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Two weeks ago, we were talking about\nthe original Covenant that God made with Abraham.\u00a0 <\/span>We got part way into that picture, but then I\ntemporarily side-tracked that last week to talk about the Covenant of Marriage.\u00a0 <\/span>Let\u2019s pick up today with where we left off.<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n

We started\noff this discussion talking about the fact that Adam and\nEve -- and by virtue of descending from them, the whole human race -- were\ncreated in the image of God, imbued with his character and makeup, and given\nthe same creative power of speech.\u00a0 This is absolutely critical to our\nunderstanding the makeup of covenant.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

One of the\nmost important aspects of true covenant is the promise made between the\nparties.\u00a0 The promise embodies both irrevocable commitment and creative\npower which implements the conditions of the covenant.\u00a0 The speaking forth\nof the promise creates and sets in motion the circumstances which empower the\ncovenant.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

But\nthere's a whole lot more to this.\u00a0 Watch!<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

I noted two\nweeks ago that the Lord instructed Abraham to bring Him <\/span>\"an\nheifer of three years old, a she-goat of three years old, a ram of three years\nold, and a turtledove and a young pigeon.\"<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

The\nanimals were slaughtered, their carcasses divided in two parts and laid out\nwith each half facing the other.\u00a0 One bird was placed on one side, and the\nother bird the other side.\u00a0 The halved carcasses were placed far enough\napart that Abraham could stand between them and the Lord could pass between\nthem.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

The\nsignificance of this IS relevant since the parties to this covenant would be\nstanding and\/or walking in blood as the covenant was struck.\u00a0 Why?<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

We'll get\nto this picture in due time, but let's finish our review of Abraham and the\nLord and the covenant the Lord made with Abraham.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

One of the\ncommon misconceptions about covenant is that it is an agreement between equals\nin which they combine their strengths.\u00a0 Wrong.\u00a0 It IS a commitment\nbetween equals, but covenant takes the weaknesses of both parties and places\nthem under the protection of the combined strength of the parties to the\ncovenant.\u00a0 The lives of the parties to the covenant are at stake.\u00a0\nThe bloodshed of the animals -- in Abraham's case -- was both prophetic of\nthings to come and symbolic of the lives of the two parties to the covenant: in\nthis case, the Lord God and Abraham.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Bear with\nme while I show you how this unfolds.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Abraham\ngrew up in a world where an understanding of covenant -- real covenant -- was\nembodied in all of society.\u00a0 It had been embodied and incorporated into\nevery man and woman since the Lord killed the animal(s) and made leather\nclothing for Adam and Eve.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

History\nand archaeology show us the following.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Whenever a\ncovenant was cut between two parties, the first thing to happen was that the\ninitiating party took his cloak or outer garment off and gave it to the other\nparty.\u00a0 The second party likewise removed his cloak and gave it to the\nfirst party.\u00a0 <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

The cloak\nrepresented covering.\u00a0 Each party was saying to the other by this act that\nall that they were, all that they had, all their abilities would cover each\nother.\u00a0 They would lack for nothing so far as it was in the power of each\nparty to fulfill.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

The second\nact of covenant was for the first party to remove his girdle and give it to the\nsecond party, who then reciprocated with his girdle.\u00a0 A girdle was not\nwhat we commonly think of in today's understanding, but rather a weapons\nbelt.\u00a0 It was the mainstay of one's sword, and any other weapons they\nmight choose to carry.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Along with\nthe girdles, the parties gave each other their best sword, their best bow and\narrow or their best spear -- whatever their primary weapons were.\u00a0 The\ntransfer of weapons symbolized the fact that each party was saying to the\nother, I give you the best of my defenses, and I will defend you against all\nenemies to the death.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

The third\nact of covenant was the shedding of blood.\u00a0 Prior to God's command to\nAbraham, and the enactment of what we have come to call the \"Abrahamic<\/span> Covenant,\" parties to a covenant would draw\na knife across their hand to draw blood, then let that blood drip into a goblet\nor drinking vessel of some kind and mingle it with wine.\u00a0 Both parties\nwould drink from the goblet until it was consumed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

In so\ndoing, each party thereby had the blood of each other, thus making them\n\"of one blood\" in a somewhat literal and yet metaphorical sense now\nconsidering themselves and their descendants and kin from that day forward to\nall be of the same family.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

The\nconsequence of this final act meant that each party put their lives on the line\nto the agreement struck between each other.\u00a0 If either party to that\ncovenant violated or breached the covenant, death was the consequence, and if\nthe offending party avoided death at the hands of the aggrieved party, the\ndescendants of the aggrieved party could hunt down and kill the descendants of\nthe offending party to the fourth generation.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

THAT's how\nstrong the enforcement was of a covenant!<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

In\nAbraham's case (and for that matter in every case of covenant since where God\nis concerned) one did not drink blood.\u00a0 God's command to Moses (see\nLeviticus 3:17) was that, <\/span>\"It shall be a perpetual\nstatute for your generations throughout all your dwellings that ye eat neither\nfat nor blood.\"<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

God\nestablished His covenant with Abraham by substituting the blood of animals for\nhuman blood, and instead of drinking it, they walked or passed through\nit.\u00a0 Notice what happens when God fulfills His acts within His covenant\nwith Abraham.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

\"And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon\nAbram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.\u00a0 And he said\nunto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that\nis not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred\nyears; And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward\nshall they come out with great substance.\u00a0 <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

\u201cAnd thou shalt<\/span> go to thy fathers in\npeace; thou shalt<\/span> be buried in a good old age.\u00a0\nBut in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of\nthe Amorites is not yet full.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

\"And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and\nit was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between\nthose pieces.<\/u>\u00a0 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram,\nsaying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the\ngreat river, the river Euphrates: The Kenites<\/span>, and\nthe Kenizzites<\/span>, and the Kadmonites<\/span>,\nAnd the Hittites, and the Perizzites<\/span>, and the Rephaims<\/span>, And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites<\/span>, and the Jebusites<\/span>.\"<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

I've underlined\na significant phrase in these passages.\u00a0 We have two distinct\nillustrations of the presence of the Lord manifested in the smoking furnace and\nthe burning lamp.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Proverbs\n20:27 can be rendered from the Hebrew text, <\/span>\"The spirit of\nman is the torch of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the soul and\nbody.\"\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>(RAC Translation\n& Amplification)<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

The\nphrase, \"smoking furnace,\" is a Hebrew metaphor for \"burning\nlove,\" great, intense feeling and emotion: that which burns within a\nperson.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

It\nclarifies the picture of the spirit of the Lord passing between the halves of\nthe slain animals, standing in the midst of the blood, having intense love for\nAbraham as He covenants with him to give him all of the land from the Nile to\nthe Euphrates<\/st1:PlaceName> River<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> for Abraham's covenant seed.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

The\ncovenant that God made with Abraham is so profound, and so far-reaching as to\nboggle the imagination.\u00a0 What we see in this covenant was only the\nbeginning of God's covenants with Abraham.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

First\nlet's review the binding nature as it has unfolded throughout the centuries,\nand just how much covenant has impacted our lives and many traditions we take\nfor granted.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Whenever\ntwo people entered into covenant -- and by the way, covenants were struck\nbetween men: not women -- blood was drawn.\u00a0 We've already talked about the\ntradition that existed for centuries and millennia in which the blood was\nmingled with wine, and the parties to the covenant drank of it.\u00a0 What\nfollowed was the searing of a mark in the flesh signifying that covenant.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

One of the\ncommon methods was to heat a knife or a sword in the fire, then take it an lay\nit across the flesh where a cut had been made to draw blood, searing the flesh\nand creating a burn that would leave a lifetime scar.\u00a0 Whenever anyone saw\nthe scar, they knew it represented a \"to the death\" covenant that had\nbeen cut; and family members and relatives had enormous reverence and respect\nfor the parties to that covenant.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Throughout\nthe centuries, new methods developed to signify the covenant.\u00a0 When two\nmen cut a covenant, they frequently took a sharp knife and cut around their\nthumbs in a circle.\u00a0 Instead of burning the flesh with a knife, they would\nrub dirt or powder (in more recent times, gunpowder) into the cut so that it\nwould fester.\u00a0 This process continued until the cut eventually healed,\nleaving a ringed mark on the thumb (or forefinger) that could not be removed or\neradicated in any way short of cutting off the finger or hand.\u00a0 Anyone\nseeing that ring knew that a covenant had been made.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Traditions\nin different cultures varied the practice, and sometimes it was a circular mark\non one's arm creating the look of a band around the arm.\u00a0 Eventually, the\npractice evolved into the easier method of placing a gold ring on one's finger\nor a gold band around one's arm.\u00a0 The tradition of exchanging rings with\nwedding vows grew out of this practice between a husband and wife, eventually\nreplacing the cutting of the flesh and creation of a permanent mark on the\nhands of the husband and wife.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Originally,\nthere was no cut made on the hand of the woman taken in marriage.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>Rather the cuts were made in the hands of the\nbridegroom-to-be and the father of the bride, who gave his daughter in marriage\nas part of a larger covenant merging the two families.\u00a0 The young woman\ntaken in marriage was given a gold ring which she wore as a symbol of the mark\nher father had in his hand.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Covenants\njoined families inseparably for at least four generations.\u00a0 As noted\npreviously, if one of the parties to the covenant breached their pact in some\nway, death was the consequence.\u00a0 The phrase in our modern wedding\nceremony, \"'til death do us part\", is a product of that understanding\nof covenant.\u00a0 If the covenant was breached, and the individual committing\nthe breach escaped death at the hand of his covenant brother, the descendants\ncould avenge that breach to the fourth generation.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

