“for the earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it” (1 Cor. 10:26). Since the one true God is Lord of the whole earth, an idol has no claim over any portion of it. In a similar vein, the covenant promise of land made to Abraham takes on a much greater significance when it is viewed from the perspective of fulfillment in the age of the new covenant. Now the patriarch’s promise is understood to imply that he is the heir of the cosmos, not merely the land of the Bible (Rom. 4:13). Because God is the