You acknowledge Abraham will receive the land of promise when the Lord returns. But do you realize that in Christ the promise of land is not limited to the land of Canaan, but expands to include inheritance of the whole earth?
You are agreeing the resurrected saints will rule with Christ over the whole earth.
You are asking why would Abraham be satisfied with the land he walked on.
The Lord owns the whole earth, not the saints.
Abraham will have the land he was promised, and will rule with the Lord over it.
Others will rule over whatsoever is rewarded them, whether one city or ten.
Abraham will love that land he once walked with the Lord reigning, even more than before with God alone, and he will love most walking on the new earth with God and the Lamb and all the saints and nations.
Why would Abraham look forward to receiving the promised land of old for only one thousand years, since God's promise through Christ is that all who are of faith shall receive the new earth forever?
Now you are speaking of the new earth, not this one.
All them written in the Lamb's book of life will be in New Jerusalem, and on the new earth.
Nothing is said about anyone ruling over the new earth, but God and the Lamb will be the temple and light of the New Jerusalem, that the nations will come to for healing.
How do you prove the land of Canaan promised Abraham will not be scorched in light of these passages?
It will be, with all the earth, at the end of the Lord's reign on earth.
It won't be until then, and it certainly won't be given to Abraham that way.
We can sensibly deduce from God's promise in Scripture, that the land given Abraham will be as he walked on, and would still want to walk on.
Accounting for changes of time, of course.
Why would Abraham be content with land that will be utterly burned up,
He won't. He will be gone beforehand.
and not look forward to the promise of new heavens and a new earth wherein dwells righteous?
All saints do, and will do so while ruling with Christ on earth, which for the Lord and resurrected saints, will be as but a last day on this earth.
2 Peter 3:9-13 (KJV) The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
Applies to Rev 20:7-11
Not to Rev 20:1-6
Hebrews 1:10-12 (KJV) And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
Revelation 21:1 (KJV) And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
True. Afterward:
Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the LORD, because he cometh to judge the earth.
Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.
Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.
The Lord hasn't yet come to judge the whole earth and inherit the nations to rule over. He will, or prophecy of Scripture is either not true, or is made meaningless as written, if made only symbolic gesturing.
The difference between mythic promises and prophecy of Scripture, is that God's promises are both natural and spiritually true. Myth is spiritual only, not true in fact on earth. When God says earth, He means earth, not just spirit.
And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
There will be them on earth for the Lord to rule, and them will be them not slain in battle at Armageddon, nor executed as goats afterward.
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:
For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy 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 unto thee.
If this isn't true on earth, then this is a lie and mythical delusion only. We read Scripture as little children, not as spiritualists, that only ministers confusion to little children, who will no longer trust plain Scripture as written.
Let a little child read these verses, and then tell them it isn't really going to happen on this earth, and then try explaining that it only has 'spiritual' significance. I would never do that, and if it were my place, I would rebuke them for doing that to little children, that desire to believe all of God's Word.
For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
Obvious false spiritualizing and symbolizing of Scripture, is when plain words, meanings, and promises of God in Scripture, are obviously done away with with.
There is no reason whatsoever to do away with the plain meaning of Scripture, that any child can understand, in order to also understand any spiritual truth of it, nor to easily recognize any symbolic part of it. There is spiritual truth about these promises of God, but there is nothing symbolic about them at all: He will judge and rule this earth in Person, and He will give the land to Abraham to rule with Him, nd Job will see His Redeemer and Lord on this earth.
Many do away with the plain meaning of the children of Israel crossing the Red Sea on dry ground, while yet trying to teach it's spiritual deliverance today in Christ Jesus.
And some of those that wouldn't dare do that, obviously have no problem whatsoever doing away with Christ's reigning on earth, while teaching it's spiritual significance today in Christ Jesus.
Both are true, the Red Sea parting with dry ground to walk on, as well as Christ's deliverance from the sins of Egypt, and His millennial reign with His on this earth, as well as walking with Christ today, which is as but day one, even after a week, month, year, decade...
Thanks for the sincere questions, but they only come up by doing away with the Lord's Personal reign on this earth.
