SARAI FAILED TO CONCEIVE AFTER 10 YEARS AND SO
ABRAHAM TOOK HAGAR AS HIS WIFE
Genesis 16:3
HAGAR BEGAN TO DESPISE SARAI ONCE SHE WAS PREGNANT
Genesis 16:4
THE ANGEL OF THE LORD TOLD HAGAR THAT HE WOULD MAKE HER DESCENDANTS
NUMEROUS
Genesis 16:7-10
ABRAM'S FIRST CHILD WAS TO BE CALLED ISHMAEL
Genesis 16:11
PROPHESY ABOUT ISHMAEL
Genesis 16:12
ABRAM'S FIRST SON WAS BORN TO THE SERVANT WOMAN
Genesis 16:15-16
GOD CONFIRMED HIS COVENANT WITH ABRAM AT THE AGE OF 99
Genesis 17:1-2
GOD PROMISED TO MAKE ABRAM THE FATHER OF MANY NATIONS
Genesis 17:3-6
GOD ESTABLISHED AN EVERLASTING COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM AND HIS DESCENDANTS:
I WILL BE YOUR GOD AND YOU WILL BE MY PEOPLE
Genesis 17:7-9
THE SIGN OF THIS EVERLASTING COVENANT WAS CIRCUMCISION
Genesis 17:10-13
ANY UNCIRCUMCISED MALE WAS TO BE CUT OFF FROM HIS PEOPLE
Genesis 17:14
GOD WANTED TO ESTABLISH HIS COVENANT THROUGH A CHILD BORN TO SARAH AS
PROMISED
Genesis 17:15-22
THAT IT MIGHT BE THROUGH FAITH AND NOT THROUGH HUMAN EFFORT
Galatians 3:2-9
Galatians 3:14-18
ABRAM WANTED TO BLESS ISHMAEL
Genesis 17:18 Genesis 17:20
ABRAM AND ISHMAEL WERE CIRCUMCISED ON THE SAME DAY
Genesis 17:23-26
GOD TOLD ABRAHAM TO GET RID OF THE SON OF THE SLAVE WOMAN
Genesis 21:8-11
GOD WANTED TO RECONCILE ABRAHAM'S OFFSPRING THROUGH ISAAC
Genesis 21:12
GOD ALSO MADE ISHMAEL INTO A GREAT NATION AND WAS WITH HIM AS HE GREW UP
Genesis 21:13-21
ABRAHAM TOOK ANOTHER WIFE AND HAD LOTS OF
CHILDREN TO HER
Genesis 25:1-4
LIKE ISHMAEL, HE SENT THEM AWAY TO THE EAST,
BLESSING THEM WITH MANY GIFTS
Genesis 25:6
ABRAHAM LEFT EVERYTHING TO ISAAC
Genesis 25:5
ABRAHAM WAS BURIED BY BOTH ISAAC AND ISHMAEL WHEN HE DIED
Genesis 25:9
ISHMAEL HAD TWELVE CHILDREN WHO BECAME
TRIBAL LEADERS (AS WITH JACOB)
Genesis 25:12-16
The Ishmaelites are
thought to be the wandering Bedouin tribes who populated
the North and West of the Arabian Peninsula giving rise to most of the Arab
nations. They now follow Mohammad, but they look to Ishmael as their
spiritual father.
Were they considered
part of the Assembly of the
Lord?
ABRAHAM WAS BURIED BY BOTH ISAAC AND ISHMAEL WHEN HE DIED
Genesis 25:9
ISHMAEL DIED AT THE AGE OF 137
Genesis 25:17
HIS DESCENDANTS SETTLED IN THE AREA FROM HAVILAH TO SHUR
(EAST OF EGYPT)
Genesis 25:18
This is the area
that we refer to as the Middle East (Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran)
ESAU MARRIED ONE OF ISHMAEL'S DAUGHTERS
Genesis 28:8-9
ESAU BECAME THE FATHER OF THE EDOMITES
Genesis 36:1-3 Genesis 36:4
Genesis 36:13 Genesis 36:17
ABRAHAM'S OFFSPRING WERE TO BE RECKONED THROUGH ISAAC
Romans 9:6-8
HAGAR REPRESENTS A DIFFERENT COVENANT WITH GOD
Galatians 4:22-29
THE CHILDREN OF THE SLAVE WOMEN WILL NOT RECEIVE THE SAME INHERITANCE AS
THE CHILDREN OF THE FREE WOMEN
Galatians 4:30-31
WILL THE CHILDREN OF HAGAR RECEIVE A DIFFERENT INHERITANCE?
ARE THE MUSLIMS DESCENDANTS OF ISHMAEL?
DOES ISLAM HAVE A PLACE IN GOD'S PLAN FOR ETERNITY?
WHO ARE THE NATIONS IN THE NEW HEAVEN AND EARTH?
See The Nations