Prophecy: Salvation Promised to Isaac’s Spiritual Descendants
The purpose of all the Old Testament prophecies, is to build faith in us. Line upon line, verse upon verse, a pattern of promises that we can base our life upon. When we come to the New Testament and read the testimony of those who wrote concerning the events surrounding Jesus Christ, we see that each of these Old Testament predictions are fulfilled in His birth, life, death, and resurrection. When God makes a promise, men may either believe what He has said and trust Him, or they can reject God’s what He has said. For those who believe, and live their lives for Jesus, they are acceptable to God based on their trust. Salvation is really just that simple.
I have often heard it said by people who have read or studied a doctrine or particular verse in the Bible, that they do not like to read any other book or commentary that brings up a subject that they have already studied. I suppose their thinking is that it is rather boring to go over the same subject again and again, rather than to learn something new. It would only be necessary to read the Bible once, if we could grasp everything that we read the first time. Fortunately, even after a lifetime of studying the Bible, there is always something new to be gleaned from every verse of the Bible, regardless of how many times we read it. After studying and teaching the Bible for nearly 30 years, nearly every time I read a verse again, I gain a new insight and depth that I had not understood before.





