivingwaters.com/Genesis/Vayechi-Commentary-2009a.pdf
- http://yourlivingwaters.com/Genesis/Vayechi-Commentary-2009.pdf
Workbook Discussion Questions:
How does this week’s Torah Portion Relate to the Haftarah and Brit Chadasha Portions?
What did you find most interesting about this week’s reading?
What is the general theme of this reading and how does it apply to our lives today?
For more details concerning the events of this week’s study, please read the following chapters of Jasher, which complement this Torah portion:
Notes From This Study:
This week’s Torah portion is where the start of what I call “The Ephraim Awakening” is first prophesied:
The above was inspired by Jim Staley’s teaching, Identity Crisis:
The Lost Sheep by 119 Ministries:
- Pick a Stick
- Who is the Church Anyway?
- Leviticus 26, Ezekiel 4 and the Fullness of the Gentiles
- Redeeming the Bride (Part 1)
- Redeeming the Bride (Part 2): Drinking the Cup
- Church in the Wilderness and the Fullness of the Gentiles
- A “Cult” or a Massive Move of YHWH?
Discover the Lost Tribes of Israel:
Romans 11
King James Version
13 For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry, 14 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and save some of them. 15 For if their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
16 For if the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches. 17 And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, 18 do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.
19 You will say then, “Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.” 20 Well said. Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear. 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either. 22 Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness,[f] if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off. 23 And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. 24 For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
25 For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.26 And so all Israel will be saved,[g] as it is written:
“The Deliverer will come out of Zion,
And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;
27 For this is My covenant with them,
When I take away their sins.”[h]
28 Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers. 29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. 30 For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience, 31 even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy. 32 For God has committed them all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all.
33 Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!
34 “For who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has become His counselor?”[i]
35 “Or who has first given to Him
And it shall be repaid to him?”[j]
36 For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen.
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Consider the names of Jacob’s 12 sons…
Reuben – See a son
Simeon – Harkening
Levi – Joined
Judah – He shall be praised
Zebulun – Dwelling
Issachar – He will bring reward
Dan – Judging
Gad – An invader
Asher – Happy
Naphtali – My wrestling
Joseph – Let him add
Benjamin – Son of my right hand
See a son! Harkening. Joined. He shall be praised. Dwelling, he will will bring (a) reward.
Judging an invader. Happy. (By) My wrestling, let him (Israel) add the Son of my right hand.
Hebrew Alphabet Chart:
More study resources related to the subjects of this week’s study can be found at:
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Also be sure to check out my show with Doug Hamp called
Quest4Truth for more interesting study and debate:
The Tribulation Protection Plan:
Exodus 34:21-24 (NLT)
21 “You have six days each week for your ordinary work, but on the seventh day you must stop working, even during the seasons of plowing and harvest.
22 “You must celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the first crop of the wheat harvest, and celebrate the Festival of the Final Harvest at the end of the harvest season. 23 Three times each year every man in Israel must appear before the Sovereign, the Lord, the God of Israel. 24 I will drive out the other nations ahead of you and expand your territory, so no one will covet and conquer your land while you appear before the Lord your God three times each year.
Leviticus 26:3-13 (NRSV)
3 If you follow my statutes and keep my commandments and observe them faithfully, 4 I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.5 Your threshing shall overtake the vintage, and the vintage shall overtake the sowing; you shall eat your bread to the full, and live securely in your land. 6 And I will grant peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one shall make you afraid; I will remove dangerous animals from the land, and no sword shall go through your land. 7 You shall give chase to your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. 8 Five of you shall give chase to a hundred, and a hundred of you shall give chase to ten thousand; your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. 9 I will look with favor upon you and make you fruitful and multiply you; and I will maintain my covenant with you. 10 You shall eat old grain long stored, and you shall have to clear out the old to make way for the new. 11 I will place my dwelling in your midst, and I shall not abhor you. 12 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you shall be my people. 13 I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be their slaves no more; I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.
Also listen to John William Galt (the voice of the movies) reading Psalm 91: