The promises to Abraham were a nation, blessing and land. No mention of a city. --enat
Genesis tells us:
When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.
18 On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,
19 the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,
21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites and the Jebusites.”
Genesis does not make mention any city in particular, nor of the world as a whole.
Hebrews tells us:
8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.
9 By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.
10 For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God.
And Paul in Romans tells us:
For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.
that what was promised to Abraham was the kosmos, the world.
Are these different promises? Promises that didn't get recorded that Paul and whoever it was that wrote Hebrews somehow knew about? Or could it be that the (God breathed, inspired) new testament writers did not interpret the old testament the way the modern dispensationalist school does?
Thanks. Another example of how an unbiblical literalism invented by holders of The System® interferes with the infallible interpretation of the OT by the writer of the NT.
“that what was promised to Abraham was the kosmos, the world.”
That’s nonsense. The promise in Romans 4:13, “For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith” refers to the promise to Abraham in Gen. 12:3, “And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed”.
The heir referred to is Christ Gal. 3:16 “To thy seed, which is Christ”. Christ is the heir of the world, (Rev 11:15) “…The kingdoms of this world are become [the kingdoms] of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever”, the ends of the earth are his possession and it is in him that Abraham and we are blessed.
But the promise of blessing was only one of the promises to Abraham; there still remains the promise of the land as an eternal inheritance.