GENESIS 12

 If you ever wonder into Egypt with your wife I'll give you two pieces of advice.  1 - watch out for the Syrians and 2 - read Genesis 12

GENESIS 12

THE CALL OF ABRAM

1 The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.2 “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.

3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”

Sounds like a good deal to me. It's like a promotion at work but with land.

4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran.

5 He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.

Good plan, well executed. 

6 Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.

7 The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

8 From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.

9 Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.

So if you build an alter to god he will appear. Why has this never been in the news or on YouTube? I'm sure many have tried the alter building thing, even with cameras, yet no god appears so I'm wondering if was just a one off thing. Building an alter to your god for thanks is like giving your girlfriend a rose if your girlfriend was a blow up doll. Sooner or later one of the thorns is going to pop the plastic and she will disapear is a pop of idiocy. 

ABRAM IN EGYPT

10 Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.

Well, if he's not there to help he's adding to the problem...just another mouth to feed.

11 As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “I know what a beautiful woman you are. 

12 When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you live.

Kind of jumping to conclusions there, aren't we? 

13 Say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake and my life will be spared because of you.”

Lying - why didn't I think of that? 

14 When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was a very beautiful woman.

15 And when Pharaoh’s officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into his palace.

16 He treated Abram well for her sake, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.

Wait a minute. Because they thought she was his sister and they wanted a little action, they are offering all sorts of farm animals as payment.

17 But the Lord inflicted serious diseases on Pharaoh and his household because of Abram’s wife Sarai.

Sounds a bit harsh as they didn't know she was a chosen one.

18 So Pharaoh summoned Abram. “What have you done to me?” he said. “Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife?

19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!”

20 Then Pharaoh gave orders about Abram to his men, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and everything he had.

So, the moral to this story is that you are to lie to your enemy then when they find out you lied tell them they've been punked and you get away scot free. Now that's the kind of education I want my kids to have.