What promises did God make in the Abrahamic covenant?
God promised Abraham a nation of people, a geographical area of land, and that at some future time He would come and be their King as well as their Redeemer. These promises are all contained in that Abrahamic covenant, which anticipated the King who would fulfill it.
Les explains that in the Abrahamic covenant God promised Abraham a nation of people, a geographical area of land, and that at some future time God would come and be their King as well as their Redeemer. Les points out that the King is the fulfillment of that Abrahamic covenant, and John the Baptist was promised as the messenger who would come on the scene to announce the King. After the Abrahamic covenant came the covenant of law, the covenant God made with David concerning the royal family, and the covenant He made with Moses concerning the land of Palestine. These are separate covenants, but Les teaches they were all under the Abrahamic covenant. By the time John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, Israel had been a nation of people for 1,500 years since coming out of Egypt, had been in and out of the land, and was back in it after Babylon. John's message was, "Repent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."