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In 1891, John Blunt wrote a book on Undesigned Coincidences in the Old and New Testaments.  This book was a unique look at apologetics from the standpoint of the veracity of the historical accounts of the unfolding history of the people of the Bible.  Many of the details of the natural events of the Biblical story exhibit an unsurpassed harmony.  These details in the natural events show the truthfulness of the narrative.  Thy also are interwoven with the supernatural details of the special events in the lives of the Bible characters.  If the natural events show remarkable truthfulness what does this say about the supernatural events which are interwoven with these natural events?  The Bible history is true.  Bible history is not myth.  Taking this one step further, we have to consider the redemptive story that unfolds through these natural and supernatural events.  God was working in the history of man to bring Jesus Christ into the world for our redemption!  This is the ultimate focus of Bible history.

A Wife For Isaac.
Abraham’s servant is sent to Mesopotamia to procure a wife for Isaac of the daughters of that branch of the Patriarch’s family which continued to dwell in Haran.  The servant entreats God to give him a token or sign whereby he might know which of the women He (God) had appointed for Isaac to wed.  The sign given was:  whichever woman drew water from the well for him and his camels was the woman Isaac would wed.  Rebekah came out to draw water.  She was the daughter of Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother.  Rebekah was the granddaughter of Abraham’s brother.
It appears, therefore, that the granddaughter of Abraham’s brother is to be the wife of Abraham’s son.  A person of the third generation of Nahor’s side is found of suitable years for one of the second generation on Abraham’s side.
What could harmonize more remarkably with the fact that Sarah, Abraham’s wife, had no child until stricken in years.  Thus it was that a generation on Abraham’s side was lost and the grandchildren of his brother in Haran were the coequals of his own child in Canaan.
Again, the ordinary and extraordinary details of the story are placed side by side.  Sarah gave birth in her old age when she was past child bearing years and previously had been barren.  God intervened miraculously!  The natural and the supernatural events recorded in Scripture must stand or fall together!
Now, we all know the importance of Abraham in the lineage of the Messiah.  The promise that God made to Abraham in Gen. 15:1-6 and Gen. 22:17-18 regarding his seed and “in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed” were fulfilled ultimately in Christ (Gal. 3:16).  The veracity of the sacred text is undeniable.