The Life of Abraham
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Abraham is one of the Bible’s most prominent figures, as the father of the nation of Israel. Through Abraham, God revealed a progressive program of covenants with His people, ultimately fulfilled through the work of His Son, Jesus Christ.
Abraham, originally called Abram, was born in Ur of the Chaldeans, near the Euphrates River in in the southern part of modern-day Iraq. From there he and his family migrated almost eight hundred miles to the northwest and settled in Haran Genesis 11:26-32. At the age of 75 Abraham, and his wife Sarah who was originally called Sarai, were called by God to the land of Canaan Genesis 12:1-9.
After eventually settling in Hebron, God made a covenant with Abraham that he would have a son whose descendants would be as numberless as the stars and would possess the Promised Land Genesis 15:1-21. At the age of 100, in fulfillment of God’s promise, Isaac was born to Sarah and Abraham Genesis 21:1-7.
Abraham faced the ultimate test of faith when God commanded him to sacrifice his son Isaac. Because Abraham was willing to do so, God once again promised to bless him and to multiply his offspring. God spared Isaac from death by providing a substitute sacrifice, foreshadowing the substitutionary death of Christ on the cross Genesis 22:1-19.
Abraham died at the age of 175 and was buried with his wife Sarah in the cave of Machpelah in Hebron. Abraham was the first in the line of Israel’s fathers or patriarchs: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob whose lives are recorded in Genesis 12-50.
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