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Genesis Chapter 12
Union Church Bible Study
Galatians 3:6-7
6Even
as Abraham believed
God, and it was accounted to
him for righteousness. 7Know ye
therefore that they which are of
faith, the same are the children
of Abraham.
Terah
Haran
Lot Milcha Sarai
Abram
Nachor
Sarai
Melcha
Abram married his brother Haran’s daughter Sarai
Nachor married his brother Haran’s daughter Milcha
Lot was the son of Haran, and was Abram’s nephew
Terah
Abraham
Ishmael
Isaac
Esau
Jacob
12 Tribes
Nahor
Haran
Bethuel
Rebekah
Laban
Leah
Rachel
Milcha
Sarah
Lot
Moab
Ammon
Genesis 12: Covenant
What is a Covenant?
• Covenant is the means God used to
establish His set-Apart People
• Webster’s defines a covenant as an
agreement among church members to
defend a doctrine. Also, as a contact.
• Webster’s definition is not the Bible
definition of a covenant!
• A Biblical covenant was sacred
8 Covenants:
1.Edenic Covenant
2.Adomic covenant
3.Noahic Covenant
4.Abrahamic Covenant
5.Mosaic covenant
6.Palestinian Covenant
7.Davidic Covenant
8.New covenant
Gen 2
Gen 3
Gen 9
Gen 12
Exod 19
Deut 30
2 Sam
Jer 31, Heb 8
• Covenants among men used to sell land, make treaties,
allow use of a water well …
• Mutual agreement … Both parties had obligations
• One party … Covenant imposed upon someone
• We tend to think of Covenant in terms of a promise of a
contract
• Contracts and promises can be broken, usually with
only small penalties
This is not possible with a Biblical Covenant!
In Hebrew, Covenant is
B’rit (Berit)
• Hebrew Barah = cut of divide
• In Greek, word used in N.T. is diatheke
• Diatheke misses the mark substantially
• Language and culture are a package
• Cultures and their languages have unique concepts
not present in other cultures
• Some Hebrew concepts, like B’rit, Shalom, or Messiah
have no parallel in other languages
• when a concept doesn’t exist in a culture, neither does
a word for that concept exist in their language!
Understanding
The Culture Is Key
• Bible translation problems
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are primarily because the
translator has no in-depth
knowledge of the culture
Christians have believed
that a “will” or “testament”
is the modern day equivalent
for a covenant … Not True
A Biblical covenant is
Permanent unless it is
conditional
A permanent covenant
cannot be retracted
Death was the penalty for
breaking a covenant!
A God-Made Covenant
Becomes a Physical
Law of the Universe
• B’rit is also used to mean
“laws of nature”
• A God-Covenant is woven
into the fabric of the
Universe
• The spiritual realm is the
Source of a God-Covenant
In The Beginning
There Was No
Death
• Laws of nature were
designed for things to
exist forever
• At some time it changed
• When did death and
decay enter the
Universe?
• Two separate events:
1. The fall of Satan
2. The fall of Man
Unconditional Covenant
Genesis 12
A divinely ordered ritual:
barath,“To cut a covenant”
(Participants would divide
a sacrifice, and together,
in a figure “8,” would repeat
the terms of the covenant)
Here God goes it alone;
It is unconditional.
Abraham:
The First “Patriarch”
• Noah not a
“patriarch”
• 3 Patriarchs
Abraham >
Isaac >
Jacob
• Father, son, and
grandson
Genesis 12:1
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 show
thee:
Genesis 12:1
“from thy
father’s house”
Genesis 12:2-3
2And
I will make of thee a great
nation, and I will bless thee, and
make thy name great; and thou
shalt be a blessing: 3And I will
bless them that bless thee, and
curse him that curseth thee: and
in thee shall all families of the
earth be blessed.
Covenant
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Abraham will become a great nation.
Abraham will be blessed, and will be a blessing.
God will bless those who bless Abraham.
God will curse those who curse Abraham.
Abraham’s name (reputation) will become great.
God will use Abraham to bless all families.
Genesis 12:4
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.
Separation Was Key
It Must Occur in Some Form
Separation Was Key
• Abraham just as pagan as everybody else
• Not given any special merit as was Noach
• Abraham had to separate himself from his pagan
background
• Dividing, Electing, Separating
• Man hates letting go of things
• The familiar present always more attractive than the
uncertain future
• Could separation be from family, dear friends, or even
your church? YES! Abraham’s story verifies this.
Concept of Separation Is
Central To Christ’s Teaching
If any man come to me, and hate
not his father, and mother, and
wife, and children, and brethren,
and sisters, yea, and his own life
also, he cannot be my disciple.
Luke 14:26
Concept of Separation Is
Central To Christ’s Teaching
Think not that I am come to send peace on
earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
35For I am come to set a man at variance
against his father, and the daughter against
her mother, and the daughter in law against
her mother in law. 36And a man’s foes shall be
they of his own household. 37He that loveth
father or mother more than me is not worthy
of me: and he that loveth son or daughter
more than me is not worthy of me. 38And he
that taketh not his cross, and followeth after
me, is not worthy of me.
Matthew 10:34
Separation Must Occur in
One Form or Another to Serve Yahweh
And every one that hath forsaken
houses, or brethren, or sisters, or
father, or mother, or wife, or children,
or lands, for my name’s sake, shall
receive an hundredfold, and shall
inherit everlasting life.
