Word Spirit n Life Ministries

2012-02-18T03:33:00.000-08:00

Israel who stood and waited for salvation from their God, came out of Egypt with gorgeous possessions and jewels from those who had enslaved them.

More than 200 years before,
................God had predicted this victory.

.......................In Genesis 15:13-14,
He had said to Abraham that his seed should be a stranger and afflicted in a land that was not theirs and that He would judge the nation whom they had served.
With it He had given this promise: "Afterward they shall come out with great substance."

.............God had looked ahead to the end of His people's travail and gave them compensation for their bondage and slavery.

2012-02-17T19:42:00.000-08:00

God gave His people favor in the eyes of the Egyptians.

...............They were looked upon by their enemies in a new light; and the Egyptians gave to them.

......................These spoils were more glorious than any other conquering nation. Before, the conquered has been spoiled but never willingly. Here the Egyptians were so glad to get rid of Israel, they gave them everything they wanted and more.

2012-02-16T00:44:00.000-08:00

In Exodus 3:21-22 and Exodus 12:35-36 have caused questions regarding the words
'borrow' which means 'ask' in Hebrew and the word 'lend' which is a form of the same word meaning to 'let ask'.

................It is not a case of theft or borrowing with no thought of returning.

............The Israelites asked for these things.

2012-02-15T05:15:00.000-08:00

Before the conflict with Pharaoh, God had said to Moses:

"I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians and it shall come to pass that when ye go ye shall not go empty, but every woman shall borrow of her neighbor and of her that sojourneth in her house jewels of silver and jewels of gold and raiment and ye shall put them upon your sons and upon your daughters and ye shall spoil the Egyptians."
.............................Exodus 3:21-22

2012-02-14T04:34:00.000-08:00

Down through the generations, the Jews have been accustomed to wear upon their foreheads as a crown and upon their arms as an armlet, a small leather cas as a sacred amulet containg a record of the passover covenant between Jahovah and the seed of Abraham, His friend.

2012-02-13T09:49:00.000-08:00

Often times when two men cut the covenant,
..a blood-stained record of the covenant was
....perserved in a small leather case to be worn
......on the arm or around the neck of him
who had won a friend forever in this sacred rite of blood-friendship.

2012-02-12T08:21:00.000-08:00

The symbol of the Passover is described in
.........................Exodus 13:16
..........."And it shall be a sign for thee upon thy hand and for a memorial between thy eyes that the law of Jehovah may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath Jehovah brought thee out of Egypt"

2012-02-11T04:36:00.000-08:00

Jesus was betrayed on the tenth day
....and was crucified on the fourteenth day,
..........dying at three o'clock.

......Surely He was the Lamb of God!

2012-02-10T13:57:00.000-08:00

Exodus 12:3-8
The Passover Lamb stands for Christ on the Cross.

........................The Lamb must be a male without blemish; he must be taken on the tenth day of the first month [Jewish year] and kept until the fourteenth day when he is slain at three o'clock.

2012-02-09T06:22:00.000-08:00

The institution of the Passover custom of Jehovah's blood-friendship with Israel
...is to become a permanent ceremony among them
...as a memorial of their miraculous deliverance from Egypt as His Covenant people.

Exodus 12:14-20,43 and 13:16

2012-02-08T03:05:00.000-08:00

It is the Covenant-keeping God who is delivering His Covenant people.

...................He has reaffirmed His Covenant.

..........................................As they face the dangers of the wilderness, they know that the Covenant-keeping God is with them.

2012-02-08T02:58:00.000-08:00

"He [Pharoah] called for Moses and Aaron by night and said, Rise up and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go serve the Lord Jehovah as ye have said and be gone and bless me also.
And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, we will be all dead men"
......................Exodus 12:31-33

2012-02-06T08:17:00.000-08:00

The firstborn of the Israelites were safe.

Not one plague touched God's Covenant people.

............But Egypt was afraid of what else might happen, so they agreed to let the Israelites go.

In fact, Pharaoh wouldn't even wait for day break.

2012-02-05T06:26:00.000-08:00

It's been told that animals were worshipped in Egypt and that the king, himself, was considered a god and was worshipped.

........Pharaoh was struck down in his own land and in front of his own people.

