John 1:16-17 (Amplified) tells us, "For out of His fullness (abundance), we have all received, all had a share and were all supplied with, one Grace after another and Spiritual blessing upon Spiritual Blessing and even favor upon favor and Gift heaped upon Gift. For while the Law was given through Moses, Grace (unearned, undeserved favor) and Spiritual Blessing and Truth came through Jesus Christ."
God made what we call, "Noah's Ark," in order to preserve the Seed. God directed Moses to build an Ark, in order to hold the Ten Commandments and deliver God's Promise to Abraham. The seed of Noah produced the son who sired Abraham, according to Genesis 11:10,27 (Amplified) which says, "This is the history of the generation of Shem (one of Noah's sons); Shem had a son called, Terah." Verse 27 says, "This is the history of the descendants of Terah. Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran, and Haran was the father of Lot."
In Genesis 3:15 (Amplified), God says to the serpent, "And I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring and her Offspring. He will bruise and tread your head under foot, and you will lie in wait and bruise His heel." God preserved Noah and his family, in order to protect His Promise concerning the Seed. Genesis 6:8-9 (Amplified) says, "But Noah found Grace (favor) in the eyes of the Lord. This is the history of the generations of Noah. Noah was a just and righteous man, blameless in his evil generation. Noah walked in habitual fellowship with God."
Genesis 12:1-3 (Amplified) says, "Now in Haran (Noah's grandson) the Lord said to Abram; Go for yourself, for your own advantage away from your country, from your relatives and your father's house, to a land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation; and I will Bless those who bless you (who confer prosperity or happiness upon you), and curse him who curses or uses insolent language toward you; in you will all the families and kindred of the earth be Blessed, and by you will they bless themselves."
A covenant, Promise, and solemn pledge was made between God and Abraham in Genesis 17. God kept His pledge and covenant with Abraham, down through Abraham's children. God Blessed Abraham's offspring from Isaac down through Joseph, in the land of Egypt. After Joseph was made Prime Minister of and died in the land of Egypt, another Pharaoh arose who didn't know Joseph. This Pharaoh set out to destroy all the male Hebrew children, but God once again determined to hold fast to His Promise and His Promised Seed.
Genesis 2:2-3 (Amplified) says, "And the woman became pregnant and bore a son; and when she saw that he was exceedingly beautiful, she hid him three months. And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an Ark or a basket made of bulrushes or papyrus, making it watertight by daubing it with bitumen and pitch. Then she put the child (Moses) in it and laid it among the rushes by the brink of the River Nile."
After becoming a grown man, Moses was exiled because of his connection to the Hebrews in Genesis 2:23-25 (Amplified) which says, "However, after a long time, nearly 40 years, the king of Egypt died; and the Israelites were sighing and groaning because of the bondage. They kept crying, and their cry because of slavery ascended to God. And God heard their sighing and groaning and earnestly remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and with Jacob. God saw the Israelites and took knowledge of them and concerned Himself about them (knowing all, understanding, remembering all)."
God honored His Seed, His covenant and His Promise to Abraham, along with the declaration He made in Genesis 3 about the Seed of His Promise. So far, God twice made an Ark, in order to protect and preserve that which was yet to come. Exodus 40:20-21 (Amplified) says, "Moses took the Testimony (the Ten Commandments), and put it into the Ark, and set the poles in the rings of the Ark, and put the Mercy Seat on the Top of the Ark. Moses brought the Ark into the tabernacle and set up the veil of the screen and screened the Ark of the Testimony as the Lord had commanded him."
God set up another Ark above, to protect His Promise and His covenant to mankind. Today, the Ark of the covenant the the solemn pledge of God's Promise have been set before us with the veil removed, according to Hebrews 10:19-20 (Amplified) which says, "Therefore brethren, since we have full freedom and confidence to enter into the Holy of Holies by the Power and Virtue of the Blood of Jesus. By this fresh, new, and Living way which He initiated and dedicated and opened for us through the separating curtain, veil of the Holy of Holies, that is through His flesh."
Jesus has now become the Fullness of the Promise to His Seed and to His pledge is the Last and Only True Ark of the Covenant, through our relationship with the Father. 2Corinthians 1:19-20 (Amplified) says, "For the Son of God, Christ Jesus the Messiah, Who has been preached among you by us (by myself and Silvanus and Timothy), was not Yes and No, but in Him is always the Divine YES. For this reason we also utter the Amen (so be it), to God through Him, in His Person and by His Agency to the Glory of God."
The Promises God made to mankind, from the Garden to the present, are all ours through Christ Jesus. These include those made to Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses and the prophets, until now. Galatians 3:16, 17 (Amplified) says, "Now the Promises (covenants, agreements) were decreed and made to Abraham and his Seed, his Offspring, His Heirs." God didn't say, "And to his seeds, descendants, or heirs," as if referring to man persons. God said, "And to your Seed, your Descendant, your Heir," in obvious reference to One Individual, Who is none other than Jesus Christ, the Messiah. Verse 17 goes on, "This is my argument, the Law, which began 430 years after the covenant concerning the coming Messiah, does not and cannot annul the covenant previously established (ratified) by God, so as to abolish the Promise and make it void." Galatians 3:13-14 (Amplified) says, "Christ purchased our freedom, redeeming us from the curse (doom of the Law and its condemnation) by Himself becoming a curse for us, for it is written in the scriptures, Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree (crucified) To the end that through their receiving Christ Jesus, the Blessing Promised to Abraham might come upon the Gentiles, so that we, through faith might all receive the realization of the Promise of the Holy Spirit."
Galatians 3:23 (Amplified) says, "But the scriptures picture all mankind as sinners shut up and imprisoned by sin, so that the inheritance, Blessing which was Promised through faith in Jesus Christ (the Messiah), might be given (released, delivered and committed) to all those who believe (who adhere to and trust in and rely on Him)."
Revelations 11:19 (Amplified) says, "Then the Sanctuary of God in Heaven was thrown open, and the Ark of His Covenant was seen standing inside His Sanctuary---."
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