God established a “Covenant” with Abraham — am alliance of friendship between God, Abraham, and his offspring. Essentially, the offspring of Abraham would be the offspring of God. The Abrahamic Covenant was God adopting the children of “father, Abraham.” The progeny of Abraham was agreed to be the progeny of God.
“Adoption” was mentioned by Paul, to wit:
3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: 4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises. (Rom 9:3-4)
In effect, the Abrahamic Covenant was two documents: God’s adoption
of Abraham’s children, “who are the Israelites” (Jacobities), “and the glory.” The
word, “glory” has several implications, but in this context, “glory” means the
condition of blessedness of true Christians who shall enter after the return of
Jesus from Paradise (Strong’s Dictionary).
Abraham knew the meaning of the Covenant; that his offspring
would be heirs by adoption by God and would be considered “children” in God’s
Last Will and Testament. Jesus would be the Executor of God’s Will and it would
be probated after the return of Jesus from Paradise.
The intent of the Will was revealed to Abraham. He and Sarah
as co-signers to God’s Will. They attested to the intent of the Will and
its conditions. “Attestation” is that the Will is genuine and authentic… That
Abraham’s and God’s Will were the same thing. Thenceforth, since the Will of
God is everlasting, it would remain the Will of God until it was executed. Not
by chance, the execution of God Himself on the Cross was the execution of the
Will of God and the Will of God became subject to distribution.
Jesus made God’s Will known right away: “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).
But look at the Covenant in its original form:
7 And I 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)
Abraham and God both attested to that. Abraham signed in blood that the
Will was genuine and authentic, and God signed off that the “Land” was His and
He had Authority to grant to whosoever He desired. When Jesus reveled
the contents of the Will of His Father, He made known who the heirs would be:
“Whosoever believeth in Him” (from John 3:16).
Theretofore, only some of the Hebrews had believed in Him, but there was
enough “Glory” for many more. Paul called it “glory” and Strong emphasized “blessedness.”
Whosoever believed in God would be blessed. Blessedness is bliss, and bliss is
living in Paradise. Paradise in heaven is the same Garden Paradise in another
realm, and by then a Great City of God once God’s heirs move into the mansion
that He has prepared for them. [i]
The Covenant has a clause in it to identify the heirs; hence it does have
a precondition: “to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.” God
pledged to be a God for Abraham, Sarah, and their offspring. Abraham understood
that! To be their God meant just that. Moses understood the conditions
as well because God interpreted its meaning to him, to wit: “And I (God) will
walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people” (Lev 26:12).
Never skip over scripture because there is so much that might be missed!
God was speaking of the time that His Will would be executed. He would be
there to execute the Will Himself. Who killed Jesus? Did the Jews? Did the
Romans? Did the apostles? God executed His Will when He executed His only
rightful Heir, the one heir that He called, “Jesus” but is God Himself in the
Flesh. God in three substances (images) died in place of those who by then has
become images of Lucifer.
That day, both God and Satan suffered death. God in the shape (image) of
Jesus and Satan in the image of Judas. Everyone focuses on the execution of Jesus
but not the sacrifice of the “body” of Satan. Why all the information about the
suicide of Judas? Because that was what was finished when Jesus gave up
the Ghost. [ii]
“Whosoever” must believe in what? That the Will of God was finalized when
Satan was executed. He and his seed would not be in God’s Will!
Satan has seed? Yes, they were the tares of the Wicked One. [iii]
The tares, or those whose real “father” is the Devil, were weeded out. The
first to go was Satan himself. Jesus overcame the Wicked One [iv]
because they could not by themselves. It would take the “coat” made from the
Flesh of Jesus.
Lucifer would not be as he
perceived himself; to wit: “I will be like the most High” [v]
but he hung himself and fell to the ground where his bowels gushed out. He died
much like the real Son, but the Father did not execute him. He did so by the
works of his own hands, as the Holy Ghost from Jesus breathed life out of Judas
on his tree.
