Browse other questions tagged, Start here for a quick overview of the site, Detailed answers to any questions you might have, Discuss the workings and policies of this site. God is not only sovereign in salvation, but sovereign in the process of sanctification. In this life we cannot expect to fully possess what lies in the future, but only to survey it. Besides, Abram and Sarai were no doubt especially dear to him, and he did not wish to lose their society. 32 Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran. The faith to which we are called is not faith in a plan, but faith in a person. I see Terah took Abram, Lot & Sarai to go to Canaan, & died on route in Haran, seemingly before God spoke to Abram to leave his country. There are many speculations on why Terah took his family, left the Ur of the Chaldeans and headed for Canaan. It grows through time and through testing. Terah took him out of Ur (Genesis ch.11). God also appeared to Moses at the time of his call (Exodus 3:2, etc.). I guess he was mad that you were allowing yourself to be misled by the other, false idols.". If we fix our eyes upon the method of the divine revelation, we find a new beginning in this respect, that as soon as Abram is called, we read of the appearing of God. God told Abram to leave without knowing where the path of obedience would lead, but believing that God was leading as he went. 130 Cf. David saw Him by the threshing-floor of Araunah, standing between heaven and earth, with the sword drawn in His hand and stretched out over Jerusalem (1 Chronicles 21:16); and He appeared to Zechariah in a vision as a rider upon a red horse (Zechariah 1:9.). God promised Abram a great name (what the people of Babel sought, 11:4) as a result of leaving Ur, leaving the security of his relatives, and trusting only in God. Ur was in the southern part of Mesopotamia, and was the starting point for Abraham's journey to Canaan. Abram would have been on social security for over ten years. A priest implies a considerable body of true worshippers scattered over the country. We will examine these, first of all, for the purpose of obtaining a clear conception of the form in which the Angel of Jehovah appeared. (Note: In the old Jewish synagogue the Angel of Jehovah was regarded as the Shechinah, the indwelling of God in the world, i.e., the only Mediator between God and the world, who bears in the Jewish theology the name Metatron. That is what is implied in the Jewish oral tradition about Abe. Can a VGA monitor be connected to parallel port? Terah is the one who told the people to leave Ur Kasdim in the book of Genesis, not Abram. Terah wanted to leave Ur because he was afraid a war would start. At least two things must be said in response to this question. In addition to this, He performs miracles, consuming with fire the offering placed before Him by Gideon, and the sacrifice prepared by Manoah, and ascending to haven in the flame of the burnt-offering (Judges 6:21; Judges 13:19-20). Now Abram was one hundred years old when Isaac was born, and consequently the call was given when he was seventy years of age - about five years before he entered the land of Kenaan Genesis 12:4. God has said that all men are sinners, deserving of, and destined to eternal punishment. I believe it. Abram was a man like you and me. Moses did not give us all the background needed to properly grasp the significance of the call of Abram, but it has been recorded for us in the Bible. Ultimately, the whole world was blessed by the coming of the Messiah, who came to save men of every nation, not just the Jews: Therefore, be sure that it is those who are of faith that are sons of Abraham. I can identify with men and women like this. As the writer to the Hebrews put it, he went out, not knowing where he was going (Hebrews 11:8). For the election of God was not restricted to the separation of Abram from the family of Shem, to be the father of the nation which was destined to be the vehicle of salvation; it was also manifest in the exclusion of Ishmael, whom Abram had begotten by the will of man, through Hagar the handmaid of his wife, for the purpose of securing the promised seed, and in the new life imparted to the womb of the barren Sarai, and her consequent conception and birth of Isaac, the son of promise. Secondly, consistent with this approach, the author does not stress the timing of Abrams obedience. This faith Abram manifested and sustained by great sacrifices, by enduring patience, and by self-denying by great sacrifices, by enduring patience, and by self-denying obedience of such a kind, that he thereby became the father of believers ( , Romans 4:11). Chapter 12 begins a new division in the book of Genesis. Terah wanted to leave Ur because he was afraid a war would start. There is a dispute about that too, if we take into account the Samaritan Pentateuch we accept a version that states that Terah only lived 145 years. He quoted the shopworn saying, God said it. l. 5. c. 18. Abe replied something like, "I saw that remaining idol in the corner smash all the others. Broken down with fatigue, he halts for a season at Haran to recruit his wasted powers. Terah, Jewish literature records, was