When we analyze the Lord Jesus' words to the woman at the well in John 4:18, we see that there are sexual relations that are not marriages; they are simply people living in fornication.
Is that what Isaac and Rebecca are committing in Genesis 24:67, when they went into Sarah's tent?
Who married them?
In Genesis 24, we see that their relationship publicly involved both their families and everything was done with oaths sworn in the presence of God. Their's was a covenant relationship.
What is a covenant?
Genesis 15 gives us the foundation.
In Genesis 15, God enters into a covenant with Abram by swearing by himself.
Jeremiah 34:17-20 throws light on what God does in passing between the slaughtered animals: He calls down a curse on his own head, a curse based on a covenant made before time (Luke 22:29) and fulfilled some 2,000 years later on the cross (Galatians 3:13-14).
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After serving Grace Presbyterian Church in Alexandria, Louisiana, Bob was honorably retired on Sunday, September 27, 2015, and given the title "Pastor Emeritus." This was forty years to the day after he became their pastor.
He now works for the Presbytery of the Gulf South as...
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