'Understanding Endtime'
Jos 24:2 And Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says the Lord God of Israel: 'Your fathers, including Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor, dwelt on the other side of the River in old times; and they served other gods."
Terah was the first recorded idolater in the bible. Noah died when Terah was 127 years old and Abraham was 57 years old.
Terah and his families (including Abraham and wife and Lot and family) left Ur and settled down at Haran. Terah must have been banned from Ur, Mesopotamia by the godly preacher Noah or Shem for his abominable idolatry.
Later, God called Abraham, when he was 75 years old, to leave his father's idolatrous family in Haran to start a godly life.
Gen 12:4 So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
God called Abraham a Hebrew
Gen 14:13 Then one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, for he dwelt by the terebinth trees of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner; and they were allies with Abram.
Abraham and Lot were monotheists, God fearing and righteous and God called them Hebrews.
But the idolatrous Terah the father of Abraham, and his idolatrous descendants (Bethuel, Laban, etc.) were called Syrians.
Gen 25:20 Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah as wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian.
God's Faithfulness to the Hebrews
Gen 12:1-3 Now the Lord had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing."
All those who believed in God and left Haran were blessed by being called Hebrews. The descendants of Abraham and Lot were all given land as He promised them when He took them out of Haran.
The Hebrews Race
1. Ishmael - the eldest son of Abraham from Hagar inherited the desert land and wilderness of the Arabian Peninsula.
2. Esau - Isaac's eldest son who sold his birthright was given the land of Seir in Jordan with the Edomites as his descendants.
Deu 2:22 just as He had done for the descendants of Esau, who dwelt in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites from before them. They dispossessed them and dwelt in their place, even to this day.
3. Moab - Lot's eldest son inherited the land of Ar (in Jordan) with the Moabites as his descendants.
Deu 2:9-10 Then the Lord said to me, 'Do not harass Moab, nor contend with them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land as a possession, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as a possession.'
4. Ben-Ammi - Lot's youngest son, the ancestor of the Ammonites in Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
Deu 2:19 And when you come near the people of Ammon, do not harass them or meddle with them, for I will not give you any of the land of the people of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the descendants of Lot as a possession.'
5. Descendants of Keturah
Gen 25:1-2 Abraham again took a wife, and her name was Keturah. And she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
6. Jacob or Israel - the descendants of Jacob inherited the land of the Canaanites.
The Israelites today are the only ones left to be called Hebrew. The rest of the Hebrews (Ishmaelites, Edomites, Moabites, Ammonites and the descendants of Keturah) today are known as Arabs.
Exo 9:7a Then Pharaoh sent, and indeed, not even one of the livestock of the Israelites was dead.
Note The Israelites and the Arabs are cousins and they are Hebrews.
