Our COVENANT GOD (Ref. 36) - The ABRAHAMIC COVENANT (part 5) - POINTING TO MESSIAH YAHSHUA - 26 December 2017 (From the desk of Celia Joy Martins)
Gen. 28:15 "And behold, I AM WITH YOU and WILL KEEP (WATCH OVER YOU WITH CARE, TAKE NOTICE OF) WHEREVER YOU MAY GO ..."
The Abrahamic Covenant - The Old COVENANT of the Old Testament:
With the old patriarch Abraham, 99 years old, (Sarai 10 years younger at 89) - YHWH RE-AFFIRMED and ESTABLISHED HIS COVENANT (of the OLD TESTAMENT of the Bible) with Abraham. At this old age, Abram was still without an heir according to Abba's covenant with Abraham, although Ishmael - born from Hagar (Sarai's Egyptian maid-servant) was already 13 years of age.
A GOLDEN THREAD OF CONNECTION from what was LOST in the GARDEN OF EDEN - to the (OLD) COVENANT - to SALVATION through MESSIAH YAHSHUA (the "New" Covenant):
We need to understand that there is a GOLDEN THREAD of CONNECTION between WHAT WAS LOST in the GARDEN OF EDEN (LOST to ALL MANKIND) and the ABRAHAMIC (OLD) COVENANT (GIVING BACK to ALL MANKIND).
Yahweh's words "Through YOUR SEED, (Abraham) ALL NATIONS on EARTH WILL BE BLESSED" was POINTING INTO THE FUTURE to the BIRTH of MESSIAH YAHSHUA through the BLOODLINE of ABRAHAM - MESSIAH'S DEATH and RESURRECTION as the ONCE-AND-FOR-ALL SACRIFICIAL "LAMB OF YAH" - John 1:29 "The next day JOHN SAW YAHSHUA coming TOWARD him and said 'LOOK, the LAMB OF YAH, who TAKES AWAY the SIN of the WORLD!"
THIS AMAZING COVENANT - MADE BY YAH HIMSELF - OUR WONDERFUL AWESOME COVENANT FATHER - RATIFIED AND ESTABLISHED IN MESSIAH - was also RENEWED by YAH with ISAAC and JACOB - then in the times of the KINGS OF ISRAEL - with king DAVID.
With ABRAHAM:
Gen. 22:17 "In BLESSING I WILL BLESS YOU and in MULTIPLYING I WILL MUTIPLY YOUR DESCENDANTS LIKE the STARS of the HEAVENS and LIKE the SAND ON THE SEASHORE. And your Seed (Heir) will POSSESS the GATES of His ENEMIES. [Heb. 6:13, 14; 11:12].
:18 And IN your Seed [Messiah Yahshua] SHALL ALL the NATIONS of the EARTH BE BLESSED and [by Him] BLESS THEMSELVES, because you have HEARD AND OBEYED MY VOICE."
With ISAAC:
Gen. 26:1 "And there was a famine in the land, ... And ISAAC went to Gerar, to Abimelech king of the Philistines. :2 And YAH APPEARED to him and said, DO NOT GO DOWN to EGYPT; LIVE IN THE LAND OF WHICH I TELL YOU. :3 Dwell temporarily in this land, and I WILL BE WITH YOU AND WILL FAVOR YOU WITH BLESSINGS; for TO YOU AND TO YOUR DESCENDANTS I WILL GIVE ALL THESE LANDS, and I WILL PERFORM the OATH WHICH I SWORE to ABRAHAM your FATHER. :4 And I WILL MAKE YOUR DESCENDANTS TO MULTIPLY AS THE STARS OF THE HEAVENS, and WILL GIVE to your posterity ALL THESE LANDS (kingdoms); and by your Offspring (Messiah) SHALL ALL the nations of the earth be BLESSED, or by Him BLESS themselves. ... SO ISAAC STAYED in Gerar."
ISAAC BLESSED JACOB:
Gen. 28:1-4 "So ISAAC called JACOB and BLESSED him and COMMANDED him, YOU SHALL NOT MARRY ONE of the WOMAN of CANAAN. Arise, go to Padan-aram, to the house of Bethuel your mothers's father; and TAKE FROM THERE AS A WIFE ONE of the DAUGHTERS of LABAN your mother's brother. May YAH, the ALMIGHTY BLESS YOU and make you FRUITFUL and MULTIPLY YOU UNTIL YOU BECOME a group of peoples. MAY HE GIVE the BLESSING [HE GAVE TO] ABRAHAM to YOU AND YOUR DESECENDANTS with you, that you MAY INHERIT the LAND HE GAVE to Abraham, in which you are a sojourner."
