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Sarah has ventured that the covenants God made with Israel were only of
a conditional nature. This is a rebuttal of that false presumption.

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Abrahamic Covenant: Gen 12:1-3 "I will" 7 times
Mosaic Covenant: Ex 19:5ff "if you will"
Palestinian Covenant: Deut 30:1-10 "I will" 12 times
Davidic Covenant: II Sam 7:10-16 "I will" 7 times
New Covenant: Jere 31:31-40 "I will" 7 times

Abrahamic Covenant reinforced by Palestinian, New, Davidic

1) Promise of National Land Gen 12:1; 13:14-15, 17
Palestinian: Deut 30:3-5; Ez 20:33-37, 42-44.
Assurance of Final, Permanent Restoration to the land

2) Promise of Redemption, National & Universal Gen 12:3; 22:18; Gal
3:16
New: Jere 31:31-40; Heb 8:6-13
Israel's Spiritual Blessing and Redemption
Gentiles Blessing and Redemption: Eph 2:11, 12; Gal 3:8, 14-18

3) Promise of Numerous Descendants forming "Great Nation"
Gen 12:2; 13:16; 17:2-6
Davidic: II Sam 7:11, 13, 16; Jere. 33:20, 21; 31:35-37
Promise of Dynasty, Nation and Throne

Except for the Mosaic Covenant, the other 4 covenants are
1) Unconditional:
a) irrevocable (Rom 11:29) There is no condition whatsoever
involved other than God's faithfulness (Heb 6:17-18) Authority and
integrity all rely upon God's own character.
b) it should be noted that blessings may grow out of the original
covenant that are conditioned but which, whether obeyed or not, do not
change the unconditional character of the covenant. A covenant is a
legal document, a "sovereign disposition of God, whereby he establishes
an unconditional or declarative compact with man, obligating Himself,
in grace, by the untrammeled formula, "I WILL," to bring to pass of
Himself definite blessings for the covenanted ones." [Lincoln, "The
Covenants"]

2) Eternal
a) Abrahamic: Gen 17:7, 13, 19; I Chron 16:17; Ps 105:10
b) Palestinian: Ez 16:60
c) Davidic: II Sam 23:5; Isa 55:3; Ez 37:25
d) New: Isa 24:5; 61:8; Jere 32:40; 50:5; Heb 13:20

3) Specific to Israel
a) Rom 9:4 Israel received the covenants, not Gentiles
b) Eph 2:11-12 again, the Gentiles have not received a covenant
nor do they enjoy a covenant relationship with God.

Both these passages reveal that the Gentiles were 1) without a
covenant, negatively, but 2) positively, that God had entered into a
covenant relationship with Israel.

Paul then declares that there was a provision made in the Abrahamic
Covenant, Gen 12:3, stating that "all families of the earth" are
promised a blessing through the nation of Israel. There is not
specificity as to what that bles