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You know, we're talking about in this series called Hope for America, how God relates to our country, how we can relate to Him.
But in order to get a better picture of that, we need to back up and look at the Bible and ask the question, does God have any specific relationships with Gentile nations?
Now we know God has a very unique and special relationship with the nation of Israel.
And we see that all the way back in the book of Genesis.
We're going to start there and establish God's unique covenantal relationship with the nation of Israel.
And then based upon that foundation, I think we can understand more of how God relates to other nations as well.
In Genesis chapter 12, the Bible says that God came to Abraham.
He was called Abram at the time.
Now here's what's very interesting is that Abraham came from a place called the Ur of the Chaldees.
And when you do a little study in history on Ur of the Chaldees, you found out that there was a great ziggurat there, which was like the tower of Babel, if you will, that they had built.
And they worshiped a God there called Nanna.
And Nanna was the moon God.
So think about this.
We're talking about a pagan society here.
We're talking about people who don't have God's revealed word.
They don't have the Bible, obviously.
They don't have God's revelation.
And so basically they're just worshiping the sun, the moon, and the stars.
And so there were classic pagans.
So it's highly likely that Abraham grew up in a home where his father, Terah, worshipped this moon God Nanna.
And so Abraham, likely, was also a moon worshiper.
Now again, we don't have a specific scripture for that, but it's very likely seeing as how sons follow what the fathers did.
So God comes to Abraham and he issues to him a sovereign call and Moses records for us this historic episode all the way back in Genesis chapter 12, verses one through three.
This is what the Bible says.
The Lord has said to Abraham, go from your country, your people, and your father's household to the land I will show you.
And I will make you into a great nation.
And I will bless you.
And I will make your name great.
And I will bless those who bless you.
And whoever curses you, I will curse.
And all the peoples of the earth will be blessed through you.
Now what's very interesting about this call to Abraham is that the Bible tells us nothing that Abraham had done or the kind of person that Abraham was that would deserve this type of visitation from the God, the creator of the universe.
Now the Bible tells us that God sovereignly chose Abraham.
In fact, when you look at Deuteronomy chapter seven, and God is sort of reminding Israel of their roots, as we looked at America's roots in the last episode, God said in Deuteronomy chapter seven, he says verse six, for you are a holy people to the Lord your God, the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people of his own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
The Lord did not set his heart on you nor choose you because you are more in number than any of the peoples for you are the fewest of all peoples.
But because the Lord loved you and kept the oath which he swore to your forefathers, that's Abraham.
He says the Lord brought you out of with a mighty hand redeemed you out of the house of slavery from the hand of Pharaoh, King of Egypt.
So God is basically saying there that there was no preexisting work or good thing that Abraham had done.
It simply God said I choose you because it pleases me.
And so God chose Abraham.
Now when he does this prophecy to Abraham talking about his descendants and all this, and by the way, he continues to ratify this promise as we'll see throughout scripture, this is what we now call the Abrahamic covenant.
Now why is the Abrahamic covenant such an important thing for Christians today?
Well it helps us know something about God, that's number one, about who he is that he's sovereign.
And through the things that he would impart to Abraham's descendants, to Moses, to the prophets, we learn so much about who God is beginning with this Abrahamic covenant.
The second thing that we learn is we learn about what pleases God through Abraham.
And through Abraham the Bible says would come one who would bless all the nations of the earth.
And so we know even from the Abrahamic covenant that God had designed for there to be salvation, not just for Abraham's descendants, the Jewish people, but for the whole earth, for the whole world.
And so we learn that about God as well.
And then we also learn something about the nature of the promises that God makes to people, meaning you and me as well.
So we learn so much about the covenant.
Now as we examine this particular covenant or this contract, if you will, that God wrote with Abraham, maybe Abraham, we can learn several things about it.
First of all we learn that it is a specific promise.
In other words, God didn't say Abraham, I'm making the same promise to all the other forefathers out there, all the other nations out there, all the other moon worshippers out there.
No, it's just to Abraham.
It came only to him it was a very specific promise.
And so God made this direct promise to Abraham.
Now we know in Genesis chapter 15 and chapter 17, God comes back again and he does what we call ratify the covenant.
In other words, he repeats it again and again.
And God had a habit of doing that throughout the Old Testament.
I mean, the whole book of Deuteronomy, Deuteronomy means the second giving of the law.
That's what that word means.
Because he had already given it to Moses back in Exodus chapter 20, if you recall.
And God gave it again to the children of Israel right before they entered the promised land.
Why?
Because just like you and me, we forget, don't we?
And so they had to be reminded of the promises.
