#16 Genesis 25-Lesson 3

GENESIS #16 Genesis 25 GEN. 25 KETURAH AND ISHMAEL Ke ah, Ab aha concubine Her children formed tribal confederations, so were less known as individual tribes Midian is the best known Formed the people who lived on the western part of the Arabian Peninsula Inhabited the land Moses fled to and lived in for 40 years 1 HE DI ISHMAEL: E ED FI B N Gen 25:12-18 Mother was Hagar Sa ah a Ab aham ONLY legal wife Ishmael REJECTED by God a he on of omi e Isaac was the son of promise, produced by miraculous birth 2 WHAT IS A SEMITE? Ishmael is a Semite A Semite is a descendant of Noah s son Shem Word Semshould be pronounced Shem- SEEN S SHEEN SH 3 BOTH ISAAC AND ISHMAEL ARE SEMITES Same father, Abraham Anti-Semite MEANS agai Semi e Today the term is used to mea agai Je Ishmael rejected ONLY as the son of promise Ishmael NOT cursed Hebrews and Arabs closely related 4 Descendants of Keturah and Ishmael form the various Arab peoples Isaiah 60 speaks of Midian, Ephah, and Sheba (Keturah) along with Kedar and Nebaioth (Ishmael) Isaiah 60 is End-Times prophecy speaking of ARABS 5 This time has NOT yet happened DISCIPLES OF YESHUA SHOULD NOT HATE ARABS! Today, most Arabs are on the wrong side of the Israel issue We CAN hate what they believe and what they DO MANY Christian-Arabs WE MUST STAND WITH ISRAEL NO MATTER WHO IT INFURIATES 6 The Fork in the Road ABRAHAM ISAAC ISHMAEL ISHMAEL IS NOT THE FATHER OF ISLAM! 7 ISLAM SAYS THE BIBLE HAS BEEN CORRUPTED AND ISHMAEL IS SON OF PROMISE PURE FANTASY! 1) Prophet Mohammed started Islam 600 years after the time of Christ 2) The last book of the Bible was written 500 years before Mohammed was born OT COMPLETE 400 BC CHRIST BORN 4 BC Final NT documents written 100 AD MOHAMMED AND ISLAM 575 AD 8 IRRECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES ISLAM JUDEO-CHRISTIANITY OPPOSITES ALLAH Y-H-W-H, EL SHADDAI LOVES DEATH LOVES LIFE CONVERT BY SWORD CONVERT BY LOVE BEHAVIOR CONDITION OF HEART NO MESSIAH MESSIAH GOD OF WAR GOD OF SHALOM 9 TRIBES OF ISHMAEL KEDAR = BEDOUINS NEBAIOTH = NABATAEANS 10 ADBE EL = IDIBA IL EGYPT BORDER DUMAH ABOVE MIDIAN 11 TEMA OCCUPIED THE AREA OF ANCIENT DEDAN DEDAN 12 ISHMAEL LIVES TODAY AS THEY DID 2000 YEARS AGO 13 ISHMAEL LIVED FOR 137 YEARS *GATHERED TO HIS KIN ISHMAEL LIVED THRU-OUT THIS AREA ISHMAEL WAS DIVIDED AND SEPARATED AWAY FROM THE HEBREWS BY GOD 14 1.The first third consisting of the final important details of Abraham’s life. 2.The 2nd third, consisting of calling out the descendants of Ishmael, & giving some information about where they settled. 3.Here in the final third of Gen 25, we begin to chart the end of Isaac’s story & the beginning of his son Jacob. GEN.25:19-34 Isaac lives primarily aro nd Be er She a Nothing is recorded about the first 20 years of Isaac and Ri ka s marriage Near the end of his life they moved to Hebron 15 RIVKA BARREN FOR 20 YEARS Isaac and Rivka were NOT beyond child-bearing years Isaac appears to have had NO concubines Isaac pleads with God for an heir, and Yehoveh responds Rivka pregnant with twins An unusual pregnancy Va-yitrotsetsu means cr shing, hr s ing, smashing Violen ! 16