History Guide by a Promise

Raquel Turnbull
February 20, 2011
BIB 104 module 3 History Guide by a promise
Professor Josh Hartwell

                                  The Abrahamic Covenant and Its Descendants
            God made a promise with Abraham, to make him and his descendants into a great nation.   Abraham went through many tests, as well as his descendants, to make sure they would follow God and do his will. All of these men, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph were faithful to God and realized everything that happened to them happened because it was God’s will, and if Abraham and his descendants would obey God then in the end God would give Abraham and his descendants the promise of the covenant, to be a bless nation and to bless those who bless him, and to curse those who curse him, and all people on the earth will be through him.( Gen 12:1-3)     The common ground for all of the patriarchs was to live by the Torah and believe in God’s   promises. They had to be willing to give up everything to let someone else prosper, and trust in God’s righteousness to carry them through times of hardship and suffering (Harrelson, 1977).
        The covenant /promise God made with Abraham, begins a series of covenants that                                         impact all of the world history events to the modern times. The covenant God made to Abraham, did not start with a formal covenant in the normal biblical sense, but started of smaller promise. God made a promise to Abraham in Genesis 22:18 that   through his” seed” all the nations would be bless because you obeyed me. The promise seed that would come through the family line of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob prove to be none other than Jesus Christ. Joseph and Mary were of the Abrahamic family line. The same promise was repeated to his son Isaac, (Gen 26:24) and Isaac’s son Jacob.
      The people during Abraham’s time worshipped idols and when God came to him and told him to leave his family and friends and travel to an unknown land, the...