Scofield v. Scripture

[Sinthesis]

Lev 25:23¶ The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for yeare strangers and sojourners with me.

There is only one physical seed of Israel, by definition also the seed of Abraham, who fulfills all the land covenants. Jesus' divinity reveals that all the land is His, and always has been His, to give to any He chose as He saw fit. The covenants with Abraham and Israel are therefore kept in Jesus, whereby He who possesses all the land came incarnate as a physical descendent of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob. It is through Jesus that Abraham, Issac, and Jacob can claim that their physical seed possesses the land.

 

[reba]

Jos 21:43 And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.
Jos 21:44 And the LORD gave them rest round about, according to all that he sware unto their fathers: and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them; the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand.
Jos 21:45 There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.

 

[Dan00]

Ultimately, when Jesus returns and we are in the age of Resurrection, The Land will belong to The Seed and His children.
JLB

Hi, JLB. You wrote: "there can be no mistaking the reference to the natural descendants of Abraham."

LOL! Scriptures are misinterpreted and mistaken (and mistranslated) all the time. That is why there are about a zillion different denominations of Christian churches.

For example, your quotes of Genesis are from the "New" King James Version (NKJV), which tends to alter meanings found in the old 1611 King James Version that the 1909 Scofield Reference Bible uses (which I will label SKJV to avoid confusion.) In fact, the NKJV gives an entirely different meaning to the verses you quoted. The following are those verses from the SKJV:

"And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God. And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations. This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised." - Genesis 17:8-10

"And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws." - Genesis 26:4-5

Note the use of "seed" rather than "descendants". The SKJV matchs the context of the NT scripture by Paul in Galatians, which states the promises are fulfilled in Christ:

"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." - Galatians 3:16

Oddly, the NKJV altered the meaning of the Old Testament ref, but not the meaning of the New Testament ref, as follows:

"Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, "And to seeds," as of many, but as of one, "And to your Seed," who is Christ." - Galatians 3:16, NKJV

You wrote: "This Covenant and it's promises to the natural descendents of Abraham and Isaac, can not be annuled by the law of Moses, or the New Covenant, which is an extension of the Covenant with Abraham."

God can do as He pleases. It is His creation. Besides, Israel broke the covenant, not God, and Israel broke it in many ways: they polluted the temple, worshipped idols, broke the sabbath, violated marriage restrictions, and among other sins, did not run all of the resident nations off the "promised land" as God ordered them to do. That last violation, in itself, was reason enough for God to completely destroy Israel and give the land to others.

God gave these instructions to Israel regarding the current occupants of the "promised land:"

"Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places: And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it." – Numbers 33:52-53

But God also warned Israel what would happen should they fail to drive out all the inhabitants of the land. He clearly states He would eventually do to Israel what He had planned to do unto the inhabitants (e.g., completely destroy them

“But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell. Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.” – Numbers 33:55-56

"And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the Lord thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish. As the nations which the Lord destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the Lord your God." - Deuteronomy 8:19-20

That violation sealed Israel's fate. When considering all the ways Israel broke the covenants, including their total and complete pollution of the temple during our Lord's generation, and the fact that they persecuted and/or killed the prophets, apostles and saints, not to mention committing the worst crime in the history of the world--the murder of our Lord Jesus--is it any wonder Jesus called them "Children of the Devil" and Paul warned they were "contrary to all men." (John 8:44 and 1 Thessalonians 2:15)

Other bible translations of 1 Thess 2:15 declare the Jews to be "enemies of everyone," "hostile to everyone," "adversaries to all men," "working against all men," "foes of all men," "hostile to the entire human race," etc..

God ultimately destroyed all but a remnant in 70 A.D., and subsequently called many of that same remnant to serve Christ in laying the foundation of His Church, with Jesus being the chief cornerstone and, according to James in Acts 15:16, the conversion of the Cornelius the Gentile being the fulfillment of Amos 9:11, which reads:

"In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old" - Amos 9:11

Dan

 

[Dan00]

My questions refer to this statement by Scofield.....

" It is important to see that the nation has never as yet taken the land under the unconditional Abrahamic
covenant, nor has it ever possessed the whole land."

I've looked in the Scofield notes that I can find online and can't find any scripture that he has taken this from.

I don't believe there is one. Many of Scofield's notes seem to have been created out of thin air.

These are some other quotes from the OT of fulfillment of the promises, in addition to those from you and Reba:

Joshua 11:23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.

Joshua 23:14 And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.

Joshua 2:24 And they said unto Joshua, Truly the Lord hath delivered into our hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the country do faint because of us.

Joshua 24:13 And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat. Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the Lord.

1 Kings 8:34 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers.

1 Kings 8:56 Blessed be the Lord, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.

2 Chronicles 6:25 Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers.

Nehemiah 9:23 Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.

Psalm 135:10–12 Who smote great nations, And slew mighty kings; Sihon king of the Amorites, And Og king of Bashan, And all the kingdoms of Canaan: And gave their land for an heritage, An heritage unto Israel his people.

Jeremiah 32:21-22 And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with great terror; And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;

Dan