GENESIS - CHAPTER 21 - 21:33

GENESIS  CHAPTER  21

 21:3 Sarah. type of grace, "the freewoman," and of the "Jerusalem which is above." See Genesis  17:15__19;  Galatians  4:22__31.
Isaac is typical in a fourfold way: ( 1 ) of the Church as composed of the spiritual children of Abraham ( GALATIANS  4:28 );  ( 2 ) of Christ as the Son "obedient unto death" ( GENESIS  22:1__10;  PHILIPPIANS  2:5__8;  ( 3 ) of Christ as the Bridegroom of a called-out bride ( See GENESIS  24;  also, "Church," MATTHEW  16:18 and refs. );  ( 4 ) of the new nature of the believer as "born after the spirit" ( GALATIANS  4:29 ).

21:33 "Everlasting God" ( Hebrew  E. Olam ). 
( 1 )  The Hebrew Olam is used in Scripture:  ( a )  of secret or hidden things ( LEVITICUS  5:2,  "hidden;"   2  KINGS  4:27,  "hid;" );  ( b )  an indefinite time or age ( LEVITICUS  25:32,  "at any time;"  JOSHUA  24:2,  "in old time ). Hence the word is used to express the eternal duration of the being of God ( PSALM  90:2, "From everlasting to everlasting" ), and is the Hebrew synonym of the Greek aion, age or dispensation. See Genesis  1:27__28.
( 2 )  The ideas therefore of things kept secret and of indefinite duration combine in the word. Both ideas inhere in the doctrine of the dispensations or ages. They are among the "mysteries" of God ( EPHESIANS  1:9__10;  3:2__6;  MATTHEW  13:11 ). The "everlasting" God ( El Olam ) is, therefore, that name of Deity in virtue of which He is the God whose wisdom has divided all times and eternity into the mystery of successive ages or dispensations. It is not merely that He is everlasting, but that He is God over everlasting things. See for other names of Deity: Genesis  1:1;  2:4;  2:7;   14:18.

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