Who is "the word of the Lord" and "the angel of the Lord"? In many instances in Scripture these two phrases are synonymous for the Son of God.
When Sarai offered Hagar to Abraham, so that she and Abraham could have a child, she was doing what was culturally acceptable but it was morally wrong. How often do we as Christians do and say things that are acceptable by the world, but wrong by God's standards?
Again Abram didn't trust God or wait patiently on Him. And look what happened. If Abram had trusted God to take care of him during the famine and had not gone to Egypt, there would have been no Hagar.
If only we would obey God completely and trust Him completely and wait patiently on Him, life would be so much easier, wouldn't it???
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Interesting that God showed Abram in a vision the exile that his descedents would undergo and even tells him the purpose of the exile. When they came into the promised land they were supposed to completely wipe out the people living in the land and cleanse the land of all the evil that was done there. However, they didn't do it. They instead got comfortable, relying on the promise and forgeting(or not knowing)the purpose.
Wow, we see God's punishment on Eve being played out by Sarah. Abram, as did Adam, took the easy way out instead of standing firm in what God said. Tragic result that we are still suffering from today.
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