Category: Abraham

Abraham, Nations, New Creation, New Jerusalem

Multitudes from the Nations

David R Maas

The promise to bless all nations in Abraham culminates in the innumerable multitude of the Redeemed inhabiting New Jerusalem.

The foundation of the doctrine of redemption is the Covenant with Abraham. It includes the promises that “all the nations of the Earth will be blessed in Abraham” and innumerable descendants of the Patriarch. “I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore <…> and in your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed” – (Genesis 22:17).

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Abraham, Gospel Mission, Nations, Salvation

No Other Name!

David R Maas

Jesus Christ fulfills the promise to bless all nations in Abraham. There is salvation in No Other Name.

Basic to the biblical doctrine of redemption is the covenant with Abraham and his “Seed.” It included the promise that “all the nations of the Earth would be blessed in him,” and the Patriarch would have innumerable descendants. How and when are the nations blessed? Who is Abaham’s “Seed” destined to inherit the promises?

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Abraham, Gift of the Spirit, New Covenant

PROMISED SPIRIT – NEW COVENANT

David R Maas

SYNOPSIS – The Church and the gift of the Spirit have been integral to the redemptive plan of God from the very beginning. 

In his letter to the Galatians, the Apostle Paul links the “promise of the Spirit” to the “blessing of Abraham.” The Law pronounced a curse on anyone who did “not continue in all things written” in it, therefore, Jesus came under its curse to redeem men and women from it, that “the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith” – (Genesis 12:2-3, Galatians 3:10-14).

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Abraham, New Creation

LAND PROMISE AND NEW CREATION

David R Maas

In Jesus, the original and limited land promise to Abraham now encompasses the entire “cosmos.”

Foundational to the biblical idea of redemption is the promise to Abraham of a land inheritance for his offspring. Though originally confined to the small territory of Canaan, implicit in the covenant promise was a future fulfillment that would encompass all nations and the entire earth, if not the whole Cosmos – (“So shall be blessed in you all the families of the earth”).

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Abraham, Gospel Hope, New Creation

HEIR OF THE WORLD

David R Maas

According to Paul, the land promised to Abraham envisioned the inclusion of the entire world – Romans 4:13.

God began to redeem humanity with His covenant with Abraham, beginning with the summons for him to leave his homeland for the “land that I will show you.” Yahweh would make him into a “great nation,” and in the Patriarch, He would “bless all the clans of the earth.” And from the start, the land promise was central to the covenant.

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