” So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”
The Spirit has set the example of Israel as a nation to illustrate the force of the Word in terms of blessings and curse for the disobedient so the covenant is a vehicle for the Fellowship of God with Man. The Latter is the Word become flesh. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever. He was with the Word in the beginning. In sending the word God was not jesting as though with a boomerang but exercising his sovereign will. As he sent his word he shall be sending his only begotten Son as the Saviour of the whole world. Nothing less than that.
“Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,” He sends him as a sign to the Land of Palestine so Israel may be saved, or in other words gave the nation the first option to say ‘no’ which was anticipated. The question of Salvation was according to the mystery of his will was based on the sole point of faith with works. God demanded nothing less since it was first demonstrated as doable by God. For which he framed them by his word.
In short the eternal word is the Law. God blessed Abraham. “And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness.”(Ge.15:6)
God sets Abraham as the double for the Son. God made man “after our own image, and after our likeness”(1:26). The latter part is what we are considering. So what confidence he is sharing is for our spiritual instruction. “And he said unto Abram, 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;/ And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge:”
The narrative thereafter gives us the heirs of promise -but with Joseph we see the Spirit using him as a lynch pin, a saviour for his brethren. In setting him as “after our likeness” the Spirit is also laying out the methodology as to how the word of God does his job. Abraham for all his sterling qualities did fall in error. How Abraham and Sarah settled her barreness in their own way had to necessitate a constant thorn on the side of Israel’s best interests. Ishmael was not an accident but consequences of their lack of judgment. Similarly how Rebekah conspired with Jacob to deprive the blessings from his elder brother would lead him to his flight to the east. How the ten sons of Jacob conspired to get rid of Joseph eventually shall lead to their bondage in the land of Egypt.
God did not allow his brethren get away with their envy same as the manner the nation of Israel rejected Jesus Christ led to something else.”I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.”(Ro.11::11)
The everlasting covenant has a purpose to which the example of Israel holds an useful lesson for us. “Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.”(1 Co.10:11)
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