Did Israel breaking the Abrahamic covenant annul it?
Israel's repeated breaking of the Abrahamic covenant did not annul it. A covenant originates and ends with God, and He will never break His covenants. Though Israel broke it over and over, God's faithfulness preserved the covenant. This same principle applies to believers: God remains faithful and never forsakes those He calls.
Les explains that the Abrahamic covenant was given by God to Abraham back in Genesis 12. Israel broke that covenant over and over, but that did not annul it. The reason is that a covenant originates and ends with God, and He will never break His covenants. Les connects this to the believer's security: when God calls a person His own, saves them, and makes them part of the elect, He will never give up on them. We may fail miserably, but as verse 9 says, God is faithful. He will never forsake or leave us. This faithfulness is tied to being called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. It is the same for us today as it was for the Corinthians—if we have entered into a genuine salvation experience, we are His and He is ours.
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What was God's original purpose for Israel under the Abrahamic covenant?
In the Genesis 12 covenant, God intended Abraham's descendants to be a nation living in the land under God's sovereign kingship, and if Israel had been a nation of believers, God would have used them to take a knowledge of himself to the surrounding heathen nations.