Abraham did not know God's entire plan, because God did not let him know all about his plan to work with him. “You must move to the place I order.” So his work began. He had to go to Canaan. He saw the land where his descendents would live. That’s why God sent him there.

God let his people do what humanity cannot do. He said Abraham would have many descendents. Abraham had a son, Ishmael, from his wife’s servant, Hagar. He thought himself, “Aha! many children may come from Ishmael” (Gen. 17:18). He had to have thought that because his wife could not have children. But that was Abraham’s thought.

God acknowledged his providence to him, “Abraham, you thought the descendents would be spread from your son, Ishmael, but that’s not true. Your wife will have a baby.”, “Dear God, my wife has not had a baby for a long time. How can she have a baby now?”

God does not work in a way that humanity thinks as possible according to our common sense. His work has always been beyond our common sense, because in that way we can recognize it as God’s work once it has the results God

predicted. Abraham was shocked, “How could that happen?” But finally the woman, who was not able to have a baby, had a baby, Isaac.

After Isaac was born, God gave Abraham another command he could not understand. God commanded Abraham to sacrifice Isaac. That was incomprehensible to him. But at that time, Abraham already knew that God’s work would be always out of common sense. Abraham followed God’s command, thinking there would be something in his plan. Abraham tried to sacrifice his son. Then, at the last moment, God commanded Abraham to stop the sacrifice. “Hold your knife.” God let Isaac live and blessed him as an ascendant of God’s people. Isaac heard all of this from his father.

The covenant between God and Abraham was circumcision, the covenant of blood. Paul the apostle labeled it ‘the first covenant.’ He also said that the covenant by Jesus’ blood was ‘the new covenant’ (1Cor. 11:25, Gal. 4:24).

Now let’s look at this further. God commanded Moses to call him with the three ascendants of Israel. “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers - the God of Abraham,