The Ten Plagues

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Dr. Matthew Lee Smith

Editor’s Note: We continue our series of blogs for those who are reading the Bible with us cover-to-cover this year. Interspersed with our thoughts on our daily reading, we want to provide some tips about reading the Bible in general. Today we want to move on and see how  …

God Delivers Israel Through His Miraculous Power

(Exodus 5-40)

We will now see the formation of almost everything the true, avid traveler of the Bible needs to know in order to understand God’s work with the people of Israel. Much of God’s work today with the people who call Jesus Christ their Savior and Lord finds its basis in this section of the journey. As we travel out of Egypt and are instructed by God in the ways to run the nation of Israel we begin to understand the rich meaning to much of the message of the New Testament. This section reveals the heart of God. As He speaks and as He acts, be sure to watch Him at work. Attempt to understand both what He is saying or doing and why He is saying or doing it.

Ten Plagues Fall Upon An Unyielding Pharaoh’s Egypt

(Exodus 5.1 – 13.16)

We see Moses deliver the simple message of God to Pharaoh in one of the most famous sections in the Old Testament:

Exodus 5:1

Afterward Moses and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh, “Thus says the LORD God of Israel: ‘Let My people go, that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.'”

Pharaoh arrogantly refuses this initial request, and sets up a demonstration of who is truly in control of Egypt, the Earth, and the universe for that matter! However, after the seventh plague, Pharaoh’s advisers beg him to comply, stating flatly that he can no longer continue the charade that he is in charge:

Exodus 10:7

Then Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long shall this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God. Do you not yet know that Egypt is destroyed?”

Although Pharaoh initially seems to comply, he then changes his mind and is lead to certain destruction because of his stubborn resistance to the God of Heaven. While you read through this section, you will note the following plagues:

  • The First Plague: All the water in ponds, streams and the River Nile became blood. (Exodus 7.14-25)
  • The Second Plague: Frogs from the Nile River that infested every part of the Egyptians living quarters from kitchen to bedroom. (Exodus 8.1-15)
  • The Third Plague: Lice. (Exodus 8.16-19)
  • The Fourth Plague: Swarm of Flies upon only the Egyptians. (Exodus 8.20-32)
  • The Fifth Plague: Disease that brings the death of all Egyptian livestock. (Exodus 9.1-7)
  • The Sixth Plague: boils upon all Egyptians. (Exodus 9.8-12)
  • The Seventh Plague: Hail, mingled with fire from the sky devastated the crops that were already sprouted in the fields. (Exodus 9.13-35)
  • The Eighth Plague: Locusts that swarm over the barren Egyptian landscape eating what little remains of the foliage. (Exodus 10.1-20)
  • The Ninth Plague: Darkness engulfs the land of Egypt for three day, yet the community of the Israelites has regular daylight and is not affected. (Exodus 10.21-29)
  • The Tenth and Final Plague: Death of the firstborn children of the Egyptians and the Passover of the obedient Israelites by the death angel. (Exodus 11.1 – 12.43)

Passover becomes the most sacred event in the Jewish calendar because of its significance! It is to be celebrated every year as the first of the annual feasts. (Exodus 12.14-20; 23.14-19) Later, in the New Testament this feast will become the focus of Jesus Christ’s sacrifice as the Passover Lamb, slain for the sins of the world, not just for Israel. We will talk more about that when we get to the New Testament Island of our travels.

At this point, Pharaoh concedes and allows the children of Israel to leave. God had prepared them for this moment by instructing Moses on what to do when they were allowed to leave. He said,

Exodus 11:1-2

And the LORD said to Moses, “I will bring yet one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. Afterward he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will surely drive you out of here altogether. Speak now in the hearing of the people, and let every man ask from his neighbor and every woman from her neighbor, articles of silver and articles of gold.”

The children of Israel complied with this instruction:

Exodus 12:35-36

Now the children of Israel had done according to the word of Moses, and they had asked from the Egyptians articles of silver, articles of gold, and clothing. And the LORD had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they granted them what they requested. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.

This action remunerated the Hebrew slaves for their years of work without pay and allowed them to leave Israel both strong from the physical labor and financially well off from this “plundering” of the Egyptians.

