"I’m fascinated by the current discussion about the nation Israel and how biblically unintelligized so many people are about things like the Abrahamic Covenant," said Richard Jordan in his Bible study this evening.
"Tucker Carlson, for one, is constantly talking about how, 'Well,
the Abrahamic Covenant doesn’t mean that God’s going to bless the nation Israel;
it just means He’s going to bless Abraham.'
"Listen, maybe he fell out of a tree and landed on his head
and was kind of goofy for awhile, but if you don’t know more about the
Abrahamic Covenant than that you need to keep your mouth shut and get a Bible
and read it.
"God made a covenant with Abraham and His SEED after him. He
promised them a piece of physical real estate in the Middle East. Put the
dimensions of it in Genesis 12 and 15.
"Then He took that covenant and confirmed it with Isaac.
Then He confirmed it with Jacob. Then He confirmed it with the whole nation, so
it’s not something that was just Abraham; it’s all of his seed.
"Here’s the blessing. Genesis 27: [28] Therefore God
give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of
corn and wine:
[29] Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over
thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one
that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
"The cursing and the blessing have to do with serving the
nation Israel. It’s not just saying, 'God bless you.' The nations are to serve
Israel. Why? Because He made them the head of the nations."
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From an old study:
In Genesis 15, when God gave Abraham the perimeters of the
land designed for Israel, it was from the river Nile all the way over to the
Euphrates.
“If you fail to 'rightly divide' God’s Word, you’re going
to wind up in the Christian camp that says God is through with Israel. I have
an article written by R.C. Sproul where he says all the promises God made to
Abraham about possessing the Promised Land were fulfilled under Joshua in the
Book of Joshua.
“Now this guy’s a brilliant man, educated. You listen to
him, he just wows you with all the stuff he knows. I read that and I say, ‘This
guy’s nuttier than a fruitcake!’
"God told Abraham, ‘I’m going to give you that land
forever.’ You know how long forever is? Well, if it happened in the life of
Joshua, it was 110 years because that’s how long Joshua lived.
“So now you know forever is 110 years. People argue, ‘Well,
He didn’t really mean that! Forever is just a metaphor.’ Does that make any
sense to you? See, that's how you become an unbeliever. You profess to be
a Believer but you don’t believe the Book you get your profession out of.
“If forever doesn’t mean forever, when God says, ‘I give
you the gift of eternal life,’ how long is that? I mean, if God couldn’t figure
out what forever was for Abraham, maybe He couldn’t figure out what it is for
you either!
"Okay, you can’t trust one place, how come all of a
sudden you can trust another place?! You don’t know you can. Maximum confusion.
“Besides that, you go back in the Book of Moses; Moses predicted that when Israel goes into the land they’re going to rebel. God’s going to judge them, put them out of the land and regather them. None of that happened in the Book of Joshua.
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