To A Young Man of God, Blessed be the name of Jesus Christ by whom we have eternal life  #BeBoldBelieveBig

Your Question
Why in Genesis does Abraham and his wife keep going into kingdoms and saying they are just brother and sister?   Zeb 11/8/16

Part One 
​As a background
Brief outline of the life of Abraham
Take a look at the first part summarizing the chapters in Genesis that have to do with Abraham's life.   

Part Two: 2 Chapters you refer to in your question
Genesis Chapters 12 and 20 in two columns

Part Three 
A Brief Commentary 
Man's Fallen Condition
God's Continued Love & Grace
Before the Law of Moses,
During the Law of Moses and finally
in the days of God's love shown in the birth, life, death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus to the full day. ​

CommunionFire Word-Smithing: Cosmosian
pronounced: kaus-moh'-zian

The supernatural realm of unseen cosmos micro and macro - only accessed through ongoing true scientific theory and faith that is Communion-centric.

It is the power released in essence and resident in the bread and wine that has been blessed by Jesus Christ. By grace through faith of those who believe in their heart and confess their faith through conversion, conversation and tangible expressions of worship and missions of mercy, empowered by Holy Spirit baptism by Jesus Christ, can see and hear spiritually.

Science has been talking about parallel dimensions, parallel universe structuring and string theory upheld by the basics of Newton, Einstein and others. The bending of time or flat universes perceives that flt may not be flat but slightly bent as talked about through Steven Hawking and Michio Kaku

Occasionally my rant will include preaching that says "Cosmosian Theology" a kind of String theory, parallel Universe concept creating a need for cosmic theology.

What does this entail?

How about what happened between Genesis 1:1a and Genesis 1:b 
Could that be the Ice Age or "Ice Epic"? before the Flood Age of Noah?

What about an antidaluvian people group? 

PreAdamic race? 

Come on don't tell me you haven't heard of these or how about...

Job and the ultimate barriers of time and space being broken through by level of vision that pierced through to see revelation of the first and second coming of Jesus in Job 19.

Rant: Jesus is Very Pro-Supernatural
So are the Creeds... In the name of The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit... "I Believe in God the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth..."

What about the OT appearances of the 4th man or the Angel of theLord?

These are types and shadows of Jesus?

Or were thay actual appearances of Christ, the Word of God taking on the appearance of a man or Angel capital "A" ?

King and High Priest Melchizzadek?

The Angel and other two angels of Abraham to negotiate for the the judgement on Sodom?

What about Heaven's intervention with a Ram from God in place of Isaac, the type of Christ or the ladder of Jacob, which like Jesus revealed angels ascendng nd descending into the vestibule of heaven?

What about the 70 plus Moses, Joshua and Abner who went halfway up Sinai before the Law was given in Exodus 24 where they found themselves on a field of lapis lazuli - stone so clear blue they thought they were standing on the sky as they ate and drank with God?

There are so many episodes in the OT pointing to Jesus that we are working on another book to deal with this phenomenon.  

Then what about Gospel fulfilment of the times and seasons of Jewish culture and law in the life of Jesus?

Mary, His Mother becomin Queen of heaven by Jewish culture and history? Or did you know abut that one? What about the early Church that had no New Testament Canon of Scripture for the first 400 years of the Chuurch? How did they possibly get along without aNew Testament? Ever hear off Jesus, the Word made Flesh who then sent His Holy Spirit to confirm the reality of His presence accessed through the bread and wine of Communion that Jesus called His flesh and Blood? Is Commnion just a symbolic act? Is it just a Memorial?Or is it something powerfilled from heaven, full of grace and truth like Holy Virgin Mother Mary Queen of Heaven and John's declaration as Jesus approached him for baptism, "Behold the Lamb of God Who Takes Awaythe Sins of the World!" 

What about Sola Scriptura vs. Apostolic Succession, Liturgy and Holy Scriptuure that includes the Apocrypha? (There is the Roman version and the Easten Orthodox versions of the Apocrypha... hmmmm

Right side Up or Upside Down?

My life has been turned right side up since coming to daily dine with the Lord Jesus at His Table. In the eyes of most of my kind and loving brothers and sisters in Christ, however, it appears to them that my world of faith has turned upside down.

