Where have we read this before; “And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai?” Many years previous God said to Adam, “Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife.” (Gen 3:17). Adam was cursed because Eve, “gave (forbidden fruit) also unto her husband with her; and he did eat” (Gen 3:6).
What did Sarai say that Abram hearkened? “I pray thee, go in
unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her” (Gen 16:2). Abram would
bear “fruit” with Hagar rather than his “Eve.”[1]
For Adam, all the fruit was already his to eat in God’s “Estate”
of the Garden. Even the Tree of Knowledge was under his dominion, and he could
eat of any of the other trees but that one! [i] Because
Adam hearkened unto Eve, the forbidden “tree” had dominion over him.
Unbeknownst to Eve was that Lucifer was cleverly disguised in
the flesh of a serpent. In essence, Eve was saying, There is no danger here,
it is just a friendly serpent. Adam bit unto that Big Lie — a lie so big
that it was absurd! Adam surely thought, I am not afraid of that snake. I
can handle him. I shall not die.
Adam thought the snake was the problem as he sought to
please Eve rather than God. It turned out that Adam did not know whom he
feared! Matthew wrote about fear, “Fear not them which kill the body, but are
not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both
soul and body in Hell” (Mat 10:28). Eve was suggesting that brave Adam not fear
the snake; that the dominant man should not cringe like a sissy. That snake
could only kill the body. However, Adam should have feared God because He can
kill both the body and the soul.
Adam was only worried about the image that Eve could
see. He worried not about the image that God could see. He was willing to trade
his flesh to please his wife, but unknown to him, he was trading his soul. God
knew how naïve Adam was because he had yet to know evil, so God put grace on
Adam with a coat of skin from a lamb. God had mercy because Adam was not of the
age of accountability, coming fresh from the “womb” of God. Likewise, the young
who do not know cunningness, are not held accountable although they are “shapen
in iniquity” (Psalm 51:5).
Abram was an old man (86). He was accountable. That is known
because he somehow sensed that his father’s, Terah’s, idols were inert, false
gods that could neither help nor hinder him. Abram knew God. God had covenanted
with him, and they had even supped together. [ii]
Abram knew God in the Flesh who served him as Melchizedek,
so he was without excuse. But what did Abram do? Repeat the original sin. Adam
hearkened unto his wife and so did Abram. But you thought the original sin was eating
fruit! Not so. Adam had dominion over all things already, but he hearkened
to his wife. The original sin was wanting to please his wife in the Face of
God. Does that ring a bell? It should for, “Thou shalt have no other gods
before me” (Exod 20:3).
Adam violated the First Commandment before it was even
written. It was written because of Adam. That Commandment in Hebrew is, ‘aher
‘elohim panim… “following rulers’ faces.” The “Thou shalt not” is understood
from the context. Adam hearkened unto Eve. God ruled him and Adam ruled her,
but Adam allowed Eve to have dominion and be the ruler! Adam obeyed her whim.
On a whim, Sarai said, “The Lord hath restrained me from
bearing” (Gen 16:2). She, like Eve before her, said “the Lord.” That was a
tricky saying because theretofore, for Eve, the One True God was called (in
English) “LORD GOD” (Yahova ‘elohim).
When Eve was pregnant with Cain she said, “I have gotten a
man from the Lord (Yahova)” (Gen 4:1). Words means things in “The Word.”
Yahova means “The Existence” from the Hebrew acronym, JHVH. Eve
had as well said, Nature gave me a man. Perhaps, she meant that
Cain was from the Tree of Knowledge, and maybe he was because Cain was “of the Wicked
One” in the tree. [iii]
And here we go again… Sarai implied that “mother nature” had
restrained her from bearing. She dismissed the Will of God and blamed Mother
Nature. Not realizing that Abram and she were “utensils” for God’s Will be
done, she credited fate. That is still done today; rather than worship and pray
to the LORD GOD, most to this day pray and credit a God with no face — “Mother
Nature” herself.
Abram hearkened unto his wife. God’s Will was that Sarai be
the “mother of all spiritual living” but was like Eve with Adam; who would not
be the “father of all living.” Sarai again took on the dominant role. She would
sacrifice her position as “mother of all the spiritual living” for Abram to be “Father
Abraham.”
It was Sarai who was working the miracle, but it turned
awry. Abram needed and heir and God would provide. Abraham and Sarah’s son was Isaac,
which means “to laugh” — “to express delight” (Abarim Publications). Isaac
would be to God’s delight because the LORD GOD transported Isaac to the vacant
womb of Sarah. As a side note, There was a womb at the end.
