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ABRAHAMIC, DAVIDIC, PALESTINIAN, & NEW COVENANT DOCTRINES

THE DAVIDIC COVENANT

March 16, 2008 • Pastor Robert R. McLaughlin

The Davidic Covenant. Sunday, March 16, 2008 The Abrahamic covenant emphasizes the race for client nation Israel, and the Palestinian covenant emphasizes and reiterates the land for client nation Israel. The third covenant, the next of Israel’s great unconditional or unilateral covenants is known as the Davidic covenant, which emphasizes the seed for client nation Israel. a) The Jewish race - Abrahamic covenant b) The land for Israel - Palestinian covenant c) The promise seed - or client nation Israel The Davidic Covenant refers to God’s promises to David through Nathan the prophet, 2Sa 7; 1CH 17:11-14; 2CH 6:16. This is an unconditional covenant made between God and David through which God promises David and Israel that the Messiah (Jesus Christ) would come from the lineage of David and the tribe of Judah and would establish a kingdom that would endure forever. JOH 14:27 “My Peace I give unto you; It’s a peace that the world cannot give.” JOH 14:2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. In the Al Maidah (The Table) - Believers (Muslims), take neither Jews nor Christians to be your friends: they are friends with one another. Whoever of you seeks their friendship Shall become one of their number, and God does not guide (those Jewish and Christian called “wrong-doers”) 5:51-5:74. In spite of the fact that they teach that the Jews are evil-doers in the Al Maidah 5:57, God promises that He will build them a house or a dwelling place. In spite of the fact that the Koran, Surah 2:140, says that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and the Tribes of Israel were not Jews or believers. ACT 13:22 - “I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My heart, who will do ALL My will.” The Davidic Covenant is unconditional because God does not place any conditions of obedience upon its fulfillment. The surety of the promises made rests solely on God’s faithfulness and does not depend at all on David or Israel’s obedience. 1. God reaffirms the promise of the land that He made in the first two covenants with Israel (The Abrahamic and Mosaic Covenants), 2SA 7:10. COL 1:13 He delivered you us from the kingdom of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, ISA 29:24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine. One way or the other He will accomplish His will to become conformed to the image of His Son, ROM 8:29. EXO 14:13 Moses said to the people, “Do not fear! Stand by and see the deliverance of the Lord which He will ACCOMPLISH for you today;” PSA 57:2 I will call to God Most High, To God who accomplishes all things for me. PSA 138:8 David said, “The Lord will accomplish what concerns me;” JOH 17:4 “I glorified Thee on the earth, having accomplished the work which Thou hast given Me to do.”

DAVIDIC COVENANT: THE CONIAH CURSE (2)

March 21, 2008 • Pastor Robert R. McLaughlin

Davidic Covenant: The Coniah curse - part 2. Friday, March 21, 2008 The holocaust that would come to them in BC 586, administered by Nebuchadnezzar. A woman in labor who never delivers the child. The only way the Jew can deliver the child and fulfill the correct side of the double entendre or pun is to personally believe in TLJC as Savior. A double entendre is a figure of speech similar to the pun, in which a spoken phrase can be understood in either of two ways. Jehoiakim, and then his son Coniah, called Jeconiah, called Jehoiachin, and the Lord said Coniah will never have a son that will rule in fulfillment of the Davidic dynasty’s great covenant, the Davidic covenant. Shealtiel would a adopt son called Zerubbabel, HAG 2:3. Zerubbabel would go back, as a great leader, but he would never sit on David’s throne. Shealtiel was the son of Neri and a descendant of Nathan the son of David. Since Zerubbabel’s true line comes down from Nathan, Zerubbabel would have a son who would reign forever, and that son would be the product of the virgin Mary, our Lord Jesus Christ. The line of Coniah, Shealtiel and before him Jehoiakim - they are cut off! They are under the 3-generation curse. Joseph is descended from Coniah, Shealtiel, and so on, but Joseph is not the real father. He is in the legal line only, which started with this curse, and the bloodline switched from Zerubbabel over to Nathan’s side. Mary is the bloodline, and therefore in Luke, because she is the bloodline, the bloodline goes all the way back to Adam. I will pull you off refers to such passages as MAT 1:12, the legal line His real father was Pedaiah (1CH 3:19), his grandfather was Neri, (LUK 3:27). Isaac had a legal line in Esau - they became the Edomites - but the bloodline for Israel was Jacob. Jacob by 4 women had 12 sons, and the bloodline goes through the 12 sons. Esau was the eldest and through primogeniture, (the state of being the first-born), the bloodline should have gone down through Esau but another so-called coincidence, took place. Esau was an immoral or godless person who sold his own birthright for a single meal (HEB 12:16). Jacob, because he accepted Christ as Savior, became the bloodline. The bloodline is transferred to Zerubbabel who is the son of Nathan, and he started out being the legal line because Nathan is never on the throne.

