I believe they were ultimately saved the same why we are, by grace through faith.
What would happen to you if you repented, then stumbled in sin, and then died before you repented?
I don't understand what you mean by this. Would you explain, please?
I'm franky, I think froggy said that
The everlasting one is.......the new cov, Heb 10:9 says Jesus abolished the first cov.
Heb 13:20 Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant,
Again, you're fusing the blessing from Abe, with the old cov, it was not of the old cov, that is a fact. Please study Rom 4, the promise was PRE-circumcision.
Rom 4:9 Is this blessing then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? For we say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness. 10 How then was it counted to him? Was it before or after he had been circumcised? It was not after, but before he was circumcised.
It is the same covenant, can't you see that? Jesus fulfilled the law by meeting in His very body, all the requirements of the covenant, and thereby removing the long list of curses from not complying with the law.
Genesis 17:7 God said to Abraham
"And I will establish My covenant between Me and you,
and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an
everlasting covenant to be God to you and your descendants after you." [ we are Abraham's descendants ]
Psalm 111:5 "...........He will remember His covenant forever"
Psalm 105:8,9 "He has remembered His covenant
forever, the word which He commanded to a thousand generations, the covenant which he made with Abraham, and His oath to Issac."
1 Chron. 16:14-17 everlasting covenant
God told Abraham that the blessings were for his descendants, ie, seed, offspring heirs.
Galatians 3:13-14
"Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us..." See Deut, 28 for a list of the curses.
14, " In order that in Christ Jesus, the blessing of Abraham might come to the gentiles, so that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith."
Verse 16 says Christ is the seed of Abraham
verse 19 says If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's offspring, and heirs [joint heirs with Christ ]
heirs according to promise.
Romans 15:8 says Christ has become a servant to confirm the promises given to the fathers
1 Cor. 1:20 says all the promises of God are yes and amen in Christ.
Froggy, you say the blessings in Galatians 3 are "spiritual blessings only", I say Abraham had his spiritual blessings when he
believed God, so everything else he was blessed with in the covenant were in addition to his being made righteous in God's eyes.
Yes, the Covenant God made with His creation is everlasting, as in never ending, God said a thousand generations, ours isn't that many generations yet.
And almost last, but certainly not least is the word "new" in the Greek kainos, meaning something that existed before, but new in quality.
example The automobile called the Edsel, came out some years back, it was new [neos] because it never existed before.
Now the new Buick for 2016, this "new" is kainos, meaning new in quality, or in appearance, ie, we've had Buicks for al long time, but the 2016 Buick has new digital instruments, wi-fi, etc, IOW, it is new and improved, and looks different.
This word kainos is the word God used in every single mention of "new covenant" in the bible, but one, in Hebrews 12:24, and I cannot explain that one.
Now we have the teaching from Paul in Romans 11 where God says that we gentiles who are "wild olive tree branches" are grafted into the Olive tree, and receive from the rich root of the Olive tree.
I have a thread elsewhere on this subject.