What Is Abraham Promise

Essay: Promise and Ordeal in Stories of Abraham and the Ancestors Abraham was not asked to denounce loyalty to any country, but he was asked to leave the place where he lived. He was to take only his wife and nephew with him. God made a promise to Abraham if he would give up all that he had and leave. That was going to take a great deal of faith on Abraham’s part. How was God going to show him a new country? How was Abraham going to have descendants that would grow into a great nation when he and his wife were up in years with no children? How was God going to bless him in a way he would be protected from those who were against him? There was a great gap between these promises and seeing them fulfilled. Abraham obeyed god and left
This is where Abraham thinks of himself and allows hid wife Sarah to be taken to the Pharaoh’s house. It seems as if Abraham was not concerned for his wife but was more concerned for his own well-being. Abraham and the others, including Lot, eventually left Egypt on the request of Pharaoh and travel to Negev. Here, after disputes over cattle, Abraham and Lot decide to separate and go different ways. Lot chooses, what appears to be the best land. Abraham in turn received land that at first glance was not very good until God speaks to him once again. Abraham puts his hand and trust in God and builds another altar to worship
Melchizedek was the king of Salem (some say might have been Jerusalem). There is some discussion of whether he was a priest of Abraham’s God or a pagan God. Which ever it is, he blesses Abraham for his success. Some believe there is a link in Israel’s ancestors with Jerusalem and King David. In Jewish beliefs Melchizedek is a “righteous priest and Christians look at him as being a forerunner of Jesus and his priestly office”. (Excursus NISB) Abraham continues to struggle with having an heir to build this nation with. He had chosen one of his servants to be his heir, but God once again comes to him and reassures him, “ your own son will be your heir.”(15:4) This is where his wife Sarah suggests that he have a child with her Egyptian maid Hagar. Sarah was unable to have children, so she suggested that Abraham have a child with Hagar. That wasn’t God’s plan but Sarah’s and Abraham agreed to it. Hagar may have started out as an innocent being in this but she gradually began to let Sarah know that she was able to have children and Sarah wasn’t. This caused conflict naturally. Abraham now had an heir but not the way God had