God’s Plan for Israel (Pt. 4)

A third key element of God’s covenant with Abraham is that God promised Abraham and his descendants that they would have their own land (12:1, 7; 13). This covenantal land grant from God to Abraham is very specific and gets repeated many times throughout the Bible, including the promise that the land will belong to his descendants forever and ever, just as seen in the next chapter where it says, “The Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, ‘Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward; for all the land which you see, I will give it to you and to your descendants forever’” (Gen. 13:14-15). According to this text and many others, the land of Canaan is to forever belong to the nation of Israel.



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