Week #3: Lech Lecha - Get Thee Out

Lech Lecha
Genesis 12:1 - 17:27
October 22nd - 28th

Related Passages

Galatians 3:15 - 18: 5:1-6
Colossians 2:11-15
Hebrews 7:1-19; 11:8-12

Isaiah 40:27 - 41:16
Acts 7:1-8
Romans 3:19 - 5:6

The calling of Abram: Yahweh told Abram to leave his native/pagan land and his father’s house/land/inheritance for a new walk, a new land that Yahweh would show him, promising to make of him a great nation, bless those who blessed him, and curse those who cursed him. Follow Yahweh’s command, at age 75, Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and traveled to the terebinth of Moreh, (teaching) at Shechem in Canaan.

Why are we called?
If we are not gathering then we are scattering!!
Matthew 12:30

A Few Hebrew Definitions

  • Abram, H87 אברם Avram: “Exalted father.”

  • Abraham, H85 אברהם Avraham: “Father of a multitude in Yah.”

  • Moreh, H4176 מורה Moreh: “Teacher.” The oak tree at Shechem where Abram stopped when he first entered Canaan, close to the mountains of Ebal and Gerizim.

  • The Lord Almighty, H7706 שדי El Shaddai Shadda: The Almighty (of God).

  • Covenant, H1285 ברית Beriyth, BRIT: Covenant, alliance, pledge, ‘exchange of lives.’

  • Tzadik-Melech, Melchizedec מלכי־צדק H4442: Righteousness of (the) King.