It is our hope that this background information helps a bit as you read on in the Bible. We will continue this series with our next installment: “The Difficulty of Knowing God” on Thursday.

You can obtain more help from the FREE Bible reading schedule on our resource page. In His Image is a daily devotional that also follows our reading schedule and expresses the Biblical truth: “God Created You to Love You.” You can find this resource on the side bar of our website.

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Leading the Flock!

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Dr. Matthew Lee Smith

by Dr. Matthew Lee Smith

Executive Director of EaglesInLeadership.org

Author of “Growing Missional Leaders”

“Moses said to the Lord, “Why have you dealt ill with your servant? And why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me? Did I conceive all this people? Did I give them birth, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing child,’ to the land that you swore to give their fathers?” (Numbers 11:11–12, ESV)

Ask any leader with some experience and they will tell you, leading can be difficult! People – you expect them to be more like Christ and less like the world. After all, this is the Church of the Living God. Shouldn’t the people we serve act like Jesus?

The truth is, there are many different kinds of people in your flock. Some are helpful, others, not so much. Let’s take a look at a few:

5 to Avoid if Possible

  • The whiner – Every call for commitment from the leader is met with some complaint or excuse.
  • The whisperer – Behind your back they complain using character assassination and thus destroy the unity of the flock.
  • The wait – er – Only when they see you succeeding will they join in, and then make it sound like they were with you all the time.
  • The wiggler – While they might accept a responsibility if asked directly, these folks always have some last minute conflict that allows them out of their promise to help.
  • The wanderer – You will see these people once and then they will be missing for a while because they drift around from ministry to ministry as they sample the wares of others, much like a buffet.

5 to Draw Close

  • The winner – You will find these people seldom, if ever, let you down. They sacrifice and make things happen. They can be counted on time and time again.
  • The wonder – These are the people who go the ‘extra mile’ and recruit others to your cause. You wish you had dozens of these, but you will be pleased to have even a few.
  • The warrior – No spiritual battle is achievable if you do not have some men and women who are wiling to stand by your side when the going gets tough. Whether its problems within or enemies without, these are the people essential to victory.
  • The worker – Bottom line: you cannot accomplish anything of value without the hard work necessary for success. As this tribe grows, the load grows easier.
  • Wealth-givers – While we seldom talk about this, we all know how essential it is to have the necessary resources. Several of these wonderful people who have bought into your vision can bring about the means to reach your goals.  

You will find these people in every ministry and organization. When you start your ministry you may encounter more of those on the first list. Good leadership and discipleship, will reduce, but not eliminate, your experience with the less committed. As you raise your corporate standards to Biblical levels, your leaders and flock members will grow (Ephesians 4.11-16).

Your preparation and planning will yield fruit. Don’t allow your frustrations to overtake you, as Moses did.

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Posted on January 17, 2011 by Dr. Matthew Lee Smith

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The Book of Exodus

Posted on January 16, 2011 by Dr. Matthew Lee Smith

Editor’s Note: We continue our series of blogs for those who are reading the Bible with us cover-to-cover this year. Interspersed with our thoughts on our daily reading, we want to provide some tips about reading the Bible in general. Today we want to move on into  …

The Book of Exodus, The Book of Redemption.

(About one year)

As we examine the next segment of this route, we first must focus our attention upon the events that occur between the end of the book of Genesis and the beginning of the book of Exodus. Approximately 270 years pass between the end of Genesis and the beginning of Exodus.

By the time we start the book of Exodus, things are not going well in Egypt for the Israelites. The new Kings, called Pharaohs, have placed the Jews into slavery, (Exodus 1.6-14). They have become the manual labor for the ambitious public works projects the Pharaoh’s are now able to build. When we arrive in Exodus, things are bleak.

God Bursts Forth Through A Man!

(Exodus 1-4)

The children of Israel need to be delivered from their bondage. God sees their plight, and he sends a deliverer, a man named Moses.

