Genesis 22:17-19
“Blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice." NKJV
God gives Abraham a wonderful and powerful promise of blessing upon him and all his descendents namely those of his seed. The Lord God tells him that in his seed they will multiply and bless the nations of the earth. NKJV
I love how God tells Abraham he will not only be blessed but through his seed he and his offspring will bless the nations. It’s hard to imagine how one man could produce offspring as numerous as the stars in the heavens, especially a number so great that they would impact nations – not a country, not a continent but nations.
What Abraham may not have known how at the time but fully believed by faith God would provide was that God in His infinite and all surpassing knowledge was going to send his own son to be born of a virgin named Mary, married to Joseph Whose family line and seed came directly from Abraham and the house of King David. Jesus is the seed from Abraham and fulfillment of that promise. Read more...
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