On the Obligation of Blessing “Abraham’s Seed”

“Now the LORD had said to Abram: ‘Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed’” (Gen. 12:1–3, all Scripture quotations are from the New King James Version.).  If this statement by GOD pertains to Israel then why has our nation been in steady decline under what many would call curses, while at the same time being one of the most loyal supporters of Israel ?   It isn’t until recently that our leadership has appeared to pull back from full support of Israel, and that only being the Executive Branch.  America’s decline has been in progress long before Obama came to office. Then there’s the part of the verse, “and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed’” ……that doesn’t seem to be working out so well for the Palestinians who live in Israel or for many of the neighboring countries to Israel. Either GOD is a liar (which HE’s not), or “seed” means something other than Israel.  See article below video/radio interview.  Food for thought.

https://youtu.be/cr56HuPf-9o

Description of interview of Jeff Gates on Red Ice Radio in video above.

Jeff Gates is an attorney, acclaimed author, and former counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance. Our guest has also served as an adviser to some 35 foreign governments. Jeff joins us to talk about his third book, Guilt By Association — How Deception and Self-Deceit Took America to War. He begins by explaining his personal awakening to the endorsed, systemic criminality going on in the background of politics. Jeff illustrates the US’s long-term relationship with the Israeli Zionist enclave that was recognized in 1948 during Truman’s presidency – a group responsible for expanding organized crime to a global scale behind the façade of a sovereign state. He’ll give details of how this core allegiance of parasites have successfully victimized America and waged an unconventional war against the American public through domination of the “in-between domains” of media, pop culture, politics, think tanks and education. Jeff discusses the ideas of an embedded consensus, the simple math of campaign contributions, assets, and groomed politicians. We’ll consider how the US came to stand shoulder to shoulder with Israel and the role of the Israeli Lobby to take control of Congress. Then, we’ll look at Hollywood’s role in advancing the narrative, extremism in faith communities, and the challenges of a society and government that operates by a consensus. Later, Jeff talks about the war with Iran that has been ongoing since 1979, and the manipulation of intelligence that could lead America into another war. We’ll end by examining strategies that can be used to combat and bring attention to the Zionist storylines aggregated in our minds through master mythmaking and sophisticated storytelling.

I (knarlydawg) do not agree with comments about Obama’s supposed waking up to the adverse Israeli influence over our government.  I believe he is still a team player (controlled opposition), still well under the control of his handlers, TPTB (most of who are disproportionately of the tribe discussed here), and working diligently to fulfill their plans to destroy our nation as we know it.  Obama is playing his part to create and set a sophisticated trap for Iran via the Nuclear Agreement, thus the appearance of being at odds with Israel to draw the Iranians into accepting the agreement and stepping into the trap.   

On the Obligation of Blessing “Abraham’s Seed”

Article ID: JAP345 | By: Steve Gregg

This article first appeared in the Practical Hermeneutics column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 34, number 05 (2011). The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org/christian-research-journal/

“Now the LORD had said to Abram: ‘Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed’” (Gen. 12:1–3, all Scripture quotations are from the New King James Version.).

The entire remainder of the Bible after these verses can be viewed as an exposition of God’s fulfillment of the promises contained in this remarkable passage. On this point most Bible scholars agree. What is less unanimous among believers is precisely what those verses actually are predicting.

Promises, Promises. These verses enumerate certain promises made to Abram (a.k.a. Abraham), and comprise what is usually referred to as the “Abrahamic Covenant.” The promises pertain, primarily, to some unspecified “blessing” that would be received by Abram and distributed to all other families of the earth through him. Furthermore, there would be “blessings” on those who “bless” Abraham, and all the families of earth would be blessed “in” him. In many subsequent passages, we find a virtual repetition of these themes, often with the addition of new details—especially the important fact that these promises do not pertain so much to Abraham alone as to his “seed” (Gen. 12:7; 13:15f; 15:5, 18; 17:7ff; 21:12). Many newer translations, unhelpfully, paraphrase the word “seed” with the more interpretive “descendants.”

One popular viewpoint, of relatively modern origins, holds that the Abrahamic promises pertain to the Jewish race as the “seed” of Abraham, and that their ultimate fulfillment awaits the millennial kingdom, after the future return of Christ. Many who hold this view identify the “blessings” due to Abraham and his seed with temporal prosperity, political independence, and, eventually, exaltation to prominence above all the nations. Thus, they have interpreted Genesis 12:3, with its stated obligation to “bless” Abraham, so as to teach that Christians should recognize a special status of national/ethnic Israel, and “bless” them by giving them their unconditional political, economic, and moral support. Some even appear to believe that such an obligation to bless Israel defines one of the leading duties incumbent on Christians living in the last days (which would include the present time).

