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unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou
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Here we see Abraham walked with God to a point where
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Abraham began his
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that Abraham built an altar unto the LORD, who
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Gen: 20:11: And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake
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Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife
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even toady as God of Abraham
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God of Abraham is the
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name that defines Abraham relationship with God
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blessing and faith without mentioning Abraham
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The bible says Abraham is our father of faith and we are
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is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all
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Here we see the promises God made with Abraham when
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in return was that Abraham and his seed will honor or
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When you look at the covenant God made with Abraham
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Therefore, God made a covenant with Abraham
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covenant God made with Abraham was more than just
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Gal: 3:9: So that, all who put their faith in Christ are blessed with faithful Abraham
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Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindred’s of the
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He made with Abraham
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promised to bless through Abraham our father of faith
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and called God of Abraham
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The bible says Abraham believed God and God counted
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reveled Himself to Abraham and walked with him is not
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Abraham was old, but believed God’s promise about his descendants
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was in the times of Abraham, when God created something out of that
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Faith is defined by the faith of Abraham
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We read later that Jacob relates back to Abraham and the god of his father Nahor
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Many times we read the story and we think, “Oh good for Abraham!” He gets onto the top of the mountain, and builds the altar, and Isaac asks, “Where is the sacrifice?” Abram then says that God will offer the sacrifice
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Abraham – God’s Answer to the Nations
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It is through them that the promise of Abraham continues
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It is quite foreign to us as Gentiles, but we really do need to identify with the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
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He is specifically the God of Abraham
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It is upon Israel’s salvation that the nations are thus brought into the covenant made with Abraham
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All the way back at the promise of Abraham we can read that God’s intention was to bless all the nations of the earth (Genesis 12:3)
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This is also why Abraham is mentioned in the New Testament as being a pilgrim and stranger in the land
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What does it mean to dwell in the tents of Shem? It is from the lineage of Shem that Abraham comes
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up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side
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Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and
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23And in hell he lifts up his eyes, being in torments, and sees Abraham afar off, and
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24And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he
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25But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receive thy good things,
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28There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac,
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"He wet the bed again," Abraham said, poking the sheet
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Abraham said, and so Matt did all the dishes, washed the laundry and watered the plants
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Abraham rewarded him with a handful of pennies
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"But you haven't said a thing about the STONE, is it something like Abraham used to lead his people out of Egypt, or Moses followed in leading his people in the wilderness?" She could’ve asked about Noah, or even the Mormon prophet, but the example was enough
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Abraham was a friend of God
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In Genesis 18 we see that God wondered if he should share a secret with Abraham
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He did reveal his secrets to Abraham
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She'd finally got a program to convert that base six number and sixty four point something day year and find out this guy was older than Abraham, the one in the Bible, not Lincoln
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Abraham recognized the Lord
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It was because Abraham was a friend of God that friends
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It is in that place of simple faith that, like Abraham, I can travel to a land that I do not know,
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It is interesting that the time of Israel, from Abraham to Jesus,
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"There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and
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The older man said, “I"m Abraham
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” Abraham stated in his deep voice
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“The Angels told us,” Abraham replied in a hushed, reverent voice
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length of the name in letters; number of vowels; number of consonants and many other properties used in this genealogy that stretches from Abraham all the way to Jesus Christ; the language and numbering system that would be employed - would finally fit like small pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, that would only reveal a masterly constructed design, once the final piece was fitted
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Isa 41:8 - 10 But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend
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For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin
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February 1861, and Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as
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President Abraham Lincoln was reelected president, defeating