a craftsman who made idols. Terah left the city of Ur probably for two reasons: 1. Terah had still been an idolater, when God called Abe the first time. They sought blessing in the product of their own labors, rather than in the promise of God. Genesis - NIV Application Commentary by John Walton. Christian faith grows. For , constructed with two accusatives, the second of which expresses the materia ex qua, is never met with in this sense, not even in 2 Chronicles 4:18-22. The mid-life crisis would have been past history for him. The dispersion of the descendants of the sons of Noah, who had now grown into numerous families, was necessarily followed on the one hand by the rise of a variety of nations, differing in language, manners, and customs, and more and more estranged from one another; and on the other by the expansion of the germs of idolatry, contained in the different attitudes of these nations towards God, into the polytheistic religions of heathenism, in which the glory of the immortal God was changed into an image made like to mortal man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things (Romans 1:23 cf. Then came he out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Charran; and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell" Acts 7:2-4. they came unto Harantwo days' journey south-southeast from Ur, on the direct road to the ford of the Euphrates at Rakka, the nearest and most convenient route to Palestine. It is of interest to note that Islam holds Abram second in importance to Mohammed, with the Koran referring to Abraham 188 times.128. Did God give an oath to Isaac as alluded in Psalms 105:8-10? But in Genesis 18:1. it is stated that three men came to Abram, one of whom is introduced as Jehovah, whilst the other two are called angels (Genesis 19:1). When Abram had an encounter with God, [1] this brother directed his family to leave their native land and go to the land of Canaan. No stop along the path was irrelevant or without purpose. . Do you know that after Abram entered the land of Canaan it was another 25 years until he had his son, Isaac? So Terah had two reasons to leave the city of Ur of the Chaldees. Balaam He met in a human or angelic form, with a drawn sword in His hand (Numbers 22:22-23). Personally I believe that there is some kind of missionary function being carried out by Abram. For some reason, Terah and his family stopped short of Canaan, and remained in Haran. Abraham was the tenth generation from Noah through Shem and was born 352 years after the Deluge, in 2018 B.C.E. God providentially led Terah to pull up roots at Ur and to move toward Canaan (11:31). God called him in Ur, but Abram did not leave his fathers house or his relatives. The account that can be deduced from these four sources looks like this: Abe had had decisive contact from Shem, as is implied by the fact that Shem's autobiographical account (Genesis 11:10-23) ends with Abe. People came to offer sacrifices to these idols, or to buy them, and Terah had a thriving business. It was not until chapter 15 that a full description of the land was given: On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates: (Genesis 15:18). Specifically, Stephen's comment, in reply to the high priest (Acts 7:1), is based on Jewish oral tradition, and was recognized by the Jewish High Counsel (called the "Sanhedren"). For the nation was to grow out of the family, and in the lives of the patriarchs its character was to be determined and its development foreshadowed. They followed the Euphrates River, with their herds, to the Paddan Aram region. Why did Lot offer up his daughters to be gang raped? (p) Itinerarium, p. 60. Why didn't Abraham tell Isaac the truth in Genesis 22? (l) Hist. Ur was a large and prosperous city-state in Mesopotamia (present-day southern Iraq). Terah started out well (11:31), journeyed about four months, probably stopped at Babylon and then did something very strange. 135. The first eleven chapters have often been called primeval history. The last chapters are known as patriarchal history. While the effect of mans sin has become increasingly widespread, the fulfillment of the promise of God in Genesis 3:15 has become more selective. Secondly, the Angel of God was recognised as God by those to whom He appeared, on the one hand by their addressing Him as Adonai (i.e., the Lord God; Judges 6:15), declaring that they had seen God, and fearing that they should die (Genesis 16:13; Exodus 3:6; Judges 6:22-23; Judges 13:22), and on the other hand by their paying Him divine honour, offering sacrifices which He accepted, and worshipping Him (Judges 6:20; Judges 13:19-20, cf. So, according to that oral history, Abe one day waited for Terah to go out of Terah's idol-making shop, and then Abe smashed all the idols except the biggest one that stood prominently in the corner of the shop. Haran was in the north, where Terah, Abraham's father, had taken him after Terah's father died (Genesis 11:27-32). set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But why did they intend to go into the land of Canaan? As Abram subsequently continued this migration in simple dependance upon Gods guidance (Genesis 12:1), it was probably the Divine rather than the human purpose that is here expressed. Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience. Most of the errors so popular in Christian circles concerning the nature of the life of faith can be corrected by a study of the life of Abraham. This seems to be upheld by Scripture: "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'Long ago your ancestors, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates River and served other gods'" (Josh 24:2). Five years? What are some tools or methods I can purchase to trace a water leak? Stephen clarifies the time that Abram was first called of God. Terah traveled 150 miles out of his way. Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his Genesis 11:27-32 gives a genealogy leading up to Abram and Sarai, beginning with Terah, Abram's father. Thus, he seems to have rejected Stephens words flatly. Hence, also, Abram lingers in Haran, waiting to take his father with him to the land of promise, if he should revive so far as to be fit for the journey. Terah left the city of Ur probably for two reasons: 1. But it seems in Genesis only the call to leave Haran is recorded. There are ample evidences of elaborate wealth, skilled craftsmanship, and advanced technology and science.131 All of this tells us something of the city which Abram was commanded to leave. As such, it would have been an act flowing from faith. Terah, Abraham's father, was grieving for his son Haran. In attempting now to determine the connection between the appearance of the Angel of Jehovah (or Elohim) and the appearance of Jehovah or Elohim Himself, and to fix the precise meaning of the expression Maleach Jehovah, we cannot make use, as recent opponents of the old Church view have done, of the manifestation of God in Genesis 18 and 19, and the allusion to the great prince Michael in Daniel 10:13, Daniel 10:21; Daniel 12:1; just because neither the appearance of Jehovah in the former instance, nor that of the archangel Michael in the latter, is represented as an appearance of the Angel of Jehovah. This whole calculation exactly agrees with the incidental statement of Paul to the Galatians Gal 3:17 that the law was four hundred and thirty years after the covenant of promise. By clicking Accept all cookies, you agree Stack Exchange can store cookies on your device and disclose information in accordance with our Cookie Policy. That settles it. The preacher said it could be said even shorter. They lived in a city called Ur . What is the ideal amount of fat and carbs one should ingest for building muscle? In the first place, the Angel of God identifies Himself with Jehovah and Elohim, by attributing to Himself divine attributes and performing divine works: e.g., Genesis 22:12, "Now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me" (i.e., hast been willing to offer him up as a burnt sacrifice to God); again (to Hagar) Genesis 16:10, "I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude;" Genesis 21, "I will make him a great nation,"-the very words used by Elohim in Genesis 17:20 with reference to Ishmael, and by Jehovah in Genesis 13:16; Genesis 15:4-5, with regard to Isaac; also Exodus 3:6., "I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob: I have surely seen the affliction of My people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry, and I am come down to deliver them" (cf. 10. sect. Stephen calls it Charran it is by Herodian (l) called by Ptolemy (m) Carrae, by Pliny (n) Carra, a city famous in Lucan (o) for the slaughter of Crassus, by whom it is called an Assyrian city. Hence, they all abode in Haran for the remainder of the five years from the date of Abram's call to leave his native land. 305-306. However, Abraham discouraged potential customers from buying the idols, explaining to them the futility of worshipping statues that were only fashioned that very day. It is true that from the very beginning God had manifested Himself visibly to men; but in the olden time we read nothing of appearances, because before the flood God had not withdrawn His presence from the earth. Additionally, we can conjecture that he was born sometime during the 20th century BCE and dwelt in the land of Ur, commonly referred to as Ur III by historians. 2 And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran, 3 And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall show thee. While not all Bible students agree on the location of Ur,129 most agree that it is the Ur of southern Mesopotamia, on what used to be the coast of the Persian Gulf. Abram died at the ripe old age of 175 (25:7-8), a much shorter time than Shem (11:10-11) or Arpachshad (11:12-13). If His Word is not true and reliable, then we, of all men, are most miserable.. So we know that Abraham told his father Terah to leave, because God appeared to Abraham, not Terah. Terah was born when his father was 29 years of age. The giants of the faith seem to be sterling characters with no evident flaws, with machine-like discipline, and unfaltering faith. - All this occurred as a type for the future, that Israel might know and lay to heart the fact, that bodily descent from Abraham did not make a man a child of God, but