#13 Genesis 20-21-Lesson 2
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GENESIS
#13 Genesis 20 & 21
Genesis 20
Gerar
Shur (wall)
Defensive wall
Kadesh
Abraham moves
from Hebron
Move was to get
new pasture
Gerar, area will
become Phillistia
King of Gerar,
Abimelech
Kadesh same as
Kadesh-Barnea
Shur in Egypt
Shura = shur-a
means “a wall”1
GAZA STRIP IS FORMER
PHILISTIA
PALESTINIAN IS GREEK
FOR PHILISTINES
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ABRAHAM STARTS HIS DECEPTION
AGAIN
Tells King Abimelech that
Sarah is his sister
Abimelech = my father is
king
Another and different
Abimelech later in the
Bible
Probably took Sarah NOT
as kidnapping, but to
make her a wife and ally
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YHWH THREATENS ABIMELECH
Abimelech’s defense is that
1) he did not know Sarah
was a married woman
2) He did not have sex with
her
God accepts his defense
and says it was divine
power that kept him from
sin
God demands Abimelech
return Sarah
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DREAMS AND
VISIONS
Standard way of
communicating between
God and men in that era
Abimelech was a pagan
Yehoveh has absolute
control over all things
including HUMANS!
YHWH will talk with
NON-Believers
Abimelech easily
accepted this new god5
THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Before the 1700’s A.D., history knew nothing of a
society that did not believe in a higher being (a god)
The Enlightenment was the birth of Atheism and
Secular Humanism
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ABRAHAM THE INTERCESSOR
Abraham would plead on Abimelech’s behalf
Abraham had pled for the “righteous” of Sodom
Interceding for Lot
A “type” and pattern of Moses, later on
Messiah, being developed
Abraham admits it was fear that drove him to
lying (again) about Sarah
Abimelech added wealth to Abraham and asked
him to stay
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GENESIS 21
25 years since
promises of
chapter 12
The implication was
that Abraham and
Sarah would have
children
Abraham
considered Ishmael
to be his heir
GOD’S
PROPHECIES
SHOULD BE
TAKEN LITERALLY
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ISRAEL WILL
NOT BE
EXPELLED
FROM THE
LAND!
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ISAAC IS BORN AT THE
APPOINTED TIME
✤Yitz’chak (Isaac)= “he
laughs”
✤Many “set” &
“appointed” times by
God in the Bible
✤Man has NO authority
to change or abolish
Yehoveh’s set times
ISAAC IS BORN AT THE
APPOINTED TIME
✤It is an axiom
that God’s timing
is as important
an element to
any prophetic
happening, as
the details of the
happening itself.
ISAAC IS BORN AT THE
APPOINTED TIME
✤Yitz’chak (Isaac)= “he
laughs”
✤Many “set” &
“appointed” times by
God in the Bible
✤Man has NO authority
to change or abolish
Yehoveh’s set times
YEHOVEH DECLARES THE
SET TIMES, AND WHAT IS HOLY
Genesis 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were
completed, and all their hosts. 2 And by the seventh day
God completed His work which He had done; and He
rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had
done. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified
it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had
created and made.
OUR DUTY IS NOT TO QUESTION THE
APPOINTED TIMES, IT IS TO DISCOVER
THEM AND TO OBSERVE THEM
MAN HAS NO AUTHORITY TO BESTOW
HOLINESS UPON ANYTHING OR ANYONE
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THE MIRACULOUS BIRTH OF ISAAC
Abraham 100 years
old, Sarah 90
Sarah had not given
birth before
Amazing she survived
the birthing process at
90!
Ishmael was a
teenager when Isaac
was born
Sarah insists Hagar
and Ishmael be
banished
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GOD WOULD SUPPLY EARTHLY
BLESSING TO ISHMAEL
Yehoveh promised 12
princes (12 tribes) to
Ishmael
SAME NUMBER AS THE
TRIBES OF ISRAEL!
The ONLY thing Ishmael
could not have as an
equivalent was the covenant
promise….
Abraham loved Ishmael and
it hurt him terribly to send
him away
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MAL’ACH ELOHIM
CALLS OUT TO HAGAR
Mal’ach Elohim means
“messenger of god”
God or an Angel?
Says “I will make a great nation
out of him……”
This HAD TO BE some
manifestation of YHWH
Ishmael is NOT promised land
(territory)….ONLY 12 nations of
PEOPLE
Ishmael will become desert
dwellers, in the Sinai and Arabian
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Peninsulas
PARALLELS BETWEEN ISAAC AND
MESSIAH YESHUA
Both are “sons of promise”
Lengthy time between promise and birth
Miraculous births: Isaac from Sarah’s “dead”
womb, Yahshua from a virgin’s womb
Both had their names decided by God BEFORE
their births
Precise times (set times) set by God for births
of Isaac and Yahshua
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