Jim Bakker Show - Mystery of Ishmael - Rabbi Jonathan Cahn
Aired: 2017-01-16
Duration: 08:43


=== The Mystery of Ishmael (03:07) ===

[00:00:00]  The mystery of Ishmael.
[00:00:02]  Yes.
[00:00:02]  Now, this is prophetic.
[00:00:04]  This has affected every one of our lives.
[00:00:06]  I mean, every, to this day, you're talking about news reports, is all linked to a mystery that goes back to the tents of Abraham.
[00:00:13]  And it's amazing.
[00:00:14]  The whole world, the whole, the peace of the world hangs on a mystery that happened in Abraham, I mean, this desert dweller tent with these two sons.
[00:00:23]  And that's, and it's behind everything from Islam to Muhammad to Osama bin Laden to Yasser Arafat to the threats on America, all the way back to Abraham's tent.
[00:00:33]  I mean, really, every answer is in the Bible.
[00:00:35]  I mean, the Bible explains everything.
[00:00:38]  And so we go back, to go back to Abraham.
[00:00:41]  Genesis, God gives him the promise, I will give you a son.
[00:00:45]  A great nation will come from you.
[00:00:47]  But as we know, he comes up, Sarah, he comes up with an idea.
[00:00:51]  Well, God's not doing it, so you know what?
[00:00:54]  We got to help God out.
[00:00:55]  And that's always a danger sign.
[00:00:57]  We're going to help God out.
[00:00:58]  And you go into the handmaid Hagar and you'll have a baby through her because I can't have a baby.
[00:01:05]  So he does.
[00:01:06]  And what happens comes out?
[00:01:08]  Ishmael.
[00:01:09]  Here's Abraham's firstborn son, Ishmael.
[00:01:12]  Now, Ishmael, you know, is there.
[00:01:14]  Now, keep in mind, he is there for years before there's anybody else.
[00:01:18]  He is viewed as the heir to Abraham.
[00:01:21]  I mean, when Abraham, when God speaks to Abraham, says, I'm going to do a great thing, what Abraham says is, yes, Ishmael will be the one.
[00:01:28]  So everybody thought it was Ishmael.
[00:01:30]  Everybody thought Ishmael was the one of the promise, including Abraham.
[00:01:34]  Hagar had to have, Sarah had to have.
[00:01:36]  So they thought this was the way.
[00:01:38]  So he's growing up as the one.
[00:01:40]  Now, at one point, God gives a prophecy concerning Ishmael.
[00:01:43]  Now, God promises God will make Ishmael a great nation as well.
[00:01:47]  He'll give him much.
[00:01:48]  But he also says he'll be wild.
[00:01:50]  He also says his sword will be against everybody.
[00:01:52]  His hand will be against everybody.
[00:01:54]  So it's going to be a wild kind of thing going on with Ishmael.
[00:01:57]  But he's going to be blessed.
[00:01:58]  But the thing is, but keep in mind, now here's what happens.
[00:02:01]  Then, all of a sudden, God comes back and says, now, no, you, Sarah, old Sarah, you are going to have a baby.
[00:02:09]  And Sarah laughs and God says, Sarah, why'd you laugh?
[00:02:13]  And Sarah says, I didn't laugh.
[00:02:14]  He says, no, you did.
[00:02:15]  And so the name of the baby is going to be called laughter because they laughed.
[00:02:20]  So in Hebrew, that's Yitzhak, which is Isaac.
[00:02:24]  So you have Yishmael, Ishmael, and you have Isaac.
[00:02:28]  Now, what happens with this thing?
[00:02:32]  What happens is, because of the conflict between the two sons, it comes to a point where finally where Sarah says, and then God says, no, Abraham, it's okay, it's my will.
[00:02:40]  You're going to have to send away Hagar and Ishmael.
[00:02:43]  Okay, so Hagar and Ishmael go away to the desert.
[00:02:46]  God takes care of them and gives a promise again.
[00:02:48]  He confirms, I'm going to make a great nation.
[00:02:50]  But think of something.
