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How The Abrahamic Covenant Works to Produce Healing, Prosperity and Family Well-being for You and Your Family

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In Genesis 12 God picked one man out of the rest of humanity. His name was Abram (later changed to Abraham). God then made a covenant with him which has been called the Abrahamic Covenant. There were sixty promises which made up the Abrahamic Covenant. God also included Abraham’s physical descendants in His Covenant with Abram.

The word "bless" is the key term in these Sixty promises. This word "bless" included four basic things: physical healing, material prosperity, well-being for his family and salvation for his soul.

Over four hundred years later God attached the Mosaic Law to the Abrahamic Covenant so that the two of them functioned together as a unit. He attached Moses’ law to Abraham’s covenant because the seed of Abraham were sinners and God determined to do something about their sin problem. But He dealt with their sins in such a way that they did not lose the blessings promised them in The Abrahamic Covenant which were healing, prosperity, well-being for their families and salvation for their soul. This is how He did it.

When any one of the physical seed of Abraham sinned under Moses’ Law, God had included a sacrificial system within Moses law, whereby that person could make the proper sacrifice for that specific sin and the blessings in the Abrahamic Covenant would continue for him without interruption. However, when he sinned and failed to make the proper sacrifice in the proper manner, the blessings of Abraham stopped for him at that moment. He lost what he had been born with which included healing, prosperity, well-being for his family and the salvation of his soul. Although he was the physical seed of Abraham, he became as lost and hell-bound as any heathen in the world.

But, when he finally repents of his sin and acknowledges his repentance by making the specific sacrifice for his specific sin, then the blessings of Abraham resumed for him at that moment. (Moses’ Law required specific sacrifices for different kinds of sins.) Consequently, Moses’ Law was given to maintain the blessings which had already been given to them in The Abrahamic Covenant. It was never given for them to work their way into a relationship with God in any manner at all.

Deut. 7:12

12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers: (KJV)

This system lasted until Christ came. When He mounted the cross, He became the final sacrifice for sin(s) under Moses’ Law. At that point in time, God no longer accepted the blood of bulls and goats as an answer to the sins of any of them. Therefore, from the death of Christ till the end of time as we know it, every one of the physical seed of Abraham has a vital choice to make.

Since Jesus is the final sacrifice for sin(s) under Moses’ Law, the Jew that accepts him as that final sacrifice, as his Messiah, as his Savior, the blessings of Abraham which include healing, prosperity, well-being for his family in addition to his soul, continue for that Jew without interruption. But if he rejects God’s final sacrifice for his sin(s), since God no longer accepts the blood of bulls and goats, he loses everything he was born with in the Abrahamic Covenant. He loses his healing, prosperity, well-being for his family in addition to the salvation of his soul. If he finally accepts Jesus, God’s final sacrifice for sin(s) under Moses’ Law, as his Messiah and Savior, the blessings of Abraham resume for him at that moment. He resumes his salvation and blessing of healing, prosperity, family well being and the salvation of his soul. See our book, What Are Abraham’s Blessings Anyway? and What’ve They Done With Abraham’s Blessings? for a complete explanation of the above.

Gentiles (non physical seed of Abraham) were prophetically included in several of the sixty Abrahamic promises to "bless," which we pointed out previously, includes healing, prosperity and family well being in addition to salvation. Although Gentiles were prophetically included in the Abrahamic Covenant, the addition of Moses' Law prevented them from coming into Abraham’s Covenant actually. Deuteronomy 7:1-6 demonstrates this.

Deut. 7:1-6

1 When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;

2 And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:

3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.

4 For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.

5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.

6 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. (KJV)

Therefore, as long as the Law was in effect, there was no way that Gentiles could experience actually what had been said of them prophetically in the Abrahamic Covenant. This condition of Gentile exclusion lasted until Christ came. When He (Jesus) came and died as God’s final sacrifice for sin, he fulfilled the Law of Moses. Having fulfilled it, He did six things to that Law.

Ephesians 2:14-16 and Colossians 2:14 demonstrates these six things for us. See our book, You Can Receive Healing and Prosperity When You Don’t Feel Worthy Enough for complete details on the above subject.

(1) He broke it down.

(2) He abolished it.

(3) He slew it.

(4) He blotted it out.

(5) He took it out of the way.

(6) He nailed it to His cross.

