Chapter 8 – The Children Of Promise Flashcards
In the Bible there are two types of children what are they?
Children of the flesh and children of the promise
“Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham’s children. On the contrary, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.” In other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring. For this was how the promise was stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.” Not only that, but Rebekah’s children were conceived at the same time by our father Isaac. Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God’s purpose in election might stand: not by works but by him who calls—she was told, “The older will serve the younger.” Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
Romans 9:7–13
The children of the promise are those to whom the promise was given through the prophecies when?
Before their birth, like Isaac or Jacob.
“Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar; so she said to Abram, “The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.” Abram agreed to what Sarai said. So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife. He slept with Hagar, and she conceived. When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress. Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my slave in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the Lord judge between you and me.” “Your slave is in your hands,” Abram said. “Do with her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her. The angel of the Lord found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur. And he said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I’m running away from my mistress Sarai,” she answered. Then the angel of the Lord told her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her.” The angel added, “I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.” The angel of the Lord also said to her: “You are now pregnant and you will give birth to a son. You shall name him Ishmael, for the Lord has heard of your misery. He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.” She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen the One who sees me.” That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi; it is still there, between Kadesh and Bered. So Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne. Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.”
Genesis 16:1–16
“But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year.””
Genesis 17:21
“Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised. Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him. Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore him. When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded him.”
Genesis 21:1–4
Apostle Paul interpreted this history as what for the churches in Galatia?
Interpreted this history as prophecy
“Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware of what the law says?
Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.”
Galatians 4:21, 31
Apostle Paul describe those to whom the promise was given through the prophecies before their birth, as who?
As the children of promise
“Now you, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise. At that time the son born according to the flesh persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit. It is the same now. But what does Scripture say? “Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.” Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.”
Galatians 4:28-31
“Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham’s children. On the contrary, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.” In other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring. For this was how the promise was stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.” Not only that, but Rebekah’s children were conceived at the same time by our father Isaac. Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God’s purpose in election might stand: not by works but by him who calls—she was told, “The older will serve the younger.” Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.””
Romans 9:7–13
When Isaac’s wife Rebecca was pregnant, twin babies were in her room. What did God say to her and what verse is it?
Genesis 25:23
“The Lord said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”” (Jacob)
Two nations indicates who?
Jacob and Esau
God promised advance through what?
Prophecy
The church does all the prophecies in the Bible is also called what?
The child of promise
The prophet Malachi prophesied about the last prophet and the last church. Which verse in Malachi prophesies this?
Malachi 4:5–6
““See, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes. He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents; or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction.””
Malachi 4:5-NIV
Malachi 4:5–6
Concerning God’s choosing a prophet from the east what did the prophet Isaiah write? Which verse?
Isaiah 46:11
“From the east I summon a bird of prey; from a far-off land, a man to fulfill my purpose. What I have said, that I will bring about; what I have planned, that I will do.”
Isaiah 46:11
“Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea: “Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.””
Revelation 7: 2-3
Only which church that fulfills which mission can be the child of promise?
The mission of Elijah
“Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham’s children. On the contrary, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.” In other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring. For this was how the promise was stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.” Not only that, but Rebekah’s children were conceived at the same time by our father Isaac. Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God’s purpose in election might stand: not by works but by him who calls—she was told, “The older will serve the younger.” Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.””
Romans 9:7–13
“Now you, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise. At that time the son born according to the flesh persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit. It is the same now. But what does Scripture say? “Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.” Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.”
Galatians 4:28–31
It is a matter of great importance that God made a promise. The prophet Malachi prophesied about John the Baptist, so John was called the greatest prophet among those born of women. Which verse says this?
Luke 7:26–28
“But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet. This is the one about whom it is written: “ ‘I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.’ I tell you, among those born of women there is no one greater than John; yet the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.””
Luke 7:26–28
“Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea, only the remnant will be saved. For the Lord will carry out his sentence on earth with speed and finality.””
Romans 9:27–28
Now, the number of the spiritual Israelites, the so-called Christians all of the world, is like the sand by the sea. However the number of the chosen, the children of promise who will be changed to enter alive into heaven is only 144,000. Which verse explains this?
Revelation 7:2–4
“Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea: “Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.” Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.”
Revelation 7:2–4
The remnant are also known as what?
Children of promise
In ancient times, Elijah pleaded with God against Israel, “Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your alters; I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me.” And what was God’s answer to him? What verse?
Romans 11:3–5
““Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me”? And what was God’s answer to him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.”
When apostle John saw the revelation on the island of Patmos, he wrote about the remnant as follows?
Revelation 12:17
“Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring—those who keep God’s commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus.”
“Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring—those who keep God’s commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus.”
Revelation 12:17
The remnants in Romans 9:27 and a remnant chosen by grace in Romans 11:5 are what
The same prophecy and referred to the children of promise and “the rest of her offspring” are the last remnant of God’s offspring.
“Now you, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise. At that time the son born according to the flesh persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit. It is the same now.”
Galatians 4:28–29
““See, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes.”
Malachi 4:5
The rest of the woman’s offspring in Revelation 12:17 two, are the children of what?
The children of promise, who are born of the Spirit.
“Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring—those who keep God’s commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus.”
Revelation 12:17
Some say that the rest of the woman’s offspring indicate the Seventh-day Adventists. They say so because they miss interpret the Bible, understanding and fragments with these two verses
Revelation 12:7
Revelation 19:10
There misinterpretation becomes a great obstacle to the truth coming in the last days
“At this I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, “Don’t do that! I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers and sisters who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For it is the Spirit of prophecy who bears testimony to Jesus.””
Revelation 19:10 NIV
It is the apostles who receive the spirit of prophecy; it is also the apostles who held what?
Held to the testimony of Jesus.
The testimony of Jesus means what?
It means the Holy Spirit that the Apostle John and his brothers the apostles received on the day of Pentecost
Where should we begin to study the rest of the woman’s offspring? In studying important matters in the New Testament, we must find related verses in what?
In the Old Testament to find the correct interpretation.
“And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.””
Genesis 3:15