How
The Abrahamic Covenant Works to Produce
Healing, Prosperity and Family Well-being for
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In Genesis 12
God picked one man out of the rest of
humanity. His name was Abram (later changed to
Abraham). God then made a covenant with him
which has been called the Abrahamic Covenant.
There were sixty promises which made up the
Abrahamic Covenant. God also included
Abraham’s physical descendants in His
Covenant with Abram.
The word
"bless" is the key term in these
Sixty promises. This word "bless"
included four basic things: physical healing,
material prosperity, well-being for his family
and salvation for his soul.
Over four
hundred years later God attached the Mosaic
Law to the Abrahamic Covenant so that the two
of them functioned together as a unit. He
attached Moses’ law to Abraham’s covenant
because the seed of Abraham were sinners and
God determined to do something about their sin
problem. But He dealt with their sins in such
a way that they did not lose the blessings
promised them in The Abrahamic Covenant which
were healing, prosperity, well-being for their
families and salvation for their soul. This is
how He did it.
When any one of
the physical seed of Abraham sinned under
Moses’ Law, God had included a sacrificial
system within Moses law, whereby that person
could make the proper sacrifice for that
specific sin and the blessings in the
Abrahamic Covenant would continue for him
without interruption. However, when he sinned
and failed to make the proper sacrifice in the
proper manner, the blessings of Abraham
stopped for him at that moment. He lost what
he had been born with which included healing,
prosperity, well-being for his family and the
salvation of his soul. Although he was the
physical seed of Abraham, he became as lost
and hell-bound as any heathen in the world.
But, when he
finally repents of his sin and acknowledges
his repentance by making the specific
sacrifice for his specific sin, then the
blessings of Abraham resumed for him at that
moment. (Moses’ Law required specific
sacrifices for different kinds of sins.)
Consequently, Moses’ Law was given to
maintain the blessings which had already been
given to them in The Abrahamic Covenant. It
was never given for them to work their way
into a relationship with God in any manner at
all.
Deut. 7:12
12
Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye
hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do
them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto
thee the covenant and the mercy which he
sware unto thy fathers: (KJV)
This
system lasted until Jesus came
This system
lasted until Christ came. When He mounted the
cross, He became the final sacrifice for sin(s)
under Moses’ Law. At that point in time, God
no longer accepted the blood of bulls and
goats as an answer to the sins of any of them.
Therefore, from the death of Christ till the
end of time as we know it, every one of the
physical seed of Abraham has a vital choice to
make.
Since Jesus is
the final sacrifice for sin(s) under Moses’
Law, the Jew that accepts him as that final
sacrifice, as his Messiah, as his Savior, the
blessings of Abraham which include healing,
prosperity, well-being for his family in
addition to his soul, continue for that Jew
without interruption. But if he rejects
God’s final sacrifice for his sin(s), since
God no longer accepts the blood of bulls and
goats, he loses everything he was born with in
the Abrahamic Covenant. He loses his healing,
prosperity, well-being for his family in
addition to the salvation of his soul. If he
finally accepts Jesus, God’s final sacrifice
for sin(s) under Moses’ Law, as his Messiah
and Savior, the blessings of Abraham resume
for him at that moment. He resumes his
salvation and blessing of healing, prosperity,
family well being and the salvation of his
soul. See our book, What
Are Abraham’s Blessings Anyway?
and What’ve
They Done With Abraham’s Blessings?
for a complete explanation of the above.
Gentiles (non
physical seed of Abraham) were prophetically
included in several of the sixty Abrahamic
promises to "bless," which we
pointed out previously, includes healing,
prosperity and family well being in addition
to salvation. Although Gentiles were
prophetically included in the Abrahamic
Covenant, the addition of Moses' Law prevented
them from coming into Abraham’s Covenant
actually. Deuteronomy 7:1-6 demonstrates this.
Deut.
7:1-6
1 When the
LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land
whither thou goest to possess it, and hath
cast out many nations before thee, the
Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the
Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the
Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the
Jebusites, seven nations greater and
mightier than thou;
2 And when
the LORD thy God shall deliver them before
thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly
destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant
with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
3 Neither
shalt thou make marriages with them; thy
daughter thou shalt not give unto his son,
nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy
son.
4 For they
will turn away thy son from following me,
that they may serve other gods: so will the
anger of the LORD be kindled against you,
and destroy thee suddenly.
5 But thus
shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy
their altars, and break down their images,
and cut down their groves, and burn their
graven images with fire.
