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Jerusalem Sat 6th Aug 2005
The whole point of the Bible is to get human beings to understand that God is creator and master of all the earth.
This is made clear already
in the first verse
"In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth."
Many other verses make this clear.
For example Psalm 24 Ver 1
"The earth is the Lord's, and all that fills it;
the world, and those who dwell in it.
89 Ver 12
"The heavens are yours, the earth also is yours;
you have founded the world and all that is in it."
The purpose of God's promise to Abraham, Gen 15 V 18, is simply to re-emphasize this point.
"In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying,
To your seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates;"
The covenant which God makes with Abraham in this chapter shows that God,
as master of all the earth has the right to move nations out of one country and into another.
10 nations were living in the land that God gave to the seed of Abraham
Gen 15 V 19-21
"The Kenites, and the Kenazites, and the Kadmonites,
And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Raphaim,
And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites."
As master of all the earth He has the right to move the descendants of Abraham
out of the Land which He has promised them into other lands which aren't theirs.
Gen 15 V 13 - 16
"And he said to Abram, Know for a certainty
that your seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs,
and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge;
and afterward shall they come out with great wealth.
And you shall go to your fathers in peace;
you shall be buried in a good old age.
But in the fourth generation they shall come here again;
for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full."
God's reasons for moving nations around are also given in many verses in the Bible.
God's requirements for allowing nations to stay on the land He has given them
are simply that they live righteously which means according to His law.
Here are some examples
Psalm 24 V3-4
"Who shall ascend into the mountain of the Lord?
Who shall stand in his holy place?
He who has clean hands, and a pure heart;
who has not taken my name in vain,
nor sworn deceitfully."
Deut 11 V 13 - 17
"And it shall come to pass,
if you shall give heed diligently to my commandments
which I command you this day,
to love the Lord your God,
and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
That I will give you the rain of your land in its due season,
the first rain and the latter rain,
that you may gather in your grain, and your wine, and your oil.
And I will send grass in your fields for your cattle,
that you may eat and be full.
Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived,
and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
And then the Lord's anger be kindled against you,
and he closed the skies, that there should be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit;
and lest you perish quickly from off the good land which the Lord gives you."
Psalm 37 V9
For evildoers shall be cut off;
but those who wait upon the Lord shall inherit the earth.
V 29
The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell in it for ever.
V 34
Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and he shall exalt you to inherit the land;
when the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.
Prov 2 V 21
For the upright shall dwell in the land,
and the innocent shall remain in it.
V 22
But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth,
and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
Nations are removed from God's land, according to the Rabbis (of blessed memory),
because they have been disobedient to the laws of God.
They lived in a way contrary to the way that God wished man to live.
The people of Israel are no exception to this rule.
Jerusalem Sat 6th Aug 2005
The whole point of the Bible is to get human beings to understand that God is creator and master of all the earth.
This is made clear already
in the first verse
"In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth."
Many other verses make this clear.
For example Psalm 24 Ver 1
"The earth is the Lord's, and all that fills it;
the world, and those who dwell in it.
89 Ver 12
"The heavens are yours, the earth also is yours;
you have founded the world and all that is in it."
The purpose of God's promise to Abraham, Gen 15 V 18, is simply to re-emphasize this point.
"In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying,
To your seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates;"
The covenant which God makes with Abraham in this chapter shows that God,
as master of all the earth has the right to move nations out of one country and into another.
10 nations were living in the land that God gave to the seed of Abraham
Gen 15 V 19-21
"The Kenites, and the Kenazites, and the Kadmonites,
And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Raphaim,
And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites."
As master of all the earth He has the right to move the descendants of Abraham
out of the Land which He has promised them into other lands which aren't theirs.
Gen 15 V 13 - 16
"And he said to Abram, Know for a certainty
that your seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs,
and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge;
and afterward shall they come out with great wealth.
And you shall go to your fathers in peace;
you shall be buried in a good old age.
But in the fourth generation they shall come here again;
for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full."
God's reasons for moving nations around are also given in many verses in the Bible.
God's requirements for allowing nations to stay on the land He has given them
are simply that they live righteously which means according to His law.
Here are some examples
Psalm 24 V3-4
"Who shall ascend into the mountain of the Lord?
Who shall stand in his holy place?
He who has clean hands, and a pure heart;
who has not taken my name in vain,
nor sworn deceitfully."
Deut 11 V 13 - 17
"And it shall come to pass,
if you shall give heed diligently to my commandments
which I command you this day,
to love the Lord your God,
and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
That I will give you the rain of your land in its due season,
the first rain and the latter rain,
that you may gather in your grain, and your wine, and your oil.
And I will send grass in your fields for your cattle,
that you may eat and be full.
Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived,
and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
And then the Lord's anger be kindled against you,
and he closed the skies, that there should be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit;
and lest you perish quickly from off the good land which the Lord gives you."
Psalm 37 V9
For evildoers shall be cut off;
but those who wait upon the Lord shall inherit the earth.
V 29
The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell in it for ever.
V 34
Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and he shall exalt you to inherit the land;
when the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.
Prov 2 V 21
For the upright shall dwell in the land,
and the innocent shall remain in it.
V 22
But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth,
and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
Nations are removed from God's land, according to the Rabbis (of blessed memory),
because they have been disobedient to the laws of God.
They lived in a way contrary to the way that God wished man to live.
The people of Israel are no exception to this rule.
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