TWU All Nations Will Be Blessed

Today on The Word Unfolded we find ourselves in Genesis 12 looking at the third great promise of the book of Genesis. The first is found in Genesis 3:15 with the promise to send a savior, the second is in Genesis 9:8-17 with the promise of never destroying the earth again by way of flood, and the third is in Genesis 12:2-3 wherein we read God promise to Abraham…

Genesis 12:2–3 ESV

2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.

Here we have God promising Abraham that through his lineage God was going to bring forth salvation for everyone, not just the Jews. Notice, “in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

In Acts 3 we have written an account of Peter and John preaching to the people that were astonished that God had healed a lame man through Peter. While they were preaching in Solomon’s portico to the Israelites about the, “servant Jesus, whom you delivered over and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release him.”

Peter then preaches that not only is Jesus the one Moses said God would raise up like him, but that Jesus was the Messiah all the prophets prophesied about.

Acts 3:24–25 ESV

24 And all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who came after him, also proclaimed these days. 25 You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.’

The beautiful things about this promise from God to Abraham was that he wasn’t just raising a Messiah for the Jewish nation and the Israelites, but he was raising a Messiah, a Savior, that could and would bless all families.

You and I today, are not like those of old, like Abraham, that long to know how this would all come about, we have the holy writ, we have the mind of God fully complete and through it, we have the opportunity to see God’s great love for “all families” and “all people.”

And if you have obeyed God’s gospel plan of salvation (2 Thessalonians 1:8; 1 Corinthians 15:1-4; Romans 6:3-5), then you, like me, are the blessed one’s promised to Abraham all the way back in Genesis 12:2-3.