Moses Is Born And Raised In Pharaoh’s Palace

(Exodus 2.1-10)

Moses is born in a time when the Pharaoh has decreed that all male children born to Hebrew women were to be killed on the spot by the midwife helping in the delivery. (Exodus 1.15-17) However, the Hebrew midwives disobeyed the order of the King and kept Moses alive. (Exodus 2.2) When Moses becomes three months old, he is too difficult to conceal and so a radical plan is devised. In accordance with the King’s command in Exodus 1.22 that “every son who is born you shall cast into the river,” Moses is placed into a small waterproofed basket (called an “ark” in some versions) and set adrift on the Nile River.

Moses’ sister, Miriam, watches as the ark floats down the river and comes to rest where the daughter of Pharaoh is bathing. (Exodus 2.5-6) The child touches her heart, and Miriam is immediately present to provide her with a “nursemaid” for the child. Since Pharaoh’s daughter desires to keep the child, Moses is nursed by his own mother, and then trained in Pharaoh’s house as the King’s own son! (Exodus 2.7-10)

Moses Rejects His Egyptian Upbringing

(Exodus 2.11-25)

Moses grows until, at age 40, he is confronted by the terrible conditions of his own people, the Jews. He intervenes and kills the Egyptian who is beating a Hebrew man. (Exodus 2.11-12) The next day, in the course of his work, he tries to intervene between two Hebrews who are fighting. They confront him and tell him they know of the murder from the day before. When Pharaoh hears of the murder, he seeks to put Moses to death. Unwanted by the Hebrews, and wanted for murder by the King, Moses flees Egypt. The writer of the New Testament book of Hebrews comments on this event by saying:

Hebrews 11:24-27

By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt; for he looked to the reward. By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible.

He flees to the land of Midian, located on the northeastern side of the Gulf of Aqaba, the right “finger” of the Red Sea. Moses travels a distance of over 120 miles, over the worst desert conditions. When he arrives in Midian, Moses befriends himself to the local priest by rescuing his seven shepherdess daughters. (Exodus 2.16-25) Eventually Moses marries Zipporah, one of the daughters of this priest named Jethro, and has two sons by her.

Over the course of the next 40 years, Moses is content to forget his past and enjoy his present with his family. But as time passes, things grow worse in Egypt and the children of Israel cry out to God for deliverance. (Exodus 2.23-25)

Moses Becomes A Reluctant Deliverer Of His People Israel

(Exodus 3 – 4)

When God sends a deliverer, he prepares that person for years in advance of the task that will be required of him. So, too, is the case of Moses.

  • His birth and early upbringing allow him understanding of and access to the Egyptian political world; after all he is a child of Pharaoh!
  • His years as a shepherd in the wilderness of Midian have taught the importance of caring for a flock, and the dangers of the environment.

He will need these skills to rescue and bring the children of Israel to their “promised land” in Canaan, which is present day Israel.

Please note that Moses did not want the job of deliverer! As you travel through this portion of the journey, never forget Moses has no ambitions of being a judge or a leader of anything more than a flock of sheep in Midian. God calls Moses to become the deliverer of Israel through the supernatural event of the burning bush. (Exodus 3.1-10) But Moses objects to the role on the following five grounds:

  • He has no political standing or power in Egypt anymore! (Exodus 3.11) God responds that Moses has standing and power with Him and that is enough! (Exodus 3.12)
  • He has no knowledge of the name of the God who is sending him! (Exodus 3.13) God reveals His name to Moses and the mission profile needed to win over the children of Israel! (Exodus 3.13-22)
  • He has doubts that anyone would believe him or follow his leading! (Exodus 4.1) God provides Moses with three supernatural signs that he is able to perform at his own will to prove he is sent from God! (Exodus 4.2-9)
  • He is unskilled in speaking and communicating and wouldn’t be able to get the message across! (Exodus 4.10) God reminds Moses who made his mouth and that He would tutor Moses in what to say! (Exodus 4.11-12)
  • He is not interested in going on this mission, even if God wants him to! (Exodus 4.13) God gets angry with Moses and commands him to go anyway and to take his brother Aaron with him as his personal “press secretary.” (Exodus 4.14-17)

The matter now decided, Moses reluctantly goes to Egypt with Aaron his brother, his wife, Zipporah, and their two sons.