Eph 2:14-16

14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;

15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;

16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: (KJV)

Having dealt with that which excluded Gentiles from the Abrahamic blessings of healing, prosperity, well-being for our families and salvation for our souls, Gentiles can now come into the Abrahamic Covenant blessing system. The question is, therefore, how do we do it? We do it the same way a Jew does it with but one difference. When a Jew accepts Christ, he maintains, without interruption, what he had been born with. When a Gentile accepts Christ as his Savior and Lord, he is grafted into the Abrahamic blessing system at that point in time. And it is at that point in time that the Abrahamic blessings become his. He was not born with them like the Jew was. He is grafted into them the moment he accepts Christ as his savior. See our book, The Unbroken Force of Abraham’s Blessings for a detailed explanation and Bible proof of your Gentile Grafting into the same healing, prosperity and family well being that Abraham had. Romans 11:17-18 demonstrates this for us.

Rom 11:17-18

17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;

18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. (KJV)

Simultaneous with a Gentile’s grafting into the Abrahamic Covenant, he becomes a seed of Abraham. He becomes a member of "The Abrahamic Seed Group". Galatians 3:7 and 24 demonstrates this fact for us.

Gal 3:7

7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. (KJV)

Gal 3:26

26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. (KJV)

Finally, we must understand the difference between "The Curse" and "The Curse of The Law" and how both relate to Jews and Gentiles. First, "The Curse" is the result of Adam’s fall. This explains the sin, sickness, hunger, evil and wickedness. that is present in the world. "The Curse" is the reason things are the way they are in the world. Everywhere man turns, he is confronted with the curse and its consequences.

Picture "The Curse" as rain. Its devastating effects just keep raining down on us and man keeps getting wet in it. But, after Adam’s fall, God set up the Abrahamic system which functioned as a giant umbrella which protected Abraham's’ seed (The Jews) from "The Curse" which is represented here as rain. As long as they kept Moses’ Law by making the proper sacrifice when they sinned, they stayed under the Abrahamic umbrella, as it were, and they were protected from the cursed rain. However, if they sinned and failed to make the proper sacrifice in the right spirit, they lost their Abrahamic blessings. They were suddenly out from under the umbrella. They were out in the rain. There was no difference between a Jew out in the cursed rain and a lost heathen out in the cursed rain.

But the way a Jew "entered" the cursed rain was different from the way a Gentile entered the cursed rain. A Jew entered the cursed rain because of disobedience to Moses’ Law and the failure to sacrifice properly. A heathen Gentile, on the other hand, was never under the Abrahamic umbrella. He was born in the rain as it were, and lived in the experience of the curse every moment of his life. He was lost, he was subject to sin, sickness etc. every minute he lived.

Here is the difference, then, between a Jew and a lost, heathen Gentile out in the cursed rain. The lost, heathen Gentile was out in it because of Adam. The Jew got back into it because of his failure to sacrifice properly according to the instructions in Moses Law. The Jew was in the cursed rain because of the Law. The Gentile heathen was in the rain because of birth. This is the way it was for the Jew and "The Curse of The Law" until Christ came. This is the way it was for the Gentile heathen and "The Curse" until Christ came. Deuteronomy 28:15-68 describes in detail what the Gentile heathen is born into and what the Jew gets back into when he steps out from under the Abrahamic umbrella when he sinned under Moses’ law and failed to make the proper sacrifice. See my book, No Thief Gives Warning Signs, for a full, detailed discussion of the above subject.

Some might object that the Old Testament promises to Israel were made to them as a nation and not to individuals within the nation. It is true that in the Old Testament, promises were made to Israel as a nation. But, within the nation of Israel and within the national promises made to Israel as a nation, there were individuals which made up the nation. As such, these individuals were responsible for themselves within the broader framework of the nation and their national promises. Deuteronomy 29:18-21 teaches this to us.

Deut 29:18-21

18 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

19 And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:

20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.

21 And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law: (KJV)

Notice the words "man" and "woman" in verse 18. These are individuals. In verse 19 "he" is used twice. This is an individual. Look at the words "him", "his" and "man" in verse 20. These are individuals. See the word "him" in verse 21. This is an individual. Notice also in verse 21 that the individual "him" is separated from the nation unto the evil contained in the "Curse of The Law".

The responsibility and the outcome of the individual’s obedience to Moses' law is also described in Leviticus 18:5.

