Sunday, November 2, 2014

Lord Yahway's A Matchmaker



Michael KoranMy friend Molly writes:

"Did Abraham find another nicer God after he rejected the violent one?"
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Lord Yahway's A Matchmaker

Abraham descends alone from the mountain where he almost sacrificed Isaac. Abraham never again will speak with his Lord Yahway (or with Isaac). Never again will Abraham be commanded by an inner voice. But Abraham still believes Yahway will guide in non-verbal ways.
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After Sarah dies, Abraham commands his servant to "go to my land and to my kin to get a wife for my son Isaac .... Yahway himself will send his messenger before you [24:4-7].

The servant does not see or hear a guide from Yahway. But when the servant's camels are watered by Rebecca at a well, the servant puts a ring on Rebecca’s nose, bracelets on her arms and "prostrates himself before Yahway ... who led me on the road of truth to get the daughter of my lord’s brother to be the bride for his son" [24:48].

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