“Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.”
God tells Abimelech to return the man's wife, for he is a prophet who will pray for Abimelech and he will live — but if he does not return her, he will certainly die. The description of Abraham as a prophet is startling given his recent deception. The prophetic role is not assigned to the morally perfect but to the one through whom God speaks and intercedes. The application: God's calling on your life and your current moral failures coexist in uncomfortable tension. The calling is not revoked by the failure; the failure does not validate the calling.
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