The Life of Abraham Portrays Old and New Covenants.
We have hidden throughout scripture keys to unlock prophesy. Our Heavenly Father did so to ensure that we would not be taken away by false gospels. Some may seam innocent as they look for modernizing scripture through a succession of newer translations. And because “the wheat and the tares mature together”, we need to be able to backup what we believe in the midst of “an illusion with all lying signs and wonders, if possible to deceive the Elect”, that we’ve been warned about.
The reality here is that as the “lies” become more and more believable, we have to stay on the forefront of what our Father reveals to us lest we blend in with the modern Christians who have reached a critical point en-masse, by adapting it to the various cultures. Yes, the gospel has gone out to the ends of the world and of the ages. But we are to confirm to the gospel, not the other way around.
For this we have the Hebrew texts and Old Covenant story pictures to distinguish truth from compromises.
We are alluding here to the “illusion if possible to deceive the Elect”, because the lie is that believable to the simple minded church goers. We have such a variety of denominations and scriptural translations so as to find one that’s fashionable for you. Where is your personal “transformation ” in that? To which you may say, we all love God and that is all that matters. Hmm. Really? That’s scary.
But even Christ warned His Disciples of this saying “13 Therefore I speak them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. 14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: That people quite likely don’t see the correlating lessons. This is flat out, alarming!
Case and point.
We are being presented today with a modern day rendition of another Jewish kingdom. Along with it is the idea that the Jerusalem of the Old Covenant, will be implemented, but this time the Son of God who is the Christ, will some how be happy in that He will come back and vindicate the poor Jews for being mistreated and accept their kingdom? Hmm. More blasphemy. Maybe Christ needs to apologize and vindicate them. After all we are all good people, right..?
However much scripture is modified and simplified to appease the modern readers, we can still find enough to inform sincere seekers. God has woven these truths in picture form to be made known to us “by revelation”, and by unveiling in the historical pictures and parables. As Christ said about the in-sincere.
But for the Elect, “all things are open and exposed in the eyes with Him in whom we have to do”. Meaning, of Him in whom we must give an account as our Heavenly Father.
The Old way verses The New Covenants as pictured in the life of Abraham, who himself was a prophecy of another Father, some call “Abba”.
We have embedded into Abraham’s life, some harsh realities that dispell the myth of the need to re-habitate the so called Jews in a modern Israel in a modern Jerusalem to rebuild their temple for their Messiah to come back. We already have our Messiah who told us “Lo, I am with you throughout the ages, even to the end”. So we need not be distracted by such “illusions if possible to deceive the Elect”, meaning us who are in the know.
In previous articles we have made a good case that The Old Testament is old and the New Covenant founded on better promises, and relates to “The Kingdom prepared from the foundations of the world”, as being “The Kingdom of God at hand”, and the object that “all the law and the prophets” alluded to, and were to train us on. So without any further adieu, from the book of Genesis.
The Old Covenant as seen with Hagar as a servant to be “Lorded” over, in contrast with The New Covenant seen in Sarah, saying “Cast out the bond woman and her son, for they shall not be hiers of the Kingdom”. The implication here is that you can NOT hold both old and new Covenants relevant at the same time. That had to be expired and “cast out”, or, cut off, as to be discarded and circumcized, of putting off the flesh of the carnal thinking, physical, fulfillments, that ate replaced with the acquisition of spirit and truth that accords, or corrolates with godliness associated with The Last, being The New Covenant the old only explains in pictures
These are the only two Covenants God made with Abraham and the differences between the promises made to Abram verses Abraham. Unfortunately for us readers, the New Testament/Covenant translations did not distinguish Abram from Abraham through to include The New Covenant where the conveyance of these contrasting covenants become obscuregets. Yes, Abram and Abraham are the same person, but a change in circumstances created the change in character, so that God gave him a name change so that we would make the distinction new from old to acknowledge our change, one revelation at a time until “we are complete in Him who is head over all principalities and powers”. That along with the name change, implies a change in the person as well.
At first Abram was given the promise that he would be a “father of 12 tribes, which corrolates to the Old, now expired Covenant that the Jews (from Judah/Yudah) present themselves as. It was Abrams Son Ishmael born by Abrams maid servant that pictures the Old Covenant Law era, verses Abraham’s Son Isaac born from His wife Sarai, become Sarah with a name change too With Ishmael.
This is why in Galatians Paul taught to “cast out the bond women (Hagar) and her son for they were not the heirs of promise. If you remember, Hagar and Ishmael like the time of Moses, were all wandering in the wilderness looking for water for us to make their connection But “in the name shall thy seed be called differentiating between the law of sin and death and “the law of the Spirit of life in Christ has set us free from the Law of sin and death as being antagonistic to the spirit. And to “cast out the bond women and her son”, was to show us that the “Old Covenant” concepts have to be put to rest as historical relics, of the way on how NOT to do it. That Old Covenant and New Will and Testament Covenant have likenesses but ONLY IN CONTRASTS, as we read here in Galatians where Peter and Paul bumped heads over this very thing as we read here in Chapter 2. Where Paul the x Pharisee said “when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live in the manner of Gentiles and not as the Jews, [a]why do you compel Gentiles to live as [b]Jews?” Here is the exact text
……..In Genesis 12,God had made a with Abram saying “12 Now the Lord God 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: 2 And I will make of thee a great nation (singular), and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed (end of promise). 4 So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. 5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came. 6 And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land. 7 And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto him.
So here we have Abram, not Abraham. That Abram would dwell in Canaan as “a great nation (singular)” And this first promise/covenant, had to do with Abrams son from his maid servant Hagar, whom Abram lorded over. This son was born in bondage as having to do with being under the Old Covenant law
So you see, God made two covenants with Abram/Abraham. That with a name change came a covenant change. For God had said to Abram that he would make him a great nation (singular), but to Abraham with the New Covenant that replaced the old covenant that was fulfilled with Abrams see in his servant Hagar. And just as those of the Old Covenant called God Lord as having to do with “servants” as was Hagar. But it was NOT with Sarai but Sarah. So then it was “Abraham” and “Sarah” who had the name changes that had to do with a charecter change and a covenant change.
And here we will interject a little secret that is a promise to the Elect as having to do with The New Will and Testament/Covenant. It was as Christ was having His last conversation with the disiples to become Apostles, a higher order then a prophet, that He told them, “I go to the Father and you see Me again no more”. Then we have this account 24 And when they were come to Capernaum, they that collect tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute? 25 He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers? 26 Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free.
Hereby equating them as children and not servants because they are first-fruits of The New Covenant of which we are of the final harvest.