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The Trouble with Ishmael
Isaac & Ishmael
Troublesome relations between siblings is nothing new. We see it in the Bible going back to Cain and Abel, the first siblings. By faith Abel offered a more excellent sacrifice than Cain (Heb11;4). Cain killed his brother. And this particular Hatfield and McCoy shootout is prophesied to continue till Jesus' second coming.
Through Isaac, God established an everlasting covenant, (Gen 17;19), for it is through the family tree of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that the kings of Israel were established, and ultimately the King of Kings, the Lord Jesus Christ, would come out of that lineage. Isaac had Ishmael as a half-brother. Genesis 16;12 says, "he will be a wild man, his hand will be against every man, and every mans hand against him, and he shall dwell in the (face) of all his brethren." The King James translators said, "He shall dwell in the presence of his brethren." The Strongs concordance number on that word is #6440. Clearly the meaning is, in your face, as in, against you. So we see some serious sibling problems there.
Finally Jacob and Esau are a sibling pair worth noting. God had made a promise to Jacob, but it seems Jacob didn't trust God to deliver. He schemed on how he could wrest the inheritance and blessing away from his older brother. God could have simply sent Esau out on a hunting trip that he would have never returned from. But Jacob with the help of his mother, tricked dear old dad,(who was going blind). Esua's descendants became the Edomites, from whom Herod the Great came, whos claim to fame is his attempt to have the baby Jesus killed.
It should be no surprise when some suggest or even demonstrate and assert that Yassir Arafat was of the lineage of Esau. Arafats great Uncle was the Haj Amin al-Husseini. There used to be a large photograph of Arafats Great Uncle with Hitler, in the Holocaust Museum in Israel.
We have heard it said that history repeats itself. Solomon said it best, "The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done, is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun." (Ecc 1;9) These cycles are not never-ending. They are leading somewhere. To that inevitable showdown. The end game. I checked the last page of the book (the Bible) ...we win.
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