The Abrahamic Covenant Part One

06/29/21 • 28 min

Abrahamic Covenant Part One

Part of the Biblical Covenant Stories Series

I hope this story telling account of History and the Biblical Covenants is of help to you. I know we all have questions when it comes to life. When I was young, I was the oldest of 5 children. My youngest little sister was filled with so many questions as she grew, but the first question was why? Not just why, but why, why why why, why, why, but why and so on. It taught me patience for sure. But it also helped me understand that inquisitive nature. So, here we go again, As I attempt to answer some of the background info to the why questions to give us a better understanding of WHY God did what He did. Of course we won’t know it all this side of Heaven, but I hope it’s a good start to get you digging into the Biblical Covenants on your own.

Last time we got together and looked at the Covenants, Noah and his family were fresh off the boat, ok a really big boat, ok, an Ark!

After exiting the vehicle, God had instructed the family once again with one direction being repeated which was for them to be fruitful and multiply, for the entire earth needed repopulating.

The smell of a good BBQwas still wafting in the air including the fat from the animals that were given to God in sacrifice by Noah on an altar, revealing an obedient heart, with the rainbow overhead as a symbol of the unconditional covenant between God and mankind and all the animals.

God promised He would not flood the entire earth again. After establishing the family in the last covenant between Himself and Adam, God has now established government for mankind through the covenant with Noah. This covenant will remain in effect as long as there are rainbows. It does my heart good when I see a gorgeous double rainbow in the sky after a storm here in North Idaho. If you have any pictures of one in your area, I would love it if you would share them on the Moments with Moni facebook page. Let’s all remind each other of this promise from God.

Ok, back to the story.

Well, the beauty of the fresh new earth didn’t last that long. Fresh off the boat, Noah decided to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard. Yes, I realize there is passage of time, but in the very next verse, Noah drank that wine, and you guessed it...Noah got drunk.

Evidently there was a scandal that went on inside the tent, for the Bible reads, “Noah, drank of the wine, and was drunken, and had it happened today Ham would have been considered a journalist wanting to make headlines

Some say there may have been more going on, but many scholars believe that the scene was just what it was written as, which you can read in Genesis.

Do you remember after Adam and Eve sinned and made clothing for themselves out of fig leaves? The timeline from this Antedilluvian age to the Last Days before the coming of Christ, may make this moment look like no big deal.

But remember the standard of this world by the One who created it and all that is in it, rises above such lewdness.

After Noah woke from his drunkeness, it says that he knew what had happened.

I used to think that Noah just yelled at his son because he was mad at him. However, the Bible paints a different picture. Noah was now in his right mind, and since he was the head of the family, and now the head governing member of society, he has proclaimed blessing and cursing in this instance.

The guilty party is now proclaimed a servant to the other two sons, one of whom receives a spiritual blessing and the other a temporal one. We also read in this account of History, that Noah lived another 350 years after the flood and he died.

As the Bible continues, descendants of these three sons are mentioned. It looks like a dry read of names if at first you open your Bible to read them, but if you dig in to the meaning of these names, and catch a bit of history that is thrown in with them, it actually reveals a lot. But that is for another story. Our main take away for the Covenant series is that the earth was being repopulated rather well. All of these were the families of Noah’s generations, and the nations came out of these three sons families.

So what happens when you get together a lot of people who want to do things their own way? Well, since they all spoke the same language, they got together in their pretensious pride, and decided to not scatter across the earth and fill it, but to build a tower that reached all the way to Heaven. Pride and arrogance is strong and well in the hearts of mankind once again.

As a mom, I get the picture of a toddler who want out of the play pen so they can get back into the forbidden cookie jar, maybe even skip the jar and go straight for the hot cookie sheet coming out of the oven. Why stop at one, when you can have the whole batch. Mom would gently pick the toddler up and put them back in the play pen and distract the litt...

Abrahamic Covenant Part One

Part of the Biblical Covenant Stories Series

Last time we got together and looked at the Covenants, Noah and his family were fresh off the boat, ok a really big boat, ok, an Ark!

