Ex Post Facto Factoring

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● Gen 26:5 . . Abraham hearkened to My voice, and kept My charge, My
commandments, My statutes, and My instructions.

● Deut 29:13-14 . . Not only with you am I making this covenant and this
oath, .but with those standing here with us today before the Lord, our God,
and [also] with those who are not here with us, this day.

It's sincerely believed by some that the two statements above serve to
include Abraham in the covenant that Yhvh's people agreed upon with God
as per Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. But the statement
below seems to exclude him.

● Deut 5:2-3 . .The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. Not
with our forefathers did the Lord make this covenant, but with us, we, all of
whom are here alive today.

I'm pretty sure that Abraham was excluded from the covenant. The reason I
feel that way is because God promised to curse whosoever curses Abraham.

● Gen 12:3 . . I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you
I will curse,

The problem is: Abraham was married to his half sister (Gen 20:12)

The covenant prohibits marrying, and/or sleeping with, one's half sister. (Lev
18:9, Lev 20:17).

Under the terms and conditions of the covenant; men who sleep with their
sisters are cursed the moment they do so because "cursed be he" is
grammatically present tense; no delay and no waiting period; viz: the curse
is immediate.

● Deut 27:22 . . Cursed be he who lies with his sister, his father's daughter
or his mother's daughter.

● Deut 27:26 . . Cursed be he who does not uphold the words of this Torah,
to fulfill them.

Well; it seems to me that were God to slam Abraham with a curse for
sleeping with his sister, then God would be obligated to slam Himself with a
curse in return as per Gen 12:3.

● Gal 3:17 . .The Law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, does
not invalidate a covenant previously ratified by God.

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It's not difficult to appreciate Abraham's advantage. He had a certain kind of
immunity. In other words; seeing as how Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and
Deuteronomy weren't instituted until after Abraham was dead; then none of
the curses listed at Lev 26:3-38, Deut 27:15-26, and Deut 28:1-69 applied
to him.

Putting that in perspective: Just imagine yourself at liberty to break all ten of
the statutes listed in the Decalogue as much as you wanted and as often as
you wanted; and not have to worry about ending up in the lake of fire
depicted at Rev 20:11-15.

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● Gal 3:17 . .The law, introduced 430 years later, does not set aside the
covenant previously established by God and thus do away with the promise.

The "promise" in question reads like this:

"I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will
aggrandize your name, and [you shall] be a blessing. And I will bless those
who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse, and all the families
of the earth shall be blessed in you." (Gen 12:2-3)

Additionally:

"And I will give you and your seed after you the land of your sojournings,
the entire land of Canaan for an everlasting possession, and I will be to them
for a god." (Gen 17:8)

The essential thing to note about the promise is that it's unconditional. In
other words: its fulfillment did not depend upon Abraham's compliance with
the covenant that Yhvh's people agreed upon with God as per Exodus,
Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. And best of all, the fulfilment of the
promise does not depend upon Abraham's posterity complying with the
covenant.

Bottom line: The fulfillment of the promise depends entirely upon God's
integrity instead of upon human piety.

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