Dispensation of TIME PAST: Israel in Prophecy: Page 17

 
Dispensation of TIME PAST:  Israel in Prophecy (Ephesians 2:11-12)
 
The Abrahamic Covenant
 
1 Now the LORD 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, 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 
(Genesis 12:1-3).
 
Five hundred years post-flood, God called Abraham, a man of faith, out of the Urh of the Chaldees (Genesis 11:31, 15:7) by this new Gospel. 
 
He believed God and it was counted to Him for righteousness (Genesis 15:6). 
 
God promised to make of him a great nation, to bless him, to make his name great, and he would be a blessing and in him all the families of the earth would be blessed (Genesis 18:18). 
 
Through Abraham’s blood line, God prophesied a coming Redeemer. 
 
God sent Abraham to the Land of Canaan to establish a new Nation, a people that shall 9b dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations (Numbers 23:9b), and to walk the land and reclaim the earth from the hold of Satan (Genesis 13:17; Job 1:7). 
 
This Abrahamic Covenant, established with God, would be a sure promise of a future prophesied Kingdom on earth, an everlasting covenant. 
 
God promised to reclaim the earth from the hold of Satan. 
 
God made circumcision the token of the covenant between Abraham and God (Genesis 17:1-13).
 
As Abraham’s family started to grow, the twelve tribes of Israel were established (Genesis 49:1-28) though Abraham’s grandson, Jacob. 
 
These twelve tribes of Israel became an intricate part of God’s Kingdom Program. 
 
When Joseph, one of Jacob’s twelves sons, was separated from his family by his brothers who sent him into Egypt (Genesis 37:28), the Abrahamic families found themselves in a wide-reaching famine (Genesis 41:54-57).
 
After being reunited and nourished in Egypt (Exodus 1:1-5), the descendants of Abraham, 
 
7 the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them (Exodus 1:7).
 
Years earlier, in a dream, Abraham had received this prophecy:  
13 know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years (Genesis 15:13; Exodus 12:40). 
 
The Egyptians placed harsh taskmasters over them (Exodus 1:11). 
 
After ten plagues were administered by God with his servants, Moses and Aaron, Pharaoh released the Israelites. 
 
They saw the mighty hand of God as they crossed the Red Sea on dry ground (Exodus 14:22). 
 
Instead of praising God for His great demonstration of power to save their lives, they constructed and worshiped a golden calf (Exodus 32:24) and murmured against God and Aaron and Moses (Numbers 14:2; Exodus 16:2-3).

It should have been a short journey from Egypt back to the land of Canaan, but the people refused to enter the Promise Land (Deuteronomy 1:27-28). 
 
They did not believe this mighty God could protect them and remove the giants in their homeland. 
 
For forty years (Acts 7:34-36), God guided this Church in the Wilderness (Acts 7:38) and this is where this faithless generation died (Numbers 14:29-33).

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