Is the OT not holy writ as well?
The OT is holy writ, I agree.
If some of these things are already provided in detail in the OT, why would the NT need to go into detail as well?
Just because something is written in detail doesn't mean it's understood properly. Jesus had to open up the minds of the disciples to understand scripture.
Luke 24:45 Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.
Thus, the proper interpretation of the OT should come through the writings of the NT.
Did the apostles teach an earthly land inheritance? If they don't, we should be leery of anyone who does.
Galatians 1:8 even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed.
wherein your fathers have dwelt---so what land was this meaning?
in the context of Ezekiel 37, The physical earthly land of Israel.
Was it meaning spiritual land of some kind that doesn't literally exist?
Since David is not to be literally taken as David, but to be understood as Jesus, then I also take the promise land t
o not mean the literal promise land but to be understood as the heavenly country.
Ezekiel 37:25 They will live in the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They will live there forever with their children and grandchildren, and My servant David will be their prince forever
The fathers were strangers and exiles in the promise land. Even king David recognized he was a stranger and exile while ruling in the promise land.
Ezekiel 37:25 They shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived.
1 Chronicles 29:15 For we are strangers before you and sojourners,
as all our fathers were.
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob all lived in the promise land, as in a foreign land. They were seeking a home, and if they were thinking of the land of Ur, they could have returned, but they were seeking a heavenly country whose builder is God.
Hebrews 11:9-10 By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God.
Hebrews 11:13-16 These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return. But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one.
the heavenly country is antitype of the type (earthly promise land).
Galatians 4:26 But the
Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
Hebrews 12:22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God,
the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering
Hebrews 11:16 But as it is, they desire a better country,
that is, a heavenly one.
Philippians 3:20 But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,
2 Corinthians 5:1 Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled,
we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
2 Timothy 4:18 And the Lord will rescue me from every evil action and bring me safely
into His heavenly kingdom.
Or does it mean literal land with literal borders somewhere on this planet? Whatever one concludes here, to be consistent, they have to also apply to the land they shall dwell in forever, the fact it is this very same land where their fathers dwelt.
The literal law of Moses, with all its "eternal" statutes was the type, it's fulfillment in Christ the antitype.
Hebrews 10:1 For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near
The "eternal" literal land of Israel under the old covenant was the type, it's fulfillment in Christ the antitype
Hebrews 4:8-10 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on. So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, for whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from his works as God did from his.
If someone's forefathers dwelt in Texas, and that someone told their future ancestors, that they and their children's children shall dwell in this same land, who in their right mind would take the former literally but not the latter as well? Why would it be any different in
Ezekiel 37:25?
This analogy doesn't quite address all of the complexities. John promised the land to his grandson, when he would turn 18. Presently His grandson is only 1. So he writes a contract that his sons and daughters get to have the land as well, as long as they work it. If they don't work the land, they get kicked off. The promise to the grandson was unconditional, but the promise to the sons and daughters was conditional.
The conditional promises of the land in the old covenant do not annul the unconditional promises to the land given to Abraham, because the offspring is not plural but singular: Jesus.
galatians 3:16-17 Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, “And to offsprings,” referring to many,
but referring to one, “And to your offspring,” who is Christ.
17This is what I mean: the law, which came 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void.
National Israel, under the old covenant, could never fully be obedient, thus they could never eternally inhabit the land. And because God found fault in the people, as they could not be obedient, he made the old covenant obsolete (with all its promises to national Israel) and set up the new covenant which has BETTER promises.
Hebrews 8:7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second
Hebrews 8:6 But as it is, Christ
b has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better,
since it is enacted on better promises.
So why do some of you want to make Him out to be one by not believing what God clearly said in
Ezekiel 37:25?
Jesus said you have to born again to see the kingdom of heaven. If I told you that you don't literally have to go through your mother's womb a 2nd time, would you say that I am making Jesus out to be a liar?