.............His son who had already been recognized like his father, was now dead.

......................It was impossible for them not to know that it was from the Israelite's God.

2012-02-04T07:59:00.000-08:00

"I will pass through the land of Egypt this night and will smite the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast and against all the gods of Egypt.
I will execute judgment."
...........................Exodus 12:12

.............God executed judgment against both man and beast
and against all the gods of Egypt.

2012-02-03T19:37:00.000-08:00

"And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead"
Exodus 12:30

2012-02-02T05:59:00.000-08:00

The flesh of the chosen lamb was to be reverently eaten by the Israelites according to the primitive blood covenant rites.

...........The last plague broke the Egyptians.

..............................When anyone died in Egypt it caused a great mourning.

2012-02-01T05:03:00.000-08:00

The blood of the lamb, a type of Christ's blood, was to be put on the two sideposts and on the lintel of every house of the descendance of Abraham.

Read Exodus 12:7-13

.......The firstborn was safe when covered by the Blood.

2012-01-31T12:04:00.000-08:00

Now there was to be a shedding of blood if they were to escape the tenth plague.

The Lord commanded them to choose a lamb, a male without blemish.

This lamb was a type of Christ, so it must be perfect.

2012-01-30T06:38:00.000-08:00

The Egyptians refused to let Israel go.

...................................The last plague shows the importance of the Blood Covenant.

..........................In the original blood covenant between Abraham and the Lord, it was Abraham to gave of his blood as part of the Covenant.

................Up to now the Israelites hadn't had to do anything to avoid the plagues.

2012-01-29T09:06:00.000-08:00

There came a time when the Lord gave fresh evidence of His Covenant of blood-friendship with Abraham.

.....................A new start was to be made in the history of redemption.

......................The seed of Abraham was in Egypt and the Lord would bring them out for their promised inheritance in the Land of Canaan.

2012-01-28T09:18:00.000-08:00

Next came the ninth plague.

This was God's last appeal before the worst judgment fell.

........................Life came to a stand still.

........................Darkness covered everything.

The three days of isolation gave a look into God's compassion which would have saved Egypt from the last strike which was to break all its subbornness and pride.

God also showed His power over the sun, which was one of the Egyptians chief gods.

2012-01-28T08:45:00.000-08:00

Exodus 10:7 "And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?"

When
the eighth plague was announced the locusts made a terrible sound.

2012-01-26T05:40:00.000-08:00

God's mercy sent milder penalties at first to turn the Egyptians away from disobedience and to save them from the final and awful calamity.

..........................But when that didn't work, He had to get stronger in His rebukes to convince them He was serious.

In the seventh plague, [read Exodus 9:16-35], "23 And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt."

2012-01-25T05:26:00.000-08:00

The sixth plague touched the bodies of the Egyptians.

They are smitten with a painful disease/boils.

2012-01-24T12:32:00.000-08:00

Exodus 9:1-5 shows that the separation between the Egyptians and God's Covenant people continues.

......None of the animals of the Israelites died;
.....................but the Egyptian's animals died which was most of their wealth.

2012-01-23T11:04:00.000-08:00

In the fifth plague, God goes further. It involves their most valued possession.

..................It didn't end when Pharaoh said "NO!" to God's request to let his children go; nor when he said "Yes" but didn't keep his promise.

...........................Pharaoh was warned,
"If thou refuse to let them go and wilt hold them still, behold the hand of the Lord is laid upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camel, and upon the sheep: There shall be a grievous murrain [animal disease]."
...........................Exodus 9:1-3

2012-01-22T08:38:00.000-08:00

Other judgments were manifested against the gods of the Egyptians.

...........Flies also were worshipped in Egypt.

...................First, the rod being changed into a serpent, was simply a sign; then they were affected by personal discomfort with the flies and lice.

..........Next they had possessions destroyed.

2012-01-21T09:20:00.000-08:00

As Pharaoh's heart hardened, the plagues continued.

Exodus 8:16-19 was the plague of lice

and

Exodus 8:20-24 was the plague of flies

2012-01-21T09:16:00.000-08:00

HEKI the frog goddess of Egypt was considered one of the supreme goddesses.

............................The Covenant God of the Israelites [the slaves of the Egyptians] showed Himself greater than the gods of the mighty Egyptians.