[00:02:51]  We don't usually think about this.

=== Ishmael's Jealousy (05:51) ===

[00:02:53]  Imagine you're Ishmael.
[00:02:54]  You're Ishmael, and you're growing up as the son, the beloved son of your father.
[00:03:00]  And then all of a sudden comes another child.
[00:03:02]  Now, sibling rivalry is the problem to begin with, but here's another child.
[00:03:06]  Now he's the one.
[00:03:07]  So first of all, what you're going to be feeling?
[00:03:09]  Probably jealousy, probably resentful.
[00:03:11]  Then you lose everything.
[00:03:13]  When you're about 13, you lose everything.
[00:03:16]  You lose the birthright.
[00:03:17]  You lose what looks like your inheritance.
[00:03:20]  You lose your father.
[00:03:22]  You lose all that honored position.
[00:03:24]  You lose all that.
[00:03:25]  What is that going to do?
[00:03:26]  And he's just becoming a teenager now.
[00:03:28]  What is that going to do to him?
[00:03:30]  What's that going to do to his being?
[00:03:33]  And now he, now from him, from him come much of the Arab peoples, as we know.
[00:03:40]  Now, let me just say something of the mystery.
[00:03:42]  Who is it today?
[00:03:42]  Now there's some who say, no, there's no question from Ishmael came the Ishmaelites.
[00:03:48]  From the Ishmaelites, there's no question that the blood of the Ishmaelites is throughout the Arab world, whether there's also other blood as well.
[00:03:53]  But we have ancient records, ancient records from the Babylonians, even from the Assyrians, that link up the Ishmaelites with the Arab peoples.
[00:04:02]  We even have records of Arab peoples before Muhammad, before Islam came, where they said, we are the children of Ishmael.
[00:04:10]  Before, you know, when Muhammad came, he said, we are, I'm from Ishmael, we're from Israel.
[00:04:16]  So now, no matter what, they've taken up the mantle of Ishmael.
[00:04:19]  But the point is that, number one, in the Arab, by the way, the Arab civilization had some great, wonderful things, and I love Arab people.
[00:04:26]  I love when they get saved.
[00:04:27]  You know, one of my greatest blessings as a Jewish believer is to find an Arab believer who loves the Lord.
[00:04:31]  It's the most wonderful thing in the world.
[00:04:33]  But there's a mystery going on throughout history.
[00:04:35]  You have the people here.
[00:04:37]  Clearly, the blood of Ishmael is there among the Arabic world.
[00:04:41]  And the mantle of Ishmael, they've taken up.
[00:04:43]  You know, if you read the Quran, it focuses a lot on Ishmael.
[00:04:46]  It says Ishmael is the one.
[00:04:47]  It says Ishmael, not Isaac.
[00:04:49]  It says Abraham offered up Ishmael.
[00:04:51]  It says Ishmael and Hagar, they came to Mecca.
[00:04:55]  And then Ishmael died in Mecca.
[00:04:58]  So you've got this whole Ishmael thing going on, the spirit of Ishmael, all that.
[00:05:01]  Now, but to understand this, what does this reveal?
[00:05:04]  Number one, about what's happened.
[00:05:05]  Number one, God says, I will make a great nation.
[00:05:08]  So God said that way back, 4,000 years ago, he's done it.
[00:05:11]  The Arab peoples are one of the most populous peoples in the world, number one.
[00:05:15]  But number two, also, it's telling you from Genesis, from the tents of Abraham, that the destiny of the Arab people is linked to the Jewish people.
[00:05:23]  They're all there together.
[00:05:25]  That's why there's a link between, you know, Arabs and Jews are cousins.
[00:05:28]  You wouldn't know it because the enemy so destroyed this thing, so used it.
[00:05:32]  But in the end, they're going to be back together.
[00:05:33]  You know, in the end, there's a good ending to this.
[00:05:36]  You know, the end, the end of the story, you have Isaac and Ishmael actually together bearing Abraham at the end.
[00:05:41]  That's kind of a foreshadow.
[00:05:42]  But right now, they're linked to Ishmael.
