BIBLICAL COVENANT - Part 6

MONDAY, 3RD OCTOBER, 2022.

Topic: EIGHT BIBLICAL COVENANTS – Part 6

ABRAHAMIC COVENANT

MEMORIZE: “On the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying: "To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates.” — Gen 15:18 (NKJV)

SCRIPTURE READING: Genesis 13:14-17.

¹⁴ And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him: "Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are--northward, southward, eastward, and westward; for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants forever. And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numbered. Arise, walk in the land through its length and its width, for I give it to you."” 

ABRAHAMIC COVENANT - Genesis 15:18

The Abrahamic Covenant as formed (Gen. 12:1-4) and confirmed; (Gen. 13:14-17; Gen15:1-7; Gen. 17:1-8) is in seven distinct parts:

(1) "I will make of thee a great nation." Fulfilled in a three-fold way:

(a) In a natural posterity -- "as the dust of the earth (Gen13:16; John 8:37); namely, the Hebrew people.

(b) In a spiritual posterity -- "look now toward heaven... so shall thy seed be" (John 8:39; Rom, 4:16-17; Rom. 9:7-8; Gal. 3:6-7, 29) namely, all men of faith, whether Jew or Gentile.

(c) fulfilled also through Ishmael (Gen17:18-20).

(2) "I will bless thee." Fulfilled in two ways:

(a) temporally (Gen13:14, 15, 17,18; Gen. 24:34-35)

(b) spiritually; (Gen. 15:6; John 8:56).

(3) "And make thy name great." Abraham's is one of the universal names.

(4) "And thou shalt be a blessing" (Gal3:13-14).

(5) "I will bless them that bless thee." In fulfillment closely related to the next clause.

(6) "And curse him that curseth thee." Wonderfully fulfilled in the history of the dispersion. It has in variably fared ill with the people who have persecuted the Jew –well with those who have protected him. The future will still more remarkably prove this principle (Deut. 30:7; Isa. 14:1; Joel 3:1-8; Micah 5:7-9; Hag. 2:22; Zech. 14:1-3; Matt. 25:40, 45).

(7) "In thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed." This is the great evangelic promise fulfilled in Abraham's Seed, Christ (Gal. 3:16; John 8:56-58). It brings into greater definiteness the promise of the Adamic Covenant concerning the Seed of the woman (Gen. 3:15).

NOTE. – The gift of the land is modified by prophecies of three dispossessions and restorations (Gen. 15:13-14, 16; Jer. 25:11-12; Deut. 28:62-65; Deu30:1-3. Two dispossessions and restorations have been accomplished. Israel is now in the third dispersion, from which she will be restored at the return of the Lord as King under the Davidic Covenant; (Deu30:3; Jer. 23:5-8; Ezek. 37:21-25; Luke 1:30-33; Acts 15:14-17.

PRAYER POINT:  LORD,  as you did to Abraham, You fulfill all your promises for him, do so in my life. Fulfil your promises for me in Jesus name. 

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DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR – Jonah 1-4.