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   ocr: The Plan - Genesis 15 After this, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision. (Gen. 15:1) Many times God had intervened directly in human history, but almost always for the sake of punishment-in Adam's day, and Cain's, and in the days of Noah, and at Babel. After scanning these centuries of dismal failure, jenesis changes dramatically at chapter 12. It leaves the big picture of world history and settles on one lonely individual, not a great king or a wealthy landowner, but a childless nomad named Abranam. It's aimost impossible to exaggerate the importance of Abraham in the Bible. To the J ...