Abraham and Isaac's Wells

Abraham and Isaac's Wells
I am always in awe of the depth of the Word of God. So much hidden. So many stories within the stories...

Here is a prophetic passage which foreshadows not only the outcome of the first covenant people of God, physical Israel, BUT also the second covenant people, spiritual Israel.

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Genesis 26:15-22
(Note: In this hidden parable, Abraham represents the Father and Isaac represents Jesus. The Philistines represent the religious order of the day, whether it be OT Israel or NT spiritual Israel.)

Gen 26:15 Now all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.

(Earth: H6083; dust (as powdered or gray); hence clay, earth, mud: - ashes, dust, earth, ground, morter, powder, rubbish.)

In this parable, Abraham represents God and the wells  of living water that God had dug for his OT people. Unfortunately, Gods OT people represented by the Philistines had stopped up and filled in God's well's with earth, rubbish or their works of the flesh

Gen 26:16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us. For thou art much mightier than we.
Gen 26:17 And Isaac departed thence, and encamped in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.


Gen 26:18 And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. And he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.

Isaac, who represents Jesus comes along and re-digs the wells of the Father.  Notice that Isaac (Jesus) redug these wells again himself just as Jesus came again to give us the living water (John 4:10;14-15) AND did nothing of himself but ONLY did the Fathers will.

Gen 26:19 And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
Just like the Jesus' disciples who carried on the the ministry of Christ, Isaac's servants digging in the valley, finding living water. This is the first well that was re-dug, and it may also represent the first thousand year period  (or day) since the birth of Christ.


Gen 26:20 And the herdsmen of Gerar strove with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, The water is ours. And he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.


Here we find the religious shepherds of the NT people of God contending for the well of Jesus. Following the pattern set in the OT, the NT religious people quarrel telling Jesus (via his disciples) that the "church is ours. Don't tell us how to run things, we know what to do." Effectively kicking Jesus out of the place that belongs to his Father. 



Gen 26:21 And they digged another well, and they strove for that also. And he called the name of it Sitnah.
Again Isaac (Jesus) and his servants dig another well and the find controversy with the shepherds. I wonder if Jesus and his servants find controversy today. Many works of God are taken over by shepherds who kick out the real Jesus and his servants and fill it up with works of the flesh. This is the second well and it may represent the second thousand year period (or day) since the birth of Christ.
Notice how in both instances, the well is taken over by the Philistine herdsmen. Does this in some way represent the parables that Jesus spoke in Luke 13?

Luk 13:18 He said therefore, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto sthhall I liken it?
Luk 13:19 It is like unto a grain of mustard seed, which a man took (Philistines), and cast into his own garden; and it grew, and became a tree; and the birds of the heaven lodged in the branches thereof.  Note: the birds of the heavens represent 'the evil one' in Matt 13:19

Luk 13:20 And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God?
Luk 13:21 It is like unto leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.

2Ti 3:1 But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come.
2Ti 3:2 For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, railers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
2Ti 3:3 without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,
2Ti 3:4 traitors, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;
2Ti 3:5 holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof: from these also turn away.

Also see Joel 1 as another example of the 'well' of God being taken over and destroyed.

Might these verses all hint of the same thing? Absolutely, outwardly it is a well, but inwardly it is full of works of the flesh and Jesus no longer lives there.
Gen 26:22 And he removed from thence, and digged another well. And for that they strove not. And he called the name of it Rehoboth. And he said, For now Jehovah hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the landRehoboth means 'room'. Finally, Isaac's (Jesus) well will not be taken over by the striving and contentious shepherds found in Philistia (religion). This third well represents the 'well' that Jesus will dig on the earth on the third thousand year period (or day). 
Hos 6:1 Come, and let us return unto Jehovah; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
Hos 6:2 After two days will he revive us: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live before him.
Hos 6:3 And let us know, let us follow on to know Jehovah: his going forth is sure as the morning; and he will come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain that watereth the earth.

Joh 2:19-21  

¹⁹ Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. ²⁰ The Jews therefore said, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou raise it up in three days? ²¹ But he spake of the temple of his body.

There is the restoration of the temple of Gods people on the third thousand year day. It is also hinted at in the marriage in Cana in John 2.