What is the Promised Land?
First in order to understand the promised land a person has to know the promise. The Father showed Abraham a country where acity was, whose builder and maker wasthe FATHER. Abraham was told that God himself would dwell in it.
The FATHER told Abraham the land would be for an everlasting inheritance. Thewords everlasting should send up red flagseverywhere to Israel. Why? Because we knowthe Father will completely destroy this earth. So Abraham was being showed a heavenly country. A different place then earth. As Paul explains it in Hebrews chapter 11.
“These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.”
When Paul wrote, had Abraham been mindful - meant - he didn’t understood that the country was a heavenly country and not an earthly one. He did not understand that what he looked for was not on this earth.
The promise was to be an everlasting promise of possession. So Abraham traveled throughout the land in search of this land a great city but never having obtaining possession of it.
This earth and heavens are completely destroyed as recorded in Peter.
“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.”
In revelation it is written:
“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. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.”
Abraham traveled In the land of promise. Meaning throughout the land where he received the promise.
Why do so many today believe the land Israelpossess today is that Promised Land? They confuse the difference between the promised land to Abraham to the land where the promise was given. Now Israel did travel and live in theland of promise but this is different from the Promised Land.
So the Father was referring to a heavenlycountry and not here on earth. But don't take my word. Listen to Paul explains it in Hebrewseleven.
“By trusting, Abraham obeyed, after beingcalled to go out to a place which God wouldgive him as a possession; indeed, he went outwithout knowing where he was going. 9 Bytrusting, he lived as a temporary resident inthe Land of the promise, as if it were not his, staying in tents with Isaac and Jacob, whowere to receive what was promised along withhim. 10For he was looking forward to the citywith permanent foundations, of whichthe architect and builder is God”.
As it is written;
“And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city”.
Now who was the seed? When the Lord told Abraham that the promise was to him and his seed - who was the Lord referring too?
First in order to understand the promised land a person has to know the promise. The Father showed Abraham a country where acity was, whose builder and maker wasthe FATHER. Abraham was told that God himself would dwell in it.
The FATHER told Abraham the land would be for an everlasting inheritance. Thewords everlasting should send up red flagseverywhere to Israel. Why? Because we knowthe Father will completely destroy this earth. So Abraham was being showed a heavenly country. A different place then earth. As Paul explains it in Hebrews chapter 11.
“These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.”
When Paul wrote, had Abraham been mindful - meant - he didn’t understood that the country was a heavenly country and not an earthly one. He did not understand that what he looked for was not on this earth.
The promise was to be an everlasting promise of possession. So Abraham traveled throughout the land in search of this land a great city but never having obtaining possession of it.
This earth and heavens are completely destroyed as recorded in Peter.
“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.”
In revelation it is written:
“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. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.”
Abraham traveled In the land of promise. Meaning throughout the land where he received the promise.
Why do so many today believe the land Israelpossess today is that Promised Land? They confuse the difference between the promised land to Abraham to the land where the promise was given. Now Israel did travel and live in theland of promise but this is different from the Promised Land.
So the Father was referring to a heavenlycountry and not here on earth. But don't take my word. Listen to Paul explains it in Hebrewseleven.
“By trusting, Abraham obeyed, after beingcalled to go out to a place which God wouldgive him as a possession; indeed, he went outwithout knowing where he was going. 9 Bytrusting, he lived as a temporary resident inthe Land of the promise, as if it were not his, staying in tents with Isaac and Jacob, whowere to receive what was promised along withhim. 10For he was looking forward to the citywith permanent foundations, of whichthe architect and builder is God”.
As it is written;
“And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city”.
Now who was the seed? When the Lord told Abraham that the promise was to him and his seed - who was the Lord referring too?
