BRAGADAYJAH 28

Having laid the evidential foundation for the origin of man and of the nations, God next turns His attention toward choosing out a man to be the father of all nations in general, and of the Jewish nation in particular. That man was Abram, whose name God later changed to Abraham. Now one may say that Abram must have been a very special, maybe a particularly righteous man, perhaps the only perfect man in all the earth, for his special mission; but the evidence of Abrams story does not exactly bear out such a point of view. The story shows that Abram was often weak, faithless, and undeceive; but clearly God chose him because God new that, for all Abram’s weaknesses, he was a man He could work with and work through. Not surprisingly, Abram was well induced, as we shall see shortly; because the promises God made to him were particularly attractive, the kind of promises that no reasonable man could refuse. Chapters 12 – 50 of the first book, Genesis, deal almost entirely with the call of the Jewish Nation; and so it may be instructive to know why of all the nations then extant, God chose to be almost exclusively from Abram to the coming of Christ, to be the God of the Jews only. It is submitted that God had three main purposes in calling out a particular group of people, which we know as the Hebrews, the Jews, particularly since we know that they were particularly, selfish, stiff-necked, disobedient, unthankful, rebellious and sinful. Yet God stuck with them, gave them land and protection, led them in battle and in peace, fed them water them and blessed them, and time after time, gave them victory over their enemies. More….