13 ‘SAY YOU ARE MY SISTER, so that I will be treated well for your sake and my life will be spared because of you.’ Genesis 12
Abram (means exalted father) had a Covenant with God that the whole earth would be blessed through him, yet because of famine he was going down to live in Egypt. (Was he a forerunner for the same thing happening to Israel in the future? Abram also received from the wealth of Egypt because of his wife, Sarai) Abram misled the Egyptians into believing Sarai was his sister and she was subsequently taken into Pharaoh’s palace. Things immediately started to go badly for Pharaoh and his household.
Abram WAS AFRAID of what the Pharaoh of Egypt (a type of this world system, including SLAVERY) would do to him because of his beautiful wife. We read of a similar situation in Genesis 20, Abraham (means father of many, through Sarai) was again afraid and misled Abimelech, King of Gerar, by saying Sarai was his sister, with the same results.
Abram, later Abraham, was afraid of two powerful rulers but as soon as they touched something sacred to God, his wife Sarai, both were immediately chastened by God Himself. In the face of these powerful earthly rulers Abraham was of little account, but they in turn were nothing before the God of Abraham. Both rulers were all to glad to be rid of Abraham and Sarai, to have their households released from God’s judgement.
31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? IF GOD IS FOR US, WHO CAN BE AGAINST US? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all – how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Romans 8
There is a power operating in this world and it’s much stronger than us as individuals or even in communities, but that power, though it likes to boast and impose itself, is nothing before our God. Twice they gave back Abraham’s wife and paid him compensation for the insult. The scripture in Romans 8 is powerful and gives believers Heaven’s perspective of the children of God’s position on this earth today. We are called to exercise Christ’s authority through our own lives, even over rulers of this world system. We are coming to and are in the time of the the Reign of the Kingdom of God here ‘on earth as in heaven’.
God bless and keep you today. Immanuel, our God is with us.