PALESTINIAN COVENANT: THE MYSTERY AND TRUE MESSAGE BEHIND THE PALESTINIAN COVENANT, PART 2

March 14, 2008 • Pastor Robert R. McLaughlin

The Palestinian Covenant: The mystery and true message behind the Palestinian Covenant; Part 2. Friday, March 14, 2008 The Abrahamic covenant emphasizes the race for client nation Israel; the Palestinian covenant emphasizes and reiterates the land for client nation Israel. God revealed His power in the midst of all the cosmic odds against us. God endeavored and accomplished to go and take for Himself a nation of people (the Jews, or Israel) from the midst of another nation (Egypt), by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors. It was in a desert utterly unfriendly to human life that they would also be sustained for forty years. 1. Trials - macot = to try or prove. 2. DEU 4:34 “by signs” - ‘otot = to come near; such signs as God gave them of His continual presence and providence, particularly the pillar of cloud and pillar of fire, keeping near to them night and day, and always directing their journeys, showing them when and where to pitch their tents. 3. DEU 4:34 “and wonders” - mowpªtiym = to persuade; persuasive facts and events. Whether strictly miraculous, and exceeding the powers of nature, or not. It also refers to typical men, raised up by God as types of Christ, and proofs that God would bring His servant The BRANCH. 4. DEU 4:34 “and by war” - milchaamaah = hostile engagements; such as those with the Amalekites, the Amorites, and the Bashanites, in which the hand of God was seen rather than the hand of man. 5. DEU 4:34 “and by a mighty hand” - yaad = one that is strong to deal its blows, irresistible in its operations, and grasps its enemies hard so that they cannot escape, and protects its friends so powerfully that they cannot be injured. DEU 4:34 “and by an outstretched arm” - uwbizrowa` = a series of almighty operations, following each other in quick astonishing succession. a. The finger of God denotes any manifestation of the divine power, where effects are produced beyond the power of art or nature. b. The hand of God signifies the same power, but put forth in a more signal manner. c. The arm of God = the divine omnipotence manifested in the most stupendous miracles. d. The arm of God stretched out = this same omnipotence exerted in a continuation of stupendous miracles, both in the way of judgment and mercy. 7. DEU 4:34 “and by great terrors” - mowraa’iym = such terror, dismay, as were produced by the ten plagues. These were all reminders of the Abrahamic Covenant, and therefore the Palestinian covenant is the reassurance that the Jews would possess the real estate that God promised Abraham. He is speaking of the fact that He knew they were going to rebel; however, He made a provision for that as well. PSA 78:40 How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness, And grieved Him in the desert! The rejection of Israel and the desolation of the promised inheritance were not to be the end of God’s dealings with them. The chastisements of God would lead the nation to repent, and thereupon God would again bless them. The “turning again of the captivity” will be when Israel is converted to Him in whom the Law was fulfilled, and who died “not for that nation only,” but also that He might “gather together in one all those who were scattered abroad.” The blessing in this connection can be explained on the ground that Moses was surveying the future generally, in which not only a curse but a blessing also would come upon the nation, according to its attitude towards the Lord as a whole and in its pivot of mature believers. ROM 11:4 But what is the divine response to him? “I have kept for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” Even in times of great apostasy, there would always be a pivot which could not die out. Covenant theology agrees with Islam which is Anti-Jewish. For in the Al Maidah (The Table): “Believers (Muslims), take neither Jews nor Christians to be your friends: they are friends with one another. Whoever of you seeks their friendship Shall become one of their number, and God does not guide (those Jewish and Christian, called “wrong-doers”) 5:51-5:74. According to the Bible Israel is not to be cast off, JER 31:36-37. JER 31:35 Thus says the Lord, Who gives the sun for light by day, And the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar; The Lord of hosts is His name: JER 31:36 “If this fixed order departs From before Me,” declares the Lord, “Then the offspring of Israel also shall cease From being a nation before Me forever.” JER 31:37 Thus says the Lord, “If the heavens above can be measured, And the foundations of the earth searched out below, Then I will also cast off all the offspring of Israel For all that they have done,” declares the Lord. ACT 1:6 And so when they had come together, they were asking Him, saying, “Lord, is it at this time You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?” ACT 1:7 He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority;” JER 32:38-39 And they shall be My people, and I will be their God; and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me always, for their own good, and for {the good of} their children after them. EZE 11:19 And I shall give them one heart, and shall put a new spirit within them. And I shall take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh, The Palestinian covenant reaffirms to Israel their title deed to the land of promise. In spite of their unfaithfulness and unbelief, the Palestinian covenant confirms their promised land. 1. The nation will be plucked off the land for its unfaithfulness, DEU 28:63-68; DEU 30:1-3. 2. There will be a future repentance of Israel, DEU 28:63-68; 30:1-3. 3. Their Messiah will return, DEU 30:3-6. 4. Israel will be restored to the land, DEU 30:5. 5. Israel will be converted as a nation, DEU 30:4-8; ROM 11:26-27. 6. Israel’s enemies will be judged, DEU 30:7. 7. The nation will then receive her full blessing, DEU 30:9. EZE 16:1-7 - God affirms His love for Israel in her infant stage. EZE 16:8-14 - God reminds Israel that she was chosen and related to Jehovah by marriage, but in EZE 16:15:34 she played the harlot. The punishment of dispersion was dealt to Israel, EZE 16:35-52. This is not the final setting of Israel since there will be restoration, EZE 16:53-63. The restoration is based on the promise, EZE 16:60-62. The church is not Israel, Israel is Israel and therefore God’s promises to Israel will be fulfilled, ROM 11:26-27;HOS 2:14-23; DEU 30:6; EZE 11:16-21. 1. Israel must be converted as a nation. 2. Israel must be regathered from her world-wide dispersion and installed in her land. 3. She must witness the judgment of her enemies. 4. She must receive the material blessings graciously promised to her. The conclusion: Don’t mess around with Israel! - GEN 12:3 And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse.

THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT OR THE UNCONDITIONAL, UNILATERAL COVENANT OF GOD

March 6, 2008 • Pastor Robert R. McLaughlin

The Abrahamic Covenant or the unconditional, unilateral covenant of God. Thursday, March 6, 2008 The specifics are all on the part of certain things you have to do - the negatives. While the land is specified as to directions, there is certainly no detail here that encourages obedience. This is a picture of the fact that there are many commands in the Bible that we are told to obey without God telling us what type of blessings we will receive if we fulfill them. No details are given on the blessings in the promise land until the obedience has been fulfilled. This is why there are times that we are told to go in a certain direction but not necessarily told what lies directly ahead of us if we do. JOH 21:19 He said this to hint at the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God. JOH 21:19 Now this He said, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. And when He had spoken this, He said to him, “Follow Me!” JOH 21:22 Jesus said, “If I want him to live until I come again, what’s that to you? You - follow me.” You must have enough trust in the Promiser and faith in His ability to give you what you need and what will make you happy. We should obey not to receive something but to honor our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. ACT 20:24 “I do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself, in order that I may finish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify solemnly of the gospel of the grace of God.” A lot of times you do not see the objective or the place of blessing. PHI 1:21 For me, living is Christ, likewise dying is profit. PHI 3:7-8 But whatever quality of things were gains to me, those things [gains] I have concluded as an expert as loss for the sake of Christ. Not only this but more than this, I conclude as an expert all things [Paul’s pre-salvation human celebrityship and achievement] to be loss [singular] because of the surpassing greatness of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have forfeited all things, also, I keep on concluding as an expert them to be piles of dung in order that I may win for Christ, Until Abram becomes a good recruit where he will go ahead and obey an order without questioning it, he’s not any good to God. You have to learn to obey God and do it whether you feel like it or not, and once you do then you continue your spiritual growth. For Abram, the only thing that is obscure in the order from God is the command to go to the land; not much is said about the land. So far, all the details are related to separation geographically and separation personnel wise. HEB 11:8 By means of doctrine resident in the soul, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was going. What God does not make clear to us through personal revelation of His word in us, He intends for us to operate by means of faith, trusting in the object of faith, God Almighty. A lot of the details are not given on the land yet, that will come later, so therefore the land is to be the object of faith. Just like God tells us to reach certain stages of spiritual growth and we will be blessed. God gives us many promises and to believe the promises of God is one of the greatest manifestations of spiritual common sense. If God doesn’t give you details on the objective then obey without details on the objective. God is going to test all of us in our lives to advance without a lot of encouragement and to do it just because He said to, without having to have a pat on the head. EPH 1:16 I do not cease giving thanks for you, while making mention of you in my prayers; 1CO 5:4 In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled, I am with you in spirit, If it is hard work for the teacher then it’s easy work for the student. The harder it is for the teacher, the easier it is for the student. In the spiritual realm there must be a relationship between your personal motivation and your spiritual life. PRO 16:2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own sight, but the Lord weighs the motives. To believe the promises of God before you see the result of them is the greatest demonstration of growing up spiritually. “What is the Abrahamic Covenant?” A covenant is an agreement between two parties. There are two types of covenants: conditional and unconditional. A conditional or bilateral covenant is an agreement that is binding on both parties for its fulfillment. Both parties agree to fulfill certain conditions. If either party fails to meet their responsibilities, the covenant is broken and neither party has to fulfill the expectations of the covenant. An unconditional or unilateral covenant is an agreement between two parties, but only one of the two parties has to do something. Nothing is required of the other party. The ceremony recorded in Genesis 15 indicates the unconditional nature of the covenant. Reward - “sakar” = “your benefit” Click Here to View Slide In verses 5-7, we see these three pictures, all of which serve to illustrate the point that the One who made the covenant or the promises has the ability to keep them.

THE NEW COVENANT WITH ISRAEL

March 26, 2008 • Pastor Robert R. McLaughlin

The New Covenant with Israel. Wednesday, March 26, 2008 a. The Abrahamic covenant emphasizes the Jewish race. b. The Palestinian covenant emphasizes the land for Israel. c) The Davidic covenant emphasizes the promised seed. The New Covenant guarantees Israel a converted heart as the foundation of all her blessings. The New Covenant promised to Israel is stated in JER 31:31-34. These are provisions for Israel, who are the people of the New Covenant who have believed in Christ alone, by faith alone. 1) It is an unconditional-grace covenant resting on the five "I will’s" of God. In EZE 16:1-7, God affirms His love for Israel in her infant stage. In EZE 16:8-14, God reminds Israel that she was chosen and related to Jehovah by marriage, but in EZE 16:15, she played the harlot. Their beauty went to their head and they became a common whore, grabbing anyone or anything coming down the street and taking them into their bed or their place of intimacy. Therefore, the punishment of dispersion was dealt to Israel, in EZE 16:35-52. However, this is not the final setting of Israel since there will be restoration, EZE 16:53-63. The restoration is based on the promise, EZE 16:60-62. ROM 2:4 Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance? One of those incredible gifts is the insight into our sorrows and difficulties and trials and how all divine discipline is administered in grace. 1.) The New Covenant is an unconditional-grace covenant resting on the five "I will’s" of God. 2. The New Covenant is an everlasting covenant or is eternal. This is closely related to the fact that it is unconditional and made in grace, ISA 61:8; EZE 37:26; JER 31:35-37. EZE 37:26 “And I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will place them and multiply them, and will set My sanctuary in their midst forever.” 3. The New Covenant also promises the impartation of a renewed mind and heart which may be called regeneration, JER 31:33; ISA 59:21. 4. The New Covenant provides for restoration to the favor and blessing of God, HOS 2:19-20; ISA 61:9. 5. Forgiveness of sin is also included in the covenant, JER 31:32. 6. The indwelling of the Holy Spirit is also included in the New Covenant. Not permanent indwelling, like the Church-age believer, who has God the Father, Son and H.S. within, but the indwelling of the H.S. to teach the believer, JER 31:33-34; EZE 36:27. 7. There will be materialistic blessings for Israel in the land according to the provisions of the New Covenant,JER 32:41; ISA 61:8; EZE 34:25-27. 8. The sanctuary will be rebuilt in Jerusalem, EZE 37:26-27. 9. War shall cease and peace shall reign according to HOS 2:18. The fact that this is also a definite characteristic of the Millennium, ISA 2:4. 10. The blood of TLJC is the foundation of all the blessings of the New Covenant, ZEC 9:11. ZEC 9:11 As for you also, because of the blood of {My} covenant with you, I have set your prisoners free from the waterless pit. The New Covenant, then, was made with the Jewish people. Confirmation of this covenant is given in the statement in ISA 61:8-9, where it is called everlasting, and again in EZE 37:21-28. a) Israel is to be re-gathered. b) Israel is to be one nation ruled by one king. c) Israel is no longer to be idolatrous but to be cleansed and forgiven. d) Israel is to dwell forever in the land after the re-gathering. e) The covenant of peace is to be “everlasting”. f) God’s tabernacle is to be with them, i.e. He will be present with them in a visible way. g) Israel is to be known among the Gentiles as a nation blessed of God. This covenant is a gracious covenant that depends entirely upon the five “I wills” of God for its fulfillment inJER 31:31-34. This covenant amplifies the third great area of the original Abrahamic covenant i.e., the area of blessing. The blessing is emphasized in the New Covenant. Covenant theologians and the Amillennial view teach that the reference to the New Covenant in the N.T. is proof that the church is the New Israel. This covenant was made with Israel, the physical seed of Abraham according to the flesh, and with them alone: JER 31:31, ISA 59:20-21, JER 32:37-40, JER 50:4-5, EZE 16:60-63, EZE 34:25-26, EZE 37:21-28. The scripture clearly teaches that the Mosaic covenant or the Law was made with the nation Israel only, ROM 2:14, GAL 3:24-25, LEV 26:46, DEU 4:8. The Law pertains to Israel only, and since this old covenant was made with Israel, the new covenant is made with the same people, JER 31:35-37! The sequence of events set up by the prophet Jeremiah in JER 32:37-41 is that Israel will first be re-gathered and restored to the land, and then will experience the blessings of the New Covenant in the land. 1) The re-gathering of Israel 2) Their spiritual rebirth 3) The return of Christ, ROM 11:26-27. This New Covenant will be realized in the Millennial age, JER 31:34; EZE 32:25; ISA 11:6-9. They are to be fulfilled because of the faithfulness of the One making the covenants, not the ones to whom the covenant is made! 1) A nation forever 2) A land forever 3) A king forever 4) A throne forever 5) A kingdom forever 6) A new covenant 7) Abiding blessings.

