Now today, our study brings us to the
25th chapter of Genesis.
And this probably is getting to be a
little monotonous to you, but we've come now
to another great chapter of the Bible.
And I'll have to keep saying this for,
well, there are 50 chapters in Genesis, and
I think you probably could say it for
each chapter, and so I just keep saying
it, but they are wonderful chapters here, and
this one records the death of Abraham, and
it gives the generations of Ishmael, and also
the generations of Isaac, and the birth of
the twins, Jacob and Esau, or Esau and
Jacob, if you want them in chronological order,
and then the experience of Esau and Jacob
relative to the birthright.
So that this is a remarkable chapter and
covers a great deal of ground.
Now, we saw last time how a bride
was secured for Isaac, and that bride was
Rebecca.
And we read now in chapter 25, this
will be the last mention of Abraham that
is in the record, but frankly, his story
ended back when the servant was sent out
to get a bride for Isaac.
I'm reading chapter 25 now, and verse 1
of Genesis.
Then again, Abraham took a wife, and her
name was Keturah.
Abraham, after the death of Sarah, he married
again, and this one is Keturah.
And she bare him Zimran, Jokshan, and Midan,
and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.
And that's quite a family.
He had his biggest family after the death
of Sarah.
And somebody raises the question, well, I thought
that at the time of the birth of
Isaac, that this man, he was dead as
far as his capability of bringing a child
into the world.
Friends, he was.
But you see, this is an evidence of
the fact that when God does something, he
really does it.
That's the reason that I believe that anything
that God does bears his signature.
And right here, this man Abraham was not
only able to bring Isaac into the world,
but he now brings in this great family
here.
But the interesting thing that we have before
us is that we have Midan and Midian.
Now, the other boys, I'll be honest with
you, that nations came from them, but I
can't identify them right now, and I'm not
interested because they do not cross the pathway
in Scripture.
But Midian does.
We'll find out that Moses, a little later
on, goes down into the land of Midian,
and he takes a wife there in Midian.
Remember, that's in the line of Abraham and
the Midanites also.
So that you have here these other sons
of Abraham, but we'll not follow them for
the very simple reason that we're following Isaac.
And Isaac is the way the Lord put
it, your seed are called.
It's through Isaac and not through any of
these others, not through Ishmael, not through Midian
or Midan.
And all of these were men of the
desert, nomads in that day.