Love the Muslims

Interesting story about Abraham (Genesis 11-25). Isn't it? To understand anything about the Middle East; or Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, we need to have an understanding of who Abraham was, and what his relationship with God was. Lets look at some interesting facts:

3 Prophetic Lines Come From Abraham
1. The Messianic Line: Comes throught Isaac. Sarah, by faith, conceieved (Hebrews 11:11). God's Messianic Covenant is through Isaac (Genesis 17:18-21). This is the line through which salvation has come (Romans 11:25-26).
2. The Blessing Line to every ethnic group, tongue, and nation. Through Abraham all the blessings of God come on the gentile world that believes on Jesus Christ (Galatians 3:13-14, Genesis 12:1-3).
3. A Blessing Line to the Arab World: The Arab world is distinct because it comes from Abraham through Ishmael (Genesis 17:20), through Lot and his children (Moab and Amon), and through Esau. Esau is also a forefather to the Arab world, and a whole chapter is dedicated to his family tree (Genesis 36). Aaaand, once Sarah dies, Abraham remarries a woman named Keturah and has 6 more sons with her (Genesis 25:1-6). These 6 sons are also forefathers to what we know as the Arab world.

Here's something interesting as well. Abraham had a large and varied family. Some of these Arabic descendants of Abraham actually travelled with Israel to Egypt. Jethro, Moses' father in law, was a Midianite. The Queen of Sheba and Ruth are two other descendants of Abraham in the Arabic line. Today, the Saudi people, the Yemenites, and the entire Arab world are Abraham's descendants. God gave a promise to Abraham that all his children would "keep the way of the Lord" (Genesis 18:19).

God gave 5 major revelations to Abraham, but the 2nd 3rd and 4th ones are key to this post. Revelation #2: Genesis 12:5-7 This is where God shows Abram the land of Canaan as his future land. This was quite a distance from Ur and Haran, a region south of Jerusalem very close to where Sodom and Gomorrah were located. Revelation #3: Genesis 13:14-18 This revelation includes more than Canaan, and it is the promise of God to provide land for all of Abrahams descendants (v.15). Notice God doesn't only care for Isaac and his descendants but for all of Abraham's children. Revelation #4: Genesis 15:1-21 Note v. 18. The promosed land for Abram is now much greater than the land of Canaan. Now there is clearly emerging a picture of two lands that God has promised to Abram: one is Canaan and the other is a much larger piece of land from Egypt to the River Euphrates. Interestingly, when Moses and Joshua come out of Egypt about 600 yrs later, they are only to conquer Canaan.

So what I'm saying is, that there has been a lot of racial profiling towards the Arabs by Christians, but if you look into it from a Scriptural perspective, there is much more to Arabs than meets the eye. Sure, much of Islam gets a bad rap, but then again, so does Christianity. OK, there's your topic. Talk amongst yourselves.