ABRAHAM, ISAAC and JACOB [2200–1600 BC]
Abraham lived 10 generations after Noah. It was to Abraham that God appeared and made a threefold covenant promise, (Gen 12.1–3):
- God promised to give him a land (that eventually became Israel)
- That Abraham would become a great nation (meaning he would have many descendants)
- That all the families of the earth would be blessed through him (through Israel came all the promises of God to the rest of the world, i.e. the Messiah our savior).
Abraham became the father of the entire Israeli nation, as well as every Arab nation. At this time in history, practically all of Noah’s descendants, (or the entire world population), had completely given themselves over to polytheism and worshiped multiple gods and goddesses (Joshua 24.2). Abraham, the father of the entire Jewish nation, was himself raised in a house that worshiped many different gods. The chief deities found among the people in this area was the sun and the moon god.
LOCATION OF ANCIENT UR
Ur was the land in which Abraham lived, the place that God called him out of, so that he would go into the land of Canaan.
Today, evidence still exists that points to Abraham and his family. Towns that have retained their names, still bearing the names of many of Abraham’s family members whom remained in that region. All these towns remain within a 20 mile radius of each other:
URFA — or (UR)FA — Ancient UrHARRAN — name of Abraham’s brother, 19 miles from URSURUC — preserves the name Serug, Abraham’s great grandfatherTil-Turahi– literally means the ruins of Terah, Abraham’s Father, is located between Harran and Urfa
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