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Abraham. 2 billion people identify themselves as Christians, children of Abraham by faith. 1.8 billion Muslims claim an Abrahamic ancestry, and 15 million Jews call him their father. All told, close to half of the world’s 8 billion people claim their spiritual descent from this man. Yet Jesus tells these high religious people that Abraham not only looked forward to seeing the day of Christ but that he saw it and it made him glad.” And when they questioned how this was possible, the shrapnel from that explosive declaration knocked them to the ground. “Before Abraham was, I AM.”
While half the world’s population rejoices in their Abrahamic ancestry, the man himself rejoices that he was able to see the day of Christ. What Abraham’s reaction says is that he never saw himself as the goal of the promises God made to him when he called him out from Ur of the Chaldees. He was but a progenitor of the ‘seed of the woman’ promised to Adam and Eve after their fall from grace. The Christ is that seed who will ‘bruise the head of the serpent’ and recover humanity’s lost heritage.
