The LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants, I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates. I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea and from the desert to the Euphrates River. I will give the people who live in the land into your hands, and you will drive them out before you. Do not make a covenant with them or with their gods. Do not let them live in your land. They will cause you to sin against me and worship their gods”.Exodus 23:31–33. God’s guideline for His Promised Land was Jews Only.
The Christian interpretation: In the New Testament, the promises are reinterpreted along religious lines.[5] In the Epistle to the Galatians, Paul the Apostle draws attention to the formulation of the Covenant. “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. If you belong to Christ, you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise.” (This is Paul’s interpolation of God’s covenant to Abraham).
Ishmael’s Muslim descendants have held much of the Promised Land through time.
Ishmael was Abram’s banished child from his first wife’s slave, Hannah. This fact complicates ownership of the Promised Land. In Genesis 16, the birth of Ishmael was planned by Abraham’s first wife, who at that time was known as Sarai. She and her husband Abram (Abraham) sought a way to have children to fulfill the Abrahamic covenant established in Genesis 15. Sarai was 75 years old and had yet to bear a child. She had the idea to offer her Egyptian handmaiden Hagar to her husband so they could have a child with her. Abraham slept with Hagar, and she spawned a child. God then instructed Abraham to take Hagar and Ishmael to the desert and leave them there. Ishmael and his mother settled in the Desert of Paran. Eventually, Ishmael’s mother found an Egyptian wife for him. They had twelve sons, each of whom became a tribal chief in one of the regions from Assyria to the border of Egypt.
Concurrently, Abraham fathered twelve sons who formed the twelve tribes of Israel. Ishmael’s descendants, the Arab Muslims, have held much of the Promised Land through time.
Ishmael is recognized as an important prophet of Islam. Like Christians and Jews, Muslims believe that Ishmael was the firstborn of Abraham, born to him from his wife’s handmaiden concubine, Hagar. Muslims recognize Ishmael as the ancestor of all Arabtribes and the forefather of Adnan, the ancestor of Muhammad.[43] Jewish and Islamic traditions consider Ishmael to be the ancestor of Arabs.
God is currently sorting out who owns what in the Promised Land.
There are three options for what God said:
1. God was speaking allegorically.
2. Somebody changed the narrative of what God said.
3. The narrative is correctly written.
4. Currently, God is sorting out the Promised Land Covent.
5. As God initially said, “I will give the people who live in the land into your hands, and you will drive them out before you.” God never mentioned a two-state solution.
In Matthew 24:14, Jesus said, “The ultimate End Times sign is the preaching of the gospel to all.” That time is soon.