Sarai, before the change in her name, said, “I pray thee, go
in unto my maid” (Gen 6:2). She prayed about it, not Abram. She had become priestess
in her own eyes. Like Eve before her, Sarai was a feminist and required a
change in her disposition! She was also a “goddess” — “I pray” as if she was responsible
for everything thereafter, and she certainly had her prayer answered, but not
by the LORD GOD but by her own devices. She played God by providing a womb.
That’s right; Hagar was nothing more than a womb for Sarai to do with as she
pleased, not even considering what would please God.
Hagar was the servant of Sarai, but Sarai would diminish her
even more, “That I may obtain children by her.” Not that God would have an heir
or even Abram, but that she might have children. Having children was a
privilege in those days, unlike now, and especially providing an heir to the
husband. God would provide an heir in His own time, and it would not be by
Hagar but by His “womb.”
Sure, Sarai carried Isaac, but God conceived him by His
Spirit hovering over Sarai as He did much later with Mary. Then, as with Mary,
God delivered Isaac to the world from Paradise in Heaven.
The story of Abram and Sarai was Adam and Eve all over
again. Ishmael was the new “Cain” and Isaac the new “Abel.” Cain in Ishmael to
this day still tries to kill Isaac. That is in reference to Muslims killing
Jews. Again, as before, the spirit of “Abel” in Isaac would not die!
Abel was destined to be the spiritual father of Adam’s kind.
Eve caused that to go awry by providing a son of the Devil.
This time the new “Abel” would not be killed. The blood of
Abel cries out from the earth as the voice of Isaac. The intent was for the
LORD GOD to be the God of Adam, Abel, and Jesus; but he deferred to Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob because Cain killed the body, but not the spirit of Abel! The Spirit
of Abel would live until God put Flesh on him: “And to Jesus the mediator of
the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things
than that of Abel” (Heb 12:24).
Because of his own shenanigans, Cain lost his legacy as oldest
son (The Law of Primogeniture). He killed the body of Abel, or Abel would have
been heir. Seth was begotten by Adam to replace Abel, the begotten of God.
With that repeated, Ishmael, the son that Sarai bore without
God, lost his spiritual inheritance. Then Sarah was reformed for what she had
done, and only then the LORD GOD would bear Abraham a son inside a barren womb,
but without Sarai’s intervention. She had prayed to the wrong god, and Ishmael
was the consequence of that. Ismael was like Cain, and he also is of the Wicked
One. No wonder that Arabs claim Ishmael as their forebear!
And just what would Ishmael’s “nature” be like since he was
the son of “mother nature?” “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” (Gen 16:12). That is the perfect description of the stereotypical
radical Muslim.
Sarai conjured her “Lord” when she prayed just to “the Lord.”
On the other hand, “The Lord appeared to Abram” (Gen 17:1). The appearance
of the LORD specifies which Lord. God manifested Himself to Abram. THE
LORD GOD said, “He that hath My commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that
loveth me: and he that loveth Me shall be loved of My Father, and I will love
him, and will manifest Myself to him” (John 14:21).
Sarai prayed to a god that was invisible. Perhaps she prayed
that she would provide a son for God and Abram. That would satisfy Satan
who depends on people being “as God.” [iv]
Abram prayed to a real God — One who appeared to him out of the unseen realm. Whereas
the god of Sarai was as much the gods of Terah, the LORD GOD of Abraham appeared
in the Flesh. His Appearance was as the very Face of God.
Sarai’s unseen God was another god without a face portending
to be the Face of the True God. The One True God showed His Face to Abraham,
ironically, so that the seed of Abram could live on through Sarai. Sarai violated
would become the First Commandment, but Abram did not for he saw God face to Face
for his seed to carry on as heirs to God.
If God had been satisfied with Hagar, then Islam would have
been the true Abrahamic religion. Like Sarai’s “god,” the god of Islam (Allah)
is not the One True God. The LORD GOD has a Face; Allah does not!
As for “Mother Nature,” she is non-existence. Father God
created al things and Isaac as well!
[1]
Perhaps Lilith (the screech owl lilyth from Isa 34:14) is the demoness
inside sinful women that bears and devours her own. Would Hagar have Lilith in
her and bear the son of the Wicked One? Or is Lilith who we would call, "Mother Nature?" It is worth considering.
(picture credit: Scambusters; "Man Without a Face")
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