The Promised Land

Dr. Couch, in Paul Benware's book Understanding End Time Prophecy he shows the extent of the land promised to Abraham ending up near Mt. Hermon to the north. Is there a problem with this? ANSWER: The map is on page 58 of his text. On pages 59-60 Dr. Benware explains that this is the part of the land that would be taken by Joshua and the immediate generation, though the extent of the land goes all the way over to the Euphrates River as mentioned in Genesis 15:18. It is in the millennial kingdom that the Jews will completely occupy that territory promises by the Lord. There it is stated that makes it all clear: "To you and your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt (either the Nile or a Wadi called El Arish) as far as the great river, the river Euphrastes." There is no contradiction here. One thing we have to keep in mind when we read ancient manuscripts, the people who lived closest to those promises and those events, never saw what we sometimes consider contradictions. So they must have known something that we do not! They comprehend the contexts sometimes better than we do who are farther away from what is going on. We are the ones who have a problem, those nearer the facts understand what is going on. Thanks for asking. Dr. Mal Couch (Feb., 10)