6 For thou
art an holy people unto the LORD thy God:
the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a
special people unto himself, above all
people that are upon the face of the earth.
(KJV)
Therefore, as
long as the Law was in effect, there was no
way that Gentiles could experience actually
what had been said of them prophetically in
the Abrahamic Covenant. This condition of
Gentile exclusion lasted until Christ came.
When He (Jesus) came and died as God’s final
sacrifice for sin, he fulfilled the Law of
Moses. Having fulfilled it, He did six things
to that Law.
Jesus
did Six Things to the Law
Ephesians
2:14-16 and Colossians 2:14 demonstrates these
six things for us. See our book, You
Can Receive Healing and Prosperity When You
Don’t Feel Worthy Enough
for complete details on the above subject.
(1) He broke
it down.
(2) He
abolished it.
(3) He slew
it.
(4) He
blotted it out.
(5) He took
it out of the way.
(6) He nailed
it to His cross.
Eph
2:14-16
14 For he
is our peace, who hath made both one, and
hath broken down the middle wall of
partition between us;
15 Having
abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the
law of commandments contained in ordinances;
for to make in himself of twain one new man,
so making peace;
16 And
that he might reconcile both unto God in one
body by the cross, having slain the enmity
thereby: (KJV)
Our
grafting and its results
Having dealt
with that which excluded Gentiles from the
Abrahamic blessings of healing, prosperity,
well-being for our families and salvation for
our souls, Gentiles can now come into the
Abrahamic Covenant blessing system. The
question is, therefore, how do we do it? We do
it the same way a Jew does it with but one
difference. When a Jew accepts Christ, he
maintains, without interruption, what he had
been born with. When a Gentile accepts Christ
as his Savior and Lord, he is grafted into the
Abrahamic blessing system at that point in
time. And it is at that point in time that the
Abrahamic blessings become his. He was not
born with them like the Jew was. He is grafted
into them the moment he accepts Christ as his
savior. See our book, The
Unbroken Force of Abraham’s Blessings
for a detailed explanation and Bible proof of
your Gentile Grafting into the same healing,
prosperity and family well being that Abraham
had. Romans 11:17-18 demonstrates this for us.
Rom
11:17-18
17 And if
some of the branches be broken off, and
thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed
in among them, and with them partakest of
the root and fatness of the olive tree;
18 Boast
not against the branches. But if thou boast,
thou bearest not the root, but the root
thee. (KJV)
Simultaneous
with a Gentile’s grafting into the Abrahamic
Covenant, he becomes a seed of Abraham. He
becomes a member of "The Abrahamic Seed
Group". Galatians 3:7 and 24 demonstrates
this fact for us.
Gal 3:7
7 Know ye
therefore that they which are of faith, the
same are the children of Abraham. (KJV)
Gal 3:26
26 For ye
are all the children of God by faith in
Christ Jesus. (KJV)
Finally, we
must understand the difference between
"The Curse" and "The Curse of
The Law" and how both relate to Jews and
Gentiles. First, "The Curse" is the
result of Adam’s fall. This explains the
sin, sickness, hunger, evil and wickedness.
that is present in the world. "The
Curse" is the reason things are the way
they are in the world. Everywhere man turns,
he is confronted with the curse and its
consequences.
The
difference between the Curse and the Curse of
the Law
Picture
"The Curse" as rain. Its devastating
effects just keep raining down on us and man
keeps getting wet in it. But, after Adam’s
fall, God set up the Abrahamic system which
functioned as a giant umbrella which protected
Abraham's’ seed (The Jews) from "The
Curse" which is represented here as rain.
As long as they kept Moses’ Law by making
the proper sacrifice when they sinned, they
stayed under the Abrahamic umbrella, as it
were, and they were protected from the cursed
rain. However, if they sinned and failed to
make the proper sacrifice in the right spirit,
they lost their Abrahamic blessings. They were
suddenly out from under the umbrella. They
were out in the rain. There was no difference
between a Jew out in the cursed rain and a
lost heathen out in the cursed rain.
But the way a
Jew "entered" the cursed rain was
different from the way a Gentile entered the
cursed rain. A Jew entered the cursed rain
because of disobedience to Moses’ Law and
the failure to sacrifice properly. A heathen
Gentile, on the other hand, was never under
the Abrahamic umbrella. He was born in the
rain as it were, and lived in the experience
of the curse every moment of his life. He was
lost, he was subject to sin, sickness etc.
every minute he lived.
