The abrahamic covenant

ABRAHAM MOVES
AS THE LORD GOD
ORDERS HIM

scriptures related:
•Genesis 12:1-3
•Genesis 12:7
•Genesis 13:14-17
•Genesis 15:1-21
•Genesis 17:1-21
• Genesis 22:15-18

GENESIS 12:1-3 (NKJV)
• Promises to Abram
• 12 Now the LORD had said to Abram: “Get out of your country,
From your family And from your father’s house,
To a land that I will show you.
• 2 I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your
name great; And you shall be a blessing.
• 3 I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses
you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

GENESIS 12:7 (NKJV)
• 7 Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said,
“To your [a]descendants I will give this land.”
And there he built an altar to the LORD, who had
appeared to him.

• 14 And the LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from
him: “Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you
are—northward, southward, eastward, and westward; 15 for all
the land which you see I give to you and your [a]descendants
forever. 16 And I will make your descendants as the dust of the
earth; so that if a man could number the dust of the
earth, then your descendants also could be numbered. 17 Arise,
walk in the land through its length and its width, for I give it to
you.”

•Genesis 15:1-21 (NKJV)
•Please read it before the meeting.

•Genesis 17:1-21 (NKJV)
•Please read it before the meeting.

• 15 Then the Angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second
time out of heaven, 16 and said: “By Myself I have sworn, says
the LORD, because you have done this thing, and have not
withheld your son, your only son— 17 blessing I will bless
you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the
stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the
seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of
their enemies. 18 In your seed all the nations of the earth
shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”

THE PARTICIPANTS IN THE
COVENANT

• God,
• Who has chosen Abram to initiate a family for Himself.
• Abraham,
• Who stood as the representative head of the whole Jewish
nation.
• Abram is not standing for all humanity.

THE PROVISIONS IN THE
COVENANT

1. A GREAT NATION
• Abraham’s offspring was to become a
GREAT NATION.
• This nation would be known as ISRAEL
• Genesis 12:2 Genesis 13:16 (NKJV)
• Genesis 15:5 (NKJV) Genesis 17:1-2, 7 (NKJV)
• Genesis 22:17 (NKJV)

GENESIS 12:2 (NKJV)
• 2 I will make you a great nation;
• I will bless you And make your name great;
• And you shall be a blessing.

GENESIS 13:16 (NKJV)
• 16 And I will make your descendants as the dust of the
earth; so that if a man could number the dust of the
earth, then your descendants also could be numbered.

GENESIS 15:5 (NKJV)
• 5 Then He brought him outside and said, “Look now
toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to
number them.” And He said to him, “So shall
your descendants be.”

GENESIS 17:1-2, 7 (NKJV)
• 17 When Abram was ninety-nine years old,
the LORD appeared to Abram and said to
him, “I am [a]Almighty God; walk before Me and
be blameless. 2 And I will make My covenant between
Me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”
• 7 And I will establish My covenant between Me and you
and your descendants after you in their generations, for
an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your
descendants after you.

GENESIS 22:17 (NKJV)
• 17 blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply
your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the
sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants
shall possess the gate of their enemies.

2. GOD PROMISED HIM A LAND.
THE LAND OF CANAAN.
• Genesis 12:1,7( NKJV)
• Genesis 13:14-15 (NKJV)

GENESIS 12:1,7( NKJV)
• 12 Now the LORD had said to Abram: “Get out of your
country, From your family And from your father’s house,
To a land that I will show you.
• 7 Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To
your [a]descendants I will give this land.” And there he
built an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

• 14 And the LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated
from him: “Lift your eyes now and look from the place
where you are—northward, southward, eastward, and
westward; 15 for all the land which you see I give to you
and your descendants forever.
• 17 Arise, walk in the land through its length and its width,
for I give it to you.”

• 17 And it came to pass, when the sun went down and it
was dark, that behold, there appeared a smoking oven
and a burning torch that passed between those
pieces. 18 On the same day the LORD made a covenant
with Abram, saying: “To your descendants I have given
this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the
River Euphrates— 19 the Kenites, the Kenezzites, the
Kadmonites, 20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the
Rephaim, 21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the
Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”

GENESIS 17:8 (NKJV)
• 8 Also I give to you and your descendants after you the
land in[a] which you are a stranger, all the land of
Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and I will be their
God.”