It is our hope that this background information helps a bit as you read on in the Bible. We will continue this series with our next installment: “The Ten Plagues Upon Egypt” on Tuesday.

You can obtain more help from the FREE Bible reading schedule on our resource page. In His Image is a daily devotional that also follows our reading schedule and expresses the Biblical truth: “God Created You to Love You.” You can find this resource on the side bar of our website.

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The Book of Genesis in Review

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Dr. Matthew Lee Smith

Editor’s Note: We continue our series of blogs for those who are reading the Bible with us cover-to-cover this year. Interspersed with our thoughts on our daily reading, we want to provide some tips about reading the Bible in general. Today we want to review what we have covered so far in Genesis …

When Melodee and I traveled to Hawaii, our desire was to make sure we got the most of out of our days that is of personal interest to us. With that in mind, we set out a framework of what we wanted to accomplish on the first day or so on. This became the foundation of what we did with the rest of our time.

So, too, it is with our journey through the Bible. Our first book laid out a great deal of foundation for the rest of our journey, so we want to be careful we mapped it out first. As a result, this blog is a review of what we have found so far in reading the first book of the Bible, Genesis.

By way of review, we have noted that we are traveling on:

Major Old Testament Route No. 1:

Forming the first five books of the Bible.

  • On this route we will explore approximately 2,400 years of the formation history for the nation of Israel. Our first route was written as a diary or journal of the actual travels of the people of God in the Old Testament. These five books are their history books.  As we travel on this route, we will be following the original journeys as they unfold, often as if we were participants in the event. We now look at:

Review: The Book of Genesis, The Book of Beginnings.

(About 2,300 years)

God Began It All In The Beginning! (Genesis 1-11)

Beginning Of The Earth and The Universe (Genesis 1-2)

  • Beginning Of Mankind In The Garden of Eden (2)
  • Beginning Of Death and Destruction In The Fall (3)
  • Beginning Of God’s Intervention With The Flood (4-10)
  • Beginning Of The Nations With The Tower Of Babel (11)

God Continues Through A Family! (Genesis 12-50)

  • Abraham Becomes The Father Of Faith In God (12-25)
  • Isaac Continues The Next Generation Of Faith (21-28)
  • Jacob Expands The Family Tree Of Israel (25-49)
  • Joseph Provides For The Family In Egypt (30-50)

It is our hope that this background information helps a bit as you read on in the Bible. We will continue this series with our next installment: “The Book of Exodus” on Sunday.

You can obtain more help from the FREE Bible reading schedule on our resource page. In His Image is a daily devotional that also follows our reading schedule and expresses the Biblical truth: “God Created You to Love You.” You can find this resource on the side bar of our website.

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Bible Reading: The Difficulty of First Hand Directions

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Dr. Matthew Lee Smith

Editor’s Note: We continue our series of blogs for those who are reading the Bible with us cover-to-cover this year. Interspersed with our thoughts on our daily reading, we want to provide some tips about reading the Bible in general. Today we want to acknowledge …

The Difficulty of Firsthand Directions

One of the sections of our travel guide to Hawaii fascinated me.  It was the section explaining how Hawaiians give directions.  They don’t use the terms north, south, east or west. Instead they have invented words that mean these things, but are meaningless to those who do not live on the island.

Often in our journey through the Bible we will come across many different kinds of problems in understanding what the locals mean.

·       Their directions may use terms we do not understand.

·       Their answers may include names or locations we can no longer find.

·       Their retelling of an event may fail to include details we find essential to our understanding.

·       Their phrases may be meaningless to us, because of the culture or everyday common knowledge from when the phrase was used. Unfortunately for us, that “common knowledge” has been lost over time.

Do not fear. That is what these blogs will help you with. They will explain the important directional information, or show you where to get more help if you are interested in deeper study.

It is our hope that this background information helps a bit as you read on in the Bible. We will continue this series with our next installment: “The Book of Genesis Review” on Friday.

You can obtain more help from the FREE Bible reading schedule on our resource page. In His Image is a daily devotional that also follows our reading schedule and expresses the Biblical truth: “God Created You to Love You.” You can find this resource on the side bar of our website.

