Exodus 34:24
For I will cast out nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one shall covet your land, when you go up to appear before the Lord your God three times in the year.
Truth: God will prevent others from sinning when they obey Him! The nation of Israel was God's chosen people. But, what good would it be to be chosen if you had to no blessings or benefits from the choice. The fact that they were chosen implies benefits. There were many, many benefits giving to the nation of Israel. Read Romans 9:1-5 and Paul lists some of them. One of the "physical" blessings given to them was this land. The land was part of the covenant. The land is the tangible evidence of their unique calling ... to every Israelite, past and present and future. They missed the point of Christ setting up an eternal and an invisible kingdom. They have and, probably will be, always be focused on the land. And, if we read the book of The Revelation, we can see that in the end, much fighting will continue about the land ... as it does today. The nations are fighting of the land. Other nations "want" the land. They are doing every thing they can do to get the land. And, yet, read the above passage. God is telling them that if they will obey Him and worship Him, He will even stop the non-believer from sinning ... He will stop the other nations from coveting their land. They (Israel) are in a crisis today because they refuse to obey the Word of God and accept their Messiah, Jesus the Christ. God is obligated to bless them, only if they obey. The covenant of the land was based upon their obedience to Christ. God gives us promises and if, by faith, we obey them, the blessings flow. He will make others to be at peach with us, is a great example of that truth (Romans 12:16-17). We lose out on God's blessing when we fail to honor Him with our obedience by faith. God can prevent others from sinning if we obey Him. That is truth we seldom realize but is always true.
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