Abraham is now old and desires to see Isaac married, knowing Isaac must have children to produce the nation God has promised. Abraham sends his personal servant to find a bride for Isaac. This is beautiful imag- ery of how the heavenly Father found a bride for His Son, Christ.
Sarah has died, and Abraham sends his servant, Eliezer (whose name means “God is my helper”) to find a bride for Isaac among the Gentiles in Syria. He takes ten camels loaded with gifts, Eliezer riding one of the ten, leaving the remaining nine carrying gifts. Eliezer finds Rebekah at a well and she cares for the camels. Eliezer presents her with earrings and a gold bracelet. As he speaks to her and her father about Abraham and his son Isaac, Rebekah is willing to leave her family to marry a man she has not yet seen. Isaac is in the harvest field working and is at the well, Lahai- roi, meaning the “living water.” Isaac meets her, takes her into his mother’s tent, and is comforted in his grief over his mother’s death.
God the Father sent His helper, the Holy Spirit, to find a Gentile bride for His son, Jesus. The Holy Spirit has nine gifts and fruits to present as gifts to the bride (see 1 Cor. 12:7-10; Gal. 5:22-23). After Pentecost (see Acts 2:1-4), the Gentiles were grafted into the cove- nant (see Acts 10:1-45). We have “earrings,” or ears to hear from the Spirit, and “bracelets,” a symbol of doing the works of God with our hands. Christ has promised us the Spirit’s refreshing through the “well of living water” (see John 7:37-39). According to Paul, natural Israel was temporarily blinded and the Gentiles were grafted into the New Covenant (see Rom. 11).
From Page 42 of the Perry Stone Hebraic Prophetic Old Testament Study Bible
