Abraham was entertaining three persons who appeared to him (A Theophany – God appearing in human form) and gave him the promise of having a son. Abraham and Sarah were advanced in age and past child bearing age. Undoubtedly she had already gone through menopause. It was impossible for them...
When the biblical Jews asked that question, they responded from their experience of salvation history. God is the one who told me to leave behind everything I knew and set out for God-knows-where, says Abraham. God is the one who asked me to go back to the land of oppression and ensl...
The L-rd appeared to [Abraham] in the plains of Mamre, while he was sitting at the door of the tent in the heat of the day. He lifted up his eyes and saw and behold, three men were standing over him ... These three "men" were angels, for after they departed from Abraham we ...
Gabe goes toe to toe on the boat with his tethered in Abraham, Zora’s clone Umbrae stalks her on a nearby road under the dim street light, and Pluto (Jason’s tethered) seems hell-bent on seeing Jason’s magic trick with the lighter. Eventually, things come full circle and Adelaide ...
Abraham’s Role But God chose Abraham for himself to be the one through whom He would keep alive the truth faith in the Creator God. This is borne out from Deuteronomy 32:8-9 which states, “When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He separated the sons of man [at...
Reasons why we don’t “pray” to “saints” or Mary: The Bible gives no examples of this. Never do we see anyone of faith addressing a prayer to anyone other than God. Not to Abraham or Moses or Isaiah or Elisha, or Enoch. Not to anyone other than God. Never are we instructed ...
In the midst of almost universal idolatry, God soon called out Abraham to be the father of the nation Israel. God ordained the nation Israel for specific purposes. God made an everlasting covenant with Abraham, to be interrupted by God’s discipline because of Israel’s disobedience and rebelli...
Seminary thinking on this, for the most part, has it that Jesus was speaking exclusively of the sons of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in referring to “this generation.” They dismiss that He was prophesying about the generation of people of the earth in general. The seminaries have it that ...
9 Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham. 10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.” A popular story about Zacchaeus that we all get taught in Sunday School. Because Zacchaeus promised to give half...
With the fact that God called Abraham alone. He falls back upon what was the salient principle of God's dealing at this very time. It was as good as saying, "Be things as they may, count on the Lord. Impossible to be lower than that with which Israel began; for when God called ...