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Truth & Tidings Online - June 2006
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If God sent out His A-Team, you’d expect Abraham to be right there. What an outstanding man: father of a nation, father of the faithful, friend of God, exemplar of faith, and so much more! Abraham is pure gold. Or is he?
For about 25 years, he and his wife had a secret plan for self-preservation (Gen 20:12, 13). They conspired to tell a half truth that was a whole lie. They stated they were brother and sister, although actually they were only half-brother and half-sister. This obscured their true and more significant relationship as husband and wife. Their rationale was this: Sarah was so beautiful that others would kill Abram to have her. Not trusting God to preserve him and thus fulfill His promise, Abram preserved himself through guile. Cowardly, he would sacrifice his wife’s virtue to save his own life. He treated lightly the sanctity of marriage and his role of providing for his wife; he used her for his benefit. And he manipulated her with guilt; she must twist the truth or she would cause his death. Abraham justified this to himself, because "surely the fear of God is not in this place" (20:11). But where was the fear of God in his own heart? He was no better than they.
As He had done when they perpetrated their plan in Egypt (12:11-20), God intervened in Gerar. He graciously spoke in a dream to Abimelech, alerting him to the seriousness of his potential sin. How sad that a heathen man should then so soundly reprove God’s friend! "Thou hast done unto me deeds that ought not to be done" (20:9). Abraham’s response was
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