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bars in a federal fortress and charged with being an accessory to the murder of Abraham Lincoln
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The real visionary of the Civil War was President Abraham
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I must place Joseph right alongside Abraham as a Pillar of Faith
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The CSS's most famous victim was Abraham Lincoln
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We conclude the subject of judgment with the question which Abraham
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Eventually, by a time somewhat before Abraham, a de-Marché had settled over this dispute wherein, when shepherding nomads wished to approach villages and towns (for purposes of necessary trade), according to Bible sources, they would send, ahead of that approach, an ambassador to assure of their peaceful intent
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The story of Abraham, by my estimate, took place around the middle of the seventeenth century BC
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The length of Abraham’s stay in Haran is not certain, but with the long popularity of the Epic story, certainly it would have been told and retold more than enough times to have become a tradition long before the time when “God” spoke to Abraham about leaving for parts south
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The story of Abraham begins in chapter 12 of Genesis
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Knowing the date of the Exodus, then adding the 450 years of the Joseph story, and the three generations that retrace to Abraham, is how I arrived at the middle of the seventeenth century BC, also referred to earlier, admittedly a very rough approximation
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The thirty-eight chapters, moving backward from Exodus to Abraham took approximately six hundred years
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Considering the apparent foreshortening of time as one searches back into biblical ancient history, the six chapters that it took to move forward to Abraham from the flood of Noah, might fit into the two hundred years’ difference between Abraham’s stay in Haran and the earliest discovered copy (1,900 BC) of the Gilgamesh Epic
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Assuming that I’m correct in the dating of the story of Abraham to the middle of the seventeenth century, the flood story now appears to be, thanks to Gilgamesh, much older than any beginning “guestimate
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The Story of Abraham
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In trying to plot the chronology of the flood story, I used Abraham as a stepping stone, as it were
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As you will probably remember, my determining the approximate time in recorded history that the Exodus occurred, which has been historically identified, was the basis that allowed me to travel backward toward the time of Abraham
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Then came the two generations of his father Jacob, and grandfather Isaac, the son of Abraham, and as a consequence, I made an estimate of the proximate time of the flood story according to Bible sources from that semi-historical platform
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These then are the relevant excerpts from that story as it related to Abraham
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“The story of Abraham, by my estimate, took place around the middle of the seventeenth century BC
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This is similar to the journey of Gilgamesh (of the Epic) where he went up the Euphrates to fight the “giants of the mountains” on his way to meeting Utnapishtim of the (Epic’s) flood story…The length of Abraham’s stay in Haran is not certain but with the long popularity of the epic story, certainly it would have been told and retold more than enough times to have become a tradition long before the time when ‘God’ spoke to Abraham about leaving for parts south
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Is the story of Abraham also a parable? This biblical account seems to be much more than a story about of a single man’s epic journey in response to his “God’s” direction
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Many think the mountain God directed Abraham to is the Mount of Olives, next to where the much later Temple Mount would be erected in Jerusalem, the Salem of Melchizedek
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In the end, God excused Abraham from actually committing the child sacrifice that had been a common practice among the Canaanites and many others in the surrounding lands for unnumbered generations before him
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Why is this episode even in the story of Abraham? It would seem to invite a point of confusion: an omniscient God, changing his mind? It is simply excused as a test of faith
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The furor within the society which had bred Abraham, directed toward the overthrow of their “God most high,” seems to indicate a “point of trespass” that they were unwilling to tolerate
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Within this narrative, I also hope to convince you that the name of a Mesopotamian “God-Most-High” known as EL, as revealed through discoveries in archaeology is the same as that implied in the name of the high priest of Salem in the biblical story of Abraham, M-EL-chizedek (see also ch
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He had been convincing, as usual, Abraham thought, for the time came when we all left that place
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From extra-biblical sources it has been theorized that “Abram” (Abraham) as a young man had engaged in the destruction of clay idols and that may have been why the move to Haran was necessary
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Could the short introduction to the biblical story of Abraham then be a parable representing the movement of followers of EL, the “God Most High” away from the religious power center of Ur? Because it was the eastern anchor of the Fertile Crescent, it would have made more sense to flee up the Euphrates River than to try to escape into the harsh desert environment that was the southern limit of their land
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How does Melchizedek fit into this story? The encounter between Abraham and the “King of Salem” seems to have taken place only after Abraham was well settled into the land
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Was this why God had directed Abraham to go into Canaan? Because there were other followers there, in places, but maybe not well organized into a single physical overall entity?
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Is it possible that by the time of Abraham and his great grandson Joseph, with his influence on a pharaoh, the ancient idea of a single god was reignited in the Egyptian consciousness? There was, after all, only a little less than three hundred years between them
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But then, within the life span of Abraham and his sons the land failed them twice, it is thought
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Drought forced Abraham, and again during the life of his grandson Jacob, to sojourn into Egypt where the story of Joseph unfolded
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Why did he feel that need except that there was a remnant of the followers of EL in it and other places, that the followers of Yahweh felt a strong need to take, or was it really to retake? Jebusites had settled there or taken it by force at some time between the time of Abraham and David
