7 And I (God) will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. 8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God. (Gen 17:7-8)
The “everlasting covenant” could as well be a “perpetual treaty” between Abraham’s kind and God. Up to this point, there were wars between the “seeds” of wicked ones and righteous ones. It was essentially who would “dress and keep” [i]the Garden of God along Naral Ha Yarden — “the River of the Garden” (Jordan River). Adam was given the Father’s vocation as the “husbandman” [ii] Adam failed that because he hearkened unto his wife.
Then Noah became the “husbandman” and grew the “vine.” He failed God because he became drunk on its fruit. It was the original sin of Adam all over again. Both sins were because they were naked. Implied is that Eve’s nakedness resulted in sin, as Cain was “of the Wicked One” [iii] The question remains, did Lucifer have carnal knowledge with Eve? Perhaps so.
Then Noah lost his sobriety and vigilance, and Satan in Ham mocked the new “husbandman” [iv] Today, it would be said, “He drank the Kool-Aid, but Noah drank wine. Like Adam before him, he was not a great dresser and keeper. He failed at husbandry because of his nakedness.
Then another world was about to be generated from the old. God gave Abraham a special assignment, “I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee” (Gen 17:6). Abraham would be the husbandman and plant his seed. He would be “king of kings” because his seed would be the fittest to survive. Abraham failed God just as Adam and Noah before him: “And Sarai said unto Abram, ‘My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the Lord judge between me and thee’” (Gen 16:5).
Abraham, just as Adam long before, committed the original sin. Just what was the original sin? Was it disobedience? Was it eating the fruit that belonged to God? Just what was the original sin? Well, God told Adam why? “Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife…” [v] Abraham’s sin was because he hearkened unto his wife.
Abraham sinned the same sin as Adam, and it was accounted to him as sin! Sarah said so: “My wrong be upon thee,” she told Abraham. Eve’s wrong also was upon Adam for the same reason which Paul explained, “As by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned” [vi]
How did Abraham hearken unto Sarah? She told him to have carnal knowledge with her Egyptian servant, Hagar. She was certainly of Canaan since her genealogy was Canaanite. She too was “of the Wicked One.” She and Abraham would plant tares in the Plain of Zin (Zion). The parable that Jesus told was not made up; He explained what happened with Abraham: “The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one” (Mat 13:38).
Abraham’s seed with Hagar was planted in Zin — “in a dry place” but by mercy there was a fountain of water there for their survival. “Seed” therein means both “semen” and “morality” (Strong’s Dictionary). The intention of God was for Abraham to have “good plants” or better said, “righteous offspring.” However, he planted evil seed as well in Hagar because Sarai’s seed was “dry land.”
Abraham’s initial seed was planted on dry land in the Plain of Zin, and it turns out that Sarah’s seed was planted on God’s fertile land. It was not the Plain of Zin that God had in mind, but Calvary right there in the middle of His Garden (Yarden) at the Gihon River, by then a spring. “Gihon” means “burst forth” (Abarim Publications).
God spoke to Hagar about her Covenant at the Well of Beerlahairoi, [vii] “The well of him that liveth and seeth me” (ibid).
God had included the seed of Ishmael in the Abrahamic Covenant, but for them that “liveth and seeth” Him. For Ishmael’s seed to be eternal, those of his seed would need to drink Living Water and see Jesus. That is a foreshadowing of drinking Living Waters from Jesus, who was the progeny of Sarah. And ironically, those of Ishmael’s seed would need to see Jesus! Not Judas, and not a phantasm, but see God’s Face and call on His Name! Like the Greeks long after who implored Philip, “Sir, we would see Jesus.” [viii]
Muslims originated from Arabs of Edom, right there at Beerlahairoi. What is missing from Islam? They have not drunk from the “well” at Calvary, and they do not see Jesus as God! God did provide a Covenant for them, however, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).
That is the everlasting Covenant, and “whosoever” includes the seed of Ishmael if they only see Jesus. What stands between Islam and Christianity? They cannot see Jesus! Neither do they drink of the blood and water that Jesus spilled on Calvary. It is not the Gihon Spring that provides life any more than the Well of Beerlahairoi. It is the gushing DNA and Holy Ghost of Jesus onto the “dry land” of Calvary.
Hagar, as with Cain and Ham, again changed the DNA of Eve, “the mother of all living.” Now, although Adam never gained that prominence, Abraham, would be “the father of all living” through Sarah, the new “mother of all living.” The word “living,” in this sense, are all those souls in which God breathes life. God did not do that with Hagar. Sarai did. But God did breathed life unto the side of Sarah just as he had to Eve long before!
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