[Finally, the child of promise is born, and we’re not talking about you-know-who.  Just the thought of Sarah having a firstborn son at her age, that’s the true miraculous conception and birth! The most ideal age for childbearing is said to be from teens and before the age of 30; in fact birth defects are […]

[Hmmmmm . . .  you might pause and think about the details we fail to take into consideration when we simply rush through reading these chapters because we’ve read it a few times or, even for the first time, we think—what is the relevance of this to me?    When you imagine Abraham and Sarah […]

[What a strange society and culture Sodom/Gomorrah had! It appears that the whole male population were  . . . well, what exactly should we call them?  Sodomists? That term is defined as “intercourse involving anal or oral copulation.”  Are sodomists simply sexually aberrant while being straight or are they always homosexual in gender preference? Are […]

[YHWH’s covenant with Abraham—let us not miss the point that this covenant is intended to be a blessing to ALL of humankind except that the process will take centuries, if not millennia for its final fulfillment.  But it starts with this covenant that creates an exclusive lineage that will lead to the establishment of a […]

[Oy vey as the Jews would say . . . let us rethink verse 2:   Avram hearkened to Sarai’s voice.    Just one chapter ago, Abram believed YHWH and that was credited to him as righteousness.  If Abram believed YHWH, why was he even listening to and obeying the voice of who?  Saray? Why? […]

[To what lengths does Abraham go in looking after the safety and protection of his nephew Lot?  In this chapter, Abraham goes to war against four kings to rescue Lot, what a great uncle to have!   In this chapter, we meet that ‘mysterious’ king of righteousness that we, as Christian/Messianic teachers used to teach […]

[Lot the nephew of Abram belongs to that category of biblical characters who have no virtue of their own but who are well-connected or related to some Divinely-chosen figure and as such, benefit from Divine grace.  Others are the three sons of Noah and their wives who are saved in the ark.  It is presumed […]

[Abrahamic faith — what is it exactly?  Three of the world’s monotheistic religions trace their roots to Abraham: Judaism, Christianity, Islam . . . and obviously that is about all they share, their roots. How could these world religions differ so much in belief, practice and most importantly, their GOD, was Abraham a religious schizophrenic […]