What would it take to convince you to move across the country? A beefy job? Extreme boredom?
Recap
- Abram didn’t know God when he was called. He lived in a household that followed pagan gods.
- God spoke to Abram because He still wanted a relationship with all people, even though they had deserted Him.
- Abram was willing to leave his family, culture, and way of life behind to go to an unknown location.
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The Oak of Moreh
Abram has packed up everything and set out for a land he’s never seen. Play the cutscene to find out what happened when he arrived.
4 So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. 5 Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they went to go into the land of Canaan. They entered into the land of Canaan.
6 Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time, Canaanites were in the land. 7 Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.”
He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him. 8 He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on Yahweh’s name. 9 Abram traveled, still going on toward the South.
Discussion Questions
Notice the author wrote that God “appeared” twice in the same verse (Genesis 12:7), just in case readers missed it the first time: “Yahweh appeared to Abram… He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.”
The Big Surprise
The big surprise here is that God appeared to Abram in person. This is the start of a pattern in the Bible that could help answer the question, “How do we know the Bible is actually from God?”
This series will answer that question by revealing God’s direct, physical appearances throughout the Bible.
Notes to Yourself
I learned this about myself…
I learned this about God…
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible (WEB), which is in the public domain. Abram’s journey and God’s appearance at the oak of Moreh: Genesis 12:4–9.
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