“When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, ‘I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless.’”—Genesis 17:1 (NKJV) Genesis 17 opens with a divine interruption. When the narrative last lingers on Abram in Genesis 16, he is eighty-six years old and holding Ishmael—an apparent answer to...Read More