As I noted\nlast week, one of the most important aspects of true covenant is the promise\nmade between the parties.\u00a0 The promise embodies both irrevocable commitment\nand creative power which implements the conditions of the covenant.\u00a0 The\nspeaking forth of the promise creates and sets in motion the circumstances\nwhich empower the covenant.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Thus,\nGod's promise to Abraham was irrevocable.\u00a0 The covenant made with Abraham\napplied to all the seed that would follow as a product of God's covenant.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Abraham,\nhowever, did not yet have the mark of that covenant in his body.\u00a0 After\nthe Lord appeared to Abraham and the ceremony of the covenant took place with\nthe slaughter of the animals, and the Lord passed through the blood between the\nhalves<\/span> in the cloud ( ashan<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/span> --\ncloud, vapor, smoke<\/span><\/i>) and the burning torch, Abraham (still referred\nto as \"Abram\") obviously shared the experience with his household.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Sarah\n(still called Sarai<\/span> at this moment in time) had not\nbeen a part of the experience and covenant, and she -- unfortunately -- thought\nto take things into her own hands to make the covenant come to pass.\u00a0\nBelieving herself to be beyond childbearing, she took her fairly young Egyptian\nhandmaid, Hagar, and gave her to Abraham (that always baffled me, personally)\nin the expectation that Hagar could bear a child, and that child would become\nhers.\u00a0 What came out of that mistake was Ishmael: perhaps the costliest\nmisstep to a people in all of history.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

But God\nhad covenanted with Abraham, and that covenant meant that God was about to do\nthe creative in order to bring it to pass.\u00a0 A dozen years pass, and the\nLord appears to Abraham again and establishes another covenant.\u00a0 This\ntime, Abraham is going to undergo both a physical change in his body and a name\n(shem-onoma<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/span>)\nchange.\u00a0 So is Sarah.\u00a0 Abram (high\nfather<\/span><\/i><\/b>) now becomes Abraham (father\nof a multitude<\/span><\/i><\/b>).\u00a0 Sarai<\/span> (dominative<\/span><\/i><\/b>) now becomes Sarah (noble woman - queen<\/span><\/i><\/b>).<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Physical\nchange to Abraham is evidenced in the cutting of his flesh.\u00a0 Just as\ncovenants were normally enacted with a visible sign in the flesh (the ring\naround the thumb, a scar on one's side, a mark on the right hand or forehead),\nAbraham was going to have a visible sign in his flesh.\u00a0 Never before had\nsuch a covenant been cut with such a sign.\u00a0 Abraham was going to shed his\nblood by having his foreskin circumcised.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Thought I\nwas going to wrap up this beginning of Covenant with Abraham today, but there\u2019s\nstill more to cover.\u00a0 <\/span>That\u2019s where we\nwill take it next week.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

In case you are missing out on real fellowship in an environment\nof Ekklesia<\/span>, our Sunday worship gatherings are\navailable by conference call \u2013 usually at about 10:30AM Pacific.\u00a0 <\/span>That conference number is <\/span><\/b>(712) 770-4160<\/span><\/b>, and the access code\nis <\/span><\/b>308640#.<\/span><\/b>\u00a0 <\/span>We are now making these gatherings available on\nvideo using ZOOM.\u00a0 <\/span>If you wish to\nparticipate by video on ZOOM, our login ID is 835-926-513.\u00a0 <\/span>If you miss the live voice-only call, you can\ndial <\/span><\/b>(712)\n770-4169<\/span><\/b>, enter the same access code and listen in later.\u00a0 <\/span>The video call, of course, is not recorded \u2013\nnot yet, anyway.<\/span><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Blessings\non you!<\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n\n

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