[00:05:45]  But what else do you see?
[00:05:48]  You have among this, you have Ishmael.
[00:05:51]  Think about him.
[00:05:52]  He lost his father.
[00:05:54]  So what do you have among in Islam?
[00:05:57]  You have God has no son.
[00:06:01]  They cannot call God father.
[00:06:05]  It calls him the merciful, cannot call God father.
[00:06:08]  Why?
[00:06:09]  Because they lost the father years ago.
[00:06:12]  And it's kind of like saying, well, if we don't have the father, nobody has a father.
[00:06:16]  You look at the Temple Mount, what do you see?
[00:06:17]  It says, on the Temple Mount, on that don't, it says, God has no son.
[00:06:22]  You know, so it's so much, so it's going to be against anyone who says, I'm a child of God.
[00:06:26]  God is my daddy.
[00:06:27]  It's going to be against all that.
[00:06:28]  It's going to be against going against Isaac, going to be against all that.
[00:06:31]  Also, you want to look at all these things.
[00:06:34]  There's a rage in much of this history.
[00:06:38]  Not all, but in much of Arabic history, much of Islamic, there's a rage.
[00:06:41]  There's a fear.
[00:06:42]  Why?
[00:06:43]  Because the answer is in Ishmael.
[00:06:45]  Ishmael would have a rage from that time on.
[00:06:49]  He would have an anger from that time.
[00:06:51]  He'd have a resentment.
[00:06:52]  One of the things about in this, you see this spirit in terrorism, it's a resentment about anybody who has privilege, resentment of anyone who says, I'm loved.
[00:07:00]  It's a resentment against the Jewish people.
[00:07:02]  Why against the Jewish people?
[00:07:04]  Because that's Isaac.
[00:07:05]  So it's Ishmael and Isaac.
[00:07:07]  And it's also about America.
[00:07:08]  Because first of all, if you're born again, if you're a Christian, your link is through Isaac.
[00:07:13]  Your link is through Isaac.
[00:07:14]  Messiah is the son of the father.
[00:07:16]  He's the beloved of the father.
[00:07:18]  So there's going to be a war against that as well.
[00:07:21]  There's going to be a war against America because you have all that together.
[00:07:23]  You have Jew, you have Christian, and you have what looks like blessing.
[00:07:27]  So you've got all that.
[00:07:29]  So therefore, when you have all those factors that are all explained in the tents of Abraham, you've got a spirit that says, I'm the outcast one.
[00:07:38]  So that leads to radicalism.
[00:07:39]  That leads to, I can't get it this way.
[00:07:42]  So I'm going to get it this way.
[00:07:43]  I'm going to get it by the sword.
[00:07:44]  I'm going to get it by, I'm going to take it back.
[00:07:46]  Why is there such a focus on the land of Israel?
[00:07:50]  It's all there in that mystery.
[00:07:52]  Why?
[00:07:52]  Because that was the inheritance of Isaac from Abraham.
[00:07:55]  That's what Ishmael thought should have been his, the land of Israel.
[00:07:59]  Now, the Arab people have much more land, have gigantic areas.
[00:08:03]  They only just don't have, but there's a concern about this little land because that's what Ishmael lost in his mind.
[00:08:09]  That's what he lost.
[00:08:09]  It's the land of Israel.
[00:08:10]  What also was the promise?
[00:08:13]  You know, the covenants, you know, all that came from Abraham to Isaac.
[00:08:17]  The covenants, the revelation of God, that came through Isaac, came through Israel.
[00:08:21]  So what did Ishmael do?
[00:08:22]  Well, we're going to have our own revelation.
[00:08:24]  We're going to have our own.
[00:08:25]  We're going to have our own religion.
[00:08:28]  And we're going to take back everything and we're going to say they all belong to us.
[00:08:31]  Now we take the prophets.
[00:08:34]  We take Jesus, but we'll call him a prophet.
[00:08:36]  We'll take everything you have, but we'll say we'll make it and we're better.
[00:08:40]  We've got more.
[00:08:41]  That's exactly the spirit of Ishmael.