Hath God Said

 

 Genesis 22: Rev Donny Phillips [7:03m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This is more about types and setting the script for an event to come later in history. God tests us to show us what is inside of us. It is more like material testing than the tests we took in school. God knew Abraham and where he stood in trusting Him. In this chapter we see a construct of the pattern Jesus was to follow many years later, however for Jesus, there was no staying of the Father’s Hand and the full sacrifice was made:  see (v 10-11) Also note verse 6 where Isaac carries the wood for his own sacrifice is carried out by Jesus when he carries His cross to Calvary. Look at vs 20 -24, you see in Abraham’s family the record of life.

Genesis 3

²¹ Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

Genesis 22

 ¹ And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.

 ² And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

 ³ And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.

 ⁴ Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.

 ⁵ And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.

 ⁶ And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.

 ⁷ And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?

 ⁸ And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.

 ⁹ And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.

 ¹⁰ And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.

 ¹¹ And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.

 ¹² And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.

 ¹³ And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.

 ¹⁴ And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.

 ¹⁵ And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,

 ¹⁶ And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:

 ¹⁷ That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

 ¹⁸ And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.

 ¹⁹ So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.

 ²⁰ And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor;

 ²¹ Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,

 ²² And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.

 ²³ And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.

 ²⁴ And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.

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 Genesis 21: Rev Donny Phillips [33:40m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Some of the actions taken by the Old Testament saints are almost impossible to be discerned without a through study of the Word of God and an understanding of what God’s desire for us really is. God is for us, He has all times in His Hands and He will give us all we need according to what is best for us. God knows better than us what is best for us. (original quote)

Genesis 21

¹And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.

²For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

³And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.

⁴And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.

⁵And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.

⁶And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.

⁷And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.

⁸And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.

⁹And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.

¹⁰Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.

¹¹And the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight because of his son.

¹²And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

¹³And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.

¹⁴And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

¹⁵And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.

¹⁶And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bow shot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.

¹⁷And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.

¹⁸Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.

¹⁹And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.

²⁰And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

²¹And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

²²And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest:

²³Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.

²⁴And Abraham said, I will swear.

²⁵And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.

²⁶And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing; neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day.

²⁷And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.

²⁸And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

²⁹And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?

³⁰And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.

³¹Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them.

³²Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

³³And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.

³⁴And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines’ land many days.

Another failure? Partial. Abraham was on the move as per God’s instructions to walk through the land that he would be given. Abraham still seemed to lack confidence and held to the “say your my sister” story when confrontation came. See verse 11 for the reason why. This is the one great thing about being in fellowship with those who stand by God’s Word: we have guidelines and have an expectation of brotherly consideration one with another. That is something this world and all its laws/traditions cannot offer. God was faithful and moved on Abrahams behalf. We see another demonstration of intercession in when Abraham prays to God in Abimelech’s behalf.

Genesis 20

¹ And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.

² And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

³ But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man’s wife.

⁴ But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, LORD, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?

⁵ Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.

⁶ And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.

⁷ Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.

⁸ Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were sore afraid.

⁹ Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.

¹⁰ And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?

^{1 1} And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife’s sake.

¹² And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

¹³ And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.

¹⁴ And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.

^{1 5}And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.

¹⁶ And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, he is to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other: thus she was reproved.

¹⁷ So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.

¹⁸ For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham’s wife.

Judgement will come. It may be soon or a while off, but it will happen to all that do not repent. If we learn anything from this account in God’s Word that we can use today: let it be the reality of an impending judgement of those who transgress God’s commandments. Remember that Noah knew the difference between clean and unclean animals. It said Noah was a preacher of righteousnes (II Peter 2:5). In verse 23 of chapter 18, Abraham askes God if He will slay the righteous with the wicked. Look up where the word wicked is used in the Old Testament, you will see from Genesis through Judges it is used with respect to sexual sin. Abraham knew what God was talking about verse 20 of chapter 18. The life of leisure and freedoms that came from living in a fruitful land produced a harvest of sexual immorality that brought real time judgement to the people of that city. Ezk 16:49 explains the conditions with terms like fullness of bread and abundance of idleness. They had too much time on their hands and gave themselves over to everthing they could imagine. See how every detail had to be accounted for in what not to do in the Law concerning sexual relations in Leviticus 18. Every Christian should take heed that lives in the US States changing the laws to allow same sex marriages. While Lot was delivered from judgement, the effect of living in that environment had a toll on him and his family.

 ⁶ And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

 ⁷ And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:

 ⁸ (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)

2 Peter 2:6-8 

Is anyone asking how long God will wait? Who will intercede for these that have corrupted themselves?

Genesis 19

 ¹ And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;

 ² And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant’s house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.

 ³ And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.

 ⁴ But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:

 ⁵ And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.

 ⁶ And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,

 ⁷ And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.

 ⁸ Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.

 ⁹ And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.

 ¹⁰ But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.

 ¹¹ And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

 ¹² And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:

 ¹³ For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.

 ¹⁴ And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.

 ¹⁵ And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

 ¹⁶ And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.

 ¹⁷ And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

 ¹⁸ And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my LORD:

 ¹⁹ Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:

 ²⁰ Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.

 ²¹ And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.

 ²² Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

 ²³ The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.

