What does God do in Genesis 12 according to this teaching?
In Genesis 12, God does something totally different by picking one man, Abraham, out of the race of Adam. He promises to make of him a great nation, give him a geographical land, and one day come as king and government, establishing the Abrahamic covenant through which redemption would come.
Les explains that the first 2,000 years of human history, from creation and Adam in 4004 B.C., are covered in just 11 chapters of Genesis. Then Abraham comes on the scene at 2,000 B.C., and in Genesis 12 God does something totally different. Out of that one race of Adam, He picks one man, Abraham, down in Ur of the Chaldeans. Abraham was originally a Syrian, not a Jew, and so was Sarai; he later became the father of the Jewish people. God promises Abraham that out of him He will bring about a nation totally different from any other race on earth, and they will be the vehicle through whom God communicates and brings the whole plan of redemption to the whole human race through Israel. God gives Abraham the covenant: I will make of you a great nation, I will put you in a geographical area of land, and one day I will come and be your king and government. That is basically the Abrahamic covenant.
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What different thing does God do in Genesis 12?
In Genesis 12, God does something totally different by picking one man out of the one race of Adam.