nor are all the children Abraham’s true descendants; rather “through Isaac will your descendants be counted.”

Against hope Abraham believed in hope with the result that he became the father of many nations according to the pronouncement, “so will your descendants be.”

This means it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; rather, the children of promise are counted as descendants.

Just as Isaiah predicted, “If the Lord of armies had not left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have resembled Gomorrah.”