Acts 3:22-26
25 At that time Jesus answered and said, “I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and have revealed them to babes. 26 Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight. 27 All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him. 28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
“And in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
There is a false teaching of God’ Word in the world that declares Abraham as the father of three distinct faiths: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. All of these so-called Abrahamic faiths are given legitimacy by the false teachers through their misinterpretation of the Word that God spoke to Abraham, claiming that all of Abraham’s descendants are blessed—together with the faiths that they hold—by virtue of their being of Abraham’s bloodline.
Abraham, however, believed differently. Abraham holds the one true faith, the Christian faith, established at the foundation of the world by God the Holy Trinity. In the Garden of Eden, immediately following man’s fall, God promised to send the Seed of the Woman (Gen 3:15) to save all the world from sin and death and Hell. As the Holy Spirit of God testifies through the Apostle Paul, that seed, of which God speaks to Abraham, is a singular seed, Christ Himself (Gal 3:16). Abraham believed God’s prophecy that the Savior would be born from His bloodline, and God delivered on the promise when Christ Jesus was conceived and born of the Virgin Mary (Mt 1; Lk 3).
In this Seed truly all of the families of the earth shall be blessed, for Jesus is the propitiation (substitute) for all. “God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities” (Ac 3:26). Any one from any of the families of the earth—whether of the blood of Abraham (or not)—is blessed in this Seed when they hold to the only true Christian faith, just as Abraham did!
Let us pray: Stir up Your power, O Lord, and come, that by Your protection we may be rescued from the threatening perils of our sins and saved by Your mighty deliverance; for You live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen
