Dispensational Proof 6

6. The Land Covenant

            The Land Covenant is reiterated in Deuteronomy 30:1-10. This reaffirmation comes directly from the Abrahamic Covenant in Genesis 12, 15, and 17. We understand the land promises to be eternally literal from the Old Testament texts. There are no New Testament texts that cancel, abrogate or even augment the clear promises that God gives about the land of Israel. It is understood that God was talking about literal land and not just some kind of spiritual blessing because the text says Abraham walked the land, he saw the land and God gave exact names of geographical locations, and literal nations who then occupied the land not yet in Israel’s possession.

On the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying: “To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates—the Kenites, the Kenezzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.” Genesis 15:18-21 (NKJV)

      The land covenant is also promised in the eternal kingdom to David in 2 Samuel 7:10 “Moreover I will appoint a place for My people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own and move no more…” NKJV) and it is directly stated in Jeremiah 31:31-40 which again states literal places, gates, cities, and a brook from the literal land of Israel.