that they alone were children of God who laid hold of the divine promise in faith, and walked in the steps of their forefather's faith (cf. Later he was instructed to go up to Bethel (35:1; cf. Do not expect that God will indicate each turn in the road with a clearly marked sign. Vos, Genesis and Archaeology, pp. Terah, it seems, decided to stay in the northern Mesopotamian "city of Haran," (no connection with his son Haran) rather than continue the journey to Canaan, which was the family's original intent. Therefore, the failures are not mentioned. Cassuto concludes that Abrams journey unknowingly outlined the territory which would belong to Israel, and that the places he stopped symbolically forecast the future conquest of the land.137 In an additional comment, Cassuto adds the fact that these places were also religious centers of Canaanite worship.138 In effect, Abrams actions of building altars and proclaiming the name of the Lord prophesied the coming time when true religious worship would overcome the pagan religion of the Canaanites. Why did Terah want to leave Ur? For the greater part of the temple furniture summed up in this passage, of which it is stated that Solomon made them of gold, was composed of pure gold; and if some of the things were merely covered with gold, the writer might easily apply the same expression to this, because he had already given a more minute account of their construction (e.g., Genesis 3:7). God was going to make a new nation, not merely revise an existing one. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot. He simply wrote, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out. Let us remember that Abram did go to Canaan, just as Moses went to Egypt, but not without considerable pressure from God. 133 Although it may appear from a superficial reading of the account in Genesis (11:31-12:1) that God called Abraham while in Haran, thereby contradicting Stephens account that God called Abraham in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, the two accounts can be harmonized by noting that Genesis 11:27-32 is a parenthetical account of Terah introduced by a waw disjunctive, and that Genesis 12:1, introduced by a waw consecutive, carries on the main narrative which was discontinued in Gen. 11:26. Bruce Waltke, Unpublished Class Notes, Dallas Theological Seminary, pp. We reached the conclusion that God called Abram to leave Ur in order to travel to Canaan, and he did that before Terah's death, although he Did Abraham meet Jacob as alluded in Hebrews 11:9? Who the messenger or angel of Jehovah was, must be determined in each particular instance from the connection of the passage; and where the context furnishes no criterion, it must remain undecided. In the year 1921 B.C. 2. Terahs migration was partly perhaps a movement of a tribe of the Semites northwards (see Note on Genesis 11:28), made restless by the Elamites, who about this time overran Western Asia; but chiefly it had a religious motive: for Ur was the especial seat of the worship of the moon-god, Sin; and though Terah had not attained to the purity of Abrahams faith, yet neither was he altogether an idolater. In Genesis chapter 12 we come not only to a new division and an important theological covenant, but most of all to a great and godly manAbraham. It's A Mystery Until This Day Terah turned north of his route to Canaan. Over 40 Old Testament references are made to Abraham. Cassuto has suggested that the places mentioned (Shechem, Bethel, the Negev) are significant. And later in the story Rachel, Terah's great-great-granddaughter, does seem keen to hold on to the Teraphim (household idols) as if they were a family heirloom (Gen 31:19). 133-134. Why did Abraham banish Ishmael (Genesis 21:14). (5) The Christian walk is simply doing what God has told us to do and believing that He is leading us as we do so. But we neither regard this rendering of the psalm as in harmony with the context, nor assent to the assertion that with a double accusative, in the sense of making into anything, is ungrammatical.)<. As we will see next week, the Lord in His grace reached into a family that did not know Him and called Abram out to create a people devoted to Himself. Then Joshua built an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, in Mount Ebal (Joshua 8:30). It was both a very early and a very late outpost of Chaldean power. In the land of Uz, a Shemite, perhaps even at a later period, lived Job; and in the neighboring districts of Arabia were his several friends, all of whom acknowledged the true God. The other day I heard a preacher put it very pointedly. The Scriptures show that Terah was 70 year. I would hope that our study of the initial period of his life indicates otherwise. Nearly one-fourth of the book of Genesis is devoted to this mans life. Blessing would come through Abraham in several ways. 1. (n) Nat. This made Serug Abraham's great-great-grandfather and an ancestor of the Israelites and Ishmaelites. l. 1. c. 6. sect. He left Haran, not because it was the easiest thing to do, but because God intended for him to do it. How to delete all UUID from fstab but not the UUID of boot filesystem. He does not invest heavily