to convince them that he was on the point of working a miracle and to get them to accept their part in bringing it about. INTERCESSION Genesis 18:16–33 (cont’d) (iv) In its cryptic way the story has so far left us to make our own inferences about Abraham’s state of mind, but now it suggests strongly that at last he was beginning to close with his destiny and to glimpse something of what it meant. God is pictured deciding within himself to take Abraham into his confidence and tell him of his horror