So God reminds Abraham again and again.
In fact, Stephen and his great sermon in Acts chapter 7 tells us that God had originally appeared to Abraham prior to Genesis 12 when he was in Ur of the Chaldees.
And so God had obviously visited Abraham and established some sort of relationship with him.
God revealed himself to Abraham in some way.
We don't know exactly how he did that.
But it's very encouraging to know that God was working in Abraham's life even before he gave him the specific promise.
Now that tells us something too.
You look back over your Christian life.
You look back over just your life.
And what do you find?
What you see is the hand of God on your life even before you were a believer.
So for some of you, it was the family you were born into.
For others of you, it was adversity that you faced.
Things that softened your heart.
For some of you, it was the sins that you were involved in that, like with me, God had to convict me of my sins and see that this was a road to ruin.
It was a road that leads to nowhere.
In fact, the road leads to hell actually.
And so God had to convict me of that, but he did that by showing me that even when I was a non-Christian.
Well, Abraham was the same way.
God visited him way back in Ur of the Chaldees.
So this word that God gives Abraham was a specific promise.
And in essence, it was a promissory note that he was writing to him.
So secondly, we see that this was an unconditional promise as well.
Back in that day, when two men would make an agreement with one another or sign a contract, if you will.
What they would do is they would come together, they would take an animal of some type and they would kill the animal and they would separate the animal into two pieces so that both of the men together could walk through in the middle of those separated pieces of the animal.
And the reason they did that was it was a way of saying if one of us breaks this contract, if one of us reneges on this agreement, may what happened to this animal also happen to us.
It's a very serious thing to sign a contract back in those days.
Now this is what God did with Abraham because Abraham said, how can I know that I'm going to possess this land?
And so God replied by telling him to go get a heifer, a goat, a ram, a turtledove and a young pigeon.
And then God then took those animals and he cut them into two halves.
Now here's where the story takes a little bit of a twist here.
Instead of God and Abraham walking through the midst of the animals, what happened was the Bible says that God put Abraham into a deep sleep and spoke to him in a vision.
And there appeared a smoking oven and a flaming torch there at that scene.
And when that happened, God basically walked through the middle of the split animals while Abraham's asleep there.
He's just taking a nap over here, a divinely induced nap.
And so Abraham is asleep.
Abraham doesn't walk through the animals.
In other words, God is the one who is saying, I will make sure on both our parts that this contract goes into fruition, that it's fulfilled.
And so God is the one saying, I'll be responsible for making sure that the promise gets through.
So that's what we call an unconditional promise.
Now it's very similar to the unconditional love that God has for you and me.
When we say that God's love is faithful and loyal, the Hebrew word, hesed there, means God's unconditional, faithful, loyal love.
And then the New Testament is the word agape.
And here's what that means.
Whether you accept it or not, God loves you.
Whether you enjoy it or not, God loves you.
Whether you love God back or not, God still loves you.
It's an unconditional, there are no conditions upon whether or not he will love us.
What God is saying here in this passage, there are no conditions on this promise that God is made to Abraham about making him into a great nation, about whoever blesses you, they'll be blessed, who curses you, be cursed, and the land that I'm going to give to you.
And those things will all be on God to make sure that they happen.
And so only God could do something like that.
And the Bible says that on that very day, the Lord made a covenant with Abraham.
In fact, that phrase to make a covenant in the Hebrew literally means to cut a covenant.
Signifying what he did with those animals.
Now what was Abraham's part?
Well, God wanted Abraham in chapter 15 verse 6 to believe God.
And there is a responsibility that we have, not on whether or not the promise will be made sure on an unconditional part of the promise, but God wanted Abraham to enter into the enjoyment of that promise.
And so the Bible says over and over again, even throughout the New Testament, that Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned or accounted to him as righteousness.
So his faith in God, his faith in the fact that God would do what he said he was going to do in the promise, that's how Abraham was made righteous.
And it was based upon in him, through you all the nations of the earth will be blessed.
There would be a Messiah, a Savior of some type that would come in the future that would bless everyone, that everyone could have a relationship with God.
Well, how does that happen?
Well, Abraham has to believe God.
First of all, for his own salvation.
So before he did any works, he believed in the Lord.
So it's an unconditional promise.
But it's also third, it's an everlasting promise that he made to Abraham.
In fact, in Genesis 17, in verses 7 and 8, God kind of magnifies this thing and talks more about what the promise means.
He says, I will establish my covenant with you as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for generations to come.
He says to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
The whole land of Canaan, where you now reside as a foreigner, I will give to you as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you and I will be their God.
