God and Abimelech: 5 Salutary Lessons

But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, “Indeed you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man’s wife.”
Did he not say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she, even she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and innocence of my hands I have done this.”
And God said to him in a dream, “Yes, I know that you did this in the integrity of your heart. For I also withheld you from sinning against Me; therefore I did not let you touch her.

Genesis 20:3,5-6

Lesson 1: God speaks to men in dreams among many other channels.

Lesson 2: It is suicidal for a man to take another man's wife.

Lesson 3: God knows the heart of men; our thoughts, emotions and desires. A man can't deceive God.

Lesson 4: God has the capacity to withhold a man from sinning against Him🔥 If we are in Him genuinely, He guides our steps.

Lesson 5: Whatever sin a man commits is first against God.