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THE SCOPE OF THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT
Question.--Which is the greater, the Abrahamic Covenant
or the New Covenant?
Answer.--The Abrahamic Covenant is an all-embracing
arrangement. Everything that God has done and will
yet do for our race is included in that Abrahamic Covenant.
The Law Covenant of Israel was added to this
Covenant "because of trangression." Although only a
typical arrangement, nevertheless the Law Covenant developed
a certain faithful class, to be made "princes in
all the earth" during the Millennial Age. This Covenant
was represented by Hagar; and her son Ishmael
represented the nation of Israel. (Galatians 4:21-31.)
The Christ, the New Creation class, was represented in
Isaac, Sarah's son. Sarah, Abraham's first wife, represented
that part of the Abrahamic Covenant which pertained
to the Spiritual Seed, the New Creation, that which
we sometimes speak of as the Sarah Covenant. This
Sarah Covenant--the Grace Covenant, the Covenant of
Sacrifice (Psalm 50:5)--brings forth the Isaac class,
the Church, head and Body.
Even as Isaac was not born after the flesh in the
ordinary sense (Abraham and Sarah being too old naturally),
but was a special creation, so with The Christ
company, the Church. This "Isaac" class is developed
as a distinctly new creation, formed from members of the
fallen human race. The Divine invitation to these is to
present their bodies living sacrifices. They sacrifice their
human nature that they may attain with their Head, the
antitypical "Isaac" the Divine nature--something never
before offered. After this New Creation is completed,
the blessing indicated in God's Promises to Abraham will
reach all the families of the earth. It will teach them,
first through the "Isaac" Seed, the New Creation, and
secondly, through the Ancient Worthies developed in the
Ages preceding this Age, under God's typical arrangements.
All kindreds and families of the earth will be blessed
[R5909 : page 170] by the privilege or opportunity to become children of Abraham,
children of God, whom Abraham represented in a
figure. "I have made thee a father of many nations
(Genesis 17:5; Romans 4:17), said the Lord to Abraham
--"In becoming thy seed shall all the nations of the
earth bless themselves." These will be blessed under the
New covenant, an arrangement whereby the Abrahamic
Covenant will be fulfilled as relates to Israel and to all.
The Abrahamic Covenant, then, embraces all the other
Covenants, those Covenants being merely different features
of God's arrangements by which the work implied
in the great Abrahamic Covenant or Promise is to be
accomplished.
As we have elsewhere previously shown, Abraham took
another wife, after the death of Sarah--Keturah. By her
he had many sons and daughters. Thus the New Covenant
is typed and its grand work of bringing many to life
--to "the liberty of the sons of God."--Romans 8:19,21.
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