Gen 24: 1-7

Excerpt:…But to deny the work of the school-bus-driver, the Angel of the Lord, is to fight His goal to enlighten the Church. The story of Isaac’s marriage embellishes the illustration. His father Abraham, nearing death, sought to pass the torch to his 40-year-old keenly educated son, Isaac that he may forward the Abrahamic covenant to bless the nations. Thus, as a next order of business, he deemed to find a wife for Isaac, that afterwards Isaac could be the Church commissioner of kingdom growth. The fact that 3700 years was required to produce the ruler of the Lord’s Kingdom was not Abraham’s burden of care. His attitude was “first things first”. So the homeland of both Abraham and Sarah, the only land with church people, became the bulls eye of Abraham’s search. Of all Adam’s descendants, they were the people who cherished higher education in God. To facilitate the long journey of this special evangelism, as was the case with Balaam and as is the case for Adventism, Abraham also needed a laity, an aid, the metaphoric ass to shoulder his burden. For this God gave to him servants The record gives the following account from Gen 24: “ 1 And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things. 2 And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put … thy hand under my thigh: 3 And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites … 4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac. 5 And the servant said unto him, preadventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I … bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest? 6 And Abraham said … bring not my son thither again. 7 The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my kindred, … he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.” —Gen 24: 1-7. The drum roll is well deserved to seize your focus: In the underlined Texts God is called “the Lord, the God of heaven and earth” making for us two points: first it refutes the crutch of the lame who rely —not on the Bible but— on “founding-Father theology”. God actually grew the church by compelling Abraham to leave the home of his ancestry! The 2nd point is more central to this study: God used the angel of the Lord to be the school bus driver for Isaac’s prospective wife proving that. The Holy Spirit is not Christ. I know, some Adventists, called Historic Adventists, cite their last-century founding fathers, specifically James White, to buttress their denial of the Holy Spirit’s existence as a person. Unwittingly, they perfect the typology of Balaam. His parable proves their blindness and nullifies their doctrinal dispute. For Balaam’s ass —not Balaam aka the founding fathers— had the vision of the Holy Spirit. Back to Abraham, additionally, we learn a distinction by Abraham: for if the Holy Spirit and Christ were one-and-the same, Then it would not say, and I requote: “ 7 The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father’s house … he shall send his angel before thee …” This Bible evidence proves the Comforter to be a distinct personality. Afterall, Christ was the self-proclaimed God of Abraham, Isaac, and later on, of Jacob —under that umbrella, Christ included no others— not even men of Abraham’s family. 1700 years later on Calvary, After Christ, the descendant Dove, left Jesus, He, Jesus then inherited the title, God of the gentiles. But even then Jesus served them by use of the Holy Spirit. Thus, in Abraham’s mission, Isaac was forbidden to take the trip; this was to preserve protocol: Christ was his God, and if Isaac took the journey, then Christ as Issaac’s corollary would need to accompany him, and this would disrupt heaven’s order by nullifying the work of His Angel. Accordingly, Abraham’s loyal servant of advanced education…