DAVIDIC COVENANT: THE CONIAH CURSE (1)

March 20, 2008 • Pastor Robert R. McLaughlin

Davidic Covenant: The Coniah curse. Thursday, March 20, 2008 GEN 3:15 “And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel.” The Davidic Covenant says that the seed of the woman, the humanity of Christ, will descend from the tribe of Judah through the family of David, 2SA 7:8-17; PSA 89:20-37. The two lines of our Lord originated from David and Bathsheba. Their son Solomon’s line, given in Matthew, ends with Joseph, the legal but not real father of our Lord’s humanity. This is another reason for the virgin birth. Solomon’s line had a curse upon it because of one of His descendants named Jeconiah, also called Jehoiachin and then eventually called Coniah. His kingship lasted for only 3 months and 10 days before he surrendered to Nebuchadnezzar, who took him to Babylon and imprisoned him for 36 years when he was finally released. The Coniah curse is when our Lord said Coniah will never ever have a son that will rule in fulfillment of the Davidic dynasty’s great covenant, the Davidic covenant. This is why we have two lineages in the Gospels. Nathan’s line, found in Luke, ends with Mary, the source of the true humanity of Christ. Solomon’s line, given in Matthew, ends with Joseph, the legal but not real father of our Lord’s humanity. Joseph is the surrogate or representative, but not the real father of the humanity of Jesus Christ. Satan thought he had defeated God by perverting the line of David, but Satan had no idea how the virgin birth would fit into the plan of God magnificently and bring glory to God. As JER 49:16 and OBA 1:3 both say, "The arrogance of your heart has deceived you," JER 50:32 The arrogant one will stumble and fall with no one to raise him up; Coniah was 18 when he succeeded his father, and was king of Judah for three months and ten days; the 20th king from David. Judah was invaded and judged for their NVTD for three or four years by the Chaldaean, the Ammonites, and the Moabite armies sent by Nebuchadnezzar (as Jehovah’s executioner of judgment) in consequence of Jehoiakim’s, Coniah’s father, for his rebellion toward God. If there is no response to the first four cycles of discipline, God eventually removes that client nation from history. Negative volition, apostasy, and passive arrogance or indifference creates the vacuum which attracts the persecution of active arrogance and historical disaster. Evil demands evil and cruelty demands cruelty, and therefore arrogance demands the function of active arrogance against it. The ten horns and the beast represent political and historical degeneracy in the Tribulation period. The harlot or the prostitute represents religious degeneracy. If a client nation reaches the point of religious degeneracy, then some other nation will wipe it out. Political degeneracy persecutes and destroys religious degeneracy. However, when divine judgment falls on a nation, the pivot is secure. Therefore, while the pivot is secure, the spin-off of apostate believers is always destroyed by historical catastrophe. If the pivot is too small and the spin-off is too large, then the nation is destroyed. While the nation is destroyed, the pivot is preserved through the disaster, ISA 28:5-6. ISA 28:5 In that day [the day of divine judgment] the Lord of hosts will become a beautiful crown and a glorious diadem to the remnant of his people; ISA 28:6 A spirit of justice for him who executes justice [the believer who is a part of the pivot], a strength to those who repel the onslaught at the gate. The book of Lamentations was written by a believer who was a part of the pivot in Israel, and who observed as his people were being taken into slavery. By destroying the great spin-off of apostates, the Lord protects future generations of history from evil, apostasy, and tyranny. Historical crisis and disaster is the means of cleansing a nation from the spin-off of evil. The divine destruction of the spin-off is therefore comparable to a national rebound. If large enough, the pivot is the means of delivering a nation under discipline, either from or through the historical disaster. The example is Judah in 701 BC during the Sennacherib invasion; the consistent ministry of Isaiah turned the tide in Judah. ISA 28:9-10 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: When all the establishment means of deliverance fail, response to Bible teaching is the last hope. Josiah was king; his second son, Jehoiakim, was made what they called a vassal to Nebuchadnezzar after the fourth cycle of discipline at the battle of Carchemish. In JER 36:29-31, his death was prophesied. His son was Coniah, who in 597 BC ruled for three months and ten days. He was made a prisoner for thirty-six years. This curse was fulfilled with the virgin birth, when Joseph (from Solomon and Coniah’s line) became the legal but not the real father. That’s another reason Matthew traces Solomon’s line of the genealogy of Christ through Joseph, and Luke traces Nathan’s line of genealogy of Christ through Mary, 1CH 3:5 cf LUK 3:23-38. God had to devise a plan by which He would be the legal heir of the throne, but He would not be in the line of David descending through Jeconiah or Coniah.

