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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...

Thus the people who are Yahweh’s inheritance have Canaan as their inheritance (Deut. 4:20–21).18 God possesses the land, but has granted the use and enjoyment of it to Israel.19 In other words, his gift comes with conditions, for life in the land requires obedience to God’s commands. Though their obedience affects their livelihood in the land, it does not nullify God’s gift of the land.20 Waltke writes: Paradoxically, Israel’s role in participating in this gift [of land] is conditioned upon their
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