Footnote, did you know that from Abraham all the way through all the kings, all the way up to when Israel was scattered in 70 AD, that Israel never possessed all of that land that God promised them.
But God said, you're going to have it forever.
Guess what?
We're going to see the fruition of that promise in the Millennial Kingdom finally.
But as of yet, they're not possessing all of that land.
This tells us that Bible prophecy is still alive, it's still in action and it's going to be fulfilled in the future.
Now some people like to spiritualize this word everlasting, they say, well, God didn't really mean that.
He meant just a long time or whatever.
But he made a specific literal promise about specific literal lands.
He made a promise about a literal Messiah that would come and he made a promise about literal descendants that would come from Abraham.
So if everything else about this promise is literal, then it makes sense that this promise about the land and that it being eternal would also be literal.
You know, a great rule of Bible study when you study the Bible is let the Bible speak for itself.
Yes, there are times when there are symbols, there are times when there are allusions to word pictures and metaphors.
But unless something in the text tells us different, we need to believe that it's all literal.
I love what Dr. Tim LaHaye used to always say, and when the plain sense makes sense, seek no other sense, lest you end up with nonsense.
So don't go after the nonsense, go with the plain sense.
So you say, well, why is this so important here for us today?
Why focus on a Jewish covenant when we're talking about a 21st century America?
Well, because Israel is still in action.
It's still alive right now and there are promises that God has still made to Israel and there are things about what America does that can enter into that blessing as well.
We'll talk about that in just a minute.
Let's do a couple more real quick things on this promises covenant with God neighbor him.
Fourth, it's a rewarding promise.
He says here, I will bless those who bless you and the ones who curse you, I will curse.
So part of that covenant with Abraham, the God of creation was saying, I choose you, I choose the nation that's coming from you and whoever messes with you, I'm going to mess with.
That's what God's saying.
And whoever loves on you, I'm going to love on them.
I'm going to give blessing to them.
Now, how do we know this is true?
Well, all you have to do is just simply look at history.
With this covenant, God prophesies that he will bring curse, curses upon any nation.
In fact, in Genesis chapter 15, verses 13 and 14, he prophesies specific judgment on the nation of Egypt for their future, yet future enslavement of the Jewish people.
And so as you go through history, the list of enemy, the enemies of Israel and its oppressors reads like what I call the obituary of empires.
You have countries like Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persia, the Amalekites, the Ammonites, the Philistines.
Anybody seen any Philistines running around lately?
No, they're nonexistent.
Why?
Because of the way they treated Israel.
Then there's the Edomites, there's the Moabites.
And then finally, the Empire of Rome.
All of these nations mistreated Israel and all of them are on the ash heap of human history.
And so I don't think that's really a divine coincidence.
I think that's divine judgment.
So bless those who bless you, curse those who curse you.
We'll come back to that in just a minute.
The final thing about this promise is that it's a redemptive promise, as we mentioned, that the Messiah would come from Abraham's lineage.
He says that in you, all the families or all the nations of the earth will be blessed.
How is that going to happen?
Well, it has to be blessed through the fulfillment of the promise God made way back to in the book of Genesis chapter 3 verse 15 to Adam where he says, actually to the serpent, he says, but Adam was there.
He says that the seed of the woman would one day crush the head of the serpent.
Well, in order for that to happen, the seed of the woman has to come through somebody, right?
Well, it's going to come through the Abrahamic lineage.
In fact, back in Genesis chapter 6, Satan tried to corrupt the human race with these unions, with these demonic creatures and mortal women, tried to corrupt the human seed so that the divine seed could not come through any woman on planet earth.
Of course, he failed and those angels we believe are locked in utter darkness right now.
That's what produced the giants during that day.
But back to this promise here is that there will be every nation and all tribes and all peoples and all tongues will benefit from this one who would come from Abraham's lineage.
So where does that leave us?
We have the Abrahamic promise.
We have the Abrahamic covenant given to one man for one nation.
But what about the rest of the nations of the earth?
What can we know from that?
Well, I think there are four principles that we can really lift out of scripture and observe in scripture that will help us understand what God's relationship with the rest of the nations are all about.
And here it is, number one, that God judges based on nations' moral character and their national conscience.
God makes judgments based upon their moral conscience rather and their national character.
So what do you mean by that, Jeff?
Well, I mean that God has a basic understanding with humanity as a whole.
He says, I've given you the sun, the moon, the stars again, the universe, let you know who I am.
And there's a basic conscience that God has put within every human and every nation on the earth.
And if you respond to that basic morality, God says you can continue to exist.