2012-01-19T07:04:00.000-08:00

The plague of frogs wasn't only a terrible rebuke on the people, but it was also another judgment on their gods.

............Frogs were a great problem in Egypt and they trusted a goddess called HEKI to drive them away. She appeared many time with the head of a frog.

2012-01-18T05:33:00.001-08:00

" And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:
And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs:
And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants."

..........................Exodus 8:2-4

2012-01-17T05:09:00.000-08:00

" And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone."
..........................Exodus 7:19

2012-01-16T10:45:00.000-08:00

The first plague was that the waters of Egypt were turned into blood.

God commanded Moses, "Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning: lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river's brink to meet him" Exodus 7:15
It's possible that Pharaoh went to the river in the mornings to offer his devotions to the God of the Nile.

2012-01-15T10:21:00.000-08:00

Satan has his powers that he provided the magicians but he is not all powerful.

.....................The battle between the God of Heaven and earth and the gods of Egypt began at the get go.

................................As the rod of Aaron swallowed up the rods of the magicians, so would the religion which God was about to establish, swallow up the delusions that the 'wise men' of the world thought was great that still left them slaves to Satan.

2012-01-14T08:29:00.000-08:00

Exodus 7:8-13 gives Moses' first meeting with Pharaoh and his magicians.

........................The first sign was Moses casting down his rod which instantly turned into a snake.

"Aaron cast down his rod before Paraoh and before his servants and it became a serpent.

Then Pharaoh also call the wise men and the sorcerers; now the magicians of Egypt, they did also in like manner with their enchantments. For they cast down every man his rod and they became serpents, but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods" Exodus 7:10-12

2012-01-13T20:19:00.000-08:00

Exodus, giving us a drama of the miracle-working Covenant God on behalf of His people, was written by someone who knew the facts.

...................It wasn't written by a Babylonian Jew about 400 B.C. as some claim.

..........It features the marks of the ancient Egypt which God judged.

...............Archaeologists have uncovered buildings made of brick with stubble instead of straw as recorded in Exodus 5:12.

2012-01-12T08:23:00.000-08:00

The magicians of Egypt performing miracles is a representation of the power that their ancient priesthood possessed.

................The Egyptian priesthood was a group of men and women given magical powers which were excercised on the behalf of the living and the dead.

2012-01-11T18:09:00.000-08:00

The deliverance of God's Covenant People from Egypt in Exodus notes many facts that shows the believability of the Bible account.
....................................The picture of Egyptian life given to us in Exodus also shows us truth about ancient Egyptian life at that time and the authority that Pharaoh held in his hand.

2012-01-10T05:43:00.000-08:00

On one side is God and His people; and on the other side is Pharaoh and his people.

..........It's a contest between the true and living God and an imposter.

....................God has to break the idol to pieces in order to deliver His people.

2012-01-09T12:48:00.000-08:00

Exodus 8:10, 22,23 "......... that thou [Pharaoh] mayest know that there is none like unto the
LORD Jehovah our God. . . . .
and I will sever in that day the land of Goshen,
in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall there be;
to the end that thou mayest know that
I and not thou, I and not thy gods am Jehovah
in the midst of the earth.
And I will put a division between My people and thy people."

2012-01-08T11:47:00.000-08:00

The Pharaoh [king] was the only man in all Egypt that Moses and Aaron could deal with in order to deliver the Israelites.

................................................So for these two men, it was like they had to bargain with another god for the deliverance of their people, the Israelites.

2012-01-07T19:39:00.000-08:00

Worship was given the Egyptian King as if he were God.

.............He and his ministers sat on different platforms. He sits alone and the others sit away from him and below him.

........When he spoke on a matter that was it, his decision stands no matter what.

2012-01-06T09:13:00.001-08:00

In the kings eyes,

......the Egyptians were only trembling slaves,

...........whose religion made them blindly obey him.

2012-01-05T12:17:00.001-08:00

When a prince was brought to the throne,

..............in the eyes of his subjects,

........................he was both man and god.

2012-01-04T04:45:00.000-08:00

These two Blood Covenant men,
Moses and Aaron,
had Egypt's fate in their hands and
they left words which lived on after all the greatness was gone.

