Genesis 14: 14 – 16: And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan. And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus. And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.
Abraham’s nephew Lot had been taken captive during battle (Genesis 14: 1 – 12), and when Abraham heard of this, he carried out a rescue operation to get his nephew back. What Abraham did for Lot was a mystery of what Christ did for us. Abraham went from Beersheba to Dan, from one end of the country to the other to get his lost fallen brother back, just as Jesus left the highest of heavens and descended to the lowest Hell to deliver us who were born in sin and bondage.
Abraham and Lot were family, they were kinsmen. They originally had a good relationship and sweet fellowship, but then a strife developed (Genesis 13: 7), and brought an enmity that broke the union between them. This enmity caused a separation between Lot and Abraham, so that Lot went down to Sodom (Genesis 13: 10 – 12) and was later taken into captivity. This is what happened between God and Adam. There once was a relationship and a fellowship that they had, but then an enmity came between them and broke the fellowship, so that their union and their oneness was lost.
Adam fell from life to death, and went into bondage and captivity, but God went after Adam to bring him back from his lost fallen state. God became flesh in Christ who laid down his life to redeem Adam’s fallen race, to not just bring Adam back, but to bring back all of Adam’s possessions too. This is what Abraham did. Abraham put his life on the line for his kinsman, and redeemed Lot by slaying the enemy and spoiling principalities and powers (the enemy kings and their kingdoms), and took back Lot who was in captivity by those powers. Abraham broke the hold of the enemy on Lot’s life, and restored him back with all his possessions.
Jesus did the same thing on the cross when He spoiled principalities and powers (Colossians 2: 15), and possessed the gates of the enemy. Jesus did not do battle with flesh and blood, but fought against Satan and his kingdom who had taken us captive, and robbed us of all our goods, of our health, our love, our morality, our holiness, and so much more. Jesus slew the enemy, He took us out of bondage, and brought us back along with all that was originally ours before Adam fell in the beginning.