Question for you - from your studies, how much of that promised area was ever controlled by Israel?
Sadly Abraham did not claim even a fifth of the land promised. Today they only occupy about 5 percent of the Land Promised. Yet they still want to take it from them. If the Bible isn’t good enough as documentation for a land claim I don’t know what is. Makes me sick.
Promised:
http://imgur.com/iRi9oKO
Claimed:
http://imgur.com/a/Pd2tK
Israel has never controlled all the land promised to them. It will indeed be a glorious day when they control all of the promised land under their King.
I also started to get into this aspect of it:
I like what Chuck Smith said concerning Deu 11:22-24
For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments [verse twenty-two] that I command you, and to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, to cleave to him; Then will the LORD drive out all the nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves. Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, to the river Euphrates, even to the uttermost sea shall your coast be (Deu 11:22-24).
Chuck Smith Commentary:
Actually, they never did conquer all that God had given to them. They never did possess all that was theirs by God’s divine decree. I think that there’s an unfortunate parallel in our life. I don’t think that we ever possess all that God has for us or all that God would do for us. It’s there, all we have to do by faith is go in and claim it and take it and yet all of us come short of the glory of God: that which God would do for us if we would just step in and take.
It’s tragic that when the borders were so expanded by God and all you have to do is possess it that they failed to possess all that God had given, even as it’s tragic that we so often fail to possess all that God has given.
Now many times that we fail to possess for different reasons: intellectual limitations, restrictions that we have placed upon God by our presuppositions. So many reasons why we fail to enter into the fullness that God has for our lives.
From my experience I find this to be true. God wants the very best for us, but because of disobedience, laziness or sin we fall short of the mark. Then we lose some of our inheritance.