In part three of a study on Genesis 21, we read about the confrontation between the ruler Abimelech and Abraham. Meanwhile, Ishmael grows up and becomes a problem in Abraham’s household, so Abraham sends him and his mother away.
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Genesis 21 has close parallels with apostle Paul’s illustration in Galatians 3-4 on the “son of the promise” from the “free woman” and the “son of the flesh” from the slave woman.
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Brad Scott of Wild Branch Ministry explores how to have the “mind of Messiah” (1st Cor. 2:16) through Ezekiel’s vision of the wheel (Ezekiel 1) and the visions that follow (Ezekiel 2-3).
Genesis 21 has close parallels with apostle Paul’s illustration in Galatians 4 on the “son of the promise” from the “free woman” and the “son of the flesh” from the slave woman.
Abraham, again, creates a mess by “fibbing” in claiming that his half-sister and wife Sarah is just his sister. Again the royalty that claims Sarah for suffers a judgment for doing so. Why does God call such a seemingly short-sighted man like Abraham a prophet?
Some think that Sodom and its neighbors met with heavenly holocaust for sexual depravity. Others claim the primary offense was inhospitality. Yet Israel is warned many times throughout the Bible not to become like Sodom and look for salvation.