God's Covenant with Abraham
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The Promise
The Promise
After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.” But Abram said, “O Lord God, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?” And Abram said, “Behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir.” And behold, the word of the Lord came to him: “This man shall not be your heir; your very own son shall be your heir.” And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” And he believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness.
I am your shield
Reward is great
I am childless my slave is my heir
No your own son shall be your heir
your descendants as the stars
He believed the lord
counted as righteousness
The Covenant
The Covenant
And he said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.” But he said, “O Lord God, how am I to know that I shall possess it?” He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.” And he brought him all these, cut them in half, and laid each half over against the other. But he did not cut the birds in half. And when birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.
How will i know
cut the animals in half laid them on either sided of walkway
then both parties would walk through the cut animals
representing what would happen to someone who broke covenant
yet notice that God made Abram wait
long enough to attract vultures
sometimes evil comes upon while waiting on the lord
We must be diligent like Abram
When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,
God passes through the animals but not Abram.
God takes all responsibility and liability for the covenant
The Prophecy
The Prophecy
As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. And behold, dreadful and great darkness fell upon him. Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years. But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions. As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age. And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
Remember how God made Abram wait for the covenant ritual
In the same way his descendants will have to wait for 400 years to recieve the land
400 years of slavery
we find in exodus it was 430 years does this mean the bible is wrong
one is rounded