Deuteronomy 29:13-15
That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath; But with him that standeth here with us this day before the Lord our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day.
Covenant heads are given the privilege and responsibility of making decisions for their immediate families and their posterity. In this way, God can make a covenant with a man's great grandchildren without them being present for the ceremonial vows. A descendant can keep covenant or break it, but he cannot escape it. Our ancestors are inescapable. We cannot help but keep up with them in perpetuity or break up with them by discontinuity.
In such a way, we can be in covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob of old and with our great grandchildren of the future through our shared commitments to God in Christ.
Matthew 22:32
I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
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