Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Genesis 17:15-19
by: Dale Rood.
This was how God would fulfill the covenant He established with Abraham in Genesis 12:1-3 and confirmed in Genesis 15:12-21. It would not be transmitted by anyone that Abraham could, at that time, see or touch. It had the unbelievable promise that childless Sarai would be called Sarah, “mother of nations.” Would Abraham accept that name change by faith in lieu of an actual son in hand? Abraham struggled with that (v.18), but the covenant directive was that it would be through a son born to Sarai, Isaac, that the covenant given to Abraham would be transmitted.