All the promises and all the covenants with Israel are fulfilled in the Gospel about justification: Acts 13's sermon's punchline; Eph 2:12.
We are not discussing justification- we are discussing entitlement to land. Even in eph 2:12 it's making a distinction about Gentiles being aliens to the commonwealth of Israel.
Common wealth
2 : a nation, state, or other political unit:
Other than saving Israel from the horror of 66+, the land does not matter as it used to. They had returned from exile. What they were waiting for was the Spirit. You can't shift all this (return and Spirit) to our future when they were waiting on it right then, and it came, and the mission to the nations came.
Again, real simple when did Israel have the full land in possession that God had promised abraham- and explain why it's not so today. The land matters because God himself promised it and iterated that promise detailing the borders 2x. Yet it's not at those borders is it, meaning either it's yet to come or Gods promise was void in fulfillment.......Isaiah 55:11
Rom 4, 9, Gal 3 show that God's promise was not to the descendants after all. It was to those who had faith. Judaism thought (Gal 3:17) that the Law voided and replaced the promise. That is the "replacement" theology we should be discussing. They thought the promise was the land forever, and their descendancy forever, and sustained by ritual and observance of the Law forever. But Paul preaches Abraham, a Persian, who has Isaac while infertile, and who believes and gains imputed righteousness before circumcision. You can hardly preclude things more completely than that!
Again, we are not talking about justification, we are talking about a distinct promise regarding only land. While descendants gets seen spiritual at times, not regarding to the actual land of Israel. Faith has almost zero bearing on the land, the only one who needed faith regarding that land was Abraham, after him believing it was allotted to his descendants forever. You then can track which descendants because it was promised to Isaac again. Now if those descendants dwelling in the land had no faith in God they were punished but the land is still promised to them.
The law in gal 3:17 has zero bearing on Gods promise of the land given to abraham and his descendants through Isaac.
Heb 11 says that the land was not even what those who had faith were looking for. It wasn't where they were going, nor where they came from (v14). It was heaven. "Only together with us" would they recieve it--the blessing of the Gospel (v40). None of them recieved what was promised, v39. We all now have a city that hovers above earth but is our true mother, Gal 4, Heb 12.
Context inter, context first.
14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
Return where? Where'd they come out of? Oh that place promised to Abraham...Israel.
16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
Yes we desire a better "country" we desire heaven- we as in those whom believe in The Lord Jesus, we as in whom lived for God and await the kingdom at hand. Not those living apart from the truth of The Lord and God.
Because in context we see: 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Again any particular promise stand out here that applies to this topic....why yes land, land, and more land, Israel. Though what your using to refute actual Israel is the future promise and belief of living in heaven with our Father- that isn't the question and does not negate Gods promise of land to abraham and his descendants.
Now for 39-40 restate your point- is it the promise of salvation through the gospel of Jesus death or you saying God makes promises and can later change them for something better?
Because the only thing I've gathered regarding this topics point is your thinking God is not going to fulfill his promise exactly and instead give something better...........while that is great since its better, is that not deception though? If he does not fulfill his promise of that particular land, does that not prove his word came back VOID, impossible Isaiah 55:11. We are talking about the entitlement to Israel per your original post, justification and salvation are a different subject.
Stop being blinded to scripture. One promise to abraham of land is exactly that- land. Abraham had more than one promise. You can not use a spiritual descendancy with a tangible item as Israel. The land is clearly marked by known tangible boundaries- it is in scripture, I cited the scripture- refute the scripture I cited regarding promised land, with scripture focusing on tangible aspects. Or show me where God can recant his unconditional promise.
Now in case you were not inclined to look up verses I'll post them here for you to clearly and concisely refute. Explain why Israel does not own all this land today, and show in history when they did. For if they haven't owned it all it's still future, if it's still future, then Israel the country matters because it's in the future.
Gen 15:18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
Josh 1:2 Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.3 Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.4 From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.
Gen 26:3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;
Exodus 23:30-31
Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and possess the land. And I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.
