The Call of Abram
1 The LORD had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your father's householdand go to the land I will show you. 2 "I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you."The New Covenant (Testament)
"So how one comes to be called part of God's set-apart people, the Hebrews, occurs by means of a number of sequential forks in the road. It started with the Abraham fork, then the Isaac fork, and then the Jacob fork. And it stayed that way for about eighteen hundred years. Eighteen centuries after Jacob we find yet another fork in the road; it's called the new covenant (testament). The new covenant (testament) is the fulfillment of an Old Covenant (testament) prophecy about a time when the physical covenan=ts and laws of teh Hebrews, called the Torah, would be written, spiritually, on certain men's hearts. Not all men's hearts, just those who were elected and declared by God to be His. This would happen by means of a Messiah. This new fork in the road brings us full circle; this fork brings to fruition that promise of the Abrahamic covenant that "all the families of the earth will be blessed" in you, Abraham. ALL doesn't mean Gentiles and not Jews. It also doesn't mean Jews and not Gentiles. ALL means ALL." (Journey Through the Torah Class Series: Genesis, Tom Bradley)
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