What Land Did God Give to Abraham?

Bible Study for Tuesday, October 7, 2025

On October 7, 2023, the world witnessed the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Israel’s enemies want to take their land. But not only that, they want to wipe the Jewish people off the face of the earth!

Some people question Israel’s right to their land. They cry “Free Palestine!” They call Israel “occupiers”. But did you know that the territory God gave to Abram’s descendants includes all of present day Israel plus much more?

“On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates— the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.” Genesis 15:18-21 Read full chapter

Interesting Facts:

The wadi of Egypt refers to the Euphrates River which originates in the Armenian Highlands of southeastern Turkey and then flows through the countries of Syria and Iraq, and finally drains into the Persian Gulf. 

Later, God appeared to Abram again…

 “I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you. I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.  The whole land of Canaan, where you now reside as a foreigner, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God.” Genesis 17:6-8 (emphasis mine) Read full chapter

Does God’s covenant include the descendants of Abram’s son Ishmael?

Then God said, “… your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him. And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation. But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year.” When he had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.”

The best evidence indicates that Moses wrote Genesis between 1440 and 1400 BC. By my calculation, that’s about 3,465 years ago! AND YET this book is still relevant today! I am thankful that God has recorded in His Holy Word the precise boundaries of Israel!

On today’s map, the land God gave to Israel includes everything modern-day Israel possesses, plus all of the territory occupied by the Palestinians (the West Bank and Gaza), plus some of Egypt and Syria, plus all of Jordan, plus some of Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

And yet, many people claim that Israel is stealing a land not their own. How absurd!

Israel has many enemies. The biggest is Satan himself. He lies and deceives the nations. But the enemies of Israel will not succeed in their quest to annihilate God’s people, Israel.

God also said to Abram:

“I will bless those who bless you,
    and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
    will be blessed through you.” Genesis 12:3

Israel has had to fight for their very existence for thousands of years, and they fight for it still today. Stand with Israel and be blessed.

In His Love, Cindy

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