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Hello everyone, everywhere.

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Pastor Bob Thibodeau here.

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Welcome to your 15 minute Bible walk broadcast for today.

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We're so blessed you're joining us.

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We left off last time in chap.

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Genesis chapter 15.

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And we finished with verse number 10, I believe it was.

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And we're going to start now in verse number 11.

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This is a story about Abraham offering the.

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The offering to the Lord that the Lord asked him to set up.

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Just review that real quick.

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How he had divide the animals we talked about it was split down the spine.

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Basically, they'd fall apart and he had to keep the birds away.

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And that's where we're going to start out right now.

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Verse 10.

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Said he took him unto these, divided them in the midst, laid each piece one against the other, but the birds he did not divide.

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, Genesis: 15:11

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And when the fowls came down upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away.

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Now the here Jesus even made a reference about the birds come to eat the seed.

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You know, what falls on the wayside.

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So here we see the fowls represent Satan, demons, evil, possessed people, folks that, that just don't want you to succeed, all right?

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And he says, when the.

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When Satan came.

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That's why I'm just transliterating that.

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When Satan came down upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away.

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So it's up to you to keep the birds off your seed, all right?

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It's up to you to keep the demons away from your offerings.

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It's up to you to just drive these demonic forces away.

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Now we do that through the power and the authority of the name of Jesus.

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That's the bottom line here.

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But back into the verses.

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Now, verse 12.

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When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram.

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And lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.

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And he said to Abram, God said to Abram, know of a surety that your seed, your descendants, shall be a stranger in a land that's not theirs.

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And shall and shall serve them, the people who own the land.

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And they shall afflict them for 400 years.

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Now this is talking about Egypt, okay?

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And verse 14, also that nation, Egypt, whom they shall serve, I will judge.

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And afterward they shall come out with great substance.

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And we know that's what happened during the Exodus, right?

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They spoiled the Egyptians.

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Verse 15.

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And you shall go to your fathers in peace.

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You shall be buried in a good old age.

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Verse 16.

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But in the fourth generation, now, a generation is about 100 years.

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So he's saying 400 plus years from now they shall come here again.

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It was 430 years that they were in Egypt.

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They, your descendants that are going to be in this foreign land and afflicted.

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I'm going to bring them back here again.

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For the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

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Verse 17.

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And it came to pass that when the sun went down and was dark, behold a smoking furnace and a burning lamp, a lamp that appeared like a lamp that was on fire, passed between those pieces.

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Now, you know, in Moses days, you know, we had the.

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The.

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The pillar of fire by night and the pillar of the big cloud by day, right?

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Well, here we see the same thing in a miniaturized version for Abram.

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So in other words, this is God himself.

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This is.

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Is probably an incarnate Jesus.

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Either way, it doesn't matter.

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God showed up at Abram's sacrifice.

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And I want you to see something.

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A burning lamp passed between those pieces.

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I believe you'll remember he had to split those sacrifices down the middle, where it says that laid HP in verse 10.

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Laid each piece one against the other.

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They just kind of fell apart.

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And.

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And the ancient tradition of doing a covenant sacrifice between, let's say, two parties, two chieftains, where their families would come together and become one and supporting one another.

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Let's say you had a herder, rancher, we'll call him a rancher, but, you know, took care of the flocks and the other guy took care of the grain and the field and the wheat and all that.

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Well, if marauding troops came in and spoiled the guy's farm, he didn't have soldiers to protect him.

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The guy over here that had the ranchers of people came in, start stealing.

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Marauders came in and started stealing their.

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She didn't have people.

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But together they could protect each other, okay?

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And they would enter into a covenant, and they would become basically one family, one group of people.

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They had those that provided the bread and the grain and all that stuff, and you had those that provided the meat and the resources.

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And they would mutually help each other.

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And they would enter into the covenant with each other.

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That was the covenant ceremony where they take these offerings and split them in the middle.

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The blood would be all over the ground.

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And the two chieftains, the two leaders of these parties, would walk back and forth, basically making a figure eight within the blood itself.

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That figure eight, if you turn it sideways, it's a sign of infinity.

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In other words, this covenant is going to last forever.

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All right, now here we see I.

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I firmly believe, and a lot of scholars have looked at this and said the same thing.

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That Abram seen God's footsteps in the blood.

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He's seen the footsteps probably of Jesus in the blood.

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And that changed his life forever.

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Think about it.

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He never went back.

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He was totally 100 in on this point.

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But here we see God walking in the midst of this, making this covenant with Abram.

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Verse 18.

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In the same day the Lord.

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That's all caps they saying Elohim.

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In the same day, Elohim made a covenant with Abram, saying unto your descendants, unto your seed, unto your descendants, I have given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, the Canaanites, the Kenzanites, the Ketamites, the Headites, the Perizzites, the Raphael and the Amorites, the Canaanites, the.

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And the Jebusites.

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All of them, all their land now belongs to you, Abram.

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Amen.

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Praise God.

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That's a powerful, powerful covenant.

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And this Abram, he just believed.

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That's why we see later is counted to him by faith to believe for this.

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Amen.

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Praise God.

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That concludes chapter 15.

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Tell you what, just to keep it simple, that's where we're going to stop today.

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Amen.

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And.

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And we'll break it up in chapter 16 beginning in the very next episode.

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So until then, this passed the bob reminding you to be blessed in all that you do.