Come and study the Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast, The Whole Council of God.

Father Stephen holds a Ph.D. in biblical studies.

And it's an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

So we'll go ahead and get started.

And when we get started, we'll be picking up at the beginning of Genesis

Chapter 22.

Um, completely non-controversial story with which I'm sure no one here is familiar.

So before that, a little bit of brief review.

And it's going to be brief review because basically what we're about to read is the culmination of the story of Abraham.

It's not going to be much longer and we're going to make our first.

So we're in this second part of the book of Genesis that runs from chapter 12 to chapter 50

that we've talked about being the patriarchal narratives

that's describing the generations of this family.

We're very close to making our first transition

from Abraham to Isaac.

And so what we're going to read tonight is really sort of the denouement of Abraham's story

that we've been reading so far.

And the key elements in terms of this culmination are basically two things.

Number one, the promises to Abraham.

And we've talked about how there are these promises on two levels.

So there is a set of promises.

They've been reiterated several times, but there's a set of promises that has to do with

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