Here is the
difference, then, between a Jew and a lost,
heathen Gentile out in the cursed rain. The
lost, heathen Gentile was out in it because of
Adam. The Jew got back into it because of his
failure to sacrifice properly according to the
instructions in Moses Law. The Jew was in the
cursed rain because of the Law. The Gentile
heathen was in the rain because of birth. This
is the way it was for the Jew and "The
Curse of The Law" until Christ came. This
is the way it was for the Gentile heathen and
"The Curse" until Christ came.
Deuteronomy 28:15-68 describes in detail what
the Gentile heathen is born into and what the
Jew gets back into when he steps out from
under the Abrahamic umbrella when he sinned
under Moses’ law and failed to make the
proper sacrifice. See my book, No Thief Gives
Warning Signs, for a full, detailed discussion
of the above subject.
Moses'
law dealt with both individuals and the Nation
as a whole
Some might
object that the Old Testament promises to
Israel were made to them as a nation and not
to individuals within the nation. It is true
that in the Old Testament, promises were made
to Israel as a nation. But, within the nation
of Israel and within the national promises
made to Israel as a nation, there were
individuals which made up the nation. As such,
these individuals were responsible for
themselves within the broader framework of the
nation and their national promises.
Deuteronomy 29:18-21 teaches this to us.
Deut
29:18-21
18 Lest
there should be among you man, or woman, or
family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away
this day from the LORD our God, to go and
serve the gods of these nations; lest there
should be among you a root that beareth gall
and wormwood;
19 And it
come to pass, when he heareth the words of
this curse, that he bless himself in his
heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I
walk in the imagination of mine heart, to
add drunkenness to thirst:
20 The
LORD will not spare him, but then the anger
of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke
against that man, and all the curses that
are written in this book shall lie upon him,
and the LORD shall blot out his name from
under heaven.
21 And the
LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all
the tribes of Israel, according to all the
curses of the covenant that are written in
this book of the law: (KJV)
Notice the
words "man" and "woman" in
verse 18. These are individuals. In verse 19
"he" is used twice. This is an
individual. Look at the words "him",
"his" and "man" in verse
20. These are individuals. See the word
"him" in verse 21. This is an
individual. Notice also in verse 21 that the
individual "him" is separated from
the nation unto the evil contained in the
"Curse of The Law".
The
responsibility and the outcome of the
individual’s obedience to Moses' law is also
described in Leviticus 18:5.
Lev 18:5
5 Ye shall
therefore keep my statutes, and my
judgments: which if a man do, he shall live
in them: I am the LORD. (KJV)
Notice very
closely the words "man" and
"he" in this verse. These words
represent individuals. Although the nation is
spoken to here, the nation is composed of
individuals who must be obedient as an
individual.
The
Apostle Paul agrees
The Apostle
Paul taught this very same thing. He quotes
the preceding verse (Leviticus 18:5) in Romans
10:5.
Rom 10:5
5 For
Moses describe the righteousness which is of
the law, That the man which dote those
things shall live by them. (KJV)
He also taught
this same thing in Galatians 3:10-12.
Gal
3:10-12
10 For as
many as are of the works of the law are
under the curse: for it is written, Cursed
is every one that continent not in all
things which are written in the book of the
law to do them.
11 But
that no man is justified by the law in the
sight of God, it is evident: for, The just
shall live by faith.
12 And the
law is not of faith: but, The man that dote
them shall live in them. (KJV)
Look at the
expression "as many as" in verse 10.
This speaks of individuals. Now notice his use
of the word "man" in verse 11 and
again in verse 12. In both verses, Paul is
speaking of an individual. Any way you slice
it, individuals within the nation of Israel
were responsible for themselves as individual
Israelites. As an individual, they could move
out from under the Abrahamic umbrella into the
Curse of the Law.
The
Bible Doctrine of the Remnant
This concept of
individual responsibility brings us to
"The Doctrine of The Remnant". As
the centuries rolled by, those who kept
Moses’ Law by sacrificing properly became a
small minority. These were the saved of
Abraham’s seed. Those who did not sacrifice
properly when they sinned were as lost as any
heathen Gentile that ever lived. Those who
sacrificed properly to maintain the blessings
of Abraham were the "spiritual
Israel" within the nation of Israel. This
"Remnant" of saved Members of the
Abrahamic Seed Group grew smaller and smaller
through the passing of time and had almost
disappeared by the time Jesus began His
ministry.
