31._ Ancestors

Yahveh, the God of the Promise in the Sinai, was identified with the ancestral God of the mythical ancestors of Israel: Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph; and also the Promise had been announced to them.

To Noah, in a pact of peace, appeared by the dove that return with the olive tree branch, and the rainbow that indicates the end of the storm; indicators of the protection of Yahveh for a renewed humanity. (We see in the Noah's Ark, which preserves his family to die in the deluge, a prefiguration of the Alliance --also with its Ark--, that preserves the "faithful rest" of Israel for the future of the Promise, and --in a deeper sense-- a figuration of the Spirit which leads the process of cosmic emergence in the middle of the chaos until its goal, as much as of the "Mystical Body" of Christ that incorporates the people, saving them of their mortal condition, to give them the eternal life.)

To Abraham, in the blessing that grant him a numerous and imperishable descent, and the future possession of a Holy Land. Yahveh calls Abraham and carries him to a new country, as Israel will be carried from Egypt to Canaan, as the humanity will be saved and carried to the eternal life.

(We interpret to Isaac --the "son of laughter"-- like figure of the improbable, unpredictable, surprising ones, rejoicing, creative solutions of the Spirit --such as the life and the same human being-- that come to overwhelm the hopes when everything seemed lost and impossible; nevertheless, once appeared, their sacrifice, as soon as aspires individually to being permanent, seems demanded by the God of the process, but this God will finally rescue them by means of its own personal intervention. In the "sacrifice of Isaac" we see moved an image of the God that feels sorry Himself of His creatures, destined to being -- like Isaac -- "victims of the process for the sake of God", and He supports with them, stopping their sacrifice to provide He Himself a suitable victim: He will be now the father who will sacrifice Himself-Son.)

To Jacob, the "fort with God": Israel, who directly receives the Promise of Yahveh, from the top of a scale of dream that leans in earth and arrives until the sky, by which journey the angels of God. (Here we see an image of the "ascending scale --o chain-- of the Being" of the cosmic creative process, by which "journeys" the Spirit in His immanence and emergence, from and towards the Last Trascendence, for the Creation and now, specially, for the Redemption.)

To Joseph, the beloved son, dreamer and interpreter of dreams, the Promise is announced in facts: God saves him of the hatred of his brothers, and gives him the power to lead to his people to the prosperity. (Impossible not to see in him an allegorical announcement of the beloved Son of God, which will be revived of the death inflicted by his brothers the men, and will receive the power to lead them to the eternal life.)

Thus, Israel also conceives its passed history, tribal, ancestral, as history of the Promise, which prefigures the Alliance of the Sinai.