Genesis 15:1-6
GOD'S PROMISE TO ABRAHAM... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD'S PROMISE TO ABRAHAM... [ Continue Reading ]
After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram; I am thy Shield and thy exceeding great Reward. After these happenings, after Abram had returned to his home at Hebron, the Lord spoke to him in a vision, while Abram was in a state of ecstasy, under the in... [ Continue Reading ]
And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt Thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?... [ Continue Reading ]
And Abram said, Behold, to me Thou hast given no seed; and, lo, one born in my house is my heir. The promise which the Lord had given him, Genesis 12:2, seemed a thing of the far-distant past, and Abram's faith was sorely tried. Time was going on from day to day, from year to year, and still he was... [ Continue Reading ]
And, behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. Not merely a member of the household of Abram, but his own natural son should be the heir of his goods, which implies that he should also b... [ Continue Reading ]
And He brought him forth abroad and said, Look now toward heaven and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them; and He said unto him, So shall thy seed be. God's patience has a wonderful sustaining and strengthening power. In order to impress upon His servant the exact meaning of His promise, t... [ Continue Reading ]
And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness. Cf Romans 4:5. Abram placed his trust in the promise of the Lord with all it implied, and therefore the Lord accepted him into the covenant of His grace. That is the way of salvation for all sinners, the way of obtaining that t... [ Continue Reading ]
And He said unto him, I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it. In preparing to give Abram a special sign of the covenant's consummation and to assure him of the fact that his descendants would be the possessors of the land of Canaan, the Lord i... [ Continue Reading ]
The covenant Sacrifice... [ Continue Reading ]
And he said, Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? This was not a question of doubt, but of a desire for some assurance in the case of this promise which transcended all human understanding. He was asking for a covenant sign.... [ Continue Reading ]
And He said unto him, Take ye an heifer of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon. All of these were sacrificial animals, which, although they were not burned as sacrifices to Jehovah, yet were to be consecrated to Him,... [ Continue Reading ]
And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another; but the birds divided he not.... [ Continue Reading ]
And when the fowls came down upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away.... [ Continue Reading ]
And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. At the direction of God, Abram prepared the sacrificial animals, the heifer, the ram, and the goat being cut in half lengthwise and the several pieces laid over against one another, by... [ Continue Reading ]
And He said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;... [ Continue Reading ]
The founding of the Covenant... [ Continue Reading ]
and also that nation whom they shall serve will I judge; and afterward shall they come out with great substance. The Lord Himself gives the explanation of some of the symbolical acts connected with the establishing of the covenant between Him and Abram. The latter should know for sure that his desce... [ Continue Reading ]
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. Abram himself would not be obliged to share in the afflictions which would come upon his children, but would die in peace, at an advanced age. But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again; for the iniqui... [ Continue Reading ]
And it came to pass that, when the sun went down and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. These happenings completed the symbolical events connected with the founding of the covenant between the Lord and Abram. A smoking furnace, like that used i... [ Continue Reading ]
In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates; these two rivers would he the southern and northern boundary lines of the kingdom of Israel respectively, the brook of Egypt, the Wady... [ Continue Reading ]
the Kenites, in the southeastern part of Canaan, AND THE KENIZZITES, probably west of them, AND THE KADMONITES, toward the Euphrates,... [ Continue Reading ]
and the Hittites, especially numerous in what was afterward Northern Galilee, AND THE PERIZSITES, in what was later Eastern Samaria, AND THE REPHAIMS, in the Perean country east of the Jordan,... [ Continue Reading ]
and the Amorites, in the region west of the Dead Sea, AND THE CANAANITES, in the upper valley of the Jordan and in the plain of Sharon, AND THE GIRGASHITES, west of the Sea of Galilee, AND THE JEBUSITES, in what was later Northern Judea. The Lord purposely enumerates peoples living in every part of... [ Continue Reading ]