THE DAVIDIC COVENANT: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ABRAHAM, DAVID AND THE BELIEVER IN THE CHURCH-AGE

March 19, 2008 • Pastor Robert R. McLaughlin

The Davidic Covenant: The relationship between Abraham, David and the believer in the Church-age. Wednesday, March 19, 2008 The third of Israel’s great unconditional or unilateral covenants is known as the Davidic covenant, which emphasizes the seed for client nation Israel. a) The Jewish race - Abrahamic covenant b) The land for Israel - Palestinian covenant c) The promised seed for client nation Israel - Davidic covenant. The Davidic Covenant refers to God’s promises to David through Nathan the prophet, 2Sa 7, 1CH 17:11-14, 2CH 6:16. TLJC would come from the lineage of David and the tribe of Judah and would establish a kingdom that would endure forever. 1. God reaffirms the promise of the land that He made in the first two covenants with Israel (The Abrahamic and Mosaic Covenants), 2SA 7:10. 2. God promises that David’s descendant or "seed" will succeed Him as king of Israel, and that David’s throne will be established forever. The provisions of the covenant are summarized in 2SA 7:16. The covenant is summarized by the words: "house," promising a dynasty in the lineage of David; "kingdom," referring to a people who are governed by a king; "throne," emphasizing the authority of the king’s rule; and "forever," emphasizing the eternal and unconditional nature of this promise to David and Israel. In spite of all the demonic and religious attacks made upon God’s people Israel, they will still prevail. You are a part of the Davidic dynasty because through faith alone in Christ alone, you are a spiritual child of Abraham. Abraham was a non-Jew or a Gentile when he was saved. People were saved hundreds of years before the Mosaic Law or the Ten commandments were given. Therefore, following the Mosaic Law or the Ten commandments cannot save http://you...as many teach. "All nations will be blessed in you." DEU 27:26 Utterly cursed is every person who fails to carry out every detail written in the Book of the law. The person who lives in right relationship with God does it by embracing what God arranges for him, such as the unconditional or unilateral covenants. HAB 2:4 The person who believes God, is set right by God--and that’s the real life. But the person in right standing before God through loyalty and steadfastness and believing, he is fully alive, really alive, JOH 10:10. DEU 21:22 And if a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, his corpse shall not hang all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him on the same day (for he who is hanged is accursed of God), We are all able to receive God’s life, His Spirit, in and with us by believing--just the way Abraham received it. It does not say "to descendants," referring to everybody in general, but "to your descendant" (the noun, note, is singular), referring to Christ. It involved dressing you in an adult faith wardrobe--the life of Christ, the fulfillment of God’s original promise and the fulfillment of the Davidic covenant referring to David’s descendant, TLJC. Since you are Christ’s family, and have a part in the Davidic covenant then you are one and a part of Abraham’s famous "descendant," heirs according to the covenant promises. John Calvin said, "A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent. If I declare with loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of God’s truth except for that one little bit which the world and the devil are at the moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ no matter how boldly I may be professing Christ. For the soldier to be steady on all the battlefield besides is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that single point."

