After Lot separates from Abram, God renews His covenant promise with Abram. However, this time He expands it to INCLUDE Abram himself (Genesis 12:7). However, by the time Abraham dies this promise remains unfulfilled. So what does this mean? This is the principle of resurrection that is taught in the Old Testament.
Now that Abram has returned back to the Promised Land from his stay in Egypt, he discovers that God provides for him there. He repents and continues life with his wife and nephew Lot until there is disagreement about the land resources.
Abram has demonstrated great faith by leaving his father’s household, obeying God and going to the Promised Land. His faith is indeed great, but he/it is still not what God desires it/him to be. So, God gives Abram his first test and he fails miserably. What does this teach us?
We move on now from God’s concentrating on the Seed-line to a particular man/family (Abraham). Abraham is the continuation of the Seed-line, and the further development of God’s desire for a holy people – the Israelite nation.
Now we begin to concentrate on the Seed line from Shem to Abram, as we prepare for the history of the Jewish people, descending from Abram. We prepare to move from a Seed-line to a family (Abraham).
Genesis 10 contains the lists of nations and races, according to their languages that came from the three sons of Noah. But how did we get them all? How did the nations come about? All of this is answered in our study of the Tower of Babel incident and God’s response to Nimrod’s rebellion.
