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Chapter 27: High drama and intrigue as Rebekah urges Jacob to trick Isaac into giving him the blessing. We discover the significance and power of blessing. https://linktr.ee/paullwhite

Chapter 26: Isaac meets God. God now gives over personally to Isaac the promises he originally made to Abraham. Isaac re-digs wells, prospers, but repeats a mistake of his father. https://linktr.ee/paullwhite

Chapter 25: We see the story line shift from Abraham to Isaac as he develops his own relationship with Abraham's God - starting with praying for his wife to conceive. https://linktr.ee/paullwhite

Chapter 24: Abraham's faithful servant undertakes a 900 mile journey by camel to look for a bride for the Child of Promise. https://linktr.ee/paullwhite

Chapter 23: Sarah dies, prompting Abraham to move into real estate.  https://linktr.ee/paullwhite

Chapter 22: Human sacrifice, God? Surely not! Abram puts the Child of Promise on an altar and raises the knife... https://linktr.ee/paullwhite

Chapter 21: The Child of Promise finally arrives amidst great joy and laughter; only for old rivalries to resurface at the celebration. https://linktr.ee/paullwhite

Chapter 20: We see Abraham revert to calling Sarah his sister, creating a lot of trouble as a result; meanwhile, God endorses him as a prophet. https://linktr.ee/paullwhite

Chapter 19: We discover the depths of depravity to which the cities of Sodom and Gommorah had slidden; also the extent to which the values of the culture had seeped into the lives of Lot and his family.  https://linktr.ee/paullwhite

Chapter 18: We discover how Abraham cooks for Jesus(?), Sarah laughs at God, then Abraham gets drawn into negotiations with God about judgment on the evil cities of the valley. https://linktr.ee/paullwhite 

Chapter 17: God appears to Abram aged 99, and his promises seem to become more outlandish than ever! https://linktr.ee/paullwhite

Chapter 16: Major plot twist! We discover what can happen when we try to help God out with keeping his promises... https://linktr.ee/paullwhite

Chapter 15: We see Abram encountering God in a vision who promises him his own son and heir. God makes a covenant with Abram and his offspring, bizarrely appearing as a smoking fire pot... https://linktr.ee/paullwhite

Chapter 14: Lot is kidnapped by an invading army, Abram unleashes his private special forces to rescue Lot and family, and we are introduced to a mystery man who has more than a passing similarity to Jesus... https://linktr.ee/paullwhite

Chapter 13: We see how Abram and Lot are both prospering and increasing to such an extent that their herdsmen begin fighting over pasture. Time for a strategic separation... https://linktr.ee/paullwhite

Chapter 12: God plucks an unknown man from a sophisticated, technologically advanced city, telling him to leave his home and existing relationships and go to an undisclosed location. En-route God makes extravagant promises to him which still have geopolitical reverberations to this day. https://linktr.ee/paullwhite   

Chapter 11: The human desire to be someone significant - to be more than ordinary - leads to a moment of divine intervention. God messes up language and people scatter, settling in ever more remote regions of the planet.  https://linktr.ee/paullwhite

Chapter 10: Children mean families, which lead to tribes, dynasties, people groups and nations. https://linktr.ee/paullwhite

Chapter 9: God makes a covenant with Noah, his descendants and all the creatures that live on the earth and trademarks it with a rainbow. https://linktr.ee/paullwhite

Chapter 8: After a year Noah and family emerge from the Ark to an entirely different landscape and world to the one they had escaped from. https://linktr.ee/paullwhite

Chapter 7: We discover Noah, at 600 years old, climbing into a massive ship with countless species of animals to escape a cataclysmic flood - cute kids' story, implausible folk tale, or a powerful episode in the unfolding story of God's human family? https://linktr.ee/paullwhite  

Chapter 6: Who are the "sons of God" in this chapter, and what's all this about Nephilim? We discover just how corrupted this human race had become and the build up towards the day of judgment... https://linktr.ee/paullwhite

Chapter 5: the man who walked with God, who bypassed death. Plus a little background insight into faith from Hebrews 11. https://linktr.ee/paullwhite

Chapter 4: rebellion turns to murder, polygamy, then murder again. But then revival? https://linktr.ee/paullwhite

Chapter 3: The beauty and harmony of life in the Garden turns sour as the humans choose to defy God's instructions. https://linktr.ee/paullwhite