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Pastor Doug Batchelor: When
Abraham is called to sacrifice
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Isaac, God says, "Take
your son, your only son."
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What about Ishmael?
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In Islam, they refused to accept
that Abraham offered Isaac.
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They say,
"Abraham offered Ishmael."
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Doug: Well today, we're
beginning a new series on
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something I have prayed and
thought about discussing for
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literally years, and I never
have because I just wanted to
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make sure that the truths were
gelled in my own mind before I
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had the confidence to
share them with others.
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You know, I feel a great
responsibility as your pastor.
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And the Bible talks
about the Book of James,
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"Don't be anxious
to be many masters,
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knowing you'll receive
a more severe judgment or
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fiercer condemnation."
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And so, when you teach, you want
to make sure you're teaching the
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truth, because
you're accountable for that.
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And I have been studying
for a few years and reading what
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others have written
about the subject of Islam.
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And with things
happening in the world today,
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it's been
prominent and in the news,
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and we are
wondering, as Christians,
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does this factor
somehow in prophesy.
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And so, I've chosen
to speak on this subject,
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and the message
today, dealing with "Islam,
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Christianity and Prophecy."
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It's going to be
Part 1 in the series,
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and it called "Sibling Rivalry."
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Bible is full of
stories of sibling rivalry,
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all the way back from
Cain and Abel, Jacob and Esau.
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You can read about
Jesus and his brothers,
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and David and his brothers,
and Joseph and his brothers.
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And you've got a lot
of examples in the Bible,
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even among the
girls; Rachel and Leah.
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You ever read about
the arguments they had,
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fighting over the same husband.
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But one of the great examples
of what has become a sibling
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rivalry deals with the
two oldest sons of Abraham,
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the oldest being Ishmael
and the second being Isaac,
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and who was the rightful heir
for that patriarchal blessing.
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And the contest that
begins in the Book of Genesis,
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continues today in the world.
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We're going to be looking
at that in just a moment.
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Now first, I'd
like to just, you know,
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state some of what is obvious.
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Right now, there are
about 7.4 billion people.
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The nation of Islam or
the people of Islam is,
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a great nation of people.
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They're about 7.4 billion
people in the world today.
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Christianity is by far the
biggest religion at present,
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with about 2.2 or 31%
of all the people on earth.
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Islam is in second place
with 1.7 adherence, that's 23%.
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Now, we've got
to be very careful,
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because well, they are 1.7
billion Muslims in the world
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today, few
things need to be clear.
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Most Arabs are Muslims,
but not most Muslims are Arabs.
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The majority of
Muslims are not Arabs.
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Most Arabs are Muslims
and the Muslim religion
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did spring from Saudi Arabia
and Mohammed, and it is largely,
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it's got Arab routes that
are connected with Ishmael.
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We'll get to
that in just a minute.
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But the religion
spread, and so today,
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most Muslims are not Arabs.
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The largest Muslim
country, I've been there,
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Indonesia, they're not Arabs.
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And you go to
Pakistan, and North India,
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North Africa, and you're
going find there's a whole
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lot of Muslim people in
the world that are not Arabs.
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And so we've got
to be very careful,
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and we also have to be careful
to understand that we do see
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that there is a lot of
terrorism in the world,
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and a lot of it, a lot of the
suicide bombings are connected
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with the religion Islam.
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Matter of fact, couple
of studies that I read,
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and there's others you can find.
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2013 Study by the Brookings
Institute found that 77% of
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terror attack plots
in the United States were
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motivated by Islam.
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A 2015 Study from the Institute
for National Security Studies,
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and that's based in Israel,
so to give you fair perspective,
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found that 99%--99.5% of all
suicide attacks globally were
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motivated by Islam.
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They found that out 452 suicide
attacks during 2015--of course,
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the data is not all in on 2016.
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This is just last year.
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Out of 452, 450 were perpetrated
by Muslim extremists.
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So people think about these
things and you read it in the
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headlines, and it's,
people become frightened.
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They say, "Oh, do I
have to be afraid of
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the religion of Islam."
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Keep in mind,
that out 1.7 billion,
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the vast majority are
nice, peaceful people.
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But there is something
that is definitely going on.
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You cannot deny that the
terrorism is springing from
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a religious foundation.
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Those who are extremist, there's
religious reasons for it.
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That's why we have not
been able to achieve peace
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in the Middle East.
