Earthly Promises
None of these promises are
made to the Church.
And the LORD said to Abram, after that Lot
was separated from him, Lift up now your eyes, and look from the place where you are
northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: For all the land which you see, to
you will I give it, and to your seed for ever. And I will make your seed as the dust of
the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then will your seed also be
numbered. Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I
will give it to you. (Gen. 13:14-17)
Says the Lord GOD; In the day that I will
have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities,
and the wastes will be built. And the desolate land will be tilled, whereas it lay
desolate in the sight of all that passed by. And they will say, This land that was
desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities
are become fenced, and are inhabited. (Ezekiel 36:33-35)
For the days come, says the LORD, that I
will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, says the LORD: and I will
cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they will possess it.
(Jer. 30:3)
And I will bring again the captivity of my
people of Israel, and they will build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they will
plant vineyards, and drink the wine of them; they will also make gardens, and eat the
fruit of them. And I will plant them upon their land, and they will no more be pulled up
out of their land which I have given them, says the LORD your God. (Amos 9:14,15)
And you will dwell in the land that I gave
to your fathers; and you will be my people, and I will be your God. I will also save you
from all your uncleanness: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no
famine upon you. And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field,
that you will receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen. (Ezekiel 36:28-30)
I will open rivers in high places, and
fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the
dry land springs of water. I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and
the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the
box tree together: That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together,
that the hand of the LORD has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.
(Isaiah 41:18-20)
And they will build houses, and inhabit
them; and they will plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. They will not build, and
another inhabit; they will not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the
days of my people, and mine elect will long enjoy the work of their hands. They will not
labor in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the
LORD, and their offspring with them. And it will come to pass, that before they call, I
will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear. The wolf and the lamb will feed
together, and the lion will eat straw like the bullock: and dust will be the serpent's
meat. They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, says the LORD. (Isaiah
65:21-25)
And fields will be bought in this land,
where you say, It is desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the
Chaldeans. Men will buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take
witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of
Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the
cities of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return, says the LORD. (Jeremiah
32:43,44)
And David my servant will be king over them;
and they all will have one shepherd: they will also walk in my judgments, and observe my
statutes, and do them. And they will dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my
servant, where your fathers have dwelt; and they will dwell there, even they, and their
children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David will be their
prince for ever. (Ezekiel 37:24,25)
See A:228; Z’95-206.
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