Genesis 15 incorporates the land boundaries given to Abraham. Today, they would include parts of Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine,Jordan,Syria,Iraq,Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Under this covenant, history has shown that Israel has never taken possession of the whole land. Never.
Yet Joshua states in 21:45 .. : Not one of all the Lord’s good promises to Israel failed; every one was fulfilled. Why would he say that ?
Much later in Nehemiah 9:7-8 we read .. : [FONT=&]“You are the Lord God, who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and named him Abraham.[/FONT][FONT=&]You found his heart faithful to you, and you made a covenant with him to give to his descendants the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites and Girgashites. [/FONT]You have kept your promise because you are righteous. (not ... you will keep your promise in two-thousand, five hundred years or so)
So .. what are we waiting on today ? An Israeli nation as prescribed above by the founders of Zionism ? Or is God true ... and every man a liar ? And is there something that the ultra-literalists in regards to the land promise are overlooking ?