Are you willing to work for rice?

I can not remember the exact story, but it has to do with a chess board. There was a man who had a very nice one, made out of the finest natural materials. He decided to try and sell it to the king. The king thought it was wonderful, and he wanted to know the price. So the salesman took out a grain of rice. He put the grain of rice on one square on the chess board. Then he took out two grains of rice, and put them on the second square. On the third square he put four grains of rice. On the fourth square he put eight grains of rice. Then he turned to the king. He said if you keep doubling the rice all the way up to square 64, that is the price I want for my chess board. Now, like I said, I do not remember the exact story if the king jumped at the offer or not. But I do know that by the time you get to square 64, it adds up to all the rice in the world. In fact, I did the math on it myself, and it adds up to just about exactly the amount of rice being produced in the world today.

There just happens to be 64 generations from Adam to Jesus.  It is a good thing that not every family had 4 kids as the Noah's family did. Because then it would have only taken 24 generations to reach 8 billion people and there are only 6 billion people in the world today.

Matthew 1:17  So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, from David until the captivity in Babylon are fourteen generations, and from the captivity in Babylon until the Christ are fourteen generations.

Originally posted by amie
Hi John
I always love your posts brother...
was Noah the eighth generation from Adam of the ninth? Since you mentioned generations and Noah I wonder...
God Bless you John

Amie~

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Adam is considered the first generation. Enoch is the seventh generation, so Noah would be the 10th generation. I am told that the genealogies were kept in a building next to the temple. They were destroyed when the temple was destroyed in 70 ad. Paul talks about how there were endless disputes and contentions over the genologies. So perhaps that is why God allowed the records to be destoryed. The Bible has a copy of them in 1 chron 1-5 and in Luke 3:36. All that was needed was to show that Jesus was a kinsman redeemer for all who ever lived and that He had the right to the Kingship of David. Actually David purchased the area now known as the temple mount in Jerusalem. David left it to Jesus, who is going to return to claim the legal ownership of it.

2 Samuel 24:21  Then Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?" And David said, "To buy the threshing floor from you, to build an altar to the Lord, that the plague may be withdrawn from the people."

The first king we hear about that was a Priest King over Salem, which is now Jerusalem was melchizedek who was a type of Jesus.

The decendents of the two sons of Abraham, through Sarah and Hagar are still fighting over that peice of real estate today. There are many who believe it will be the cause of WW3. Even though Abraham paid tithe to Melchizedek, and thus to Jesus. Abraham was the 20th generation.

That's about all I got figured out, thanks, JohnR7 


 

Originally posted by Gerry
Good one John. I love the many possibilities this story evokes. Thanks!

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You must be a banker at heart Is sure shows me that what they say about neither a borrower or a lender be. Or as Moses says, God will make us the head and not the tail, the lender and not the borrower

Originally posted by Martin
...and that's a good place to start witnessing to a Jew.  

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It is as good of a place as any. The Jews had a hard time grasping the concept that there was salvation for the gentiles. They thought gentiles could be saved, but that they had to convert to being Jewish.

Romans 11:25b-26  blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. [26] And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written:"The Deliverer will come out of Zion,
    And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;

I do not think it had to be that way, if they had repented. But God was not going to allow them to get in the way of His plan and purpose for the gentiles.

Matthew 3:8-9 Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance, [9] and do not think to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

Still we know that one third of Isreal will be saved.