Butch5
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In this thread I’d like to make the case for the land inheritance. May believe that the believer will spend eternity in Heaven but that isn’t what the Scriptures teach. The hope of the Christian is the land inheritance promised to Abraham.
14 And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:
15 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. (Gen 13:14-15 KJV)
God promised that He would give the land to Abraham and his seed as an everlasting possession. God made this promise of the land to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, yet none of them received that land. Stephen states that Abraham didn’t receive the land.
2 And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,
3 And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.
4 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.
5 And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.
(Act 7:2-5 KJV)
The land was promised to Abraham and his seed. Some claim that this was fulfilled when the Jews went into the Promised Land; however, that is not the case. For one thing when the Jews went into the land, Neither Abraham, Isaac, nor Jacob were alive to receive that land. Another reason the Jews going into the promised land cannot have fulfilled this promise is because Paul tells us that the Seed that God was speaking of in that promise was Christ.
16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ (Gal 3:16 KJV)
The Land was promised to Christ, according to Psalm 2 it is His inheritance.
7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. {the decree: or, for a decree}
8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. (Psa 2:7-8 KJV)
Paul also tells us that all things were made for Him.
9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. {for the: or, by the}
10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. (Heb 2:9-10 KJV)
The land is Christ’s inheritance and Paul says of the Christian that they are coheirs with Christ.
16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. (Rom 8:16-17 KJV)
26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. (Gal 3:26-29 KJV)
Paul says that Seed the promise was made to was Christ and if one is in Christ they are coheirs with Him, they are Abraham’s seed and hers according to the ppromise.
14 And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:
15 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. (Gen 13:14-15 KJV)
God promised that He would give the land to Abraham and his seed as an everlasting possession. God made this promise of the land to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, yet none of them received that land. Stephen states that Abraham didn’t receive the land.
2 And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,
3 And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.
4 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.
5 And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.
(Act 7:2-5 KJV)
The land was promised to Abraham and his seed. Some claim that this was fulfilled when the Jews went into the Promised Land; however, that is not the case. For one thing when the Jews went into the land, Neither Abraham, Isaac, nor Jacob were alive to receive that land. Another reason the Jews going into the promised land cannot have fulfilled this promise is because Paul tells us that the Seed that God was speaking of in that promise was Christ.
16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ (Gal 3:16 KJV)
The Land was promised to Christ, according to Psalm 2 it is His inheritance.
7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. {the decree: or, for a decree}
8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. (Psa 2:7-8 KJV)
Paul also tells us that all things were made for Him.
9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. {for the: or, by the}
10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. (Heb 2:9-10 KJV)
The land is Christ’s inheritance and Paul says of the Christian that they are coheirs with Christ.
16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. (Rom 8:16-17 KJV)
26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. (Gal 3:26-29 KJV)
Paul says that Seed the promise was made to was Christ and if one is in Christ they are coheirs with Him, they are Abraham’s seed and hers according to the ppromise.
