And who are the people? The promised land people? And scripture for it.
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1. In short, the promised land people is the nation of Israel. Genesis 12:1-3.
2. Make of thee a great nation to Abraham was the nation of Israel and in this nation the families of the earth would be blessed.
Genesis 12:6; at Sichim unto the plain of Moreh where the Canaanites lived.
Verse 7&8 Bethel and Ai and verse 9; towards the south.
Genesis 15:18-21; from the river of Egypt to Euphrates, the Kenites, the Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittitites, the Perrizzites, Rephaims, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and the Jebusites.
All these lands would go to the nation who was birthed as Israel and through Abraham's seed of Israel the families of the earth would be blessed and as the sand of the sea. This is Israel's earthly calling in the millennial KoH and on and on when God becomes all in all.
These promises were confirmed to his son the Patriarch Isaac Genesis 26:1-4 and his grandson Jacob Genesis 28:10:15.
Jesus said to the Jews under the law in the Sermon on the Mount; Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth. This was talking about the KoH reign on earth.
Isaiah 2:2-4; the endtime prophecy of the mountain of the Lord Jacob's house is Israel who will be the capital of the whole earth for out of Zion shall go forth the law and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
This promise of the land for Israel is along with the KoH reign on earth with David 2 Samuel 7:5-13; 1 Chronicles 28:2:8; Isaiah 9:6-7, etc.
Matthew 4:17; Repent for the KoH is at hand.
3. Revelation 7:3-8 is about the sealed 144,000 of the tribes of Israel verse 4. Only synomonous with the nation of Israel and out of their seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
They are tribal and a physical nation and an individual race.
This earth is the human race of which you are either of a Jew or Gentile race.
Red and Yellow, Black and White and Brown etc are basically Gentiles no matter where they come from.
Jews are olive skin but they are an ethnic race blood wise. Then you get into mixed Jews because of being intermixed with Gentiles because being scattered throughout the nations down through the years.
4. The Jewish nation is promised the specific land for the specific KoH reign on earth.
The time of Jacob's trouble is familiar with Israel in which they have to be purged in order to enter the KoH reign. Jesus offered them the KoH and they rejected his KoG (spiritual aspect) concerning salvation of their hearts. The second time they will receive Christ when Christ all the saints of every age including the raptured and resurrected earthly Jewish and gentile tribulation saints Revelation 4:1; 4:10; 5:9-10; 7:9-17; are saved by Christ and his Heavenly saints come back to rescue the nation of Israel Revelation 19:11-15 when Christ takes all the earthly kingdoms on earth and makes them his at the battle of Armageddon at the Day of the Lord Revelation 11:15; 16:16.
5. The Abrahamic covenant recorded the earthly calling of Israel as well as bringing forth the Messiah for the world in the act of salvation.
6 1 Timothy 1:4; neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies which minister questions.
This doesn't mean that genealogies is not important or not be discussed at all but the extremes.
Malachi 4:5 says, Elijah will be sent before the coming of the great and dreadful Day of the Lord.
Jesus said, Elijah surely shall first come and restore all things Matthew 17:11. This was in response to the Pharisees question about the real Elijah coming back before the great and dreadful Day of the Lord Malachi 4:5. He agreed with them.
His point about John the the Baptist being the forerunner of Christ and in the spirit of Elijah to turn the hearts of the children to the father and help them recognize the Messiah John 1:29:31. Just as they got rid of John the Baptist the Son of man would suffer dying as well Matthew 17:12.
7. Elijah will be one of the two witnesses in Revelation 11 is said to be the ones to help with who belongs to what tribe.
Either way, the nation of Israel who is the sun clothed woman of Revelation 12 is preserved in the wilderness through the time of Jacob's trouble and the remnant is scattered and the remnant is seen watching the two witnesses being resurrected and praising God in Revelation 11. The tribes are not lost, God knows. Jerry kelso