“That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;”
God declares that he will surely bless Abraham and make his descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. The two images — stars and sand — appear together here for the first time; previously it was only stars (Genesis 15:5) or only dust (Genesis 13:16). The combination of sky and ground, the infinite above and the uncountable below, is the declaration that the blessing extends in every dimension. Revelation 7:9 pictures the fulfillment: a great multitude that no one could count. The application: the scope of the covenant blessing is not recoverable by human counting. The promise is as vast as the sky and the beach combined.
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