Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

If you never got around to listening to our six prep episodes from before our daily

Recap started, I would encourage you to take time to do that today.

You can listen to all six episodes in a little more than an hour and they will really help

you out.

Okay, we're back to Genesis now.

When we were last here before we dropped in on Job, a man named Abram had just been born

through the bloodline of Adam and Noah, the Annoa's son, Shim.

According to the timeline Genesis marks out, Abram was born almost 2,000 years after Adam,

but only about 300 years after the flood.

And just like Adam and Noah before him, God continues his unique relationship with this

family through Abram.

In 123, God tells Abram that he's going to bless him so that he may be a blessing.

That blessing doesn't terminate on Abram.

It's ultimately about way more than him.

It's about how the Messiah will be born through his bloodline someday, through this family,

which is a blessing to all the families of the earth.

But this is way over Abram's head at this point.

Initially, God just promises to bless him with land and possessions, but there's one

problem.

The land God promises him is currently inhabited by the Canaanites.

We talked about them on day three.

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