Arab’s Are Ishmael’s Progeny Who Will Persecute Jews until the 2d Advent, Gen 16:10-12, 17:20; 25:12-18; Gal 4:29; Ramifications of Sexual Sins, Prov 6:32

	57)	In addition to this Hagar is given a promise that parallels that given to Abram in Genesis 12:3:
Genesis 16:10 - Moreover, the angel of the Lord said to her, “I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they shall be too many to count.”
v. 11 -	The angel of the Lord said to her further, “Behold you are with child, and you shall bear a son; And you shall call his name Ishmael, Because the Lord has given heed to your affliction.
v. 12 -	“And he will be a wild donkey of a man, His hand will be against everyone, And everyone’s hand will be against him; And he will live to the east of his brothers.”
	58)	End result: Ishmael enters human history with a promised from the Lord that he would become the father of twelve princes and from them would come a great nation:
Genesis 17:20 - “As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I will bless him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly.  He shall become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
	59)	The Lord dealt graciously with Ishmael since his illegitimate birth was not his fault.  His birth however resulted in punishment to Abraham for allowing his wife to deceive him just as Ishah had deceived Adam.
	60)	The pain of the woman’s pregnancy and childbirth is a temporary experience but the pain and misery that has come to Israel because of the sons of Hagar are unmeasured:
Genesis 25:12 - Now these are the records of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maid, bore to Abraham;
v. 13 -	And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, in order of their birth: Nebaioth \ne‑bä' yoth\, the first-born of Ishmael, and Kedar \kē' der\ and Adbeel \ad' be‑el\ and Mibsam \mib' sam\
v. 14 -	and Mishma \mish' ma\ and Dumah \dū' ma\ and Massa \mas' a\,
v. 15 -	Hadad \hā' dad\ and Tema \tē' ma\, Jetur \jē' tur\, Naphish \nā' fish\ and Kedemah \ked' e‑ma\.
v. 16 -	These are the sons of Ishmael and these are their names, by their villages, and by their camps; twelve princes according to their tribes.
v. 18 -	And they settled from Havilah \hav' i‑la\ to Shur which is east of Egypt as one goes toward Assyria; he settled in defiance of all his relatives.
	61)	These are the Arabs that have persecuted the sons of the free woman for millennia.  Islam has been their egregious spawn, a vile religion, backed by the power Lucifer possesses as ruler of this world, that voraciously assaults both Jews and Christians with an assumed impunity they assert is granted by their moon god, Allah.
	62)	This is just one example of the disastrous chain of events that result when people dishonor the divine institution of marriage.
	63)	Right man- right woman is sacrosanct.  God has decreed it to be the very foundation of human civilization and the anchor of free societies.  Those who betray this contract destroy their own souls:
Proverbs 6:32 - Whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding; he who does so destroys his own soul [ vp#n# nephesh: soul; the inner being of man ].
	64)	Betrayal is any arrangement, civic or religious, that redefines marriage as anything other than the union of one man and one woman.  Sexual deviancy and perversion may be defined as any sexual activity outside the boundaries of marriage.
	65)	Further, marriage is not so much a commitment by a man and a woman to each other but rather a recognition by them both that they are God’s predesigned choice for each other.  Their commitment is to God Who decreed their union and the corporate witness assigned to their Christian marriage.