Genesis 38:1-30:
This story begins with the Israelite brethren being jealous of their brother Joseph.
They held resentment because of the favor their Father showed to the first born of their Father's
wife Rachel, whom he really loved, and not the other mothers of their Brethren.
The brothers agreed together to do evil against their Father by killing their brother.
Their brother got dreams from God and that meant to them that He also favored
Joseph over them. One brother Reuben, didn't want to kill him and threw him into a pit.
They wanted to handle it that way. while Reuben was gone they sold him into slavery
to Egypt at Potiphar's house.
Judah is a main player in this story of wickedness, murder, sexual misconduct, bad friends who live without God in their life, and bad choice of women. Yet, in the end... Judah has Jesus, which He come from all his righteous repentance.
Now, Judah is ashamed and leaves his brethren to go to Adullum, and turns into there to a friend,
Hirah, an Adullumite. With his friend, Hiram, Judah sees a Canaanite woman and goes into her and has a son. His name is Er, then another, Onan, and a third Shelah, these are the sons of Judah.
Judah took a wife for Er named Tamar, a Canaanite woman. Er was wicked in the sight of The Lord,
(Genesis 38:7), and The Lord Killed him. Judah then tells Onan to marry Tamar, raise up a seed for Er... Onan understood the righteous way, and that his seed would not be his, but his brother's. Onan went into his brother's wife Tamar, and he spilled out his seed on the ground, because it would not be his. The Lord was displeased, and killed Onan.
Judah knew why God killed his sons, and thought he could prevent another dying.
Tamar was told by her father in law, Judah, to go be a widow at her father's house; "till Shelah my son be grown; lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did." Tamar obeyed her father in law.
Judah's wife the daughter of the Canaanite Shuah, died and Judah was comforted and went back to work with the sheep shearers. Judah, and his friend Hirah, they both together went up to shear.
Tamar hears about Shelah being grown and Judah not keeping his word to her as promised, heard about them going up to Timnath. She dressed herself up to look like a harlot, and when he came by
he asked to have sex with her, and she asked for payment which he offered a kid from his flock.
She did have sex with him, he couldn't pay, she got his signet ring, bracelets, and staff in a promise
payment. Judah gets back to flock gets the payment, and SENDS THE FRIEND HIRAH TO PAY
IN PRIVATE.
The story gets worst, but here is the moral of what Jesus is saying...
If we have a problem with our flesh, we want things that we know are not right for us, and we do them anyway and want a friend to help us achieve that desire, then we will pay for it...
"YOU CAN'T CON GOD, OR FOOL THE HOLY SPIRIT..." even if you have friends like Hirah,
that you can; (hire a) to do evil with you...
PJCopty
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