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And the recent Secretary of
State basically threw his hands
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in the air and walked away,
not only dealing with Syria and
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what's going in Israel, because
the problems are so deeply
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rooted because they
are religious issues,
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and as long as the
Jews, and the Christians,
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and the Muslims base their faith
on different books--whereas Jews
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and Christians have
pretty much the same book.
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We have the New
Testament but the
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Muslims put the
Qur'an as a priority.
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They also claim
some value in the Bible,
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but not the same way that we do.
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So there is--there are
documents of constitution.
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The religions are different
and they can't change that.
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You just don't see it going away
unless they change their book.
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It's entrenched.
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And the battles that you're
going to see going on in the
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world today, go way back.
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So to understand this, and
when you consider that the two
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primary religions in
the world are Christianity,
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and Islam is more than 50%,
and they are growing faster than
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Buddhism and Hinduism, which are
the other prominent religions.
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There are only about 16
million Jews in the world,
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compared to the other
religions, they're very small,
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but they're an
amazing people, in that,
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they have a great deal
of influence on the finances
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of the world and media.
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I'm just stating
the fact that I'm a Jew.
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And it's a small country,
got a lot of technology,
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a lot of brain
power, a lot of influence.
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But when you
think about the numbers,
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Judaism is a very small number
compared to the billions you
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find in Christianity and Islam.
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So to think last day prophecy
is not going to factor in these
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religions, I think is reckless.
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So we're going to go into that.
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But before we do, you got to go
back in order to understand it,
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because the ancient stories
have a bearing on future events.
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We're going to way back.
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We're going to go
to the Book of Genesis.
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And I'll think you'll find
in study--go to Genesis 12,
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and we're going to
be reading verse 1 to 3.
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Now, after the
tower of Babel fell,
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God then calls someone
by the name of Abraham.
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"And God says to Abraham,
'Get out of your country,
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from your family,
from your father's house,
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to a land that I will show you.
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I will make a great nation.'"
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Don't miss the
phrase, great nation.
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It's coming up again.
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"I'll make a great nation of you
and I will bless you and make
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your name great, and
you will be a blessing.
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And I'll bless
those who bless you,
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and I will curse
him who curses you.
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And in you, all the families
of the earth will be blessed."
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This is a Messianic promise.
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This a promise that
Abraham would be the family,
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the tribe, through
which the Messianic line,
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the line of Jesus
would come through Abraham,
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but there was a problem.
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So you got to now
to Genesis chapter 16.
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And if you read in
Genesis 16, verse 1,
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"Now Sarah, Abram's wife,
had borne him no children.
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And she had an
Egyptian maidservant
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whose name was Hagar."
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Sarah has this idea.
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She says to Abraham,
"Well, I can't have children,
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but I don't want
you to be childless.
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Since Hagar is my
maidservant, I'll have
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her work as a
surrogate, you know.
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She can bear children for me."
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"So he went in to
Hagar, and she conceived.
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And when she saw
that she had conceived,
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her mistress became
despised in her eyes."
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Now, I've underlined that.
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Right here, you
see, now keep in mind,
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Hagar is going to be
the mother of Ishmael,
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who ends up
being the first Arab,
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father of the Arabs;
Sarah, the mother of Isaac.
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Can you imagine now, Sarah,
who she's the wealthy one,
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she's the real wife,
Hagar is a surrogate,
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she's bearing
children for Sarah,
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but she's here own baby.
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Sarah can't have any
and Hagar has conceived,
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she beginning to
have here tummy show,
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and there's
Hagar strutting around,
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rubbing her belly, and she's
looking at Sarah and saying,
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"Too bad you
can't have any children,
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and God must have cursed you."
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And when Sarah dealt harshly
with her--so now the animosity
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is not just coming
from Hagar towards Sarah,
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it's coming from
Sarah towards Hagar.
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You see, it's going both ways.
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"And when Sarah dealt
harshly with her, she runs."
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I don't know if that means
she beat her or what happened.
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She fled from her
presence and Hagar takes
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off and she heads for the hills.
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"Now the angel of the Lord
found her by a spring of water
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on the way to Shur.
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And the angel of
the Lord said to her,
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'Return to your
mistress, and submit
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yourself under her hand.'"
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Well, that must have been tough.
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And the Angel of the Lord
said, 'I will multiply your
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descendants exceedingly,
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so that they will not
be counted for multitude.'"
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You might make a note of that,
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'cause that's what God
had promised about Isaac.
