Readings
- Genesis 25:19–28:9
- Malachi 1:1–2:7; 3:1–4
- Romans 9:1–16
- Hebrews 11:20; 12:14–17
- Matthew 10:21–38
Toledot discussions
The following are notes and recordings of studies by Hallel Fellowship teachers on passages on Toledot. Also included are notes and the recording for Daniel’s discussion on a passage in the alternate haftarah for Machar Chodesh.1
Esau’s birthright and the Israel–Gaza conflict (Genesis 25:19–28:9)
What’s your legacy? Life or death? Order or chaos? Spirit or flesh? (Lessons from Jacob and Esau)
Will the real people of God please stand up? (Malachi 1; Romans 9)
How self-inflicted wounds frustrate our future: Esau (Genesis 25:19–28:9)
Regret vs. repentance (Genesis 25:19–28:9; Malachi 1–4)
Genesis 25:19–28:9: ‘Be perfect, as your Father in Heaven is perfect’
Genesis 25:19–28:9: What does Heaven really want from me?
Genesis 25:19–28:9: Esau lives out why ‘following your heart’ can be folly
8 miraculous women of Chanukah
Death of Abraham, prophecy of Rivkah’s warring children and connections to Creation and the Flood (Genesis 25)
Chanukah celebrates 6 dedicated women
Lying for lentils and how to inherit the blessings of God (Genesis 25–26)
You want to be one of God’s firstfruits
Genesis 25:19–34
Yeshua the Firstfruits: First-born of those who are being saved
Humans and donkeys have something very important in common, according to the words of God: Both have to be redeemed by the blood of a lamb. The purpose of the memorial of Unleavened Bread is to remind us those who trust God have crossed over and what was before is destroyed and is gone. The past is destroyed just as the Egyptian army was drowned into the Sea. When we accepted Yeshua as our Savior, we chose Him as our first-born. We have made Him first in our hearts.
Genesis 26
Yitzkhak flees a famine, digs wells in Canaan
Yitzhkak (Isaac) seems to have repeated a number of events from Abraham’s life: a famine and claiming his wife was his sister. Yitzkhak also seems to have been obsessed with digging wells, but what should get our attention are messianic symbols of three days of live and death in the ground.
Genesis 27
Ya’akov tricks his father into getting the firstborn birthright Esau sold for a bowl of stew
The “transaction” for the firstborn birthright, which Esau sold to his brother, Ya’akov (Jacob) for a bowl of lentils in Genesis 25 is completed in Genesis 27 with a second ruse devised by their mother, Rivkah (Rebecca), to get Yitskhak (Isaac) to bless the correct son. This pattern of switching blessings at the last minute appears repeatedly in the Bible and has ramifications for the modern-day descendants of these two sons.
Ya’akov deceives Yitzkhak to receive prophesied blessing
Why has the birthright and blessing due Esau but passed to Ya’akov (Jacob) been a persistent factor in world history, even to our day and the future Day of the Lord? Is there a connection between the delusion Ya’akov gave his father, Yitzkhak (Isaac), to gain Esau’s blessing and the “strong delusion” God has planned for the Day of the Lord?
Genesis 28:1–9
Ya’akov finds God then Rachel
Ya’akov (Jacob) is sent away to find a wife and finds God first at the bottom of a ladder to Heaven. Then he finds Rachel and ends up with her sister and two slave women. There seems to be something prophetic about Rachel.
Ya’akov dreams of a ladder to Heaven, works for Rachel but gets Leah; Leah has sons but Rachel is barren
The vision of “Ya’akov’s ladder” and his being hoodwinked on his wedding night with Leah instead of Rachel make for entertaining reading, but why does the message of Yeshua the Messiah touch on these accounts? Genesis 28-29 also shows us how involved God is in this world throughout time.
- 1st Samuel 20 study: “Yahunatan warns David to flee Sha’ul.” Yahunatan (Jonathan) during a New Moon celebration learns that his father, Sha’ul (Saul) the ruler, plans to kill his best friend, David. Yahunatan creates a signaling method involving three days and three arrows to let David know to flee. ↩
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