11/25/23
The Abrahamic covenant is unconditional—a covenant established and sealed by God. Man will have no effect, for it is fully unconditional.
The secret to Israelis immortality is God’s promise to preserve the seed of Abraham and the land of Israel for the Jews forever.
The Abrahamic covenant consists of 7 provisions,
The first is:
Genesis 12:2, “And I (God) will make of you (Abraham) a great nation,” Although Abraham is the father of many nations (most of whom are Arabs) through primarily his son Ishmael, and to a lesser extent, his sons Zimran, Joshan, Median, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. Genesis 16:3, 25:2.
The promise of the Messiah would find its fulfillment in Israel, the seed of Abraham through the line of Isaac.
The reference in Genesis 12:2 is clearly to one nation (singular), only a few. God told Abraham, “I will bless thee, and make thy name great.” This conclusion of “a great nation” is drawn from the Scriptures, which declare that Isaac was the sole inheritor. Genesis 17:19-21,
The Second Provision: The promise was a personal blessing for Abraham. Genesis 12:2 says, “I will bless thee.” This was fulfilled in two ways.
1. From a temporal standpoint, the Lord had blessed Abraham with abundant wealth and material possessions Genesis 13:14-15-17-18 and 24:34-35. Abraham was also blessed spiritually. Genesis 15:6 says, “And he (Abraham) believed in the LORD, and He (God) counted it to him for righteousness.” The word ‘believed’ is a verb and is in a tense meaning a continuous past action–literally, Abraham “kept on believing in the LORD.”
The Third Provision:
The third promise, Genesis 12:2, “And I will …… make thy name great.”
Thus, Abraham would be a man of renown. Except for our Lord Jesus, Abraham is undoubtedly the most widely recognized name in the Bible. Today, 4000 years later, millions of Christians, Muslims, and Jews around the world honor the character of Abraham.
The Fourth Provision:
The Lord told Abraham, in Genesis 12:2, “Thou shalt be a blessing.” This was not only a prediction but a Divine mandate. God instructs Abraham to be a blessing. The “Chosen People” are the Jews. That is, God will show himself through this nation and this people.
God has and is still showing himself through this people and this land. The meaning of these words concerning the Jews never implied that they were in any way better spiritually than others, for it written in,
Acts 10:34-35, “Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: But in every nation = (both Jew and Gentile) he (anyone) that fears him, (God) and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.”
The Fifth Provision:
Genesis 12:3, God said, “I will bless them that bless thee,” This declaration by God established a fundamental principle: that any nation that blesses and sustains the Jewish people will flourish under the power of the Lord.
The Sixth Provision:
Genesis 12:3, God said, “I will …curse him that curses you.” God will place His judgment on these nations that come against His people and their land. History bears this out. The sin of anti-Semitism (Jew haters) inevitably brings God’s judgment upon them.
The Seventh Provision:
Genesis 12:3 states, “In you shall all families of the earth be blessed.” The unfolding of God’s plan establishes the threefold fulfillment of His promise.
1. The coming of the Lord Jesus has blessed the world; He from Abraham’s seed. Jesus is the prophesied seed of Eve, Genesis 3:15, Through Abraham.
2. The promise is now extended to the body of Christ, the true Church, consisting of Jews and Gentiles. Christian Gentiles have not replaced the Jews as the “chosen people.” We have been grafted in or adopted into the promise and blessings. “To the Jew first, and then the Gentiles.”
These promises have been fulfilled in Jesus and the Church. Galatians 3:29, “And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” The Church has never replaced the nation of Israel or the Jewish people. The existence of a spiritual seed in no way nullifies God’s commitment to Abraham’s physical seed.
3. In the promised coming of the 1000-year reign of Christ (The Millennium, meaning 1000), the Gentile nations will be blessed through Israel, Abraham’s physical seed.
Deuteronomy 28:8-14. “The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee = (the Jew) — and he shall bless thee in the land (Israel) which the LORD thy God giveth thee. The LORD shall establish thee (the Jews) a holy people unto himself as he hath sworn unto thee (through the Abrahamic covenant) — and all people of the earth shall see that thou (the Jew) art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.
He tells us how He will prosper the people and the land with agriculture, goods, fair weather, financial, medical, the sciences, etc.
“And thou shall make thee (the Jew) the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; etc.”
Isaiah 60:3-5-11-16. “And the (unsaved) Gentiles shall come to thy light, (Messiah) and kings to the brightness of thy rising.(the Lords return) — the Gentiles shall come unto thee (the Jew.) Therefore, thy gates shall be open continually: they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces (wealth) of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought. Thou (the Jews) shalt suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD am thy Savior and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.”
Phillip LaSpino www.seekfirstwisdom.com