Genesis 25 (view this passage)

nathan made this entry on September 3rd, 2006
Topic(s): Destiny

Something interesting that I didn't know is that Abraham remarried after Sarah died.

There are two things that caught my attention in this chapter. First of all before Abraham died he asked that his other sons move east to settle so that Isaac could have Palestine. The other thing is that when Rebecca was pregnant with Jacob and Esau, God told here that she had two nations and two kinds of people in her womb. He said that they were totally different from each other and there would always be rivalry between them and their offspring. One nation would be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.

This makes me ask, was God prediciting what would happen between the two boys or was he just informing Sarah how it would turn out because of His knowledge of the future? It almost seems that before either of the boys were born, their futures were determined. I don't necessarily believe in fate or an unchangeable destiny, so I believe that God was not predicting what would happen; he was just using His knowledge of the future to say what would happen. That is just my own personal thoughts and I don't have any biblical proof for that though.

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