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Abraham Is Named
By Peace | July 17, 2008
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said,”I am the Almighty God. Walk in my ways and be perfect. I will make my covenant with you, and your people shall increase greatly.”
Abram knelt down, his face to the ground, and God talked to him, saying,”My covenant I shall keep with you. No longer will you be called Abram; from you shall many be descended. Your name shall be Abraham for I have made you a father of many nations. I will keep my covenant with you and my covenant shall be everlasting with you and your descendants through all generations. Your line shall prosper and from it shall arise nations and kings. To you and to them I will give the land of Canaan, in which you are a stranger, as an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.
As for Sarai, your wife, you shall call her no longer Sarai, but her name be Sarah. I will bless her, and from her you shall have a son. She shall be a mother of nations and of kings.”
Abraham bowed down and laughed to himself, saying,”Can a man a hundred years old have a son? And Sarah, a woman of ninety, can she have a child?”
Then God said,”Sarah, your wife, shall bear a son, and you will call him by the name Isaac. With him and with his children after him will I make my everlasting covenant.”
From Land To Kingdom : People need a land to live in. God therefore promised a land to the man He said would become a ‘great nation’. But a land has to be conquered. The land of Canaan would be conquered only after terrible battles. Christians would later understand that the land promised us by Jesus can be conquered only by battling the violence that is within us. This land is not a territory on earth. It is the Kingdom of God.
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