Jesus executed the Will of God, and in effect, the death of Satan probated
the Will. “Whosover” now excluded Judas and the sons of the Wicked One!
The Holy Ghost of Jesus finished the work that God in the Flesh had
started. God propitiated His own blood that day! He finally sealed the deal
with Abraham with the Messiah’s blood. Just as stated in Leviticus, “I will
walk among you,” and God did just that.
Then He died amongst His people. His people — Jews and Gentiles — watched
God die, and claimed to be in Abraham’s Bosom and part of the Covenant. However,
all along they were in the bosom of Judas who was the natural son of the Wicked
One.
There would be no heirs of God except by grace. They would have to understand
the Purpose of Jesus because His Purpose was finished. Satan and his seed would
not be heirs! With Satan dead, then his heirs would have no rights. But all are
sinners and come short of the glory of God. [vi]
There should be no bliss in Paradise for them!
But God had mercy on those who denied Him and watched Him die. They would
deserve nothing but would inherit glory if they understood one thing; that
Jesus put down their father the Devil. [vii]
Without a “father” in the world, they must be adopted by God, but they must see
is Authority and Power.
Now for the “land” in the Abrahamic Covenant: 14 And as
Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be
lifted up: 15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but
have eternal life. (John 3:14-15)
What should they have seen when Moses held the pole with the lifeless
brazen serpent on it? They should have seen Judas dead with Satan in Him and
defeated by Jesus! It was not Jesus who would remain dead to the world, but
Satan as dead to those “wearing” the coat of God [viii]—
the Holy Ghost from the Flesh of Jesus!
There was a war going on that day that few would see! The Flesh of Jesus
was finished but the Ghost of Jesus was not! He went to Gehenna, dropped the
body of Judas to the Potter’s Field, tore Satan from the bosom of Judas, put
Satan in his place in Hell. Part of the Will was executed with that done. Satan
and his seed would be excluded from the Will of God, and only those “born
again” [ix]
must be the heirs. Rebirth is seeing Jesus the Executor of Satan and God’s Will
alive to probate the Will of God when the Covenant of Grace is finalized.
The Way to Glory is guarded by cherubim. [x]
Only rightful heirs are allowed unto Paradise to collect the inheritance. None
deserve the prize but the password through the gate and along the Way is the
Name of God, and only by one Name can anyone be saved and enter Glory — the
Splendor of God on His throne in Paradise. “And this is his commandment, ‘That
we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as
he gave us commandment” (1 John 3:23).
Luke wrote, “Then Peter said unto them, ‘Repent, and be baptized every one
of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall
receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.” (Acts 2:38). There is only “One Lord, one
faith, one baptism!” And that is not the baptism of John in water but the
baptism of the Holy Ghost in Living Water!
Now how about the “land” in the Abrahamic Covenant? They would indeed
receive the land of milk and honey! Not many of them because most has rejected the
Word of God during the exodus from Egypt. They wondered around in “sin” (the
land of the Egyptians) until “Jesus” (Joshua) stood still along with the
priests on dry ground in the River of the Garden. He was “baptized” on dry
ground by the Holy Spirit of God. He entered Paradise not by water, but only by
God’s Will for them.
God’s Will is precise: “Only those of the “seed” of Jesus shall enter unto
the land. But was it land? The seed of Abraham thought Egypt the land of milk
and honey; right there in sin. [xi]
They missed the point; the land of milk and honey was out of sin. They died in their
land of milk and honey in sin. The point was that to receive the inheritance it
was not the land, but the invisible realm of milk and honey in Gloryland!
However, God does not lie! Those in Abraham’s Bosom are there to this day, but someday heaven will come down to its foundation in the Promise Land: “And I (John) saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband” (Rev 21:1).
Abraham, the meek, shall inherit the Earth, according to the Covenant, and until then all that are part of the Covenant, as the seed of Abraham, remain safely in Abraham’s Bosom! Therefore, Abraham’s Bosom is in Paradise in Heaven until the inheritors to the Land of Paradise is sorted out on the day of salvation.
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