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Great question - and here's the answer:
Genesis 12: 2 I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. 3. I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."
Genesis 22: 17 I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, 18 and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me."
Galatians 3: 16 The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say "and to seeds," meaning many people, but "and to your seed," meaning one person, who is Christ. 17 What I mean is this: The law, introduced 430 years later, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God and thus do away with the promise. 18 For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on a promise; but God in his grace gave it to Abraham through a promise.
There's a good article called Promises to Abraham which explains this in more detail.
This could get back to the statement that Paul made in Romans that "all Israel will be saved". When will that be fulfilled? How will God carry that out? Does that mean every last Jew? How can this be accomplished? Nobody but God knows for sure!
The problem is, you are asking "how" will God fulfill this. No one knows...We simply believe, by faith, that He will be true to His word and fulfill his promise in His own way and His own time - just as He has already fulfilled the other 300+ prophecies so far. If someone had asked Abraham in his time, "How will God forgive the sins of the world?" Abraham would not have known about God coming in the flesh, about Yeshua dying on a cross. He would not have known the "how", but he did believe God and God counted that as righteousness.
So, how did Jesus fulfill the promise that "all shall know Me"? Maybe part of the answer lies in the tense of the verb. "Did" equals past as if the promise has already reached its complete fulfillment. We don't believe that the promise is completed yet....We believe that it will be completely fulfilled.
Bottom line: Just as God promised to gather His people to Israel - which started a long time ago, and which is still happening - so also the New Covenant fulfillment began a long time ago and still continues to this day, and will be accomplished in the last days. God has a grand plan, and He WILL fulfill ALL that He has promised! He always does....
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