Prophecy Fulfilled; Promises Kept (MP 54)

God through Moses prophesied many things,
Some of which have already been fulfilled;
We know that whatever the future brings,
It’ll be safe on the others hope to build!
All God’s promises to Abram He kept
To the letter, and all His forecasts, too;
Four hundred years Abram’s offspring dwelt
In Egypt, as God said, and it came true!
Before Israel invaded Canaan’s land,
Said God, “Drive them all out—every one;
For if you don’t do as I command,
I’ll do to you what to them you should’ve done!
Looking back, we can tell, that’s what God did:
Israel driven out; of the land was rid!

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SPECIAL NOTICE: Beginning MARCH 9, I will start a new series in God’s Master Plan for the world---PROHECIES OF THE COMING MESSIAH! With Israel settled in Canaan, God revealed 340 forecasts of the future life of JESUS OF NAZARETH, every one of which was fulfilled! You will not want to miss any of these amazing prophecies and proofs of their fulillment! WILLIAM J.B. CRITTENDEN
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Scripture Quoted (NIV) [Brackets added]
Genesis 15:13-14—“Then the Lord said to him [Abram], ‘Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a country [Egypt] not their own, and they will be enslaved four hundred years. But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves and afterward they will come out with great possessions.’ “

Numbers 33:50-56—“On the plain of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho the Lord said to Moses, ‘Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you cross the Jordan into Canaan, drive out all the inhabitants of the land… . But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land… . They will give you trouble in the land where you live. And I will do to you what I plan to do with them.’ “

Commentary on: “Prophecy Fulfilled; Promises Kept”
God made many promises to Abraham and kept them all. He promised that his offspring would be as numerous as the stars in the sky or the dust of the earth when Abraham had no child at all and his wife was too old to have children; when Abraham died at the age of 175, he left six sons by two wives and a servant girl. His descendants include all the Jews, Arabs, and spiritually all Christians. Jesus of Nazareth, the Messiah, was a descendant, by Whom all nations on earth have been blessed.

God told Abraham this in about 2000 B.C., and 500 years later, his grandson Jacob’s descendants came out of Egypt. They had been enslaved 400 years; when they came out; Egypt was a broken nation. Jacob’s name was changed by God to Israel, and that is the name of the Chosen nation descended from Abraham.

Before Israel invaded Canaan, the land God had promised to Abraham’s descendants, God through Moses commanded them to slay or drive out all the seven nations that occupied the land. There was not to be a single inhabitant left in the land. God told them they had to get rid of them all or the ones remaining would be a perpetual thorn in Israel’s side. He also prophesied that if they did not drive them all out, He would do to them exactly what He had planned to do with the Canaanites—that is, God would slay or drive out of the land all the Israelites and scatter them into nations all over the earth. AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED!

The facts of history supply us the information about Israel’s grim past. They failed to kill or drive out all the Canaanites; some groups Israel made peace treaties with and allowed these to continue living in the land. Since they did not follow God’s command to extinguish them all, Israel brought upon themselves a horrible destruction. If we fast forward to 70 A.D., skipping 1400 years of civil war, conquests by other nations, and Israel’s idolatry and repeated rebellions against God, we find a small remnant of the Israel that conquered Canaan after Moses’ death. For rejecting Jesus as Messiah, God allowed the Romans under Titus to completely destroy Jerusalem and all the other cities of Israel; they slew more than one million Israelites and sold the remaining 300,000 into slavery for a penny each. This was in Jerusalem alone. They cut down all the trees, plowed up the land, and sowed it with salt. Surviving Jews lived in foreign nations for 1878 years, until 1948, when the United Nations ceded Israel a small piece of land to re-establish the nation. And Israel’s return to the land in 1948 is also prophesied by God in the Bible many times, as well as that Israel will reverse themselves and accept Jesus as their Messiah and King!

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him will not die, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16)

“That if you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord’, and believe that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” (Romans 10:9)