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Shadowland: Beginnings: Week 25

Genesis 20

20:6 "I withheld thee from sinning against Me." This is a strong counterexample to the error of imagining God as helpless against the power of Man's free will.
20:7 Abimelech (quite understandably) sees only a liar and a deceiver, but God sees a just man. "He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel." Numbers 23:21
20:11 "I thought, surely the fear of God is not in this place" - and yet, both the king of Egypt and the king of the Phillistines feared God much more that Abraham thought.
20:13 This besetting sin had its origin in Ur of the Chaldees, and had not been repented of. It was still lying dormant, waiting for circumstances to trigger it again. This time Abraham confesses his sin to Abimelech. Until this sin had been confessed and forsaken, Abraham was not ready for Isaac.
20:15 Perhaps because Abraham made a full and sincere confession, Abimelech does not tell him to "get lost", as had the king of Egypt.

Leaving

As a new beginning

Genesis 2:24 "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife."

Genesis 12:1 "Leave your country, your kindred, and your father's house."

Genesis 19:15 "Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city."

1 Samuel 1:27,28 "For this child I prayed; and the Lord hath given me my petition which I asked of him: Therefore also I have lent him to the Lord; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the Lord."

Isaiah 52:11,12 "Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord. For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the Lord will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rearward."

Matthew 19:28,29 “Truly I tell you, in the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on His glorious throne, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake of My name will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life."

As punishment

Genesis 4:12 "And a vagabond shalt thou be."

Deuteronomy 29:28 "and the LORD uprooted them from their land in anger and in fury and in great wrath, and cast them into another land, as it is this day."

Deuteronomy 34:4 "but thou shalt not go over."

2 Chronicles 26:20-21 "and he lived in a separate house, being a leper, for he was cut off from the house of the LORD."

Matthew 7:23 "Depart from me you workers of lawlessness."

Revelation 12:9 "So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world."

As disobedience

Genesis 12:10 "Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land."

Genesis 16:6 "And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face."

Jonah 1:3 "But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord."