CHAPTER 27
Genesis 12: 10 Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to dwell there, for the famine was severe in the land. 11 And it came to pass, when he was close to entering Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, “Indeed I know that you are a woman of beautiful countenance. 12 Therefore it will happen, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife’; and they will kill me, but they will let you live. 13 Please say you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that I may live because of you.”
“Abram could have lost his wife to Pharaoh by his lie that she was his sister and not his wife. Yet You, Lord, protected his marriage for the sake of Your covenant.”
HOW DID ABRAM BECOME ONE WITH TWO WIVES?
“LORD, YOU know.
Hagar was given to Abram, from Sarai. Surely she was a gift of Pharaoh to his betrothed, Sarai, wife of Abram. And Sarai gave her husband, her servant as his wife, a womb for the seed of Your Promise.”
WAS THIS MY WILL AND MY COMMAND?
“LORD, only YOU know your will. I know of no command.
I do not think that Sarai or Abram even asked You of your will. Yet You, Lord, allowed Abraham to have two wives.”
AS I ALLOWED ABRAM’S FREE WILL WITH PHAROAH AND SARAI TO APPEAL TO HIS FLESH.
AS I GAVE ADAM FREEDOM TO EAT OF THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE AND EVE TO CONVINCE HIM.
YET DID I, THE LORD, NOT HAVE COMPASSION FOR HAGAR AND FOR SARAI, AS WELL AS MY SERVANT, ABRAHAM?
“Lord, for thirteen years, was Ishmael not the apple of Abraham’s eye?
And hasn’t the contest of wife against wife and brother against brother continued even to this day?”
SINCE CAIN AND ABEL; BUT WE WILL SPEAK OF WIVES.
To be continued…
A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,
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