| Gen 21:1 | And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said,
and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.
 
 Contrasting Mary to Sarah:
| Matthew 1:18 | Now the birth of Jesus Christ was
on this wise: When as his mother
Mary was espoused to Joseph, before
they came together, she was found
with child of the Holy Ghost.
| | Matthew 1:19 | Then Joseph her husband, being a
just [man], and not willing to make her
a publick example, was minded to put
her away privily.
| | Matthew 1:20 | But while he thought on these things,
behold, the angel of the Lord appeared
unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou
son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary
thy wife: for that which is conceived in her
is of the Holy Ghost.
| | Matthew 1:21 | And she shall bring forth a son, and thou
shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save
his people from their sins.
He became our sin offering, to remove the
sins for his people. This is the only way we
can appear before God and not be destroyed.
| | Matthew 1:22 | Now all this was done, that it might be
fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord, by
the prophet, saying,
| | Matthew 1:23 | Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and
shall bring forth a son, and they shall call
his name Emmanuel, which being
interpreted is, God with us.
| | Matthew 1:24 | Then Joseph being raised from sleep did
as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and
took unto him his wife:
| | Matthew 1:25 | And knew her not till she had brought forth
her firstborn son: and he called his name
JESUS. |
| | Gen 21:2 | For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son
in his old age, at the set time of which God had
spoken to him.
 | | Gen 21:3 | And Abraham called the name of his son
that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare
to him, Isaac.
Gen 17:19 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, [and] with his seed after him.
Genesis 17:21 But my covenant will I establish
with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee
at this set time in the next year.
In Genesis, the Template is set.
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| | Gen 21:4 | And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being
eight days old, as God had commanded him.
Why were Abraham and Sarah chosen to be
the original parents of the messianic seed?
Why didn't that make them invincible, all
the time like super-heroes? They have all
of our fears, but, are pillars because they
constantly sought to please God.
Even though Abraham's impregnating Hagar
was done out of a carnal will to accomplish
God's plan at least they cared about pleasing
God. He doesn't punish them for their mistake,
even though thousands of generations of their
offspring would be affected.
Thousands of years later, Abraham, Sarah,
and Hagar are still honorable pillars of faith,
patience, endurance, temperence, just weights,
and justice. Their heart told them to trust God,
and love him, and they obeyed His voice, and
were blessed.
| | Gen 21:5 | And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his
son Isaac was born unto him.
| | Gen 21:6 | And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, [so that]
all that hear will laugh with me.
Every believer recognizes amazing grace moments,
when blessings come pouring down, like the rain
freshly kissed from heaven. It is reviving to be so
blessed, especially after laboring, in thirst.
These joyful moments, when everything is lucid
and translucent, feels like being twice blessed
in one stroke, in Jesus Christ. To know God cares
is better than being a billionaire. God cares about
each of us, in the same way, but, it is our only
requirement, to acknowledge Him, especially
His power over the creation.
Sarah is described as being giddy with joy,
because most of all, she had been singled out
for an extraordinary purpose. It was like a hug
from God himself.
We're constructed to respond to reward,
not punishment. When we've been humbled
for most of our lives, and then see God smiling,
it's more important to know God sees, than
anything else.
Sarah suffered her whole life, not being able
to give Abraham a child. A woman's glory
was her wealth in children, not diamonds
and gold, or even a rich and loving husband.
God visited her after 90 years of infertility.
Inside her aged body, Isaac was miraculously
conceived, and gestated, as the biological
son of both she and Abraham.
| | Gen 21:7 | And she said, Who would have said unto
Abraham, that Sarah should have given
children suck? for I have born [himl a
son in his old age.
| | Gen 21:8 | And the child grew, and was weaned:
and Abraham made a great feast the
[same] day that Isaac was weaned.
WEANED- context: Weaned from breast milk.
1Sa 1:23 And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do
what seemeth thee good; tarry until thou have weaned
him; only the LORD establish his word. So the woman
abode, and gave her son suck until she weaned him.
Hebrew for 01580 Weaned/gamal {gaw-mal'} x 37
|    | wean 10, reward 8, dealt bountifully 4, do 4, bestowed 2,
recompense 2, weaned child2, do good 1, requite 1, ripening 1,
served 1, yielded1; 37 | 1) to deal fully with, recompense a) (Qal) 1) to deal out to, do to 2) to deal bountifully with 3) to recompense, repay, requite 2) (Qal) to wean a child (Niphal) to be weaned 3) (Qal) to ripen, bear ripe (almonds) |
| | Gen 21:9 | And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian,
which she had born unto Abraham mocking.
Eze 22:4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that
thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols
which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days
to draw near, and art come [even] unto thy years:
therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the
heathen, and a mocking to all countries.
Hebrew of 06711 Mocking / tsachaq x 13
{tsaw-khak}
|    | 1.) to laugh, mock, play\a) to laugh b.)to jest 2) to sport, play, make sport, toy with, make a toy of. |
laugh 6, mock 4, sport 2, play 1; 13
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Picture two brothers, one, a young teen, and
the other, a small child. Given any two brothers,
chances are that the little one gets teased. Sarah's
hatred for Ishmael and Hagar erupts, and never
is the gulf between mistress and maid more clear
than when Sarah is intolerant of Ishmael's treatment
of Isaac.
| | Gen 21:10 | Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this
bondwoman and her son: for the son of this
bondwoman shall not be heir with my son
[even] with Isaac.
Galatians 4:23 But he [who was] of the bondwoman
was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman
[was] by promise.
Gal 4:30 Nevertheless what saith scripture? Cast
out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the
bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the
freewoman.
