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LESSON 2 * PART 3 * BOOK 47
Hebrews 2:10-17
Let’s get right back into the Book. Hebrews 2:15-16
Now, stop and think for a moment, how easy it would have been for Christ to become the man, the Son of God in the form of an angel, because after all, there are myriads of angels. It all really began, so far as Abraham is concerned, in Genesis chapter 12. Genesis 12 verses 1, 2 and 3. The Abrahamic Covenant.
Genesis 12: 1
"Now the LORD (remember the word Lord in the Old Testament is actually Jehovah and Jehovah and Christ are One and the same. Jehovah is his Old Testament term but it is still God the Son. It’s the One we know as the Lord Jesus Christ.) 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:"
It always helps to understand background. God now is going to do something totally different. Alright, verse 2. Here comes the Covenant, this is the promise from God to Abram.
Genesis 2:2a
"And I will make of thee a great nation,..."
Now you want to remember back in antiquity, a great nation didn’t have to be 275 million people. But, by the time Israel came out of Egypt with her five to seven million, they were indeed the greatest nation at that time. I don’t remember what book it was in, but it was in regard to Israel being the favored nation. The chosen people?" The Lord just boomed, "YES! Right now today, in the year 2001, why is little Israel under such constant attack? It’s always Israel’s fault. "I will make of you a great nation."
"...and in thee (in this man Abram out of Ur of the Chaldees. Out of idolatry) shall all families of the earth be blessed." Now for sake of time, jump all the way up to the New Testament to Matthew chapter 1, verse 1. Matthew 1:1
"The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham."
Matthew depicts Christ as the King! And, the promise of a King did not show itself until the covenant made with Abraham. Whereas, Matthew went back to Abraham and came up to Joseph and Mary. Luke 3:23-24a
Because Matthew uses the son Solomon whereas verse 31 of Luke chapter 3 uses Nathan who was:
Luke 3:31
Now from that promise of the King in Matthew’s genealogy, let’s go all the way up to Acts chapter 3 verses 24 and 25. Look at verse 12 of Acts chapter 3. Now, look at verse 13.
"The God of Abraham, (not the God of Adam and Eve, but rather the God of Abraham) and of Isaac and of Jacob the God of our fathers,..." Nobody! No Gentile could call Abraham "our father." The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers:
"hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up..." Acts chapter 3 verses 24 and 25. Peter is still pleading with the Nation, shortly after the resurrection and the ascension. In verse 24 Peter says:
Acts 3:24
Now verse 25.
"Ye (Peter says to the Nation of Israel) are the children of the prophets, (you are the ones the prophets were writing to. Abraham,..."
If you know your Old Testament back there in Genesis, the same words that God said to Abraham, He repeated to Isaac. Then the prophets begin to rest on all those Covenant promises. Peter is reminding Israel that YOU are the children of all the prophetic writings. You are the children of the covenant.
"...And in thy seed (the seed of Abraham. Who is the seed of Abraham? The JEW! The Nation of Israel.) The Christ!! And, in that way, you and I then benefit from all the things promised to the Nation of Israel.
NO, the New Covenant says as plain as day, a new covenant I will make with Israel!
The New Covenant isn’t to us, it is to Israel. But, because of what God did for Israel, we are cashing in on the overflow.
If Israel is not yet at the very core of everything that God is doing – throw it away!! Listen, why can’t people wake up and realize. A verse comes to mind. Plain language! Deuteronomy 32:8
"When the Most High (the Almighty God, the Creator in His sovereignty) divided to the nations (all of them around the planet) their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, (and put them into their various nationalistic categories) he set the bounds (or the borders) of the people (of all these nations of people all around the planet. Every nation’s border was set) according to the number of (what?) the children of Israel."
Israel!! Even today, the world in general is coming down on the little Nation of Israel. God will NOT have it! Because He has decreed that at the core of all of His dealings with the nations is this little Nation of Israel.
On your way back to Hebrews stop at Jeremiah chapter 31 verse 35. Jeremiah 31:35
Jeremiah 31:36
"If those ordinances (of the universe) depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever."
Verse 37:
Jeremiah 31:37

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