The word “Yadah” is knowing intimately. In chapter 15 of Genesis we see God come to Abraham to ratify His Covenant.
We see a framework of how covenant functioned in the old days of the patriarchs. Each party would announce the family name, the assets they owned, the promises they made in the covenant arrangement. Then animals were cut in two burned on a altar and the two parties walked between the pieces.
Abraham was focused on a earthly inheritance whilst God had a greater plan for him. His descendants would not be just earthly ones but spiritual sons and daughters spanning many many generations.
What started as “how will I Yadah? ” became the focal points of two different trajectories. And entering into a greater Yadah via the 7 tests God put along his path he arrived at the greatest Yadah at Mount Moriah. There we see down history shows us how Yadah would be accessible through the Tabernacle of David and the Temple of Solomon.
Our “Yadah” albeit tried through tests God puts along our path, opens for others indications of our encounters of Yadah become altars of worship. In that our “Yadah” is accessed via a Glory that God makes available for us to come into through prayer and worship, having had our sins covered by the animals of that old time.
We have a more superior altar called Calvary. Where redemption is complete where the Blood of Jesus not only covers sin but erased it.
So the covenant of Abraham that was based on possession by faith, a nation of priests, a line of righteous kings. The “Yadah” touches every redeemed person through the Messiah. Abraham’s “Yadah” becomes our own, as verse 6 says “Abraham believed and it was imputed to him as righteousness”
So we to access the righteousness of God we must believe in the same way. That belief comes out of obeying God’s direction to leave Ur. Abraham was God’s response to what happened in Chapter 11 of Genesis, where a city was built upon human decision and human desire , and human destiny . God came down and confused and dispersed that company. We see “Babel” pop up in various times to be a thorn to God’s people. Even today we see the same system played out in governmental circles, the convergence of religious, financial and governmental power together. We see a manifestation of it in Jesus’ crucifixion, where the religious Sanhedrin pays with financial power 30 pieces of silver, pressurising King Herod to pass Jesus onto political leader Pontius Pilate. All the 3 ” Babylonian bases” worked in this situation. It will happen again in the future when the Antichrist will seek to crush the saints.
Our “Yadah” in our walk with God, that is, our intimacy with Him will carry us through and prevailing over what may come to attack that Yadah. We have the promise that God will fulfil and we will walk for eternity in that Yadah with a glorified body, perfect heart and heavenly environment. The thing that Abraham did to access Yadah was believe. May we not just seek knowledge as a mental satisfaction, rather that our intimacy with God unlock not only for us but for all generations the redemption that prepares us for an eternity of intimacy with the One who according to Paul prepared something beyond visual comprehension and audio perception that He has prepared for those who come into intimate knowledge of Yadah.
MARANATHA!!!!
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