God's Covenant with Abraham. The end of history is focused on the fulfillment of God's promise to Abraham. - Genesis chapter 17 - Now this is my Covenant which you are to maintain between myself and you, and your descendants after you: all your males must be circumcised. You shall circumcise your foreskin and this shall be the sign of the Covenant between myself and you. - Gen 7:10-11 - The Abrahamic covenant is specific in its explanation of how conflict will end in the Day of the Lord. God promised to give Abraham a land and a lineage. These two items, the result of God's blessing of Abraham, are the blessings promised the Hebrew people. - Gen. 12:1-3 -

It is a good thing to be circumcised if you keep the Law; but if you break the Law, you might as well have stayed uncircumcised.........................The real Jew is the one who is inwardly a Jew and the real circumcision is in the heart - something not of the letter but of the spirit. A Jew like that may not be praised by man, but he will be praised by God. - Romans 2:23-29 -

Is this happiness meant only for the circumcised or is it meant for others as well? Think of Abraham again: his faith, we say, was considered as justifying him, but when was this done? When he was already circumcised or before he had been circumcised? It was before he had circumcised, not after; and when he was circumcised later it was only as a sign and guarantee that the faith he had before his circumcision justified him. In this way Abraham became the ancestor of all uncircumcised believers, so that they too might be considered righteous; and ancestor, also, of those who though circumcised do not rely on that fact alone, but follow our ancestor Abraham along the path of faith he trod before he had been circumcised. Rom. 4:9-12 -

What began as a small national boundary for a small group (the Jews) became international in scope, including all races. Eschatology reveals that Abraham's land, ultimately is the new heaven and earth and that Abraham's lineage is the redeemed community in Christ.

In fact, all the prophets that have ever spoken, from Samuel onward, have predicted these days.
'You are the heirs of the prophets, the heirs of the covenant God made with our ancestors when he told Abraham: in your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed. It was for you in the first place that God raised up his servant and sent him to bless you by turning every one of you from your wicked ways. Acts 3:24-26 -

Abraham was also promised by God that those who blessed him would be blessed and those cursed him would be cursed. - Gen. 12:3 - In eschatology this interplay between blessings and curse, and punishment, depends on how people respond to God's work, and ultimately through His work in Christ. Heaven is the ultimate blessing. Hell is the ultimate punishment and curse.

Abraham's Offspring. The idea of blessing...............

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!

I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.

HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -