Who's Plan?
It was my plan to have my wife claim to be "Just my sister" not once, but twice.
Who is Abraham?
The mother of Ishmael.
Who is Hagar?
The One who showed his superiority over all the gods of Canaan by taking a barren woman and an old man as good as dead, making them into a great nation that would bless the entire world over thousands of years, and using their descendant to birth the Savior of the universe!
Who is YAHWEH? (Who else?!)
What Abraham learned when He saw how he provided a ram "instead of his son" Isaac.
What is God's trustworthiness?
The one who said, "Behold, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one. Let me escape there—is it not a little one?—and my life will be saved!”
Who is Lot?
(Genesis 19:20)
It was my plan to secure God's promises to our family by telling my husband to take another wife and get her pregnant.
Who is Sari/Sarah?
The general name for the collection of people groups & tribes who lived in the land God showed Abraham.
Who are the "Canaanites"?
I AM the one who rained sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah and rest of the cities of the Jordan valley, "from the Lord out of heaven".
Who is "The LORD", "YHWH", "The Angel of The Lord", "The Son", "Jesus"?
(If you disagree with me asserting that this was actually Jesus, i'm open to discussion. Let's hear it!)
What Abraham learned about God when he saw The Lord destroy Sodom and the cities of the valley.
What is God's Justice/wrath against evil?
The one who said, “Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works; and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God.”
Who is James?
(James 2:21–23)
It was my plan to leave the city of Haran and travel to an unknown land...
Who is Yahweh (The Lord, God)?
The City where Abraham and His family first lived in Genesis 11
What is "Ur"
I am the most popular fallen deity to sacrifice children in worship to, in the old testament (and to this day too if you're honest!).
Who is Molech (AKA either the Devil himself or one of his closest followers)?
What Abraham learned about God by seeing God always keeping his promises and never leaving or forgetting him.
What is God's faithfulness?
The one who said, “You are a God of seeing,” and “Truly here I have seen him who looks after me.”
Who is Hagar?
(Genesis 16:13)
It was my plan to go back and live in sin, even after i was rescued from the consequences of it in dramatic fashion...multiple times
Who is Lot?
The "Priest of God Most High", King of "Salem"
Who is Melchizedek?
We are the unholy offspring of the "sons of God" and "daughters of men" (Gen 6 and many other verses). We physically lived before the flood of Noah and our descendants were possibly physically related to the Canaanite tribes at the time Abraham lived in Canaan. We were also venerated by the Canaanites, and live as disembodied spirits to this very day.
Who are the "Nephilim","Fallen ones", the Giants, Demons?
What Abraham learned about God by experiencing The Lord never giving up on him or passing righteous judgment on him when he had sinned.
What is God's Mercy/grace?
The one who said,
"Is anything too hard for the Lord?"
Who is The LORD/YHWH?
(Ge 18:14)
It was my plan to stay the night in the town square.
Who are the angels Yahweh sent to Sodom?
The nomadic people group who descend from the descendants of Ishmael and Keturah mixing, lead a huge bloody conquest in the 7th century and committed the atrocities that lead to an evil religion & the first crusade.
Who are the "Arabs"?
The name I went by as the main pagan god (fallen spirit being) worshiped by the people of "Ur".
Who is the moon god, "Nanna"?
(Naa, Na na na naa. Na na na naa, na na na, na na na...)
What Abraham was/will/is learning by seeing how everything God did with him and Isaac pointed to Jesus.
What is God's sovereignty/control over His plan?
The one who said, “By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son, of whom it was said, “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.” He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.”
Who is the author/preacher of Hebrews?
(Hebrews 11:16-19)