The Seed of Abraham

I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you.

Genesis 12:3

Do the promises God made to Abraham belong to a modern nation-state? Does Genesis oblige American Christians to bankroll a foreign government? Is the church an interruption in God’s plan or the object of it? Did the Old Testament’s prophecies skip over Christ and the church just to land on the evening news? Did Jesus die to make a new people or to reappoint an old one?

What no one told you is that these ideas are modern inventions, smuggled into the American church through the footnotes of one study Bible. For nineteen centuries, these questions had obvious answers.

In The Seed of Abraham, Andrew Isker surveys the New Testament, walking through what has been staring back at us for two millenia. His answers will doubtless be labeled “replacement theology” or outright “antisemitism,” but honest readers will be refreshed by Isker’s recovery of a historic understanding of the covenant promises.

Who are God’s chosen people today?