BIBLE STUDY MANUALS: ROMANS CHAPTER 9 - OBSERVATION STAGE
GOD'S COVENANTS WITH ISRAEL
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I) ABRAHAMIC COVENANT
A) IN THE PROMISED LAND,
THE LORD WILL MAKE ABRAM A GREAT NATION (LONGEVITY AND MANY
DESCENDANTS), MAKE ABRAM’S NAME GREAT THROUGHOUT THE EARTH FOR ALL
HISTORY, AND IN ABRAM WILL ALL MANKIND THROUGHOUT HISTORY BE BLESSED
WITH THE OPPORTUNITY FOR ETERNAL LIFE VIA A MESSIAH SAVIOR DESCENDANT
B) GENESIS CHAPTER 3
DECLARES GOD'S PLAN FOR THE ETERNAL RECONCILIATION OF MAN TO GOD AND
THE RESTORATION OF MANKIND'S SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE EARTH THROUGH AN
INDIVIDUAL DESCENDANT OF EVE WHICH CHAPTER 12 IMPLIES WILL BE FULFILLED
THROUGH THE LORD'S MAKING ABRAM A GREAT NATION AND A GREAT NAME AND IN
ABRAM THROUGH HIS SEED WILL BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ETERNAL LIFE AND
BLESSING FOR ALL MANKIND THROUGHOUT THE AGES
1) [GEN 3:14
NKJV]:
a) FOR
DECEIVING EVE AND CAUSING HER AND ADAM TO SIN, THE LORD GOD CURSED THE
SERPENT WHO WAS POSSESSED BY SATAN, GOD'S ADVERSARY, MORE THAN ANY
OTHER CREATURE, RELEGATING SERPENTS NOW TO CRAWL ON THEIR BELLIES,
EATING DUST AS A SIGN OF JUDGMENT UPON SATAN'S REBELLION
2) [GEN
3:15]:
a) TWO
SPIRITUAL (NOT BIOLOGICAL) SEEDS ARE IN VIEW:
i)
THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO FOLLOW SATAN IN SPIRITUAL REBELLION ARE DECLARED
SEED OF SATAN - ANGELS AND HUMANS ALIKE. THEY ARE FURTHER DECLARED BY
GOD TO BE AT ENMITY WITH THE WOMAN, EVE, AND HER SEED:
ii) A SEED,
WHICH BIOLOGICALLY COMES FROM THE MALE, IN ORDER TO BE THE SEED OF THE
WOMAN, HAD TO BE PRODUCED INTO A FEMALE PHYSICAL DESCENDANT OF THE
WOMAN SUPERNATURALLY AND SPIRITUALLY BY GOD TO RESULT IN AN INDIVIDUAL
MALE DESCENDANT TO REPRESENT THE HUMAN RACE - A MESSIAH-SAVIOR - IN THE
BATTLE WITH SATAN AND HIS SEED TO PROVIDE ETERNAL RECONCILIATION FOR
HUMANITY WITH GOD AND REGAIN SOVEREIGNTY OF THE HUMAN RACE OVER THE
WORLD
b) THE SEED
OF THE WOMAN PORTRAYS AN INDIVIDUAL OF SUPERNATURAL BIRTH VIA A
SPIRITUALLY PROVIDED SEED WHO WILL REPRESENT ALL OF HUMANITY IN BATTLE
WITH SATAN AND HIS SEED TO REGAIN THE LOST SOVEREIGNTY OF THE HUMAN
RACE OVER THE WORLD AND PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR EVERY INDIVIDUAL
HUMAN BEING TO BE ETERNALLY RECONCILED WITH GOD RELATIVE TO SIN. THIS
MESSIAH-SAVIOR WILL BRUISE SATAN'S HEAD = DELIVER A MORTAL BLOW TO
DESTROY HIM, AND SATAN WILL BRUISE HIS HEEL - A NON-MORTAL BLOW
C) IN THE TIME
FRAME OF GENESIS 15:4-6, ABRAM BEGAN BELIEVING IN GOD'S PROMISE OF
INNUMERABLE DESCENDANTS THROUGH HIS SEED SUPERNATURALLY PROVIDED BY GOD
AND RELATIVE TO THE LORD'S PROMISE OF INHERITING THE LAND AT WHICH TIME
GOD ACCOUNTED IT TO ABRAM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO ETERNAL LIFE
D) THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT
WAS CONFIRMED WITH ISAAC BECAUSE ABRAHAM WALKED BEFORE THE LORD AND
THEREBY WAS DECLARED BLAMELESS, I.E., VIEWED AS OBEYING THE LORD'S
VOICE AND KEEPING HIS CHARGE, COMMANDS, STATUTES AND LAWS
1) [Compare Gen 17:1-2]:
E) THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT
IS CONFIRMED WITH JACOB
II) COVENANT OF
CIRCUMCISION AS A SIGN OF THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT
A) ABRAHAM AND HIS
HOUSEHOLD MUST KEEP A COVENANT OF CIRCUMCISION WITH THE LORD AS A SIGN
OF THE ORIGINAL COVENANT NOT AS A PART OF IT
III) PALESTINIAN COVENANT
A) GOD WILL
CIRCUMCISE THE HEARTS OF ALL ISRAELITES SO THAT THEY WILL LOVE HIM WITH
ALL THEIR HEART AND SOUL AND LIVE AND HENCE FULFILL THIS COVENANT
1) [Dt 27-28; 29:1;
30:1-20 NKJV]:
IV) THE MOSAIC LAW COVENANT
A) [Ps 147:19-20 NIV]:
B) [Ro 2:13-4, 17, 3:1-2
NIV]:
C) [Dt 11:26-28]:
V) DAVIDIC COVENANT
A) [2 Samuel 7:8-16 NKJV]:
1) God reaffirms the
promise of the land that He made in the first two covenants with Israel
(The Abrahamic and Mosaic Covenants).
a) [Compare 2 Samuel
7:10 NKJV]:
2) God promises that
David’s descendent or "seed" will succeed Him as king of Israel and
that David’s throne will be established forever - evidently referring
to a future Messiah-Savior
a) [Compare 2 Sam
7:11-16]:
b) [1 Chron 16:15-18
NIV]:
VI) NEW COVENANT
A) THE LORD WILL PUT HIS
LAW IN THE MINDS OF ALL ISRAELITES SO THEY WILL KNOW AND OBEY HIM; AND
HE WILL FORGIVE THEIR WICKEDNESS. HE WILL BE THEIR GOD AND THEY WILL BE
HIS PEOPLE
1) [Jer 31:31-34 NKJV]:
B)
THE LORD WILL GATHER THE ISRAELITES INTO THEIR OWN LAND AND GIVEN THEM
A NEW HEART, PUT A NEW SPIRIT WITHIN THEM AND PUT HIS HOLY SPIRIT IN
THEM CAUSING THEM TO WALK IN HIS STATUTES AND KEEP HIS JUDGMENTS HENCE
FULFILLING THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT
1) [Ez
36:24-38 NKJV]: