GENESIS   12   THE CALL OF ABRAM

1.What Lord said to Abram? (Gen. 12:1)

Ans:  The LORD had said to Abram, “(1) Leave your country, (2) Leave people                (3) Leave your father's household and (4) Go to the land I will show you” (12:1).

2.What promise did the Lord make to Abram?  (Gen. 12:1-3, 7)

Ans:   (1) "I will make you into a great nation (2) I will bless you;  (3) I will make your name   great, and (4)  you will be a blessing. (5) I will bless those who bless you, and (6) whoever curses you I will curse; and (7) all peoples on earth will be blessed through you." (12:1-2)

3.What is the dispensation of Promise?

Ans:  This dispensation begins with the call of Abraham (Gen. 12). It is called the dispensation of “Promise” because of the covenant made with Abraham, who lived in the “land of promise” (Hebrews 6:13; 11:9). Unconditional promises, both physical and spiritual, were made to Abraham and his descendants Isaac and Jacob (Genesis 12:1-3; 15:4-21; 17:1-8; 22:15-19). The stewards are: the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and this covers a Period of about 430 years. The same starts from the call of Abraham to Israel’s arrival at Mt. Sinai.

4.What you know about Abrahamic Covenant? (12:1-3, 6-7; 13:14-17; 17:1-14; 22:15-18).

Ans:  In this covenant, God promised that He would make Abraham’s name great (12:2), and He said unto him: 'I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it (15: 18- 21). Abraham would have numerous physical descendants (Genesis 13:16).  He would be the father of a multitude of nations (Genesis 17:4-5). God also made promises regarding a nation called Israel.  (12:7; 13:14-15, 15:18-21) All the families of the world will be blessed through the physical line of Abraham (12:3; 22:18). N.B. This is a reference to the Messiah, who would come from the line of Abraham.

5. How old was Abram when he set out from Haran? (b) How long he lived?                                                             

 Ans:  Abram was 75 years old (12: 4)     (b) Ans:  175 years.

6. When Abram left Haran, who and what all Abram took with him?

Ans:   He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there (12:5).

7.From Haran, where they reached? Who were there? Who are the Canaanite?

Ans:  They reached into the Land of Canaan. The land named after Canaan, the son of Ham and his descendants, the Canaanites settled in this place (15:18-21)

8.Who appeared to Abram and what He told to him? (12:7).

Ans:  The LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land."

9.Where Abram did built the first altar to the Lord?

Ans:  At Bethel, he built an altar unto the LORD and called upon the name of the LORD (12:8).

10.  What is the meaning of Bethel?

Ans:  Bethel means “House of God”

11.  Why Abram went down to Egypt?

Ans:  “Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down into Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe” (Gen.12:10).

12.  As he was about to enter Egypt, what lie does Abram ask Sarai, to tell?

Ans:  “As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, "I know what a beautiful woman you are.  When the Egyptians see you … Say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake and my life will be spared because of you." (12:11 - 13).

13.  Who took a liking to Sarai?

Ans:  Pharaoh “And when Pharaoh's officials saw Sarai, they praised her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into Pharaoh’s palace” (12:15)

14.  How did the Pharaoh treat Abram because of Sarai?

Ans:   He treated Abram well for her sake.

(b) What 5 things does Pharaoh give to Abram?

   Ans:  Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels (12:16).

15 What did the Lord do to Pharaoh and his house because of Sarai? (Gen. 12:17)

Ans:  “The LORD inflicted serious diseases on Pharaoh and his household …..”

16.  How was Abraham and Sarah related before marriage? (Gen. 20: 12).

Ans:  They were half brother and sister. (His half-sister by a different mother). Later Abraham married Sarah (Ref. Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father though not of my mother; and she became my wife.

17.  How God protected Sarah?

Ans:  By sending “great plagues” on Pharaoh and his house (Gen.12:17).

18.  What does Pharaoh tell Abram to do once he learned that Sarai is Abram’s wife?

Ans:  So Pharaoh summoned Abram. “What have you done to me?” he said. “Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife?  Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!” (12:18, 19).

19.  Finally, How Pharaoh treated Abram and his people?(12:20)

Ans: Pharaoh expelled Abram from Egypt. “Then Pharaoh gave orders about Abram to his men, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and everything he had’.

20.  Please mention, what lesson we get from this chapter?

Ans:  Let us remember that God repeatedly warned people not to seek security and prosperity by going down to Egypt].  “Going to Egypt” is always a metaphor for adopting worldly way.    Abraham went where God had not asked him to go and, fearing the consequences, misled the Egyptians. In so doing, he ruined his testimony before a pagan royal court and caused those people to suffer.

             

 


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