Genesis Twenty….(v.1-18) Abraham Slips Again.
Verses 1-18….
Here we see Abraham leaving the hill country where he had been talking and fellowshipping with God and going south again….not as far as Egypt, but just dabbling in the world again…..
We would think that he would have learned his lesson from his last slip up in Egypt! But we see God's patience and loving kindness in preserving him and Sarah in spite of their lies (remember that a partial truth is also a partial lie!) How often the Lord keeps His people when they start to stray and brings them back to Himself!
This time God intervened directly, in a dream to Abimelech who must have been contemplating taking Sarah (at age around 88!) and saying "Stop! She is his wife!" What a rebuke for Abraham when Abimelech reproved both of them for playing this game of deceit!
It is a real letting down of testimony when the world rebukes a believer for their behaviour (and this can happen) by having reason to say "Fancy him/her doing that!" Satan does his best to trip God's people up and he tried to thwart God's plan here of the promised son for Sarah but failed.
Abraham went to the southern plain, Told Sarah to tell half truths again,
God intervened, Abimelech reproved, Before back north again they moved.
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