This document is an in-depth analysis of Genesis Chapter 21 from the Bible, focusing on Isaac’s birth and its spiritual and metaphysical interpretations. It covers the birth of Isaac, the expulsion of Hagar and Ishmael, and the covenant between Abraham and Abimelech. The material delves into themes such as divine promise, faith, and the complexities of human relationships, emphasizing the deeper symbolic meanings and spiritual lessons of this chapter.

Reading 10-144 

Prayer – Channel 

Oh, beloved Lord, we seek Thy love and to serve You, not for ourselves, not even for others, but to honor You. Hear us, oh Lord, and send to us now Thy love, guidance, Thy help. 

Source 

Sing! Sing the song of the stars. Sing a new song. For the Lord thy God has given you the light and the light is Jesus the Christ and He risen! Open your hearts that your minds, your souls, might be fed. Find patience; find tolerance; find strength. We come before you at this time to give the word and the meaning of the word as is the power and the glory as presented by that which is the light. 

Genesis 21:1-2 

And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken. For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. 

S Here is the fulfillment of the work of God. For when God speaks it is so. Only that which is given by God is a reality. Here the reality was the word, and that which God gave as the word or the action to happen. So, it was the fulfillment of same, even though the faith of those involved was as that which was minute. 

Genesis 21:3-5 

And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him. And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. 

S Isaac is that which is the beginning or that which is a source or as in Hebrew, joy or joy of the Lord. For in Isaac would be the joy of the Lord, for thus was begun that which was the true nation or nations to be as the worshipers or the fulfillers of the Lord which would lead to that which is the Christ or the entrance of Christ into this earth. 

Genesis 21:6-7 

And Sarah said, “God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.” And she said, “Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? For I have born him a son in his old age.”

S This is awe; this is wonder of God and the miracles of God. But it also is reaffirming that which we have given. For another meaning of that which is Isaac is laughter of God or the laughing of God. It is also that which stresses the point, even as the age of Abraham being one hundred or a fulfillment or holy fulfillment at this time, was also that Sarah was a fulfilling agent of God. 

Genesis 21:8-11 

And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned. And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking. 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.: And the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight because of his son.

S You have an example here of that which happens to all. For when you take upon the word or the newness or the life of God, there are those who will mock. Here you have Isaac being mocked and those who are the new thought, the word of God, or the truth of God in action, being mocked. Even as you will be mocked, even as He, the Prince of Love, the Prince of Peace was mocked. For those who would not understand or cannot understand or are at that position where they must not understand, will mock that which is the enlightenment of others. 

Genesis 21:12-13 

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. And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.” 

S You have the two main streams, then, that the word of God might have a foil which then would be the test to strengthen that which is the word. For without that which would test an individual, the individual could not grow. Were there not that in this world to challenge the principles of Jesus the Christ, there could be no principle of Jesus the Christ, or principles of Jesus the Christ. 

Genesis 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. 

S Symbolic here is the new beginning or the beginning of the day providing self with the opportunity to throw out or chase away those negative thoughts, those negative actions that pursue an individual. It is, thus, set that each individual should begin their day in the very same manner, in prayer and meditation, that they may push forth from themselves that which are the foil or the negativity as found in selves, as found in this earth plane. 

Q Does bread, then, represent the prayer and the water, the meditation? 

S This is that which feeds, this is the bread, this is the water. You are correct. 

Genesis 21:15-20 

And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bow shot: 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. 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. Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.” 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. And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer. 

S Opportunity was given, prayer and meditation was given, only to be exhausted because there was no faith within the entity, even as so many make prayer and meditation a hollow thing – not hallow, but hollow – and even though the crying or the lamenting here (meaning prayers, although prayers of selfishness not unselfishness) was heard by that which is God and you have, then, the negative aspect reinforced and brought forth that there might be the positive aspect. For once again, we would give: without the negative you cannot have the positive, without the darkness you cannot have the light, without discord you cannot have harmony, et cetera. 

Q What does the lad represent here? 

S This is the first stirring of that which is the opposite as a force, as a thing of substance, rather than a nebulous negativity that was unlearned in the earth plane. For now there would be that which had foundations, had certain religious connotations, had that which was the philosophical, even mental and moral bent, that would give it strength as a force – as an opposing force – to be the foil or that which would be the jousting mate for those who would be Christ oriented and develop the spiritual or true light or true spirit within this earth. 

Q Are you telling us that Ishmael was the opposite of Isaac? 

S This is correct. 

Q What is the significance of the lad, then, dwelling in the wilderness and becoming an archer? 

S An archer is that which uses force. An archer is that which kills rather than constructs, in opposition to that which is the spirit or the spiritual development. For Ishmael, being an opposite, must choose the opposite means, you see. For here you have a mirror image of the truth. That is why so many are led astray by such things, you see. 

Q What is the great nation that Ishmael founded? 

S The great nation of the opposition, the great nation of negativity, the great nation bounded by books, laws (manmade), et cetera, to fight that which is the spirit or that which is guided by God. It is planned, just as you have planned night and day, hot and cold, dry and wet. 

Q Were his descendants the Arabs? 

S Mainly that, yes. 

Genesis 21:21-14 

And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt. 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: 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.” And Abraham said,” I will swear.” 

S You have a covenant of sorts here. You must remember the land sojourned in is a land of bewilderment or of the mental bewilderment or the unguided seeking here. You have a covenant or a series of promises and that for both positive and negative. You have, then, Abraham seeking to experience both the negative, the positive, the untruth and the truth, that faith, then, might be the victor. 

Q Was Ishmael the only child that Hagar had? 

S No. She had more, but of no consequences. 

Genesis 21:25-26 

And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away. And Abimelech said, “I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but today.” 

S You have the introduction of the will, the will taking, then, from faith, understanding, or that which is the water, and using it. It then becomes a confrontation between will and faith as to the correct use of the spiritual water as given to it. And you have the proper use of the will to be explained now. 

Genesis 21:27-28 

And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant. And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. 

S Introduction, of course now, the proper use of the will and faith together, now coming to that which even in themselves became sacrifices in the manner of Jesus the Christ, or the seven centers then to be directed, to be used, even as given as the lambs here. 

Genesis 21:29-31 

And Abimelech said unto Abraham, “What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?” 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.” Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them. 

S The development of the spiritual well or that which is the going into themselves as individuals, you see, faith, will, into the well to find the spiritual message and this then was a dedicated place, a dedicated time, as each individual, even as those here must find the well, must cooperate, faith with will, that they may be staffed within themselves as to have a legion of love working for that which is the success of God within this earth. 

Genesis 21:32-34 

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. And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God. And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines’ land many days. 

S You have that which now is the proper negative force that will oppose Israel or that which is the establishment of thinking that is anti-spiritual as given by the Philistine who then is the force to be reckoned with in the establishment of the light within the land which is to be known as Israel.