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Genesis chapter 26 verse 4.

God says to Isaac I will multiply your offspring

as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these

lands and in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed.

So I just want to make the connection with God's promise to

Abraham back in Genesis chapter 12, verse 3,

said, I will bless those who bless you, him who dishonors you I will curse,

and in you, through you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.

The whole picture when God called Abraham

and really was starting the people of Israel was to bless this people for the spread of his blessing to all peoples.

And so when God now speaks the same promise to Isaac Abraham's son, he says the same thing. I will multiply your offspring

as the stars of heaven will give your offspring all these lands. In other words

I'm going to bless you and your offspring and in your offspring, follow this.

All the nations of the earth shall be blessed.

So the whole picture is God's blessing was never intended to center on Abraham and Isaac, to stop with

Abraham or Isaac. His blessing was always intended to spread through Abraham, through Isaac to all the nations

of the earth.

It's the picture we see from cover to cover in the Bible.

God loves all the nations of the earth, all the peoples, all the peoples, all the tribes, all the clans of the earth.

God has created them all in his image and desires them all to know his blessing.

Which is why Jesus came not just to save Jewish people from their sin.

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