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Of Promise

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 15, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 46.

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Of Promise.

If the covenant and promises and the Seed had come through Ishmael, his descendants might have had some basis to claim that all were to be the seed of Abraham according to the flesh; for so was Ishmael born. But not so did the Lord work. The covenant and the promises and the Seed all came through Isaac, whose birth was as truly miraculous as a new creation would be. It was a miracle of the Spirit of God, wrought in the very beginning of Abraham's seed, that men might know that the seed of Abraham, the true seed, was spiritual. (Read Gen. 18:1-15; Rom. 4:13-25; Gal. 4:22-31.)
"Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise." The seed of the bondwoman is born after the flesh; the children of the freewoman, through promise. "That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted for the seed." Rom. 9:8.