Today I will look at the Posterity Promised, as the whole human race are the posterity of Adam. We are all sons of Adam. Jesus was called the second Adam or Ben Adam and to this I have seen that Isr is Ben in ancient Hebrew and El is GOD also in ancient Hebrew. As we make our own spiritual investment, which by the way I will be looking at soon, we will be enriched by GOD in His wisdom. Now for Pastor Hoekstra's writing on Humility and Grace. And then using the ESV translation from the e-Sword program I will look at Posterity. Keeping in mind that all that has been revealed about GODS Promises is spoken to His Spiritual Seed, which remained hidden in mankind, being restored to Himself. And that in Jesus and through Jesus this was done and accomplished in GODS Perfect signified by Jesus' ascension and rewarded the Highest Honor of all the forever Priesthood over GODS House, His Family.
"More on Humility and Grace"
"Be clothed with humility, for "GOD resists the proud, but Gives Grace to the Humble" . . . And whoever exalts himself will be abased, and he who humbles himself will be exalted." (1Peter 5:5 and Matthew 23:12)
"The LORD wants Humility to be our spiritual attire that adorns our character. "Be clothed with Humility." This is crucial, since "GOD resists the proud, but Gives Grace to the Humble." We cannot live by Grace unless we are willing to walk in Humility. Any other approach is some form of pride, which always meets GOD's Resistance. These Are Absolutes that every person must face. "Whoever exalts himself will be abased, and he who humbles himself will be exalted." The scriptures describe numerous individuals who demonstrate these Truths. Daniel Webster's 1828 Dictionary states this about humility when our own ethic's reflect this: "humbleness of mind; a modest estimate of one's own worth. In theology, humility consists in lowliness of mind; a deep sense of one's own unworthiness in the sight of God, self-abasement, penitence for sin, and submission to the divine will."
Nebuchadnezzar, exalted himself. "Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for a royal dwelling by my mighty power and for the honor of my majesty?" (Dan_4:30). God opposed this self-exaltation by driving the king out into the fields to eat grass like an animal. Eventually, this banished king looked to heaven, and the Lord restored him to the throne. Then, magnifying the true King, he proclaimed the great lesson he had learned. "Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven . . . And those who walk in pride He is able to abase" (Dan_4:37).
Manasseh, while king in Jerusalem, also exalted himself. He did so in a most wicked manner, polluting God's temple with idolatry. "He built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD . . . He even set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God" (2Chronicles 33:5 and 7). In doing so, he enticed the people of God into untold abominations. "So Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel" (2Chronicles 33:9). As a consequence of this prideful rebellion, the LORD had Manasseh taken away captive into Babylon. Then, he humbled himself before GOD. In spite of the king's arrogant disobedience, the LORD heard his prayer and restored him to the throne. "Now when he was in affliction, he implored the LORD his GOD, and humbled himself greatly before the GOD of his fathers, and prayed to Him; and He received his entreaty, heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem into his kingdom." (2Chronicles 33:12-13)
Truly, everyone who lifts himself up in pride will be brought low. Conversely, any person who walks in humility will be lifted up to liberation and blessing."
Spiritual Posterity Promised:
Genesis 15:1-11, 17-21 "After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: "Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great." But Abram said, "O LORD GOD, what will You give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?" And Abram said, "Behold, You have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir." And behold, the word of the LORD came to him: "This man shall not be your heir; your very own son shall be your heir." And the LORD GOD brought him outside and said, "Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them." Then HE said to him, "So shall your offspring be."(signifying those who would walk in his obedience and trust....ie faith, a restored spiritual heavenly people, the Nation of GODS Own, signified by the word righteous) And he believed the LORD, and HE counted it to him as righteousness. And HE said to him, "I am the LORD Who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess." But he said, "O LORD GOD, how am I to know that I shall possess it?" He said to him, "Bring Me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon." And he brought Him all these, cut them in half, and laid each half over against the other. But he did not cut the birds in half. And when birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.........When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram (his earthly seed the seed of his flesh, signified as the sands of the sea shore), saying, "To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites and the Jebusites."
Genesis 17:15-22 "God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. I Will bless her, and moreover, I Will give you a son by her. I Will bless her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her." (here is the distinction between his spiritual seed and his earthy seed who acquire the lands of Palestine as we know them today) Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, "Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?" And Abraham said to GOD, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!" To this GOD said, "No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him. As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He shall father twelve princes, and I Will make him into a great nation.(the Aruba states, Saudi Aruba being one, Syria another) But I Will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this time next year." When HE had finished talking with him, GOD went up from Abraham."
Genesis 22:15-19 "The angel (messenger, voice) of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven and said, "By Myself I have Sworn, declares the LORD, because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven (the spiritual heirs of faith and promise by Oath) and as the sand that is on the seashore (the carnal, earthy heirs of self works of Oath). And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies, and in your offspring (those who will one day become his spiritual sons the "Isr" of the soon coming son Jacob who is given the cipher a curio-logic name of Israel) shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice." So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beersheba. And Abraham lived at Beersheba."
Genesis 26:23-25 "From there he (Isaac) went up to Beersheba. And the LORD appeared to him the same night and said, "I am the GOD of Abraham your father. Fear not, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham's sake." So he built an altar there and called upon the name of the LORD and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac's servants dug a well."
Leviticus 26:1-13 "You shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the LORD your God. You shall keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary: I am the LORD. "If you walk in My statutes and observe My commandments and do them, then I Will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. Your threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. And you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land securely. I Will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. And I Will remove harmful beasts from the land, and the sword shall not go through your land. You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand, and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. I Will turn to you and make you fruitful and multiply you and will confirm My Covenant with you. You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall clear out the old to make way for the new. I Will make My dwelling among you, and My soul shall not abhor you. (did you pick up on the spiritual message and hidden meaning just here, 'you shall clear out the old to make way for the new, I Will dwell among you,' hear the rest) And I Will walk among you and Will be your GOD, and you shall be My people. I am the LORD your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. And I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect."
Deuteronomy 7:12-16 "And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the LORD your God Will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love that HE Swore to your fathers (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in particular). He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock, in the land that he swore to your fathers to give you. You shall be blessed above all peoples. There shall not be male or female barren among you or among your livestock. And the LORD Will take away from you all sickness, and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will He inflict on you, but He Will lay them on all who hate you. And you shall consume all the peoples that the LORD your God will give over to you. Your eye shall not pity them, neither shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you."
Romans 4:13-15, 16-25 "For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the Law but through the righteousness of faith. For if it is the adherents of the Law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. For the Law brings wrath, but where there is no Law there is no transgression. (Referring to Abram's being a gentile when he received the Oath Sworn to him) That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on Grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the Law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations"—in the presence of the GOD in Whom he believed, Who gives life to the dead (those of the separation and slaves in death and sin natural earthy man) and calls into existence the things that do not exist. In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, "So shall your offspring be." He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb. No unbelief made him waver concerning the Promise of GOD, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to GOD, fully convinced that GOD was more than able to do what HE Promised. That is why his faith was "counted to him as Righteousness (a spiritual term)." But the words "it was counted to him" were not written for his sake alone, but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe Him Who raised from the dead Jesus our LORD, Who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our Justification."
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