In this study we discuss the significance of the Old Testament fathers and the fulfillment of biblical prophecy pronounced upon them         thousands of years ago.  We look at Ishamael and Hagar and the covenant which finds its ultimate fulfillment in the rising up of the Moslem Empire. 

We consider the strange birth right lost by Esau to his brother Jacob and what that means to us today? We consider Jacob's ladder and Jacob's pillar.  We study Joseph's special blessing being transferred upon the heads of  his sons Ephraim and Manasseh.   We review the united and divided kingdoms of Israel in the Old Testament. 

Was Jereboam a type and pattern of antichrist?  We review the captivity of the ten tribes of Israel into Assyria and the two tribes of Israel into Babylon.  Did all twelve tribes return to the land of Israel in the days of Cyrus the Persian?  Were there ten lost tribes?  What do the Jewish historians of  Jesus day tell us regarding these things?  Who shall  we believe?