BEGINNING OF THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT

Pastor Robert R. McLaughlin

The beginning of the Abrahamic Covenant. Thursday, February 21, 2008 We must begin with a descendant of Shem, who for 99 years was an Arab and the Arab’s claim him as one of them, but then at age 99, God claimed Abraham for Himself and started a brand new race called the Jews. Abraham was a Gentile who became a Jew when God started the Jewish race through him at age 99. He was born in the city of Ur about 2161 BC and this passage picks up Abraham around 2086 BC (where he had just entered Canaan or was about to). The accounts about Abraham are found in GEN 11:26-25:11, with the focus on four important aspects of his life. First, his migration or his moving from one place to another. Abraham’s story begins with his migration with the rest of his family from UR of the Chaldeans in ancient southern Babylonia, GEN 11:31. He and his family moved north along the trade routes of the ancient world and settled in the flourishing trade center of Haran, several hundred miles to the northwest. While living in Haran, at the age of 75 Abraham received a call from God to go to a strange, unknown land that God would show him. The promise must have seemed unbelievable to Abraham because his wife Sarah (called Sarai in the early part of her life) was childless and he had no children, GEN 11:30-31; 17:15. Terah was an Akkadian unbeliever, and in JOS 24:2, he was an idolater. His name Terah means “delayed,” and he is well named for he delayed Abraham from getting to the place where the Lord wanted him. The city of Ur built the famous ziggurats, a system of terraced platforms on which temples were erected. Ur of the Chaldees was a great powerful empire; however it was destroyed after Abraham left. Abraham left Ur to go north and then south down to Canaan. On his way to Canaan Abraham passed the Amorites who were on their way to destroy his home area. There were only three believers in Ur, Abraham, Sarah, and Lot, not enough to save Ur; the pivot was too small. Abraham’s spiritual life was very limited in Ur, and he needed to get to a place where he could learn doctrine without being distracted. You may find out that your spiritual life is limited because the place where you are or the people you are with become a stumbling block to your spiritual growth. Geographical change is necessary for spiritual growth. Abraham was one of the largest slave owners of the ancient world. His father was also a priest of the moon-god who was called Ur, as well as one of the wealthiest men in this prosperous city. Because TLJC controls history and since He knew what was going to happen to Ur, He got Abraham out. The only way to be sensitive to the leading and guidance of the Lord is to know Bible doctrine. When Abraham left Ur, it was entering into the peak of its prosperity, and he appeared to be leaving a sure thing, a good thing, but it wasn’t. This verse brings out the importance of resident doctrine in Abraham, positive volition and being motivated by doctrine before reaching spiritual maturity. The change of geographical location was the basis for separating Abraham from his family and relatives. When family or relatives hold you back then family has to go and relatives have to go. MAR 3:21 And when His own people [family] heard of this [He claimed to be the Son of God], they went out to take custody of him; for they were saying, “He has lost His senses.” JOH 7:5 For not even his brothers were believing in Him. Per-act-ind - hestekasin = they have been waiting outside for Him for a long time. TLJC taught that His followers are even closer to Him than His natural family and closest relatives. 1TI 2:4 He wills all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. Relationship with God must have priority over relationship with people. Emphasis on people over God must be set aside. If we recognize that TLJC is our Lord, then we will put Bible Doctrine first in our scale of values. The issue = Is Bible doctrine more important to you than the most intimate ties of life? The greatest issue is always doctrine vs the details of life. The glory road, which is saving grace, living grace, super-grace, dying grace, surpassing grace, was not open to Abraham in Ur of the Chaldea. Abraham was uprooted in time so that he will be rooted forever in the eternal state. To leave some environment where you’re appreciated, or in some cases, you think you’re appreciated, but your being appreciated is also keeping you from getting Bible doctrine. Doctrine was available to him in Ur of the Chaldea, up to a point. It ceased to be available when Abraham’s family and relatives and friends and social life and perhaps even his celebrityship - when these things got in the way of his advance down the glory road. Wherever there is positive volition toward doctrine, God provides the spiritual food even if it means a change of residence. The circumstances in Ur of Chaldea limited against Abraham from becoming a spiritual champion, invisible hero, and finally a visible one. Abraham could only go so far in the environment of influence from family, friends, and social life. When environment is not conducive to the persistent positive volition toward doctrine necessary to keep pressing on, then God uproots the believer who is positive. God provided enough doctrine in Ur of Chaldea to give Abraham the inner doctrinal resources and strength to obey the command for a change of residence. Separation “from” should be applied to both believers and unbelievers in the cosmic system. It does not have to be physical separation. 1. Mental separation. Your volition protects you from becoming antagonistic toward them by your use of impersonal unconditional love. Mental separation emphasizes the integrity, honor, and doctrinal application of the believer residing inside the PPOG. Impersonal love is not influenced by those loved ones who are residing in the cosmic system, who are apostate and antagonistic to doctrine. Impersonal love functions on its own integrity and perpetuates its own priorities from the metabolization of doctrine. Impersonal love emphasizes personal love for God while setting aside the functions of personal love for friends or loved ones. Impersonal love does not compromise the believer’s status inside the PPOG. Mental separation, in contrast to physical separation, avoids maligning, judging, hating, criticizing, seeking revenge, hurting those with whom you have been intimate in the past. Mental separation not only emphasizes integrity and honor, but avoids destruction of the spiritual life. 2. Physical separation.

PALESTINIAN COVENANT: THE MYSTERY AND TRUE MESSAGE BEHIND THE PALESTINIAN COVENANT

March 13, 2008 • Pastor Robert R. McLaughlin

The Palestinian Covenant: The mystery and true message behind the Palestinian Covenant. Thursday, March 13, 2008 ROM 9:4b they are Israelites, to whom is the adoption as sons and the glory [the Shekinah glory], and the unconditional covenants, That leads us to the second unconditional and unfulfilled covenant = The Palestinian Covenant. The Abrahamic covenant defines the race for client nation Israel when Abraham became a Jew at age 99; circumcision being was the sign, GEN 12:1-3; 13:15-16; 15:18; 22:15-18; 26:3-4; EXO 6:2-8. The Palestinian covenant defines the land for client nation Israel, GEN 15:18; NUM 34:1-12; DEU 30:1-9; JOS 1:3-4. PSA 68:20 He that is our God is the God of deliverance; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death. PSA 116:15 Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. ISA 57:1 The righteous man perishes, and no man takes it to heart; And devout men are taken away, while no one understands. For the righteous man is taken away from evil, The place that God called them to live in was Canaan, the promise land; for you, the Church-age believer, the place that God has called you to live in is the PPOG (which is far greater than Canaan). 1CO 16:13 Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. EPH 6:10 Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. 2TI 2:1 You therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. They are about to pass from the proven leadership of Moses into the unproven leadership of Joshua. They are standing at the entrance to the land that was promised to them by God in GEN 12:7; 13:15; 17:7-8. At the time, this land was possessed by Israel’s enemies who have shown they will resist any attempt by Israel to enter in the land. We all have to learn to face the giants that are trying to stop us from going into the promise land, Canaan or the PPOG. 1TI 6:10 For you see the love of money keeps on being a root of all sorts of evil through which [love for money] certain ones by intensively desiring it [money] have gone astray from the doctrine and pierced themselves with many types of pain. For the love of money Achan brought defeat on Israel’s army and death to himself and to his family. For the love of money Balaam sinned against doctrine and tried to curse the living God. For the love of money Delilah betrayed Samson and ultimately slaughtered thousands. For the love of money Ananias and Sapphira became the first hypocrites in the church, and God executed them as a testimony against their misuse of money and deceit. For the love of money - Judas betrayed and sold out Jesus. 2TI 2:4 No soldier in active service entangles himself in the affairs of everyday life, so that he may please the one who enlisted him as a soldier. LUK 8:14 “And the {seed} which fell among the thorns, these are the ones who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with worries and riches and pleasures of {this} life, and bring no fruit to maturity.” 1CO 7:23 You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men. 2TI 4:10 for Demas, having loved this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia. 2PE 2:22 It has happened to them according to the true proverb, “A dog returns to its own vomit,” and, “A sow, after washing, returns to wallowing in the mire.” Is the land of Palestine still their possession? (Faith says yes; sight says no). Did the Mosaic covenant which was a conditional covenant set aside the unconditional Abrahamic covenant? The Mosaic covenant is a conditional covenant based upon the Jews fulfilling certain laws and receiving the consequences of their positive or negative decisions. GAL 6:7 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. HEB 8:12 “For I will be merciful to their iniquities, And I will remember their sins no more.” Could Israel hope to enter into permanent possession of their land in the face of such opposition? He is speaking of their sin and punishment as being certain; yet, at the same time, shows how they may turn to Him and live, even while He was pouring out His indignation upon them because of their transgressions. The unconditional covenants mean that the covenant or the promises are provided and are there - however, they are not there in the cosmic system. a. An enemy of the cross, PHI 3:18. b. An enemy of God, JAM 4:4. c. A hater of God, JOH 15:23. d. Anti-Christ (against Christ), 1JO 2:18,22; 4:3; 2Jo 7. e. A carnal believer, ROM 8:7; 1CO 3:3. f. Double-minded, JAM 4:8. In spite of the promises of God and the unconditional or unilateral covenants, you still must be in the place where the covenant or the promises reside. Under the Palestinian covenant all of the middle East and part of Africa and Europe is promised to the Jews, but not all the land in the world. The rejection of Israel and the desolation of the promised inheritance were not to be the end of God’s dealings with them. HOS 5:15 I will go away and return to My place Until they acknowledge their guilt and seek My face; In their affliction they will earnestly seek Me, in the latter days, you will return to the Lord your God and listen to His voice. God loves to reveal and accomplish something more than merely preserving the people from apostasy by the threat of punishment. He desires to secure a more faithful attachment and continued obedience to His doctrines by awakening the conscience of man to His unconditional love.