Matthew 19:29
• Bible uses words like Set-Apart, Sanctified,
Distinction, to indicate separation.
• Holy = set-apart, sanctified, distinct, separated
Genesis 12:5
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.
Genesis 12:6-7
6And
Abram passed through the
land unto the place of Sichem, unto
the plain of Moreh. And the
Canaanite was then in the land.
7And 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.
• By means of separation
Abraham ratified the
covenant
• This is a Permanent
Covenant
• 1975 – 2000 BC
• 350 Years since flood
• Sarai and Lot go with
Abraham
• Canaanites consisted of
many tribes from the line
of Ham and his son,
Canaan
• 1st Stop; was Shechem
(Today called Nablus)
Abraham in
Canaan
Genesis 12:8-9
8And
he removed from thence unto
a mountain on the east of Bethel,
and pitched his tent, having Bethel
on the west, and Hai on the east:
and there he builded an altar unto
the LORD, and called upon the
name of the LORD. 9And Abram
journeyed, going on still toward the
south.
Abraham Goes To Egypt
• Goes to Egypt to
seek relief from a
famine
• It was typical for
tribes in that area
of Middle East to
go to Egypt for
food
• People traveled
readily, over wellmarked routes
Genesis 12:10
And there was a
famine in the
land: and
Abram went
down into Egypt
to sojourn there;
for the famine
was grievous in
the land.
Genesis 12:11-13
11And
it came to pass, when he was
come near to enter into Egypt, that he
said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I
know that thou art a fair woman to
look upon: 12Therefore it shall come to
pass, when the Egyptians shall see
thee, that they shall say, This is his
wife: and they will kill me, but they
will save thee alive. 13Say, I pray thee,
thou art my sister: that it may be well
with me for thy sake; and my soul
shall live because of thee.
Genesis 12:14-16
14And
it came to pass, that, when
Abram was come into Egypt, the
Egyptians beheld the woman that she
was very fair. 15The princes also of
Pharaoh saw her, and commended her
before Pharaoh: and the woman was
taken into Pharaoh’s house. 16And he
entreated Abram well for her sake:
and he had sheep, and oxen, and he
asses, and menservants, and
maidservants, and she asses, and
camels.
Genesis 12:17-18
17And
the LORD plagued Pharaoh
and his house with great plagues
because of Sarai Abram’s wife.
18And Pharaoh called Abram, and
said, What is this that thou hast
done unto me? why didst thou not
tell me that she was thy wife?
Genesis 12:19-20
19Why
saidst thou, She is my
sister? so I might have taken her
to me to wife: now therefore
behold thy wife, take her, and go
thy way. 20And Pharaoh
commanded his men concerning
him: and they sent him away, and
his wife, and all that he had.
Abraham Prepares A Deception
• Sarai was 75 years old
• Abraham really
prospers in the land
Egypt
• Is given the bride’s
price for Sarai (a
customary gift)
• When Pharaoh
discovers that Sarai is
Avram’s wife, he
returns her
• Orders Avram out of
Egypt
Importance In
Keeping This Covenant
Sheep and Goat Judgment
How People treat Israel
Matthew 25:31-46
31When
the Son of man shall come in his
glory, and all the holy angels with him,
then shall he sit upon the throne of his
glory: 32And before him shall be
gathered all nations: and he shall
separate them one from another, as a
shepherd divideth his sheep from the
goats: 33And he shall set the sheep on his
right hand, but the goats on the left.
34Then shall the King say unto them on
his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my
Father, inherit the kingdom prepared
for you from the foundation of the
world:
Matthew 25
35For
I was an hungered, and ye gave me
meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me
drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me
in: 36Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick,
and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye
came unto me. 37Then shall the righteous
answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we
thee an hungered, and fed thee? or
thirsty, and gave thee drink? 38When saw
we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or
naked, and clothed thee? 39Or when saw
we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto
thee?
Matthew 25
40And
the King shall answer and say
unto them, Verily I say unto you,
Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of
the least of these my brethren, ye have
done it unto me. 41Then shall he say also
unto them on the left hand, Depart from
me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire,
prepared for the devil and his angels:
42For I was an hungered, and ye gave
me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave
me no drink: 43I was a stranger, and ye
took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me
not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited
me not.
Matthew 25
44Then
shall they also answer him,
saying, Lord, when saw we thee an
hungered, or athirst, or a stranger, or
naked, or sick, or in prison, and did
not minister unto thee? 45Then shall
he answer them, saying, Verily I say
unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to
one of the least of these, ye did it not
to me. 46And these shall go away into
everlasting punishment: but the
righteous into life eternal.
Matthew 25
Important and Practical Lessons
1. The call which came to Abram comes to each one
of his believing children
- The call for absolute confidence in God,
- to step out in simple and unquestioning faith
- to separate ourselves from the world to a life of
pilgrimage
- dependency on Jehovah
2. Beware of going down to Egypt
- The friendship of the world is enmity with God
- Time spent in Egypt (the world) is wasted
- Days lived out of communion with God produce
naught but “wood, hay and stubble”
Names Changed
Genesis 17
~r'b.a
yr;f
~h'r'b.a
hr'f
Abram
Sarai
Abraham
Sarah
Genesis
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