in that which will not last. (j) Ut supra. "A faith, which laid hold of the word of promise, and on the strength of that word gave up the visible and present for the invisible and future, was the fundamental characteristic of the patriarchs" (Delitzsch). Terah had himself been betrayed into compliance with this form of impiety. He is removed to the better country, and by his departure contributes no doubt to deepen the faith of his son Abram, of his grandson Lot, and of his daughter-in-law Sarai. Well, it was written in Genesis that his birth name was Abram, before God changed his name to Abraham, and that he was the son of Terah. This points to the fact that Ur may have been one of the largest and wealthiest cities in the Tigris-Euphrates area when Abraham emigrated northward to Haran. Schultz, Abraham, ZPEB, I, p. 22. Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. Accordingly, the name of the true God was known and revered, at least in outward form, wherever Abram went, throughout the land. "By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed and went out to a place he was going to receive as an inheritance. 14-15. The heroes of the Bible are men with like passions (James 5:17) and feet of clay. Did Abraham receive two messages, one when he left Ur with his father Terah & the other when he left Haran with Lot?. The sovereignty of God in salvation is beautifully illustrated in the call of Abram. Can you fathom the fact that after leaving Haran for Canaan, God worked in Abrams life for one hundred years? 137 Now we can understand why the Torah stressed, in all their detail, Abrams journeys on entering the land of Canaan, at first as far as Schechem, and subsequently up to Ai-Bethel. (1) Abrams faith was commenced at the initiative of God. It may be supposed at at that time God had then called Abe, and Abe's response to God's call was the dramatic ploy that Jewish oral tradition says that Abe did: Abe was determined to do anything necessary to try to convince his father, Terah, to take Shem's witness to heart. Abrams early history is partly that of his gradual disentanglement from country, kindred and fathers house, a process not completed until the end of chapter 13. Derek Kidner, Genesis (Chicago: InterVarsity Press, 1967), p. 113. It was not in Haran, as a casual reading of Genesis 12 might incline us to believe, but in Ur. How to draw a truncated hexagonal tiling? But whilst, regarded in this light, the continuity of the divine revelation was guaranteed, as well as the plan of human development established in the creation itself, the call of Abram introduced so far the commencement of a new period, that to carry out the designs of God their very foundations required to be renewed. This land never belonged to Abram in his lifetime, even as God had said (15:13-16). When he is promised a land, and when that land is not given, he must look beyond the promise to its Maker so that he may understand. So Terah was finally convinced to believe that Shem's advice was right. Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there. What a thrill that must have been for the people of Moses day to read this promise and realize that the time for possession had come. Think of it. Romans 9:6-13). One of the first questions I had to answer for my current project was: why would only part of Abraham's family leave Ur? Though proceeding by easy stages, the aged patriarch seems to have been exhausted by the length and the difficulty of the way. The command of God to Abram is, in effect, a reversal of what man attempted at Babel. Thank God our spiritual lives are ultimately dependent upon His faithfulness and not ours. On the form in which God appeared, in most instances, nothing is related. That verse is not implying that God called Abe out of the blue, nor Abe at random of all persons. Bob was born and raised in a Christian home i More, The Net Pastors Journal, Eng. Can patents be featured/explained in a youtube video i.e. Abraham received only one call (Genesis 12:1). However, for whatever reason Terah decided to cut his journey short and settle everybody in a place called Haran. (3) The Christians walk is a pilgrimage. Hence, Abram is placed first in the list of Terah's sons, simply on account of his personal pre-eminence as the father of the faithful and the ancestor of the promised seed; he and his brother Nahor are both much younger than Haran, are married only after his death, and one of them to his grown-up daughter Milkah; and he and his nephew Lot are meet companions in age as well as in spirit. Is quantile regression a maximum likelihood method? Do what God tells you to do in the most sensible way you know how. But does such a claim contradict the words of Scripture? The angel of God, who shows the sacred seer the heavenly Jerusalem, and who is supposed to say, "Behold, I come quickly" (Revelation 22:7), and "I am Alpha and Omega" (Revelation 22:13), refuses in the most decided way the worship which John is about to present, and exclaims, "See I am thy fellow-servant: worship God.". , false idols. `` speculations on why terah took his family stopped short of Canaan was... 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