The doctrine of the Abrahamic covenant

1. The Abrahamic covenant is the compilation of all the promises of God to Abraham and to his descendants related to the glory road, including saving grace, living grace, supergrace, dying grace, surpassing grace. When these promises emerge, a new race, the Jews, and a new nation, Israel. Remember that a covenant is a disposition made by one party, God, in favour of another party, in this case Abraham and his descendants. Therefore a covenant requires two parties, one party favouring the other.

2. The original three-paragraph covenant is found in Genesis 12:1-3. Paragraph one is separation; paragraph two is blessing; paragraph three is miscellaneous. Paragraph one is Genesis 12:1 — “Go forth from your country, and from your relatives, and from your father’s house [immediate family]. Paragraph 2, verse 2, — “And I will make you a great nation [national promise], and I will bless you [personally — supergrace], and I will make your name great [surpassing grace], and so you will be a blessing [by association].” Paragraph 3, the miscellaneous. The reason it is miscellaneous is because it has three clauses in it. The blessing by association clause is the first one, the anti-Semitism clause is the second, and the Messianic blessing clause is the third.

3. The Abrahamic covenant includes an additional promise of land — Genesis 13:14-16. This land belongs to the Jews in the future, not now. The Jewish Age is interrupted, the Jews do not have any right to the land promised here until Christ returns. Any land they get there now they get the same way we get our land — you kill off the natives. This promise of land to Abraham will be fulfilled in the Millennium. Genesis 15:18-21. The Nile River is the southern border, the River Euphrates in the northern border.

4. Furthermore, God has promised Abraham a city suspended over the land — Revelation 21:2, 10.

5. The covenant includes the seed of Abraham, not just Abraham personally — Genesis 22:15-18.

6. The Abrahamic covenant was reiterated to the next generation — to Isaac, Genesis 26:3,4.

7. The Abrahamic covenant was the basis of the Exodus deliverance of Israel — Exodus 6:2-8. Verse 5, “the groanings of the children of Israel … and I have remembered my covenant.” The are called the children of Israel, they are not called Israel, they are not a nation. They weren’t a nation during the entire lifetime of Moses, they did not become a nation until they were settled in the land under the leadership of Joshua. They remained transient for one more generation because of reversionism. What part of the covenant is remembered in verse five? The part that says Abraham, you are not only a new race but you are a new nation. The new race part had been fulfilled. God went to tremendous lengths to deliver the Jews — without their co-operation, by the way. “I will bring you to the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, to Jacob … I will give it to you for a possession.” That part of the covenant was fulfilled in the Age of Israel, and that part of the covenant was lost until the Millennium through reversionism and the fifth cycle of discipline.