God Made an
Everlasting Covenant with Israel: 10 Points Why The Jews Are Special to God
1. Gods Chose Israel (the Jews) for His People.
Psalms
122:6 - Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that
love thee.
Zechariah
2:8 - For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he
sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth
the apple of his eye.
Joel 3:1 - For,
behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity
of Judah and Jerusalem,
Genesis 12:3
- And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that
curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
2. Gods Gives Abraham a Promise.
Genesis
12:1-3
12 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 shew 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
curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
3. Gods Gives Abraham a Covenant.
Genesis
15:18-21
18 In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram,
saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the
great river, the river Euphrates:
19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites,
and the Jebusites.
4. God gives Isaac, Abraham's son, the Abrahamic covenant; Not
Ishmael.
Genesis
17:18-20 (bold and underline added)
18 And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live
before thee!
19 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed;
and thou shalt call his name Isaac:
and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting
covenant, and with his seed after him.
20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have
blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly;
twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
5. God Confirms the Covenant with Isaac.
Genesis
26:1-8 (bold and underline added)
26:1 And there was a famine in the land, beside the first
famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of
the Philistines unto Gerar.
2 And the Lord appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into
Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will
bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries,
and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;
4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of
heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall
all the nations of the earth be blessed;
5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge,
my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
6. God Confirms the Covenant with Jacob (Later named Israel).
Genesis
28:10-15 (bold and underline added)
10 And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.
11 And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all
night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and
put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth,
and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and
descending on it.
13 And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the
Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou
liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou
shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the
south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be
blessed.
15 And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all
places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will
not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
Genesis
32:28
28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but
Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast
prevailed.
