143 Genesis 16 A Lapse of Faith - Ishmael is Born

As Abram and Sarai struggle with the reality that they have no children to carry on their legacy, they devise a plan that involves their servant girl, Hagar. In this lapse of faith in God's ability to provide, they head down a path that will not only bring pain and sorrow to them, but is still felt today in the unrest between these descendants in the Middle East. In this story we are introduced to the first mention of many references to the Angel of the Lord who we discover to be the presence of Jesus in the Old Testament.