Monday, May 19, 2008

Genesis 12-15

  • God's call on Abram to depart and promise this will be the start of a great nation blessed by God. (12:1-3)
  • Abram trusts and departs without question (v4-6)
  • God provides land (v7)
  • Abram loses faith and forget what God's promised in v3 and resorts to lying to save his own life (v12)
  • God still protected (v17)

  • God's abundance and first signs of a nation sprouting (13:7-9)
  • God's promise to Abram in greater detail (v15-17)
  • All these huge battles (14:1-11) and Lot was captured. With God's blessings, all Abram took were 318 men! (v14) Lot was saved plus all possessions recovered. (v16)
  • Abram gives one tenth as offering (v20)
  • Questions God about the future. He does not know how there will be successors apart from maybe the stewart of the house. (15:2)
  • But God promises his heir is not through adoption and reassures that the generations following will be countless (v4-5) He believes (v6)
  • What was the vision about (v12-17)

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