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Bound for the Promised Land: The Land Promise in God’s Redemptive Plan is unavailable, but you can change that!

Just as the Old Testament book of Genesis begins with creation, where humans live in the presence of their Lord, so the New Testament book of Revelation ends with an even more glorious new creation where all of the redeemed dwell with the Lord and his Christ. The historical development between the beginning and the end is crucial, for the journey from Eden to the new Jerusalem proceeds through...

under his blessing. For Abraham, this place is the land (Gen. 12:1), and this promise runs like a scarlet thread through the rest of the biblical narrative. The story of Abram begins with God’s calling him to leave his home to the land that God will show him. Although Genesis 12:1–3 does not specify which land Abram will possess, the promise that God will make of him a great nation implies promise of the land, for you cannot have a great nation without land.7 The Lord confirms his promise to Abram
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