Your descendants will also be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and in you and in your descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed.That last phrase caught my attention. How is it that everyone will be blessed by Jacob's line? Is it that everyone will be related to him, somehow or other through the centuries? Is it that since they spread out, there will be one of his line nearby to help all?
I think this may be the first hint of Christianity. Hebrews explains that Christians are grafted into the line of Jacob (the Jews), and there are suggestions that all will hear the Gospel before the end times. Therefore all families will have the chance to be saved, and perhaps someone from every family will accept that salvation. I hope it is more than one per family.
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