What did God promise Abraham about the nation from his own body?
God promised Abraham that a nation emerging from his own loins would, against all odds, survive and declare the name of the one God to the world. This promise included making him a great nation, giving them land, and ultimately the Messiah as King.
Les explains that this is the Abrahamic covenant: God would make them a nation of people, put them in a geographical area of land, and one day He Himself would come in the person of the Messiah to be their King. He also highlights Israel’s role as the vehicle to bring the knowledge of their God to all the other nations of the world. The quoted article states Abraham had been promised that a nation emerging from his own loins would against all odds survive and declare the name of the one God to the world. Les reminds us the Abrahamic covenant is written in the future tense: “I will make of you a great nation.”