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.
Genesis 10 deals with the separation of the sons of Noah into families and nations of peoples. It presupposes the events of Genesis 11 (Tower of Babel) and gives a listing of the 70 distinct nations that will be created from this event.
Now that the flood has ended and life begins to return to normal, it is interrupted by a prophetic curse by Noah on one of his sons. What does this mean? Are “Black” people the descendants of Canaan? And are Black people cursed? Was it Scripturally justified to enslave Blacks based on how certain southern Americans interpreted this passage?
