35 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 3 - Part 3 - Book 3 - Abrahamic Covenant

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LESSON 3 * PART 3 * BOOK 3
ABRAHAMIC COVENANT
GENESIS 12:1-3
All right, Genesis chapter 46 is where we closed last week, where God said to Jacob as he was hankering to get down in Egypt where Joseph was, He said:
Genesis 46:3b
"…I am God, the God of thy father, fear not to go down into Egypt;…" Genesis 46:3c
"For I will there (in Egypt) make of thee a great nation."
Exodus 1:5
Exodus 1:7
Exodus 1:9
"And he (the king of Egypt) said unto his people, Behold the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:" So the King had to do something drastic.
Now if you’ll turn on over to Exodus chapter 19, one of the other benchmark verses of Scripture. In Exodus chapter 19 drop down to verse 5 and again get the setting. Israel is now out of the land of Egypt. Exodus 19:5a
"Now therefore, if…." If. Exodus 19:5b
You shall be a special people.
Exodus 19:5c
"…treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:" Why? Because God is Sovereign. Now look at verse 6, underline it, circle it, do something with it because this is a crucial verse if you’re going to understand even the New Testament.
Exodus 19:6a
"And you (the nation of Israel) shall be unto me a (what’s the next word?) Now let’s stop. As we understand the word priest, what is the role of a priest? So far as God and man are concerned, what’s the role of a priest? Now Israel was being promised that if they would be obedient to the commands and the covenants of God, they would be a kingdom, a nation of priests – go-betweens.
A holy or a separated – what’s the next word?) nation." Zechariah chapter 8 and try to keep all this sorted out now in your memory - that Israel had become a nation of people while they were down there in Egypt. Now remember the whole idea of separating this little nation of people is to prepare them for the day when they could be all that God wanted them to be with regard to the non-Jewish people, which we normally refer to now as Gentiles.
Zechariah 8:20
Zechariah 8:22
"Yea, many people and strong (what’s the next word?) nations (I’m a stickler for every word. So we have people and nations – plural) shall come to seek the LORD of hosts (where?)in Jerusalem, and pray before the LORD." Zechariah 8:23
God is with you." Wasn’t that tremendous prospect and Israel blew it! I think chapter 3. in Galatians and just drop down again for sake of time to verse 23 and 24.
Why has the Law now been set aside and why had God turned to the Gentiles by grace through faith alone?
Galatians 3:23-24a
Wherefore the law was our (what’s the word?) schoolmaster..." All right, now that’s what the Law was to Israel.
Galatians 4:1
All right, now this was exactly what God was doing with the nation of Israel. Now, I know the other verse I was thinking of. To Israel. Isaiah 42:1
Gentiles. Christ. The Messiah, this coming King. The non-Jew, the Gentile.
Now if you’ll flip on over to chapter 59 in this same book of Isaiah chapter 59 now drop down to verse 20.
Isaiah 59:20a
Christ. Where’s Zion? Jerusalem. Isaiah 59:20b-21
(that is of the Children of Israel) 21. As for me, (God says) this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My Spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth nor out of the mouth of thy seed, or your children, nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the LORD from henceforth forever." But now don’t stop there, come right into the next chapter, chapter 60 verse 1, where it says:
Isaiah 60:1
"Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee." Israel. What time is it referring to? You remember in the Gospels when Jesus told Israel, "you are the light of the world?" Isaiah 60:2-3a
"For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: (now who are the people? Israel. The Jew. Gentiles shall come to (what?) thy light,…" Israel’s light? Oh the Gentiles were to see all the spiritual light through Israel.
Isaiah 60:3b-4
Now, in this Abrahamic Covenant, God has established the fact that the nation of Israel is now on the scene. Hopefully we’ve established that they were to be a nation of People. But now God’s going to put them in a geographical area.
Genesis chapter 15, the very same verses are appropriate that we read earlier, where Abram is wondering, "How is God going to bring this about, seeing that he’s childless." Now if you’ll come down to verse 8. Last time we looked at these verses he was talking about numbers, people. Now, verse 7:
Genesis 15:7
land (here it comes. Regular old terra firma) to inherit it." Genesis 15:8
"And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?" Genesis 15:18"
Israel’s! And the Canaanites are going to have to be driven out so that Israel can inherit the land that God deeded to Abraham.

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