Genesis 11:27-32

A Family for God's Purpose

For the Savior to come to earth as the seed of woman and shed his blood, he had to be born. Such a birth would require a family, or lineage. Naturally, we would expect God to choose a righteous man of faith to the father from whom the Seed would eventually come.

Abram was the man of faith God chose. Stephen tells us God first called Abram when he was in Ur of the Chaldees (Acts 7:1-4). Perhaps, Terah, his father, moved because of his son's suggestion, or urging (Genesis 11:27-32). However, he stopped in Charan, which, like Ur, was a center of moon worship. This may indicate he reverted to the worship of false gods, if indeed he ever changed to the worship of the true God (Joshua 24:2). Abram, on the other hand, obviously followed the true God.