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Psalms 96:
Sing God a new song to praise and bless his name. Let us declare his glory to the nations for strength and beauty are in his sanctuary. Ascribe to God and worship him in the splendor of his holiness. Say to the nations that God reigns because he will judge the peoples with equity. Follow God in the name of morality and respect. The pursuit of money eventually brings dishonor and journey away from God. Respect is always superior to riches.
Psalms 97:
God reigns and let the earth rejoice. The heaven proclaim his righteousness, those who worship images (money) as gods will be put to shame, and let all the gods worship God. Those who love God must hate evil. God delivers the godly from the wicked. Rejoice in God and give thanks to his holy name. Let God be your wealth because money and riches will lead you to wicked and immoral ways.
Psalms 98:
Sing a new song to God because he has done marvelous deeds that have been seen even at the end of the earth. The seas, rivers, and hills even rejoice in God. God will judge the world with righteousness and equity. Do not let riches (money, women, material wealth, unholy alliance) be the reason why you unknowingly forget God.
Genesis 27:
Isaac called Jacob to bless him as the oldest son at a time when he was old and was basically blind. He requested that Esau go kill his usual favored wild game and prepare a meal for him, so that he can bless Esau before he dies. Rebekah planned with Jacob to steal Esau’s blessing for Jacob and ordered Jacob to bring two young goats, so she could prepare it for Isaac the way he likes it. Jacob was scared that his father would curse him rather than bless him if he discovered the deceit because his skin was smooth and not hairy like Esau’s, but Rebekah said that she would take the curse. She dressed Jacob up with Esau’s favorite clothes to smell like Esau and used goatskin to cover up his neck and hands to feel like Esau, so Isaac blessed him. Esau came in and found that Isaac had stolen his blessing by deceit, so he demanded that he be blessed as well. Esau swore to kill Jacob after his father’s death. Rebekah then send Jacob into hiding with her brother until Esau forgets his anger and hoped that Jacob marries over there instead of the Hittite women. Rebekah was a very bad woman who used favoritism to destroy her home and her children. It us obvious that she never guided Esau with love and probably wanted Esau to go the wrong way in order to turn Isaac against Esau.
Genesis 28:
Isaac told Jacob to return back to Arabia where they came from and not marry a Canaanite (African) woman. He blessed Jacob to prosper in Arabia (Iraq) and return to inherit God’s promise of land to Abraham in Canaan (Africa). So Isaac left for Arabia and Esau then realized that his father was unhappy about his Canaanite (Hittites were part of Canaan) wives, so he went to marry Ishmael’s (his father’s brother) daughter. On Jacob’s way to Arabia, he had a dream where he saw a ladder going into heaven from the earth and angels going up and down on it. God stood at the top and told Jacob that he was going to give him and his descendants the land where he was sleeping like he promised Abraham and the whole world will be blessed because of his offspring (Jesus). God also assured Jacob that he will not leave Jacob until he had fulfilled his promise of land and seed (Jesus). This means that since the death and resurrection of Jesus, God has abandoned Israel because his contract with them as his people is over. Jacob work up and called the place “House of God” because he believed that God and the gate of heaven was there. So Jacob made a pledge to God that he will give God a tenth of all God provides for him if God takes care of all his needs during the journey and bring him back to his father’s house in the promised land.