Lev 18:5

5 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD. (KJV)

Notice very closely the words "man" and "he" in this verse. These words represent individuals. Although the nation is spoken to here, the nation is composed of individuals who must be obedient as an individual.

The Apostle Paul taught this very same thing. He quotes the preceding verse (Leviticus 18:5) in Romans 10:5.

Rom 10:5

5 For Moses describe the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which dote those things shall live by them. (KJV)

He also taught this same thing in Galatians 3:10-12.

Gal 3:10-12

10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continent not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.

12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that dote them shall live in them. (KJV)

Look at the expression "as many as" in verse 10. This speaks of individuals. Now notice his use of the word "man" in verse 11 and again in verse 12. In both verses, Paul is speaking of an individual. Any way you slice it, individuals within the nation of Israel were responsible for themselves as individual Israelites. As an individual, they could move out from under the Abrahamic umbrella into the Curse of the Law.

This concept of individual responsibility brings us to "The Doctrine of The Remnant". As the centuries rolled by, those who kept Moses’ Law by sacrificing properly became a small minority. These were the saved of Abraham’s seed. Those who did not sacrifice properly when they sinned were as lost as any heathen Gentile that ever lived. Those who sacrificed properly to maintain the blessings of Abraham were the "spiritual Israel" within the nation of Israel. This "Remnant" of saved Members of the Abrahamic Seed Group grew smaller and smaller through the passing of time and had almost disappeared by the time Jesus began His ministry.

During Elijah’s ministry the Remnant seemed to number only 7000 people. During Isaiah’s ministry the remnant was "very small". Later it got even smaller. Esther, Mordecai, Ezekiel, Daniel, the three Hebrew children, Ezra, Nehemiah and their small group seems to have been it. When Jesus began to preach, John the Baptist, Simeon, Anna, the Disciples and possibly a hand full of others were about all the saved Jews one could find. All these sacrificed properly when they sinned and maintained the blessings of Abraham without interruption. From the above discussion, we can readily see the Bible makes a division within the nation of Israel, distinguishing the saved Remnant from the unsaved nation of Israel.

The Apostle Paul observes this distinction also. In Romans 9:6-8, he points out that being a physical Jew does not make one a child of God.

Rom 9:6-8

6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:

7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. (KJV)

Then, in Romans 9:27-29 he quotes the Old Testament prophets concerning the Remnant being saved out of the children of Israel who were as numerous as the sand of the sea.

Rom 9:27-29

27 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:

28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.

29 And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha. (KJV)

Next, in Romans 11:1-7, he declares that even as he was writing the book of Romans, "there is a remnant according to the election of grace." He said that Israel (the nation) had not obtained what they seeketh for but the election (remnant) had obtained what they sought for.

Rom 11:1-7

1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,

3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

4 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.

5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

6 And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.

7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded (KJV)

The Remnant of Abraham’s Seed in the passage above (Romans 11:1-7) are those Jews who recognized and received Jesus as the final sacrifice for sin under Moses’ Law. They accepted Him as their Messiah and their Savior. We call them Christians. They compose what we now call the church. They are, however, still the saved of the Abrahamic Seed Group which has been in existence since way back in Old Testament history.

The question now is what is the relationship of Gentile Christians to this group? Previously we asserted that Gentile Christians are also members of the Abrahamic Seed Group. Paul recognizes this and declares that Gentile Christians are simply grafted into the Jewish Remnant. He explains this fully in Romans 11:17-22. For a complete faith building explanation of Gentile grafting, see my book, The Unbroken Force of Abraham's Blessings.

When we Gentile Christians are grafted into the Jewish Remnant, there is from that time forward no difference between us Gentiles and the saved Jewish remnant. Paul explains this carefully in Romans 10:12-13.

Rom 10:12-13

12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.

13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. (KJV)

In other words, in the Old Testament, Abraham’s physical descendants were born saved because of the Abrahamic covenant and maintained it by sacrificing properly when they sinned. In the New Testament, they maintain what they were born with by accepting Jesus as God’s final sacrifice for theirs sins. When Gentiles receive Jesus as their savior, they are saved and immediately grafted into the same healing, prosperity, family well being in addition to salvation that Abraham and the Jews had in the Old Testament. This section has been modified from Chapter One and Two in my book, No Thief Gives Warning Signs.

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