Abraham and Sarah and the Awakening of the True Black Hebrews of the Bible
The story of Abraham and Sarah celebrates the awakening of the true, racially accurate Hebrews, a people whose identity has been obscured for centuries. Long after false religions and iconoclasm erased our image, we Israelites have emerged to tell the truth about our history and that of our ancestors.
Understanding Abraham and Sarah’s story restores the covenant to its original context and reveals the true origins of the Hebrews of the Bible.
Abraham & Sarah: A Covenant Established, brings a fresh, reflective take on their story.
Abraham and Sarah: The Beginning of a Covenant
The story of the Israelites doesn’t begin with a nation or a kingdom. It begins with a promise given to two people. Abraham and Sarah stand at the foundation of the biblical narrative, not as distant symbols of faith, but as real individuals navigating uncertainty, displacement, and hope in the ancient world.
Abraham
When Abraham is called to ‘Go to a land I will show you,’ there was no map, no timetable, and no guarantee beyond the voice of God Himself. This call marks the beginning of the covenant, a divine agreement that would shape generations of Israelites yet unborn. It is a covenant rooted not in perfection, but in trust.
Sarah
Sarah’s role in the story is often misunderstood or diminished, yet she is central to the promise. From the beginning, the covenant is spoken over both. They will become a great nation. Their descendants will be numerous. Year after year, Sarah remains barren. In the ancient world, barrenness was not only a personal grief but a social wound. It carried shame, vulnerability, and fear of the future.
Sarah’s story speaks to the tension between promise and reality. She must watch, year after year, as the women around her conceive and give birth, and raise children while her womb says empty. She makes drastic decisions – decisions that come back to haunt her – often the consequences when we go ahead of The Most High’s plans.
She struggles to believe the promise from the Most High. She doubts, she laughs, and she waits. Her laughter, often framed as disbelief, can also be read as astonishment. A response to the impossible finally breaking into the ordinary.
Isaac – The child of Promise
When their son Isaac is finally born, her laughter turns into testimony. God has made me laugh, she says, and all who hear will laugh with me.
Abraham, too, is a man shaped by contradiction. He trusts God enough to leave everything behind yet fears enough to lie about Sarah being his wife. He believes the promise, yet attempts to fulfil it through his own understanding. These moments do not disqualify him. They humanise him. The covenant was never dependent on Abraham’s flawlessness but on God’s faithfulness.
Understanding Abraham and Sarah as ancient Israelites, rooted in the Near Eastern and African world, changes how we read their story. These were people of the sun shaped by desert landscapes, tribal systems, and survival through movement and kinship. Their faith was not abstract. It was lived out through journeys, negotiations, tents, and altars.
The covenant established with Abraham and Sarah was not merely about land or lineage. It was about identity. God was forming a chosen people who would carry His name, His laws, and His presence in the earth. This identity would later be challenged, obscured, and reinterpreted across centuries, but its origin remains clear in these early chapters of Scripture.
In revisiting the story of Abraham and Sarah, you are invited to slow down and read carefully. To see them not as idealised figures but as the first recipients of a promise that still echoes today. Their story reminds us that divine purpose often unfolds through ordinary lives, long waits, and imperfect obedience.
For us Israelites, the covenant begins here. With a man, a woman, and a God who keeps His word to His chosen people, even when the fulfilment takes longer than expected.
Judith Asher, Author of The True Hebrews Book series