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In Genesis 26:3-5, God makes a Covenant with Isaac similar to the one He makes with Abraham: He will multiply Isaac’s offspring, and in Isaac’s offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed. In Verse 5, He hints that the Covenant depends on keeping His Charge, His Commandments, Statutes and Laws, as Abraham had done.
Well, it wasn’t long before that fell flat. As the OT can attest, much of the offspring disregarded His Charge, His Commandments, Statutes and Laws. As a result, Isaac’s offspring did not effectively reach “all the nations of the earth” for them to be blessed. So, most of those nations lived on in ignorance of God’s Covenant with Isaac’s offspring and of the blessings they would have received.
Seeing this, God sent Jesus, His only Son up to the task He laid out, to give those offspring a chance to redeem themselves. In addition, God had Jesus extend the offering of His Blessing to others, while allowing Jesus’ followers to modify certain of God’s Commandments, Statutes and Laws. So, in accordance with Hebrews 6:1-3, the followers encouraged leaving “the elementary doctrine of Christ,” that dealt with things like not having to repeat laying “a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, and of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.” So, things like rituals and remembrances, and the eating of pork, fall by the wayside, leaving only the aspect of what God represents and what He is prepared to do for those who love him and eachother.
Jesus’ followers were also charged with spreading the Word beyond just the Hebrews, to those who were never under the elementary doctrine that Jesus vowed would pass when his fulfillment of the underlying Laws is accomplished, as it says in Matthew 5:17-18. So, Jesus, through his followers, extended the offer of God’s Covenant with Abraham (and Isaac) to everyone else, verified by Luke 1:69-73, and with the only condition that people abide by the two great commandments spoken by Jesus in Matthew 22:36-39.
So, there exists the hope that the nations of the world will be blessed by God, if not through Isaac’s offspring then by inheritance from Abraham according to Galatians 3:29.
Well, it wasn’t long before that fell flat. As the OT can attest, much of the offspring disregarded His Charge, His Commandments, Statutes and Laws. As a result, Isaac’s offspring did not effectively reach “all the nations of the earth” for them to be blessed. So, most of those nations lived on in ignorance of God’s Covenant with Isaac’s offspring and of the blessings they would have received.
Seeing this, God sent Jesus, His only Son up to the task He laid out, to give those offspring a chance to redeem themselves. In addition, God had Jesus extend the offering of His Blessing to others, while allowing Jesus’ followers to modify certain of God’s Commandments, Statutes and Laws. So, in accordance with Hebrews 6:1-3, the followers encouraged leaving “the elementary doctrine of Christ,” that dealt with things like not having to repeat laying “a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, and of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.” So, things like rituals and remembrances, and the eating of pork, fall by the wayside, leaving only the aspect of what God represents and what He is prepared to do for those who love him and eachother.
Jesus’ followers were also charged with spreading the Word beyond just the Hebrews, to those who were never under the elementary doctrine that Jesus vowed would pass when his fulfillment of the underlying Laws is accomplished, as it says in Matthew 5:17-18. So, Jesus, through his followers, extended the offer of God’s Covenant with Abraham (and Isaac) to everyone else, verified by Luke 1:69-73, and with the only condition that people abide by the two great commandments spoken by Jesus in Matthew 22:36-39.
So, there exists the hope that the nations of the world will be blessed by God, if not through Isaac’s offspring then by inheritance from Abraham according to Galatians 3:29.