[roamer_1]

Did God promise Israel actual land on this earth, to be theirs forever, with Messiah ruling? Or did God promise Israel a heavenly position with Him? Were they (Israel) going to be actual flesh and bone people living in that land and did He offer Gentiles the same covenant promise?

Both, neither - Again, I do not believe they are mutually exclusive - Thy Kingdom Come. Jerusalem will come down.

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Then why would God bother to separate Abram from the rest of the heathen world, change his name to Abraham and give to him His covenant promise, for a specific people that God formed to be His nation of priests, in a specific land? That doesn’t make any sense. The Abrahamic Covenant was established by God to a specific nation: Israel. Not the whole world. Meanwhile, what were the Gentile nations promised? Anything? The same thing Israel was promised? Both? Neither?