Covenant Relationships in Death

Voice of a Father Today’s Focus: Covenant Relationships in Death Scripture: Genesis 49:30-33 Greetings Sons of God: As dark as the title of this message may sound it is still a crucial biblical principal that we must recognize and understand. Abraham in coming into Canaan and bought a cave in Hebron in a particular place called Machpelah. The word Machpelah means “double-cave”. Abraham bought this cave so that he can bury his family there. Now we know in our natural society that families buy plots so that when they die, they are buried together. Well we know that this concept comes from this very scripture of Abraham desiring to bury his family in this cave of Machpelah. Now who is buried in this cave? Genesis 49:30-33: In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah which is before Mamre ,in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace. There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah. Jacob is speaking here and of course after this Jacob dies and is buried in the same cave with his family. Notice that Rachel was not buried here. She was not buried here because she was not truly connected to divine destiny. But what is the point in all of this. Yeah, ok, I see that family is buried one place but what does that have to do with the Body of Christ today? The dead laid the path that we are following today. We are the custodians of the seed passed on from our ancestors. But most of all covenants are established in death. By Abraham choosing to bury the family together God was showing an eternal concept that even in death we choose to be linked to our covenant partners. This means in as much as we put high value on life, we need to put high value on life in death. Think about this, though Abraham is not on this earth physically, yet he still lives with the Father right now. We are linked to him (Galatians 3:26-29) because we are heirs of the promise and the seed of Abraham. So even in death we are still liked to our covenant partners. Now this brings us to another point. You can never celebrate the future without remembering the past. We should celebrate the lives of those who have gone on before and who have laid down their lives so that we can perpetuate the legacy and the Will of the Father in the Earth until the Lord comes. Think about this! We celebrate David, Joshua, Abraham, Moses and all these biblical people and their lives because they have laid a path and given us an example to follow that we may perpetuate the culture of the Father in bringing the lost sons of promise back into righteous rule. However, this cannot happen until we put the highest premium on people and relationships. Peace, Love and Grace from the Father, Calvin Calhoun, Jr.