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"And the Angel of
the Lord said to her,
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'Behold, you are with
child, and you shall bear a son,
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and you will
call his name Ishmael,
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because--the word El
in the Bible means God.
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Ishmael means God
hears. I've heard your cry.
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She's, you know,
you can't blame Hagar.
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If I was a servant in Egypt,
I got handed over by the Pharaoh
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to this guy named Abraham,
speaks a different language,
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I have struggled
with the language,
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then she hands me
over to Abraham and says,
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"You're supposed to
have a baby for me."
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And so here I have a
baby and I'm thinking,
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"Maybe I'll get a promotion.
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I won't, you know, I
won't just be a slave.
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I'll be at least a concubine.
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And Sarah gets all upset and
beats me, and what have I done?"
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You know, you can understand.
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Hagar's not
feeling good about it,
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and Sarah's thinking,
"Now, what I done that
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I can't have a child?"
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"You're with
child, you'll bear a son.
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Call his name Ishmael, because
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the Lord has
heard your affliction."
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Notice, verse 12,
"He will be a wild man.
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His hand will be
against every man,
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and every man's
hand against him.
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And he will dwell in the
presence of all his brethren."
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That sounds like a conflict.
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There would be some animosity
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between Ishmael
and other people.
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And he'd dwell in the
midst of his brethren,
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but they would have a hard time
assimilating with other people.
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Doug: Don't go
anywhere, friends.
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In just a moment,
we'll return for the
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rest of today's presentation.
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You know, the Bible
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religious political power that
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unite the people of the world
against the followers of Christ.
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How close are we to this or
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there working in the shadows?
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Doug: Well, let's back
to today's presentation,
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and learn some more amazing
facts from the Word of God.
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Abraham then has a vision where
God appears to him and he says,
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"I'm going to give you a son.
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And Abraham's going,
"Well, you did give me a son.
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His name is Ishmael."
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And God is saying,
"No, I'm going to give you a
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son by your wife.
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I never told you
to take another wife.
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I told you was going to make you
a father of a multitude and you
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lost faith, and thought
you were going to help me out.
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And you accomplished by
works, what was supposed
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to happen by faith.
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You accomplished by carnal
means what was supposed to
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happen by
spiritual, miraculous means."
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He says, "I'm going to
give you a son through Sarah."
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And so God blesses Sarah,
she gets pregnant, has a baby.
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"And Sarah saw the son
of Hagar, the Egyptian,
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whom she had borne
to Abraham, scoffing,
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and Sarah said to Abraham,"
boy, they just had a blowup.
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"Cast out," you know what
that word, cast out means?
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Divorce.
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"Cast out this
bondwoman and her son,
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for the son of this bondwoman
shall not be heir with my son,
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namely with Isaac.
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And the matter was
very displeasing to Abraham,
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in his sight
because of his son."
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Ishmael's his son, and
the father loves his son.
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Remember when Abraham prayed,
"Lord, what about Ishmael?"
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He cared about him. And
God then speaks to Abraham.
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Says, "Do not let it be
displeasing in your sight
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because of the lad,
because of your bondwoman.
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Whatever Sarah says to
you, listen to her voice,
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for in Isaac, your
seed shall be called."
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So do you see right
away what the difference is?
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The promised see, the Messiah,
was going to come not through
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Ishmael, but through Isaac.
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And we're going to go to the
New Testament and look at that.
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"Yet I will also make a nation
of the son of the bondwoman,
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Ishmael, because
he is your seed."
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He sent away, "He rose up
early in the next morning.
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He took bread and
a skin of water, he
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put it on her shoulders.
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He gave her the boy to
Hagar, and sent her away."
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He gave her some finances,
but instead of going to a town,
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she's all broken hearted.
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She goes out
into the wilderness.
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"She departed and wandered
in the wilderness of Beersheba."
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And God heard
the voice of the lad,
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and that means, not only, he's
13 years old, he's intelligent.
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She's not only crying
and praying; he is praying,
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Ishmael, and crying.
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'Cause it's not--God
didn't just hear her voice,
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he heard the voice of the lad.
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"And the angel of God
called to Hagar out of heaven,
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and said to her,
'What ails you, Hagar?
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Fear not, for God has heard the
voice of the lad where he is.
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Arise, lift up the lad
and hold him with your hand.
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I will make him a great nation.'
Then God opened her eyes,
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and she saw a well of water.
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And she went and
filled the skin of water, and
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gave the lad drink."
