32 Psalm
Abraham
[1996 BC birth]
& Isaac
[1896 BC birth]
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1. Now the Lord
had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from
thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
2. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy
name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3. And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and
in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
4. So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him:
and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
5. And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their
substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran;
and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan
they came.
6. And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of
Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.
7. And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this
land: and there builded he an altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto him.
Some year later, when Abram was 99 years old, God renewed his covenant with
Abram giving him a new name Abraham , and promised Sarai, now called Sarah,
would give birth to a son.
Genesis chapter 21
1. And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah
as he had spoken.
2. For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time
of which God had spoken to him.
3. And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah
bare to him, Isaac.
4. And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had
commanded him.
5. And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.
A few years later God tests Abraham's faith. Genesis chapter 22
1. And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and
said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
2. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and
get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon
one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
3. And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two
of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt
offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
4. Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
5. And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and
the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.
6. And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and
laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and
they went both of them together.
7. And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said,
Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the
lamb for a burnt offering?
8. And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt
offering: so they went both of them together.
9. And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an
altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him
on the altar upon the wood.
10. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
11. And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham,
Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
12. And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto
him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy
son, thine only son from me.
13. And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram
caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered
him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
14. And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to
this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.
15. And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,
16. And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done
this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:
17. That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy
seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore;
and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
Sarah died at age 127. Abraham
purchased a burial place made up of a large field and the cave of Machpelah from
a Hittite named Ephron near Hebron in the land of Canaan. Abraham
later married Keturah. He lived to the age of 175 and fathered many more
children. Abraham is generous to all of his progeny while living, but his
total inheritance he leaves to Isaac.
Abraham was selected by God to be the father of his
special people. God promised Abraham that all the earth would receive
blessing because of the agreement (covenant) God was making with him.
Abraham understood in part what God was promising. We now
know that the best part and completion of the promise was God's Son, Jesus
Christ. Jesus brought salvation to mankind - a way that we can be pleasing to God and receive eternal life.
It is through Jesus and the sacrifice He made that all the nations are truly
blessed
.
When Abraham was asked to sacrifice Isaac on the alter, God was not
only testing Abraham's faith, God was also showing the world how He, God, would
sacrifice His only Son, Jesus Christ, so that all who accepted Him
could be saved.
Historians tell us that the City of Ur where God called Abraham was
one of the first cities ever built in what was possibly the
oldest civilization that ever existed. There is evidence that the
fertile farming ground area between the
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, now called Mesopotamia in the country Iraq, was settled with villages more
than 3000 years ago. The people who lived there developed a form of writing called cuneiform.
It was a form of writing made by using a stylus to make wedge shapes in soft
clay. The clay then hardened leaving a permanent record. The clay
tablet at left found by archaeologists records Noah's flood.
