Abraham was called Abram before God blessed him and changed his name to Abraham and that of his wife from Sarai to Sarah. He was from Ur of the Chaldeans (modernday Iraq). His father’s name was Terah.
God called him when he was seventy-five years old to leave his hometown, where he was comfortable, and go to a place he never knew. God promised He would be with him and make his descendants a great nation (Genesis 12:1-3). However, at this time he was already advanced in age and his wife Sarah was barren, but Abraham believed and obeyed God and left his country without knowing where he was going. He wandered until he finally got to the place. God would eventually give the land to his descendants.
At an old age, he had a son, as promised by God: Isaac. His wife Sarah was ninety years old and had passed the age of childbearing, but they both believed God. What is naturally impossible is no problem for God. We have never heard of couples that age having a child, but this happened because of their faith in God.
When Isaac his son was grown, God tested Abraham’s faith by asking him to sacrifice his beloved son through whom God had promised to make his descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Abraham did not question God. He did not try to rationalize it with God or try to remind God about what He had said concerning Isaac. Abraham readily obeyed to sacrifice his son, but God intervened at the last moment to safe Isaac by providing a ram instead (Genesis 22:1-13). As a result of his obedience, God reaffirmed his promise concerning the multitude of his descendants (Genesis 22:16-18).
Abraham walked so closely with God that when God was about to judge Sodom and Gomorrah for their wickedness that God said, how can I do this without telling Abraham (Genesis 18:17). And when God discussed His intentions with Abraham, he interceded for these cities which led to the saving of his nephew Lot and his two daughters from perishing with the people.
Abraham believed and walked intimately with God (Genesis 24:40). God referred to Abraham as “my friend” (Isaiah 41:8).
God passed His promises given to Abraham to his son Isaac (Genesis 26:3) and his grandson Jacob (Genesis 35:12). When Israelites are in trouble, they always appeal to God to remember His covenant with Abraham (Exodus 32:15).
Several passages in the New Testament attest to the unswerving faith of Abraham in God. In Romans 4:17-21, we read: (As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations") in the presence of Him whom he believed -- God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did; who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, "So shall your descendants be." And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb. He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform."
Questions:
How old was Abraham when God called him to leave Ur?
The name of Abraham’s father was………?
How old was Sarah when she had Isaac?