Abraham’s family

“And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor; Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram, And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel. And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother. And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.”

In Gen 15 the we rad about the time that the Lord first contacted Abraham. At that time he was living in an essentially pagan world. However it is possible that Abraham met Shem and was introduced to the Lord. Whether this is true or not, Abraham heard the Lord’s call and set out to obey the Lord even though he didn’t know where he was going. We have just seen how Abraham trusted the Lord enough to offer his on on the altar. Although, the angel of the Lord prevented him from actually shedding his son’ blood. When the promise first came the Lord promised Abraham “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: 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.” (Gen 12: 2, 3) There was a time when it seemed like there would be no descendants and then the promised descendant was offered up on the altar so it seemed like the promises were in jeopardy again. However, the Lord was in control and nothing was in jeopardy. The interesting thing about the promise was that the Lord would bless all the families of the earth in Abraham. This did in fact happen when the Lord Jesus Christ, the greatest of all of Abraham’s descendants, died as an everlasting sacrifice for sin. This passage comes all the way back to the Abraham’s first personal encounter with the Lord. The Lord told him that all the families of the earth would be blessed. Now the Lord allows us to see what happened to Abraham’s family. Every person on earth has a family of some description, even though the may never know them. This means that every person on earth has access to all the blessing of belonging to God’s family as well.

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(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)