2012-01-03T08:22:00.000-08:00

Moses and Aaron, two slaves, who demanded freedom not for themselves but for millions of people who were slaves of the most powerful and rich king of Egypt brought a lot of laughter on themselves.

................................................But the laughter died after these two men's persistence turned it to fear.

2012-01-02T11:41:00.000-08:00

Moses and his wife sensed that they were being cut off from God's Covenant plans that God had given to the descendants Abraham because they had failed to conform to the Covenant by circumcizing their son.

2012-01-01T04:33:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year 2012

2011-12-27T07:16:00.000-08:00

God reveals the importance of the Blood Covenant in Exodus 4:20-26.

....................Moses had ignored the circumcision of his first-born. He had been unfaithful to the Covenant.

..........While on his way from the wilderness to Egypt with the message God gave him about the Egyptians, Moses came face to face with death, "The Lord met him and sought to kill him."

2011-12-27T07:06:00.000-08:00

Moses was called by God in the third and fourth chapters of Exodus.

........It includes the burning bush; God revealing Himself to Moses and His plans for delivering Israel.

............It tells of how Moses hesitated and God permitting Aaron to help him.

.................We see the power of Moses' rod where he performed miracles.

So God not only manifested Himself to Moses as the Covenant-keeping God; but also as the miracle-working God.

2011-12-26T09:33:00.000-08:00

Hebrews 11:
"23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.
24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;
25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.
27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible."

....................Both acts were based upon faith in God [the Covenant-keeping God].

2011-12-25T00:03:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday Jesus 2011

2011-12-24T12:04:00.000-08:00

The second chapter of Exodus gives us the birth of Moses and his life until God calls him.

There are two facts:
.........the hiding of Moses as a baby at the river bank by his mother, and
.........later Moses' rejection of Egypt Neither were rash acts.

2011-12-23T20:21:00.001-08:00

The persecution that Israel received is so great that they cried to the God of the Covenant for deliverance.

..........................He hears their cry and remembers His Covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

.................He comes down to deliver His people from their bondage.

Read Exodus 2:12-25 and Exodus 3:5-8

2011-12-22T09:14:00.000-08:00

The treatment that the Israelites , as slaves, received from the Egyptians was sometimes horrible.

........................................The tortures inflicted on them and the commands to kill every boy or to throw the babies into the river was Satan's way to try and destroy them.

2011-12-21T21:00:00.000-08:00

Israel's ability to increase in population was a part of God's plan for them and all the world couldn't do anything to stop it.

...........................................................The more they were afflicted, the more they multiplied and grew.

Read Exodus 1:15-22

2011-12-20T06:46:00.000-08:00

Then there followed oppression, enslavement and tyranny and cruelty:

...........................Exodus 1:11-14
"11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:
14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour."

2011-12-19T22:24:00.001-08:00

Satan put fear into the heart of the leader of Egypt, a fear that the Israelites, who were so mighty in number, would join themselves to the enemies in time of war.

..........................Exodus 1:8-10
"8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land."

2011-12-18T10:51:00.000-08:00

Satan tried to destroy 'the seed of the woman' [Eve] through whom Jesus was to come.

.................Now that the Savior/Redeemer has been picked as 'the seed of Abraham', Satan tries to destroy God's Covenant People, the Israelites.

2011-12-17T10:49:00.000-08:00

So the calculating of this period seems to date from the promise to Abraham to the deliverance of the children, which makes 430 years that included 'and of their fathers'.

...................To the birth of Isaac was 25 years. From the birth of Isaac until the birth of Jacob was 60 years.

...............................Jacob was 130 years old when he entered Egypt. This amounts to about 220 years, add 210 to it and it make 430 years of sojourning from Abraham to the deliverance from Egypt.

2011-12-17T10:22:00.000-08:00

In the 210 years the children of Israel; were on Egypt, they increased from seventy to over three million.

.........................The record shows that 210 years were spent in Egypt. This , on the surface, seems to be a difficulty with other passages such as Exodus 12:40
"Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years."

............The Old Testament translation of this reads:"The sojourning of the children and of their fathers which they sojourned in the land of Canaan and in the land of Egypt."