After exiting the vehicle, God had instructed the family once again with one direction being repeated which was for them to be fruitful and multiply, for the entire earth needed repopulating.

Ok, back to the story.

Some say there may have been more going on, but many scholars believe that the scene was just what it was written as, which you can read in Genesis.

But remember the standard of this world by the One who created it and all that is in it, rises above such lewdness.

After Noah woke from his drunkeness, it says that he knew what had happened.

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Welcome back to Moments with Moni,

I’m your Host.....Moni

Last time we left Adam and Eve just outside the Garden Eden in their new, animal skin covering, that God made for them.

Even though they disobeyed God, He was kind and merciful to them and instructed them in the way they should go

as they entered the new realm of life that included pain, suffering, weeds, thorns and thistles.

It’s at this point we need to remember that it was their own doing that brought them to this place. There was no one else to blame for the state they were in.

We continue today in Genesis to set the stage for the scene on the Earth before God made the next Covenant.

Let's ponder a Biblical perspective on life on earth before God made the Covenant with Noah.

In the middle of this account of History, there is a whole chapter on Genelogies in the Bible. Instead of a boring account of me reading this to you, I share a snippet of the Skit "Christ and the Veil" It was written by my son, and he shares it around the kitchen table at dinner time with his children.

You can find more info on this

"Christ and the Veil" on Stephen Hardy's Facebook Page at "Christ and the Veil- A One Man Play" or to request a booking for him to share this skit at your church or Park or gathering.

Oh and by the way, at the time of the recording, our grandchild #8 was on the way. :)

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The Abrahamic Covenant Part Two

After Hagar returned with Ishmael from running away because of being treated harshly, she submitted herself to Sarai once again. At this time Abram was 86 years old.

Have you ever run ahead of God and done things for Him rather than waiting for Him to do what He had promised?

This Covenant is between God and Abram

• You will be a Father of many Nations

• I will change your name from Abram (high and haughty or lofty)to Abraham, (high father of a multitude.) for I will make you a father of many nations. This covenant is established between Me and you, and yourseed all your generations as an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and all your seed after you.

• I will give the land of which you are a stranger, the land of Canaan as an everlasting possession to you and your seed, and I will be their God.

This is my covenant with you Abraham, and with your descendants and this will be the sign of the covenant:

You and every man child among you are to be circumcised as a sign of this covenant, your children by birth and those that are bought or servants.

Signs were an important part of a covenant....

And it came to pass just as God had said. Abraham and Sarah gave birth to a child and named him Issac, and when the child was eight days old, the circumcision took place, the symbol to remind them of the covenant with each new generation.

When little Issac was weaned, some scholars say three some say up to five years old, Abraham made a feast to celebrate. During this time Sarah was an eye witness to Ishmael mocking Issac.

It looks as if Hagar and Ishmael were welcome to remain until this point. It was Sarah who went to Abraham and said,

Cast out this bondwoman, and HER son for the son of this servant will not be heir with MY son Issac.

This grieved Abraham, for he had become attached to his son of the the flesh, Ishmael. Ishamel may have been Isaac’s buddy and school mate, but he was not a fellow heir to the inheritance.

God told Abraham not to grieve over Ishmael, listen to your wife, and put him away, for I will make of Ishmael a nation, because he is your seed.

As Matthew Henry shares in his Commentary on this passage:

“If Hagar and Ishamel had conducted themselves well in Abraham’s family, they might have continued there but they threw themselves out by their own pride and insolence, and were justly chastised.”

Again we see an opportunity to have obeyed God in the things He tells us, or to walk in our own ways. We were made in the Image of God. While here on earth we have an earth suit, this flesh that covers the real us, the spirit within. There will always be a struggle between the flesh and the spirit for control.

Are you lost? I was the first time I heard all these things. It took me awhile to connect the dots of all this History and prophecy which is still History and some is yet prophecy....

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