 ²⁴ Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;

 ²⁵ And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

 ²⁶ But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

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Salt – remember this is a permanent condition to be respected forever.

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Luke 17

²⁸ Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

 ²⁹ But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

 ³⁰ Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

 ³¹ In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.

 ³² Remember Lot’s wife.

 ³³ Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.

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 ²⁷ And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD:

 ²⁸ And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.

 ²⁹ And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.

 ³⁰ And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.

 ³¹ And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:

 ³² Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

 ³³ And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

 ³⁴ And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

 ³⁵ And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

 ³⁶ Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.

 ³⁷ And the first born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.

 ³⁸ And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.

Genesis 17

 ¹ And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.

 ² And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.

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 ³ And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,

 ⁴ As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.

 ⁵ Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

 ⁶ And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

 ⁷ And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

 ⁸ And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

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Genesis 12

¹ Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

 ² And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

 ³ And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

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Genesis 13

 ¹⁴ And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:

 ¹⁵ For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.

 ¹⁶ And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.

 ¹⁷ Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.

Abraham is reminded on other occasions in Chapters 15 & 16

There are times that Abraham did not walk in God’s counsel and had to get back on course. Each time he went back and started over, God told him the He would bless him.

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 ⁹ And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.

 ¹⁰ This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.

 ¹¹ And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.

 ¹² And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.

 ¹³ He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

 ¹⁴ And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.

 ¹⁵ And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.

 ¹⁶ And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her.

 ¹⁷ Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?

 ¹⁸ And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!

 ¹⁹ And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.

 ²⁰ And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

 ²¹ But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.

 ²² And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.

 ²³ And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.

 ²⁴ And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

 ²⁵ And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

 ²⁶ In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.

 ²⁷ And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.

Abraham obeyed.

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²² For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. 

²³ But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.

 ²⁴ Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.

 ²⁵ For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

What was God’s will in this situation? Again, we have a situation in which man set the course of future events by acting on his own knowledge and his own abilities. We cannot know what would have happened if Abraham refused Sarahs counsel and waited on God.  In a place where a man may have been on course and stayed in the counsel of God, we again (remember Adam and Eve) have a place where man acted on the counsel of his mate and left a legacy that affected more generations than could be conceived at that time.

Genesis 16

 ¹ Now Sarai Abram’s wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

 ² And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

 ³ And Sarai Abram’s wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.

 ⁴ And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

 ⁵ And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.

 ⁶ But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thine hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face.

 ⁷ And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

 ⁸ And he said, Hagar, Sarai’s maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.

 ⁹ And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

 ¹⁰ And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

 ¹¹ And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.

 ¹² And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

 ¹³ And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?

 ¹⁴ Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

 ¹⁵ And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son’s name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.

 ¹⁶ And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.

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 Genesis 15; Covenant: Rev Donny Phillips [7:53m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

God made a covenant with Abraham. It established guidlines for fellowship and blessings for keeping in a right place with God. We as Christians are enjoined to the same promises in Christ and can experience the same blessings.

Galatians 3:29 And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Just to give you an idea of how Abraham was blessed. By the time he and Lot split up the land, Abraham massed up enough wealth and power to allow him to take on the raiding forces of several empires.  God kept His Word and blessed Abraham. He had 318 servants from his own house that were trained fighters. In addition to this he was able to muster more from various areas. This is somewhat comparable to H. Ross Perot hiring a strkie force to extract his people out of Iran back in the late 70’s. The most important part of this passage is neatly tucked away in 3 short verses close to the end of the cahpter (v 18-20). There are volumes to explain on this matter but I will have to defer the majority of that to a later time.

Genesis 14

 ¹ And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations;

2 That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.

 ³ All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.

 ⁴ Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

 ⁵ And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emins in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

 ⁶ And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness.

 ⁷ And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar.

 ⁸ And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim;

 ⁹ With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings with five.

 ¹⁰ And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.

 ¹¹ And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.

 ¹² And they took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

 ¹³ And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram.

 ¹⁴ 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.

 ¹⁵ 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.

 ¹⁶ And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

 ¹⁷ And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king’s dale.

 ¹⁸ And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.

 ¹⁹ And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:

 ²⁰ And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.

 ²¹ And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.

 ²² And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,

 ²³ That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:

 ²⁴ Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.

Genesis 13

In verses 3-4 we see that Abram returned to the place that he had first started. He choose to go to Egypt because of the famine. He started in the right place but only saw one out to his current situation. He moved out on his own during the famine and went down to Egypt. God did not tell him to do this. We cannot know what would have happened if he stayed. Perhaps there is a missed opportunity to be blessed. Many of us make a mistake in thinking that because I am in the place that God wants me to be that everything will go easy and free of trial. Looking through the Word of God, we should learn that God allows things to come try us and reveal what is really inside. The end result is to go back and start over where you left off. We see Abram go back and do it again. Once he starts over, we see God appear and bless him. Verse 15 the land before him and for all time to all generations of his house.

1 And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.

2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

3 And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai;

4 Unto the place of the altar, which he had make there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.

5 And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.

6 And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.

7 And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.

8 And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.

9 Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.

10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.

11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.

12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.

14 And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:

15 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.

16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.

17 Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.

18 Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.