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Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the wonderful of Remnant Radio.

And this program, we're talking about patriarchal blessings.

It's going to be an interesting program.

You guys stay tuned.

So what is a patriarchal blessing?

Well, when I speak of the patriarchs, I'm speaking of guys like Abraham, Isaac, Jacob.

I'm thinking of individuals such as Lamek and Noah Noah who speak blessings and at time curses over their children.

And those blessings and curses seem to have such a binding effect and power over the lives of the individuals who are spoken to

that it ultimately shapes history moving forward for them and their children's children.

So it's a difficult thing to kind of grapple with

because as I'm reading through my Bible a year reading plan, and I'm kind of pushing through the text,

I don't take the time to try to figure out what is going on there. I read so quickly past the text.

I don't see something overtly supernatural. The author, when he's recording these accounts,

is not attempting to say, this is the supernatural activity that's taking place. It just records,

hey, he blessed. Hey, he curse. And then if you follow the storyline carefully, you'll find that those

blessings and curses seem to be fulfilled exactly as the forefather has predicted. So what's going on

here?

Is this just some kind of wishful thinking? Is it just a word of encouragement? There's just some kind of binding power that's taking place with these blessings and curses. I think we're going to look through a couple of examples up front, three examples. And I find that they're not really that compelling as to what is taking place with these blessings and curses. and then we're going to move over into the final conclusion of what I think is actually taking place with these blessings and curses. So let's dive in by kind of reminding ourselves of the various kinds of patriarchal blessings that are taking place in the book of Genesis. I'm not going to run through all the accounts. I'm not going to run through all of them with great details. So what I would encourage you to do, if you're less than fuzzy on these accounts, you don't really recall them at all.

Maybe go pick up the Book of Genesis, read it through. It's a take an hour, hour and a half. You can come back to this video and we can discuss patriarchal blessings. But for the rest of us, let's just use this as a refresher to remind ourselves of the various blessings that are taking place in the book of Genesis. Genesis 5, 28 through 29 is the first account that really

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