Genesis 12:13

1
Genesis 121-3

• Three promises
• 1. Many descendents
• 2. Land
• 3. Abram will serve as the channel of blessing

2
Theme Fulfillment of promise / Patriarch's
reaction

• Sub-theme Obstacles arise and God conquers them.
• 1. Famine in the Land / Flee to Egypt / Abram
  does not trust promise (Gen 1210-20)
• 2. Abram and Lot Separate / Abram trusts God for
  land / Lot travels to sodom and Gomorrah (Gen 13
  --gt 18)
• 3. Barrier to the promise Abraham is childless
  (Gen 151-6 16 17 21)
• 4. The maturation of Abraham's faith at Mt.
  Moriah (22 temple tie-in 2 Chron. 31)

3
Jacob

• 1. God overcomes obstacles (2521-13 26)
• 2. Jacob seizes the promise (27), and pays for
  his impetuousness.
• 3. The covenant is confirmed with Jacob (28)
• 4. Jacob lives a life of trouble (29), but
  prospers (3025ff)
• 5. Jacob proves the promise (3222ff) and
  prospers relationally (33).

4
Joseph

• God overcomes obstacles again and preserves his
  people through near-miraculous means.
• On the surface, Joseph seems unlucky, then lucky,
  but Jospeh himself tells us different.
• Joseph's theological confession 5019-20. God
  sovereignly rules history.

5
Gospel and Kingdom

• Gen. 314ff - Protoevangelium (pre-gospel) (cf.
  Rom. 1620)
• God's promises to Abraham are 'yes' in Christ (2
  Cor. 120), and Christians are Abraham's
  offspring (Rom 98)
• Abraham's life is a struggle of faith (Heb.
  118-19). The same will be true for Christians.