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Genesis 9:28
Apocalypse Revealed # 289
289. "And blessing!" This symbolically means, all these being in Him and from Him in those angels of the lower heavens.
A blessing means every good that a person has from the Lord, such as power and wealth, and everything that accompanies these, but especially every spiritual good, such as love and wisdom, charity and faith, and the accompanying joy and happiness, which have to do with eternal life. And because all of these come from the Lord, it follows that He has them in Him; for if He did not have them in Him, they could not be present in others from Him.
It is for this reason that in the Word the Lord is called blessed, and also a blessing, which is to say, blessing itself.
That Jehovah, or the Lord, is called blessed, is apparent from the following passages:
...the high priest asked (Jesus)..., "Are You the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?" (Mark 14:61)
(Jesus said,) "you shall see Me no more till you say, 'Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!'" (Matthew 23:39, cf. Luke 13:35)
(Melchizedek) blessed (Abram) and said: ."..blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand." (Genesis 14:18-20)
Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Shem... (Genesis 9:26)
Blessed be Jehovah (who) has heard (my) voice... (Psalms 28:6)
Blessed be Jehovah, for He has shown me His marvelous clemency... (Psalms 31:21)
Blessed be Jehovah... from everlasting to everlasting! (Psalms 41:13)
So likewise Psalms 66:20; 68:19, 35; 72:18-19; 89:52; 119:12; 124:6; 135:21; 144:1, Luke 1:68.
It is owing to this that blessing is mentioned in this verse, as again in verse 12, and in chapter 7, 7:12. And in the book of Psalms:
Glory and honor You have placed upon Him, for You have made Him a blessing forever. (Psalms 21:5-6)
The subject is the Lord.
[2] It can be seen from this what blessing God means in the Word: that it is to attribute all blessing to Him, to pray for Him to bless, and to thank Him for blessing, as can be seen from the following passages:
(Zacharias's) mouth was opened... and he spoke, blessing God. (Luke 1:64, 68)
(Simeon) took (the infant Jesus) up in his arms and blessed God... (Luke 2:28, 30-31)
I will bless Jehovah who has given me counsel. (Psalms 16:7)
...bless (Jehovah's) name; proclaim His salvation from day to day. (Psalms 96:1-3)
Blessed be the Lord from day to day... Bless God in the congregations, the Lord, from the fountain of Israel. (Psalms 68:19, 26)
Genesis 13
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Abram went up out of Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.
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Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
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He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
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to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the name of Yahweh.
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Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
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The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together: for their substance was great, so that they could not live together.
7
There was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived in the land at that time.
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Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives.
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Isn't the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left."
10
Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.
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So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.
12
Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
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Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.
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Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,
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for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.
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I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered.
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Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its breadth; for I will give it to you."
18
Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.
