Will you notice, verse 59, "...they sent away
Rebekah their sister and her nurse, and Abraham's
servant and his man.
And they blessed Rebekah and said unto her,
Thou art our sister, be thou the mother
of thousands of millions, and let thy seed
possess the gate of those which hate them."
That's been fulfilled, friends, already.
We're not talking now about unfulfilled prophecy.
This is fulfilled.
"...And Rebekah arose and her damsels, and they
rode upon the camels, and followed the man.
And the servant took Rebekah and went his
way."
And now, will you notice, they had a
long trip back.
We're not told anything about that trip, but
it's not easy riding a camel.
I rode one from the little village there
outside of Cairo down to the pyramids, and,
friends, that's as far as I want to
ride on a camel.
They call them the ship of the desert.
Well, it is as rough as any trip
I've ever had in a boat.
It was rough, and they're not easy to
ride.
Imagine riding on those camels across the desert.
I can see that they've had a hard
day across that hot desert, and of an
evening they stop at an oasis, and the
campfire is built, and they have their evening
meal, and they're sitting there before time to
go to bed and have their sleep.
And I hear Rebekah say to this servant,
Tell me about Isaac again.
And the servant said, Well, what do you
want me to tell you?
Tell me about the way he was born.
Tell me about the way that his father
offered him on the altar.
Tell me the old, old story of Jesus
and his love.
And the servant said, Well, I told that
to you last night.
She said, I know, but tell it again.
Tell it again.
And he tells it again, never grows old.
And so that night she has that sweet
sleep, dreaming of the time when she'll meet
this one, and then the next day they
start out on the journey again and the
desert isn't quite as hot, and the camel
isn't quite as rough, but it's a long
ways, and so they continue.
And finally they come in sight of the
land of promise.
They enter it, and now they come down
to Lahairoi, and we read in verse 62,
And Isaac came from the way of the
whale, Lahairoi, for he dwelt in the south
country, way down in the pleasant country, you
see, down at Hebron and Beersheba.
And Isaac went out to meditate in the
field at the eventide, and he lifted up
his eyes and saw, and behold, the camels
were coming.
Now we're given a view of the coming
of Christ that we do not have.
So many are saying today, Won't it be
wonderful when the Lord comes and we'll be
caught up with Him?
Well, there's another view, and that's to be
with Him when He comes.
And most of the church has already gone
through the doorway of death, and they'll be
coming with Him when He comes, and that
the bodies might be raised, and the spirit
and the body join together.
Now we read here that when He went
out, they lifted up their eyes and they
saw, the camels were coming.
Those that are alive are to be caught
up with the dead, be caught up to
meet the Lord in the air.
And so those that have gone before in
death, they're going to see Him when He
rises from the right hand of the Father.
And then when He starts out to call
His church, and to meet His church yonder
in the air.
This is the picture, and what a glorious
picture it is.
And Rebecca lifted up her eyes, and when
she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel,
for she had said unto the servant, What
man is this that walketh in the field
to meet us?
And the servant said, It's my master.
Therefore she took a veil and covered herself.
And we'll have to be clothed with the
righteousness of Christ, but He's been made over
to us righteously.
He was delivered for our offenses, and He
was raised for our justification.
That is, that we might have a righteousness
that would enable us to stand before God.
And so she wants to know who He
is, whom having not seen, we love.
And I wonder today when He does come,
are we going to know Him?
Oh, I know there's a song, I shall
know Him, I shall know Him by the
print of the nails in His hands.
And I think that's going to be the
way that we're going to know Him when
He comes.
This is the union of these two.
What a glorious, beautiful, wonderful picture this is
before us.
Now we read in verse 66, And the
servant told Isaac all things that he had
done.
The Holy Spirit will deliver us at the
day of redemption.
We've been sealed unto the day of redemption.
Believe me, this servant was going to get
the bride to Isaac.
And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's
tent, and he took Rebekah, and she became
his wife.
Now notice, and he loved her.
The Christ loved the church and gave Himself
for it.
And Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
And this reveals to you that Christ gains
a great deal in our salvation.
Oh, He wants us, He longs for us.
Oh, that you and I today might be
faithful to Him.
My beloved.