THE MYSTERY AND TRUE MESSAGE BEHIND THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT

March 12, 2008 • Pastor Robert R. McLaughlin

The mystery and true message behind the Abrahamic Covenant. Wednesday, March 12, 2008 The other three covenants, the Palestinian, the Davidic, and the New covenant, are all related in some way to the Abrahamic covenant. He is able to FULFILL and WILL perform any promises He makes including the first one and the most important one He made to mankind in the garden of Eden. The Abrahamic, Palestine, Davidic, and New covenant. The first cure for Abraham’s worries = his need to understand the Promisor and the promises. The second cure is the doctrine found in of the word of God, vs 8-11. Abram saw the land occupied by the Amorites, as well as many giants. Not only that, Chedorlaomer and his forces had been moving back and forth throughout the land, threatening to envelop or surround it. MAT 17:20 “If you have faith as a mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain [any huge obstacle in your life], ‘Move from here to there,’ and it shall move; and nothing shall be impossible to you.” MAT 19:26 “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” ROM 14:23 whatever is not from faith is sin. This is the first time that the heifer, female goat, ram, the turtledove, and the young pigeon are all mentioned. Before the scriptural record there was the Stellar record, the record or the witness of the stars. The first thing Abram needed to do was to rebound and confess his fear, vs 1. He also needed to confess his doubt, vs 2. Then he needed to deal with his arrogance in blaming God, vs 3. Then he needed to recognize and confess his lack of faith in God, vs 8. The she-goat and the ram both spoke of the work of Christ in salvation. Specifically, the she-goat was the reconciliation offering, while the ram depicted propitiation. “Peace” and “reconciliation” are synonymous terms, EPH 2:14,15,17; 4:3; 6:15. The she-goat spoke of propitiation which is the God-ward side of the work of Christ in salvation. The turtle dove and the young pigeon spoke of the Person of Christ and His heavenly origin, the turtle dove portraying His deity and the pigeon His resurrected humanity. Neither bird was divided, because deity cannot be divided or killed. The turtledove spoke of the deity of Christ whereas the young pigeon spoke of the humanity of Christ. Through the heifer, or “rebound” offering, He was saying, “Abram, you need have no worries with regard to your sins because by confessing them you are forgiven and your sins are blotted out.” PRO 28:13 He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper, But he who confesses and forsakes them will find compassion. Conceals - kacah = to cover in secrecy, to conceal, to hide. GEN 3:12 “The Woman you gave me as a companion, she gave me fruit from the tree, and, yes, I ate it.” GEN 3:13 “The serpent seduced me,” she said, “and I ate.” There is no place for a guilt complex or for anxiety about past failures. PSA 51:4 Against Thee, Thee only, I have sinned, And done what is evil in Thy sight, Be sure you offer the heifer offering (rebound), for it is absolutely necessary to rebound before you can get rid of your fears, worries, doubts, and lack of faith in God. He will keep on worrying, no matter if he has a thousand promises, because he has not used rebound. You cannot claim the promises of God and appropriate them when you are out of fellowship. You must first confess your sin of fear, worry, doubts, and lack of faith in God. Abraham offered the heifer, the “rebound” offering, because it was necessary to get back in fellowship before he could even claim the promises of God. If Jesus Christ provided reconciliation (the heifer or the rebound offering, the removal of the barrier between God and man), can He not meet our problems in time? Then he divided the ram, the propitiation offering. If God the Son, hanging on the cross, satisfied God the Father, and all of the Father’s claims against us - if Jesus Christ did it all on the Cross, can He not handle our problems in time? The turtle dove spoke of the deity of Christ. Jesus Christ is God - deity, ROM 9:4. He is always faithful (immutable), He always keeps His Word (veracity), He keeps on loving us, and He is eternal in nature. The young pigeon represented the resurrected humanity of Christ, which is seated at the right hand of the Father making intercession for us. When he walked between the pieces of the heifer, he was saying in effect, “I have confessed my sins.” When he killed the other animals, it was analogous to being under the blood of Christ trusting in Him as his Lord and Savior. Next we have the messengers of the Devil. Whenever the grace of God is portrayed, the kingdom of darkness attacks. As soon as you stop worrying, as soon as you learn how to claim the promises of God and use doctrine, you are going to have more things about which you could worry. They are the messengers of Satan or individuals under Satan’s influence. 1PE 5:7-8 casting all your anxiety upon Him, because He cares for you. Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary [diabolis / satana = an attorney, an attorney who slanders], the devil, prowls about like a roaring lion, seeking some believer to devour. The roaring is something to make us worry, and the devouring is when we start to worry. Paul was not in any lion’s den literally, but he was delivered from worry by what God had provided. To drive them away means that he had perfect peace; he was no longer worried. Darkness here speaks of pressure. God provides pressure, adversity and suffering so that we will learn to claim His promises and use the doctrine of the Word. 1PE 5:10 And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you. “How can I ever get all of this land, northward, southward, eastward and westward, as God promised it to me, after separation from Lot?” They are supposed to have been men of great stature; their king, Og, is described by Moses as the last “of the remnant of the giants,” DEU 3:11. In the promise to Abraham, GEN 15:21, the Amorites are specified as one of the nations whose country would be given to his posterity. At that time three partners or associates of Abraham to this tribe = Mamre, Aner, and Eshcol, GEN 14:13,24. A third cure for worry is the knowledge of prophecy. Knowledge of the future gives the believer assurance in the present. God had to postpone His answer to teach Abram, by the offerings and sacrifices, the importance of knowing the doctrines pertaining to Christ and His constant provision for Abraham. “To know” - once as a participle and then as a finite verb = “Knowing, thou shalt know,” literally. “Know with assurance.” The first prophecy begins with the Egyptian bondage. Accurately prophesied, the Jews were in slavery for four hundred years. That is enough to destroy any race, but it did not destroy them - it made them. 1. The promise of a national land, GEN 12:1; 13:14-15; 13:17. 2. The promise of both national and universal redemption, GEN 12:3; 22:18; GAL 3:16. 3. That a great nation should come from him, GEN 12:2. 4. That Abraham’s name shall be great, GEN 12:2. 5. That He should be a blessing so great that in him shall all families of the earth be blessed, GEN 12:3. 6. To him personally and to his seed (not the church, but the Jews) should be given Palestine forever to inherit,GEN 13:14-17. 7. The multitude of his seed should be as the dust of the earth, GEN 13:16. 8. That whosever blessed him should be blessed and whosever cursed him should be cursed, GEN 12:3. 9. He should be the father of many nations, GEN 17:4. 10. Kings should proceed from him, GEN 17:6. 11. The covenant shall be perpetual “an everlasting covenant,” GEN 17:7. 12. The land of Canaan shall be “an everlasting possession,” GEN 17:8. If we had time to analyze these particulars we would see that certain individual promises were given to Abraham. Certain national promises were given to Israel. Certain promises were given to nations that Abraham would become associated with. The second unconditional and unfulfilled covenant is The Palestinian Covenant.

THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT: THERE IS NO PLACE FOR GUILT OR ANXIETY ABOUT THE PAST.

March 7, 2008 • Pastor Robert R. McLaughlin

The Abrahamic Covenant: There is no place for guilt or anxiety about the past. Friday, March 7, 2008 The ceremony recorded in Genesis 15 indicates the unconditional nature of the covenant. Emphasizing or recognizing only one side of a promise or covenant. Reward - “sakar” = “your benefit or your reward” In verses 5-7, we see these three pictures, all of which serve to illustrate the point that the One who made the covenant or the promises has the ability to keep them. The promises do not depend upon who or what we are but on who and what God is. (1) The stars. The first object lesson is in verse 5, and illustrates the fact that God has the ability to solve Abraham’s problems. God has established a traffic pattern in the universe, and He has the power to keep all of these great stars of space in their orbit; consequently, while moving at great speed, millions and billions of stars follow a perfect pattern. This requires knowledge and God has omniscience. It also requires power and God has the omnipotence to accomplish it. Immutability is required; God cannot change. COL 1:16-17 For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities - all things have been created by Him and for Him. COL 1:17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. HEB 1:3....He upholds all things by the word of His power. No matter how you look at it, if God has the power to hold the universe together, God has the power to handle any problem you ever http://had......or ever will have. God holds the universe together, COL 1:17, and if He has the power to handle the problem of traffic in the universe, don’t you think He also has the power to handle your problems? The fulfillment of God’s promise depends entirely on trusting God and His way, and then simply embracing Him and what He does. He is not our racial father--that’s reading the story backwards. He is our faith father. GAL 3:6-7 Even so Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness. Therefore, be sure that it is those who are of faith who are sons of Abraham. We call Abraham “father” not because he got God’s attention by living like a saint, but because God made something out of Abraham when he was a nobody. Abraham was first named “father” and then became a father because he dared to trust God to do what only God could do: raise the dead to life, with a word make something out of nothing. When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of what he saw he couldn’t do but on what God said he would do. (2) The promise of salvation, GEN 15:6. ‘Aman - points back to a decision Abraham had already made; he believed in the Lord. The perfect tense of ‘aman = past completed action, an action completed many, many years ago. (3) Faithfulness, GEN 15:7. “Have I been faithful to you in the past Abram?” That is why prior to the different stages of spiritual growth, we must all pass through different forms of suffering for blessing that the Lord brings in our life. As a part of God’s faithfulness, He always provides the doctrine or the opportunity to get the doctrine necessary to pass each test before it comes. HEB 10:23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful; This results in the things around you which were formerly distracting to your spiritual growth becoming less and less important. All of these illustrations point to one Person, and that Person is not only God, but also God the Son. Understanding these illustrations and hearing the promises and the unconditional or unilateral covenants, there is no excuse for Abram, or any other believer, to worry about anything. The second cure for Abram’s doubts and fears is the doctrine of the word of God, suggested in verses 8-11. Abram saw the land occupied by the Amorites, as well as many giants. Not only that, Chedorlaomer and his forces had been moving back and forth throughout the land, threatening to envelop it. MAT 17:20 “If you have faith as a mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain [a reference to any huge obstacle in your life], ‘Move from here to there,’ and it shall move; and nothing shall be impossible to you.” MAT 19:26 “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”