Tag - Abimelek

The Plight Of A Dishonorable Man

S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: Judges 9:16 “Have you acted honorably and in good faith by making Abimelek king? Have you been fair to Jerub-Baal and his family? Have you treated him as he deserves?” O-bservation: None of us would say that Jerub-Baal (Gideon) was a pure and virtuous man. He was, however, the man God used to set Israel free from the terror of the Midianites. He had seventy sons by a myriad of different women, and one of them was the son of a slave woman from Shechem named Abimelek. He felt like a castoff, so he...

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Is Generational Sin Transfer Real?

S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: Genesis 26:9 So Abimelek summoned Isaac and said, “She is really your wife! Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac answered him, “Because I thought I might lose my life on account of her.” O-bservation: Once again, this is a really unusual story to unpack. Probably 60 (circa) years after his father Abraham had lied to King Abimelek and told the king his wife, Sarah, was his sister, now Isaac too tells King Abimelek of the Philistines in Gerar that his beautiful wife Rebecca was his sister. Both father and son were found...

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