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Galatians 4
Galatians 4:1 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth
nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
2 But is under
tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
3 Even
so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the
world:
4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth
his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
5 To redeem them that
were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
6
And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your
hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
7 Wherefore thou art no more a
servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
8 Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by
nature are no gods.
9 But now, after that ye have known God, or
rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly
elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
10 Ye observe
days, and months, and times, and years.
11 I am afraid of you, lest
I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have
not injured me at all.
13 Ye know how through infirmity of the
flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
14 And my
temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but
received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
15 Where
is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it
had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have
given them to me.
16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I
tell you the truth?
17 They zealously affect you, but not well;
yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
18 But
it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only
when I am present with you.
19 My little children, of whom I
travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
20 I
desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand
in doubt of you.
21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law,
do ye not hear the law?
22 For it is written, that Abraham had
two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
23
But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the
freewoman was by promise.
24 Which things are an allegory: for
these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which
gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
25 For this Agar is mount
Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in
bondage with her children.
26 But Jerusalem which is above is
free, which is the mother of us all.
27 For it is written,
Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that
travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which
hath an husband.
28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the
children of promise.
29 But as then he that was born after the
flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman
and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son
of the freewoman.
31 So then, brethren, we are not children of
the bondwoman, but of the free.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
•
The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book:
Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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Jeremiah 17:5 Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh
his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.
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