Abraham, the Friend of God It is God's covenant with Abraham, freely initiated by God, that constitutes Israel as a people who gratefully recall the past, who live obediently in the present, and who face the future in the assurance of God's promises. Anderson,Bernhard W - 《Interpretation...
His closest friend appears to be Jasper, a fellow Retirement Castle resident. He spends a good deal of his time writing letters of complaint on his old-fashioned typewriter. He once wrote to the President, complaining there were too many states, and requesting they get rid of three of ...
But O! it was a day of great solemnity in the eyes of the invisible world of spirits! All the trumpets of heaven sounded, and all the fiery chariots of angels attended him in his passage; "God is gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet. Sing praises to God,...
Almighty God speaks to Moses in Book of Deuteronomy chapter 18 verse 18: "I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and I will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him." ...
22You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by the works.23Thus the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called “the friend of God.”...
to him.[2] Abraham has heard God's voice many times during his lifetime. He knows the voice. It is not the voice of an enemy, but a friend. But the message must have brought agony to Abraham's heart. We'll discuss the word "tested" (Hebrewnāsā) in verse 1 in a few minutes...
20 Now Abraham moved on from there into the region of the Negev and lived between Kadesh and Shur. For a while he stayed in Gerar, 2 and there Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” Then Abimelek king of Gerar sent for Sarah and took her....
and return to their separate lives. Isaac lives on in the faith of his father, but there is an emptiness now, since the old man is gone. Abraham, the "friend of God" (2 Chronicles 20:7; Isaiah 41:8; James 2:23), is now at rest in the presence of his Friend -- Yahweh himself...
he went from Jerusalem with necessary refreshings to meet Abraham, the friend of God, the father of believers, a prince and a priest himself, and of whose posterity was to come the Messiah, now returning from his victory over Chedorlaomer and his confederate kings, with the rescue of his...
22You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works;23and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God.24You see that a person is justified by ...