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Abraham

• ¶ 1Abraham is the source of the three monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. He is the ancestor of the Jewish people; for Christians he is the…
• ¶ 2Abraham is renowned as the first monotheist, who came to the truth of the one God despite growing up in an idol-maker’s household. Then…
• ¶ 15…one day God called him saying, “Abraham, Abraham! You must leave from the house of your father Terah and go to the land I will show…

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Abraham is the third providential central figure of God's restoration providence, approximately ten generations after Noah failed to begin the lineage from which Jesus would eventually come.

Chapter. 9 Abraham's Family Moses’ Family

• ¶ 1Abraham's failure to cut his offering in two
• ¶ 16Isaac grew up watching his father Abraham making offerings a lot. Therefore, Isaac knew that he was to become an offering when his father tied him…
• ¶ 18“The blessing God promised to give to Abraham was a blessing on the world level.

Abraham's Family

• ¶ 2Abraham was to be placed in the same position as Adam and Noah. It was thus necessary for Abraham to make restitution for the failure of…
• ¶ 14Abraham asked God how to obtain this blessing.
• ¶ 23Abraham should have cut the birds in half. His failure to do so made a base for Satan's intervention in his offering. Thus, vultures came…

Abraham And Sarah's Family

• ¶ 20Abraham knew that ordinary daily life was not something of which the people could he be proud., When God's command was given to him in…
• ¶ 23Abraham was determined that regardless of what kind of ordeals and difficulties he might face, he would overcome them hundreds and thousands of times. Because the…
• ¶ 34Abraham feared that the Pharaoh would have him killed if he found out that he was Sarah's husband. Indeed, at the Pharaoh's command, Abraham…

The Providence of Restoration in Abraham’s Family

• ¶ 2Abraham’s family was to restore the foundation for the Messiah, which Noah’s family had left incomplete, and receive the Messiah upon that foundation. Thus…
• ¶ 9Abraham was to inherit the mission of Noah and thus the mission of Adam. In this capacity, he represented restored Adam. As God had blessed Adam…
• ¶ 19Abraham offered three types of objects as the condition for his symbolic offering: first, a dove and a pigeon; second, a ram and a goat; and…

Sodom And Gomorrah

• ¶ 8Abraham, who was like the hidden root, did not evade any situation but overcame all of them, even when the era was laden with vices. History…
• ¶ 218:23 Then Abraham drew near: and said. "Wilt thou indeed destroy the righteous with the wicked?
• ¶ 1718:27 Abraham answered, "Behold, I have taken upon myself to speak to speak to the Lord, who am I but dust and ashes.

Isaac

• ¶ 12Abraham should have set the one standard point of restoration in the eternal history of humanity, but he could not accomplish that. Therefore, although he overcame…
• ¶ 14Abraham was concerned, asleep or awake and in every moment, that if he neglected the fact that he was the sacrifice centering on the will of…
• ¶ 33Abraham took three days to reach the place on Mt. Moriah where he was to offer his son Isaac as a burnt offering. This three-day…

The Human Fall

• ¶ 1The Abrahamic faiths teach that humanity fell from a primordial state of unity with God, and similar beliefs are found the world over.

Jacob and Esau

• ¶ 1If Abraham had succeeded in his first offering, Ishmael, Abraham's first son by Hagar, and Isaac would have been in the positions of Cain and…
• ¶ 43To choose Abraham, ten generations had elapsed after Noah. But because of Abraham's mistake, the fulfillment was delayed for two more generations — Isaac and Jacob…
• ¶ 49Since God's will for Abraham was accomplished through Jacob, the Israelites called their nation the House of Jacob.

Isaac

• ¶ 11Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people. Isaac and…
• ¶ 18Abraham offered Isaac with the prayer in his heart, “Although Isaac is my son, he is Thine; therefore I shall offer him to Thee.” The realistic…
• ¶ 20Abraham’s zeal to do God’s will and his resolute actions, carried out with absolute faith, obedience and loyalty, lifted him up to the position…

The Responsibility of Those Who Have Become the Root

• ¶ 14Abraham was the one in the historical background who made it possible for Jesus to be established as the perfected being. Abraham possessed a concealed character…
• ¶ 31Abraham's course of ordeals, which others did not know about, was even greater than that in which Abram (“exalted father”) from the individual level was…
• ¶ 33…in and its people. You must never forget that you should inherit the foundation of faith that Abraham established based on his hardships, which was a…

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Separation from Family

• ¶ 2Sometimes it comes at the command of God, as when Abraham was called to leave his home and journey to an unknown land.

Testing

• ¶ 50With ten trials Abraham our father was tried, and he bore them all, to make known how great was the love of Abraham our father. Mishnah…
• ¶ 9And how inconceivable was it to Abraham that God would ask him to sacrifice his son? We include accounts of several of the tests in Father…
• ¶ 51After these things God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here am I.” He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac…

Hospitality

• ¶ 1…food and rest, is a traditional virtue from ancient times. Abraham was exemplary in his hospitality to strangers, three of whom turned out to be angels.

The Period of Slavery in Egypt and the Period of Persecution in the Roman Empire

• ¶ 1…hundred-year period from Noah to Abraham – a period for the separation of Satan, which had been defiled due to Abraham’s mistake in his offering…
• ¶ 4…this way of pure faith to separate Satan, who was constantly assailing them due to the condition of previous mistakes by Abraham and the Jewish people.

The Number of Generations or Years in the Periods of the Age of the Providence to Lay the Foundation for Restoration

• ¶ 59In the providence in Abraham’s family, the following indemnity periods, which should have been fulfilled horizontally, were instead carried out in vertical succession to restore…
• ¶ 10…Abraham had to restore horizontally through indemnity all the vertical indemnity conditions which Adam’s family and Noah’s family before him had tried to fulfill…
• ¶ 17…the case with the providence of restoration in Abraham’s family. By making an acceptable symbolic offering, Abraham was supposed to restore horizontally through indemnity all…

The Providence of Restoration under the Leadership of Moses

• ¶ 18Abraham could make the symbolic offering to lay the foundation of faith only after he restored the previous period of four hundred years and thus stood…
• ¶ 1The providence of restoration led by Moses was built upon the foundation for the Messiah laid in Abraham’s family. Nevertheless, the Principle still required Moses…
• ¶ 4…to the promised land of Canaan upon the conclusion of the four hundred years of slavery incurred because of Abraham’s mistake in his symbolic offering…

The Partnership Of God And Man

• ¶ 1In the Bible, the give-and-take process is illustrated by the notion of a divine-human covenant. God makes covenants with Noah, Abraham, and Moses.