Genesis 36

That typically you're, you are only going to get human patriarchs in the table of nations, in Genesis 10 and 1 Chronicles.

And for something that's a little bit different, you have Genesis 36 to help explain some of those peoples and races.

And so we don't have Rapha in there as a patriarch.

We don't have Arba in there as a patriarch.

As, and Hori would be understood as the patriarch for the Horim, but we don't get Hori.

We do, but as, uh, some of the dukes of Edom as they're, as they're named, but that is well after, a couple hundred years after, when we get, like in Genesis 14, the Horites showing up, which would be Horim there, along with the Malachim.

Because they predate the Malach patriarch as well in Genesis 36.

So now you're saying the Bible has to be out of sync.

I didn't hear you guys say amen, but I'm assuming that you guys all said amen.

All right, so I get to do Genesis 35 and 36. this is really the end kind of, of, of the Jacob portion of Genesis.

And I find 36 pretty funny, but I'll, I'll tell you why later we'll get through 35 first, but I think it would be good.

Um, just in case anybody's on here and they didn't come for any of the other chapters of this, just to quickly do a trajectory of Jacob's life.

And if you think about it, Jerusalem, Israel is a broken man, right? It's a broken person.

It's like all of us.

So this brings us to Genesis 35 and 36.

And these chapters serve as a powerful turning point.

But the Canaanites were not cleared out until Joshua came along.

Genesis 36 implies the author lived during a time Israel had kings.

Deuteronomy 34, it records Moses' death in the past tense.

There's so many repeat narratives throughout the Old Testament, like the story of Jacob's name being changed to Israel.

That is why he was also called Edom, which we heard was also red.

And then in Genesis 36, one, it says, this is the account of the family line of Esau.

That is comma Edom.

So we know they're connected with the family line of Esau.

Amen.

If I had time, I would go to Genesis 36 where Jacob runs to the gateway of heaven.

So it's essential and it's imperative that we put him first in our relationships.

Let me say it this way.

And I'll remind the listeners what that series was in just a moment.

But we can see that Amalek is a relative of Esau in Genesis 36, verse 1.

It says, now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom.

And there's no reason for me to list all of the sons and daughters and things like that and wives that he married.

Amalek is first mentioned in the genealogy of Esau.

He's the son of Eliphaz, who was the son of Esau.

And let's get to his name in Genesis 36, verse 9.

We'll get through all this genealogy because these names are really hard to pronounce.

I'm also one of the pastors here.

And today in particular, it is my privilege to preach for all of us, myself included, Genesis 35 and 36.

We read a whole 15 verses of it earlier, but we got a lot to go.

So just buckle up.

We trust you in Jesus' name.

Amen.

So if you have a Bible, please turn to Genesis 35.

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