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renewed. It was the earlier covenant of promise.
When Yahweh cut covenant with Abraham, His plan was for the promise to tarry
for many more centuries. Even as the promise of God tarried for Abraham in a natural
sense, so too did it tarry in a spiritual sense. Isaac is a type and shadow of Yahshua.
Isaac was named “laughter” for his appearing brought gladness and joy to the hearts
of Sarah and Abraham in the same way that the appearance of Christ would bring
gladness and joy to the world.
Yahweh had far greater things in mind than were to be realized in Isaac when He
promised Abraham a seed. Isaac was not the true seed. Yahshua was that seed. God
had committed Himself to undertake for Abraham to bring forth a righteous heir.
Isaac was in bondage to sin, as was his father, but the long awaited Seed was not.
Yahshua was tempted in all ways as we, yet without sin.
We find another spiritual parable in the life of Abraham. When the natural seed
that was to be realized in Isaac tarried, Abraham took to himself another wife.
Abraham was already married to Sarah, and he took to himself Hagar, Sarah’s
handmaid, as wife. Marriage represents a covenant between two parties. This
covenant is sealed when a man is intimate with a woman. Hagar would have been a
virgin when she was given to Abraham, therefore a blood covenant was cut when
Abraham had relations with her.
It is necessary to understand that Hagar was Abraham’s wife by covenant in
order to perceive those things which follow.

Genesis 16:3-4
Then Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar her maid, the Egyptian, and
gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife, after Abram had dwelt
ten years in the land of Canaan. So he went in to Hagar, and she conceived.

Thus we see that Abraham has now entered into two covenants. The first was
with Sarah. The second with Hagar. When the fruit of the first covenant tarried to
appear, a second covenant was entered into. In the same way, Abraham’s descendants
entered into two covenants. The second covenant the descendants of Abraham could
not keep. They violated it repeatedly.

Hebrews 8:9
They did not continue in My covenant...

Even so, Abraham did not keep his covenant with Hagar. Though she was his
wife and had bore him a son, Abraham sent her away without inheritance or
provision. This was to fulfill the types and shadows of the Law. When the promised
Seed came according to the more ancient covenant, the covenant of the Law was put
away. The Law was never intended to remain forever. It was given only until the
promised Seed should come.