This is Greg Kokel and Amy Hall.

Welcome back to hashtag STR.

Oh, I got top billing that time.

I'll take it.

Okay, Greg, here's a question from Jesse.

How do you reconcile the fact that the covenant in Scripture is explicitly with Israel and the Jews, not with Gentile nations?

Genesis 17, 7 and 8, Exodus 19, 5, and 6.

If God's promises were made to Israel alone, what gives modern Christians confidence that they've inherited that covenant?

Well, this question is painful for me to hear because there's a very easy answer to this that the question itself

seems to not be aware of. There are multiple covenants in the Old Testament with the Jews.

There are three main ones that really are knit together that are the stepping

stones that bring us to Jesus. And I talk about this in some detail, and of course we have

it stand to reason called the Bible fast forward. Eight sessions, 50 minutes eats, DVD, whatever.

There's a 150 page syllabus that I put together that goes

with it. You don't have to take any notes, but it makes these main points that I'm offering

here so you can see how this works. 12 chapters into Genesis, after the mess of the fall and subsequent fallout as a result,

God initiates a rescue plan.

And the rescue plan is to take one man and from that man to make a nation of people that will be God's representatives to the whole world

in such a way that the world will be rescued.

The way the promise goes is that he will be a blessing, so that he will be a blessing.

So God says, I am going to take you and make you.

A great nation. A nation includes a land and a people and a government, essentially. And I'm going to

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