Israelite Idolatry ca. 800 BC

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Israelite Idolatry ca. 800 BC
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Israelite Idolatry ca. 800 BC
You shall not plant any tree as an Asherah beside
the altar of the LORD your God that you shall
make. Deut. 1621 Nevertheless, they did not
depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam,
which he made Israel to sin, but walked in them
and the Asherah also remained in Samaria. 2
Kings 136 And they abandoned all the
commandments of the LORD their God, and made for
themselves metal images of two calves and they
made an Asherah and worshiped all the host of
heaven and served Baal. 2 Kings 176
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Israelite Idolatry ca. 800 BC
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Israelite Idolatry ca. 800 BC
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Israelite Idolatry ca. 800 BC
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Israelite Idolatry ca. 800 BC
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Adam God will Win in the End

• Roadmap of the Bible
• Creation------------------------------------------
  -------------------------------New Creation
• Adam Noah Abraham
  Moses David Jesus

You are hereGenesis 215-17 Genesis 3
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What was the Tree Test?

• Two Paths

Obedience Pleasant path Of wisdom
Disobedience Hard path ofpainful experience
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Paradise Lost

• Exile from Eden(Compare Israels exile)
• Creation is cursed

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Paradise Lost

• Her rash hand in evil hourForth reaching to the
  fruit, she plucked, she ateEarth felt the
  wound, and Nature from her seat,Sighing through
  all her works, gave signs of woeThat all was
  lost. -Milton, Paradise Lost

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Paradise Lost

• Exile from Eden(Compare Israels exile)
• Creation is cursed
• Satans coup d'état

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Proto Gospel -- Genesis 315ff

• Genesis 315 is Scriptures first promise of
  redemption.
• Adam and Eve both believe.
• Pharaoh is Satans minion.

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Proto Gospel
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Progenies at War

• Seed is purposely ambiguous.
• War between the two seeds.

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Progenies at War

• Seed of the Serpent Seed of the Woman
• Cain lt---MURDER Seth lt--- call on YHWH
• Enoch Enosh
• Irad Kenan
• Mehujael Mahalalel
• Methushael Jared
• Lamech lt---MURDER Enoch lt---walked w/ God
• (3 sons) POLYGAMY Methuselah
• Lamech lt---Rest?

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Progenies at War

• Seed is purposely ambiguous.
• War between the two seeds.
• The two seeds in the New Testament.

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Further Reading

• James Hamilton, The Skull-Crushing
  Seed of the Woman