Yes — the Abrahamic covenant is the covenant promise through which God planned to bring the Messiah, the Redeemer of all mankind, into the world.
God chose one man, Abram, and promised that out of him would come a great nation, Israel. Through that nation, God would bring His Book and the whole spiritual realm of salvation. The covenant’s third promise was that God Himself would come in the person of the Messiah to be Israel’s King, Messiah, and Redeemer, and through Him all families of the earth would be blessed.
Genesis 12:1-3 — This is the original covenant God made with Abram, including the promise that all families of the earth would be blessed through him — which Les Feldick directly ties to the coming of the Messiah.
God’s covenant with Abraham is recorded in Genesis. In Genesis 12:1-3, the LORD told Abram to leave his country, kindred, and father’s house for a land He would show him. He promised, “I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing.” He also promised, “I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.” These covenant promises — a great nation, a land, and a channel of blessing to all families — are the scriptural foundation for the coming of the Messiah.
Les Feldick teaches that God set apart one man, Abram, and made a covenant with him that is still in effect today. Les stresses that the covenant had three parts: (1) God would make of Abram a great nation, (2) He would place that nation in a geographical area of land, and (3) He Himself would one day come in the flesh to be their Messiah, King, and Redeemer. All of the other covenants are contained within these three promises. Les also points out that the Bible speaks of these covenant promises in the future tense because the whole Old Testament was looking ahead to the Messiah and the Kingdom. The nation of Israel was to be God’s vehicle through which He would communicate and bring about the whole plan of redemption to the human race. The final statement of the covenant, “in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed,” would be fulfilled when the Messiah was crucified and became the object of faith — not just for Israel, but for the whole world. Finally, Les teaches that this covenant is eternal. Man may break it, but nothing man or the nation of Israel can do can change the fact that the covenant is forever.
Les Feldick explains that the Abrahamic covenant was basically three promises, and within those three promises all the other covenants are involved. First, God promised Abraham that out of him would come a nation of people, the nation of Israel. Second, that nation would be placed in its own geographical area of land. Third, God Himself would come in the person of the Messiah to be their King, and also their Redeemer and Savior.
Les points to the final statement of the Abrahamic covenant: “in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.” He says this was going to come about by the Messiah being crucified and becoming the object of faith, not of Israel only, but of the whole world. Thus the covenant promise of blessing to all nations is directly fulfilled in the coming of the Messiah.
God called Abram out of Ur and gave him covenant promises so that out of him would come the nation of Israel. Les teaches that Israel was to be the vehicle through which God would communicate and bring about the whole plan of redemption to the whole human race. From Israel would come the Book, the whole spiritual realm of salvation, and everything connected with it. The covenant’s third promise — that God Himself would come as Messiah and King — depends on that nation coming from Abraham’s own loins.
God’s Call of Abram
God called Abram out of his idolatrous family to begin a covenant that would bring about the nation of Israel, from which the Book and the whole spiritual realm of salvation would come.
Israel as the Vehicle of Redemption
God promised Abraham a nation unlike any other, through whom He would communicate and bring about the whole plan of redemption to all humanity.
Threefold Covenant and Messiah
Les explains that the Abrahamic covenant had three parts — nation, land, and God coming as King, Messiah, and Redeemer — making the Messiah the covenant’s third promise.
Covenant Overview
God promised Abram a distinct race of people, a geographic land, and that He Himself would later come in the flesh as their Messiah and King.
Future Tense of Covenant
Les notes the covenant promises are written in the future tense, showing the Old Testament was looking ahead to the nation, the land, and the Messiah as King.
Messiah as King and Redeemer
God Himself would come in the person of the Son to be Israel’s Messiah, King, and Redeemer, and Jesus came as a minister to the Jews first.
Blessing of All Families Through the Cross
The last promise of the covenant — that in Abraham all families would be blessed — would be fulfilled when the Messiah was crucified and became the object of faith for the whole world.
Eternal Covenant
The covenant is from God and is eternal; nothing man or Israel can do can change what God promised to Abram.
Genesis 12:1-3: Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
The foundational covenant promise that Les Feldick draws on to explain the coming of the Messiah.
Genesis 12:3: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
The promise that all families of the earth would be blessed through Abraham, which Les applies directly to the crucified Messiah.
Yes. Les Feldick teaches that the third part of the Abrahamic covenant was that God Himself would come in the person of the Messiah to be their King, Redeemer, and Savior. This was not a later addition but one of the three basic promises within the covenant.
Les explains that the final promise of the covenant, “in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed,” would be fulfilled when the Messiah was crucified and became the object of faith for the whole world — not just for Israel.
Yes. Les teaches that the covenant is from God and is eternal. Nothing man or the nation of Israel can do can change the fact that the covenant is forever.
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