PROVISIONS 3, 4 AND 5
• Genesis 12:2
• I will bless you
• And make your name
great;
• And you shall be a
blessing.
• 3. Abraham was to be
greatly blessed.
• 4 His name would be
great.
• 5 He would be a
blessing to others

PROVISIONS 6, 7 AND 8
• 3 I will bless those who
bless you, And I will curse
him who curses you;
And in you all the families
of the earth shall
be blessed.”
• 6. Those who bless
Israel will be
blessed
• 7 Those who curse
Israel will be
cursed
• 8 In Abraham all will
ultimately be
blessed

8. THROUGH ABRAHAM,
ALL WILL BE BLESSED.
• 18 In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be
blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”

9. ABRAHAM WOULD RECEIVE A SON
FROM HIS WIFE SARAH. (GENESIS 15:1- 4)
• 15 After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in
a vision, saying, “Do not be afraid, Abram.
I am your shield, [a]your exceedingly great reward.” 2 But
Abram said, “Lord GOD, what will You give me, seeing I [b]go
childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of
Damascus?” 3 Then Abram said, “Look, You have given me
no offspring; indeed one[c] born in my house is my heir!”
4 And behold, the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
“This one shall not be your heir, but one who will come from
your own body shall be your heir.”

• 16 And I will bless her and also give you a son by her;
then I will bless her, and she shall be a
mother of nations; kings of peoples shall be from her.”
• 17 Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said
in his heart, “Shall a child be born to a man who is one
hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is ninety years
old, bear a child?” 18 And Abraham said to God, “Oh,
that Ishmael might live before You!”

10. HIS DESCENDANTS WOULD
BE CAPTIVES IN EGYPT
• 13 Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly that your
descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs,
and will serve them, and they will afflict them four
hundred years. 14 And also the nation whom they serve I
will judge; afterward they shall come out with great
possessions.

11. ISRAEL AND OTHER NATIONS WOULD
COME FROM ABRAHAM. (GENESIS 17:3-6)
• 3 Then Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him,
saying: 4 “As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you,
and you shall be a father of many nations..
6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will
make nations of you, and kings shall come from you.
The Arab States are some of those nations.

12. ABRAM’S NAME WAS CHANGED
TO ABRAHAM. (GENESIS 17:5)
• 5 No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your
name shall be Abraham; for I have made you a father
of many nations.
•Abram = “Exalted Father”
•Abraham = “Father of a multitude”

13. SARAI’S NAME WAS CHANGED
TO SARAH ( GENESIS 17:15 NKJV)
• 15 Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you
shall not call her name Sarai, but [a]Sarah shall be her
name.
• Sarai = “My Princess”
• Sarah = “The Princess”

14. CIRCUMCISION WAS TO BE A TOKEN OF THE
ABRAHAMIC COVENANT. (GENESIS 17:9-14)
• Circumcision would be a sign of Jewish people.
• Many other nations in the east practiced this. Either at birth or
puberty.
• However, the Jewish circumcision is to be done on the eighth
day.
• Circumcision is a blood covenant therefore its solemnity.
• It would also show that this sign of Jewishness is passed on
through natural generation.

• 9 And God said to Abraham: “As for you, you shall keep
My covenant, you and your descendants after you
throughout their generations. 10 This is My covenant
which you shall keep, between Me and you and your
descendants after you: Every male child among you
shall be circumcised; 11 and you shall be circumcised in
the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the
covenant between Me and you.

• 12 He who is eight days old among you shall be
circumcised, every male child in your generations, he
who is born in your house or bought with money from
any foreigner who is not your descendant. 13 He who is
born in your house and he who is bought with your
money must be circumcised, and My covenant shall be
in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
14 And the uncircumcised male child, who is not
circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall
be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”

THE CONFIRMATION OF THE
COVENANT

CONFIRMATION THROUGH ISAAC
• Abraham had eight sons by three different women.
• The question was, through whom of his sons would the
covenant be confirmed?
• Hagar, bore Ishmael.
• Sarah, had her son named Isaac.
• After Isaac was married, Abraham married Keturah.
• Keturah, bore him six more sons: Zimran, Jokshan, Medan,
Midian, Ishbak and Shuah.

