Verses and Sketches

The Abrahamic Covenant Renewed and Clarified   Ge 15:2 And Abram said, Lord God, what will You give me, since I am going childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus? 3 And Abram said, Behold, You have given no seed to me. And behold, one born in my house is my heir. 4 And behold, the word of the LORD came to him saying, This one shall not be your heir. But he that shall come forth out of your own bowels shall be your heir. 5 And He brought him outside and said, Look now toward the heavens and count the stars, if you are able to count them. And He said to him, So shall your seed be. 6 And he believed in the LORD. And He counted it to him for righteousness. * A Hopeless Realization: "...Abram said, Lord God, what will You give me, since I am going childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus? And Abram said, Behold, You have given no seed to me. And behold, one born in my house is my heir." * A Hopeful Revelation:  "And beho...

  The Abrahamic Covenant   Ge 12:2 I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed." * God's National Promise To Abraham:  "I will make you a great nation..."  --- Posterity ("great" or numerous) * God's Personal Promises To Abraham: " I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing.  I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you..."  --- Prosperity ("I will bless you...")  --- Popularity ("...make your name great...") --- Profitability ("...you shall be a blessing..."  --- Principality ("...I will bless those who bless you and I will curse him who curses you...")  * God's Universal Promise To Abraham:  "...in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed....

The Very First United Nations Conference  Ge 11:4 "...Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth." * Their Common Initiative: "...Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens;  --- It was a political movement ("city") --- It was a priestly movement ("tower" or temple)   * Their Common Motive: "...let us make a name for ourselves..." --- It was a prideful movement   * Their Common Objective: "...lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth." --- It was a polemical movement (It controverted God's will to disperse) 

When God Approved The Death Penalty Ge 9:6 "Whoever sheds man's blood, By man his blood shall be shed; For in the image of God He made man. * The Sin Of Murder: "Whoever sheds man's blood..." --- The anticipation of a deadly capacity   --- Human Gore Illustrated (shedding of blood)  * The Sentence On Murder: "...By man his blood shall be shed..." --- The approval of the death penalty   --- Human Government Instituted  * The Seriousness Of Murder: "...For in the image of God He made man." --- The assertion of  a derived dignity  --- Human Glory Indoctrinated (made in the image of God)