The Book of God: Abraham
Monday, March 12th, 2007
The Book of God begins with the story of Abraham. As you will recall, Abraham was born at about the same time that Noah died. He was 75 when God appeared to him and promised him an heir, and his wife Sarah was 65.
While they waited for God to fulfill His promise, they took matters into their own hands, and Abraham fathered a child, Ishmael, but the Egyptian maid Hagar. Abraham was 86 when this first son was born. And 100 when Isaac, the promised child, was born.
Ishmael had 12 sons, and they were wild fighting men, dwelling in the Wilderness of Paran, between Egypt and the Holy land. Does this area sound familiar to anyone? Yep, thought so. We’ll talk more of Isaac and his sons later, beginning with our next lesson.
Abraham lived the rest of his life as a nomad. Sarah died at the age of 127. Abraham lived to 175. That’s more than 2 of our lifetimes, and brings up to 2181 years after creation.
The next time we talk about The Book of God, we’ll talk about Rebekah and Jacob. I’ll be reading up to Joseph, but I don’t know if we’ll get all that material covered in one post.
