One of us is totally confused, but I think you'll find it's you. You are right about the foundational nature on Genesis 11-12, and that foundation is that God will bring blessing to all nations through the Seed of Abraham to those who will have the faith of Abraham. The Caananite woman is indeed also a teaching truth of the outworking of God's covenant. Where you are with the rest of it is, indeed, totally confused.
Me thinks I need to apologize to you for not reading your comments closely and assuming your meaning diffently than you intended them. I have a tendency to do that. Pray for me. I think (and it seems you do also) that all the points of the Abrahamic covenant, which is an everlasting covenant, will be fulfilled just as literally as the last point that promises that all the families (Shem, Ham, Japheth) will be blessed through the greater seed of Abraham, Jesus Christ. The sliding hermeneutic used by the Reformed worries me a lot.
I will try to do better in the future.
Let me just say where the rest of my understanding lies.
Knowing that one of the ways of God is to give a physical representation of his spiritual work, I draw from this incident with the woman the prophetic type of the church. It will be a gentile church (all the types of the church are a gentile woman), a kingdom entered into by faith, but with the King away. This will not be a kingdom within the family of David and is the reason Jesus did not answer her until she addressed him, not as the son of David, but as Lord. This is how one enters into the church. It was true for the greatest of all Pharisees, Paul. It is true of you and me if we have entered in. From Matthew 12 the gospel of the kingdom to Israel was off the table because of their national unbelief and had already sentenced him to death. This was the generation that was tasked to recognize and receive their Messih and King and they refused. However, there is a future for the world in spite of this fact and it will not be under the principle of the physical kingdom but under the principle of grace and after the Law of God has been fully vindicated by one perfect person in one day in one sacrificial event on the cross for everybody on the earth, God having been satisfied by this sacrifice for us all.
This does not negate a single promise of God to Abraham concerning his own family because God , who pictures the nation as his son who has died and has been buried after two one thousand year days of God and time is not counted when one is dead. This nation, Like our savour, is raised from the dead very early on the third day (the day of the LORD) and will live again and will be saved, every citizen and all the promises, every one, will be realized for heaven and earth to see.
Ho 6:1Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
2Pe 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Of all the 7 miracle signs in the gospel of John, this is one of them. Why did the Lord single this one miracle out? It was to hide his truths from the mere religious while he reveals them to the spiritual.
Jn 21:25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.
Jn 20:30 And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book:
31 But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.
The Reformed are feeding on ashes. Thir religion blinds them to the greater truths of the word of God.
While God's son Israel is dead and buried our God will take from his body a woman who will become his wife and will occupy the paradise of God with him when it is complete. The work goes on whle we speak but is nearly done.
Written in 58 AD
Rom 11:
7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
8 (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear
unto this day.
9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
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For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
Life from the dead is a resurrection.
