Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study, Christ and all of Scripture.

Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the New,

seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.

Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are

hopeful that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present

throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it. Hi, welcome back to the Year in the Bible

podcast. My name is Beth, and I'm here again today with my co-host Alexa.

Hey, everyone. Today we are taking a deeper look at Genesis 12. Like we do every Tuesday, we will start by looking at the context of this passage. So, Beth, where does this fit in the

biblical story? Yeah, well, Genesis 12 is actually one of the most essential moments in the

biblical story because it is the beginning

of the story of the nation of Israel. And so in the context, the background of this, we have Genesis 1

through 11, which is sort of a prologue that kind of sets up the story of God and his relationship

to humanity. So it shows us about how God created everything. It shows us about how

humans are sinful. It shows us how God remains faithful to humanity even when human sin again and

again and again. But yeah, it primarily teaches us those two things. It teaches us who God is,

that he's our creator and it teaches us who we are, that we are created by him in his image, but also

that we're prone to sin.

So in those first few chapters, Genesis 1 through 11, we see that God does not abandon his rebellious creation, but instead he intends to deliver them, and he has a plan to do so.

Genesis 12 is actually the beginning of that plan of deliverance.

There, God chooses Abraham specifically to be the father of the nation through which he's

going to send that deliverer.

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