Quotes About Promised Land

God's Word, as when Moses asked to enter Canaan. But

The very Orthodox Professor Harold Fisch, bearded and wearing a skullcap, tells me that "the liberated territories" must be colonized and reclaimed by the Jews. The West Bank is Promised Land. For that matter the East Bank is, too. Professor Fisch, English by birth and dean of something or other at the new university in Beersheba, has no patience with the objections I offer. He tells me fiercely in his Oxbridge voice that we American Jews are not Jews at all.

Rescue is the true aim of Zionism—not the "liberation" of the Promised Land but the rescue of the Jews, repeatedly threatened with annihilation.

O my America! my new-found land.

During Advent, we have to sit in our own anxiety and funkiness long enough to know what a Promised Land would be like, or, to put it another way, what it means to be saved--which, if we are to believe Jesus or Gandhi, specifically means to see everyone on earth as family.

9. Abraham's death (25:1 – 11) After Sarah's death, Abraham took another wife, Keturah. Abraham was a rejuvenated old man and continued to be rewarded with the blessing of many offspring. Surprisingly little attention is given to the details of Abraham's death "at a good old age" (cf. 15:15). His final resting place was in that portion of the Promised Land he rightfully owned — the field purchased from Ephron the Hittite.

I do believe that Israel is covenant land. That's very controversial, but I read the Bible literally, and I believe that God gave them that land, all the way back to Deuteronomy.

All spheres of life in society are mission fields. They are the "Promised Land" where the Lordwill lead us to.

One of the stated signs of God's blessings on the Israelites was that "every man will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree." (I Kings 4:25; Isaiah 36:16; Micah 4:4) Fig trees bear fruit and are a blessing to their owners.

It was obvious to early Jewish interpreters that the word "land" in the Jeremiah passage meant "the land" which was promised to Israel and which was also inhabited by Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, and Sidon ( Jeremiah 27:3). It was also clear to them, as it is to most modern scholars, that the Jeremiah passage was reading off the pages of Genesis

The failure of rebellious Israelites to enter the Promised Land could be a picture of the faithless organized church of today failing to possess the heavenly things promised by Christ.

The deepest American dream is not the hunger for money or fame it is the dream of settling down, in peace and freedom and cooperation, in the promised land.

There is no such place as the promised land, but it would be foolish to reject even an unpromised land as worthless without first inspecting it thoroughly.

the New Testament authors, building especially on the Isaianic vision, define the "gospel" as Jesus's effecting the long-awaited return of God himself as King, in the power of the Spirit bringing his people back from exile and into the true promised land of a new creation, forgiving their sins,[42] and fulfilling all the promises of God and the hopes of his people.

Falling in love is like entering a promised land that offers hope and dreams. It is like a room filled with romantic ecstasy and intense comprehensiveness, putting everything in the shade. ( " Another empty room" )

It is time for us to move on to our promised land!!! It's time to begin to believe that with God on our side we can build a prosperous nation and continent

I heard the main reason the Israelites spent forty years wandering in the desert looking for the Promised Land was because Moses refused to ask directions.

Today we are still in thrall to Great Man history, if only because we like reading biography. American presidential politics is entirely based on the myth that a perfect, omniscient, virtuous and incorruptible saviour will emerge from the New Hampshire primary every four years, and proceed to lead his people to the promised land. Never was this messianic mood more extreme than on the day Barack Obama won the presidency.

I am not a labor leader. I don't want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of the capitalist wilderness you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into this promised land if I could, because if I could lead you in, someone else could lead you out.

Fifteen years ago, France was the promised land of cooking. So I looked at a map, found five restaurants and faxed them to ask for a job. Within five minutes, I got a reply from the then three- star Le Jardin des Sens in Montpellier.

The land promised to Abraham and his descendants is once again theirs. God always keeps His promises. Even in times of cataclysmic upheaval and change, God's love and faithfulness are unchanging.

After the seventh time, the priests blew the trumpets, and Joshua said to the people, "Shout! For the LORD has given you the city." Joshua 6:16

The LORD said to Abram: "Go out from your land, your relatives, and your father's house to the land that I will show you." Genesis 12:1

Enter and possess the good land the Lord your God swore to give your fathers. Deuteronomy 6:18