• Genesis 12:1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee:
• 2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
• 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curses thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

In Abraham all families of the earth were to be blessed. Sometimes we think of blessings as material things like wealth and prosperity but there is much more promised here than that. This blessing was to be an eternal inheritance.

Here was a promise made by God Himself to give us what the devil robbed us of when Adam and Eve disobeyed God and caused sin to enter the world.

Through Abraham then down through his seed, God was going to bring a way to forgive our sins, cleanse us from sin and bring us a new beginning, a new birth. All who believe and receive this holy way will have everlasting life. All who refuse and reject this holy way will still be under the curse caused by the fall of Adam our first ancester. When we reject the only way to break that curse we will be lost and apart from God forever.

This really isn't cruel and harsh as it sounds. First of all, we are already lost eternally. After physical death we face eternal death and separation from God in a place called Hell. The reason for Hell I believe is to stop sin and evil eternally. It is a place of no escape and sin will enter there and stop there. All those who have sinned will have to end up in Hell in order for sin to be stopped. The evil we see in the world now will not continue forever but God made a perfect way for us to escape the coming judgment for sin and inherit eternal life with a new body that cannot die.  

Human created beings were created to live eternally but when Adam disobeyed God death entered the world. Only the body dies at death. The inner man, or soul and spirit of man lives forever at one place or another.

God had to plan a way to save as many as He can from this awful eternal fate. He had to send His own Son into the flesh. He caused Jesus to be born of a woman, to became a man who could suffer death, be tempted and live as one of us. Jesus was able to reverse the curse by living a life without sin. He never once broke the law of God that most of us at the age where we are held accountable have broken at one time or another.

When He was killed, He suffered death without deserving to die. He paid for sin that He did not commit. In doing so, He was able to reverse the curse. All who believe in what He did for them will inherit the eternal life that was promised to Abraham.

We inherit this by acknowledging that we have sinned, desiring to be free from sin and then repenting of sin by believing on Jesus Christ to free us from sin. He will then give us eternal life. We become a new creature in Christ Jesus. We become "Born Again."

Fulfillment of Genesis 12:3

• Acts 3:25 Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindred of the earth be blessed.
• 26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.

I love how the New Testament is concealed in the Old and the Old Testament is revealed in the New. God is awesome.

• Galatians 3:16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He said not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
• 17 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
• 18 For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

Messiah Index

Messiah Part 3

The Anointed One
part 1
part 2
part 3

The Messiah's Birth
part 1
part 2
part 3
part 4
part 5

The Forerunner
part 1
part 2
part 3

The Son of God
part 1
part 2

His Ministry
part 1
part 2
part 3
part 4

Prophet & Priest
part 1
part 2

Suffering Messiah
part 1
part 2
part 3
part 4

Death & Resurrection
part 1
part 2