Breaking The Jewish Code Perry Stone

earth shall be blessed” (Gen. 22:18). With each step of obedience that Abram took, God increased the magnitude of His promises—from just a nation, to a great nation, to nations of kings , to a nation that would bless the entire world ! The master key to release the fulfillment of these promises was obedience to the instructions demanded by God in His covenant. The Secrets in the Covenant The secret of the LORD is with those who fear Him, And He will show them His covenant. —Psalm 25:14 On the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying: “To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates.” —Genesis 15:18 The Hebrew word for covenant is b’rit , and it is used 280 times in the Old Testament. According to W. E. Vine’s Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words , the word b’rit is frequently the object of the verb karath , “to divide or to cut in two.”1 In Genesis 15, when God and Abraham “cut covenant,” Abraham provided a heifer, a female goat, a ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon as offerings, dividing the larger animals into two halves (Gen. 15:9–10). This was an ancient ratification