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Apr 3, 2020 · No, God meant land. 1. Any normal reading of Scripture recognizes Canaan as an actual place, a piece of real estate, an expanse of soil that belongs to Abraham's descendants forever. The fact that Israel has been dispossessed of the land in three periods of its history is not an argument against its ultimate possession.
Apr 21, 2021 · Famine was a constant threat and a very real part of life for the ancient Israelite world that produced the Hebrew Bible. The ways that the Bible understood and addressed famine, in turn,...
- Joel Baden
This is intentional—Israel hasn’t just rebelled, they’ve broken covenant with their relational God. The God whose love they’ve rejected is the God who chose them for himself and brought them out of the land of Egypt into the promised land. Hosea 11 and Amos 3 talk about this.
- Whitney Woollard
May 4, 2018 · To say that the land was an agricultural paradise for Adam and Eve is an understatement. That said, the description we get in Genesis 1-2 is not primarily an agricultural one but a theological one. The land was ultimately a place where God could dwell with humans—the place where God’s space and humans’ space overlapped.
- Whitney Woollard
Jan 13, 2015 · If you want to understand the Bible, you have to understand the land of the Bible. It is not only central to the covenant of God, it is the geographical stage on which the magnificent drama of the people of God is played out.
Aug 22, 2022 · See what the land is like and whether the people who live there are strong or weak, few or many. What kind of land do they live in? Is it good or bad?” We should hear echoes of Genesis 3 when we read Moses’ instructions to the twelve spies.
The Promised Land ( Hebrew: הארץ המובטחת, translit.: ha'aretz hamuvtakhat; Arabic: أرض الميعاد, translit.: ard al-mi'ad) is Middle Eastern land in the Levant that Abrahamic religions (which include Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and others) claim God promised and subsequently gave to Abraham (the legendary patriarch in ...
