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[Note: \u00a0<\/strong>This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2<\/strong> \u00a0page.]<\/span><\/p>\n One of the pillars on which every variety of premillennialism rests involves the \u201cland promise.\u201d God first promised the land of Canaan to Abram and his descendants and then repeated it to Isaac and Jacob (Gen. 13:14\u201315; 15:18; 26:3; 28:4, 13\u201314; et al.). The Jewish people are the descendants of Abraham through Jacob (Israel). Premillennial adherents allege that God has not fulfilled this promise. They argue that, when Christ comes to establish His alleged 1,000-year (millennial) earthly kingdom, all of the Jews will migrate to the old land of Canaan, and God will at that time fulfill His land promise to Abraham and his descendants.<\/span><\/p>\n Has God not fulfilled His promise? Does He \u201cowe\u201d the Jews some land? What does the Bible say?<\/span><\/p>\n God defined the boundaries of the land as \u201cfrom the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates\u201d (Gen. 15:18). (The \u201criver of Egypt\u201d is not a reference to the Nile, but to a smaller stream that flows westward from the desert south of the modern \u201cGaza Strip\u201d into the Mediterranean Sea.)<\/span><\/p>\n The Bible unmistakably states that God fulfilled His promise to give the Israelites this land many centuries before Jesus Christ was born<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n Those who insist that God has not given the Jews the land He promised to their fathers are either ignorant of these statements or they have chosen to ignore and\/or deny them. The future \u201cland promise\u201d claim is one of the great myths\/errors of premillennial theology.<\/span><\/p>\n Note: <\/strong>This article was written for and appeared in the Denton Record-Chronicle<\/em>, February 9, 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n Attribution:<\/strong> From thescripturecache.com<\/em>; Dub McClish, owner and administrator.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Views: 0[Note: \u00a0This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2 \u00a0page.] One of the pillars on which every variety of premillennialism rests involves the \u201cland promise.\u201d God first promised the land of Canaan to Abram and his descendants and then repeated…<\/p>\n\n