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It must be understood by the reader that there are promises, Covenants, and oaths that can be gone back on, changed, and repented of – yet in those things which are in the predestinated purpose to manifest Christ in the earth (the determinate counsel of God/God in the ways of God), those promises, Covenants, and oaths cannot be gone back on, changed, or repented of. Heretofore in these next two addresses, the Abrahamic and Davidic Covenants, note how the fulfillment of these promises is pending because it is a genuine promise, Covenant, and oath gone back on, changed, and repented of, yet, a final fulfillment in an unchanging purpose that cannot be repented of will come - the fulfillment of these Covenants in Christ.
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Tracing the Abrahamic Covenant NOTE: The people of the Covenant were a specific generation. |
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"And He said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full." (Genesis 15:13-16)
"In 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: The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites." (Genesis 15:18-21) |
At the establishment of the Abrahamic Covenant, God told him saying, “unto thy seed have I given this land,” and the Lord named the boundaries of the Promised Land (Gen. 15:18-21). The Lord answered the question Abraham asked, saying, “whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it” (Gen. 15:8). God told Abraham that he would inherit the land in the generation of his seed that will inherit the land. Abraham will inherit the land through his seed, and specifically, his seed that will be in the generation that comes out of four hundred years in bondage. In the fourth generation, God says, “They shall come hither again” (Gen. 15:8, 13, 16). God promises Abraham that the fourth generation of people that come out of the bondage of Egypt will inherit the Promised Land in Abraham’s stead - This is the Abrahamic Covenant.
The promise was to Abraham concerning this fourth generation, whose the number will be as the stars of heaven (Ex. 32:15). Thus was the genuine will/intent/word/promise/Covenant of God by oath to Abraham. Can this oath fail or be altered, changed, or broken? God named this generation as the inheritors, and so, as He promised, He came to them to deliver them from Egypt. Closely trace with me the special characteristics of this generation who became the primary type of NT salvation in reference by NT inspired writers. Below, tracing the book of Exodus, there is an account of all the salvific promises and oaths that God gave to this specific generation, wherein, God in the ways of man sought to save them.
The promise was to Abraham concerning this fourth generation, whose the number will be as the stars of heaven (Ex. 32:15). Thus was the genuine will/intent/word/promise/Covenant of God by oath to Abraham. Can this oath fail or be altered, changed, or broken? God named this generation as the inheritors, and so, as He promised, He came to them to deliver them from Egypt. Closely trace with me the special characteristics of this generation who became the primary type of NT salvation in reference by NT inspired writers. Below, tracing the book of Exodus, there is an account of all the salvific promises and oaths that God gave to this specific generation, wherein, God in the ways of man sought to save them.
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Motivation and Intent for Salvation
Salvation as a work of God based upon the faithfulness of God The spoken word of God The Promise of God The Oath to their faithers The Oath to the present Exodus generation |
“God remembered His Covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob” – Exodus 2:24
“I am come down to deliver,” “to bring them up out of that land,” “unto the place” (the Promised Land) – Exodus 3:8 "And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey." ( Exodus 3:17) "And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as He hath promised, that ye shall keep this service." (Exodus 12:25) "And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which He sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month." (Exodus 13:5) "And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, as He sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee," (Exodus 13:11) |
The clear and genuine will/counsel/intent/word/promise/oath/Covenant of God to this generation is understood by the people themselves just as God communicated it to them. Serving as a confirmation of the words, God DID come down, and He DID deliver them. In this purpose, God did win the heart and faith of His people, and how? The good tidings of their deliverance (these promises) were confirmed by mighty deeds in the saving power of God, beyond their hopes or imaginations. These promises made up their gospel – and they responded with saving faith.