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Abraham’s Famine

Now there was a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.

(Genesis 12:10) KJV

After the tectonic breakup of Pangaea there were at least 201 years before the birth of Abraham. This brings us to the time of Job and the patriarchs. We don’t know much about the Earth at this time except that there were occasional famines.

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September 18th

Famine

Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land; And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous.

(Genesis 41:29-31) KJV

God used famines in the lives of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to test their faith. It indicates that the climate was unstable, or cyclical, with periods of warming and cooling.

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He Who Removes Mountains

He is wise in heart and mighty in strength —who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded?— he who removes mountains, and they know it not, when he overturns them in his anger, who shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble; who commands the sun, and it does not rise; who seals up the stars; who alone stretched out the heavens and trampled the waves of the sea; who made the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the chambers of the south; who does great things beyond searching out, and marvelous things beyond number.

(Job 9:4-10) ESV

This is Part of Job’s response to Bildad. He’s talking about tectonic upheaval. He was contemporaneous with Abraham, so only 200 or so years have passed since the tectonic breakup of Pangaea.

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