OT Promise 20: The Blessing of Abraham

  1. The Blessing of Abraham

Genesis 28:3, 4 And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people; And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.

The promise to Abraham was threefold: land, seed, blessing to the nations. God repeated these blessings to Isaac and added a fourth: the Lord will be with him. Isaac passes the promise on to Jacob in his blessing for him. He gives him the Blessing after he instructs Jacob to go to the house of his relatives and take a wife from the daughters of Laban. “Go with God’s blessing.”

God bless you and make you fruitful and multiply. Spiritually, the promise applies to us as well, that the Lord will make us fruitful and multiply. We do good deeds for others and help grow the Church. In the fear (faith) of Isaac and Jacob we are multiplied into a multitude of people, an innumerable host. The one, true, and invisible Church of all believers is literally huge.

Isaac passes on to Jacob the blessing of Abraham. God will give it to Jacob’s seed. The seed is we, the believers. We shall inherit the land. The land is the kingdom of God, given to those who are born from above. Eternal life is our inheritance. We will indeed and for sure live in that Promised Land of eternal heaven with God. We, with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, will inherit the land, although for now, during this life, we are strangers and sojourners in a strange land, the world, which is ruled by the prince of the power of the air. One Day the kingdoms of the world will become the Kingdom of God and of His Christ. The Lord will usher us into the Eternal State of the new heavens and new earth. This inheritance belongs to us

“Fear not, little flock, it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” The land may seem small to us, since we don’t see clearly, but it grows and is still growing to become an innumerable host. Fear not. Take heart. Be strong and of good courage. The blessing of Abraham is yours in Jesus Christ.