Genesis
16:7 ¶ And the angel of the LORD found
her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to
Shur. 8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai’s
maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from
the face of my mistress Sarai. 9 And the
angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself
under her hands.
Genesis
16:10 ¶ And the angel of the LORD said
unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered
for multitude. 11 And the angel of the
LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and
shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand
will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell
in the presence of all his brethren. 13
And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest
me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me? 14 Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi;
behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
Genesis
16:15 ¶ And Hagar bare Abram a son: and
Abram called his son’s name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael. 16 And Abram was fourscore and six years old,
when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.
The
angel of the Lord is the presence of the Lord in a form found in many places in
the Bible narrative.
Man
and woman have three parts to them, as does God.
1Thessalonians
5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify
you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit
and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ.
[Notice
the union with and uniting body, soul, spirit as part of one
person.]
Matthew
28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all
nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
2Corinthians
13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.
1John
5:7 For there are three that bear record
in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
The
Lord Jesus Christ is the physical image of God, the body of God.
Colossians
1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:…2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the
Godhead bodily.
Hebrews
1:3 Who being the brightness of his
glory, and the express image of his
person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by
himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
John
14:9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been
so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father;
and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
Three
parts to one God with one will, not three individual persons with separate
wills.
Deuteronomy
6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is
one LORD:
John
10:30 I and my Father are one.
Christ
is the appearance of God; the angel of the Lord, His presence.
Isaiah
63:9 In all their affliction he was
afflicted, and the angel of his presence
saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and
carried them all the days of old.
Galatians
4:14 And my temptation which was in my
flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. [Note
that even typically links two things
that are identical as in I, even I in nineteen verses.]
Who
led the Hebrews out of Egypt.
Judges
2:1 ¶ And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I
made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I
sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.
God
asking questions which He obviously knows the answer to is a common thread in
the Bible beginning with asking Adam and Eve where they were when they hid
after their sin.
The
Lord told Hagar to return. Obviously, He would make the situation bearable. If
we are obedient to God He can make even our enemies to be at peace with us.
Proverbs
16:7 When a man’s ways please the LORD,
he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
God
promises Hagar a great multitude of progeny. In this, God has blessed her in a
way the people of that time would understand more than we do now. She must feel
that God has had great mercy on her. God also promises to give Hagar a son to
be named Ishmael, meaning “God will hear.” He will be tribal, dwelling in the
presence of his brethren, and violent, constantly quarrelling and warring
against those around him. This is evident in history and one reason why it was
so hard to unite the Arab tribes against the Turks during World War One.
The
place where God visited Hagar is memorialized. Abram is 86 years old when
Hagar, the Egyptian, bears Ishmael.
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