LAND PROMISED TO ISRAEL FULFILLED IN THE PAST NOT FUTURE
One of the big promises dispensationalists claim is that Israel has not received all the land promised to them by God. These verses clearly teach us otherwise.
Soon after Abraham entered Canaan, God promised: "Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates (Gen. 15:18). However, Abraham never actually owned any of the land until his wife Sarah died, after which he purchased the cave of Machpelah where he buried her. Unlike the Zionists, Abraham did not assume that God's promise gave him the right to steal the land from its current owners, and he wouldn't even take the burial ground as a gift but insisted on paying for it.
It was not until over 400 years later that the descendants of Abraham, the 12 tribes of Israel, were told to take the land. Moses said to them, "Behold, I have set the land (of Canaan) before you: go in and possess the land which the Lord swear unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them" (Deut. 1:8).
Because of unbelief they failed to obey, and it was forty years later, after the death of Moses, that the promise was repeated to Joshua: "Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses. From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates ..." (Joshua 1:3,4).
The promise was fulfilled so that, just before Joshua died, he could say, "And the Lord gave unto Israel all the land which He swear to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.., there failed not ought of any good thing which the Lord had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass" (Joshua 21:43-45).
The fulfillment of the promise was confirmed by Nehemiah, who said, "So the children went in and possessed the land" (Neh. 9:7-24). Jeremiah also said that Israel "came in and possessed the land" (Jer. 32:21 ).
Before Stephen was killed by the Jews, he reminded them that God had fulfilled His promise regarding the land, saying, "They entered on the possession of the nations" (Acts 7:45).
Clearly the promise to give this land to Israel was totally fulfilled.
Like most of what dispensationalists teach, if you look at these scriptures you will see the obvious false teachings of this doctrine.
Soon after Abraham entered Canaan, God promised: "Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates (Gen. 15:18). However, Abraham never actually owned any of the land until his wife Sarah died, after which he purchased the cave of Machpelah where he buried her. Unlike the Zionists, Abraham did not assume that God's promise gave him the right to steal the land from its current owners, and he wouldn't even take the burial ground as a gift but insisted on paying for it.
It was not until over 400 years later that the descendants of Abraham, the 12 tribes of Israel, were told to take the land. Moses said to them, "Behold, I have set the land (of Canaan) before you: go in and possess the land which the Lord swear unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them" (Deut. 1:8).
Because of unbelief they failed to obey, and it was forty years later, after the death of Moses, that the promise was repeated to Joshua: "Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses. From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates ..." (Joshua 1:3,4).
The promise was fulfilled so that, just before Joshua died, he could say, "And the Lord gave unto Israel all the land which He swear to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.., there failed not ought of any good thing which the Lord had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass" (Joshua 21:43-45).
The fulfillment of the promise was confirmed by Nehemiah, who said, "So the children went in and possessed the land" (Neh. 9:7-24). Jeremiah also said that Israel "came in and possessed the land" (Jer. 32:21 ).
Before Stephen was killed by the Jews, he reminded them that God had fulfilled His promise regarding the land, saying, "They entered on the possession of the nations" (Acts 7:45).
Clearly the promise to give this land to Israel was totally fulfilled.
Like most of what dispensationalists teach, if you look at these scriptures you will see the obvious false teachings of this doctrine.
posted by Stacy at 12:32 AM
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