Tuesday, January 22, 2013
It was Telah who first had the vision of the promise land, not Abraham
Shem’s Descendants
10 This is the genealogy of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood. 11 After he begot Arphaxad, Shem lived five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
12 Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Salah. 13 After he begot Salah, Arphaxad lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
14 Salah lived thirty years, and begot Eber. 15 After he begot Eber, Salah lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
16 Eber lived thirty-four years, and begot Peleg. 17 After he begot Peleg, Eber lived four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.
18 Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu. 19 After he begot Reu, Peleg lived two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.
20 Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Serug. 21 After he begot Serug, Reu lived two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.
22 Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor. 23 After he begot Nahor, Serug lived two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
24 Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah. 25 After he begot Terah, Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.
26 Now Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
31 And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there. 32 So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.
The meaning of Telah is delay, dissever or late.
Telah had a foundational problem for whatever reason. He was delayed having his first heir till the age of 70, and passed the affliction to his eldest son (Abram) and his youngest son (Haran) who became a father early, died prematurely. There is something wrong when you have to bury your son (verse 28).
10 This is the genealogy of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood. 11 After he begot Arphaxad, Shem lived five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
12 Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Salah. 13 After he begot Salah, Arphaxad lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
14 Salah lived thirty years, and begot Eber. 15 After he begot Eber, Salah lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
16 Eber lived thirty-four years, and begot Peleg. 17 After he begot Peleg, Eber lived four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.
18 Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu. 19 After he begot Reu, Peleg lived two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.
20 Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Serug. 21 After he begot Serug, Reu lived two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.
22 Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor. 23 After he begot Nahor, Serug lived two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
24 Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah. 25 After he begot Terah, Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.
26 Now Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Terah’s Descendants
27 This is the genealogy of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran begot Lot. 28 And Haran died before his father Terah in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans. 29 Then Abram and Nahor took wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah. 30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child.31 And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there. 32 So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.
Shem was a 100 years old when he got Arphaxad. Then it was
increasingly younger when the next generation got a heir ie 30, 32 and 29 years
old.
But by the 9th generation Telah got Abram at age
70. Something went wrong.
The meaning of Telah is delay, dissever or late.
Telah had a foundational problem for whatever reason. He was delayed having his first heir till the age of 70, and passed the affliction to his eldest son (Abram) and his youngest son (Haran) who became a father early, died prematurely. There is something wrong when you have to bury your son (verse 28).
Verse 30 said Sarai was barren. It was not her problem but she got married to
Abram and came under the foundational problem that Abram was subjected to. Even
Abram was delayed because he was a victim of a foundational and generational
affliction. Abram, a man of faith became a father at age 100 after much prayer.
The son of Telah (delay) was also delayed. There was no problem with Sarai but
with Abram’s foundational problems.
I pray that today the blood of Jesus Christ blow away all
these foundational problems we unknowingly harbour.
Psalms
11
In the
Lord I put my trust;
How can you say to my soul,
“Flee as a bird to your mountain”?
2
For
look! The wicked bend their bow,
They make ready their arrow on the string,
That they
may shoot secretly at the upright in heart.
3
If the
foundations are destroyed,
What can the righteous do?
Every child of great destiny that will impact his family
(parents, siblings, uncles, aunt and cousins) and his generation will be
afflicted by the enemy. Abram was
the only one following God in his family. Likewise out all my relatives (10
uncles, 7 aunts, 44 cousins etc) less than 5 of them are Christians.
In fact Telah was the first who had a vision of the promise
land (verse 31) but he settled but for something short of God’s best at a village called Haran (verse
32). He was meant to settle for Canaan. I will not settle for anything short of God's best for me despite all the critics, even Christian critics.
I pray that:
- every spirit of delay for us to reach our destiny be broken in our lives by the blood of Jesus.
- what has limited my father, my generation will not limit me as I serve a limitless God (verse 31)
- God to use me to bring my family, my generation to the promise land and to bring a change and revival.
