Read Genesis 24 here or at Bible Gateway.
The Hebrew paragraph:
24:1-67 {p} The servant finds a bride for Isaac, the promised seed
Since there is a {p} strong paragraph division at the end of chapter 24, we are seeing the completion of a Strong Theme. Going back to collect the weak paragraphs preceding this:
23:1-20 {s} Heth gives Abraham a possession in Canaan
24:1-67 {p} The servant finds a bride for Isaac, the promised seed
Gen 23:1 about the death of Sarah, begins a completely new topic. Now we would expect there to be a {p} paragraph division at the end of Gen 23:20, for to human logic, it seems that Gen 24 begins another completely new topic. But not so. This means that God considers Gen 23:1-24:67 to be teaching a single topic. The Chiastic Structure helps us find the topic:
Did you see what God put neon flashing lights around so that we wouldn’t miss it? God has NOT forsaken His lovingkindness and His truth toward Abraham, and I would venture to guess, toward Abraham’s seed as well!
23:1-24:67 {s+p} Strong Theme: YHVH has not forsaken His lovingkindness or truth toward Abraham
Isaac, as the son of the promise, is a Prophetic Type for Messiah, the Promised Seed. In the Bible we find, not only historic events that prophesy of Messiah, but persons whose life strangely contain amazing elements that mirror Messiah’s life and ministry. In Gen 24, Abraham (the Father) sends his servant (a.k.a. the Holy Spirit) to search for the bride (the body of believers, the bride of Messiah) of Isaac (the Promised Seed, the Son). This event occurs after the “death and resurrection” of the Promised Seed in Gen 22. In the end, the Holy Spirit, I mean, the servant, brings the Bride to the Son, as the Son goes out to meet them.
Just seeing some of the intricacies of these things should lay to rest for everyone whether every word, every jot and tittle (Mat 5:18) that we have in our Bibles today is in fact the unaltered, unchanged, complete and whole Word of YHVH. No man, no JEDP editors, no human mind can encode everything that is elegantly hidden in plain sight within God’s living and active Word like this.
If there are questions, these are good resources:
The Camels and the Well – Brad Scott
Eliezer and Ruach HaKodesh – Hebrew 4 Christians
The Authenticity of the Book of Genesis – Dr. William Cooper
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