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Bible Reading: The Differences of Culture

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Dr. Matthew Lee Smith

Editor’s Note: We continue our series of blogs for those who are reading the Bible with us cover-to-cover this year. Interspersed with our thoughts on our daily reading, we want to provide some tips about reading the Bible in general. Today we want to acknowledge …

The Difference of Cultures

When it comes to journeying through the Bible, we are rewarded with sites and sounds few travelers can’t even begin to imagine.  When it comes to culture, we will experience:

  • A male-dominated world.
  • Lands governed by Kings.
  • A Middle Eastern mindset.
  • Kingdoms of just one city, and kingdoms that dominate the whole known world of its day.

We will see this splendor of Egypt and its highest points, and we will experience the wanderings in the midst of a barren desert by the people of God.  From the splendor of the Palace, to the smell of a manger, we will experience sites and sounds exactly where people lived, hoped, dreamed, and died.

All through out our journey, you will be reminded that despite the differences, people are basically people everywhere you go.  Cultures will be different, but people will be similar.  This makes our comprehension of what we are reading much easier!

During our travels through the Old and New Testaments, we will experience the following different types of people:

  • The Chaldeans, who lived in present-day Kuwait.
  • The Assyrians, who lived in present-day Iraq.
  • The Canaanites, who lived in present-day Israel and Lebanon.
  • The Egyptians.
  • The Babylonians, who lived in present-day Iraq.
  • The Persians, who lived in present-day Iran.
  • The Greeks, who conquered all the way to India!
  • The Romans, who conquered the Greeks.

Along the way we will see others, each with their own customs, manners, government and laws.  When important, or applicable, will explain and clarify.  We will also provide additional resources for those who desire to learn more.

It is our hope that this background information helps a bit as you read on in the Bible. We will continue this series with our next installment: “The Difficulty of First Hand Directions” on Thursday.

You can obtain more help from the FREE Bible reading schedule on our resource page. In His Image is a daily devotional that also follows our reading schedule and expresses the Biblical truth: “God Created You to Love You.” You can find this resource on the side bar of our website.

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3 Keys to Helping Our Urban Centers

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Dr. Matthew Lee Smith

by Dr. Matthew Lee Smith

Executive Director of EaglesInLeadership.org

Author of “Growing Missional Leaders”

A few days ago I was reading blogs and e-notices about blogs when one passed by quickly. Some guy was holding a seminar on helping our urban centers. As one who has invested over a decade to growing an urban, Hispanic church to health and growth, I believe this is a great mission.

As I thought about what such a seminar would include, I thought of these three keys:

If you are going to make an impact in an urban center, you will need to …

1.     Live there.

Jesus is our model here: “The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood.” (John 1:14, Msg) If we are going to help our urban centers, we have to live and rub shoulders with those people on a daily basis.

2.     Love there.

Love is built on trust. Trust is built when we sacrificially help others in need – we give of what we have to help those who do not have. Again, we have urban precedent for this from the Early Church: “And all who believed were together and had all things in common. And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need. ” (Acts 2:44–45, ESV) If we want to love, we have to be close enough to give when there is need.

3.     Lead there.

People follow real leaders – people who posses a walk that matches their talk. My experience tells me that this is truer in the city than anywhere else I have served. “Street sense” locks on like speed trap radar. When you are real, you will be followed. This is essential to accomplish the mission of Jesus: “Jesus called out to them, “Come, follow me, and I will show you how to fish for people!”” (Matthew 4:19, NLT) As we reproduce men and women, we grow the Kingdom of God in the City.

Helping our urban centers will mean moving into them, sacrificing our lives and leading them to Jesus. Will you be the next one to help?

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Genesis: Jacob and Joseph

Posted on January 9, 2011 by Dr. Matthew Lee Smith

Editor’s Note: We continue our series of blogs for those who are reading the Bible with us cover-to-cover this year. Interspersed with our thoughts on our daily reading, we want to provide some tips about reading the Bible in general. Today we want to focus on how …

Jacob Expands The Family Tree Of Israel

(Genesis 25-49)

In this section, God will change Jacob’s name to Israel. Israel (Jacob) is then the blood father and namesake of the nation that will forever after carry his name. Watch for these items as we pass quickly through on this portion of our trip through the first five books:

·       Jacob swindles Esau’s birthright. (25) The birthright was the legal status of the firstborn son to obtain a double portion of the family inheritance.

