From Barren to Bunnies
StoryAnalogy★★★★Pardon me, friends, but it always strikes me as ironic, even humorous, that you read in the Bible about the wife of Abraham. What was her name? Sarah had trouble having a baby, right? She finally had 1.
And then his son Isaac gets married to Rebecca, and Rebecca has trouble having a baby. 20 years of marriage go by and there’s no baby. Isaac prays and then through a miracle, the barren gives birth and she has twins.
And then you read that Jacob, he goes back and he gets a wife. And these wives from Mesopotamia must have had problems. But he actually gets 4 wives.
And Rachel can’t have a baby. Finally, after years, and it must have been tough, she actually took her husband by the nap of the neck and said, give me children or I die.
And he said, what am I supposed to do? You know, he was cooperating. So she has a baby. So they’re struggling to procreate.
But then you read when they get down to Egypt, it says the children of Israel multiplied and they multiplied greatly And they multiplied exceedingly greatly. And then the Pharaoh tries to tell the midwives, well, you know, could you do some selective abortions?
And they continue to have babies. And the midwives say, The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, they are lively, they give birth before we get there.
So they go from being barren to being bunnies. And they just, they multiply.
Batchelor, Doug, “Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 7 – Moses, Pt. 1” (AudioVerse teaching 31098).
The point
The preacher highlights the irony of Abraham's family line, which struggled with barrenness for generations (Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel), suddenly multiplying 'exceedingly greatly' in Egypt, despite Pharaoh's genocidal attempts. This illustrates God's miraculous power to fulfill His promises and multiply His people against all odds.