BRAGADAYJAH 46

In renewing His covenant with Abraham, God ordered the circumcision of the flesh of all male children born to Abraham and his seed thereafter. Every child of 8 days old shall be circumcised. This was to include not only blood offspring, but male children born to servants and others that were born within the household. Specifically, God commanded any male child that was not circumcised shall be cut off from Abraham’s lineage as being outside of the covenant of God and outside of that line through which Messiah was to come. Then God said, as for Sarai thy wife, her name shall be now Sarah; and I will bless her and give her a son. I will bless her and she shall be the mother of many nations, and kings of people shall come of her. At hearing God’s promise, Abraham fell on his face and laughed and thought in his heart, “surely, God, you a kidding me. How can I a hundred years old father a child with a wife who is ninety years old?” Catching himself Abraham asked God, “surely you are talking about Ishmael aren’t you? But God told him plainly, Sarah shall bear a son and his name shall be called Isaac. “And I will establish my covenant with him and his seed after him, for an everlasting covenant. As for Ishmael, God said, I will bless him too, and many Kings and nations shall come out of him also. However, God told Abraham further, my covenant shall be with Isaac and his seed, and this time next year, he shall be born of Sarah thy wife. So Abraham laughed at God’s words but now he would be serious. He heard the words he had waited 25 years to hear. This was a direct, definite promise. A year from now, Isaac will be born. More.