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Even though Peter was able to recognize the Christ and was established as the head of the new Church, it became necessary, a very short while later, for Jesus to rebuke him. (Matthew 16:22-23)

The falling in and out of attunement is found in even the greatest ones in Scripture. They represent humanity in all its phases. And Abraham is no exception.

For remember, though he walked in many ways contrary to God’s edicts and laws, Abram’s try was counted to him for righteousness.

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On October 18, 1941, a fifty-six-year-old missionary nurse was told in her Life reading that she was a witness to one of Abraham’s contrary ways:

. . . the entity was in the land of Ur, when there were those journeys of that one called. The entity was among those of that household, who knew and understood, and who made administrations for the welfare of Abraham and Sarah. The entity knew of those choices when there were the attempts on the part of man to force an issue with God. How oft ye find in thy experiences today that there are those same attempts on the part of individuals to tell God how they desire health, position, to be well spoken of.

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In Genesis 15, Abraham, at ninety-seven, is told by God he would have a natural heir, a son. In Genesis 16 Sarah, who had been barren all her life, urges Abraham to conceive the promised heir through Hagar, her personal slave.

“This,” Edgar Cayce remarked, “was another instance where woman tempted man to try some other way than the one outlined by God. And Abraham, although called ‘Father of the Faithful,’ was willing to listen. Sarah was anxious. She wanted Abraham to receive the blessing which had been promised. So, she decided to help things get started.”

“This is the way we are,” Cayce continued. “If we plant a seed today, we dig it up tomorrow to see how it is growing. Patience is the greatest lesson—to wait upon the Lord.” As soon as Hagar conceived, she looked with contempt on Sarah. And Sarah became disturbed and angry.

The seed which had been planted bore its own fruit—this is the first instance in Scripture of jealousy and hatred between two women.

Cayce concluded the Bible lesson with the thought:

“Sarah, no doubt, realized she had sinned, and for that reason, took it out on Hagar. Most of us will try and blame someone else, when we really know within ourselves that we are at fault.”

Fearful of Sarah, Hagar fled into the wilderness. In a psychic experience in the desert, she was told by an angel that her child would be “. . . a wild ass of a man, his hand against every man and every man’s hand against him.”

This child was Ishmael, from whom the Arab nations trace their descent.