Abraham’s Promises

In the book of Genesis we find the list of promises the Lord said to Abram:

1. Now the LORD said to Abram, �Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. 2I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’

2. Genesis 13:15-16: for all the land that you see I will give to you and to your offspring* for ever. 16I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth; so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.

3. Genesis 15:5 He brought him outside and said, �Look towards heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.’ Then he said to him, �So shall your descendants be.’

4. Genesis 15:18-21 18On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, �To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, 19the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, 20the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, 21the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.’

5. Genesis 17:6-8 I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you. 7I will establish my covenant between me and you, and your offspring after you throughout their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring* after you. 8And I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are now an alien, all the land of Canaan, for a perpetual holding; and I will be their God.’

6. Genesis 22:17-18 I will indeed bless you, and I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of their enemies, 18and by your offspring shall all the nations of the earth gain blessing for themselves, because you have obeyed my voice.’

The promises God gave Abram were threatened by several actions of Abram. First God told Abram to separate from his country and his people and go to the land the Lord would show him. Abram was 75 years of age when God commanded him to leave his country and his people. Abram left as God commanded but he brought several of his family members—Lot’s family. God commanded him to leave his people but Abram choice to bring several of his family members. Then shortly before arriving to Egypt Abram, out of fear for his life, suggested his wife lie about there relationship to Pharaoh and the Egyptians. Abram felt that the Egyptians would kill him because Sarai