Before Abraham was called, what did the nations know about the true God?
Before Abraham was called, the nations did not know the true God; they knew every god except Him. Their deities were pagan gods, often female goddesses, mythological figures, frogs, animals, the sun, or the moon. Only after Abraham's call did knowledge of Jehovah pass through Isaac, Jacob, and the twelve tribes, so that Israel alone knew the one true God.
Les explains that before Abraham's call, the nations knew every god except the true God. Their gods were pagan—female goddesses, mythological deities, frogs, animals, the sun, or the moon. When God called Abraham, Abraham gained knowledge of Jehovah, and that knowledge passed through Isaac, Jacob, and the twelve tribes. Thus Israel alone, during the period of the ancients, had knowledge of the one true God; all the rest had nothing but pagan gods.