Genesis 15:18
covenant The Abrahamic Covenant as formed Genesis 12:1-4 and confirmed ; Genesis 13:14-17; 15:1-7 17:1-8 is in seven distinct parts:- (1) "I will make of thee a great nation." Fulfilled in a threefold way:
- (a) In a natural posterity--"as the dust of the earth Genesis 13:16; John 8:37, viz. the Hebrew people.
- (b) In a spiritual posterity--"look now toward heaven... so shall thy seed be" John 8:39; Romans 4:16,17; 9:7,8; Galatians 3:6,7,29 viz. all men of faith, whether Jew or Gentile.
- (c) fulfilled also through Ishmael Genesis 17:18-20
- (2) "I will bless thee." Fulfilled in two ways:
- (a) temporally Genesis 13:14,15,17; 15:18; 24:34,35 (b) spiritually ; Genesis 15:6; John 8:56
- (3) "And make thy name great." Abraham's is one of the universal names.
- (4) "And thou shalt be a blessing" Galatians 3:13,14
- (5) "I will bless them that bless thee." In fulfilment closely related to the next clause.
- (6) "And curse him that curseth thee." Wonderfully fulfilled in the history of the dispersion. It has invariably fared ill with the people who have persecuted the Jew--well with those who have protected him. The future will still more remarkably prove this principle Deuteronomy 30:7; Isaiah 14:1,; Joel 3:1-8; Micah 5:7-9; Haggai 2:22; Zechariah 14:1-3; Matthew 25:40,45.
- (7) "In thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed." This is the great evangelic promise fulfilled in Abraham's Seed, Christ Galatians 3:16; John 8:56-58.
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