Genesis 12:1-3
Now the Lord had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, From your family And from your father’s house, To a land that I will show you. 2 I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
The record of Israel’s land
God’s choice of Israel
Deuteronomy 7:7 NKJV
The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples;
Isaiah 45:4 NKJV
For Jacob My servant’s sake,
And Israel My elect,
I have even called you by your name;
I have named you, though you have not known Me.
Deuteronomy 9:6-7 NKJV
Therefore understand that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked[a] people. 7 “Remember! Do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you departed from the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord.
God’s covenant with Israel.
Two Aspects of God’s Covenant with Abraham
God’s covenant was an exact covenant.
Ezekiel 47:19 NKJV
“The south side, toward the [South, shall be from Tamar to the waters of Meribah by Kadesh, along the brook to the Great Sea. This is the south side, toward the South.
God’s covenant was an everlasting covenant.
Genesis 17:7-8 NKJV
And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you. 8 Also I give to you and your descendants after you the land in[a] which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”
The relocation of the people of Israel
The scattering of the Jewish people
Deuteronomy 4:27 NKJV
And the Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord will drive you.
The suffering of the Jewish people
Deuteronomy 28:65 NKJV
And among those nations you shall find no rest, nor shall the sole of your foot have a resting place; but there the Lord will give you a [a]trembling heart, failing eyes, and anguish of soul.
The rebirth of the nation of Israel
Isaiah 11:11-12 NKJV
It shall come to pass in that day
That the Lord shall set His hand again the second time to recover the remnant of His people who are left, from Assyria and Egypt, From Pathros and Cush, from Elam and Shinar, from Hamath and the islands of the sea. 12 He will set up a banner for the nations, And will assemble the outcasts of Israel, And gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
The return to the God of Israel
Ezekiel 36:24-28 NKJV
For I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land. 25 Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them. 28 Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be your God.