“And my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.”
What is the purpose of the covenant but concord between two equal parties? Fellowship of God, between the Father and Son is treated as an accord; Both parties being Spirit the Man component on one part does not affect the covenant and it is understood the aspect of flesh on the part of the Son does not affect the other entity. “Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,/To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.”(Ep.1:5-6). Good pleasure of his will is in harmony with the holiness of God. Holy is his name, to which we shall come anon. Here we are fixing the relevance of flesh in the World of the Spirit where faith is the language. The world unseen and the worlds made to appear have their own colour and speech. We can explain the nature of flesh in terms of the Word which was God.
The word is both sound and a sign. When God sends the Son he is qualified as the only begotten Son meaning that he is a sign and the Son of man consequently explains the Man component which was with God in the beginning.. In v.7 God tells Abraham, “And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.”. “And to thy seed after thee” is done after he changed the name of Abraham to mean the Father of many nations. So the question of Ishmael born of the bondswoman has to be settled. This ‘illicit’ union between two parties of unequal position is now being regularised in the covenant. The change of name makes it holy, to be precise. The circumcision as a sign has only validity as much as their flesh is concerned. It is similar to infant baptism, where parents intercede on behalf of the child. “For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love” (Gal.5:6). Circumcision availeth nothing where God’s breath in us has shown us the way. We are to worship him in Spirit and truth. “For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.”(Ro.8:13)
“And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised“
The seven days in the Covenant refer to the Day that God has appointed for the Son. So of what significance is the eighth day. While the command number Seven signifies completion or whole we have the lower parts where Jesus went in Spirit and preached to the souls in prison. The Psalm of David does not leave the lower parts from God’s providential eye. “My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth./Thine eyes did see my substance,” (Ps.139:15-16). The number Eight has its relevance. The body of four and twenty elders is a memorial ibefore the throne of heaven (8×3). In shot covenant of the flesh shows the way to the life in the Spirit. It is what Jesus offered the nation of Israel.”In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.”(John 7:37)
Circumcision is a sign for the lowest parts of the earth or the flesh making a claim.
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