2011-12-15T08:50:00.000-08:00

There are many statements in the Bible telling us of the miraculous growth of God's Covenant people, Israel.

............................Exodus 1:7
"And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly and multiplied, and waxed exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them."

2011-12-14T05:20:00.000-08:00

The children of Israel thrived in the land of Egypt.

They were favored. The favor of God was on them.

The best of the land had been given to them.

......................God was keeping His Covenant with Abraham and the words that He spoke saying that his seed should be a multitude as the stars of heaven and as the sand upon the sea shore.

2011-12-13T21:55:00.000-08:00

Genesis 45:8
"So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt."

2011-12-12T06:17:00.000-08:00

"For these two years hath the famine been in the land; and there are yet five years, in which there shall be neither plowing or harvest.
And God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance." Genesis 45:6,7

........God used Joseph to preserve His people.

................He overrules Satan and He brings good out of the evil throughout the ages.

2011-12-11T05:21:00.000-08:00

God, the Covenant-keeper, remembered His promise to Abraham that He would make of him a great nation.

...............................To save His people, Israel, from destruction during the famine in Canaan, He brought them into Egypt so they could thrive and multiply.

2011-12-10T09:15:00.000-08:00

After telling us about Abraham, the Book of Genesis gives us history of his immediate descendents.
Isaac, Jacob and Joseph.

All Genesis is centered around five names:
.....Adam, Chapters 1-5
.....Noah, Chapters 6-11
.....Abraham, Chapters 12-26
.....Jacob, Chapters 27-37
.....Joseph, Chapters 38_45

2011-12-09T19:59:00.000-08:00

This Covenant people were also to be His testimony on the earth.

.................................The other civilization people had to pass through them to do their trading with each other.

..................God's people were to be a witness to them of the true and living God.

2011-12-09T19:56:00.000-08:00

Through this Covenant people, God was going to send the Savior.

..................Genesis 22:17-18
"That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice."

2011-12-07T04:15:00.000-08:00

Genesis 17:7 "And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee."

2011-12-06T06:35:00.000-08:00

God entered into Covenant relationship with Abraham in order to preserve the Revelation of Himself on the earth which He had given to man.

.............Abraham and his descendants were to be God's Covenant people.

2011-12-05T10:10:00.000-08:00

Israel was backed by this solemn covenant
.........that God had sealed on His side
.....by putting Himself in absolute bondage
to that Covenant.

2011-12-04T06:11:00.000-08:00

Many times God said, "I am Jehovah, who keepeth covenants."

.............He is the Covenant-keeping God.

2011-12-03T19:22:00.000-08:00

There was nothing that God could swear by except Himself.

.......................................They were bound together; all that God is and has belongs to Abraham, and all that Abraham is or ever will have belongs to God!

2011-12-02T19:06:00.001-08:00

In Genesis 22:
15 "And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,
16 And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:"

....Here was the foundation of that covenant.

2011-12-01T09:08:00.000-08:00

Genesis 22:3-10 showed that Abraham was capable of the blood-covenant friendship with God.

................When God saw his spirit of devotion, the angel stopped his hand.

..........................Hebrews 11:
17 "By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, 18 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: 19 Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead;......"

2011-12-01T08:57:00.000-08:00

Abraham sacrifices Isaac

2011-11-30T17:04:00.000-08:00

All over the world, men in blood-covenants were ready to give what was dearest to them [life itself] to their Blood-brothers or their gods.

..................Abraham proved he would do as much for his Divine Friend. Abraham surrendered to his God all that the worshippers of other gods were willing to surrender to prove their devotedness.

2011-11-29T08:13:00.000-08:00

For Abraham to surrender his own old, worn-out life after having his promised son, Isaac,, born to him, would have been easy.

...........But for him to surrender his only son and to become a childless, old man again would be something much different.

......Only faith that wouldn't reason or question;
......only love that wouldn't waver or fail,
......could do what he was asked to do.

2011-11-29T08:05:00.000-08:00

Genesis 22:1-2 "And it came to pass that God did prove Abraham and said unto him, Abraham; and he said Here am I. And He said, Take now thy son, thy only son whom thou lovest, even Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I tell you of."

........................And Abraham rose early to respond to the call of his Friend.

2011-11-28T20:23:00.000-08:00

After the covenant of blood had been cut between God and Abraham; there came a testing of Abraham's faithfulness to the Covenant.

................This test was proof to future generations that his cutting of the covenant with God hadn't been some empty ceremony.

He had pledged his very life to Jehovah.

2011-11-28T20:09:00.000-08:00

Genesis 17:24 "And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised. . . . .
26 In the selfsame day. . . ."

...............He bore the evidence that he had entered into the Blood Covenant of friendship with God.

He is still known as the 'friend of God' in the East.

2011-11-27T09:27:00.000-08:00

God gave Abraham the method of cutting the Covenant.
Read Genesis 17:10-14

....The seal of the Covenant was Circumcision.

Every male child was circumcised at the age of eight days and that circumcision was the entrance into the covenant.

2011-11-27T09:22:00.000-08:00

The Covenant that God cut with Abraham was to bring the Israeli nation into being as a Covenant people.

.............................Genesis 17:7
"And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee."

2011-11-26T08:00:00.000-08:00

We see that when God appeared to Abraham to make a covenant with him, that Abraham knew what it meant.

....................God was coming into a covenant of strong friendship with him.
[The Blood Covenant was called the Covenant of Strong Friendship.]

That is why Abraham was called the friend of God.
James 2:23; Isaiah 41:8 and 2 Chronicles 20:7

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In Africa and a few other countries, if two men want to cut the blood covenant; they come together with friends and a priest.

.....................................First, they exchange gifts. Then they take the wine they brought and the priest makes an incision in the arm of each man. It is allowed to drip into the cup of wine.

........Then they stir the blood in the wine and drink it. This makes them blood brothers.

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The method of cutting the blood covenant is almost the same all over the world.

In some places it has deteriorated into a very strange ritual, but it is the same blood covenant.

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Thanksgiving 2011

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There is nothing that is absolutely sacred with us.

........But in Africa the Covenant is sacred.

..................Mr Stanley and Dr Livingstone both testify that they never knew of the Covenant to be broken.

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Mr Stanley and Dr Livingstone said that if two men in Africa cut a blood covenant and one of them should break the Covenant, his closest relatives would seek his death.

...................No man can live in Africa who breaks the Covenant; he curses the ground.

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The blood covenant goes down through the generations; it is a permanent covenant that generations cannot erase.

...................If a man cuts this covenant with his friend, the children of the two families are bound to it.

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Once the blood covenant is celebrated, every thing that a Blood Covenant man owns is at the disposal of this blood-brother.

......But this brother would never ask for anything unless he were in desparate need.

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There are three reasons men cut blood covenants:

..........If a strong tribe lives by the side of a weaker tribe, and there is danger of the weaker tribe being destroyed, the weaker tribe will seek to cut the covenant with the stronger tribe so that they will not be destroyed.

Or, if two men went into business together, a matter of trust.

Or, if two men honored one another like David and Jonathan.

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A covenant of blood;
.....a covenant made by mixing blood;
..........has been recognized as the closest,
..........the holiest and
..........the most permanent and
..........undo able agreement conceived.

Once made it cannot be undone.

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The mixing of blood has been understood as the same as the mixing of natures.

...........Two natures, combined by the mixing of blood, has been considered as forming one nature, one life, one soul.

...............The union of natures by the mixing of blood has been considered possible between man and man, and Deity and man.

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From the very beginning in every nation, Blood seems to have been looked upon in a pecular sense as life itself.

.....................The transference of blood from one to another has been counted as the transference of life with all that that life includes.

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To understand the importance of this Covenant which God cut with Abraham, we must know the meaning of the Blood Covenant.

...............The existence of Blood Covnanting have been found among peoples of every corner of the globe.

...............................There are signs of it dating long before the days of Abraham.

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Twenty-five years after Abraham had received his call from God, the greatest event in human history [except for the birth of Christ] took place.

It was the Blood Covenant which Abraham entered into with Jehovah God.

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Abraham's father, family and neighbors were idolators.

..............................If God was to find a nation in Abraham to preserve His revelation to man and a knowledge of man's redeemer, so that He would be recognized when He came; God needed to remove him from these influences.

.................So following God, he set out in search of a land where a nation could be started free from idlolatry. (Genesis 12)