January - Reading 6

seachaser · Jan 6, 2004

thanks for all the comments.
i have been reading everyday and enjoy it very much.
who is Ishmael's line of people that we would know of today?

Clint Kritzer · Jan 6, 2004

Originally posted by seachaser:
thanks for all the comments.
i have been reading everyday and enjoy it very much.
who is Ishmael's line of people that we would know of today?
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From Smith's Bible Dictionary:

The sons of Ishmael peopled the north and west of the Arabian peninsula, and eventually formed the chief element of the Arab nation, the wandering Bedouin tribes. They are now mostly Mohammedans who look to him as their spiritual father, as the Jews look to Abraham. Their language, which is generally acknowledged to have been the Arabic community so called, has been adopted with insignificant exceptions throughout Arabia. The term "Ishmaelite" occur on three occasionsGenesis 37:25,27,28; 39:1; Judges 8:24; Psalms 83:6)

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From Easton's Bible Dictionary:

He had twelve sons, who became the founders of so many Arab tribes or colonies, the Ishmaelites, who spread over the wide desert spaces of Northern Arabia from the Red Sea to the Euphrates (Ge 37:25,27-28; 39:1), "their hand against every man, and every man's hand against them."

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originally posted by AF Guy in Paradise: Question about Genesis:

It seems that God is playing favorites with Abraham even though he did many things that were wrong. He slept with his maid Hagar because he did not believe what God said he was going to do later with Sarah. And God did not even judge him or rebuke him for it.

Did God and does God still really show favortism with some of us? Why was I born in KY in a Christian home versus a shack in Iraq? Why has God blessed me so much and put me in a great local church here in Hawaii while some have never had the opportunity to even step in a church?

I truly thank God for his goodness and his blessings towards me, but reading about Abraham makes me wonder a bit why some have had it better than others.
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This one is a bit more philosophical and would require much discussion and conjecture. When I read the question, the first thought I had was a quote from the Apostle Paul:

Romans 9

1I am speaking the truth in Christ--I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit-- 2that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. 3For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh. 4They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. 5To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.
6But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel, 7and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but "Through Isaac shall your offspring be named." 8This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring. 9For this is what the promise said: "About this time next year I will return and Sarah shall have a son." 10And not only so, but also when Rebecca had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac, 11though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad--in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of his call-- 12she was told, "The older will serve the younger." 13As it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."
14What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God's part? By no means! 15For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion." 16So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy. 17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth." 18So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.
19You will say to me then, "Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?" 20But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, "Why have you made me like this?" 21Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honored use and another for dishonorable use? 22What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, 23in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory-- 24even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles? 25As indeed he says in Hosea, "Those who were not my people I will call 'my people,'
and her who was not beloved I will call 'beloved.'"
26"And in the very place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,'
there they will be called 'sons of the living God.'"
27And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: "Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved, 28for the Lord will carry out his sentence upon the earth fully and without delay." 29And as Isaiah predicted, "If the Lord of hosts had not left us offspring,
we would have been like Sodom
and become like Gomorrah."

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Clint Kritzer · Jan 6, 2017

Our Scriptures for 1/7 are:

Matthew 4:1-11

Acts 4:23-37

Psalm 7

Genesis 18-20

Clint Kritzer · Jan 6, 2018

Our Scriptures for 1/7 are:

Matthew 4:1-11

Acts 4:23-37

Psalm 7

Genesis 18-20

Clint Kritzer · Jan 7, 2019

Our Scriptures for 1/7 are:

Matthew 4:1-11

Acts 4:23-37

Psalm 7

Genesis 18-20

Clint Kritzer · Jan 7, 2020

Our Scriptures for 1/7 are:

Matthew 4:1-11

Acts 4:23-37

Psalm 7

Genesis 18-20

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