Genesis 11:10-12:4
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An Unlikely Hero
CS: Heroes...strong...amazing capabilities...Marvel
Illus: Safety Patrol Car Accident—
Or the Curse is Reversed. Chicago Cubs.
While humanity continues to slide of the cliff...God speaks to redeem it.
After scattering the nations...He creates a new one from nothing.
Abraham is the answer to the plight of all humankind.
M/W—>(3 sons)Family—>(3 sons)...Terah (3 sons)Nation—>King of the Nation.
Abraham and the nation of Israel=New Adam ( son).
Abraham will be how the curse is reversed.
1. A hero with a paganistic past.
1. A hero with a paganistic past.
Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your ancestors, including Terah, the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates River and worshiped other gods.
11:10-26
No death mentioned...Author is quickly getting to Abram.
These are the family records of Shem. Shem lived 100 years and fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood. After he fathered Arpachshad, Shem lived 500 years and fathered other sons and daughters. Arpachshad lived 35 years and fathered Shelah. After he fathered Shelah, Arpachshad lived 403 years and fathered other sons and daughters. Shelah lived 30 years and fathered Eber. After he fathered Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and fathered other sons and daughters. Eber lived 34 years and fathered Peleg. After he fathered Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and fathered other sons and daughters. Peleg lived 30 years and fathered Reu. After he fathered Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and fathered other sons and daughters. Reu lived 32 years and fathered Serug. After he fathered Serug, Reu lived 207 years and fathered other sons and daughters. Serug lived 30 years and fathered Nahor. After he fathered Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and fathered other sons and daughters. Nahor lived 29 years and fathered Terah. After he fathered Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and fathered other sons and daughters. Terah lived 70 years and fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
These are the family records of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran fathered Lot. Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans, during his father Terah’s lifetime. Abram and Nahor took wives: Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah. She was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah. Sarai was unable to conceive; she did not have a child.
Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (Haran’s son), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they set out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there. Terah lived 205 years and died in Haran.
The Lord said to Abram:
Go out from your land,
your relatives,
and your father’s house
to the land that I will show you.
I will make you into a great nation,
I will bless you,
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.
I will bless those who bless you,
I will curse anyone who treats you with contempt,
and all the peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.
So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
The hero’s pagan past.
Moses is aiming to show how the promised Seed of the Woman has passed from Adam to Noah and now from Noah to Abram and how even through the confusion of languages the plan of God cannot be thwarted.
2. A hero with a problematic present.
2. A hero with a problematic present.
God calls into existence what was non-existent.
God calls into existence what was non-existent.
This is why the promise is by faith, so that it may be according to grace, to guarantee it to all the descendants—not only to those who are of the law but also to those who are of Abraham’s faith. He is the father of us all. As it is written: I have made you the father of many nations. He is our father in God’s sight, in whom Abraham believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls things into existence that do not exist.
The hero’s problematic present.
Instead of Abraham being fruitful...God says “I will make you exceedingly fruitful”
NT. Wright
“Abraham’s children are God’s true humanity, and their homeland is the new Eden.”
the hero’s promising future.
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Abrahamic Covenant
Not chronological with 12 completely.
Or the Curse is Reversed. Chicago Cubs.
Heroes...strong...amazing capabilities...Marvel
*Moses is emphasizing where Abram comes from. The City of Man. Babylon.
But Abraham was not the ideal person to start a nation with.
After scattering the nations...He creates a new one from nothing.
—>away from God, until God mercifully speaks and he responds and goes <—
Abraham is the answer to the plight of all humankind.
M/W—>(3 sons)Family—>(3 sons)...Terah (3 sons)Nation—>King of the Nation.
and
Abraham and the nation of Israel=New Adam ( son).
Abraham will be how the curse is reversed.
God calls into existence what was non-existent.
“Brothers and fathers,” he replied, “listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran, and said to him: Leave your country and relatives, and come to the land that I will show you.
Instead of Abraham being fruitful...God says “I will make you exceedingly fruitful”
You, the Lord, are the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans, and changed his name to Abraham.
NT. Wright
“Abraham’s children are God’s true humanity, and their homeland is the new Eden.”
3. A hero with a promising future.
But Abraham was not the ideal person to start a nation with.
He was a pagan. He was childless He was old
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Go/Be a Blessing
Promises
I will make you into a great nation
I will bless you
I will make your name great
I will bless those who bless you
I will curse those who curse you
In you all nations will be blessed
The kingdoms of this world will never amount to anything; only the kingdom of God will last forever.
5 Blessings to Reverse the 5 curses
By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed and set out for a place that he was going to receive as an inheritance. He went out, even though he did not know where he was going. By faith he stayed as a foreigner in the land of promise, living in tents as did Isaac and Jacob, coheirs of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
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Opposition—curse those who curse you
No death mentioned...Author is quickly getting to Abram.
Moses is aiming to show how the promised Seed of the Woman has passed from Adam to Noah and now from Noah to Abram and how even through the confusion of languages the plan of God cannot be thwarted.
We know Scripture speaks of the coming doom to Babylon in Revelation.
Not chronological with 12 completely.
*Moses is emphasizing where Abram comes from. The City of Man. Babylon.
—>away from God, until God mercifully speaks and he responds and goes <—
and
11:10-26
No death mentioned...Author is quickly getting to Abram.
Moses is aiming to show how the promised Seed of the Woman has passed from Adam to Noah and now from Noah to Abram and how even through the confusion of languages the plan of God cannot be thwarted.
“Brothers and fathers,” he replied, “listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran, and said to him: Leave your country and relatives, and come to the land that I will show you.
You, the Lord, are the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans, and changed his name to Abraham.