Since the beginning of the new school year in September 2015, Rev Foster has been asked to speak at two morning assembly meetings each week. His theme for 2015-16 is DV, "Pictures of Christ in the Bible." Sixth Picture of Christ Isaac and Rebekah, Genesis 24. The charge given to the servant. "And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites," Genesis 24:3. * You know, it is important who you marry! Abraham did not want Isaac marrying a Canaanite. Were there not beautiful, witty, accomplished Canaanite girls? Undoubtedly so, but such characteristics were not what Abraham was looking for in a wife for Isaac. "Go unto my country, and to my kindred", he says. What was so special about them? Abraham came to know the Lord while he lived in Ur of the Chaldees and it is likely that so too did many of his family. Note the words of Laban. "And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the LORD" Genesis 24:31. This would appear to show that there was a knowledge of the true God, Jehovah, in Rebekah's home. That is why he wanted Isaac's bride to come from among them. A believer MUST marry a believer or they marry outside the will of God and forfeit His blessing. * The Canaanites were a doomed people. This Abraham knew. "But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full," Genesis 15:16. "For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off," Exodus 23:23.