ABRAHAMıS FAITH About the prologue To Know: ³The Lord had said to Abram, Leave your country, your people and your fatherıs household and go to the land I will show you. I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.ı² (Gen. 12:1-3) The New Testament preachers proclaimed that God has kept his promise. The promise unites the Bible from Genesis 12 to Revelation 22. The promise is the inner meaning of history. Those who believe the promise have insider knowledge that makes sense of otherwise seemingly senseless events. It is the promise that directs events to their appointed end. Genesis 12:1-3 begins the Bible story. Chapters 1-11 of Genesis are the prologue. A prologue prepares the reader to understand the authorsı intent in the pages that follow. The first 11 chapters ready us to hear the story of the God who created a world that rebelled against his will and in the end was judged worthy of being drowned as visible evidence of the doom that waited them in the presence of the judge of all the earth. One man and his family escaped the deluge. Because he alone brought fallen human nature into the world that now is, Noah might as well be another Adam. The prologue closes by revealing how God by his grace acted to keep us from the ever-present danger of self-destruction. God promised Abraham that by his almighty power he would make his descendants into a great nation able to bless all the nations on earth. 011210$-011210 <{{{{{{>< Other posts: |