| God doesn’t mind getting his feet dirty in our messed up world.
Just read Genesis 15. God desired a relationship with Abraham, and he wanted Abraham to understand that relationship in a concrete way. |
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| So he used a covenant ceremony that was common in Abraham’s day—a blood path walk that sealed the relationship between two parties.
Animals—sheep, goats, birds—were hacked into two pieces, from head to toe, and placed on the ground with their blood flowing into a single path. Each party walked through the warm blood, their actions speaking somber words: “I will keep my part of this covenant or you can kill me like these animals.” |
 God often used the covenant forms of ancient culture to demonstrate his relationship with humanity. Learn about covenant ceremonies and forms by reading this Datafile. |
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God promised Abraham that he’d become a great nation—that all people on earth would be blessed through him. |
| And to show Abraham he was serious, he walked through sticky, warm blood and staked his life on it. |  Abraham was just an insignificant shepherd, but God used him to establish a covenant with his people. Read more about the kind of people God used to carry out his plan throughout history. |
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