The next task for Abraham who was now quite old was to find his son Isaac a wife. This was quite a dilemma for Abraham. Where in the world was he going to find a suitable woman? The truth is he despised the local Canaanite women. So having Isaac marry one of the locals was […]

After Hagar and her son’s unpleasant experience in the desert, young Isaac was also put through a most trying ordeal. One sunny day out of the blue, the Lord appears to Abraham and tells him to take his son Abraham to an altar on a hilltop and sacrifice him. There are a couple of misunderstandings […]

We just got done talking about how the Lord informed Abraham that… …the one through whom He would carry out His covenant promises would be the yet unborn Isaac and NOT Ishmael. This was a hard decision for Abraham to accept because he loved Ishmael and over a period of many years he had built […]

At this stage in our Torah overview, it’s important to take a pause here and examine one of the most key elements of the Lord’s plan for mankind us as written in the book of Genesis. This is something greatly misunderstood, especially by many in the gentile church (we shouldn’t be surprised about that). So […]

When the Lord established a covenant with Abraham he also gave him a special rite that would serve as the sign and seal of His everlasting covenant with the Hebrew people. I’m talking about circumcision. What’s interesting is that male circumcision was not an unusual or uncommon thing during these times. However, this was the […]