What Is the Abrahamic Covenant? — Genesis 12:3

BY BCL | What is the Abrahamic covenant, and why is every Christian the offspring of Abraham?

Hult, Adolf (1869-1943); Bible Primer, God’s Covenant with Abraham; image from Wikimedia Commons.

To understand the Abrahamic covenant properly, we need to take a moment to consider God’s covenant of grace. We first find the unconditional covenant of grace in Genesis 3:15 where God promises that a savior will come who will crush the head of the serpent (i.e. Satan). In the covenant of grace, people are saved by God’s grace through faith in Christ alone because of Christ’s perfect keeping of the law and his perfect and complete sacrifice once and for all for sin (Rom. 5:12–21; Heb. 7:27; 10:14).

God’s covenant of grace is more fully revealed in the Abrahamic covenant…