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I was going to move past Ishmael’s generations in the next few verses because there didn’t seem to be that much important information there other than the nations that came out of Ishmael. After reading this a couple of times I saw a little nugget in here. It’s a point of distinction between a worldly family and a godly family.
When I say at home in this world I’m describing people who are fully invested in this life. No thought of a righteous government under Jesus Christ. These people’s hopes and dreams are here and now. Eat, drink, be merry, for tomorrow we die.
Ishmael’s kids live in castles (25:16). Isaac lived in tents (26:17).
Ishmael’s kids are princes (25:16), political leaders. Isaac is characterized as a sojourner (Genesis 26:3).
Hebrews 11:9-10, 13-16 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: 10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. … 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. 15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. 16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
