Back to Basics #6: GOD COMMITS IRREVOCABLY!

It’s time we looked at those promises to the Patriarchs, beginning with Abraham.                                                                                                         

Why do we have to go all the way back to Genesis?                         

This is the foundation for all of Holy Scripture – where everything of importance gets its first mention - even the types in Church teaching!                             

Miss this and our understanding of End Times is screwed.

Watch carefully as God paints Himself into a corner with His UNCONDITIONAL PROMISES to this very strange family...

First God begins with 4 ‘I WILLs’ giving a 3-fold promise:                       

• Show you a LAND
• Make of you a great NATION
• Bless you and make you a BLESSING.  "Bless those that bless you and curse those who curse you"       ch12

Next God gives Abraham the tenure over that Land for his seed as the dust of the earth – FOREVER!                            13:14-17

Then the “I AM” defines the boundaries of that Land with a blood covenant: from the river of Egypt all the way to the Euphrates!       Ch 15

Followed by the 3^rd “I AM”...that ratifies the EVERLASTING COVENANT, and promises a son – Isaac.  ch17

Finally Abraham has the blessing – of not just Isaac...

• he has the HEAVENLY BLESSING: ‘the stars of heaven’ and...
• he has the EARTHLY BLESSING: ‘the sand on the sea shore’

There you have the clear distinction between the spiritual and the natural:

“the faith of Abraham who is the father of us all”  Romans 4:16 (spiritual)

“I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham...” Romans 11:1 (earthly)

 Abe is the first recognised prophet, was NOT a Jew, never owned more than cemetery, saw the Promised Land as ‘strange’ – he desired a ‘heavenly country’.

 The distinction between God’s heavenly people and His earthly people is played out in his family – son Isaac & grandson Jacob.....NEXT.