Bible-believers: What does Genesis 12:1-3 mean to you, right here and now?

Question

Now the LORD said[a] to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."

Answer 1

Through this covenant, the Abrahamic one, God caused Abraham to be the patriarch of the Seed, Jesus Christ.

As it says here, "in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed" and so it is. Christ the descendant of Abraham became the seed that permitted this to come true.

Through the ransom and blood of Christ anyone Gentile or Jew may put faith in this ransom and receive salvation. That is what this means right here and right now.

Anyone not putting faith in this shall not be saved. So, through Christ of the line of Abraham all the families are blessed with this salvation that has been offered to all who wants it.

Answer 2

Though some of the Abrahamic covenant is directly specifically to Abraham (physical move, father of great nation), this covenant is renewed, completed and extended to the Gentiles. Through faith in Jesus Christ, both the Son of God and the Seed of Abraham, we are grafted into the family and into the blessings of the covenant as part of the Church.

We each have to "leave home and family" in the sense that we are to be separate from the world, living "in the world but not of the world" by following the teachings of the Bible and maintaining a spiritual walk with God. While we certainly may see some of the blessings of God during this life, many more are reserved for us in the ultimate Promised Land of eternal life in heaven.
"In you all the families of the earth shall be blessed" refers to God's special blessing upon the nation of Israel which has blessed the world, the blessings for nations whose God is the Lord which extends to all its inhabitants, as well as to humanitarian efforts which have been manifested through time until the present day in the name of Christ.

The Abrahamic covenant is considered as the chief redemptive covenant in the Bible. Every blessing that redeems believers whether descendants of Abraham (children of Israel) or Church Age Christians, flows from this covenant.

Answer 3

The nation which God made of Abraham has changed the world, and exists even unto this hour, in fact, this nation is ISRAEL. It is the glory of Abraham's Faith. God would give this man the meaning of Salvation, which is "Justification by Faith," which would come about through the Lord Jesus Christ, and what Christ would do on the Cross. Concerning this, Jesus said of Abraham, Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My Day: and he saw it, and was glad {Jn. 8:56} To bless Israel, or any Believer, for that matter, guarantees the Blessings of God, and to curse Israel, or any Believer, guarantees that one will be cursed by God.
"Right here and Now"
The United States must stand with Israel, or we will surely fall, and the Blessings the United States have received will ceast to exist and the United States will fail in every way.

Answer 4

It is first and foremost a call to Abraham to leave his old life and to go to a new land. God promises to make Abraham's new nation a great nation, and make Abraham great. Actually as I read it, it says that God will bless those who bless Abraham and curse them who curse Abraham (it does not say Abraham's land, but Abraham. I never caught that before). It says all "families" (meaning every nation, tribe, kindred, all) would be blessed through Abraham. This is referring to Jesus, who was descended through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, as a Man, though Jesus is still God.

However, there are many verses in the Bible in which God chose the nation of Israel. Hosea 11:1 says, "Out of Egypt, I called My son" and in Hosea this refers to the nation of Israel. So, it is best to err on the side of caution and bless Abraham's nation, as well as Abraham -- and his seed, Jesus.

Answer 5

It means that Abram was called to be set apart from his natural family and follow God.
God will bless those who bless Abram's descendants, and curse those who curse Abram's descendants.
The reference to God making Abram a blessing has to do with the ultimate descendant of Abram, Jesus the Anointed.

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Answer 6

The God Yahweh is explaining to Abraham the future evolution of his bloodline and those who are changed by his teachings and become his allies.

Answer 7

properly to be certain that something to be seen life it desires to reproduce. i don't be attentive to if single celled organisms can relatively help reproducing, i think of they simply split while they get super adequate. So the skill got here first.

Answer 8

It was the start of the Jewish Nation.

Answer 9

You have to Read..... FURTHER!

(Deuteronomy 29:13) That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

AND....

(2Samuel 7:23) And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?

AND.....

(Isaiah 18:7) In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.

AND....

(Romans 9:24-25-26) Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?

(Rom 9:25) As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.

(Rom 9:26) And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.

AND..... FINALLY.....

(Hebrews 10:15-16-17) Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,

(Heb 10:16) This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

(Heb 10:17) And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

AND....

(Galatians 3:8) And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.

AND.....

(Philippians 2:10) That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;

GOD..... Calling out ... A PEOPLE..... for Himself... Jew and Gentile.... is the Blessing Promised... to ALL.... NATIONS..... KINDREDS..... AND... PEOPLES.....!

Remember..... the Temporal Kingdom given to Israel..... was Not Fulfilled.... as... ' THEY'... DID NOT KEEP GOD'S COVENANT!

The Temporal Blessings given to Israel.... ARE NOT.... for the Church.... TODAY....! These Are.....

(Ephesians 1:3) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

Thanks, RR

Answer 10

1,,,For me?,,,Abraham BELIEVED God, did as told because of hie trust in HIM, that IT was accounted to him as righteousness. & 2,,,, it IS done!