Abraham, just like Jesus, the high father of a rambunctious multitude

Abraham, the father of faith and high priest and high father of a rambunctious multitude

I’ve seen bumper stickers that say, “I’m a work in progress”, with something to signify that the owner of the vehicle is an evangelical Christian. Is that the message that the world needs? Is that the full gospel?

Let’s look at the message Jesus gave to the first Christian in modern history who came after the post-deluvian, double- and quadruple-sesquicentennial giant descendants of Noah’s time, Abraham.

H87

אַבְרָם

'abrâm

ab-rawm'

Contracted from H48 [Abiram]; high father; Abram, the original name of Abraham: - Abram.

Total KJV occurrences: 61

H85

אַבְרָהָם

'abrâhâm

ab-raw-hawm'

Contracted from H1 and an unused root (probably meaning to be populous); father of a multitude; Abraham, the later name of Abram: - Abraham.

Total KJV occurrences: 175

H1995

הָמֹן    הָמוֹן

hâmôn    hâmôn

haw-mone', haw-mone'

From H1993; a noise, tumult, crowd; also disquietude, wealth: - abundance, company, many, multitude, multiply, noise, riches, rumbling, sounding, store, tumult.

Total KJV occurrences: 83

H1993

הָמָה

hâmâh

haw-maw'

A primitive root (compare H1949); to make a loud sound (like English “hum”); by implication to be in great commotion or tumult, to rage, war, moan, clamor: - clamorous, concourse, cry aloud, be disquieted, loud, mourn, be moved, make a noise, rage, roar, sound, be troubled, make in tumult, tumultuous, be in an uproar.

Total KJV occurrences: 34

Abraham, the father of many nations, actually means “high father (Abram) of a clamor, a great commotion, a raging tumult, a warring host, a loud cry, a loud mourning, a loud moaning, a loud uproar, a loud tumultuous ‘hum’, a great commotion” (hamah). The many nations he would be father of were not civilized nations, as in sophisticated nations. They were rambunctious, boisterous nations. They were mustangs, and lions, and badgers. While their God was sanctifying them they never would lose their natural born wildness. And their God, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Creator of Adam’s race, would have it that way. They could have their flaws. They could speak foolishly. They could even deeply wound their Maker. But if they would never leave their covenant of communion with Him, if they would never go to Ashtoreth for her licentious comfort in exchange for His scourging comfort, if they would willingly accept His righteous judgment that respects no personage, and fall on their face in repentance and contrition as the judges did, then their past would be forgotten, and full favor restored. This was the power behind the nation of Israel—their God of affection and compassion, Law-enforcement and commandment-keeping.

A precious promise to use today, by which we become partakers of the divine nature:

“For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto Himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. 

The LORD did not set His love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: 

But because the LORD loved you, and because He would keep the oath which He had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 

Know therefore that the LORD thy God, He is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love Him and keep His commandments to a thousand generations; 

And repayeth them that hate Him to their face, to destroy them: He will not be slack to him that hateth Him, He will repay him to his face. 

Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them. 

Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which He sware unto thy fathers: 

And He will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: He will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee. 

Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. 

And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.” (Deut. 7:6-15).