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LESSON 1 * PART 1 * BOOK 4
ABRAHAM, LOT AND MELCHIZEDEK
We've been talking extensively on the Abrahamic Covenant. Genesis, Chapter 12 is where the Covenant is located. Remember that a covenant is always from God to man. The covenant is from God and it is eternal. Nothing that man or even the Nation of Israel can do can change that. The covenant is forever. Genesis 12:2
"And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:"
Previously, we looked at the references regarding Israel becoming a separated nation of people, different from all the other peoples.
I'm afraid when I teach the unique Covenant role of Israel, people may get the idea I'm saying God has forgotten about the non-Israelites. Adam Flood Babel Abram Jew only, with exceptions
One Race Gentiles - Eph. 2:11,12
I put it that way because God is dealing with Israel all the way from Genesis 12 throughout the Old Testament, but there are exceptions. So God told Jonah to go and minister to Ninevah. Within that Abrahamic Covenant we have the promise of:
1) A nation of people
2) A geographical area of land
3) A government
The promises of God are so sure, however, that as we move through the Old Testament you'll see all of God's dealing with the Nation of Israel is to bring this Covenant into fruition, where the Nation of Israel will now be a nation of people who are unique, separated, and different from all other nations. God is going to put them into a land He will promise to them. As we move on into Chapter 15, we'll see God actually deed that land promised to the man Abram … deed it according to Oriental custom. We know Him as the Messiah, the Son of God. Now, a little review of the land:
Genesis 15:7
We'll see where God deeds it in short order.
Turn to Joshua Chapter 1. The Jew in Israel today is the same Jew of the Bible. Over the years most of my class people have heard me put it, "a Jew is a Jew is a Jew"! He's still a Jew, and after almost 3000 years of being out there amongst the non Jew people, a Jew is still a Jew!
We're just over 200 years old as a nation. We've amalgamated and the Jew never did. This is what makes the Word of God particularly believable. As one has said, "If there is any proof that this is the Word of God it is the Jew, as all of the promises God gave to this nation back in Genesis 12, and through the Old Testament, are still valid promises as the Jew is still a Jew." The Jew would be gone. God has given it to them. Now turn to Ezekiel. We just have a couple more Scripture verses to look at with regard to God's promising them the land. It's a symbolic picture that God is showing us. Ezekiel 37:10,11
Israel has been graves, which is how God refers to the Gentile nations. Israel out of the land is desolate. Remember, Israel out of the land is without a Temple, without a priesthood, without an altar. They are hopelessly out of touch with God when they are out of the Promised Land. So the Word of God refers to these habitations in the Gentile areas as graves. By bringing them back to their Promised Land.
Ezekiel 37:12
Let's pick it up in verse 21 where God tells Ezekiel to say to them:
Ezekiel 37:21a
"And say unto them,`Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen,...'"
Ezekiel 37:21b,22
Here we have God speaking to King David through the prophet Nathan. Beginning with verse 14, Nathan, as he addresses King David, says in the words of God:
It's about the whole Nation of Israel in her future role. In spite of what God may have to do in disciplining Israel, watch the promise, "My mercy shall not depart from them." There is a teaching amongst most of Christendom - Catholic and Protestant as well; that when Israel rejected their Messiah and crucified Him, God did away with all these promises to Israel and gave them to the new Israel - the Church. "Thy house," that is, the Royal house, the Royal line, and "thy kingdom."
Just as I do with the word "Jew," I say, "the kingdom is the kingdom is the kingdom!" It is the kingdom that is going to basically be over the Nation of Israel, who is then in their Promised Land with the government all Scripture points to, when their Messiah will be their King. God the Son, the Messiah, will become the King, and it is going to be a glorious kingdom!
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