GOD’S COVENANT WITH ABRA-
— HAM.

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This is Abraham you see looking up at the stars in |
the heavens. The Angel of the Lord is telling him the
great promise of God, how he will bless him and make
his seed as the stars of heaven for multitude.

In our last lesson we learned how God sent the flood
on the earth to destroy the people because of their wicked-
ness. We should think that, after they had seen such an
exhibition of God’s anger against sin, they would have
done better. But they continued to sin very much as
before.

God determined to choose a people, and have them
under his special care. So he called Abraham to be the
father of this nation, and made a covenant with him. He
told him that he would bless him greatly, that he would
give him the rich and fertile land of Canaan to dwell in.
God told him to arise at once and go to it, and he would
show it to him. Abraham was Obedient, for he believed
God, and arose and went as commanded.

When Abraham had reached the land the Lord had
promised him, he at once reared an altar and worshiped