A second famine caused Isaac and Rebekah to go Gerar. This is another example, similar to Abraham and Sarah going to Egypt, of making a bad decision rather than trusting the Lord.
Isaac’s Famine
Abraham’s Famine
Abraham experienced the first of 3 generational famines. It caused he and Sarah to go to Egypt. This is very symbolic and it's usually used to picture the bad decisions that we make when we are walking by sight, not by faith.
September 18th
God used famines in the lives of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to test their faith. It indicates that the climate was unstable, or cyclical, with periods of warming and cooling. There has been a net loss of global ice ever since.
February 27th
The armour of light is a peace that comes with the assurance that the Bible is true, even if we don't understand it, such that SciPop (the atheist human origins narrative) isn't a threat.