{"id":1719,"date":"2014-07-25T06:42:10","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T10:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/?p=1719"},"modified":"2014-07-25T06:42:10","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T10:42:10","slug":"did-god-first-promise-israel-to-all-of-abrahams-descendants","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/?page_id=1719","title":{"rendered":"Did God first promise Israel to all of Abraham\u2019s descendants?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Question:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Did God first promise Israel to Abraham\u2019s entire descendants, and then refine it to only through Isaac, or did he include both Ishmael and Isaac, or did he mean everyone and anyone who believed in Him that was a descendant of Abraham, meaning Jews, Muslims and Christians?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Answer:<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The covenant was established for the descendants though Isaac only; Gen. 21:12 \u201c\u2026in Isaac shall my seed be called.\u201d This is also confirmed in the New Testament; Rom. 9: 8 \u201c&#8230;. the children of the promise are counted for the seed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There was a clause in the original covenant that allowed any and everyone that was willing to accept the terms of the covenant to become participants in the covenant; therefore Ishmael, Jews, Muslims, Gentiles, and Christians were included also. They weren\u2019t born into the covenant; they have to literally accept it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Did God first promise Israel to Abraham\u2019s entire descendants, and then refine it to only through Isaac, or did he include both Ishmael and Isaac, or did he mean everyone and anyone who believed in Him that was a descendant of Abraham, meaning Jews, Muslims and Christians? Answer:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The covenant was established for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1719","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1720,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1719\/revisions\/1720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}