3732 - Promise to Abraham by C. M.

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 23, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 17.

3732 — Promise to Abraham

By C. M.

Did the Lord fulfil His promise to Abraham and his children? Gen. 13:14, 15.

No, the promises to Abraham have not as yet been fulfilled. Of course the land was given to Abraham's seed temporarily, but Abraham himself died without seeing the land. As to the seed, and as to that particular land, Nehemiah tells us that God brought Abraham out of "Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham, and foundest his heart faithful before Thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it unto his seed, and hast performed Thy words." Neh. 9: 7, 8. But God's promise to Abraham included more than this. The looking eastward and westward and northward and southward took in the whole earth in God's great promise; and so we read in Rom. 4:13 that Abraham "should be heir of the world." The promise included the new earth, and the seed through whom it would be brought was our Lord Jesus Christ. The promise, too, was the promise through faith; and therefore we read, "If ye are Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, heirs according to promise." Gal. 3: 29. Read Romans 4, Hebrews 11, and Galatians 3, in which the fulness of these promises is developed.