759 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 1 Part 3 Book 64 - The Abrahamic Covenant

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 3 * BOOK 64 THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT All right, now we’re on the Covenants, and we finished in our last program the New Covenant. Then Israel will come under the promises of the New Covenant when all of the things of God will be written on their hearts. Like from the Tower of Babel to the call of Abraham. In that 200 years period of time, the whole human race now had succumbed. Out of that population of abject idolatry, God puts the finger on one man. Right down there on the Euphrates River. All right, we pick it up in chapter 11 verse 31. Genesis 11:31a "And Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife;…" Genesis 11:31b Just short of the Persian Gulf was the ancient city of Babel, or Babylon. Genesis 11:32 God could not deal, even with Abram, until he was totally bereft of that idolatrous influencing father. So, God waits until Terah dies, and then He moves them down into the Promised Land. All right, now we pick up the Covenant in Genesis chapter 12. Now, I know a lot of people can’t comprehend that, but from Abraham until Paul, God only dealt, with some exceptions, with the Nation of Israel. It was God dealing with His covenant people and no one else, with some exceptions. God is Sovereign. If a nation stabbed Israel in the back, it wasn’t too long until God sent them into the dustbin of history. But, so far as offering salvation to a Gentile, no way, it was only to His covenant people Israel. Ephesians 2:11-12a 12. That at that time…" While God is dealing with the Covenant promises and Israel. All during the time from Abraham until we get to the Apostle Paul, God is only dealing with His Covenant people. "…that at that time ye (Gentiles) were without Christ, being aliens (Now, watch the language. Aliens – non-citizens) from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise,…" Gentiles had no part in the Abrahamic. without God in the world." The Gentile had no hope of salvation. Don’t blame God. All right, come back now to Genesis 12, and we’re going to take our time on this Abrahamic Covenant. We’re going to exhaust this Abrahamic Covenant. Genesis 12:1 unto a land that I will shew thee." Now, here come the covenant promises, seven of them. Genesis 12:2a "And I will make of thee a great nation, (That’s number 1) and I will bless thee, (That’s number 2) and make thy name great;…" I’ve even got a grandson that they called Abraham. You know a lot of people throughout your friendships who are called Abraham. Genesis 12:2b You bless the Jew and God will bless you. It’s a promise. God says He will bring it about to those who are against the Jew or the Nation of Israel. The all encompassing promise made to Abraham. Now, that’s the crowning part of the Abrahamic Covenant, and it’s that part of the covenant that brings us into the picture. That through this man Abraham will come the Nation that God will pull apart from all the rest of humanity. All right, so now, that’s the Abrahamic Covenant, those seven statements. Whenever you refer to the Covenant, this is what you have to look at, and whenever we refer to Christ having come through the Nation of Israel, it began right back here in this Covenant promise. We call them the mountains of Israel. All right, now I think in one of those high points on one of those mountains of Israel, verse 14 occurred. Genesis 13:14 Genesis 13:15a Genesis 13:15 Now, you remember that as long as I’ve been teaching this on television, I’m always designating Israel as God’s earthly people. All of their promises were earthly. Never did God make spiritual, heavenly promises to Israel. God doesn’t tell you that if you’re an obedient Christian He will bless you with wealth. Israel’s are earthly. God is still dealing with him on those mountains of Israel. Heavenly! So, Abraham has a connection not only to the earthly people of Israel, but also to you and I of the Church Age. The Scripture merely teaches that we have become recipients of this glorious Gospel of salvation because of the Covenant God made with Abraham. When God made that Covenant with Abraham, was it after circumcision, or before? How was Abraham saved? Faith plus nothing! Here’s the cross in the center of my time line and back here 2000 years is Abraham. Not that we become recipients of any of the covenant promises, but we step into a relationship with the God of Abraham, how? Well yeah, I believe that Christ died. I believe that Christ died. Then what are you making God? Abraham has been promised to be the progenitor of the dust of the earth, the earthly promises given to Israel. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible