Tag: wilderness
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Royally Kept in the Wilderness – Genesis 49:20
Genesis 49:20 “Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.” In Asher, the scene changes once again. After poison and persecution, now there is provision. After the serpent and the troop, now there is bread. Not lean bread. Not barely enough. Fat bread. Royal dainties. This is the language…
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A Picture of Israel in the Wilderness – Genesis 21:18-21
Genesis 21:18-21Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation. And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink. And God was with the lad; and he grew,…
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A Shrub in the Wilderness – Genesis 21:15
Genesis 21:15And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. This is where the story gets painfully real. Up to this point, there was still bread in the bag and water in the bottle. There was still something to manage, something to measure, something to stretch…
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Sent into the Wilderness – Genesis 21:14
Genesis 21:14And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba. At first, this scene can be hard to understand. Abraham was…
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The God Who Sees – Genesis 16:13-14
Genesis 16:13, 14 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? Wherefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered. What a beautiful moment this is. Hagar calls the Lord…
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He Found Her – Genesis 16:7
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. This is the first time the phrase the angel of the Lord appears in Scripture. The word angel simply means messenger. But this is no ordinary angel. Angels in…
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Under the Spout – Jude 5
Jude 5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. Jude is beginning to press a truth he does not want us to miss. He says, in essence, “I know you…