·       Jacob’s stealing of Isaac’s blessing. (27) The blessing Isaac gave was his solemn word to his son, albeit to Jacob instead of Esau. This blessing invoked God’s presence and power to work upon those whom they were uttered to.

·       Jacob’s promise to God at Bethel. (28) Jacob promises to follow God fully and give him 10% of all his increase, should God prosper him.

·       Jacob’s progeny from his wives (Leah and Rachel) and his wives’ maids (Bilhah and Zilpah) in the East. (29-30) Although this is a bizarre story by any accounting, Jacob fathers 11 sons while in the East, working for his uncle Laban.

·       Jacob’s wrestling with God at Peniel, and God changing his name forever to Israel. (32) This is a pivot point in the life of Jacob, as he realizes his long-term significance and purpose in God’s plan.

Joseph Provides For The Family In Egypt

(Genesis 30-50)

Joseph is the eleventh child of Jacob’s and the second and last-born to Rachel. Yet, in many ways, he is the most critical. It is this child whom God uses greatly to enlarge and protect the children of Israel (Jacob) during a seven-year famine in the Middle East. Watch for these key points along the way:

·       Joseph has dreams about his future greatness, which are not appreciated by anyone in his family. (37)

·       Joseph is sold into slavery by his own brothers and is transported to Egypt where he becomes a house slave to a high military official. (37, 39)

·       Joseph is sent to prison because he has been falsely accused. While there, he is able to accurately interpret dreams for two of the king of Egypt’s key officials. (40)

·       Joseph is summoned to the King of Egypt (Pharaoh), because of his ability to interpret dreams. (41)

·       Joseph is appointed as the second ruler of Egypt to initiate the plans he has described to Pharaoh in preparation for the seven famine years approaching the Middle East. (41)

·       Joseph’s family settles in the land of Egypt and escapes the famine that has fallen upon the Middle East. (42-47)

·       Joseph’s first two sons are counted as Jacob’s, filling the number of family lines in Jacob (Israel) to twelve, later called the twelve tribes of Israel. (48-49)

It is our hope that this background information helps a bit as you read on in the Bible. We will continue this series with our next installment: “The Differences of Cultures” on Wednesday.

You can obtain more help from the FREE Bible reading schedule on our resource page. In His Image is a daily devotional that also follows our reading schedule and expresses the Biblical truth: “God Created You to Love You.” You can find this resource on the side bar of our website.

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Genesis: Isaac Continues the Next Generation

Posted on January 7, 2011 by Dr. Matthew Lee Smith

Editor’s Note: We continue our series of blogs for those who are reading the Bible with us cover-to-cover this year. Today we discover that …

Isaac Continues The Next Generation Of Faith (Genesis 21-28)

From Abraham came his full-blooded son Isaac. From Isaac comes his full-blooded son, Jacob. Isaac’s main purpose in this section is to preserve and continue the family line. Watch for these key events in his life story as we pass through:

  • The removal of Abram’s stepson, Ishmael by his maid Hagar. (21) The descendents of Ishmael later become the Arab peoples.
  • The testing of Abraham’s faith to see if he trusts God with the life of this child. (22)
  • The taking of a wife (Rebekah) for Isaac by sending away the house manager to choose and retrieve the woman. (24)
  • The birthing of twin sons (Jacob and Esau), each of which will totally have the heart of one of their parents. Jacob has Rebekah’s heart and Esau has Jacob’s heart. This plays deeply into the intrigue of the future expansion of the nation of Israel.

We will continue this series with our next installment: “Jacob and Joseph” on Sunday.

You can obtain more help from the FREE Bible reading schedule on our resource page. In His Image is a daily devotional that also follows our reading schedule and expresses the Biblical truth: “God Created You to Love You.” You can find this resource on the side bar of our website.

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