Friday, May 23, 2014

The Four Unconditional Covenants Revisited 542 - 10 - 1

The Four Unconditional Covenants:

The Abrahamic Covenant:

 “And I will establish my covenant (H1285) between me and thee and thy seed (2233) after thee in their generations for an everlasting (H5769) covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.” (Genesis 17:7-8).

The Land Covenant:

In Genesis 15 God instructed Abram to construct an offering and then caused Abram to enter a deep sleep. God foretold of the time that the Israelites would be strangers in a land not theirs, however, when they would come out of a period of enslavement they would be given an unconditional title to land as described in verse 18 through 21. This was a unilateral land covenant granted to Abram and his descendants.

The Davidic Covenant:

Nathan the prophet told King David God’s unconditional covenant. 2 Samuel 7:12, “And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.” 2 Samuel 7:16, “And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established forever.”

The Everlasting Covenant:

God promised Isaac in Genesis 26:3-4, "Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father; And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed."

We believers have a new and unconditional covenant which is our justification by the shed blood of Jesus and his proclamation that “It is finished.” As the world spirals out of control with competing and demonic world views, we believers are to look up as our redemption draws near. That said, today Israel is being attacked on all sides both militarily and verbally and most have disregarded this very important declaration by God Genesis 12:3, “And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.” And curseth the world is.


H1285
בּרית
berı̂yth 
ber-eeth'
From H1262 (in the sense of cutting (like H1254)); a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh): - confederacy, [con-]feder[-ate], covenant, league.

H2233
זרע
zera‛
zeh'-rah
From H2232; seed; figuratively fruit, plant, sowing time, posterity: -  X carnally, child, fruitful, seed (-time), sowing-time.

H5769
עלם    עולם
‛ôlâm  ‛ôlâm
o-lawm', o-lawm'
From H5956; properly concealed, that is, the vanishing point; generally time out of mind (past or future), that is, (practically) eternity; frequentative adverbially (especially with prepositional prefix) always: - always (-s), ancient (time), any more, continuance, eternal, (for, [n-]) ever (-lasting, -more, of old), lasting, long (time), (of) old (time), perpetual, at any time, (beginning of the) world (+ without end). Compare H5331, H5703

Added a few days later:

I can't believe that is already Friday evening. This week I spent one day reading an Amish novel, my common practice when I feel the need for more relaxing reading. Now I'm reading "Cold case Christianity" by J. Warner Wallace. Mr. Wallace is a cold case detective and he approaches the validity of the Gospels as he would a cold case. No discussion concerning the old versus the new covenant only, as Sgt. Joe Friday of the old TV series Dragnet would say, "just the facts ma'am, just the facts." At the start of his investigation into Christianity Mr. Wallace was an atheist. Now a Christian's his book is a very good read and one that I recommend.
Perhaps it was all the discussion concerning the law and all the busywork required that prompted to study even more into the busywork of the Roman Catholic Church. There are a number of books available for free online including "The Jesuit Conspiracy" by a Jesuit named Leona. The book is very telling in that one of the leaders owns up to the fact that their religion has very little basis in the word of God.

Here at KI I'm blessed to be part of a group that loves the Lord and delving into the true Word. 

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