Genesis 12:1-3 Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
This passage contains one of the great covenants of the Bible. Here is a multi-layered promise to Abraham. It is a promise to give him a great land and name, to make of him a great nation, to bless those who bless him and curse those who dishonor him, and to bless all nations through him. This last promise of this covenant is a reference to the coming Messiah who would be a descendant of Abraham (Matthew 1:1). The Old Testament is the story of the outworking of this covenant to Abraham through God's covenant people Israel, the descendants of Abraham, culminating, of course, in the building expectation of the coming Messiah. And the Messiah's appearance is the story of the New Testament.
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