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<\/a>OK the title is a bit misleading, as I’m only considering the names “Abram”, “Isaac” and “Jacob”… their stories make up 3\/4 of the book of Genesis… and Jesus appears in lots of ways we don’t have time to unpack here.<\/p>\n
This post is a continuation of the series on the names of Jesus’ ancestors… you can start the series here!<\/a> or start this sub-thread at: The fame of the healer!<\/a> in the last post we had made it to “Terach”<\/a>, so moving on…<\/p>\n Now Abram is normally translated as “Exalted Father”, the name is a simply compound of “ab”\/”\u05d0\u05d1”\/”father” and “ram”\/”\u05e8\u05de” a contraction of “rum”\/”\u05e8\u05d5\u05de” which means “raised up” or “lifted up… so if the Father is lifted up he is an “Exalted Father”. But “Ab-ram”\/”Father-Raised” could equally mean “Raised by Father”… Certainly Abram’s sister-wife Sarai had a different mother (Genesis 20:12) just 10 years after Abram was born (Genesis 17:17), perhaps Terach had to cover Abram’s early years after his mothers death. But this is just speculation, if “Abram” does imply “Raised by Father” it is more likely to be because Terach had exalted his position among his brothers, either quite literally by lifting him up to dedicate him, or metaphorically by recognising Abram as his heir.<\/p>\n Whatever <\/p>\n Isaac, means \u201cLaughter\u201d or \u201cLaughing\u201d, which is another quality associated with Jesus. In fact the New Testament makes Jesus\u2019 happiness a mark of his messiah-ship. Applying Psalm 45:7, the writer of Hebrews, speaking of Jesus says:<\/p>\n \u201cGod, your God has anointed (messiah-ed) you with oil of joy\/gladness<\/strong> more than your associates.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 Hebrews 1:9<\/p>\n And the “voice of joy” i.e laughter, is linked by Jeremiah to a “Bridegroom” who disappears and then returns to Jerusalem.<\/p>\n \u201cthe voice of joy<\/strong>, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom<\/strong>, and the voice of the bride\u201d<\/em> – Jeremiah 7:34, 16:9, 25:10 and 33:11.<\/p>\n Jesus of course took this symbolic figure, the bridegroom, and applied it to himself (Matthew 9:15, Mark 2:20, Luke 5:35) warning of a time when he would be \u201ctaken away\u201d and his disciples would mourn him. Now the first three times Jeremiah uses the title \u201cthe bridegroom\u201d the loss of the sound of laughing is in view, but the final time he refers to the bridegroom\u2019s laughter it is a promise of its return, Jeremiah 33:11-12. Then, when the bridegroom\u2019s happy sound is heard again, says Jeremiah, the world will recognise the \u201cBranch of David\u201d, the perpetual King and perpetual Priest, Jeremiah 33:14-18, and Jerusalem will finally have peace.<\/p>\n So adding Isaac’s name we see a phrase developing:<\/p>\n \u201cRaised by the Father(Abram) Laughing(Isaac)…\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Now, adding the next name in the list, Jacob\/Israel, to the evolving sentence bring<\/p>\n s a wonderful conclusion to the list of things the healer is famous for.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jacob means \u201cheel\u201d, we will look at Jacob the \u201cheel\u201d in another post, but Jacob\u2019s name is changed of course to Israel, and it is the name Israel that so aptly fits the prophetic flow of names.<\/p>\n The name Israel has two parts the second \u201cEl\u201d being simply \u201cGod\u201d, but the first part has a wide variety of connected words and meanings that fall into three possible translations directions.<\/p>\n \u201cIsra\u201d could denote a royal or authority figure; it could mean continuation or persistence; and it could mean to struggle or to strive. So traditional sources give meanings for Israel like \u201cPrince of God\u201d or \u201cGod\u2019s Governor\u201d, \u201cGod persists\u201d or even \u201cGod Survives\u201d and \u201cStrives with God\u201d or \u201cGod\u2019s Struggle\u201d.<\/p>\n All three directions fit the history and destiny of Jacob and work in different ways in the prophetic flow of names:<\/p>\n \u201cRaised by the Father Laughing, God\u2019s ruler\/God Survives\/God\u2019s Struggle\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n The first option is the simplest statement of fact, Jesus is \u201dGod\u2019s Ruler\u201d. The second is the most profound, \u201cGod Survives\u201d, as the hymn goes \u201ctis mystery all the immortal dies…\u201d but then lives on. And the third is a description of the struggle that the death and resurrection represented. For simplicity lets opt for the first option. so the \u201chealer sent from the other side of the divide\u201d<\/strong> will famously<\/strong> be:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cA friend, a vine, a lamp, very spirited, raised by the Father laughing as God\u2019s ruler.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Which is an amazingly accurate description of Jesus in his earthly life thousands of years after these ancestors where named.<\/p>\n In the next post we will finish the list of Messianic forebears found in Genesis.<\/p>\n OK the title is a bit misleading, as I’m only considering the names “Abram”, “Isaac” and “Jacob”… their stories make up 3\/4 of the book of Genesis… and Jesus appears in lots of ways we don’t have time to unpack here. This post is a continuation of the series on the names of Jesus’ ancestors… Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,22,23],"tags":[26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1464,"href":"https:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions\/1464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesuscentred.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Abram<\/h4>\n
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the background, the fact that Abram can mean “Father Raised” is fascinating , because it certainly is something that Jesus is famous for… \u201cThe renown (Shem) of the healer (Arpachsad)… a wanderer\/very spirited(Terach) raised by father(Abram)!; <\/strong>and it creates a prophetic context for the meaning of Abram’s beloved son.<\/p>\nIsaac<\/h4>\n
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