Abraham is the “ father of the faithful” (see Galatians 3:7)
If we are Christ’s we are Abraham’s children (Galatians 3:29)
that Abraham was called on to be willing to sacrifice his only (legitimate) son (Genesis 22:2)
For the promise, that he [Abraham] should be the heir of the world Romans 4:13
all the promises and the covenants of God, all the sonship and the glory,
belong sole to Israel (Romans 9:4).
God promised that Abraham’s literal, human, flesh and blood descendants
should become “a great nation” (Genesis 12:2);
that He would “multiply thee exceedingly” (Genesis 17:2);
that“thou shalt be a father of many nations” (verse 4); and that “I will make
thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee”(verse 6).
In Genesis 17:8, God promised “all the land of Canaan,” but in other scriptures
He promised much more. In Genesis 15:18: “
Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt [the Nile]
unto the great river,the river Euphrates. The Euphrates is a considerable
distance to the east in the ancient land of Babylon,
Genesis 24:60 to Abraham’s daughter-in-law: “e thou the mother of thousands
of millions, and let thy seed possessthe gate of those which hate them.”
“By myself have I sworn, saith the [Eternal], for because thou
hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only
son: That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will
multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand
which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gates of
his enemies. The promise now is unconditional.
This legacy guaranteed on the authority of God
Almighty, unconditionally, multitudinous population, untold
wealth and material resources, national greatness and world power!
The spiritual promises—the promises of the “one seed,” Christ, and
of salvation through Him—the Bible calls the scepter.
But the material and national promises relating to many nations, national wealth,
prosperity and power, and possession of the Holy Land, the Bible calls the birthright.
A birthright does not have to be earned, it comes by birth, but someone can lose it.
Both the birthright and the scepter were repromised by the Eternal
to Abraham and Isaac and to Jacob.
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that Isaac was born by promise, and by a miracle from God,
“And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed;
and thou shalt call his name Isaac:
and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant,
and with his seed after him. And as for Ishmael, I … will make him fruitful,
and will multiply him exceedingly … and I will make him a great nation.
But my covenant will I establish with Isaac …” (verses 19-21).
Abraham wanted ishmael, Genesis 17:18, but God chose Isaac,first lawful son
Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac (Genesis 25:5)
The promise, as confirmed to Isaac, Genesis 26:3-5 all these countries...
Ishmael and Abraham’s other sons were rejected from this birthright.
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