ABRAHAM AND ISAAC
CHRISTIANITY OASIS HAS PROVIDED YOU WITH THIS ABRAHAM AND ISAAC STUDY. ABRAHAM AND ISAAC ARE FATHER AND SON. MOST HAVE HEARD OF THE ABRAHAM AND ISAAC STORY BUT ARE NOT AWARE OF THE DEPTH OF THE ABRAHAM AND ISAAC STORY. DID YOU KNOW THAT ABRAHAM ALMOST SACRIFICED HIS SON ISAAC AT GOD'S COMMAND? LET US SEEK AND FIND THE TRUTH TOGETHER OF THE ABRAHAM AND ISAAC STORY AND WHY ABRAHAM ALMOST SACRIFICED ISAAC, SHALL WE?

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BOOK OF GENESIS

CHAPTER 21

            In today’s story, the promise that God made to Abraham and Sarah finally arrives.  The Lord keeps His promises.  Sarah conceived just as He had said.  And Abraham had a son from Sarah when he was 100 years old.  God told Abraham to call the child Isaac.  The name means laughter.  Sarah was 90 years old when Isaac was born.

            Let’s not forget that Hagar and Ishmael are still in the picture.  And remember what the angel of the Lord told Hagar, that Ishmael wouldn’t get along with anyone.  Ishmael is 14 now and doesn’t like his new little brother already.  In Galatians 4:29 it says that he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.  It made Ishmael mad that there was a new son and heir.  He was jealous.

            Sarah saw that Ishmael would make fun of Isaac and it infuriated her.  She couldn’t stand it anymore so she told Abraham to throw them out and exclude them from Abraham’s family for good. 

            What Sarah asked was hard on Abraham, being that Ishmael was his son also.  But God had mercy on Hagar and Ishmael and told Abraham, Don’t let it upset you.  Listen to what Sara said to you, because in Isaac, my promise will be honored.  I will also make a nation through Ishmael because he is your son. 

            Let’s talk a little bit more about this jealousy of Ishmael’s.  Do you remember that we said that as this story unfolds you will find that it isn’t just a simple story after all but is still affecting the world today more than ever?  Well here’s why.

            This jealousy that was Ishmael’s destiny has created an animosity that cannot be compared to anything else in history.  For four thousand years there have been disputes and wars that trace back to the land that God promised to Abraham’s descendants that has been the root of the conflict between the Jewish people and the Arabs (Muslims or Islam) up until today.  The Islamic people believe that God’s true promise was with Ishmael, not Isaac.  So that is what all of the fighting over Israel has been about for thousands of years.  Now, back to our story.   

            Abraham got up early the next morning and comforted by what God told him, sent Hagar and Ishmael away with a bottle of water and some bread.  When the water was gone, Hagar left Ishmael under a shrub.  She went and cried, Let me not see the death of the child.

            God heard the voice of Ishmael and the angel of God asked Hagar, What’s wrong?  Don’t be afraid, God has heard the voice of the lad.  Go and get him, I will make him a great nation.  God showed her a well of water and she went and filled the bottle and gave Ishmael to drink.  Ishmael grew up living in the wilderness of Paran (which is near the middle of the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt) and became an archer.   Hagar, being an Egyptian, chose him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

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