God’s promise to Abraham of
descendants as many as the sands of the seashore and stars in the heavens
(Genesis 15:5; 22:17) wasn’t unique to him but was repeated to Isaac and Jacob
(Genesis 26:4; Exodus 32:13). This shows that God is willing to do for others
as he did for Abraham—in effect, for all who “do the works of Abraham” (John
8:39). The question is, what are the “works” that qualified Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob to merit such exalted blessings? The answer lies in God’s unconditional
or “everlasting” covenant that he made with them (Genesis 17:7, 19). As they
proved loyal and fulfilled its requirements, so may others of God’s children.
Because God is the same
yesterday, today, and forever, and is no respecter of persons (2 Samuel 14:14;
Hebrews 13:8), he treats all equally and does for one as does for another. The
higher law of God’s covenant that Abraham kept brought with it the
corresponding privilege of seeing and conversing with Jehovah (Genesis 17:1;
18:1–2, 8, 22, 33). Abraham’s offering his only son Isaac by Sarah was but one
requirement God made of him that merited the blessing of a posterity as many as
the sands of the sea and the stars in the heavens (Genesis 22:1–17). As such an
innumerable posterity resembles God’s own, moreover, this constituted a promise
of godhood.
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