What is so important about a single man living 4,000 years ago?
A single solitary individual is important because God always begins something through the tiniest beginnings with a solitary individual. He began His plan through a single individual, Adam, and will eventually encompass every human who has ever been born or will be! Jesus Christ said that the Kingdom of God is like a tiny grain of mustard seed, the tiniest of seeds, which grows to become a huge tree that the birds land in (Matt. 13:31-32). Anything God starts He starts small. With Abraham God began a legacy of descendants, His own model nation, and promised that they would become the wealthiest most influential people on the face of the earth. In addition, through him would come a Saviour who would reconcile all people to God. The Bible is a book which deals with God’s relationship to the descendants of this one man. The Bible was written for them and to them. It only deals with other nations of the world as they interact with Abraham’s descendants. In other words, the first 11 chapter
