Which other scriptures highlight God's role in granting inheritances to His people? Grounding verse – Psalm 135:12 “He gave their land as an inheritance, an inheritance to His people Israel.” First gifts in the Pentateuch • Genesis 12:7 – “The LORD appeared to Abram and said, ‘To your offspring I will give this land.’” • Exodus 6:8 – “I will bring you to the land I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD!” • Numbers 33:53 – “You are to take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess.” • Deuteronomy 4:38 – God promises to “bring you in and give you their land as an inheritance.” Joshua: promise becomes property • Joshua 11:23 – “So Joshua took the entire land… and he gave it as an inheritance to Israel.” • Joshua 21:43 – “So the LORD gave Israel all the land He had sworn to give their fathers.” Psalms: worship that remembers the Giver • Psalm 44:3 – “It was not by their sword that they took the land… it was Your right hand.” • Psalm 78:55 – “He drove out nations before them and allotted their inheritance.” • Psalm 136:21-22 – God “gave their land as an inheritance… an inheritance to Israel His servant.” Prophets: reminders and renewals • Jeremiah 3:19 – The LORD longs to “give you a pleasant land, the most beautiful inheritance of the nations.” • Ezekiel 47:14 – “You are to divide it equally… this land will fall to you as an inheritance.” New-covenant expansion: inheritance through Christ • Matthew 25:34 – “Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.” • Acts 20:32 – The word of grace “is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.” • Ephesians 1:11 – “In Him we were also chosen as God’s own….” • Colossians 1:12 – The Father “has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light.” • 1 Peter 1:3-4 – We are born “into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you.” • Hebrews 9:15 – Christ mediates so we “may receive the promised eternal inheritance.” Threads that tie it all together • God both promises and performs; He speaks the inheritance and then hands it over. • The land was a concrete down payment pointing to a larger, eternal kingdom. • Old and New Testaments agree: the inheritance is never earned; it is always granted. • The same faithful God who gave Canaan secures an imperishable inheritance for all who are in Christ today. |
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