What did God promise Abraham in the Abrahamic Covenant about making him a great nation?
In the Abrahamic Covenant, God promised Abraham that He would make of him a great nation. This promise is recorded in Genesis, where God also foretold that Abraham’s offspring would dwell in a land not theirs and be enslaved for 400 years before the Canaanites’ iniquity was full.
Les explains that God told Abraham in the Abrahamic Covenant, back in Genesis, that He would make of him a great nation. One of the first prophecies in the Bible was that Abraham’s offspring would end up in a land that was not theirs and would be in slavery for 400 years. God gave the reason the children of Abraham had to stay out of the land of Canaan: the iniquity of the Canaanites was not yet full. God gave the Canaanite people 400 years to straighten up their act, but instead they went deeper and deeper into wickedness. Finally, when Joshua came across the Jordan River, God told Joshua and the children of Israel to destroy them and not spare a single one. Les then applies this to the Gentile world, which he says is fast approaching the same place, while God is patient, gracious, and kind, letting man take his own way.