THE SIGNIFICANCE OF GOD’S TEST
God wanted to prove Abraham, and
said to him [Genesis 22:2] to sacrifice Isaac to Him.
It is possible for God to test
you, though He will never tempt anyone with evil [James 1:13].
Now Abraham obeyed God but on the
process of sacrifice God spoke out of heaven, calling out to Abraham to stop
[Genesis 22:12].
God saved the boy and the Bible
declared that in the mind of Justice, Abraham actually offered his son and got
him back in a figure representing the resurrection of Christ [ Hebrews
11:17-19]
Do you know that in the way
Abraham was willing to give his only son, his best to God, God gave His best,
His Son Jesus for the world [John 3:16] the mountains of Moriah upon which the
Lord Jesus was crucified for the sin of the world. That is how significant
God’s test of Abraham was.
There are some things God may ask
you tos give as an act of faith. But some folks end up not giving it. Don’t be
like that.
As a result of Abraham’s
obedience, God said. Read Hebrews11:16-17 Isaac was the son of his old age; his
was not an adopted son unlike a lot of people, Abraham was not trying to give
second best. Or give a worthless thing. It is only this type of giving that
receives a reward Abraham trusted God and God said.
Read Genesis 22:18.
DIFFERENT
GENERATIONS OF MEN
At the beginning, after the
recreation of the world, God made Adam and Eve, who began to have children
after their fall, their first being Cain and Abel. Adam was made in the image
and likeness of God, but he fell and took upon him the likeness of Satan, and
after his fall he gave birth to children in his own image and likeness.
So Cain, Abel and Seth were born
in the image and likeness of Adam, not God. When you read1John and Hebrews, you
will find a record of Cain and Abel. That Cain was of the devil but Abel was a
man who loved God.
Both of them represented two
different generations of men. Abel’s works were righteous and Cain hated him
for it. 1John 3:12 so Cain kill Abel and the righteous seed was cut off. Eve later
gave birth to Seth, who’s Lineage became that of the righteous seed. Satan
always tries to pollute the righteous generations thus why you will always find
two different generations in the Bible. Satan also liked to destroy the
righteous seed but God just goes right ahead and raise up another. And it was
the same purpose the devil had when fallen angels came to marry the daughters
of men. The fruit of the union were unnatural men-giants [Genesis 6:1-4].
DIFFERENT
GENERATION FROM ABRAHAM
Apart from the different
generations of men that evolved from Adam, s, different generations came from
Abraham as well.
God promised giving a son to
Abraham but he was moved of the flesh to have a child of the flesh named
Ishmael. Isaac the child of promise was later born by Sarah, after the power of
the word of God.
Isaac became the heir of the
Abrahamic covenant. Isaac married and had two sons; Jacob and Esau and the same
thing happens in their lives. Esau takes after the devil and he is called a profane
[Hebrews 12:16]. A profane person is one who does not value Spiritual things.
Jacob takes up after God, and he continues
the righteous lineage. Esau was profane, and some of the greatest problems that
Israel ever had come from were the descendants of Esau – the Eclomites.
But down through the line from
Abel you find that God always protected and preserved His own breed; His own
generation, that is he kept his righteous generation. Jacob, who was now the
beneficiary and custodian of the promise and covenant, went on to have his own
children from which the nation of Israel was born.
But Israel broke the covenant of
God and God has come up with another generation, that is. The generation of
Christ which we are; Praise the Lord. So Christ is a different generation from
Israel, but he also is a descendant of Abraham.
The covenant of God with Abraham
is and everlasting covenant, Genesis 17:7. Over here God was referring to the
children of Israel, the natural descendants and the church; the sons of Abraham
according to the Spirit. But the church does not replace the nation of Israel
today.
The church and Israel are
different generation of Abraham. e.i the church makes up the generation of
Christ. The children of Israel are the natural seed of Abraham. But the church
is his seed according to the Spirit. [Galatians 3:29].