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So God was with the lad and
she never went back to Egypt.
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He was in the wilderness,
and he became an archer.
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He became a skilled hunter.
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"And he dwelt in
the Wilderness of Paran,
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and his mother took a wife
for him from the land of Egypt."
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So Ishmael ends up
being the father of the Arabs,
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which of course, is
where you get Islam,
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and Isaac becomes
the father of the Jews,
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and
subsequently, the Christians,
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through which Christ came.
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Look at some of these
parallels, Genesis 21:17,
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"God heard the voice
of the lad, heard him cry.
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I will make him a great nation."
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It also says, regarding Isaac,
"I am the God of your father.
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Do not fear to go down to Egypt.
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I will make of
you a great nation,"
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actually said that to Jacob.
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So you got two great nations
have come out of Abraham,
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springing from 12 sons.
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The number 12 in the
Bible represent church.
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It's a religion,
religious leadership.
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Twelve apostles.
Jesus used that number.
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He could have picked 11, 14.
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So you got a religion
that comes from Ishmael,
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and you got a
religion that comes from Isaac.
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Says your offspring
would be innumerable.
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""I'll multiply your
descendants," Genesis 16:9-10.
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You can see the dark green
colors on the map represent
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the concentrations
of the world where 99%,
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up to a hundred
percent are Islamic,
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and these are the countries
that all flowed out from Saudi
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Arabia, that kind of engulfed
some of these great empires.
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We read also in
Genesis 26, to Isaac he said,
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"I will make your
descendants multiply
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like the stars of heaven.
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I will give your
descendants all these lands."
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But what he says to Isaac,
he does not say to Ishmael.
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Here's the difference.
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To Abraham he
says, "In your seed,
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all the nations of the
world would be blessed."
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To Isaac he says
here in Genesis 26:4,
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"And in your seed all
the nations of the earth
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would be blessed."
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The blessing
would come, the truth,
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because if you don't have truth,
you don't have a blessing.
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The truth, the
Messiah who is the truth,
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are you with me, the
truth that the Jews were
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the guardians of the Word.
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Paul says, "God committed
to the children of Israel,
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the oracles of truth."
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Doesn't mean they always
kept it, but they had it.
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Genesis 28:14, then God
repeats the promise to Jacob,
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"Also to your descendants,
they'll be like the dust of the
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earth; and you'll spread abroad,
and in you and in your seed all
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the families of the
earth shall be blessed."
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So he only says this to
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
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and that's interesting.
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Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob, all three had
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wives that had
trouble getting pregnant.
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You know about
Sarah, we just read that.
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The Bible says,
Rebecca was barren,
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and Isaac prayed and God opened
her womb and she had twins.
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And the Bible says Rachel
had problems having a child.
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And Jacob prayed, and
eventually she had Joseph,
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and later Benjamin.
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Died giving birth to Benjamin.
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They all had
problems having children.
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The other thing is because their
children were born as a result
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of prayer and
intercession and promises.
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Spiritual births. You got that?
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There's something about
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
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These promised
children are spiritual births.
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There's a lesson for us there.
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The other thing is where
did they get their wives?
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They kept bringing
their wives out of Mesopotamia
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to the Promised Land.
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Abraham said, "Don't take a wife
for Isaac from the local girls.
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She was must be a
believer in the true God."
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He said to Eliezer, his servant,
"Go get a wife from my people,
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and bring her to
the Promised Land."
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It's important because
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
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have all got their wives out
of Mesopotamia and brought them
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to the Promised
Land, and then God says,
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"Babylon has fallen.
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Come out of her, my people."
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God calls his
church out of Babylon,
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spiritual Mesopotamia
to the Promised Land,
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the new Jerusalem.
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See what I'm saying?
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And children of Israel were
carried away captive to Babylon,
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and they came out of
Babylon in the days of Cyrus,
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and came back to
the Promised Land.
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That's the whole
story of Ezra and Nehemiah.
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So this is
carrying through history.
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It's going to happen in
last day prophecy as well.
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Now, I want you to notice,
there's a number of parallels
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between Isaac and Ishmael.
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Isaac comes into the
world as a result of faith.
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Ishmael comes into
the world by natural means
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as a result of works.
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God had promised, a
promised, miraculous child
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to Abraham and Sarah.
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They couldn't wait.
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They said, "We're
going to help out.
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We're going to do it by works."
