God asks the patriarch to lift in order to see for himself the land his seed shall inherit.
"And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:"
v.15 "For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever."
The tag 'forever' refers to Jesus Christ by whom all things consist.
In the next we have two worlds setting the upper lmit and the lower limit. In ch.15 the lower limit refers to the sea of Egypt. Here the seed is compared to dust of the earth. We have a reference to it in this verse,"Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, ... and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable."(Heb.11.12)
16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
From so many instances it is clear where our true worship ought to be. In spirit and truth warrant our faith more than lip-service.
The apostles were nor for worshipping in mega churches,"And all that believed were together, and had all things common;/And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need./And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,/Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved."( Acts 2.44-47) Temple precints were neutral places or in the open by the banks of a river where the church gathered with singleness of heart. Unlike Lot had to have his church in the midst of Sodom. How did this simplicity of the apostles was confounded as we see today?
"and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls." 3x1000 Not actual number but the church of the first born and in heaven.
God asks the patriarch to lift in order to see for himself the land his seed shall inherit.
"And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:"
v.15 "For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever."
The tag 'forever' refers to Jesus Christ by whom all things consist.
In the next we have two worlds setting the upper lmit and the lower limit. In ch.15 the lower limit refers to the sea of Egypt. Here the seed is compared to dust of the earth. We have a reference to it in this verse,"Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, ... and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable."(Heb.11.12)
16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
From so many instances it is clear where our true worship ought to be. In spirit and truth warrant our faith more than lip-service.
The apostles were nor for worshipping in mega churches,"And all that believed were together, and had all things common;/And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need./And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,/Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved."( Acts 2.44-47) Temple precints were neutral places or in the open by the banks of a river where the church gathered with singleness of heart. Unlike Lot had to have his church in the midst of Sodom. How did this simplicity of the apostles was confounded as we see today?
"and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls." 3x1000 Not actual number but the church of the first born and in heaven.
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