Genesis 12:13-14:11
In this episode we begin Genesis chapter 12 where we’re introduced to one of the greatest men in human history. Abram who would later have his name changed by God to Abraham.
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Genesis 12:13-14:11 – Transcript
After God told him to “walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it” (Gen_13:17).
The scroll gives a first person account by Abram of his journey. It confirms what the Bible has said about the land’s beauty and fertility.
The eyewitness (whether or not it was really Abram, we do not know) certainly confirmed the Bible record.
A great many people who visit that land today can’t understand how it could be called a land of milk and honey. Well, in the Book of Deuteronomy we learn what caused the desolation that is seen there today. But it was a glorious land in Abram’s day.
However, there were periods of famine, and Abram left the land and went down to Egypt during such a time.
As Abram neared Egypt, he recognized that he would get into difficulty because of the beauty of his wife.
So, he said to Sarai,
Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee [Genesis12:13].
“Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister.” That was half a lie, as we shall see. Half a lie is sometimes worse than a whole lie, and it certainly was intended to deceive. Abram’s fears were well founded because Pharaoh did take Sarai.
We know from the Book of Esther that in those days there was a period of preparation for a woman to become a wife of a ruler. And during that period of preparation, God “plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues,” and let him know that he was not to take Sarai as his wife.
And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.
And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had [Gen_12:18-20].
God, you see, was overruling in the lives of Abram and Sarai, but God did not appear to him while he was in the land of Egypt.
In the next episode, we continue on in Genesis chapter 12, we’re well and truly implanted on this second bank which we’ll stay on until Chapter 50.
In these first eleven chapters of Genesis, we’ve seen the Creation, the fall of man, the Flood, and the Tower of Babel. These are four great events that covered that long span of years.
Now we move to personalities and individuals. Many are great people, and many are not but all are vital pieces in a jigsaw puzzle that will have every single piece perfectly set in its rightful place. The result reveals a wonderful picture of man reunited with God for an eternity, just the way it was designed to be.
