Remember your Creator in the days of your youth! |
On a dark and erie night, five dead bodies lie on the ground, three of them cut in half. Nearby, there's a man! He's not awake. He's lying on the ground, a dreadful darkness overcoming him as he lies in deep sleep. Suddenly, two objects appear! One is a
smoking pot, and the other a blazing torch, and they mysteriously pass between the dead bodies. What is this?! What's happening? The man is Abraham, and he had obeyed God earlier in the day by killing three animals and two birds, and arranging their bodies in a certain way on the ground. This was the preparation for a solemn contract -- the
Abrahamic Covenant! This began back in Genesis 12:3, when God told Abraham to move from his native country, and those who bless him, God will bless. Those who curse him, God will curse. This is why the world focuses on the nation of Israel! Why else would such a tiny country be in the public eye for centuries?! Furthermore, the Abrahamic covenant looked forward to our salvation
from sin, because God told Abraham that "in you all the families of the earth will be blessed." While Abraham lay in a deep and dreadful sleep, God said to him -- “Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there. But I will punish the nation
they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.... In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure." The Lord also said, "To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates..." But, some
incredible things had to happen, all in perfect sequence (and therefore perfectly designed, like everything in creation) for this to come about. Continued... |
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