GENESIS - CHAPTER 12 - 12:8 & 12:10

GENESIS  CHAPTER  12

 12:1 > The Fourth Dispensation: Promise. For Abraham and his descendants it is evident that the Abrahamic Covenant ( GENESIS  15:18 ) made a great change. They became distinctively the heirs of promise. That covenant is wholly gracious and unconditional. The descendants of Abraham had but to abide in their own land to inherit every blessing. In Egypt they lost their blessings, but not their covenant. The Dispensation of Promise ended when Israel rashly accepted the law ( EXODUS  19:8 ).

 12:1 > Grace had prepared a deliverer ( Moses ), provided a sacrifice for the guilty, and by divine power brought them out of bondage ( EXODUS  19:4 ); but at Sinai they exchanged grace for law. The Dispensation of Promise extends from Genesis  12:1  to  Exodus  19:8;  and was exclusively Israelitish. The dispensation must be distinguished from the covenant. The former is a mode of testing; the latter is everlasting because unconditional. The law did not abrogate the Abrahamic Covenant ( GALATIANS  3:15__18 ), but was an intermediate disciplinary dealing "till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made" ( GALATIANS  3:19__29;  4:1__7 ). Only the dispensation, as a testing of Israel, ended at the giving of the law. See, for the other six dispensations: Innocence ( GENESIS  1:28 );  Conscience ( GENESIS  3:23 );  Human Government ( GENESIS  8:20 );  Law ( EXODUS  19:8 ); Grace  ( JOHN  1:117 );  Kingdom  ( EPHESIANS  1:10 ).

12:8 > One of the sacred places of Canaan, meaning, house of God ( GENESIS  28:1__22;  35:1__7 ). It is characteristic of all apostasy that Jeroboam chose this sacred place in which to erect an idol ( 1  KINGS  12:28,  32.  13:1__5 ); and of divine judgment upon apostasy that God should decree the destruction of  Bethel, despite its sacred memories ( 1  KINGS  13:1__5;  2  KINGS  23:15__17 ). God never hesitates to cast aside that which no longer serves His purpose ( REVELATION  2:5;  3:16 ).

 12:10 > A famine was often a disciplinary testing of God's people in the land. ( GENESIS  26:1;  42:5 ) The resort of Egypt ( the world ) is typical of the tendency to substitute for lost spiritual power the fleshly resources of the world, instead of seeking, through confession and amendment, the restoration of God's presence and favour.

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