During
Elijah’s ministry the Remnant seemed to
number only 7000 people. During Isaiah’s
ministry the remnant was "very
small". Later it got even smaller.
Esther, Mordecai, Ezekiel, Daniel, the three
Hebrew children, Ezra, Nehemiah and their
small group seems to have been it. When Jesus
began to preach, John the Baptist, Simeon,
Anna, the Disciples and possibly a hand full
of others were about all the saved Jews one
could find. All these sacrificed properly when
they sinned and maintained the blessings of
Abraham without interruption. From the above
discussion, we can readily see the Bible makes
a division within the nation of Israel,
distinguishing the saved Remnant from the
unsaved nation of Israel.
The Apostle
Paul observes this distinction also. In Romans
9:6-8, he points out that being a physical Jew
does not make one a child of God.
Rom 9:6-8
6 Not as
though the word of God hath taken none
effect. For they are not all Israel, which
are of Israel:
7 Neither,
because they are the seed of Abraham, are
they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy
seed be called.
8 That is,
They which are the children of the flesh,
these are not the children of God: but the
children of the promise are counted for the
seed. (KJV)
Then, in Romans
9:27-29 he quotes the Old Testament prophets
concerning the Remnant being saved out of the
children of Israel who were as numerous as the
sand of the sea.
Rom
9:27-29
27 Esaias
also crieth concerning Israel, Though the
number of the children of Israel be as the
sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
28 For he
will finish the work, and cut it short in
righteousness: because a short work will the
Lord make upon the earth.
29 And as
Esaias said before, Except the Lord of
Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as
Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha. (KJV)
Next, in Romans
11:1-7, he declares that even as he was
writing the book of Romans, "there is a
remnant according to the election of
grace." He said that Israel (the nation)
had not obtained what they seeketh for but the
election (remnant) had obtained what they
sought for.
Rom 11:1-7
1 I say
then, Hath God cast away his people? God
forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the
seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 God hath
not cast away his people which he foreknew.
Wot ye not what the scripture saith of
Elias? how he maketh intercession to God
against Israel, saying,
3 Lord,
they have killed thy prophets, and digged
down thine altars; and I am left alone, and
they seek my life.
4 But what
saith the answer of God unto him? I have
reserved to myself seven thousand men, who
have not bowed the knee to the image of
Baal.
5 Even so
then at this present time also there is a
remnant according to the election of grace.
6 And if
by grace, then is it no more of works:
otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it
be of works, then is it no more grace:
otherwise work is no more work.
7 What
then? Israel hath not obtained that which he
seeketh for; but the election hath obtained
it, and the rest were blinded (KJV)
The Remnant of
Abraham’s Seed in the passage above (Romans
11:1-7) are those Jews who recognized and
received Jesus as the final sacrifice for sin
under Moses’ Law. They accepted Him as their
Messiah and their Savior. We call them
Christians. They compose what we now call the
church. They are, however, still the saved of
the Abrahamic Seed Group which has been in
existence since way back in Old Testament
history.
How
Gentiles relate to the Remnant
The question
now is what is the relationship of Gentile
Christians to this group? Previously we
asserted that Gentile Christians are also
members of the Abrahamic Seed Group. Paul
recognizes this and declares that Gentile
Christians are simply grafted into the Jewish
Remnant. He explains this fully in Romans
11:17-22. For a complete faith building
explanation of Gentile grafting, see my book, The
Unbroken Force of Abraham's Blessings.
When we Gentile
Christians are grafted into the Jewish
Remnant, there is from that time forward no
difference between us Gentiles and the saved
Jewish remnant. Paul explains this carefully
in Romans 10:12-13.
Rom
10:12-13
12 For
there is no difference between the Jew and
the Greek: for the same Lord over all is
rich unto all that call upon him.
13 For
whosoever shall call upon the name of the
Lord shall be saved. (KJV)
In other words,
in the Old Testament, Abraham’s physical
descendants were born saved because of the
Abrahamic covenant and maintained it by
sacrificing properly when they sinned. In the
New Testament, they maintain what they were
born with by accepting Jesus as God’s final
sacrifice for theirs sins. When Gentiles
receive Jesus as their savior, they are saved
and immediately grafted into the same healing,
prosperity, family well being in addition to
salvation that Abraham and the Jews had in the
Old Testament. This section has been modified
from Chapter One and Two in my book, No
Thief Gives Warning Signs.
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