The enemy on the work again - ESAU:
Gen. 28:6-8 "Now Esau SAW that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Padan-aram to take him a wife from there, and that as he BLESSED HIM, HE GABE HIM A CHARGE, saying, YOU SHALL NOT TAKE A WIFE of the DAUGHERS of CANAAN; And that Jacob OBEYED his father and his mother and had gone to Padan-aram. Also Esau SAW that the daughters of CANAAN DID NOT PLEASE ISAAC his father. So Esau WENT to ISHMAEL and TOOK to be his WIFE [IN ADDITION] to the WIVES he [already] had, Mahalath daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's sister of Nebaioth."
The COVENANT RE-AFFIRMED with JACOB:
Gen. 28:10-13 "And Jacob left Beersheba and went toward Haran. And he came to a certain place and stayed there overnight, because the sun was set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put in under his head and lay down there to sleep. And he DREAMED that there was a LADDER SET UP ON THE EARTH, and the TOP OF IT REACHED TO HEAVEN; and the ANGELS OFYAH WERE ASCENDING AND DESCENDING ON IT!. And behold, YAH STOOD OVER AND BESIDE him and said, I AM YAHWEH ELOHIM, the YAH of Abraham, your (fore)-father and the YAH of Isaac; I WILL GIVE to YOU AND to YOUR DESCENDANTS the LAND ON WHICH YOU ARE LYING.
:14 And YOUR OFFSPRING SHALL BE as (COUNTLESS as) the DUST or the SAND of the GROUND, and you SHALL SPREAD ABROAD to the WEST and the EAST and the NORTH and the SOUTH; AND BY YOUR Offspring (Messiah) SHALL ALL the FAMILIES of the EARTH BE BLESSED and BLESS THEMSELVES.
:15 And behold, I AM WITH YOU (WATCH OVER YOU WITH CARE, TAKE NOTICE OF) WHEREVER YOU MAY GO, and I WILL BRING YOU BACK to THIS LAND; for I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU UNTIL I HAVE DONE ALL of WHICH I HAVE TOLD YOU.
:16 And Jacob AWOKE from his sleep and said, SURELY YAHWEH IS IN THIS PLACE AND I DID NOT KNOW IT.
:17 He was afraid and said, HOW TO BE FEARED AND REVERENCED IS THIS PLACE! This is NONE OTHER THAN THE HOUSE OF YAH, and THIS IS THE GATEWAY to HEAVEN!
:18 And Jacob ROSE EARLY in the morning and took the STONE he had put under his head, and HE SET IT UP FOR A PILLAR (a MONUMENT to the VISION in HIS DREAM), and HE POURED OIL ON ITS TOP [in DEDICATION].
:19 And he NAMED THAT PLACE BETHEL [the HOUSE OF YAH] ... Then Jacob MADE A VOW, saying, IF YAH WILL BE WITH ME AND WILL KEEP ME IN THIS WAY THAT I GO AND WILL GIVE ME FOOD TO EAT AND CLOTHING TO WEAR, So that I may COME AGAIN to my FATHER'S HOUSE IN PEACE, THEN ELOHIM YAHWEH SHALL BE MY YAH. And THIS STONE which I have set up as a pillar (monument) SHALL BE YAH'S HOUSE [A SACRED PLACE TO ME] and of ALL [the INCREASE OF POSSESSIONS] THAT YOU GIVE me I WILL GIVE the TENTH to You."
Gen. 29:1 "Then Jacob went [briskly and cheerfully] ON HIS WAY [400 miles] and came to the land of the people of the East."
O WONDERFUL YAHWEH - SAVIOR - YAH of ALL and EVERYTHING - THANK You for being our COVENANT GOD. Our AWESOME FATHER - our SALVATION - our KING. Thank YOU FOR MAKING A WAY - for ESTABLISHING and RATIFYING YOUR COVENANT IN MESSIAH to SAVE US - to SAVE MANKIND - to UNDO the WORKS of the DEVIL - to DRAW US BACK to YOU - OUR ONE AND ONLY GOD - in Yahshua Messiah's name. Amen.