Summations Only

The passages in question have nothing to do with a messiah:

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Genesis 12:1—3 (NRSV):

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Now the Lord said to Abram, 'Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.'

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Genesis 22:18 (NRSV):

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and by your offspring shall all the nations of the earth gain blessing for themselves, because you have obeyed my voice.'

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Those words are directed toward Abraham. In neither of the passages is there anything mentioned about one of Abraham's descendants being a messiah.Two down, many to go.Jon

Is there any reason that anyone should respond to your post with anything other than laughter and pity?

Jesus fulfilled the prophecy in Jonah:

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Jonah 1:4—6 (NRSV):

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But the Lord hurled a great wind upon the sea, and such a mighty storm came upon the sea that the ship threatened to break up. Then the mariners were afraid, and each cried to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea, to lighten it for them. Jonah, meanwhile, had gone down into the hold of the ship and had lain down, and was fast asleep. The captain came and said to him, 'What are you doing sound asleep? Get up, call on your god! Perhaps the god will spare us a thought so that we do not perish.'

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Mark 4:35—41 (NRSV):

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On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, 'Let us go across to the other side.' And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him. A great gale arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already being swamped. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him up and said to him, 'Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?' He woke up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, 'Peace! Be still!' Then the wind ceased, and there was a dead calm. He said to them, 'Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?' And they were filled with great awe and said to one another, 'Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?'

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Jonah was called upon to calm the waters. It was in Jesus that the fulfillment of that calling was finally realized.CJ