COMMNIONFIRE: When you Become Bold enough to Believe in the reality of the bread and wine and offer it to Jesus for His blessing, He takes it, blesses it, breaks it and gives it back to us as something transformed by His eternal power. Jesus calls Himself the bread of life and then says that if we eat the bread He blesses to become His glorified flesh, and if we drink the wine He blesses and it becomes His glorified blood, we partake of His eternal life with the promise that He will raise us up on the last day. He also said when we do this we are within Him and He is within us. "Christ in you the hope of glory!" 

In Jesus, the vail of the law is torn away.. the Passover is replaced by the Eucharist...
and when you sit down with Jesus and say, "Lord I believe, help my unbelief", He does!

As a young believer, who asked Jesus to be my Savior on Superbowl Sunday 1971, my muster for daily witnessing, prayer and Bible study was relentless for the next 20 years.

Every day gave birth to another opportnity to share the Good news, pray for the lost and study to show myself approved of God, a workman that need not be ashamed. I was always ready to give an answer for the reason my faith. I lived in the types and shadows of the Old Testament, New Testament and the witness of all that went before me.

I had heros of faith, role models of faith and ministries that I paid attention to to stay in tune with what the Holy Spirit was saying to the churches. It was my way of orthodoxy or as one article called it, inadvertantly I cultivated my own form of orthopraxy!

I also learned early in the 1970s that there were enemies of the faith because of street witnessing and college campus open air evangelism, passing out tracts and Jesus Papers (a form of newspaper that had a counter-cultre feel. We did this in the evenings, twice a week, while working in factories to care for my young family and provide work for people we rescued from cults was a way of life. Our earliest and biggest warfare was with groups that had such cool, biblical names like:

The Children of God a fast growing christian cult that went global almost overnight from California beaches to colonies set up throughout the United States and various parts of the world. Others included The Way (Bible Institute); Jesus Saves; The Local Church, Greater Grace World Outreach and Jesus Only.

We tangled with these folks for years. They would even try to imitate us to gain new followers. The early church faced off with similar cults like the Judaisers, Arianism, he Knostcs and the like. The late Fr. Jack N. Sparks wrote our handbook called Mindbenders. We were always on the radar learning to identify the "new cult of the week" sprouting during the evangelical/charismatic revival and renewal poured out from heaven in the early 1970s that ran to the early 1980s.

After 45 years I am still fighting the good fight of faith but this morning, (thank you Jesus), the Lord showed me how there were precious truths that got buried under my pursuit to stay "New Testament". I'm not sure how it happened, but it did. The "we" became the me.

When I was left and alone after almost 2 years of stoking the revival fires of the 70's, I burned out. I lost my family, my ministry, and my personal sense of mission. 

As an act of total surrender to the failures of my own efforts for the Lord, I spent the next 20 years trying to be succesful as a full commission salesman. I lost no love for Jesus, but I was living in the wilderness of my sojourn caring for the demands of a temporal life. In my heart was an anchor called Matthew 6:33.

I tried my own business and my goodness was taken advantage of until I came to the end of that track for 6 years. Then I was on the road selling various forms of media, marketing and advertising. Monday through Friday blurred into one day to me. I worked hard and became independent enough to pay my bills but never quite got passed living paycheck to paycheck. I became a top ten guy in an international company and even won the prestigious "Professional of the Year" at one point! More good effort but in my own strength.
 
I wasn't getting younger and the effects of working so hard and being on the road 5 days a week  for 14 years was diminishing my vision and aspiration. Trying again in my own strength to maintain a commitment to professional excellence and sense of mission, at least on a personal level, began to give way and I became less and less able to maintain a winning attitude. I had tried to climb the corporate ladders but each ladder had its own set of built in flaws and I was exhausted.

Then in 2012 something remarkable happened that stirred all those years into a sense of destiny and eternal purpose. My wife and I made a decision to have the bread and wine of Communion as a husband and wife, at home, as often as we could and daily if possible. I was finished and then I found out Jesus wasn't. But He was about to let me in on a new understanding of 3 words He declared on the Cross...