• 2 Then the LORD appeared to him and said: “Do not go down to
Egypt; live in the land of which I shall tell you. 3 Dwell in this land,
and I will be with you and bless you; for to you and your
descendants I give all these lands, and I will perform the oath
which I swore to Abraham your father. 4 And I will make your
descendants multiply as the stars of heaven; I will give to your
descendants all these lands; and in your seed all the nations of
the earth shall be blessed; 5 because Abraham obeyed My voice
and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My
laws.”

LATER, RECONFIRMED THROUGH ISAAC
• 24 And the LORD appeared to him the same night and
said, “I am the God of your father Abraham; do not fear,
for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your
descendants for My servant Abraham’s sake.”

CONFIRMATION THROUGH JACOB
• Isaac had two sons: Esau the first born, and Jacob, the second one.
• However, The Lord chose to confirm the covenant with Jacob. As shown in the bible.
• 25 And the first came out red. He was like a hairy garment all
over; so they called his name [a]Esau. 26 Afterward his brother
came out, and his hand took hold of Esau’s heel; so his name
was called [b]Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore
them.

• 13 And behold, the LORD stood above it and said:
“I am the LORD God of Abraham your father and the God of
Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and your
descendants. 14 Also your descendants shall be as the dust of the
earth; you shall spread abroad to the west and the east, to the
north and the south; and in you and in your seed all the families
of the earth shall be blessed. 15 Behold, I am with you and
will keep[a] you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this
land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken
to you.”

CONFIRMATION THROUGH THE SONS OF JACOB
• As we can read in Genesis chapter 49, Jacob does not chooses a
single son to bless or to appoint him as the one who Yahweh
would choose as His elected, He blesses to every one of them.

• Because the Abrahamic Covenant is unconditional, it is still in
effect even though it has remained largely unfulfilled.
• The ultimate fulfillment will come during the Kingdom Age.
• The Abrahamic Covenant was the basis for the Exodus,
• For Jewish survival in spite of their disobedience,
• For the coming of the Messiah,
• For the resurrection of the dead,
• And for Israel's final redemption and restoration.

• Notice that this covenant was signed and sealed at a specific
point of time, however, not every provision went immediately
into effect.
• Some went into effect right away such as the change of names
and circumcision.
• Some went into effect in the near future, for there was a twenty-
five year wait for the birth of Isaac and a four hundred year wait
before the conquest of the Land.
• Some provisions will go into effect in the prophetic distant future
such as the settlement of all of the Promised Land, which has not
been fulfilled to this day.

TO ABRAHAM
• Abraham was to be the father of a great nation, Israel.
• He was to possess all of the Promised Land.
• Other nations, including the Arab states, were ultimately to
descend from Abraham.
• Abraham was to receive personal blessings.
• Abraham was to be a blessing to others.
• His name was to become great, and so it is among Jews,
Moslems, and in all Christendom.

TO THE SEED: ISRAEL
• The nation of Israel was to become great, and to become
innumerable.
• It was to possess all of the Promised Land, and to receive victory
over its enemies.
• The promises were made to both Abraham and his seed, these
blessings have not yet received complete fulfillment but are
awaiting the Messianic Kingdom.

TO THE GENTILES
• The Gentiles would be blessed for blessing Israel and cursed for
cursing Israel.
• The Abrahamic Covenant contains both physical and spiritual
promises.
• While the physical blessings were limited to the Jews only,
• The spiritual blessings were to extend to the Gentiles, but only
through the Messiah.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Online Cambridge Dictionary.
• https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/jer/34/19/s_779019
• https://biblehub.com/commentaries/ellicott/joshua/9.htm
• https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Samuel+21&version=N
KJV
• https://www.biblegateway.com/
• This study is taken from “The eight Covenants of the Bible”, by Dr Arnold G.
Fruchtenbaum

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