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Background
We’re doing things a bit differently.
Ordinarily, I go verse by verse, chapter by chapter, in order.
Last week, though, we jumped around a bit and observed the last portions of chapters 21 and 22.
We finished Abraham’s story with Abimelech and saw the covenant they made with one another, and also saw Abraham’s extended family.
We now see at last the fulfillment of God’s promise to Abraham, the birth of the son of promise, Isaac.
TIMELINE
Abraham had been given the promise of an heir all the way back since Gen. 12.
25 years have passed between these verses, in which Abraham had to wait as a man of faith.
And here now is Isaac born to a 90 year-old woman and a 100 year-old man.
The significance of this cannot be overstated:
God is faithful to fulfill the promises He has made.
God’s timing is perfect here, bringing Isaac into the world and insuring he would live during an appointed time and in a specific location.
This applies to us, too.
Aside, this birth is a miracle that only God could perform.
The child of promise would bring about the lineage of descendants that will possess the promised land.
As we’ve seen before, those who are children of Abraham are children of faith.
It was also promised that through Abraham:
This eventual blessing would come through Jesus Christ.
Abraham had Isaac circumcised according to God’s command on the 8th day.
This was mentioned before, but the 8th day is the perfect time for a male to be circumcised.
Isaac means “laughter” in Hebrew.
Children in those days were weaned between 2-5 years old, and it was a celebration because it meant the child could now fend for itself and was no longer dependent on the mother.
Once again, we see the contention within the household between Sarah and Hagar.
This all went back to Sarah’s insisting of Abraham to take Hagar as a concubine so that she might bear him a son.
This again shows how volatile a home will be where polygamy takes place.
An interesting note: the word mocking is actually the root word for “Isaac,” which can be translated laugh, mock, or make sport (play).
It is the word that is used when both Abraham and Sarah laughed at the possibility of having a son.
Sarah demands that Hagar and Ishmael be sent away, with no regard for the fact that Ishmael is still Abraham’s son.
This proposition grieved Abraham, because of Ishmael.
God’s intervention communicates several things:
God cares about the things that distress us.
God can use people to give us His instruction.
God has a plan for your life and future.
Ishmael will still a nation also because of Abraham.
Abraham made preparations for Hagar and Ishmael to leave, but he personally attended to them and saw them off.
Early in the morning, to beat the heat of the day.
Hagar wandered in the same area we talked about last week, where Abraham had dug a well, Beersheba.
Recall that this name means “well of an oath.”
Hope seemed lost for Hagar, and she knew that without water, she and her son would not survive.
She didn’t want to watch him die of dehydration.
God once again meets Hagar near a well of water, though she did not know it.
God reiterated the promise he had made to her about Ishmael, and showed her a well of water.
Before, He was the God who sees, now He is the God who hears.
God knows our future and cares about our lives.
Though Ishmael was not the child of promise, God still cared, and cares, about those who are living outside of His covenantal promise.
They did not go back to Egypt, but instead lived in the wilderness, which was east of Egypt.
Ishmael became an archer, whose primary role would be for hunting and warfare.
While they did live in Paran, Hagar found him a wife from her homeland, Egypt.
APPLICATION
God is faithful to fulfill the promises He has made.
God knows our future and cares about our lives.
Next week, we will continue the story of Abraham and Isaac.
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