The Holy Spirit and the New Testament are the only sound instruments in correctly interpreting the Old Testament prophecies and promises. It is the Holy Spirit and the revelations in the New Testament that give light and understanding to the Old Testament. The New opens and reveals the Old and the Old is the foundation of the New. The history of the Christian Church is a history of continuous inspiration by the Holy Spirit where both the Old T and the New T are made alive.
Gen 17:4-7
4 As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.
5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.
6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
Shalom's carnal interpretation of these Scriptures.
(notice the focus and reliance on personal human wisdom and preconceived ideas about Zionism and modern Judaism being the objects of Old Testament prophecies rather than Christ and His Church as is shown in the New Testament. To the carnal mind, everthing is fulfilled in the flesh. The prophecies about Jesus the Messiah hidden in all the Old T. are symbols and spiritual prophecies that found their fulfillment in Christ and not in a carnal and worldly kingdom desired by the Pharisees and Jews who rejected Jesus. Like the Pharisees in Jesus's day, Shalom is only concerned with a fleshly and worldly kingdom and is blind to the spiritual reality of the Kingdom of God that Christ has established 2000 years ago and that continues in its glory today and forever.)
Shalom's words with my commentary:
"Let it be noted that this covenant it is said it Hebrews 6:13-20 that because God had sworn to it by an oath and because God cannot lie, the covenant is immutable.(Your false interpretation has well been noted, Shalom. The entire book of Heb. is to show that Christ and His Christian Church--the New Covenant People--have fulfilled the promises. Again, the eyes of Shalom's heart are closed to the spiritual reality of the New Covenant that Paul is talking about in Heb.s)
This covenant was unalterable, unchangeable, and everlasting, which means it must still exist today.(Yes, that is true Shalom, it does exist today, but it exists in the holy Body of Christ the Christian People and not in your demon inspired Zionism and Anglo-Israel Identity cult.) Read the entire covenant in Gen. Chapter 17.(You need to read the entire New Testament, and believing what you read.) You will find that it not only concerned the ownership of all the Land from the river Euphrates to the river Nile, but, overshadowing all else, it was a covenant "to be unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, in their generation for ever and ever.(It is just like a false teacher and cultist to have his mind on worldly and carnal things while God is speaking of spiritual realities in the Kingdom of God . You are a man of the flesh, Shalom.)
Note that the covenant was made not only with Abraham for his lifetime, but also with his seed forever, through Isaac (Gen.17:8-24 and Rom.9:7-9)and through Isaac's son Jacob.(Again your carnality surfaces, Shalom. It is not the sons of the flesh who inherit the promises but the sons of the spirit in Christ Jesus.)
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I. Abraham becomes the father of many nations through Christ and and the Christian people.
THE PROMISES
Gen. 4..As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.
5. Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.
6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
THE FULFILLMENT
Gal. 3
6: Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
7: Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
8: And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
9: So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
The many nations who converted to Christ over the last 2000 years clearly fulfill these Scriptures according to the precepts of the Scriptures. The inheritance of the children include all the nations of the earth. Ancient Israel and Palestine were only symbolic of the whole earth as God's vineyard.
It is the Holy Spirit who gave St. Paul this revelation. Shalom has attemptd to reduced these Scriptures to an unscriptural and fleshly understanding.
II. The promises of Abraham fulfilled in Christ. The promises of Abraham were made to his SEED which is Jesus Christ. All the promises of God were to be fulfilled in Chirst and His Body--the Christian.
THE PROMISE
Gen. 17 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed (Jesus Christ) after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed (Jesus) after thee.
THE FULFILLMENT
Gal. 3:
16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
6: Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
7: Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
8: And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
9: So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
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19: For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.
20: For all the promises of God in him(Jesus) are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
Gal. 3
14: That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Romans 9
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.
Rom. 2
28: For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
29: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
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