Who Gets Blessed? In seeking to understand the nature and fulfillment of the Abrahamic Covenant, we face a two-pronged challenge: we must (1) identify the “seed” of Abraham to whom the promises pertain and (2) identify the nature of the “blessing” promised.

The strength of the viewpoint outlined above would appear to be its agreement with the expectations of the Jews of Old Testament times, namely, that the ethnic offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are the promised “seed” to whom and through whom the promises are to be fulfilled. These hopes rest on a rather literalistic reading of a number of prophetic passages in the Old Testament. The assumption is that the Jews would be the best qualified to understand their own Scriptures.

Revelation of Truth. The answer of historical Christianity follows a different logic. It proceeds as follows: (1) The Jews were not entrusted with the correct understanding of these predictions, which was “hidden from ages and from generations” (Col. 1:26) until the time of their intended fulfillment. Peter tells us that even the prophets themselves were perplexed concerning the nature of the fulfillment of their own predictions, and, when they inquired of God for more light, they were put off by the declaration that such matters were not for them to know, and that it was only for those in the age of the fulfillment to understand (1 Pet. 1:10–12). Paul boldly states that the Jews, when reading the Old Testament, are blinded to its true import, due to a “veil” remaining over their hearts, which can only be removed on turning to Christ (2 Cor. 3:14–16). This being the case, it would be precarious to accept an understanding of the Old Testament on the basis that it prevailed as a consensus among spiritually blind readers.

(2) Though Jesus talked to His disciples about the fulfillment of certain prophecies during His lifetime, even they remained, to a very large extent, in the dark until He, after His resurrection, “opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures” (Luke 24:45). He also promised them that the coming Paraclete would guide them even further “into all truth” (John 16:13). Such divine illumination into the meaning of the Old Testament Scriptures would seem entirely unnecessary if there existed the alternative of gaining a correct understanding of the Scriptures merely by consulting the rabbis. Apparently, the correct meanings of the Old Testament prophecies could not be found among the Jewish teachers and had to be revealed to the disciples through the Spirit (see 1 Cor. 2:9–10; Eph. 3:5).

The special understanding of God’s plan, which the apostles preached, is said to be “according to the revelation of the mystery kept secret since the world began, but [which] now has been made manifest, and by the prophetic Scriptures has been made known to all nations” (Rom. 16:25–26a).

The correct understanding of the Old Testament Scriptures, then, is to be sought independently of any notions that may have been current among the Jews. The only safe approach must be to inquire whether the apostles, after having their “understanding opened,” ever spoke on any Old Testament passage and gave the correct understanding of its meaning. This approach alone will lead us to the distinctly “Christian” understanding of the nature of the Abrahamic Covenant.

Paul’s Perspective. On this theme, we are fortunate to have in Galatians 3 a clear discussion from the pen of Paul addressing both of our pertinent questions—the identity of the “seed” and the nature of the “blessing.”

In three different statements, Paul identifies the “seed” of Abraham to whom the promises relate: “Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, ‘And to seeds,’ as of many, but as of one, ’And to your Seed,’ who is Christ” (v. 16). Also: “What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made” (v. 19).

These verses are calculated to nullify the claim of any race to being “the seed” holding title to the Abrahamic promises. The caveat, “He does not say ‘and to seeds’” (v. 16), is emphatic that there are not multiple seeds, and that no race or family (e.g., ethnic Israel) need apply. There is one Seed, whom Paul identifies as Christ in the above two verses. Christ is the promised Seed. The promises are His alone. If Paul’s words do not have this meaning, what possible meaning could they bear?

Comment below was under the video from above and says a lot about what plagues our nation these days. This only applies to the sub-group within the Jewish tribe that embodies the Jewish Supremacy, Dominion Theology Zionism that is one of the main driving forces within the Globalist NWO Elites. The vast majority of Jewish people are victims of this criminal group just as much as the rest of us.  Those blessings and cursings of Gen.12:1-3 are meant for those who bless or curse JESUS the “seed” of Abraham, not Israel and especially not the false, anti-Christ kingdom building nation/state of today’s Israel. 

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