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Jul 1, 2013 · Hospitality fosters good relationships, and Abraham and Sarah’s hospitality provides an early biblical insight to the way relationships and sharing a meal go hand in hand. These strangers reaped a deeper understanding of each other by sharing a meal and an extended encounter. This remains true today.
Sep 22, 2023 · Updated September 22, 2023. Bible Articles Video Audio. Abraham lived in the Old Testament days but is mentioned 72 times in the New Testament. The Hebrews Hall of Fame (in Hebrews 11) says, “From this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and countless as the sands on the seashore.
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- The Pentateuch
- The Former Prophets
- The Writings
The Pentateuch comprises the first five books of the Old Testament. It depicts a series of beginnings—the beginning of the world, of humankind, and of God’s promise to the Israelites. Genesis, the first book, opens with God’s creation of the world. The perfect world falls into evil when humans disobey God, and the human population divides into sepa...
The Former Prophets, or the Historical Books, cover the history of the Israelites from Moses’s death to the fall of the nation in 587 b.c. In the books of Joshua and Judges, the Israelites successfully conquer the land promised to them by God, but they disobey God by worshipping the deities of the surrounding peoples. Neighboring nations invade and...
The Writings are placed after the historical books in the Christian Bible. Some of these are narratives covering the time of Israel’s exile in other nations and its eventual return to the homeland. The Book of Esther, for example, tells the story of an unassuming Jewish girl who becomes the queen of Persia and boldly saves the Jewish people from ge...
Jul 1, 2013 · First, Abraham puts his trust in God’s guidance, rather than on human device. In contrast, the tower builders believed that by their own skill and ingenuity, they could devise a tower “with its top in the heavens” ( Gen. 11:4 ), and in so doing achieve significance and security in a way that usurped God’s authority. [1]
Jan 4, 2022 · Abraham showed immediate hospitality to the three men, inviting them to rest under a tree and preparing a big meal for them (verses 3–8). During their visit with Abraham, the three men warned him that God’s judgment was about to fall upon Sodom and Gomorrah ( Genesis 18:20–21; 19:12–13 ).
The Covenant of Abraham and the New Covenant under which we live today are one covenant of grace, because in both gracious promises are made to sinners who receive them through faith—a faith which banks so completely on the wisdom and power and love of God that it inevitably obeys his commands. The Heirs of the Promises
God establishes a personal covenant with the Hebrew patriarch Abraham in which Abraham’s faith is rewarded with promises of descendants and a future inheritance of the land of Canaan (modern Israel/Palestine). Abraham travels to Canaan, where his family members live as nomadic pastoralists until a famine necessitates their emigration to Egypt.
