Circumcision of male child on the eighth day Photo: © Yaakov Aryeh Alter, Wikipedia Commons
God's Covenant with Abraham
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, God appeared to Abram again and told him he was making a covenant with him.
"You shall be the father of a multitude of nations. No longer will your name be called Abram. From now on your name is Abraham (meaning 'Father of a Multitude') for I will make you father of a multitude of nations. (Genesis 17:4-5)
As a sign of his covenant God ordered Abraham to circumcise every male born in his household, including Ishmael. And Sarai was no longer called Sarai but Sarah, and she would give birth to a child even at the age of ninety. Not surprisingly, Sarah laughed at the idea (Genesis 18:12), but, as God had promised, the following year she gave birth to a son and called him Isaac, meaning he laughs.
God made three promises as part of his covenant with Abraham.
- THE PROMISE OF BEING THE FATHER OF MANY NATIONS
- THE PROMISE OF A LAND OF THEIR OWN
- THE PROMISE OF A SON OF HIS OWN BODY
The Sign of the Covenant: Circumcision
When Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised his son as God had instructed him.
The Abrahamic Covenant & The War for World Domination
God's call to Abraham and the promises he made as part of the covenant are crucial in understanding the war for world domination because they are the basis for the enmity at both natural and supernatural levels.
At the natural level the birth of Isaac - the child of the promise - set in train a historical enmity still seen today between God's Chosen People, the descendants of Jacob (who became Israel), and the descendants of Ishmael, the Arabs. This is also to be seen in the distinction between Jews and Gentiles in terms of circumcision of all males at eight days old.
At the supernatural level God's covenant set God's Chosen People against the rest of the world that is under the dominion of Satan. Hence the enmity between Jews and Arabs, The Holocaust and Hitler's attempts to annihilate the Jews, and the stated aim of Islamic terrorism to wipe the state of Israel from the face of the earth.