EARTHLY
PROMISES
Note that none of these are made to the Church. And the
LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from
him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where
thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:
For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it,
and to thy seed for ever. And I will make thy seed as the
dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust
of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Arise,
walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth
of it; for I will give it unto thee. (Gen. 13:14-17)
Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed
you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell
in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded. And the
desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in
the sight of all that passed by. And they shall say, This
land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden;
and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become
fenced, and are inhabited. (Ezek. 36:33-35)
For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring
again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith
the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that
I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it. (Jer.
30:3)
And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel,
and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them;
and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof;
they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no
more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them,
saith the LORD thy God. (Amos 9:14,15)
And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers;
and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God. I will
also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call
for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon
you. And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the
increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach
of famine among the heathen. (Ezek. 36:28-30)
I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the
midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool
of water, and the dry land springs of water. I will plant
in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle,
and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree,
and the pine, and the box tree together: That they may see,
and know, and consider, and understand together, that the
hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel
hath created it. (Isa. 41:18-20)
And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they
shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. They shall
not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and
another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my
people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their
hands. They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for
trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD,
and their offspring with them. And it shall come to pass,
that before they call, I will answer; and while they are
yet speaking, I will hear. The wolf and the lamb shall feed
together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock:
and dust shall be the serpent’s meat. They shall not
hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.
(Isa. 65:21-25)
And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say,
It is desolate without man or beast; it is given into the
hand of the Chaldeans. Men shall buy fields for money, and
subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in
the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem,
and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains,
and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the
south: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith
the LORD. (Jer. 32:43,44)
And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all
shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments,
and observe my statutes, and do them. And they shall dwell
in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein
your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even
they, and their children, and their children’s children
for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for
ever. (Ezek. 37:24,25)
