It is A.W. Pink points us to what this promise was. The phrase is unique. “Blessing I will bless you.” It stands in comparison to the first time this grammatical structure or order of words is used by God. The first time is found in Genesis 2:17 where we read that Adam was told that if he ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in that day he would, “surely die.” The Hebrew grammar is the same here as in Genesis 22:17 and actually reads, “dying you shall die.” God promised Adam that sin would bring death. And God has promised that faith in Him would bring life. The death that God set before Adam was not only physical… it was upon dying the promise of an unending, unalterable death, an eternal death. The blessing God is then offering Abraham was the exact opposite of the death of which He warned Adam. It was the blessing of life, an unending, unalterable life, an eternal life. Abraham waited to enter into that blessing until he was 175 and then the sting of death was removed and the blessing was his to obtain. In this faith the scriptures have designated Abraham as the father of the faithful. In fact, in Luke 16 the Lord Jesus tells the story of a poor man who dies and enters into the blessing of eternal life and that place of blessing is called, “Abraham’s bosom.” Abraham’s faith in God’s promise of a blessing that would throw off the sorrows of death was answered and he obtained it. Again in Matthew 8:11 Jesus is found commending the faith of a gentile and he says regarding the Kingdom of heaven, And I say to you that many will come from east and west, and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.
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