Sarah and Hagar

Genesis 16:1, “Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar,  so she said to Abram, “The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.” Abram agreed to what Sarai said.  So after Abram had been living in Canaan for ten years, Sarai, his wife, took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife. He slept with Hagar, and she conceived.

When (Hagar) knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress. Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my slave in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the Lord judge between you and me.”

Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.

Genesis 18:1, “The Lord appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day. Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he hurried from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.^“

Genesis 18:9“Where is your wife Sarah?” they asked him. “There, in the tent,” he said. Then one of them said, “I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah, your wife, will have a son.” Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent behind him. Abraham and Sarah were already very old, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing. So Sarah laughed to herself, thinking, “After I am worn out and my lord is old, will I now have this pleasure?”

Then the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really have a child, now that I am old?’ Is anything too hard for the Lord? I will return to you at the appointed time next year, and Sarah will have a son.” Sarah was afraid and lied, saying, “I did not laugh.” But he said, “Yes, you did laugh.”

Genesis 18:16, ^“When the men got up to leave, they looked down toward Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them on their way. Then the Lord said, “Shall I hide what I am about to do from Abraham? Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him. For I have chosen him so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just so that the Lord will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.”

The stage is now set, for there was to arise for Abraham a very difficult time. Sarah had already given Abraham her servant Hagar so that there would be a progeny for Abraham and their children. Hagar’s son was named Ishmael, and because Ishmael was the firstborn, he would naturally thought to be the inheritor of the customary Birthright promises. Ishmael was now about ten years old.

The next year, Sarah conceived a son as the Lord had promised and called him Isaac. Sarah now regrets giving Abraham Hagar to have children. Bitter conflict began to arise, and the time came for Abraham to make the decision that Hagar and Ishmael must go. God told Hagar that through Ishmael, he would raise up a great nation to be great on the face of the earth.

Insert: Ishmael was conceived through the Egyptian servant, while Isaac was conceived through a pure bloodline or Hebrew.

God blessed Isaac. One day, God instructed Abraham to take Isaac to the mountain, and there he was to sacrifice him on an altar. Abraham trusted God, for wasn’t Isaac the one that the Lord had promised Sarah? I am sure with a heavy heart, he departed to do this terrible thing that God had instructed him to do.

When the butchering knife was poised to strike the killing blow, God provided a ram for Abraham to sacrifice instead of his beloved son, Isaac. Because of this terrible ordeal, a test of his reliance upon his Creator’s wisdom, he passed this test and was then granted the promises God had given him.

Abraham was not a perfect man, for the scriptures reveal some of his faults. God doesn’t work through perfect people, for there are none. Those imperfect people he works through must go through similar tests that God requires. Today, the same principles apply.

The setup has now occurred. Ishmael was to become the rejected inheritor of Abraham’s promised firstborn blessings, which are now being given to another. Hagar, the Egyptian, and her son were livid with rage, and throughout history, the Arab nations have been warlike in their hatred while living in close proximity to their enemy.

Abraham’s sons, Isaac and Jacob were destined to receive the Birthright promises. Jacob’s name was changed to Israel, and his son, who was to be the final inheritor of the Birthright, was two-fold: Ephraim and Manassa. These two sons of Joseph were to be the final inheritors of the birthright promises to bless the world in all its undertakings.

Insert: What happened to Ishmael was what transpired with Lucifer; another was to get what he thought would be his. Lucifer became angry and began to stir up trouble. Ishmael was angry at this slight, and throughout history, the descendants of Ishmael hated the descendants of Jacob, who became Israel. Lucifer and Ishmael had the same hurt feelings of someone being promoted above them, taking what they considered to be rightfully theirs.

The Set Up

As a loving father, our Creator designed and built a world calculated to cause his children to learn or to receive the necessary instructions or understanding of what will not be allowed back into his world. Everything that has happened in this world, from false religions and arrogant and self-righteous politicians to the unstoppable wars our nature has caused. We have come full circle, and now the price will have to be paid, not out of anger but for humankind to see the final consequences of our rebellion against the great God.

God’s hands were all over the Hagar debacle. The conflict with Sarah. The rejection of Ishmael and the hatred by the Arab nations of which Ishmael is the father. Christ did not cause this conflict; the natural nature inflicted on human nature brought this about. Remember, God is sovereign, and his purpose is second to none, for his purpose for humanity was so that humankind could get a permanent lesson in humility (God first in all things) and responsibility.

From that time until now, this world has suffered conflict between the vast Arab world and the modern-day nations of Israel. Judah and Benjamin live in a small nation called Israel, but the birthright promises have resided with the UK and the USA (The Big Satan), for only they have fulfilled the promises Abraham bestowed on his offspring.

The King in Britain even now holds down the throne, which Christ will assume upon his return. Under that throne sits a large boulder, which is the pillowstone that Jacob laid his head on when he had his dream.

When Satan was allowed to enter the garden and infect humanity with his self-centered nature, the world was committed to living with conflict. It is through disgusting and self-centered conflict that we can learn the lesson required or mandated to be learned before we are to be allowed back into our Creator’s world. (Didn’t he know us before we were born?)

Modern-day Israel, i.e., the USA and the UK, have been in a downward spiral to the point of no return. “The Son of Perdition,” which no one wants to acknowledge, is destroying the border integrity of this nation while allowing diseases to enter. Our hospitals are overrun, and soon, there will be a dramatic rise in the closing of medical facilities.

Our political parties are at war with one another, while our so-called spiritual leaders, experts in their own minds, are silent.

The beast powers China, Iran, Russia, and North Korea, along with their proxies, are preparing for war, for they cannot allow President Trump back into office. North Korea, the only one with an arrogant and self-righteous spine, will be the first to pull the nuclear trigger. (My opinion)

A belligerent Arab world and an ineffective world leader, “the son of perdition,” have now set the stage for catastrophic circumstances to break out.

The world has been given this message. Politicians fight a losing battle while our religions are just like the comic book character Alfred E. Newman, who says, “What? Me worry?”

We, the world, are God’s children who have no place to turn. We can only turn to our Creator and realize that just as Abraham was to sacrifice his son on the altar, we, the world, have been required to sacrifice our peace and safety before we can return to our Creator’s world.

We are learning that which Lucifer did not know or understand. He had no history with chaos.

As Abraham learned, we are mandated to learn the necessity of humility and personal responsibility, even though his mandates might be distasteful to an arrogant mind.

At the appointed time, Christ will raise the dead, the resurrection, and those who remain alive after the great trouble will be caught up to live forever in our Creator’s world.

Take heart, for the days will be shortened for the elect’s sake. Who are the elect? They are the begotten children of our Creator, not just some who have a certain religious belief, but the world.

The fortunate few do not exist. God plainly states that a multitude who cannot be numbered, whose garments have been scrubbed clean by the blood of our savior, will enter his world. The resurrection to eternal life is for all humanity, not just the so-called fortunate few who claim that eternal life belongs only to them.