THE NATION OF ISRAEL: GEN. 12:1-3
Today we will take a look at Israel and see from the word of God that their still the apple of Gods eye and that He will fulfill every promise He has made to His chosen people.
There’s some folks that hold to the idea that God is finished with Israel and has given the blessing that He had promised Israel to the N.T. church but that is not the case.
Israel is not the church, and the church is not Israel.
The fact is that God gave the land of Canaan to Abraham and his physical descendants and it was an unconditional covenant that has never been disannulled.
Psalm 122: THE NATION OF ISRAEL:
This beautiful psalm is also a prophecy. It is a millennial psalm looking forward to the time when all the tribes will go up to Jerusalem and assemble themselves for worship.
They have been out of their city for a long time. They actually do not have full possession of it today. They cannot build their temple on the temple site because the Mosque of Omar is there. All of the sacred places are pretty well covered by Gentiles.
Psalm 122:6Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. 7Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. 8For my brethren and companions’ sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee. 9Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.
In Hosea 3:4–5 we read, “For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim: afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days.”
THE NATION OF ISRAEL HAS MUCH TO LOOK FORWARD TO, BUT IT WILL BE AFTER THE HORRABE TRIBULATION THAT IS ON THE WAY.
Listen as I read our text verses today from Gen. 12:1-3
1Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: 2And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 3And 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 all the nations are blessed because the Lord Jesus Christ came to earth to be the Savior of the whole world, if the people of the world will only receive Him.
And let me point out that Jesus was a descendent of the 4th son of Jacob, of the tribe of Juda.
Heb. 7: 14 for it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.
It is true that Abraham was the father of many nations, even after his wife Sarah died and Abraham was even older he took another wife, Gen.23:1 Sarah’s death
And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah. 2And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan:
After Sarah’s death he took another wife and had 5 son of her.
Gen. 25: 1 1Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah. 2And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. 3And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim. 4And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah. ** 5And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac. 6But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.
Abraham had many sons by his wives and concubines and certainly these were his sons, but God made His covenant in the order of _ Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and of coarse we realize that from Jacob came 12 sons, and of these 12 sons are where the 12 tribes of Israel come from.
Many people confuse the Mosaic Covenant—which required Israel’s obedience to keep Gods law that He gave to Moses— with the Abrahamic
Covenant, with the Abrahamic covenant, we find that God is doing all the promising, which did not require their obedience, the covenant God made to Abraham was an unconditional covenant.
And according to Gods word the inheritance of the Promised Land was in this order:
From Abraham to Isaac and from Isaac to Jacob: listen as I read the forever-settled word of God.
Gen.13:
14And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: 15For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. 16And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. 17Arise walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it, for I will give it unto thee.
Genesis 15:18 18In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given ** this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
Today as we look on a map we see the little section of land that is referred to as Israel, and if their enemies had their way the Israelites wouldn’t even have that, the enemies of Gods chosen people have declared that Israel will be enilated, what did God say would happen to the nations that come against His chosen people?
Gen.12: 3And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee:
ZEC.14:12And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth. Could this possibly be of a nuclear destruction at this point? Iran is going at a break neck speed to build Nuclear bombs; it may to their own destruction.
I pray that our leaders realize that the only reason God has blessed our nation the way He has is because of our stand with Israel, if we ever turn against Israel God will turn against us. Gen.12: 3And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee:
Israel will never have any peace until King Jesus, the King of the Jews returns and destroys the enemies of Israel and all the ungodly people of the world at what is called the battle of ARMEGEDON, it will a one sided battle to say the least, He will simple speak the Word and they’ll be dead. The Sword of the Word of God.
Found in Rev.19:
Lets read the record book of the account of Sarah when she was told that she would have a son even in her old age.
Gen.17: 15-22 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be. 16And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her.
17Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
18And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael** might live before thee! 19And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him. ***
20And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
21But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year. 22And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.
And in Gen.21: 1-13
The LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken. 2For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
Vs 3Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. 4And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.
5And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. 6And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me. 7And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.
8And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
9And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian**which she had born unto Abraham, mocking. 10Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.
11And the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight because of his son. **
12And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac-shall thy seed be called. 13And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.
And God has kept His word; He has given the decedents of Ishmael the potential of great wealth with their oil resources, yet because of their ungodliness, they are mostly a people of war and strife.
But thank God for the many who were of the Muslim religion that has come to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and are saved.
And now lets read where God keeps His word and the Promise is handed down the lineage of Abraham, to Isaac and then to Jacob.
And He continues His covenant of promise to Isaac Abraham’s son:
Genesis 26:1 And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar. 2And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: 3Sojourn 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; 4And 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;
And He continues the promise to Isaacs’s son Jacob:
Here is where Jacob has this dream of the latter that extends into heaven.
Genesis 28:13-15 13And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; 14And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. 15And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
Listen friends God is not called God all Mighty for nothing, If He could create the world in six days, part the Red Sea to allow 2.5 million people plus livestock to make it from Egypt to Canaan on dry land, and rain manna from heaven for 40 years to feed His people whom He led by a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, then He is certainly capable of bringing back to Himself spiritually as well as physically His chosen people to the land He promised them.
The Abrahamic Covenant was not based on Israel’s obedience but on God’s love: Dt. 4:37-39 37And because he loved thy fathers, ** therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt; 38To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day. 39Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else. 40Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.
But because the Israelites did not keep the Mosaic Covenant, the law, they forfeited the many blessings they could have had and were expelled from their land temporarily as punishment. But they still hold the title deed, given to them by God.
The New Covenant—which God made with Israel—in Jeremiah 31: replaces the Mosaic Covenant, but not the Abrahamic Covenant.
The Abrahamic Covenant—land provision and all—has been grounded and sure ever since God gave it in Genesis and repeated throughout the Old Testament. And in Gods time He will bring them back.
pray for the peace of Jerusalem
