3<\/strong>:8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, \u201cIn you shall all the nations be blessed.\u201d<\/b>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version<\/i>. (2001). (Ga 3:8). Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.<\/p>\n

Despite how it may appear throughout history, God’s original intent is that all the world hear and respond to the Gospel.\u00a0 Although Israel was, and remains, the people group that God used as the lineage of His Son; God delivered the Gospel to Abraham before his circumcision.\u00a0 This act and intentional alignment of events gave validation to the Gentile community in regards to the Gospel.<\/p>\n

Although Genesis 12:3 and 18:18 give support to Abraham blessing all nations, it seems that Paul’s reference to Scripture in Galatians 3:7 is referring to All Scripture, similar to what he writes in 2 Timothy 3:15-17.\u00a0 The significance of this statement reinforces the connection between God and His written word.\u00a0 Given that the Bible is living and breathing, it can be known that God had original intent and design on its content and its audience.<\/p>\n

There is comfort knowing that God would orchestrate an encounter, like he did with Abraham, and have you and I in mind.\u00a0 It is encouraging to know that God would give the written Word to authors thousand of years ago, so that you and I might be encouraged today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

3:8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, \u201cIn you shall all the nations be blessed.\u201dThe Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2001). (Ga 3:8). Wheaton: Standard Bible Society. Despite how it may appear throughout history, God’s original intent is that all the world […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rlsmith.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rlsmith.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rlsmith.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rlsmith.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rlsmith.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rlsmith.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"http:\/\/rlsmith.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rlsmith.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rlsmith.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rlsmith.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rlsmith.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}