Gal 4:31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the
bondwoman, but, of the free.
| | Gen 21:11 | And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's
sight because of his son.
Abraham loved his son. He always attends to Sarah's
voice, and that makes him admirable, from a husband
point of view, but, he lacked the emotional fortitude
to deal with Sarah.
Hagar is a tortured soul. Even when she runs
away, the Angel of the LORD tells her to go
back, and submit to her mistress, for the boy's
sake.
But, when she is sent out into the
wilderness with Ishmael, it is to die. The
LORD had exquisite mercy on her, and
"HEARD HER CRIES" as she wept, alone in the
wilderness, watching her child die of thirst.
Why did she have to suffer all her life for
the purposes of others, her master and mistress,
even when she became a wife? Why was she merely
one of their chattel? Why did she live her
life, depised, and without a defender?
While the angel of the LORD told her to
accept her fate, for a greater purpose,
it must have been a hard life for her.
Hagar didn't do anything to deserve
the treatment she received, other than
being born. She was an owned human, a
bondservant of Abraham's, gift from
Pharoah. How can we imagine what
it's like to be a slave unless we
have been a slave ?
Because she was enslaved, and poorly
treated, so were the seed of Jacob,
by the Egyptians, until God raised
Moses, Aaron and Miriam from the
oppression of the Egyptians, 400
years after these days of Abraham,
and Pharoah, King Abimelek.
| | Gen 21:12 | And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous
in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy
bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee,
hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed
be called.
 These beautiful passages bring the pain of
Abraham into focus. The Muslims say that
Abraham was asked to sacrifice Ishmael,
and indeed he was.
God told him to let beautiful little Ishmael,
his joy, to be taken out into the wilderness
with a freed slave, to die there. What would
become of them with a loaf of bread, and
a little water?
As we learn, SALVATION! All the symbols are
true. Bread, water, wellspring, Angel of the
Lord.... these things only happen to saints.
Abraham had wanted Ishmael to be his heir.
The Lord doesn't always say, "yes" and do
what we request, but, it's our responsibility
to intercede, and ask Him. Remember when God
told Abimelek that Abraham would pray for
his healing, and it would be done? That's
a very important early instruction to us,
as well. We need to intercede. The more
we walk with God, pray to him, and listen
for his voice, the more successful our lives
will be, in God's eyes.
It becomes second nature, not to
resist his will. His will is perfect, and
it takes a lifetime to learn this.
 | | Gen 21:13 | And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make
a nation because he [is] thy seed.
| | Gen 21:14 | And 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 Beersheba.
| | Gen 21:15 | And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast
the child under one of the shrubs. .
| | Gen 21:16 | And she went, and sat down over against [him] a
good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said,
Let me not see the death of the child. And she
sat over against [him], and lift up her voice,
and wept.
They had a saying, in the ancient religion:
"The father has eaten a sour grape, and the
son's teeth are set on edge."
God hears our cries, no matter who we are,
or the name we call him, when we seek His
Face in earnest.
She called him, "The God who sees."
He was also the one who heard. Even
in oppression, through her faithfulness,
she was blessed. She became mother of nations,
too.
| | Gen 21:17 | And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel
of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto
her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath
heard the voice of the lad where he [is].
| | Gen 21:18 | Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand;
for I will make him a great nation.
| | Gen 21:19 | 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.
| | Gen 21:20 | And God was with the lad; and he grew, and
dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.
| | Gen 21:21 | And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his
mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
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| | Gen 21:22 | And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech
and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto
Abraham, saying, God [is] with thee in all that thou doest:
| | Gen 21:23 | Now therefore swear unto me here by God that
thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son,
nor with my son's son: [but] according to the kindness
that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me,
and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.
| | Gen 21:24 | And Abraham said, I will swear.
| | Gen 21:25 | And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well
of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken
away.
| | Gen 21:26 | And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this
thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard
I [of it], but to day.
| | Gen 21:27 | And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them
unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.
| | Gen 21:28 | And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by
themselves.
| | Gen 21:29 | And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What [mean]
these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?
| | Gen 21:30 | And he said, For [these] seven ewe lambs shalt thou
take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me,
that I have digged this well.
| | Gen 21:31 | Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because
there they sware both of them.
| | Gen 21:32 | Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then
Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain
of his host, and they returned into the land of the
Philistines.
| | Gen 21:33 | And [Abraham] planted a grove in Beersheba,
and called there on the name of the LORD,
the everlasting God.'
Hebrew for 05769 EVERLASTING/ 'owlam {o-lawm'}x 439
|    | ever 272, everlasting 63, old 22, perpetual 22, evermore 15,
never 13, time 6, ancient 5, world 4, always 3, alway 2, long 2,
more 2, never + 0408 2, misc 6; 439 | 1) long duration, antiquity, futurity, for ever, ever, everlasting, evermore, perpetual, old, ancient, world a) ancient time, long time (of past) b) (of future) 1) for ever, always 2) continuous existence, perpetual 3) everlasting, indefinite or unending future, eternity |
Gen 9:16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and
I will look upon it, that I may remember the
everlasting covenant between God and every
living creature of all flesh that [is] upon the earth.
Gen 17:8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed
after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all
the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession;
and I will be their God.
Exd 40:15 And thou shalt anoint them, as thou
didst anoint their father, that they may minister
unto me in the priest's office: for their anointing
shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout
their generations.
Psa 24:9 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift [them] up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
Psa 90:2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from
everlasting to everlasting, thou [art] God.
| | Gen 21:34 | And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land
many days. |
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