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Abraham's Vision: Genesis 15:7-21

October 05, 2008
 
Genesis 15:7-21
7 Then He said to him, "I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it."
8 And he said, "Lord GOD, how shall I know that I will inherit it?"
9 So He said to him, "Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."
10 Then he brought all these to Him and cut them in two, down the middle, and placed each piece opposite the other; but he did not cut the birds in two.
11 And when the vultures came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.
12 Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, horror and great darkness fell upon him.
13 Then He said to Abram: "Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years.
14 "And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions.
15 "Now as for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age.
16 "But in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete."
17 And it came to pass, when the sun went down and it was dark, that behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a burning torch that passed between those pieces.
18 On the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying: "To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates –
19 "the Kenites, the Kenezzites, the Kadmonites,
20 "the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, 21 "the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites."
 
Abraham's reward
Genesis 15:1 After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying,“Do not fear, Abram, I am a shield to you; Your reward shall be very great.”
 
A place - an inheritance
Hebrews 11:8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place [the land of Canaan] which he should after receive for an inheritance [a very great reward], obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
 
The blessing of Abraham
Genesis 28:3-4 …God Almighty bless thee…4 And give thee THE BLESSING OF ABRAHAM that thou mayest INHERIT THE LAND wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham., to thee, and to thy seed with thee;
 
Abraham lived in the promise land - in tents
Hebrews 11:9 By faith he [Abraham] sojourned [or dwelt] in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles [tents] with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
 
No inheritance in it during his life time
Acts 7:4-5 "Then he came out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Haran. And from there, when his father was dead, He moved him to this land in which you now dwell. 5 "And God gave him no inheritance in it, not even enough to set his foot on. But even when Abraham had no child, He promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his descendants after him.
 
He never received the promises
Hebrews 11:13,39 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.  39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
 
The promises concerned things to come
Hebrews 11:16,20 But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. 20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come
 
When Christ comes!
Revelation 22:12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
 
A covenant ratified
Jeremiah 34:18 'And I will give the men who have transgressed My covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before Me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between the parts of it –
 
Abraham believed God could raise the dead
Hebrews 11:19 Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
 
The heir of the world
Romans 4:13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
 
Remember the Abrahamic covenant
1 Chronicles 16:15 Remember his covenant for ever, The word which he commanded to a thousand generations, 16 The covenant which he made with Abraham, And his oath unto Isaac, 17 And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a statute, To Israel for an everlasting covenant, 18 Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance
 
It is the gospel
Galatians 3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
 
The power of God unto salvation
Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
 
So great salvation - the coming inhabited earth
Hebrews 2:3,5 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; 5 For He did not subject to angels the coming inhabited earth, concerning which we are speaking.
 
Christ confirmed the promises made to Abraham
Romans 15:8 Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers: