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Lesson 26 Hope of Israel Ministries BIBLE Correspondence Course 7

Abram -- as his name was orig-
inally -- out of the land of Baby-
lon where he lived -- surely
symbolic of the spiritual “Baby-
lon” in which we live today -- just
as, today, YEHOVAH calls you
and me out of THIS world --
THIS BABYLON!
Abraham didn’t quibble or argue.
Verse 4 says: “So Abram DE-
PARTED." He went to a CER-
TAIN LAND, where YEHO-
VAH God led him -- the land we
call Palestine today! ABRA-
HAM OBEYED YEHOVAH
16th century depiction of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon,
GOD. “So Abram departed!" it is
capital city of King Nebuchadnezzar’s vast empire. YEHOVAH
written. That is why he was made
God likens it to the confused spiritual “Babylon” in which we live
FATHER of the precious prom-
today.
ises on which your eternal sal-
JACOB, the God of OUR FATHERS, hath vation rests! He OBEYED --
glorified His Son Jesus" (Acts 3:13). immediately he DEPARTED! Yes, just as you
The fathers, then, were Abraham, Isaac, and I too must OBEY, if we, WITH Abraham,
and Jacob. If you are the Messiah’s -- if you are a are to inherit the promises!
CHRISTIAN -- YOU are an heir to inherit -- not Men today have NO CONCEPTION of
what men might devise in their imaginations -- what is in store for the one who is really SAVED.
you are an heir ACCORDING TO THE PROM- The inheritance that awaits you -- if you
ISE! surrender to YEHOVAH God -- if you OBEY as
If you’re an heir, you are going to Abraham obeyed -- if you rely, not on YOUR
INHERIT something. If you’re an heir accord- faith, but on the very FAITH OF THE
ing to the promise, you are going to INHERIT MESSIAH -- and if you are BORN AGAIN --
WHATEVER WAS PROMISED TO THE that inheritance surpasses anything you have
FATHERS -- not something else. ever conceived of so FAR, that you haven’t the
That promise to Abraham is IM- slightest conception of your TRUE POTEN-
PORTANT! Whatever it is -- THAT IS what you TIAL DESTINY!
shall inherit -- if you are saved! You find the As we read in I Corinthians 2:9, “Eye
account of that PROMISE MADE TO hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered
ABRAHAM in the Book of Genesis. into the heart of man, the things which God hath
prepared for them that love Him..." The

Abraham OBEYED inheritance which YEHOVAH has prepared for
us cannot even be conceived of by the natural
Now notice the 12th chapter of the mind of man -- but YEHOVAH God DOES
Book of Genesis, verse 1: “Now the Eternal had reveal it to us “BY HIS SPIRIT!” (I
said unto Abram, get thee out of thy country, and Corinthians 2:10.)
from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, Now WHAT did YEHOVAH God
unto a LAND that I will show thee." promise Abraham? We are about to see. But
We find that YEHOVAH God called first, READ these instructions.

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