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From Abram to From Abram to EgyptEgypt

Origin of the people of IsraelOrigin of the people of Israel

God‘s PlanGod‘s Plan

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From Ur to Haran

Father Haran,

Son Abram and his wife Sarai,

nephew Lot,

with many servants,

Move to Haran

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Journeying … where to ?"Go forth from your country, And from your relatives And from your father's house, To the land which I will show you“

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Promise and blessing I I will make you a great nation, And I will

bless you, And make your name great; And so you shall be a blessing!

And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.

Gen 12:2-3

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……you shall be a blessingyou shall be a blessing

… … in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed!!

First fulfillment in Jesus Christ/Yeshua Hamashiah

approx. 2000 years after Abram

Second fulfillment: in the millennial kingdomJesus will come again and set up his earthly kingdom for a thousand years

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Blessing and curse…Blessing and curse…

- depend on our attitude to Israel, the descendants of Abraham

- if we bless Israel, God will bless us

- if we curse Israel = wish or do it evil, we stand under the curse of God

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Journey into the unknown

Abram

trusts God

and obeys

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First promise of landAnd the LORD appeared to Abram and said,

"To your descendants I will give this land."

So he built an altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him.

Gen 12:7

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Lot chooses the Jordan valley

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Second promise of landNow lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward!

For all the land which you see, I will give it to you and to your descendants forever.Arise, walk about the land through its length and breadth; for I will give it to you.

Gen 13:14-17

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Lot is being kidnapped…

Abram with his 318 trained men frees Lot with his possessions, and also the women, and the people.