We see God judging and even annihilating certain cities.
We see Sodom and Gomorrah that he annihilated for not having a basic moral conscience and character.
We see the city of Nineveh.
You remember that Jonah went to Nineveh and it was spared.
But a hundred years later, they returned to their heathen ways and the prophet Nahum came to them, calling them to repentance.
And they didn't respond this time.
And guess what happened?
In 612 BC, the Bible says that the Medes came through and marked the end of the Assyrian empire as prophesied in Nahum chapter 3 verse 11.
And the Bible says that that city would be hidden.
In fact, it was hidden.
It was hidden for centuries.
In fact, 2,400 years, it was hidden until a man by the name of Austen Henry Layard, a British archaeologist, rediscovered Nineveh in 1847.
So the Bible is again, approved to be true.
So God's judgment falls on nations because of their national conscience and character.
Second principle, God judges nations based upon their treatment of Israel.
And we've touched on this already.
But as we relate to Israel and as we align ourselves as allies of Israel, God says we can be blessed as an overflow of the blessing that he's giving to Israel.
Now here's the thing.
Is that this doesn't mean we agree with everything that Israel does.
It doesn't mean that we agree with everything they vote on in their knesset and their parlour and their ruling bodies.
It doesn't mean that we agree everything they do militarily.
But it means that overall we support the nation Israel and their right to exist.
And so the country of Babylon was certainly one of those countries that suffered under that.
Here's the third principle we can understand about God's relationship with the nations, is that God did not even withhold judgment from his own people Israel.
In other words, when Israel disobeyed God, God sent nations in to rule over them, to take them into captivity.
He allowed them to be conquered and to have battles and lose battles against other nations because they did not obey him.
So if God does this with his own people, his own covenant people, what do you think he's going to do with other nations that also defy him?
And then one more principle is that God's judgment, and this is really the most important one we need to understand.
God's judgment fell on Jesus Christ at the cross so that all the nations could enjoy blessing and salvation.
And I love this.
The good news is that this seed of Abraham called Jesus Christ, who died for the sins of the world, that gospel beginning at Pentecost, next chapter 2, spread Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, the most parts of the earth, eventually throughout the Roman Empire, eventually to Spain and then to England and from England it came to America and here we are.
So you and I are the direct beneficiaries of the promise God gave to Abraham all the way back in Genesis 12 because we now have the gospel.
So in summary, what's God's agreement is covenant with the nations.
He judges them based on their moral conscience and their national character.
He judges nations based on their treatment of Israel.
He judges them because he didn't judge, didn't withhold judgment for his own people.
He's certainly not going to withhold it from other nations.
And then finally God judged his own son Jesus so that all the nations could be saved.
I love what Isaiah chapter 45 verse 22 says, it says, turn to me all the ends of the earth and be saved for I am God and there is no other.
You see God's call to America is to turn to his son Jesus Christ and to be a blessed nation not because we are some special chosen people but because we have entered into a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. And when enough people do that, God's principle spread in communities and states and in a whole nation, then that nation is under the great blessing of God.
But as we're going to see in our next episode, America is not being blessed by God right now.
In fact, the blessing has been withheld from God. In fact, God's judgment is raging like a river coming down upon America. And so we need to understand all the nations of the world have a divine responsibility before God to turn to Jesus Christ. That is his relationship with the world and the agreement that he has with him. Well, next time we're going to talk more about America and we're going to talk about where America is right now. We're going to kind of do a deep dive in what's wrong with America and eventually how we can help it. I'll see you next time.
Hi, I'm Jeff Kinley. We've been talking about on the king is coming this man named Noah. And as it was in the days of Noah, well, that's based upon a book that I wrote a few years ago called As It Was in the Days of Noah, A Warnings from the Bible about the coming global storm. And in this book, we talk about how the days that Noah experienced or the days that we're experiencing right now and how we can navigate those difficult times. I think this is a very relevant message for the world today. And it was when the book came out originally in 2014. It immediately went to number one became the number one prophecy book in America. It rose to the number 94 spot out of 8 million books on Amazon and got me on programs like Fox and Friends, The Glenn Beck Show, The Ben Shapiro and Hundreds of other radio and TV shows. And I think it's mainly because it just struck a nerve.
Well, today we're living in those days as well. And we've updated the book now, republished it. I've added two new chapters to it and added a bunch of new content in the back.
I want you to get a copy of As It Was in the Days of Noah. It's not only open your eyes what's going on in the world around you as the Bible predicts, but also equip you on how you can walk in these difficult times. Pick up a copy of As It Was in the Days of Noah.
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