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It represents the carnal
son, whereas you've got Isaac
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is the spiritual son.
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The interesting thing
is Isaac then has two boys,
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and Esau is the carnal sin.
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He's willing to sell his
birthright for a pot of beans.
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But Jacob is the one
through whom the truth comes.
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He is the spiritual
son. He wants the blessing.
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He tells Esau, he says, "You can
take all of dad's possessions.
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You can get the inheritance."
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Matter of fact, when Jacob came
back into the Promised Land,
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he gave things to Esau.
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And he said, "You keep it."
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Says, "I want the
spiritual blessing,"
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and he got that, didn't he?
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The father put his
hands him and he blessed him.
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And so, there's a big debate,
because I don't know if you're
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aware of this, only
Isaac is called the only son.
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When Abraham is
called to sacrifice Isaac,
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God says, "Take
your son, your only son."
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What about Ishmael?
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Is "God so loved the world,
he gave his only begotten Son."
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You know, it's 'cause Isaac was
a type when he went up on the
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mountain as a sacrifice.
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He was type of Christ.
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Just like Moses was never
supposed to strike the rock
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twice, he messed up the symbol.
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Abraham was not supposed
to have a child of the flesh.
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He was just supposed to
have the child of the promise.
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Something else that's
interesting is in Islam,
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they refuse to accept
that Abraham offered Isaac.
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They say
Abraham offered Ishmael.
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Now, see, you can't believe
both Qur'an and the Bible,
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because there's major conflicts
in the teachings there.
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You read the
Book of James, 2:21,
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"Was not Abraham, our
father, justified by works
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when he offered Isaac."
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You have to reject the
Old and the New Testament to
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believe the Qur'an.
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It says it was
Isaac. It was not Ishmael.
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That was the son. Look
at some of the differences.
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One is a hunter; the other
is a farmer and a shepherd.
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Isaac planted and God
gave him a hundred-fold.
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God names Isaac and Ishmael.
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They both were named by God, but
the name of one comes from the
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father and the name of the
other comes through the mother.
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Ishmael dies
surrounded by family.
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Jacob and Isaac died
surrounded by family.
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Isaac goes east to get
his wife; Ishmael goes West to
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Egypt to get his wife.
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They're opposites.
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Isaac's wife is
chosen by the father;
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Ishmael's wife is
chosen by the mother.
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You know, maybe, I'll close
by taking you to Galatians 4.
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Listen to what Paul says.
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We're jumping to
the New Testament.
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Paul says what happened to
Ishmael and Isaac is an allegory
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that applies to us today.
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Paul says, "Tell me the truth,
you who desire to be under the
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law, do you not hear the law?
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For it is written that
Abraham," and of course,
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Genesis was
called part of the law.
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"Abraham had two
sons: one by a bondwoman,
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the other by the freewoman.
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But he who was of
the bondwoman, Ishmael,
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was born according to the
flesh, and he of the freewoman,
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Isaac, through promise,
which things are symbolic.
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For these are the
two covenants," one true,
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one false, "one from Mount Sinai
which gives birth to bondage,
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which is Hagar."
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Is anyone saved
under the bondage of Hagar?
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Well, I'm telling you
what Paul says it's bondage.
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"For this Hagar is
Mount Sinai in Arabia."
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Where? Arabia.
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Where does
Mohammed have his vision?
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Where is Islam
born? Saudi Arabia.
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"And corresponds to
Jerusalem which now is,
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and is in bondage
with her children.
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But the Jerusalem above is free,
which is the mother of us all.
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For it is written,
'Rejoice, O barren,
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you who do not bear.
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Break forth and shout
for you who are not in labor.
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For the desolate
has many more children,
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than she who has a husband.'
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Now we, brethren, as Isaac
was, are children of promise.
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But, as he who was
born according to the flesh,
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Ishmael, then persecuted him
who was born according to the
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Spirit, even so it is now.
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Nevertheless, what
does the Scripture say?
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'Cast out the
bondwoman and her son,
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for the son of the bondwoman
shall not be heir with the son
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of the freewoman.
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So then, brethren, we are
not children of the bondwoman,
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but of the free.'"
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What does this mean?
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Well, in our day and age,
I think as we near the end of
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time, you're going to
an increasing polarization
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in the world between
these two great ideas,
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these two great families.
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Now, if you're a
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If you're an Arab,
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It has its roots in
Ishmael and Mohammed.
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aggressive about
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and I believe things are going
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