How are all the nations of the earth blessed in Abraham?
All nations, Gentile and Hebrew, are blessed in Abraham because they can trace their great men back to him. God promised Abraham would become a great and mighty nation; his descendants branched out beyond Israel, including Ishmael's Arab nations and notable Jewish government men.
Les explains that from the highlands the Lord told Abraham that he would become a great and mighty nation and that all the nations of the earth would be blessed in him. Les points out that this blessing is that all nations, Gentile as well as Hebrew, can trace their great men back to Abraham. In the Old Testament, the kings of Israel—Saul, David, Solomon, and all the kings, good or bad—came from Abraham's loins. But Abraham's children branched out beyond Israel; Ishmael began the Arab nations, and all these are children of Abraham. Even in modern history, Les notes, many great government men have been Jewish.
Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
More Questions
How can we know the Bible is not exaggerating when it says all nations will be blessed through Abraham?
The Bible is not stretching the point when it says that all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in Abraham; history, including Jewish statesmen like Bernard Baruch, confirms it.
What was God really looking at when He promised Abraham that all nations would be blessed?
God's promise to bless all nations through Abraham was looking beyond politics and economics to the salvation He would bring about through Jesus, who was born a Jew.