Part 1

Now we have seen what happened to man.

He was created to live, to rule, to administer, and to enjoy what God had created.

But man chose not to obey God.

And at that moment, everything changed.

The world was no longer what it had been in the beginning.

And man no longer lived in the state for which he was created.

We see this much later, when the Devil tempted Jesus and said to Him:

I will give You all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I can give it to whomever I wish.

Luke 4:6

Jesus said:

Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out!

John 12:31

So, after the Fall, something had changed.

But the story does not end here.

God did not abandon His creature.

At the very moment of the Fall, God gave a word of hope.

We see this in the words He spoke to the serpent:

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.

Genesis 3:15

At the moment of the Fall, a promise was also given.

A promise that evil would not have the last word.

Here begins the path of return.

But how would this promise be fulfilled?

Something very important happens here.

In the beginning, God blessed man and gave him authority to rule over the earth:

Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion…”.

Genesis 1:28

The Word also tells us:

The heavens are the heavens of the Lord, but the earth He has given to the children of men.

Psalm 115:16

God blessed man, gave him the earth to administer, and entrusted him with the authority to rule over it.

But when Adam rebelled against God, he surrendered the authority and dominion that God had given him. Through disobedience came the Fall, and with it, man lost the position of blessing in which God had placed him and fell under the consequences of the curse.

Nevertheless, God's plan for man and the earth was not over.

Since He had given the earth to the children of men, God would continue His plan on earth again through a man.

A man was needed who would believe the Word of God.

A man with whom God would make a covenant.

A man through whom the blessing would begin to flow again to people and, subsequently, to all nations.

And precisely here, on the path from curse to blessing, appears:

Abraham.

ABRAHAM

God said to Abraham:

Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you. I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.

Genesis 12:1–2

But there was something that made this promise humanly impossible.

Abraham had no children.

Nevertheless, God promised him that he would become “the father of many nations.”

Abraham had a choice:

To look at what he saw with his own eyes…

or to believe what God had told him.

He chose to believe.

And the Word says:

Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness.

Genesis 15:6

This is one of the most important moments in history.

Abraham believed the Word of God, even when what God had told him seemed impossible.

And God made a covenant with him:

I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come.

Genesis 17:7

Then God changed his name from Abram to Abraham and said:

As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.

Genesis 17:4

But the promise had to come through a child.

And Sarah was at an age when this seemed impossible.

The Word says:

Abraham and Sarah were old and well advanced in years, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing.

Genesis 18:11

Nevertheless, what God had said happened.

Sarah became pregnant and gave birth to Isaac.

The Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised.

Genesis 21:1

Here we see something very simple:

God spoke.

Abraham believed.

And God fulfilled His Word.

THE BLESSING THAT HAD TO PASS ON

But God had not chosen Abraham just to bless him.

The promise had a much greater purpose.

God had told him:

In you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.

Genesis 12:3

So, the blessing would not stop with Abraham.

It would pass to his descendants.

And through them it would reach the nations.

The Word explains it:

In you all the nations shall be blessed.

Galatians 3:8

This was part of the plan.

God was building, step by step, the way through which the blessing would reach people.

Later, the Word describes the blessing that God would give to His people:

Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country. Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, the produce of your ground and the increase of your animals… Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.

Deuteronomy 28:3–6

And further:

The Lord will command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand.

Deuteronomy 28:8

And:

The Lord will make you the head and not the tail; you shall be above only, and not be beneath.

Deuteronomy 28:13

But now we must understand something.

This was not just Abraham's story.

It was part of a much larger plan.

God was building the way through which the promise would reach all nations.

From the Fall…

to the Covenant.

From the curse…

to the blessing.

And from one man…

to all nations.

But the path did not end with Abraham.

The promise had to continue.

And He had to come, through whom this promise would be fulfilled and the blessing would reach all nations.

The King had to come.

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