'And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from…

'And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.'

'And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.'

'Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.'

'Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.'

'After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.'

'And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.'

Abram, by faith, leaves his former life and culture and receives seemingly unfulfillable promises. Soon he is tested and falters, yet God had already provided a solution. Here are the lessons for today, and how those four mighty promises are fulfilled in believers even now.

The seeds of the woman and the serpent will always be in conflict (Genesis 3.15), but Babel marked 'world government' and supremacy of idolatry. God scattered languages and people to preserve the godly line and show the ungodliness of world social reformation as a goal for believers.

'Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years. And he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD; but not like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image…