Abrahamic Promise: Land promise (Lesson 28)
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Abrahamic Promise: Land promise fulfilled (Lesson 28) 10/8/24
(This will be coupled with Lesson 29)
Introduction:
The promise that God made to Abraham for the land, Abraham believed, but he did not see the fulfillment of it. His descendants would.
In this lesson we will look at the events surrounding this aspect of the promise and its fulfillment.
Aim:
To obtain a good understanding of the historical events and noting Gods providential activity.
To follow the biblical narrative and see the fulfillment of Abrahams descendants becoming, a nation, and of a civil and religious law.
Outline:
Promise was renewed to Isaac (Gen26:1-5)
1 Now there was a famine in the land, besides the previous famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham. So Isaac went to Gerar, to Abimelech king of the Philistines. 2 The Lord appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; stay in the land of which I shall tell you. 3 “Sojourn in this land and I will be with you and bless you, for to you and to your descendants I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to your father Abraham. 4 “I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give your descendants all these lands; and by your descendants all the nations of the earth shall be blessed; 5 because Abraham obeyed Me and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes and My laws.”
Not to Ishmael, Hagar’s son
Not to Esau, but to Jacob in next generation
Note down (Rom9:7-13) for more information
Promise restated to Jacob (Gen28:3-4, 13-14)
3 “May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples. 4 “May He also give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your descendants with you, that you may possess the land of your sojournings, which God gave to Abraham.”
13 And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, “I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie, I will give it to you and to your descendants. 14 “Your descendants will also be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and in you and in your descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
This shows the beginning of the nation (Gen32:28)
Jacob is the father from which the nation will get her name Israel:
Through the twelve sons (Gen30)
These become the twelve tribes of Israel
Gods providential move
God moved the twelve sons to Egypt because of famine (Gen39-50, Exo1:1-7, 20)
In this foreign land they multiply (Gen15:13ff)
Moses was called by God, raised up to be a deliverer of the people to the promised Land (Exo3:1-6:9)
The reality of Abraham becoming a great nation (Exo6:7, 16-20, 25-26, and Deut29:12-13)
Abraham told would be in forth generation (Gen15:16)
Moses and Aaron were the forth generation from Jacob
Levi, generation one
Kohath, generation two
Amran, generation three
Moses, generation four
the prophesy of (Gen15:16) was fulfilled
16 “Then in the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.”
Moses receives the law at Sinai (Exo19:1-6, 20:1-17, 34: 27-28)
Israel become a nation
A large body of peopled
With Mosiac covenant (law)
A land (Canaan)
Israel’s law, the law of Moses was never intended for all nations (Gentiles)
Exo34:37-38
Deu4:1, 5-8, 5:1-5, 16, 33:4
Psm147:19-20
Conclusion
To this point we see God’s providential work in partially fulfilling this land promise (Gen15:1-3) the complete possession of the land is yet to come
God’s timing took almost 500 years to get to this point, and as we press on to the next lesson we will see the promise fully fulfilled.
(Go to Lesson 29 now)
